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All my life, I have known this rule about people: Those who don't fight the greatest evils will fight lesser evils or make-believe evils.
This happens to be the morally defining characteristic of the left. During the Cold War, many liberals and nearly all conservatives fought communism, but the left fought anti-communism. The left opposed American military buildups and regarded the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union as nothing more than two scorpions in a bottle fighting to the death. They loathed Presidents Nixon and Reagan, not Communist Party Secretary-General Brezhnev.
...With regard to fighting communism -- which, aside from Nazism, has been the greatest evil in the modern world (it killed and enslaved far more people than Nazism) -- the left was an obstacle, not an ally. The left in the West and elsewhere did far more to enable communist evil than to stop it.
The same holds true with regard to the greatest evil in the world at this time: totalitarian Islam, or Islamism. The left is doing precisely what it did during the war against communism: It's fighting the anti-Islamists, not the Islamists. Just as it labeled anti-communists "cold warriors" and other derisive epithets, the left labels those fighting Islamism as "Islamophobes" and, of course, "racists." In the moral order as perceived by the left, it is the anti-Islamists who are the enemy of the good.
In this battle, the left fights American conservatives -- and Israel, the country in the front line against Islamism. In a nutshell, rather than fighting evil, the left fights those who fight evil.
Therefore, if you have moral clarity, you are not on the left. If you have moral clarity, you can be a liberal, a conservative, a centrist, an atheist, a believer, a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a black, a white, a Latino, an Asian, a Native American, a gay, a straight or a bisexual. But you cannot be a leftist.
A Michigan woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man’s pet parrot.
Forty-nine-year-old Glenna Duram of Sand Lake learned her sentence Monday after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder and a felony firearm charge last month.
Forty-six-year-old Martin Duram was shot five times in May 2015. Glenna Duram suffered a head wound in what prosecutors said was a suicide attempt, but survived.
Martin Duram’s ex-wife, Christina Keller, has said that after the slaying, the pet parrot, Bud, repeated "don’t (expletive) shoot" in Martin Duram’s voice. Keller took ownership of the bird after Martin Duram’s death.
[Chicago Tribune] Petty Officer 3rd Class Logan Stephen Palmer, 23, was among 10 sailors who had been reported missing after the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker. On Sunday, officials said Navy and Marine Corps divers had recovered the remains of all 10.
The cause of the Aug. 21 collision is still under investigation.
Palmer was an interior communications electrician and received a National Defense Service Medal, according to his Navy personnel file.
In a statement issued through the Navy, Palmer's family said, "Logan was our youngest son and like his older brothers and younger sister, our pride and joy. He was a loving and wonderful young man, a great little brother and a cool big brother."
"He loved his family dearly and was committed to making the Navy a career and was excited about the adventures the Navy would offer him," the statement said. "He also cared for his shipmates and we are incredibly proud of him and his service to our Navy and the country. We are heartbroken with the news and will miss him tremendously. We are so very thankful God gave us 23 amazing years with him and we will cherish those memories for the rest of our lives."
Family members expressed their appreciation to those who supported them since Palmer went missing, including those from their church, community and the Navy.
[Kansas City Star] Gas prices in the Kansas City area have jumped 13 cents since last week as Hurricane Harvey continues to pound the Gulf Coast.
The average price for regular gas is $2.29 a gallon in Kansas City Tuesday, according to the AAA. That’s up 5 cents from Monday and 13 cents from a week ago.
In Kansas City, Kan., the average price for regular gas on Tuesday is $2.36, also up 5 cents a gallon from Monday and 13 cents from a week ago, according to the AAA.
GasBuddy.com says the average price for gas is rising in the Kansas City area. The average price in Kansas City is $2.34 a gallon, according to the website.
[SF Chronical] ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates urged North Korea on Tuesday to stop its provocations and obey United Nations resolutions, after Pyongyang's launch of a ballistic missile over Japan.
Speaking in Abu Dhabi, the two ministers offered a forceful warning for Pyongyang, with Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan particularly calling for North Korea to stop its "provocations."
But what was left unsaid between the two ministers was their own diplomatic and commercial ties to North Korea, with the UAE in particular home to thousands of its workers whose wages help Pyongyang avoid international sanctions.
Early Tuesday, North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its capital that flew over Japan before crashing into the northern Pacific Ocean.
The missile, which traveled some 2,700 kilometers (1,677 miles) on its trip over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, appeared to be the first to cross over Japan. It sparked new fears about a confrontation between Pyongyang and America's Asian allies in the region, especially as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hard line against the country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is visiting the UAE as part of a three Gulf Arab nation tour over the ongoing diplomatic crisis involving Qatar, avoided discussing that dispute. He instead focused in part on North Korea.
"Regarding North Korea and the missile tests it is conducting, we stick to the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and we insist on the fact that our North Korean neighbors should fully respect those resolutions," Lavrov said. "We base our position on these statements during discussions in the Security Council and will do the same in the session, which as far as we understand is being planned now and which will be dedicated to discussing the last missile launches from North Korea."
[American Thinker] In my younger years, studying world and American history in school, I used to wonder how people of those past times could have been so stupid. How could people actually believe that Hitler was a righteous man? How could they be convinced that Jews were evil and Nazism was good? Germans and Japanese at that time must have been crazy.
Didn’t Americans understand that a civil war between states could lead to incredible bloodshed? How could people who shared the same heritage and culture go at each other’s throats so readily? It seemed like fantasy to me. People must have been completely different back then, much more gullible and ignorant.
How could it have been possible for Josef Stalin to starve tens of millions of Ukrainians to death with no resistance? How could Mao, as leader of the world’s largest population, starve to death tens of millions of his own people without opposition? It seemed impossible, almost like fiction.
After 65 years of my existence, I now realize that people have not changed. The ignorance of man is not a fantasy, it is real and enduring.
It is a different world, yet the same. We are the same human race that killed six million Jews under the Nazis, slaughtered 620,000 Americans in the Civil War, and murdered tens of millions of Ukrainian and Chinese citizens under Communism.
In our modern, so sophisticated Western world, we welcome the conquerors and assassins of an ancient culture into our society, where they can continue conquering and slaying us with our complete cooperation.
We welcome laws suppressing our freedom to speak, to own property, to operate a small business, and to defend ourselves. We actively oppose the Constitution that brought us where we are today.
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Imagine a Civil War where blue fought red, but only when red came to blue states because blue was terrified to go to red states where the people were armed and the government didn't put with that crap. Oh, and also dark blue fought with light blue in those blue states.
It'll be a short civil war and it'll turn the slightly red country far redder the longer it progresses.
In keeping with the Rochester study posted yesterday, I'm trying to swear more as it is a sign of intelligence. I'm also running around at home naked. I'm going for that smart glasses Lenscrafter look also. I'm trying to avoid the mirror as there is this droopiness and I look like a naked dumbass with glasses who mutters to himself.
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The Holocaust. Stalin's USSR purges. Mao's Great Leap Forward. All have at least this in common: the victims did not fight back while their persecutors murdered them.
And the Author is comparing THOSE to the American Civil War, where BOTH sides fought? Certainly he points out oppressions and abuses that were made possible by leftists/demoncrats in positions of Authority that took advantage of our high regard for the Rule of Law, but that's not the same thing as being dragged out of our homes to be shipped in cattle cars to the death camps. Their current fury revolves around the loss of the veneer of Constitutional Authority conferred by the Presidency, that Trump now holds. The charade of impeachment is a fig leaf to try to make his removal appear constitutional and not trigger the Second Civil War.
Far from scaring me, I suddenly have realized that WE WILL FIGHT. These fools, capable of swallowing the falsehood that Venezuela is NOW a Worker's Paradise, and that Americans are like German Jews, Russian Kulaks, and Confucian Chinese.
Stupid thought: those who laugh at the concept of American Exceptionalism are gonna whine and complain when Americans start acting different from their Old World counterparts.
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Those who are trying to arrange another civil war will fail. Attempts at gun control have failed for the most part. The State does not grant all of our rights. The elites who foster such chaos, unrest, and destruction will not be immune.
[American Thinker] Republican voters are "tasting betrayal" at the hands of swamp-dwelling Republicans who are failing to act on the Trump agenda ‐ and their own promises.
In a scathing column at breitbart.com, Brent Bozell contends that the Republican party is "systematically committing suicide":
They were given everything.
In January of this year, they formally controlled both houses of Congress and the executive branch. Every single thing they'd ever promised was now possible. ...
Repeal Obamacare? Check. End illegal immigration? Check. Build the wall? Check.
Crush the Deep State? Done, by God, done!
There was not a damn thing the Democrats could do to stop them from draining the swamp.
Except the Republican leadership didn't mean it. With the exception of the Freedom Caucus in the House, and literally a handful in the Senate, the rank-and-file didn't either. Not one word of it.
In fairness to Republicans, it takes only a handful of McCains and Murkowskis in the Senate, siding with obstructionist Democrats, to betray the party's promises, but Republicans were elected to get results, not to find excuses.
Citing the Obamacare repeal fiasco and the false starts on tax reform, Bozell contends that the Republicans have accomplished "absolutely nothing" on either front:
There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Put them together. They are the swamp.
Bozell adds that, just as the Republicans were given the "power to enact the agenda" they have promised for eight years, they also "now own the federal government, in toto." Obamacare, spending, taxes, "all the graft, all the waste" ‐ it's all theirs.
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Allow me to say that I have written down the names of the Republicans I will vote against. I know who they are and I want them gone.I want them out on the street looking for a new job.
I want them replaced. But, mostly, I want to see them unemployed. I think it can and will be done.
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With a few notable exceptions, the attitudes and actions of the congressional membership (either party) likely reflect those of it's leadership. If the powerful chairman is having sushi, the rank and file will probably all be giving sushi a hard look.
Donald Trump is an outsider, an outsider who hires and sometimes fires outsiders. He tends to surround himself with accomplished senior military and civilian business leaders. This in itself is an anathema to the establishment order.
Fraternities of the like-minded; a dynamic that appears to evolve when the only one restricted by term-limits is the president.
Congress (again both parties) will likely confront President Trump at nearly every turn. He calls them the indolent, do-nothing swamp creatures that we all know them to be.
If all he accomplishes in eight years is the marginalization of the Clintons, a Supreme Court justice or two, the pardoning of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the down-sizing of big gov't, I'll be well pleased.
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The Real fight is in the Primary Season and this will be a tough fight against the entrenched RINOs... If that fails, then Next Election. Electing the Other Party is a suicide gambit: you saw what they did with a majority.
[AnNahar] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... gunnies and their families began leaving a border area between Leb and Syria on Monday as part of a controversial negotiated deal with the Death Eater group to end its presence there, Lebanese and Syrian media reported.
An unidentified number of gunnies and their families headed in buses toward a town held by the Islamic State group in far eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq. The evacuation will effectively end the presence of jihadist Lion of Islam groups on the border, after al-Qaeda-linked fighters evacuated earlier this month.
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[AlAhram] According to an agreement signed by Egypt and Germany in Berlin on Sunday, Germany will provide Egypt with more resources to run training programmes to help locals find better jobs, and more funds for Egyptians to study in Germany, as part of Germany's wider effort to fight the causes of unchecked migration.
The agreement, which was signed by Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel, aims to slow the flow of migrants colonists to the European country, German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said on Monday.
Germany will help Egypt improve facilities for Syrian refugees and other displaced people in the country, and the two countries agreed to work more closely to crack down on smugglers who bring migrants colonists illegally into Europe across the Mediterranean.
A total of 122,802 Syrians are registered with the Egyptian branch of the UN's refugee agency, out of a total 208,398 registered refugees and asylum-seekers.
Estimates suggest that there are many Syrians in the country who have not registered with the UN.
Egypt's Mediterranean coast is a departure point for many migrants colonists seeking to reach European shores and continue their journey to Germany.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s army killed seven Death Eaters in North Sinai, including two who were highly dangerous, an army front man said on Monday.
The army also destroyed 14 terrorist hideouts, where they found military uniforms, communication devices, computers, weapons and improvised bombs, and materials to manufacture bombs.
Eight vehicles and four cycle of violences were also destroyed in the raid, according to the front man's statement.
In a related context, a tribal source from North Sinai told Ahram Online that Ouda El-Hamadeen, one of the leaders of Islamist Lion of Islam group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has claimed the majority of deadly attacks on security forces in North Sinai, has been killed in an army air raid.
ULULULULULULULULULULU!!!
El-Hamadeen was conducting a meeting with a number of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis members when he was killed in the raid, the source added.
El-Hamadeen has been known as a leading figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis and has been conducting attacks, along with his brother Selim El-Hamadeen, against security sources since 2013.
[AnNahar] Tens of thousands of Syrians who fled their country's civil war to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... are returning home temporarily to Syria to celebrate a major Moslem holiday, Ottoman Turkish officials said Monday.
Almost three million Syrians have taken refuge in Turkey since the conflict broke out in 2011, the vast majority living in big cities rather than in camps.
But a relative stability has descended on some areas in northwest Syria following a Ottoman Turkish military operation against jihadists and a ceasefire backed by Ankara and Moscow earlier this year.
The authorities in Turkey's southern province of Kilis bordering Syria have put in place a special system whereby Syrians can go home for the Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha in Arabic, Kurban Bayrami in Ottoman Turkish) and return to Turkey afterwards.
After uploading details on a special Internet site and registering, they can leave Ottoman Turkish territory through the Oncupinar border gate until Wednesday and then must return by October 15.
A local Ottoman Turkish official, who asked not to be named, said 40,360 Syrians had crossed over so far with around 4,000 people now crossing every day.
The crossings have been allowed since August 15, according to the Kilis governorate. Turkey will celebrate the Feast of the Sacrifice on Friday.
The Syrians were returning to towns including al-Bab and Jarabulus, which were cleared of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group bandidosturbans in Turkey's Euphrates Shield cross-border operation which wrapped up earlier this year.
Ottoman Turkish state media reports have indicated that life in the towns is gradually returning to normal with schools reopening and municipal services resuming.
Turkey had previously allowed Syrians to return home temporarily earlier this year for the Eid al-Fitr festival that follows the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
[AlAhram] Egyptian security forces are attempting to trace two detainees who beat feet from a prisoner transport vehicle on Sunday evening.
The men were being transferred from the Police Academy in New Cairo to Tora prison in Maadi following a court session, al-Arabic Ahram website reported.
According to the prosecution’s investigations, the driver felt movement inside the prison van and pulled over to find five detainees attempting to escape. He shot at them, injuring one. The injured man was later transferred to hospital.
Two of the detainees were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , while another two managed to flee.
The interior ministry has not yet issued any statements about the escape attempt.
The five defendants are on trial in the case known in local media as the "Helwan militia cell," a trial of 215 defendants charged with forming a bad boy group that targets police forces.
The Helwan Brigades group first appeared in a video in August 2014, in which they vowed to target all police facilities in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cairo.
The video showed a group of 12 men wearing masks and holding rifles. Some were making the four-fingered gesture associated with August's 2013 forced dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in.
Al-Ahram reported that 11 other detainees have managed to escape custody since the beginning of August, in several different cases.
They include two among 66 defendants in the "Upper Egyptian ISIS case" who are charged with forming an unlawful group that calls for overturning the constitution and seeks to harm national unity by terroristic attacks on state institutions and Christians.
The detainees escaped during their transfer to court earlier this month.
[DAWN] A 15-year-old Hindu girl was reportedly subjected to sexual assault by two persons in village Umed Ali Lashari near Umerkot town on Sunday.
According to police, Kirshan Bheel complained that the two accused forcibly took away his 15-year-old daughter when she was collecting fodder for animals in the field.
They took her to a deserted place and allegedly raped her, the victim’s father said in his complaint.
Police registered the case against the two accused under Sections 376, 34, 511 and 114 of Pakistain Penal Code at the taluka cop shoppe of Umerkot.
SHO Qurban Panhwar later informed the local media persons that police had tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... one accused while the further investigation into the case was underway.
The father and other relatives of the victim complained that the police was initially reluctant to authorise the medical examination of the victim. But later it directed the Civil Hospital Umerkot to conduct the medical check-up of the alleged victim.
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Dohuk (IraqiNews.com) Kurdish authorities said Monday that three women from the Yazidi minority had been released from their Islamic State captors in Tal Afar as Iraqi forces near victory over the militant group there.
The Kurdistan Region office on Yazidi abductees said the released females were a 40-year-old woman and two girls aged 14 and 19.
“The abductees were released with the help of benevolent locals,” office head Hussein Qaidi said in statements to BasNews, giving no mroe details.
A statistic released by the Kurdistan Region Government’s Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry in July said Islamic State’s massacres of Yazidis forced nearly 360.000 of the religious minority to flee their areas. It said IS had kidnapped 6417 Yazidis since 2014, the report added. Those included 1102 women and 1655 children, the statistics show, adding that authorities had run into 43 mass graves of Yazidi victims slaughtered by IS,.
Islamic State massacred and enslaved thousands of Yazidis when they overran their Sinjar region, west of Nineveh.
Iraqi government forces and allied paramilitary troops are currently nearing victory over Islamic State members in Tal Afar, an anticipated development that would mean a total collapse of the group’s self-styled “caliphate” declared in 2014.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Heartbroken with the news of his son’s death in an attack in Anbar, an Islamic State member committed suicide, a security source said Monday.
An official security source told Aljournal News website that the militant hanged himself inside his residence in Rawa, a group stronghold near Anbar’s western borders with Syria, after he had is received news of his son’s death in a random bombardment of a militants’ convoy in the same town.
Islamic State militants are still holding areas in western 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.
Anbar’s borders with Syria had seen occasional encounters between security forces and Islamic State militants.
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[DAWN] A boom-mobiledestroyed a busy market area in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people, Iraqi officials said.
The explosives-laden car went off at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad's Shia district of Sadr City, a police officer said. The kaboom also maimed 25 other people, he added, saying the corpse count was expected to rise further.
A medical official confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
A plume of thick black smoke was billowing from the area and people were running away in panic. At the site, twisted metal and shards of glass littered the pavement, along with vegetables and other goods sold at the market.
At least one soldier was seen being evacuated from the scene, which was sealed off by security forces.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were wounded in an IED blast that occurred in northern Baghdad, a police source was quoted saying on Monday.
“A bomb, planted near stores at al-Tarmiyah region, north of Baghdad, exploded in the evening, leaving two people wounded,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said “police cordoned off the accident spot and transferred the injured to nearby hospitals.”
Earlier on the day, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a blast that hit eastern Baghdad, killing and injuring thirteen civilians. Another blast occurred as an IED exploded on Monday at al-Yusufiya region, in south of Baghdad, which caused death of four persons and injury of eight others, a police source told AlSumaria News.
Several explosions occurred in Baghdad on Sunday. Three civilians were killed and injured as an IED went off at an area southwest of Baghdad. This came a few hours after two car bombings rocked two areas also southwest of Baghdad, killing and wounding eight people.
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.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces seized a number of M16 rifles during raids throughout the West Bank early Monday.
One M16 was found in a home in the Jerusalem-area Paleostinian town of Abu Dis, while another, together with a homemade gun, was found in the northern West Bank village of Bir al-Basha, the army said.
The IDF had previously found an M16 and a pair of M4 carbines during operations in the West Bank over the past week.
The army said it has confiscated 220 illegal firearms in the West Bank since the start of the year and shut down 25 gun workshops.
During the raids, the IDF also placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! eight Paleostinians on suspicion of violent rioting and "popular terror," a term used by the army to denote acts such as rock-throwing and rioting.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] An kaboom has rocked a building in downtown Houston, with a office bursting into flames according to eyewitness video.
A Twitter user named Eliud Balderas posted a video that shows a burning building pouring black smoke into the sky.
Local ABC affiliate KTRK reported that the blazing structure houses Lone Star Legal Aid, which provides free legal assistance. The organization's social media accounts made no mention of the conflagration but noted that a half-dozen offices across Texas were closed on Monday as a powerful storm continues to batter the state.
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Consider giving a little something to the Red Cross. Thanks.
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Better use of your money, give a little something to the Salvation Army. They will still be around long after the Red Cross leave. (Which is shortly after the press leave.)
Red Cross spends a lot of money on fancy office, special perks, such as chauffeured limos, office in prime NYC real estates... Basically, the Red Cross spend money like the UN does.
Salvation Army OTOH, make their money stretch and count!
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You can find the Cajun Navy on Facebook. Even though looters have shot at them and 20 more inches of rain is coming down they are still rescuing people. Instead of Harvey tracking North as it was forecasted to do before they left for Texas it is starting to dump lots of water in Louisiana so some of these guys may loose everything back home while in Houston.
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Let me qualify. The immediate threat is exposure; people need to get out of the water. Next is going to be dehydration. A bass boat may not be able to rescue many at a time, but it can carry potable water and space blankets to a number of people until a rescue boat can make the trip. Cajun Navy is doing this from as far away as Florida. Petition local governments to give the convoys a priority, give them space.
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The Ag Community has been on this for a couple days now. To help directly, contact your local 4-H or FFA and ask them if there is a convoy being organized. Ask what they need. A nice, compact, affordable item is an emergency blanket. What I have here at the store is about the size of a wallet and retails for $2.99, so even a modest amount of money can get a number of these, they can be stuffed into nooks and crannies, and will make a world of difference.
Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
[DW] Prosecutors say the two men, one of whom was a policeman, were gearing up for a breakdown in public order resulting from the refugee crisis. The searches took place in Germany's northern cities of Rostock and Schwerin.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe said Monday's searches stemmed from intercepted chatroom internet conversations involving the two men, who were opposed to what they saw as Germany's misguided policy on asylum.
No arrests were made, but the potential charges were of preparing serious acts of violence endangering the state, said the prosecutor's office.
The two men, one a policeman based in the town of Ludwigslust, allegedly drew up a list of people on Germany's "left-wing spectrum," with the intention of detaining and killing them if a breakdown in public order developed.
Arrivals of asylum seekers peaked in Germany in late 2015 and early 2016 when 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... 's coalition government kept Germany's borders open to "Balkan route" migrants colonists.
The suspects had stashed away foodstuffs and ammunition for weapons they had already acquired via "legal" channels, "fearing" a drain on public funds and increasing disorder, the Karlsruhe-based prosecutors said.
So everything they did was legal, except for planning to detain and kill lefties, in case the plan should become necessary.
[Iran Press TV] Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , says ISISDeath Eaters who left the border region between Leb and Syria had no choice, but to submit to resistance fighters.
"ISIS had no choice, but to submit to us, because they had collapsed from within and had to accept our conditions," the leader of hezbollah said in a televised address on Monday explaining about evacuation of ISISDeath Eaters from Qalamoun region near the border with Syria.
Nasrallah pointed out that the battle against ISISDeath Eaters in Qalamoun has achieved all its objectives, describing the evacuation of the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s from the rugged mountainous region as "the second victory" as Leb-Syria border region has been completed purged of their presence.
He went on to say that the fight against ISIS is a battle and not an act of personal vengeance, praising the Lebanese army soldiers for their successful operation against ISIS.
The Hezbollah chief also described Takfiri terrorism as part of a US-Israeli plot in the region, stating that Washington and Tel Aviv sponsor Death Eaters in order to dictate their hegemony in the Middle East region.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Unidentified warplanes have carried out an Arclight airstrike on a coastal town in Bari region, located in Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , officials said.
Confirming the incident, the commissioner of Alula, Ayanle Abdullahi said the military jets targeted rural areas and killed many animals and inflicted casualties on the local herders.
He added that there were no any bases for the Al shabaab and ISISfaceless myrmidons in the area hit by the overnight aerial bombardment.
It’s yet unclear which country belongs to the military jets conducted the air raid on Alula, but, U.S. forces often carry out such Arclight airstrikes in the country, targeting the bad boys.
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[IsraelTimes] Over 100 hooded protesters bust through police lines at free speech gathering, attack leader of a politically conservative group
Black-clad anarchists on Sunday stormed into what had been a largely peaceful Berkeley protest against hate and attacked at least five people, including the leader of a politically conservative group who canceled an event a day earlier in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... amid fears of violence.
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Hopefully the FBI has undercover folks with Antifa by now. Hopefully they have other undercover folks taking photos and arresting Antifa that try to attack them for taking photos (thus providing cover for the actual FBI in the Antifa midst).
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One of the perps arrested was form my hometown. I had been in contact with him since early July and he was pretty explicit on what he wanted to do. Looks like he went though with it and is now sitting in a Santa Rita jail awaiting arraignment. I'm heading out now to have a talk with the manager of the restaurant that he works at as I'm sure his behavior goes against BJ's policies regarding personal conduct.
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Greenwood said "the potential use of force became very problematic" given the thousands of peaceful protesters in the park. Once anarchists arrived, it was clear there would not be dueling protests between left and right so he ordered his officers out of the park and allowed the anarchists to march in.
In other words they did not 'break thru' but where allowed in.
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However, the violence in Charlottesville led San Francisco area police and civil leaders to rethink their response to protests.
Issuing spiked clubs to unarmed Antifa thugs? Having the Police put on black hoods and reinforcing the thugs? This does not look good...
[INSIDER.FOXNEWS] Protesters are planning a march starting from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, D.C. to fight white supremacy and demand that President Trump be removed from office.
"The March to Confront White Supremacy" will spend ten days starting on Monday, August 28 travelling to the nation's capitol and then occupy it with non-violent demonstrations.
"For years, white supremacist violence, rhetoric, and policies have escalated and intensified ‐ exploding during Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s run for president and reaching a boiling point in Charlottesville," the website for the event reads.
White nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent earlier this month, leaving one of the counter-protesters dead. President Trump was heavily criticized for his response, which many viewed as not going far enough against the white supremacists.
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I wonder how much of this crap would be happening if George Soros (spit) suddenly found himself in a Hungarian prison and all of his assets had been seized.
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So they have announced themselves to be treasonist para-military thugs.
There is nothing in the Constitution or law that allows for a President to be "removed" from office other than by the impeachment process. There is no charge that is possible at this time. So.......
These fascist thugs want to start a real revolution. It's getting close to the time when the real supporters of the US give them what they seem to desire.
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Actually treat them like Hunter S. Thompson's on a march. Feed their paranoia... start with tampered water bottles..
Let them kill "bats" for awhile in the open spaces..
Google translations is really messing with Russian to English translations. korrespondent.net didn't help any with all the scare quotes. Story slightly rewritten.
The General Prosecutor's Office of the People's Republic of Lugansk, a Russian backed separatists entity, opened a criminal investigation into the murder of two deputies of the People's Council of the People's Republic of Lugansk in a private house in Lugansk on the night of 26 to 27 August.
Said Deputy Prosecutor General of the People's Republic of Lugansk, Grigory Tsevenko: "In the Kamennobrodsky district of the city of Lugansk on the night of 26 to 27 August in private housing, there were two persons found dead who were deputies of the People's Council of the People's Republic of Lugansk."
According to Tsevenko, a criminal investigation was begun.
A separate account posted in Lugansk official government website identified the decedents as Anatoly Krivonosov and Inna Kuznetsova, a married couple. According to a commenter on the Facebook page of former Donetsk foreign minister, Aleksandr Koffman, both had served as fighters in the Dawn Battalion in 2014, when the civil war in southeastern Ukraine began.
According to Russian Wikipedia, the Dawn Battalion, known by its Russian spelling Zarya, was formerly commanded by now Lugansk president Igor Plotnitsky. The unit is now designated 1st Motorized Infantry Brigade.
"At the moment, the criminal case is undergoing urgent investigative actions and operational-search activities in order to establish all the circumstances of the crime and those who committed it," added Tsevenko.
"Data on the victims of the criminal case and other circumstances of the crime are not disclosed in the interests of the investigation," added Tsevenko.
[Powerline] The New York Times headlines: “Felix Sater, Trump Associate, Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected.’” Sounds exciting, right? But the story fizzles rapidly.
Felix Sater was a real estate broker who didn’t work for the Trump organization. (Hence the weaselly “Trump associate” headline.) He has, to say the least, a colorful history. But what is the story? Sater sent a couple of emails to Michael Cohen, who did work for the Trump organization as a lawyer. Sater, a Russian immigrant, enthusiastically promoted the idea of a Trump property in Moscow, which he claimed he could deliver. The Times likes this portion of a Sater email, dated November 3, 2015:
Micheal we can own this story. Donald doesn’t stare down, he negotiates and understands the economic issues and Putin only want to deal with a pragmatic leader, and a successful business man is a good candidate for someone who knows how to negotiate. “Business, politics, whatever it is all the same for someone who knows how to deal”
And this:
Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.
The Times says there is no indication that Cohen even replied to Sater’s emails. In any event, the Moscow project was investigated briefly and, the Times says, dropped. The Trump organization has properties in 11 countries, and Russia isn’t one of them. So the story is what? A Russian immigrant who didn’t work for Trump had a vision of making Donald Trump look good (and making himself a lot of money) via a business deal with the Russians, which Trump’s people never followed up on. It’s like a joke with no punch line. Read the rest at the link
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CBS was making a big deal about this last night as if they had finally found the smoking gun. But, aside from their "told you so" tone, it was pretty clear even listening to their report that it's nothing.
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Why not just say that Trump sold his soul to the Devil for presidency. I'm sure the current Pope and half half the protestant churches in the world, not to mention Muftis and Ayatollahs, will cooperate.
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Right, but Bret Bair was talking about it like it's the "bombshell, smoking gun, blah blah, hyperbole cliché" that all the Miley Moore and Bill Kristal types have been hallucinating about.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike launched in northeast of Diyala, according to the Dijla Operations Command.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Monday, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, said “Iraqi fighter jets destroyed in the evening a resthouse, vehicle and five motorbikes of the group in addition to killing five militants in an airstrike launched in Wadi Thilab, located in Neft Khana basin, northeast of Diyala.”
Naft Khana is considered a pivotal region in Diyala for its strategic location, being near to main roads, in addition to being geographically-connected to Hamrin basin.
Attacks launched by Islamic State militants against security troops, the pro-government forces and civilians surged over the past few weeks in northeast of Diyala, which urge the Iraqi forces to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
IS holds pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, posing threats to the liberated regions.
After declaring victory in Mosul, the government and military commanders are expected to wage operations at other IS havens across the country, including Diyala, in order to mark an end to the group’s self-styled “caliphate” declared by the group in 2014.
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[PAGESIX] A transgender woman at an LGBT event over the weekend ambushed Caitlyn Jenner for voting for Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... The woman, whose name is Ashlee Marie Preston, filmed the intense confrontation and shared it on Facebook.
"It’s really f‐ked up you continue to support somebody that tears us down," she yelled at Jenner, 67, at the event. "It’s really f‐ked up."
Stunned by Preston’s action, Jenner remained mostly quiet as the journalist continued to hound her.
"Nobody wants you here ... it’s really ridiculous," Preston pressed on. "You’re a f‐king fraud."
Eventually, another attendee stepped in to try and diffuse the situation, which only angered Preston more.
"We are complicit. Taking her money and doing all that, it makes us complicit," Preston replied. "It goes against the mission."
"How are we going to fight anyone if we keep doing this infighting?" the friend responded.
Preston fitted in one last jab before Jenner walked away: "You’re a f‐king fraud and a fake."
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Utter conviction that only one kind of political persuasion is allowed and dissenters may be attacked freely without consequences.
[RADIOSHABELLE] A heavy fighting between Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) and Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hard boyz was reported to have erupted in a small area in Gedo region, near Somalia’s border with Kenya.
The battle broke out after armed Al shabaab fighters ambushed KDF convoy in a village, about 8-Km away from Dhamase settlement, located in the outskirts of El Wak town.
Local residents, told Radio Shabelle over the phone that the hard boyz burnt down a battle wagon belonging to KDF, while seizing another lorry truck during the combat.
The number of casualties on KDF and Al shabaab sides has not yet been confirmed.
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[Oathkeepers] How did we reach a point in our society, where groups like Antifa think nothing of wreaking havoc on the streets on a regular basis? These people routinely beat those they disagree with, cause property damage, and shut down dissent without a single iota of shame. You have to ask yourself, how did this group and others like it, get so bold as to think that they can flippantly disregard the law and openly riot in the streets?
The answer is that the media is responsible for this mess. It’s the media that has repeatedly ignored, apologized for, and even celebrated their actions. How else would these thugs have come to the conclusion that what they’re doing is okay? They’re constantly being lionized by our morally bankrupt media.
CNN made that perfectly clear last week. They published a piece that was highly sympathetic to Antifa titled “Unmasking the Leftist Antifa Movement: Activists Seek Peace Through Violence.” Read the rest at the link
The current headline lacks the descriptive bit, being just "Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement".
To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
Leftist and Demoncrats (but I repeat myself) live in a fantasy world where they believe that the above laws, which they preached to their enemies (In order to disarm them), do not apply to themselves, and that the taints of Racism and barbarism will never touch them.
[Iran Press TV] Although the latest missile test by North Korea did not demonstrate any specific advancements in Pyongyang’s technology, it still means the resolute country’s scientists "continue to learn" more and more about military know-how.
Speaking among news hounds, Pentagon front man Colonel Robert Manning called Pyongyang’s latest launch a "threat."
"We have to make the assumption that they continue to learn throughout each one of these missile launches," Manning said. "You're still firing missiles, so that's a threat."
Three missiles were launched from Kittaeryong on North Korea’s east coast over the weekend, according to US Pacific Command (PACOM). Two of the missiles reportedly flew some 155 miles in the northeastern direction while the third one went kaboom! almost immediately.
"If you’re asking if those three short-range missiles was less of a threat, the answer is no. It was a provocative action," the Pentagon front man said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Some family members of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group found Mullah Mohammad Omar and several leaders of the group have reportedly returned from Pakistain.
The provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province Gen. Abdul Raziq informed the return of the Taliban leaders as he was speaking to news hounds in Kandahar late on Saturday.
Gen. Raziq further added that some family members of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... and at least fifteen leaders of the group have returned to Kandahar.
Without providing further information regarding the identities of the returnees, Gen. Raziq said some of the high ranking leaders of the group are also among those who have returned and some of them have previously served as governors and in other high posts when Taliban regime was in power.
In the meantime, Gen. Raziq said the Taliban leaders and family members of Mullah Omar were encouraged by the local officials in Kandahar to return and rejected any other party’s involvement in the process.
The Taliban murderous Moslems group has not commented regarding the report so far.
It is also yet not clear if the son of Mullah Omar is also among those who have returned as he was appointed the military commission of the group after the death of his father and appointment of Mullah Ahtar Mansoor.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of the northern Balkh province and chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami Ata Mohammad Noor has called the Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the ‘Butcher of Kabul’ as he renewed his stance against the latest upheavals, mainly involving the heated exchange of words between the two prominent political parties.
Speaking during a gathering in northern Samangan province, Noor called on Hekmatyar to return to the original place from where he has returned, pointing towards the caves once used by the militants and militant leaders to hide during the conflict.
Noor further added that Hekmatyar has started to insult Jamiat-e-Islami since he returned to the country.
He also added that Hekmatyar has a history of sparking tensions and used to spark violence among the Jihadi leaders and political parties during the civil war.
The chief of executive of Jamiat-e-Islami said Hekmatyar has lost his everything and even used girls to carry out a suicide attack, calling it the first ever use of women for the suicide bombings in the country.
In other parts of his speech, Noor asked the government to refrain from hatching conspiracies as he was apparently pointing towards the controversial case involving the Balkh provincial council member Asif Momand.
Calling Momand a ‘Fly’, Noor said his party has the ability to compete with the president and insisted that cutting the edge of a ear is small matter as compared to the bloodshed and killing of civilians.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least two key members of a terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan on Saturday.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan national army in the East said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Watapur district.
A statement by 201st Silab Corps said the two members of the terrorist group were killed in Gambir area of Watapur district.
The statement further added that the gunnies killed in the Arclight airstrike have been identified as Ibrahim and Mullah Khairullah.
The Silab Corps of the Afghan army did not disclose further information regarding the Arclight airstrike and it is yet not clear if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the US forces or the Afghan Air Force.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The self-declared breakaway republic of Somaliland has warned the northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... against fueling Clan feuds in Sanaag province.
Speaking at a presser in Hargeisa, the foreign affairs Minister of Somaliland, Sa’ad Ali Muse has called Puntland to stop creating conflict between the clans in the region.
Muse underlined that his administration is trying to mediate the warring sides in Buhoodle, and will bring an end to the deadly clan festivities going on in the town over the past weeks.
Dozens were killed, and hundreds fled from their houses since the start of the festivities.
The fighting between rival clans had erupted over a land dispute, while the local elders been able to mediate between the groups, a lasting ceasefire has never been achieved.
The minister’s call comes as Puntland vowing to send more troops to Sanaag, to prevent Somaliland from bringing the ballot boxes in the region ahead of November poll.
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[Iran Press TV] About 1,000 persecuted Rohingya Moslems from Myanmar's western Rakhine state have fleed to neighboring Bangladesh after coming under fire from military soldiers.
Jahangir Aziz, a Bangladeshi local government representative, said that when Myanmar troops fired their guns, the crowd ran back and broke through a Bangladesh barricade and cordon of 300-400 guards.
They then scattered, with at least some making it to unofficial camps for unregistered refugees, the official added.
The Moslems, who were seeking refuge from the ongoing violence in Myanmar, had been in a border no man's land for two days.
Bangladeshi border guards, who had earlier provided them with food and water, sought to push them back to Myanmar.
Rohingya leaders say 8,000 to 9,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh since a fresh wave of violence broke out in Rakhine last Thursday.
At least 104 people have been killed in the fresh bout of violence involving Myanmar’s military and the gang. The official corpse count as of Sunday was 96.
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Life has got to be bad when Bangladesh is a refuge.
[Iran Press TV] Russia has said that the US’ anti-Venezuela sanctions are aimed at upsetting the country’s internal balance and creating economic problems.
"We are firmly opposed to unilateral sanctions against sovereign states," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Monday.
"The latest measures of financial pressure on Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro were introduced by Washington at a time when that country showed signs of relative internal political stabilization after the elections to the National Constituent Assembly, street protests eased somewhat and a schedule of forthcoming elections, including gubernatorial and presidential ones, was finalized," she added.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... signed an executive order that prohibits dealings with Venezuela, a measure taken to halt financing what the White House called President Nicolas Maduro's "dictatorship."
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Venezuela is doing a good job of self destruction.
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[Al Jazeera] A former German nurse serving a life sentence for murdering patients by injecting them with a deadly medication is suspected of killing 84 other people, according to police.
If convicted, the man identified only as Niels H. under reporting rules, would be one of the worst serial killers in the country's criminal history.
A court order to exhume scores of former patients treated by the suspect found traces of the medication in 84 cases, Johann Kuehme the police chief in the northern German city of Oldenburg told a press conference on Monday.
Kuehme said police believe that the numbers of deaths could be even higher. However, many of the patients who died have since been cremated.
In past hearings, the nurse, now aged 40, admitted deliberately injecting patients at two clinics in northern Germany with deadly drugs and then trying to revive them in order to play the hero, German media said.
'Murders could have been prevented'
An Oldenburg court sentenced H to life in prison in February 2015 on two counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and causing bodily harm to patients.
During his trial in 2015, the former nurse also confessed to murdering more patients during his career.
His confession prompted police to establish a special commission to investigate the deaths at two clinics where he worked - in Oldenburg and the nearby town of Delmenhorst.
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[Al Jazeera] A Nigerian court has seized $21m from bank accounts linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former oil minister who faces corruption allegations. MY NAME DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE...
Abdulazeez Anka, federal high court judge, ordered on Monday the immediate forfeiture of the sum allegedly held in local bank accounts by Alison-Madueke, who was once one of Africa's most prominent female politicians. FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND ‘TOP SECRET’. I AM SURE AND HAVE CONFIDENCE OF YOUR ABILITY AND RELIABILITY TO PROSECUTE A TRANSACTION OF THIS GREAT MAGNITUDE INVOLVING A PENDING TRANSACTION REQUIRING MAXIIMUM CONFIDENCE.
Nigeria's anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which accuses Alison-Madueke of corruption, argued in the Lagos court that she had illicitly laundered the funds with the help of top oil officials. WE ARE TOP OFFICIAL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN IMPORATION OF GOODS INTO OUR COUNTRY WITH FUNDS WHICH ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN NIGERIA. IN ORDER TO COMMENCE THIS BUSINESS WE SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE US TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT THE SAID TRAPPED FUNDS.
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[IsraelTimes] Hailing fully restored relations with Tehran, Yahya Sinwar says his group doesn’t want war yet but is building up military power for ’the liberation of Paleostine’.
The new Gazoo leader of the Paleostinian terrorist group Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, said Monday it has restored relations with Iran and is gearing up for future hostilities with Israel.
Yahya Sinwar told news hounds that Iran is now "the largest backer financially and militarily" of Hamas’s armed wing. It was his first meeting with journalists since taking up his post in February.
Sinwar said that with Iran’s help, Hamas is accumulating military power in preparation for a battle for "the liberation of Paleostine."
Hamas is "developing our military strength in order to liberate Paleostine," Sinwar said, but he also stressed that it does not seek war for now "and takes every effort to avoid a war... At the same time we are not afraid of a war and are ready for it."
"The Iranian military support to Hamas and al-Qassam is strategic," he added, saying the relationship had "become fantastic and returned to its former era."
"Every day we build missiles and continue military training," he added, saying that thousands of people are working "day and night" to prepare for the next conflict.
The group is in sore need of funds and backing as its current top patron, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , is under fire from Gulf allies for supporting it.
[PacificPundit] With left wing terrorist group AntFA funded by Nazi George Soros, the beatings of people has gone unreported and excused by the corrupt media. On November 4th of this year, the terrorist group AntiFA is planning a "civil war" and an "overturn" of government. AntiFA terrorists will team up with the The Revolutionary Communist Party and other far left terrorist organizations to instigate what they call civil war in November.
The Revolutionary Communist Party, Antifa, and god knows who else are planning massive rallies to "end the Fascist regime". According to one website at revcom.us, people are living in terror. This allegedly includes immigrants [illegal], Latinos, Blacks, LGBTQ, Muslims, refugees, the poor, the unhealthy who can’t get healthcare, the whole world, the whole planet, and so on.
The "nightmare must end", they say. They are the ones who hand out all the ’No!’ signs you see, which were alleged to be the brainchild of domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
These violent leftists are taking to the streets in New York City, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco o November 4.
One of their lunatic members, Andy Zee, wrote of violence being acceptable as do the AntiFa:
"There is a break with what have been the norms we confront, and to deal with this there must be a break with the "normal" ways people seek change from government. The normal forms of petition and protest DO NOT APPLY with Trump--even as they have been difficult enough under the normal functioning of this system," writes Zee.
"Sharp agitation" and "politically provocative actions" must be employed to achieve the complete overthrow of the administration, according to Zee.
Zee cites The Coming Civil War by Bob Avakian, "the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and architect of the new synthesis of communism," as a template for the planned unrest. You'd think they would choose a better cause to die for.
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Well Austin is full of leftists but its kind of like a roach motel, they'll be able to get in, but its doubtful they'll be able to get out. Nov. 4 is looking to be a double popcorn day for Texas.
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Your'll note that the cities listed are extremely blue. They don't dare show themselves to someplace even a little read - might get spanked and sent home to their mother.
With any luck they will piss enough people off in those cities to turn them a little more red.
But I predict lots of mayhem, violence and a few deaths.
Those deaths will be blamed on the right and racists, but will come from the left. It is planned to happen this way and the media in its communist compliance will harp away all day that it is Trump's fault.
This is the battlespace that was prepped by the left during the campaign and this is the way they will conduct their coup.
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..and if convicted, tagged with covering the full damage they caused in their participation [which should suck up a lot of trust fund money or that from mom and dad]. Indentured for life.
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Most states already have laws about riots, assault, battery, arson, littering & generally being a public nuisance. Police need to make arrests & prosecutor to carry out the legal process. That's not likely to happen with Antifa, which seems to be coated with Teflon.
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Yep. And this time, it won't be in response to anything - they'll just be doing what they do. This should be the albatross to hang around the neck of all those who jumped on their bandwagon out of a combination of ignorance and cowardice following the events in Charlottesville.
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You see, there are quite a number of Democratic senators in Congress who are up for re-election next year. Our very own U.S. senator Bob Casey is considered vulnerable being located in a state that voted for President Trump. One of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in Congress is Missouri senator Claire McCaskill. Her state voted for Donald Trump by 57% to Hillary Clinton’s 38%. She has to desperately look as moderate as possible, her Republican attackers will put up ads “Clare’s people think every last one of you is a racist Nazi,” and pair photos of her in ballrooms with Nancy Pelosi set to dramatic music. See how this works?
This obviously has Democratic strategists in a pickle.
It’s very obvious what next year will be like. The worst footage from protest demonstrations will be put on display in campaign advertising and all the claims that Democratic pundits and authors have made claiming America is festooned with 64 million gas-chamber-murdering Nazis. Everyone who voted for Donald Trump is a Nazi. They’re all Nazis. Every fucking last one of them is a motherfucking Nazi.
There are few Republicans up for re-election in 2018 who are really vulnerable. Those 64 million Trump voters still have access to ballot machines and they can still vote. Calling every Trump voter a Nazi, as so many of you have done, is not going to be forgotten. That projection is going to come back to haunt people. It terrifies people who actually do politics as part of their career; namely pundits, campaign strategists and party officials. . . . You don’t need any more embarrassing YouTube video clips of AntiFa protestors chanting “NO USA AT ALL“.
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During the election season the left will turn on Antifa and will do so effectovely IF the violence against their opponents looks like a liability.. Something the spineless pubs will not do. The Dems will try to score points this way. After the election, regardless of the outcome, the violence will return.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The daughter of a victim of a 2005 bombing that killed Leb’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others testified before an international court Monday about the frantic days of hunting for traces of her father after the kaboom as her hopes of finding him alive ebbed away.
Lama Ghalayini was the first of seven witnesses who are expected to testify before the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Leb over the next two weeks at the marathon trial in absentia of four suspects in the attack in Beirut.
The suspects are members of the Hezbollah Lion of Islam group, which denies involvement in former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s liquidation. One of those originally indicted, Hezbollah military commander Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in Syria in 2016.
The trial started in January 2014 and prosecutors have so far presented more than 230 witnesses. The suspects have not been locked away Please don't kill me! and were not in the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... -backed court, but lawyers are representing them.
People injured by the bomb and relatives of those killed are being given the opportunity to tell the tribunal about how the attack affected their lives and by extension, its broader impact on Lebanese society.
Ghalayini said she suffered depression and post-traumatic stress after her father’s death.
"I wish this day could be erased from the calendar," she said of the Feb. 14, 2005 blast. "I think it is the only thing that really could relieve me."
Speaking by video link from Beirut, Ghalayini said she and her family scoured hospitals and a morgue and used sniffer dogs to no avail. Her father’s remains were recovered more than two weeks later, lying face down under a shallow layer of sand.
Ghalayini was critical of Lebanese authorities for not doing more to help her family in the hunt for her father, who was killed while taking his daily walk along the Beirut seafront.
His daughter was not in Leb at the time of the bombing, but said she heard the kaboom while she was speaking by phone to a company in Beirut. She flew home as soon as she could when it emerged that her father was missing.
"It was horrible to see the scene of the kaboom and just imagine where my father could have been," she said through an interpreter. "It was really a shock for me."
At the end of her testimony, Ghalayini told judges she hoped the perpetrators eventually will be brought to justice.
"I will never rest until the criminals are prosecuted," she said.
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[DailyMail] While millions of Americans donned special protective sunglasses to safely watch the solar eclipse last week, some Californians apparently turned to sunscreen to protect their eyes from the retina-scorching celestial spectacle.
A health professional based out of Redding, California, told the local station KRCR last week that one of her colleagues in town had patients arrive at a clinic after they had sprayed sunblock on their eyeballs as an ill-advised alternative to proper sun-filtering shades.
Trish Patterson, a nurse practitioner at Prestige Urgent Care, told the station the hapless eclipse watchers were suffering from eye pain and had to be referred to an ophthalmologist for treatment.
The nurse said so far, she and her fellow medics have not come across any patients suffering from damage to the retina as a result of gazing at the sun during the August 21 solar eclipse.
California was among the states where only a partial eclipse was visible, as if fell out of the narrow path of totality spanning 14 states.
Prior to the hotly anticipated astronomical event, experts urged eclipse watchers to invest in NASA-approved spectacles, or to view the eclipse indirectly by projecting an image of the sun onto a screen.
Rubbing sunblock into one's eyes was not listed among the recommended methods to safely take in the eclipse.
In fact, most sunscreens come with a warning label reminding users to keep the product out of their eyes because the lotion or spray can cause pain or irritation. Continues.
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I had heard that it was Ohio-ans who did this, and scratched my head.
But Californians?
Oh Lord God, I thank thee that Thou hadst delivered me, a former Californian born and raised in the state, from such lunacies.
[Iran Press TV] The OSCE's media freedom watchdog on Monday called on US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... to tone down his virulent attacks on the press, warning that they "degrade" the media's key role in a democracy and open journalists to abuse.
Since taking office in January, the 71-year-old leader has made a habit of publicly bashing mainstream media outlets like The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , which he regularly denounces as "fake news" on his Twitter account.
"I urge the United States administration to refrain from delivering such attacks on the media," Harlem Desir, the media freedom representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, said in a letter to the White House.
"The US president's statements are deeply problematic in that they degrade the essential role the media plays in every democratic society, holding governments to account and offering a platform for a diversity of voices," read the letter addressed to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Because nobody knows more about the media's role in democracy than the Iranians.
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The Media was kiss ass and still is a big smooch butt for the Democrats. I hope Trump keeps the pressure on until the Media realize the American people spit on their "news".
The seven o'clock News is Urp. The Media serves garbage.
I don't want to hear some opinion from a slick in a suit. I want honest and objective reporting of facts. Opinion is NOT news. Groupthink is not news. Propaganda is not News.
PC sucks and I don't like puffs and cowards....journalists. Useless people. Mouths in a shirt.
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I had a Journo major fraternity brother/housemate that I still love (named my oldest son after him). I asked him why he was a J Major? : "It was the chicks, an easy major and he cakewalked thru it."
Never did it as a career. Successfully worked in marketing for So Cal Developers
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See "Dirty Laundry" on YouTube. I can't do it from my Kindle Fire on the road.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A retired Pak senator has called the existing policy of Pakistain regarding Afghanistan as ’potentially suicidal policy’ as he insists that the new strategy of the United States for Afghanistan and Pakistain is a chance for Islamabad to get rid of the flawed policy.
In an opinion editorial published in a local newspaper, The Nation, Khattak called the new US strategy as impressive for its clarity, comprehensiveness and nuance.
Khattak further added "It may be a historic opportunity for Pakistain to get rid of a flawed Afghan policy that has acquired malignant proportions over the time. Even otherwise, this is a potentially suicidal policy for Pakistain."
According to the retired Pak senator, Pakistain’s Afghan policy is the product of a militaristic and hegemonic design based on the jihadist project of the 1980s and it hasn’t changed in any tangible way despite tall claims to the contrary.
"It aims at imposing a puppet government on Afghanistan by defeating the Afghan state and its international allies. Many political parties in Pakistain have been criticising this policy. It has neither been approved by the Parliament nor supported by any elected political government," he added.
Khattak also added that Pashtuns in Pakistain are particularly opposed to it because it puts them in the eye of the terrorist storm.
"Pakistain’s Afghan policy has been the monopoly of the country’s security establishment and at times the civilian government would be sent packing for opposing it. Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s brutality was unleashed on every entity that clearly opposed it," he said, adding that the policy of supporting good Taliban (that includes Afghan Taliban and elements fighting against India) has perpetuated terrorist problem in Pakistain despite valiant sacrifices by the people of the country and members of the security forces.
Khattak said Pakistain has remained a war theater for almost the last four decades. It’s only natural that the generals and not the civilians would call the shorts in a war theater. So it isn’t surprising to see that support for jihadist project and threat to democracy emanate from the same source. Again it’s the same mindset that is attacking democratic republics (however flawed they may be) in both Pakistain and Afghanistan.
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[IsraelTimes] At event celebrating 50 years of settlements in the northern West Bank, thousands cheer PM, as he speaks of the area’s strategic importance
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday that his government will never evacuate another settlement, a promise that comes just days after meeting with a US delegation to discuss restarting the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians.
At an event celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria -- the biblical name for the northern West Bank -- Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands, "We are here to stay forever. There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel."
"This is the inheritance of our ancestors," he said. "This is our land.’
He also stressed the dangers Israel would face if it withdrew from the West Bank, a key demand of the Paleostinians in any future peace deal.
"Samaria is a strategic asset for the State of Israel," the prime minister said. "It is the key to our future. Because from these high hills, the heights of Mount Hatzor, we can see the entire country, from one side to the other."
He said that Israel has withdrawn from settlements in the past but received nothing in return.
"We’ve uprooted settlements. What did we get? We received missiles. It will not happen again," the prime minister said, referring to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gazoo Strip. "To those who want to uproot what we’ve planted, we will deepen our roots."
"Imagine that on these hills were the forces of radical Islam," Netanyahu said that he tells world leaders. "It would endanger us, it would endanger you, and it would endanger the entire Middle East."
The prime minister also gave his recollections of the first time he came to Samaria, as a soldier, and said that he felt he was walking in the footsteps of the patriarchs, walking the hills with a Bible in his hand.
"I remember the excitement that gripped me when I came to Shiloh, the place where the [biblical] kingdom of Israel stood," he said.
Netanyahu’s comments come just days after the visit of a delegation from US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , who is looking to get the Israelis and the Paleostinians back to the negotiating table.
A senior Paleostinian official said Monday that the Americans last week asked for a three-to-four-month "grace period" in order to present a peace plan.
Nabil Shaath, speaking to the official Voice of Paleostine radio, said the Paleostinians had reiterated their demands that Israel end settlement construction and withdraw from the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War.
Shaath, a former Paleostinian negotiator, said that the Paleostinians told the American delegation its demands are "the end of the occupation, the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the resolution of all permanent status issues, including the right return of for [Paleostinian] refugees."
Netanyahu was enthusiastically welcomed by settler leader Yossi Dagan, and the large, exclusively religious, crowd greeted the prime ministers words with loud cheers.
[Ynet] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has decided to suspend further anti-Israeli actions in the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council and other institutions, to avoid being blamed for foiling the American peace initiative before it was ever presented, reports the A-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Abbas reportedly reached this decision after consulting with other Arab leaders.
[Ynet] Improvements in the operation methods of the Nitzan Battalion have led to the incrimination of 650 of the main instigators of rioting and the imprisonment of some 200 of them since the beginning of 2017.
The Nitzan Combat Intelligence Collection Battalion has improved its operations in recent months to more efficiently catch main instigators and prominent rioters red-handed during Paleostinian protests in the West Bank.
The recent improvements have led to the incrimination of 650 of the main instigators and the imprisonment of some 200 of them since the beginning of 2017.
The new operation methods have been perfected over the last two rounds of escalation in the West Bank over the past year and a half--during the Paleostinian prisoners' hunger strike and during the Temple Mount crisis.
The Nitzan Battalion troops either stand on the front line along with the IDF or Border Police forces who are holding back the rioters or operate from concealed positions located 300-400 meters from the rioting.
The combat intelligence collection soldiers are equipped with protection gear as well as advanced Nikon cameras with 300-400mm lenses.
They use these cameras to document a rioter throwing a stone or a Molotov cocktail, while making sure to capture a clear shot of his face.
"We've improved our operation techniques, and we are working--throughout the entire operational process--with the Judea and Samaria Division's legal advisor and with intelligence forces to translate the materials we produce into legal evidence," the commander of the Nitzan Battalion, Lt. Col. Ayalon Peretz, told Ynet. "We reach the home of the rioter in a matter of days, arrest him and bring him in front of a judge. These are mostly rioters aged 18-30, because our focus is not on children and teens," he added.
"The stone-throwers who are not enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! might throw a Molotov cocktail in tomorrow's riot. The next day they might throw a Molotov cocktail on a vehicle on the roads, and in a week they might carry out a serious terror attack," Lt. Col. Peretz explained. "This accurate tool has led to a substantial drop in the number of rioters, and we've seen (evidence of) that in the protests over the Temple Mount crisis."
Alongside improving their technique in documenting rioting, the Nitzan Battalion is also aided by advanced technology: multirotor drones used by the forces help create an intelligence picture detailing where the rioters come from, how many there are, and where they flee to after throwing stones or Molotov cocktails. In this manner, even the masked rioters can be tracked and incriminated. The Nitzan Battalion forces operate both at spontaneous clash sites and regular rioting hotspots, the latter mostly on Fridays at Kafr Qaddum in the Samaria region, Tuqu' in Gush Etzion, Nabi Salih near Ramallah and the police (Shoter) checkpoint in Hebron.
The battalion has also recently began training Border Police troops to document the rioting, so footage they capture could be used to incriminate instigators as well.
While on operational duty in the Bethlehem area in recent weeks, the Nitzan Battalion soldiers arrested several Paleostinian rioters they happened upon during a random check, who just a few weeks prior were documented rioting at Rachel's Tomb and near Tuqu'. Nitzan is the IDF's biggest battalion, with over 1,000 soldiers spread out through the southern Mount Hebron area, the Jerusalem area, the Jordan Valley and all the way to Jenin in the northern Samaria region.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The spokesman of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, Brig. Gen. Yahya al-Zubaidi, said Iraqi army troops began advancing towards Ayadieh which is the last ISIS stronghold in Tal Afar.
Zubaidi said Ayadieh has been fully besieged, adding that the air force has struck ISIS targets in it.
Iraq’s Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that Iraqi forces recovered 95 percent of Tal Afar from ISIS, the militant group’s stronghold in the country’s northwest. Iraqi forces await recovering Ayadieh before declaring complete victory over ISIS.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia congratulated Iraq for the government forces’ consecutive victories against ISIS and for recovering Tal Afar.
A Saudi foreign ministry source reiterated Saudi Arabia’s support of the Iraqi government’s efforts to combat and eliminate terrorism and extremism.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Popular Mobilization forces have started looting the liberated areas of Tal Afar city in Iraq’s northwest, Al Arabiya Television has learned.
An Iraqi Army officer told Al Arabiya that bandidosfaceless myrmidons began looting as forces battled to clear the city of the remaining ISIS krazed killers. He added that the army has tried to stop the looting but has failed.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, identified the looters as Turkmen rustics in the Hussein mobilization militias. He described them as "engaging in Dire Revenge attacks on homes" in the Mahlabia district east of Tal Afar.
The officer said that the bandidosfaceless myrmidons are demolishing homes with explosives after looting them. A local city official confirmed to Al Arabiya news channel that members of the popular mobilization forces are looting government property as well as private property in the city.
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi security soldiers have discovered a detention facility in the western flank of Tal Afar, which members of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group used to incarcerate people and subject the detainees to various forms of torture.
The Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network reported on Monday that government forces had found the prison in the recently-liberated al-Saad neighborhood of the city, located 63 kilometers west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The building incorporated several rooms, where ISISbully boyz apparently used to hold civilians in captivity and torment them.
Iraqi security forces could recover dozens of boxes of tablets in addition to narcotics from the site.
ISIS had installed a comprehensive CCTV surveillance system across the building for the principal purposes of keeping an eye on the movements of the detainees.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the media bureau of Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha'abi, announced in a statement that soldiers from the 16th Division of the Iraqi Army had reclaimed control over Kharaj al-Asheq village southwest of al-’Ayadiya district, which lies 11 kilometers northwest of Tal Afar.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Over thirty people were killed or maimed in a suicide kaboom in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan late on Sunday evening.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place in the vicinity of Nawa district after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives.
Provincial governor’s front man Omar Zwak confirmed that a suicide bomber targeted an armored vehicle of the security forces at around 6:30 pm local time.
He said preliminary reports indicate at least thirteen people were killed and more than nineteen others were maimed in the attack.
In the meantime, another security official said civilians and security personnel were among those killed or maimed in the attack.
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Given that they are now facing Antifa Brown Shirts as well as potential jihadi attacks, this seems a good idea. Not that it will matter in places where the police are ordered to stand down.
[DW] President Donald Trump has reversed his predecessor's clamps on police access to military hardware imposed after the 2014 Ferguson riots. The program lets police obtain surplus high caliber weapons and armored vehicles.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's on Monday signed an executive order reviving a program to provide surplus military hardware to local police departments across America.
His signature reverses a directive signed in 2015 by former President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... that severely restricted police force access to military gear such as grenade launchers, bullet-proof vests, riot shields, guns and ammunition.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Trump's decision to loud applause at a national convention of the Fratenity Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee.
Obama had reinstated the ban on surplus high-caliber weapons, armored vehicles and other heavy equipment for local police departments following public outcry over the militarized response in 2014 to rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, and the police shooting of an unarmed black man.
Sessions told Fratenity police members the new arrangement would "ensure that you can get the lifesaving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that will will not allow criminal activity, violence and lawlessness to become a new normal."
The newspaper USA Today said the new order would fully restore the program to recycle surplus equipment from the Department of Defense, and fully restore grants used to purchase such equipment "from other sources."
Police departments only had to pay for transport costs under the controversial program
USA Today and the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , referring to a Trump administration briefing, cited two academic articles that claimed that the program was "defensive" in nature and had reduced crime rates and did not increase deaths involving police.
The so-called 1033 program began in 1990 as a way to funnel surplus equipment from the Department of Defense to anti-drug police, but was expanded in 1997 to wider police departments. The White House found that the program allowed the transfer for $5.4 billion (4.5 billion euros) of equipment to police departments, who only paid for transport costs.
The new briefing paper said the decision to restore the program "represents a policy shift toward ensuring officers have the tools they need to reduce crime and keep their communities safe. It sends the message that we care more about public safety than about how a piece of equipment looks, especially when that equipment has been shown to reduce crime, reduce complaints against and assaults on police, and makes officers more effective," as quoted by Washington Post.
Obama's move led to the recall of at least 100 grenade launchers, more than 1,600 bayonets and 126 tracked vehicles.
Would like to see the LoA's, assuming they exist, stipulating under what conditions the equipment could be used.
It may come in very handy close to the next election.
(Slightly) OT: I at one time lived a few miles off (USAF) base for a while and one day heard a hell of a racket outside. Looked out the window and saw three honest-to-G*d APC's rumbling down the (civilian) street. Got my undivided attention real fast.
[IsraelTimes] Municipal veterinary service says Jews and Moslems may try to steal chickens and sheep to use in ’unauthorized sacrifices’ for holidays
Veterinarians in a municipality near Gay Paree warned farmers of an elevated risk of theft of sheep and fowl ahead of the Moslem and Jewish holidays of Eid al-Adha and Yom Kippur, respectively.
The warning, which provoked angry reactions on the part of communal leaders who felt it was discriminatory, came in a letter sent earlier this month by veterinary services in Hauts-de-Seine, an area comprising several suburbs east of the French capital, the Le Paisien Weekly reported.
The letter instructed farmers to practice "the highest degree of alertness" ahead of the Moslem holiday, which this year falls on September 1, and the Jewish one 28 days later, because followers of those religions perform "unauthorized sacrifices" of sheep and chickens, respectively.
To Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews, the inclusion of the Jewish holiday in the police’s circular was one of many cases in which “Jews are equated, compared, amalgamated” with Muslims incorrectly as a tactic for deflecting accusation of Islamophobia.
On Eid al-Adha, some Moslems sacrifices sheep and lambs in conditions that animal rights activists find cruel, and which also provoke resistance by opponents of Moslem immigration.
And in the hours prior to Yom Kippur, in some Jewish communities roosters and chickens are waved several times in the air and slaughtered as atonement for sins incurred during the previous year. The meat is given to charity. Religious laws forbid the use of a stolen chicken for the rite. The act is also condemned as cruel by animal rights activists.
"Ill-intentioned individuals could try to catch the animals in order to perform clandestine slaughters," the letter also warned.
Joel Mergui, president of the Consistoire, the organization responsible for providing religious services to Jewish communities, said that after reading about the circular, he was "amazed to discover" that he had "suddenly and collectively, with all the coreligionists of the Jewish faith, become a potential chicken thief," Mergui, a physician and one of French Jewry’s most highly regarded leaders, told the La Croix daily Friday.
Following protests over the letter, a spokesperson for the Public Security department of the region told Le Gay Pareeien "it was a matter of vigilance" that "was not intended to cause offense."
According to Le Gay Pareeien, sheep have been stolen in the past for sacrifice during Eid al-Adha, but likely not by Moslems. Roma traders sold some 200 stolen sheep in 2013 ahead of the Moslem holiday to worshipers. The sheep were sold for approximately half of their market value. The daily did not offer a report of any theft of chickens ahead of Yom Kippur.
To Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews, the inclusion of the Jewish holiday in the police’s circular was one of many cases in which "Jews are equated, compared, amalgamated" with Moslems incorrectly as a tactic for deflecting accusation of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... "This systematic tendency by politicians and in the media, and this time by administrative authorities, has become intolerable and unacceptable," he was quoted as saying by La Croix.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s former ambassador to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Abdullah Suhrabi has said that Qatar wants to leave the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
In an interview to the Iranian newspaper Jaam-e Jam, he said: "The information we have received from Qatar indicates that the Prince (now Emir) wanted to withdraw from the GCC since the onset of the Gulf crisis, but he had deferred the move on the advice of his counsellors".
Suhrabi also claimed that Doha has been trying to restore relations with Iran for over eight years and that early last year it reluctantly followed Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s cue in calling back its ambassador from Tehran.
He pointed out that when Doha took over the presidency of the GCC in 2007, it had invited former Iranian President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad to the Gulf summit, despite opposition from other member states.
Suhrabi stressed that Iran had decided to re-open Qatar’s embassy in Tehran "to stabilize its national security". The diplomat averred that the areas Doha and Tehran are working together relate to the strengthening of Qatar’s economy and the settling of its problems.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... Qatari ambassador Ali bin Ahmed Ali al-Sulaiti started his work in Tehran on Saturday. Iranian agencies released pictures of the Qatari ambassador presenting his credentials to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The Iranian media has dubbed the Qatari move as a "new victory" for Iran against the "Arab confederacy," and sees it as a "chink in the Arab front".
According to Iranian Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Qasimi, it was Qatar that had requested Iran to accept the return of its ambassador to Tehran in a telephone conversation between the foreign ministers last Tuesday.
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a "chink in the Arab front".
Dat's Raaaaycisss!
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What about Al Udeid Air Base? Close that down?
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...will of the people. That was an American creation, why would anyone think the Euros care? [other than when the Germans are screwing with everyone else].
[IsraelTimes] As health deteriorates, Baquer and Siamak Namazi remain in Evin jail, where they have been ’interrogated relentlessly, beaten, and tased’.
Unexpectedly.
The Namazi family fled after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The younger Namazi later traveled back several times and wrote articles calling for improved ties between Iran and the US, urging Iranian-Americans to act as a bridge between the rival governments.
Those efforts raised suspicions among hard-liners in Iran. In May 2015, a hard-line Iranian website called Fardanews accused him of being part of a Western effort to infiltrate Iran.
Siamak Namazi was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in October 2015. His father, a former UNICEF representative who served as governor of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province under the US-backed shah, was arrested in February 2016, apparently drawn to Iran over fears about his incarcerated son.
Iran does not recognize dual nationalities, meaning those detained cannot receive consular assistance. In most cases, dual nationals face secret charges in closed-door hearings in Iran’s Revolutionary Court, which handles cases involving alleged attempts to overthrow the government.
In October, authorities said the Namazis had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for "cooperating with the hostile American government."
The Namazis are among a host of dual nationals and those with ties to the West held in the country after the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Others include Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly "infiltrating" the country, while doing doctoral research on Iran’s Qajar dynasty. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman, was sentenced to five years in prison on allegations of planning the "soft toppling" of Iran’s government, while traveling with her young daughter.
Iranian-American Robin Shahini was released on bail last year after staging a weeks-long hunger strike, while serving an 18-year prison sentence for "collaboration with a hostile government." Shahini is believed to still be in Iran.
Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran in 2007 while on an unauthorized CIA mission, remains unaccounted for.
Also in an Iranian prison is Nizar Zakka, a US permanent resident from Leb who advocates for internet freedom and has done work for the US government. He was sentenced to 10 years last year, on espionage-related charges.
In the wake of the 2015 atomic accord, Iran freed detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and three other Iranian-Americans in exchange for pardons or charges being dropped against seven Iranians. That deal also saw the US make a $400 million cash delivery to Iran.
Analysts and family members of those detained in Iran have suggested Iran wants to negotiate another, similar deal with the West. "The signal has been sent very, very clearly that this is what they want to do," Genser said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Members of an Iranian-backed spy ring currently on trial in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... received training at military sites of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Saudi daily Okaz reported on Monday.
According to the report, the spy ring - made up of Saudi nationals - utilized religious pilgrimages to a Holy Shiite shrine in the Iranian city of Mashhad to be trained at IRGC camps.
One of the spy-ring members was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! at King Fahad International Airport in Dammam as he was attempting to leave the country.
His confessions to Saudi security authorities revealed that upon arrival at Mashhad airport member of the spy-ring were transported to furnished apartments in the city and were kept indoors for three days.
IRGC officers allegedly blindfolded the men before taking them to the training camps, two hours away from the airport.
The men were given a "special allowance" and were housed in private quarters where they received training on weapons and explosives.
The trainees met convicted terrorist Ahmed al-Mughsil who is currently detained in Saudi Arabia after being involved in the Khobar Towers bombing of 1996 that killed 19 US soldiers and maimed 372 others.
Mughsil supervised their training for two weeks, and asked them to establish a terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia immediately after they returned to the kingdom, the report said.
The members viewed Mughsil as a leader and awaited instructions to carry out bombings and liquidations.
According to Akhbarna website, the investigations showed that the plan - led by Mughsil - included the opening of a tourism agency in Qatif to send young men and women to Iran to train and inflame public opinion against the Saudi Arabia and its security.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran’s Kish Airline has announced an ambitious plan to purchase over a dozen new planes from global aviation giant Airbus and Boeing.
Kish Airline CEO Mohammad Taqi Jadidi was quoted by the domestic media that the plan envisaged buying 10 planes from Boeing and 6 more from Airbus.
Jadidi told Iran’s IRNA news agency that the new Airbus planes would be added to his company’s fleet before the end of the current Iranian calendar year (21 March 2018).
He added that Boeing planes would be purchased in the next Iranian year.
Nevertheless, the official did not specify which specific models the purchases would involve.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] We are now playing with open cards. Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and Iran have united in every place where they funded warring groups.
When Qatar supported al-Qaeda and al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front in Syria, they actually fought popular Syrian factions more than they fought the Syrian regime. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... Iran also supported Hezbollah and Shiite militias in Syria to fight popular Syrian units. Qatar and Iran are thus united in Syria and are not rivals.
Qatar supported al-Qaeda in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... while Iran supported the Houthis. Both fought legitimacy there and did not fight against each other. Doha and Tehran are therefore also united in Yemen.
What unites Qatar and Iran is not just the northern oil field. What they also have in common is their rivalry toward Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Arab Gulf countries and their desire to topple governance there and dismantle the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Qatar and Iran are partners, and the bonds between them are stronger than bonds between Qatar and Gulf countries. Iran and Qatar fund the most dangerous project in the Middle East with the aim to topple its countries.
Qatar donated money to fund Sunni terrorist groups and Iran donated money to fund Shiite terrorist groups. Both pushed these groups to fight in Arab countries and to undermine the bases of the Arab state.
Funding exposed
Now that this funding is exposed, they will unite in publicly funding and supporting the most foolish Arab groups, whether Sunni ones or Shiite, in support of Iran’s and the Moslem Brüderbund’s supreme guides.
Can you imagine the irony! Can you imagine those funding al-Nusra embracing the funder of Hezbollah? Can you imagine al-Qaeda’s funder and the funder of the Houthis announcing the close ties between them?
The most important question is how will the Qatari government impose a reality which it is not easy to subjugate people to? The Qatari people may have their own opinion about certain affairs and in this case we wonder what will their opinion be about normalizing relations with Iran?
Even if the relations of the Qatari regime ‐ as governed by Hamad bin Khalifa and Hamad bin Jassim ‐ with Iran are very normal, it seems impossible for the Qatari people to establish relations with the Iranians at the expense of their Gulf brothers.
This is not chauvinism or sectarian or ethnic intolerance but simply about blood relations which are irrelevant to politics. Removing the Qatari people from their ordinary family and convincing them that their Iranian step father is better than their Gulf father will be impossible.
Even if Doha’s relations with Tehran are normal, Qatar’s relations with the GCC will be impossible under the governance of Hamad bin Khalifa and Hamad bin Jassim. Qatar’s rivalry and hostility is deep especially considering it has agreed to be used as a Trojan horse by Iran to storm the GCC’s fort ‐ something that no one in the Gulf will accept.
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Where were they 6 months before Obean left? The only people who can constitutional override the Prez is Congress per their authority under Article I, Section. Not that it would stop the imperial judiciary of assuming ever more powers.
#2
Next lawsuits by ACLU: ADA requires "paralyzed friendly" access to parachute training for soldiers. This would follow the successful restructuring of BUD/S Training so the first wheelchair veteran can pass and become a SEAL.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... militias issued a circular to all its security posts and checkpoints in Sanaa and its major entrances stipulating that members of parliament, commanders in the General People’s Congress and figures close to ousted President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... cannot leave the capital.
Security sources close to the Houthis said that in addition to these orders the Houthis ordered more military patrols and set several security check points in Sanaa’s neighborhoods as well as on the southern side of the capital and near Saleh’s house in al-Komaem area in Hedda Street.
According to eyewitnesses, armed Houthi members were stationed in front of the General People’s Congress headquarters in Hedda and in its buildings near Saleh’s home. Armored vehicles and dozens of armed Houthi fighters were also stationed around the Charter Institute building which is affiliated with the General People’s Congress.
In the past hours, Houthis tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! dozens of Saleh loyalists and General People’s Congress activists.
Medical sources said that following their festivities with Saleh loyalists, Houthi forces of Evil stormed two hospitals near Al Sabeen Square and detained some maimed men affiliated with the Elite Republican Guards who is loyal to Saleh.
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#5
Wow. I guess usage, time, risk, whatever. Sure would like to be around the campfire when he strikes up a conversation with somebody from Cajun Navy. Personally I wouldn't use this boat, bet the drain plug keeps falling out and disappearing.
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People can choose to pay him to come rescue them immediately, or wait until someone doing it for free happens to find them. We don't know if he lost everything except the boat in the flood, and needs the money, or has even stronger reasons for not donating his time, gas, and the risk of damaging the boat. Either way, those who choose to pay will leave the charitable efforts for those who truly need it, resulting in more total rescues -- surely a good thing.
The blog post is worth reading, as are the comments.
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Upon review of TW's post, I'll moderate mine somewhat. Her arguments may very well be the case.
This aside, if I had lost damn near everything, except for my boat, I doubt I'd put my pain upon others. Gas money? Sure. "Wuber" services reimbursement? Nah.
$200/$100 are not "small" donations to those with mostly water in their pockets.
Two people have been shot dead and four more injured in a shooting at a New Mexico library on Monday, police said.
The shooting happened at the Clovis-Carver library in Clovis, New Mexico.
Police surrounded the library several minutes after 4pm Monday, the Curry County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
Police were seen escorting an unidentified man in handcuffs into a police cruiser. It has not been confirmed whether or not the man is the suspected shooter
A photo of the miscreant being taken away can be seen at the link.
Police spokesperson Captain Roman Romero confirmed around 4.40pm that multiple people were killed and injured in the shooting, but did not provide more details.
One witness told the Eastern New Mexico News that she was in the library with her son when a man came in and 'started to shoot' into the air.
The woman did not see anyone get shot, but the suspected shooter was still at the library when she left. She told the outlet she thought he was carrying a handgun.
Police were seen escorting an unidentified man in handcuffs into a police cruiser. It has not been confirmed whether or not the man is the suspected shooter.
A suspect is believed to be in custody.
Air ambulances were dispatched and at least one victim was taken to Clovis Municipal Airport to be transported to Lubbock, Texas, about 100 miles away.
According to the newspaper, one police scanner report said one victim was in a closet in the library and needed medical attention.
Update from the Eastern New Mexico News, the local paper, at 2:45 p.m. EDT:
The teenage boy accused in the deadly shooting at Clovis' public library had been in trouble at school, had recently contemplated suicide and had "anxiety attacks" that resulted in his going home from church on Sunday morning, his pastors said.
Nathaniel Jouett was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! without incident after police said he opened fire a little after 4 p.m. Monday in the library, killing two people and injuring four more.
Pastors at Clovis' Living Word Church of God said the shooting stunned them because they thought Jouett was making positive strides in recent weeks, following what both described as a "very hard life."
"He started coming to church about 3 1/2 months ago," said Pastor David Stevens.
"My daughter called him and asked if he wanted to hang out."
Stevens said his daughter soon learned Jouett was "laying with a gun at his side and a suicide note in his pocket" as they talked on the phone.
Once Jouett began attending church, he was a regular, often participating in multiple worship services in a week.
"I know that he had been turning his life around," said Living Word's Associate Pastor Bonetta Hutson.
"I know last week ... he was jumped in a bathroom. And then he got into a fight on Friday and was suspended for two days," Hutson said.
Stevens said Jouett was upset about the fight.
"He said he tried to avoid it. He knew that's not what he was supposed to be doing," Stevens said.
Clovis schools Superintendent Jody Balch said he did not know if Jouett had been fighting or if he were suspended.
Stevens said Jouett was at church on Sunday morning, but began having "anxiety attacks" during services and had to go home. He returned for Sunday night services and then spent about an hour at Stevens' home with other teens.
"He said his chest had been hurting him all day," Stevens said.
Stevens said Jouett lived with his father and was estranged from his mother.
He declined to go into detail about the boy's past, but said he'd recently given a testimony about his Christian faith at church.
"So I have been baptized and gotten back in 2 church," Jouett wrote on his Facebook page on Aug. 14.
"I have this overwhelming joy. (T)hank you 2 the church for making it feel like home."
#6
The level of coverage in number of minutes will signal the ethnic identity of the shooter, unless he's a Christian. In that case the coverage will be like he's. White guy regardless. Conservative would make it a CNN trifecta. If you can link him to Trump Wolf might have to change his pants...
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.
[Chicago Tribune] Petty Officer 3rd Class Logan Stephen Palmer, 23, was among 10 sailors who had been reported missing after the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker. On Sunday, officials said Navy and Marine Corps divers had recovered the remains of all 10.
[Iran Press TV] Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement, 
[IsraelTimes] Over 100 hooded protesters bust through police lines at free speech gathering, attack leader of a politically conservative group
[PAGESIX] A transgender woman at an LGBT event over the weekend ambushed Caitlyn Jenner for voting for 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
North Korea
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of the northern Balkh province and chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami Ata Mohammad Noor has called the Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the ‘Butcher of Kabul’ as he renewed his stance against the latest upheavals, mainly involving the heated exchange of words between the two prominent political parties.
[Al Jazeera] A former German nurse serving a life sentence for murdering patients by injecting them with a deadly medication is suspected of killing 84 other people, according to police.
[Ynet] Improvements in the operation methods of the Nitzan Battalion have led to the incrimination of 650 of the main instigators of rioting and the imprisonment of some 200 of them since the beginning of 2017.
[Iran Press TV] 
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