[Daily Caller] As FBI director last year, James Comey began writing drafts of a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton, even before all witnesses in the investigation -- including Clinton herself -- had been interviewed.
The Senate Judiciary Committee obtained the Comey memos as part of its investigation into his firing by President Trump, which occurred on May 9.
The revelation that Comey had begun drafting memos of his exoneration statement comes from transcripts of interviews given last fall by two FBI officials.
James Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff, and Trisha Anderson, the principal deputy general counsel of national security and cyberlaw at the FBI, gave the interviews as part of an investigation conducted by the Office of Special Counsel into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.
In a July 5, 2016, press conference, Comey said that he would not be recommending charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information despite her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Bill Clinton got the pre-brief the week before at Sky Harbor.
While the transcripts of those interviews are heavily redacted, they indicate that Comey started working on an announcement clearing Clinton in April or May of last year, before the FBI interviewed 17 witnesses in the case, including Clinton and some of her top aides.
Clinton was interviewed for several hours on July 2, just three days before Comey’s announcement.
In a letter to the FBI, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham also noted that Comey’s draft was prepared even before two Clinton aides, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, had reached what the two Republicans called a "highly unusual" immunity deal with the Justice Department.
The limited immunity deal prohibited investigators and prosecutors from asking about conversations between the two Clinton aides and Platte River Networks, a Denver-based tech firm that maintained Clinton’s server after she left the State Department.
Grassley and Graham questioned whether Comey could have conducted a complete and impartial investigation if he had already made a conclusion about the outcome before all of the information in the case had been collected.
"Conclusion first, fact-gathering second -- that’s no way to run an investigation," Grassley and South Graham wrote the FBI. "The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."
"The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts," they added.
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In a July 5, 2016, press conference, Comey said that he would not be recommending charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information despite her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
The Sky Harbor airport meeting btwn Clinton and Lynch took place on Monday, 27 June 2016. Comey began work on his draft memo in April or May. Appears the decision had already been made. No sense having a meeting if there's nothing to report.
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Trump should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Comey, Mueller, Clinton and all of them. Honestly, they are all flaming traitors and need to dance the hemp fandango after their convictions of treason.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps best known for its "hate map," a collection of organizations the nonprofit deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media. A gunman opened fire at the Washington, D.C., offices of the conservative Family Research Council in 2012 after seeing it listed as an "anti-gay" group on SPLC's website.
The SPLC has turned into a fundraising powerhouse, recording more than $50 million in contributions and $328 million in net assets on its 2015 Form 990, the most recently available tax form from the nonprofit. SPLC's Form 990-T, its business income tax return, from the same year shows that they have "financial interests" in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. No information is available beyond the acknowledgment of the interests at the bottom of the form.
It's pretty clear to me that the SPLC does not strictly adhere to the 501(c)(3) guidelines as outlined by the IRS. Go and check out their 2015 Federal Form 990 and see, for example, how much in 'charity' this 'charity' gives back to the community, as that is one of the criteria for being granted exempt tax status. Line 13 of the first page of the 990 is fucking ZERO for both years; they simply do not give out any money. I have no problem with the IRS investigating and, when appropriate, revoking 501(c)(3) statuses and handing these cocksuckers a massive tax bill. To the best of my knowledge, the IRS has never done this as part of their duties, and it's well past time that it starts. Bye-bye, SPLC.
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Additionaly, as a political organization, they have another filing requirement. By my calculations, they'll owe over $200K if they haven't been filing this tax return.
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splc has employee expenses and claims their employees are carrying out charitable activities, e.g. education, advocacy.
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...which we both know is bullshit. The IRS' measuring stick is direct cash support to other charities. Since the SPLC is a left-wing entity, they get a complete pass.
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sadly, once an org gets certified for 501(c)(1), t takes a pretty egregious issue to have that status revoked
you may be correct that the activities of the employees are not eligible under the education or advocacy but that is not something you say without some sort of audit - of course the auditors who do the routine audits tend to only understand numbers and also may be friends of friends of the 501 org employees
you could also argue that splc is partisan but that is also determined by audit
I don't see any requirement in the statute 26USC501(c) for line 13 of 990 to be a certain percentage of expenses
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I meant 501(c)(3) in my first sentence -sorry
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That's what makes tax law such a blast - massive gray areas you could run a 757 through.
[Daily Caller] A 22-year-old black man in Kansas City who once said he wanted to "kill all white people" has been charged with murdering two middle-aged white men and is suspected of killing three more.
Fredrick Demond Scott was charged Tuesday in the murders of Steven Gibbons and John Palmer.
Gibbons, a 57-year-old Kansas City man, was found dead Aug. 14 after being shot in the back just after getting off of a city bus. Video footage showed an unidentified black man also exiting the bus and following Gibbons just before he was shot.
Evidence found at the scene of that murder led police to Scott, a former Burger King employee who has had a few run-ins with the law in the past.
Police were able to match DNA from a bottle found at the scene of Gibbons’ death to a cigarette Scott discarded outside of a Kansas City gas station. DNA was also found on a t-shirt left at the scene of the Aug. 19, 2016 murder of Palmer.
Investigators also suspect Scott in three other killings -- David Lenox on Feb. 27, Timothy Rice on April 4, and Mike Darby on May 18.
All of the men are white males between the ages of 54 and 67.
[SUN] EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove singled out the UK as having more radicalised muslims than any other country in Europe.
Mr de Kerchove also warned Islamic state will attempt a cyberattack on nuclear power stations or air traffic control systems within five years - possibly by paying Russian hackers to break into vital computer systems.
The official, who is in regular contact with security services, terrorism experts and governments around Europe, said: "The United Kingdom has identified 20,000 to 35,000 radicals. Of these, 3,000 are worrying for MI5, and of those 500 are under constant and special attention."
"I wouldn’t like to put a concrete figure on it, but (in Europe) tens of thousands, more than 50,000."
Mr de Kerchove, who has been in his position since 2007, was speaking in an interview with Spain’s El Mundo newspaper.
He warned European countries will suffer further attacks inspired by ISIS - and said greater measures must be taken to prevent them.
Asked about the 12-man cell who murdered 16 and injured more than 100 in attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17 and 18, he said: "We will suffer more attacks. Most, except for Brussels and Paris, were not directed from Raqqa, but they were inspired there. And later Islamic State claims responsibility."
More than 1.7 million Muslims from around the world have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage this week. Once in Mecca -- the site of Islam's holiest place of worship-- they will be reminded that the ruling Al Saud family is the only custodian of this place.
Large portraits of the king and the country's founder hang in hotel lobbies across the city. A massive clock tower bearing the name of King Salman's predecessor flashes fluorescent green lights at worshippers below. A large new wing of the Grand Mosque in Mecca is named after a former Saudi king, and one of the mosque's entrances is named after another... Saudi Arabia uses its oversight of the hajj to bolster its standing in the Muslim world -- and to spite its foes, from Iran and Syria to Qatar. Its archrival, the Shiite power Iran, has in turn tried to utilize the hajj to undermine the kingdom...
Ahead of this year's hajj, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei essentially called on pilgrims to hold protests...
"Where else, better than Mecca, Medina ... can Muslims go to express their concerns regarding Al-Aqsa and Palestine?" Khamenei said, referring to one of Islam's holiest and most contentious sites in Jerusalem.
Senior Saudi clerics were quick to respond, saying the pilgrimage should not be exploited and reminding worshippers that the ultimate goal of the hajj is "to spend all their time and effort in worshipping Almighty Allah."
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A US judge on Wednesday halted parts of a Texas law intended to aid federal immigration enforcement by punishing so-called "sanctuary cities" two days before it was to have taken effect.
Chief US District Judge Orlando Garcia in San Antonio's federal court found the Texas measure was unlikely to withstand constitutional scrutiny.
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The notion of "sanctuary cities" defies reason. Do you suppose a judge named Garcia might come under a little suspicion? Taxpayers ought to question sanctuary cities and their protection of lawbreakers. If there are no consequences to breaking the law, you have no law.
This year, 150 BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles and their BTR-MDM trooper carrier models will enter service with the Russian Airborne Forces. In the future all air assault divisions will be armed with BMD-4Ms.
The BMD-4M is a new generation amphibious infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), not a modernized variant of the older BMD-3. It is the only IFV which can be dropped from an airplane using a parachute platform. The vehicle can be paradropped with all the crew inside, thus saving time for the assembly after landing. Launched from an aircraft, it can reach the assigned targets in a matter of minutes at a speed of up to 45 mph, opening fire from a range of weapons. The BMD-4M is able to cover over 300 miles without refueling.
The Il-76 transport aircraft can carry two BMD-4Ms. Once landed, less than three minutes are required to start the vehicle, manage the positions and arm all weapons.
The vehicle can also drive through the water. The BMD-4M boasts the capability of fording water sources and changing tactical approaches on-the-fly. On water it is propelled by two waterjets. The vehicle can traverse water obstacles without any special preparation. The BMD-4M can develop a maximum speed of 70 km/h on roads and 10 km/h afloat.
The vehicle has a length of 6m, width of 3.15m and height of 2.7m. The combat weight: 13.5t. It has a cruising range of 500km on highways. The ground clearance ranges from 130mm to 530mm. The BMD-4M is able to negotiate gradients of up to 35 degrees and maintain fire whilst in motion by traversing the turret and keeping the target in its sights. The BMD-4M has a crew of three: a vehicle commander, a gunner, and a driver. It can carry up to five troops.
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[WSJ] President Trump visited Texas Tuesday to assess the damage from Hurricane Harvey and show concern for its victims. So far, his administration is largely getting praise for effective handling of the crisis. Washington’s disaster authorities appear to be in sync with the state on roles and responsibilities; the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its leader, Brock Long, deployed resources as Harvey approached; and the government response as a whole appears well coordinated.
"I give FEMA a grade of A-plus, all the way from the president down," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told "Fox News Sunday." Yes, Mr. Abbott is a fellow Republican, but he is also interested in protecting Texas and would not have said "A-plus" if the state weren’t getting what it needed. That assessment is backed up by Rear Adm. W. Craig Vanderwagen, a former career emergency manager who is plugged into the Harvey effort. "Early read," he told me in an email, "is that Executive Branch is performing well under this President."
Two reasons suggest themselves for the apparent success: personnel and preparation. Mr. Trump has surrounded himself with leaders experienced in this area. John Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, is fresh off his stint as the secretary of homeland security. He brought to the White House his own deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, a veteran of George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Council.
Tom Bossert, another Bush alumnus now advising Mr. Trump on homeland security, has acquitted himself well on television, projecting calm and expertise as he discusses the hurricane response. It may be premature to conclude that Mr. Kelly has succeeded in bringing order to the Oval Office, but Harvey has demonstrated a reassuring ability to focus on a disaster when needed.
Beyond the White House, Mr. Trump still lags behind his predecessors in filling political appointments, but he appears to have prioritized the right ones. The president has made nominations for about half the slots at the Department of Homeland Security, more than at most departments. Some nominees, such as Mr. Long’s two deputies at FEMA, await Senate confirmation hearings. Mr. Long is an experienced hand, having previously served as Alabama’s head of emergency management. He has been a reassuring and take-charge presence throughout the Harvey response.
Mr. Long began preparing for the next disaster the day he was sworn in, when he presided over a cabinet-wide tabletop exercise on emergency management. Frank Cilluffo, a homeland security aide in the Bush administration, says this showed the White House was taking disaster readiness seriously. "Training is everything here," he told me. "You want to make mistakes on the practice field, not in the actual event." Then in early August, weeks before Harvey showed up on the radar, Mr. Long hosted the president and other cabinet officials at FEMA for a briefing on the coming hurricane season.
Thus far, the most controversial part of the president’s hurricane response has been communications. On the positive side of the ledger, Mr. Trump has used his vast Twitter following both to provide useful information and to convey that the White House is actively monitoring events. On Tuesday he retweeted an urgent alert from Brazoria County saying that a levee at Columbia Lakes had been breached and residents needed to get out immediately.
Mr. Trump’s tweets about the storm have been informative and responsible, with a tone appropriate to the human tragedy. To the extent he has been criticized, it has been mostly for tweeting on unrelated topics, such as his pardoning of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the "great" new book by Sheriff David Clarke. Although it isn’t realistic to expect the White House to eschew all other subjects during a crisis, perhaps the president could avoid tweeting about unessential matters until the storm passes.
Outside Twitter, the administration has relied on experts like Messrs. Long and Bossert to reassure the public, which seems an appropriate strategy. Message discipline matters. When responding to a disaster, Mr. Cilluffo says, you "can’t have one message here, another message there, and a tweet saying a third thing."
It’s reassuring that the White House understands the importance of relying on trusted messengers during a crisis--especially given the backlash to Mr. Trump’s comments this month after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. During an emergency, the government needs wide cooperation from the public, which may not be possible under any president with credibility problems. Messrs. Long and Bossert have the standing to appeal to Americans across the partisan divide during Harvey and whatever disaster may come next.
Mr. Trump’s handling of the hurricane response thus far is to be commended, but this is no time for complacency. The recovery in Texas will take a long time, and new disasters are always in the offing. The Trump administration would serve Americans well by following its successful approach to this first crisis with a continuing focus on disaster management. Today it’s Harvey. Tomorrow, who knows?
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Glad to read the Federal/Trump response is good. It is hard to grasp, the level of rescue and recovery responses that are required at the Federal, State and local levels for a disaster of this magnitude. The number of dead is probably unknown at this time. Estimates for clean-up and re-build are something like $100 billion and growing.
[FOX] The Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that there are thousands more American troops deployed in Afghanistan than repeatedly disclosed.
The number of troops deployed to Afghanistan is actually closer to 11,000, Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said at a news conference. The Pentagon previously said there were 8,400 troops in Afghanistan under the Obama administration's troop cap.
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ordered a change to how the Pentagon accounts for the number of troops serving in Afghanistan. A similar review to obtain accurate numbers of troops is pending for Iraq and Syria.
The estimated 11,000 soldiers in Afghanistan would not include future adjustments that Mattis may make to follow President Trump’s new strategy in South Asia, Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, of the Marine Corps, said.
Military officials have long quietly acknowledged there are more troops in Afghanistan than the previous administration’s troop cap permitted. Commanders shuffled troops in and out, but labeled many as “temporary” and used other personnel accounting tactics to keep the public count artificially low.
The Afghanistan troop announcement comes as the Pentagon reportedly prepares to send close to 4,000 more troops to fight in the war-torn country.
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CU2776... How could we even "win" Afghanistan without cleaning up Pakistan? Its like "cleaning up" a creek downstream from an open sewer.
A Punitive Raid to chastise the Taliban -- that was doable. Civilization and Peace-making will have to be achieved by the Afghans themselves.
[FoxNews] Officials in Harris County early Thursday reported two explosions and black smoke billowing from a flooded chemical plant about 25 miles northeast of Houston.
Fox 26 Houston reported that officials evacuated a 1.5-mile radius around the Arkema Inc. plant in Crosby. The plant lost power Sunday and its backup generators amid Harvey's days-long deluge, leaving it without refrigeration for chemicals that become volatile as the temperature rises.
One deputy was reportedly taken to hospital after inhaling fumes. Nine others drove themselves to hospital as precaution, the report said.
There was "no way to prevent" the explosion, CEO Rich Rowe said earlier Wednesday.
In its most recently available submission from 2014, Arkema said potentially 1.1 million residents could be affected over an area of 23 miles in a worst case, according to information compiled by a nonprofit group and posted on a website hosted by the Houston Chronicle.
But, Arkema added, it was using "multiple layers of preventative and mitigation measures" at the plant, including steps to reduce the amount of substances released, and that made the worst case "very unlikely."
Rowe told Reuters that the company has no way to prevent the explosion because the plant is swamped by six feet of water. The company did not move the chemicals, but told Reuters that it made extensive preparations.
Arkema manufactures organic peroxides, a family of compounds used for making everything from pharmaceuticals to construction materials.
"As the temperature rises, the natural state of these materials will decompose. A white smoke will result, and that will catch fire," Smith said. "So the fire is imminent. The question is when."
The company shut down the Crosby site before Harvey made landfall Friday, but a crew of 11 had stayed behind. That group was removed and residents within 1.5 miles were told to evacuate Tuesday after the plant lost power.
Harris County Fire Marshal spokeswoman Rachel Moreno said the 1.5-mile radius was developed in consultation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other subject-matter experts. "It's a concerning situation, yes," Moreno said. "But the facility is surrounded by water right now so we don't anticipate the fire going anywhere."
Daryl Roberts, the company's vice president of manufacturing, technology and regulatory services in the Americas, did not dispute that worst-case scenario but said that assumed all the controls in place failed and strong winds blew directly toward Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city.
"We have not modeled this exact scenario but we are very comfortable with this 1.5-mile radius," Roberts told the AP. He added that it mostly resembled less serious scenarios that would affect a half-mile radius and a few dozen people.
Roberts said the vessels containing the organic peroxide are equipped with controls to slow the release of chemicals. Because of the water, he said, the chemicals will quickly vaporize, reducing the size and scope of the fire.
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Fire insurance may cover losses that flood insurance doesn't. Way, way back during Hurricane Agnes, a family owned manufacturing plant were very lucky to have a fire break out during the flood. They were the only ones in the industrial block to get insurance relief.
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This will be a case study for years to come regarding electrical infrastructure and backup power generation for such facilities in areas potentially affected by hurricanes and flooding.
The lawyers will be sniffing around soon, if they're not already.
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I would have thought the Japan nuke crisis would have changed disaster prep thinking but no. Cost/benefit analysis still includes loss insurance as a factor. Different budget line items for operations vs. infrastructure.
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Organic peroxides, ok..not making light of it, but was afraid we were talking chlorine or something. Controlled release, let it burn, take pictures, watch shep pee his shoe.
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I would have thought the Japan nuke crisis would have changed disaster prep thinking but no. Disaster prep thinking is traditionally ignored. I remember reading about the ancient Japanese language monuments along the tsunami-prone coastline that warned against building anything valuable in that territory - naturally these were ignored by modern Japanese.
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Chemical plants have their own electricity generating systems. They are not usually subject to power outages.
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...watch shep pee his shoe.
I often wonder why FOX doesn't take this over the top drama queen (who should just come out of the closet) off the air in these situations when they know he's gonna blow a gasket.
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As I recall a "per" oxide has 2 oxygen molecules. That makes it a toxic, corrosive cloud which will facilitate the combustion of most anything in its path. What doesn't explode gets etched.
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That's true for the large ones, Deacon. In this case, the utility power delivery, on-site normal power substation and both large emergency generators failed due to flooding.
We try to talk 'critical facilities' in areas prone to tropical storms and/or flooding into raising their emergency systems and generators to at least thirty feet above the average site grade elevation.
Whether the facility does that or not is usually driven by cost. Ultimate cost in doing so would have been cheaper in this particular case as it appears that this facility left their essential systems at grade level. Sorry Raj, but I'm sure it was the bean counters that drove the decision.
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#8 - He IS out of the closet. It's not that he's gay, right, Lindsey? It's that he's such a virtue-signalling drama queen
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[Right Scoop] Mike Lee was on with Stuart Varney this morning, explaining that if Republicans fail at both repealing Obamacare and tax reform, they are dead:
Lee couldn’t be more right. If they don’t get meaningful tax reform done in the wake of their Obamacare failure, then what good are they?
Trump is set to give a speech this afternoon on tax reform to get the ball rolling. But honestly, after all the disagreement on Obamacare, I don’t have high hopes for the tax reform battle. I fear we will end up with a reform that doesn’t really reform anything.
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Hurricane Harvey will be a big ticket gov't item. I would not have given the tax cut much of a chance before the storm. I will be shocked if any tax cut happens with the remaining time this indolent, obstructionist, do-nothing congress has remaining.
[Free Beacon] Federal prosecutors asserted in a new document filed Wednesday that Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ.) started taking bribes from a wealthy donor shortly after he entered the Senate in 2006.
Menendez's trial for bribery and corruption is set to begin next week, and Justice Department prosecutors laid out their case against the senator and his alleged co-conspirator, Dr. Salomon Melgen, who has been convicted but not yet sentenced for defrauding millions of dollars from Medicare in a separate case, Politico reported.
"The defendants' bribery scheme began shortly after Menendez's elevation to the Senate in 2006, when Melgen began a pattern of treating Menendez to weekend and weeklong getaways in the Dominican Republic that would continue for the next several years," prosecutors said in the filing.
"For the first four years of the corruption scheme, the all-expense paid trips Melgen provided often included free roundtrip flights on Melgen's private jet for Menendez and his various guests," prosecutors said. "When the doctor's private jet was unavailable, Melgen supplied equally luxurious travel for the senator."
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After? AFTER? Are they seriously telling me he didn't issue IOUs as a candidate before the election? And only one person bribing him? *Heh* Keep digging.
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals with Tehran's state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter.
The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that congressional leaders are calling for an investigation into Iran for using its state-controlled air carrier, Iran Air, to ferry militant fighters into Syria, where they are taking up arms in defense of embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
Photographs provided to Congress show Iran using Iran Air to ferry these soldiers between 2016 and 2017, in part when the Obama administration removed sanctions on Iran Air and promoted multi-billion dollars sales between the carrier and aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which is seeking to provide Iran Air with a fleet of new planes that many suspect will be used to carry terrorist fighters and weapons into regional hotspots.
This behavior violates international laws governing the nuclear deal and has now led lawmakers and others to accuse the Obama administration of downplaying Iran's illicit activity in order to promote the nuclear deal and ensure Tehran receives a new commercial fleet.
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[Dejour] Interviewer - What was your first impression of the people of North Korea?
Rodman - They work very hard and they take pride in the simple things in life. Whatever their job is, they do it to the best of their ability. I’m not sure anyone there knows how to be lazy, they have a lot of focus. The citizens there are very kind ... but it’s like you’d think these people have a spell on them because all they talk about is him [Kim Jong-un.] I mean it’s insane. I am so intrigued about how they live their lives through this guy ... and he is only, like, 33, 34 years old. He is changing North Korea so much it is really becoming a 24th-century country now -- it’s more like they took down the Flintstone Age and put in the Jetsons. Out with the old, in with the new.
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That is at least two people who idolize Kim Jong-In--Rodman and Kim Jong. Rodman must not know or discounts the many accounts of Kim Jong dispatching with his enemies (enemies are people who disagree with him). Some of Kim Jong's methods in the Hermit Kingdom.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their advance in the eastern countryside of Hama this evening, following the liberation of al-Mashirayfeh and Jabal al-Bilas south of ’Uqayrbat.
Led by the 38th Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed the two towns of Qastal Shamali and Qastal Wastani, where they were confronted by an exhausted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) unit at ’Uqayrbat’s eastern flank.
According to a military source in Hama, the Syrian Arab Army is still fighting at the entrances of Qastal Shamali and Qaastal Wastani, but should enter the two towns in the coming hours.
With the Syrian Army advancing from all flanks towards ’Uqayrbat, the Islamic State find themselves enveloped in their last stronghold in the central region of Syria.
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[AlMasdar] In a remarkable turn of events, Ankara has cut salaries to all Syrian rebel groups that are tied to the so-called ’Syrian National Coalition’.
The falling out is related to the election of Riad Seif, a Kurdish-backed figure who has become the president of the Syrian National Coalition. The Ottoman Turkish regime had backed other candidates with Islamist sympathies.
Following the result earlier this month, the relations between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Ottoman Turkish-backed jihadists in Syria have begun to deteriorate with Ankara reducing pay to its long-standing jihadist allies, citing "bureaucratic reasons".
On August 22, a delegation headed by President Riad Seif met up in Istanbul with representatives of Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Secretary. At the meeting, financial problems of the jihadists, the Riyadh talks and a possible truce under the guarantor ship of Turkey were put on the agenda.
Following the talks, payments to Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel fighters have been cut in half, causing much concern for Islamist commanders in northern Aleppo and Idlib whom have heavily relied upon Ottoman Turkish tax money to fund their myrmidons.
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[AlMasdar] Intense festivities broke-out in the northern countryside of the Homs Governorate on Wednesday, as jihadist rebels from al-Rastan and Talbiseh clashed with one another over accusations of seeking reconciliation with the government.
According to a statement released by jihadist activists, festivities began at several checkpoints between Talbiseh and al-Rastan in northern Homs; this infighting resulted in a number of injuries and the arrest of several people.
At the same time, Syrian Army choppers dropped thousands of fliers over the northern countryside of Homs, encouraging the people in the area to seek reconciliation with the government and to kick out the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The primary opponent to the reconciliation process has been Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists; they are affiliated with al-Qaeda and refuse any peace terms.
[AlMasdar] Moments ago, a Russian soldier was killed in the eastern countryside of Hama if one is to believe the ISIS-linked Amaq Agency.
The soldier, who remains unnamed for now, was supposedly shot dead during skirmishes with jihadist insurgents at the town of Mashirfah, located directly southeast of Uqarybat.
This is notably the same region where the Russian-trained ‘ISIS Hunters’ are deployed.
Al-Masdar News not able to independently verify the Amaq Agency bulletin covering the alleged death while the Kremlin is yet to address the alleged death.
Yesterday, ISIS released a 19-minute propaganda video depicting fierce battles with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in eastern Hama.
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[Breitbart] Two men from New York have been charged over their alleged plans to support and fight for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , authorities say.
Parveg Ahmed,
...a naturalized American citizen who was originally from Bangladesh, according to mugshots.com, which has a fuzzy photo of the miscreant...
was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! by authorities whilst trying to enter Syria, having flown to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... with a friend to celebrate Ramadan, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
After returning to Brooklyn, New York, authorities obtained a warrant for his laptop and found recordings of sermons by Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... , a prominent American-born Islamic holy man who was assassinated in 2011, as well as a lecture by Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born Islamic radical.
Court documents also reveal that back in October 2014, Ahmed wrote on one of his social media accounts that "jihadis" are "Moslems who fight to establish the Sharia IN THEIR OWN LANDS," and that Americans remains "the real terrorists."
A few months later, he posted a message on Twitter saying that "the war on the Islamic State is a war of the ideologies" and sent a private message to a friend declaring that the only country sufficiently "honoring the Almighty is the Islamic State."
Ahmed has yet to enter a plea.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... 22-year-old Abror Habibo, an Uzbeki-American living in Queens, New York, has pleaded guilty to charges of agreeing to fund terrorist activity, after he bought another man, Akhror Saidakhmetov, a ticket to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to carry on to Syria and join the Islamic State.
Habibo, who ran a chain of mall kiosks along the east coast, also told Saidakhmetov he would buy him a firearm.
"While doing these things, I knew it was illegal," Habibov said.
Both men now face up to 35 years in prison.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Habivov’s lawyer, Anna Sideris, said she hoped "personal history and circumstances" could encourage leniency from the judge.
The two men are just some of dozens of American Moslems to be charged with supporting ISIS, with the caliphate previously claiming they have over 70 fighters across 15 separate states, including Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Michigan.
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Time to bring back public hangings
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[Breitbart] Nigeria will soon receive $593 million in military equipment to fight the ongoing Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist siege of its northeast, a sale approved by the B.O. regime but announced to occur on Monday. The weapons will arrive a week after Nigeria urged Russia to become more deeply involved in fighting Islamic terrorism in Africa.
The website Quartz reports that the bulk of the military equipment Nigeria will receive consists of surveillance and attack planes, to be used for Arclight airstrikes and monitoring Boko Haram targets. The terrorist group, which is a branch of the Islamic State
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[DAWN] The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court (BHC) on Wednesday dismissed an application challenging the acquittal of former president General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and others in the Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti murder case.
The application had been filed by the Baloch nationalist leader's son, Jamil Akbar Bugti, in 2016, challenging the verdict of an Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta that acquitted the former military dictator and others in the case.
A divisional bench of BHC, comprising justice Jamal Mandokhail and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove, dismissed the application challenging the acquittal and maintained the judgement of the ATC.
"We are not satisfied with the judgment," Jamil Bugti's counsel, Advocate Sohail Rajput, told news hounds outside the high court. "We will challenge the BHC dismissal of our application in the Supreme Court."
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BEIRUT: Fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and the Daesh group has killed 64 combatants in Raqqa province over a 24-hour period, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
The clashes come with the army pressing an advance through Raqqa, in northern Syria, toward neighboring Deir Ezzor, the only remaining province of the war-ravaged country still in the hands of Daesh jihadists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the fighting had claimed the lives of 38 jihadists and 26 pro-regime combatants since Tuesday morning.
It takes to 145 the overall death toll in six days of fighting in villages on the banks of the Euphrates River in the east of Raqqa province, near Deir Ezzor.
Daesh said in a statement on Tuesday that its members had killed dozens of regime combatants in “intense fighting lasting hours.”
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that the regime was fighting to secure a foothold in Raqqa province “in order to advance in Deir Ezzor.”
The jihadists have laid seige to government forces and civilians in the provincial capital of Deir Ezzor since 2015.
Earlier this month, government troops and allied fighters arrived at the outskirts of Madan, the last Daesh-held town in the countryside of eastern Raqqa province before Deir Ezzor.
But Daesh launched a counterattack last week that pushed the regime forces back, and fighting has since continued.
The Syria army operation in the area, backed by air support from ally Russia, is separate from the battle for provincial capital Raqqa city.
The effort to oust Daesh from the city is being led by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters.
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[IsraelTimes] British police investigating Friday’s sword attack outside Buckingham Palace in London have released a suspect from custody, but another man is still being questioned.
"A 30-year-old man who was placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in west London on Sunday, 27 August by detectives investigating a terrorist incident near Buckingham Palace has been released from police custody with no further action," a police statement says.
A 26-year-old man from Luton, north of London, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assault on police, and counter-terrorism have until September 1 to question him.
The suspect reached for a four-foot sword after being challenged by unarmed coppers he deliberately drove at outside the royal palace, authorities say.
Police said the man had repeatedly shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) and was incapacitated with tear gas.
One does have to wonder what is so dire that neither man's name, nor additional details, has yet been revealed. Usually the Daily Mail, et al race to be the first with the juicy information.
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Tennessee already does let you openly carry a sword. I carry a saber.
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used to be (25 years ago) a dude(tte) who walked the Capitol Hill section of Seattle bare-chested with a pair of bastard swords in back harnesses - known to one and all as "Fred the Pretentious"
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"One does have to wonder what is so dire that neither man's name, nor additional details, has yet been revealed. Usually the Daily Mail, et al race to be the first with the juicy information."
[FOXNEWS] A super volcano is very different from the common conception of tall cones of rock and ash that occasionally catastrophically erupt.
Instead, it’s a vast space of collapsed crust that can cover hundreds of square kilometers.
Instead, vast quantities of searing magma and clouds of fumes would slowly crawl across the landscape — burying much of the United States under a thick coat of ash and lava.
In the case of Yellowstone, it’s enough to change the climate of the world for several centuries.
An event in Indonesia, about 75,000 years ago, named the Toba catastrophe, pumped some 4000 tons of hydrogen sulphide gas into the atmosphere along with about 2800 cubic kilometres of ejecta. This produced a global volcanic winter that lasted a decade.
Yellowstone isn’t expected to erupt any time soon. It appears to burst roughly once every 700,000 years. The most recent was 640,000 years ago, with other events 1.3 million years ago and 2.1 million years ago. Well, they've got 60,000 years to figure it. They'll probably come up with something.
This is much more regular than cataclysmic comet impacts.
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Drill around the perimeter of the volcanic zone and make it a huge geothermal generation project. Suck the heat out of the zone. That's the theory.
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As likely as flooding Death Valley from the Baja gulf.
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The good news is that if it does erupt, it will take care of global warming. Of course, Al Gore will blame the eruption on climate change. And Trump.
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[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... is reportedly threatening to cut funding to UN bodies over a document being written up that singles out companies doing business with Israeli settlements.
The so-called settlement blacklist has been called "shameful" by Haley and Israeli officials have railed against its creation.
According to Israel’s Channel 2, one the bodies that may have funding cut is the UN Human Rights Council, which is drawing up the list and has been bashed by US officials for its anti-Israel bias.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Grass-roots activists are ramping up pressure on Sen. Bernard Sanders to appear at a town hall meeting next month to discuss launching a new progressive party and severing ties with the Democrats.
Nick Brana, founder of Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, said in an email blast on Wednesday that "progressives across the country are waiting to see if Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... will sit down with the working people who fought and sacrificed for him in 2016" and also said the group could reschedule.
The email comes two weeks after the group sent Mr. Sanders and members of his staff a letter informing him that activists plan to deliver 50,000 signatures to his congressional office on Friday, Sept. 8, asking him to become the face of a new party and to attend a "Draft Bernie Town Hall" event at a three-day "Convergence Conference" that is slated to kickoff that day at American University.
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And here's another $300 waiting for your decision.
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Nick Brana, founder of Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, said in an email blast on Wednesday that "progressives across the country are waiting to see if Bernie Sanders will sit down with the working people who fought and sacrificed for him in 2016" and also said the group could reschedule.
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I shall send checks to this *and* CalExit! Go People's Party. Go free and independent nation of California... after we Nevadans liberate our ethnic cousins in the occupied northeastern counties of course. And Oregon does the same. And Arizona. And Mexico...
[DAWN] Twelve members of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) surrendered to security forces in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Wednesday, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
According to the statement, the holy warriors relinquished their weapons and ammunition to security forces in Balochistan's Noshki area after "an intelligence effort", the army said.
The statement added that among the holy warriors who surrendered were two "mid-tier" holy warriors identified as Wali Khan, a resident of District Kohlu and Karghani, a resident of Sui.
Separately, 39 suspects, including eight Afghans, were apprehended in intelligence-based operations (IBO) conducted jointly by the Pakistain Rangers, Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Police and intelligence agencies in Lahore, Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... and Islamabad, the ISPR statement said.
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[AnNahar] Oil production has been suspended for several days at three oil fields in Libya after an armed militia shut off pipelines, the state-owned National Oil Company said Wednesday.
The output of oil, nearly one million barrels per day prior to the stoppage, had fallen by more than 360,000 bpd, NOC said in a statement.
The gang, described as "criminal" by the company, had in the past few days closed off two pipelines to the refinery and port at Zawya from the al-Sharara and al-Hamada oil fields.
It had already blocked production on Saturday at the al-Fil field, also located in the west of the country, said the statement from NOC.
The militia seized the pipelines to protest against the "marginalization" of the region, according to sources in the area.
As a result of its actions, NOC said it had declared force majeure at the three affected oil fields.
The legal measure means that due to unforceable circumstances the company can be exonerated from fulfilling oil contracts.
Libya, which has Africa's largest oil reserves, used to produce about 1.6 million barrels per day before the 2011 armed uprising that toppled and killed dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... But it has only managed to export a few tankers of crude in recent months, with efforts to revive the industry thwarted by jihadist attacks and political turmoil.
The closure of oil ports has cost the country more than 130 billion dollars since late 2014, according to NOC.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State militants were killed while trying to escape from northwestern Mosul, a security source said.
Speaking to Baghdad Today, the source said, “seven Arab IS gunmen, attempted escaping through al-Yaarabiya region, northwest of Mosul.”
“All of them were killed by the Iraqi border guards,” he added.
In Late June, Iraqi troops took over the Old City’s Nuri al-Kabir Mosque, where IS supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi first declared the proclaimed caliphate covering parts of Iraq and Syria. Later on July 10, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25000 militants were killed throughout the campaign, which started in October.
Since the city was declared free, security troops continue to comb western Mosul areas for hidden IS cells.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops killed twenty-nine militants in a military operation to support the army and Federal Police troops advancing in northwest of Tal Afar, the last Islamic State’s enclave in Nineveh, Ikhnews reported.
In press remarks made on Tuesday, Maj.General Imad al-Silawi, a commander in Iraqi army, said troops liberated tens of villages in the mountain areas in west and north of Aiyadhiya region, located 11 kilometers away from Tal Afar.
Earlier on the day, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah, commander of Tal Afar Operations, announced liberation of Qulabash village, indicating ongoing advance in Aiyadhiya, which was invaded on Tuesday, after field commanders said they had taken full control over Tal Afar’s districts.
The War Media Cell announced, earlier on Wednesday, preparations to declare the end of operations in Tal Afar and the approach of the launch of offensives for Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
The United Nations says more than 30.000 were displaced as operations launched for the enclave.
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[RT] The US-led coalition said it has bombed ISIS vehicles on their way to join a convoy of other ISIS members traveling from the Syria-Leb border towards Iraq under a deal brokered by Hezbollah, adding that it will not allow the snuffies to escape.
Coalition aircraft have struck "vehicles containing 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.... fighters" that were moving towards the convoy's location, Operation Inherent Resolve front man Colonel Ryan Dillon said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We are not party to any agreements that were made by the Lebanese Hezbollah and ISIS or the (Syrian) regime," Dillon told AP.
Earlier, the coalition bombed a bridge and the road in the convoy's path to prevent it from reaching the area held by IS (also known as ISIS/ISIS) in eastern Syria.
Any strikes "will be in accordance with the law of armed conflict," Dillon said.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... has warned the government against doing away with Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution and said such a bid would be a ’suicide kaboom’ against the entire Constitution.
He was addressing a public meeting in Brawal area here on Tuesday.
JI provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, KP senior minister Inayatullah Khan, party’s district nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... Upper Dir Sahibzada Faseehullah, Dir and Brawal tehsil nazims Mir Makhzanud Din and Jehan Alam respectively, local leaders and workers of the party were present on the occasion.
He said his slogan against corruption would continue until corrupt politicians were held accountable.
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[Libya Observer] The member of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa said UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame's report on Libya at the Security Council was very interesting as it tackled the suffering of the people more than any previous envoys did, adding that this should urge Libyans to sit together without UN mediation.
Sergiwa urged the HoR to meet in Tobruk or Benghazi or even Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... so they avoid pressure regarding their opinions and duties for the people.
She said about not being able to go to Benghazi that she is still in contact with the electoral circle in the city and they are meeting in Tripoli some times, adding that she brought them money from Tripoli for Benghazi hospitals employees' salaries and military officers.
"No problem between Haftar and al-Sirraj actually, so why did Gay Paree bring them together? The problem is between Haftar and HoR members who reject the interference of military institution in politics and Haftar's problem with them is that he rejects the political agreement." She explained.
Haftar's self-styled general command denied the words said by Sergiwa that their fighters are being paid by the UN-proposed government's ministry of finance, saying their salaries are paid by the ministry of finance of the Interim Government in east Libya.
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[DAWN] At least two security guards have been killed after two jacket wallahs launched a coordinated attack on a politician's house in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, said an Afghan official.
Attahullah Khogyani, front man for the provincial governor, said both suicide bombers detonated boom jackets full of explosives outside of Afghan parliamentarian Zahir Qader's house in Jalalabad, the placid provincial capital, on Wednesday morning.
Another guard was maimed in the attack, said Khogyani.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack so far. Nangarhar province is one of the most dangerous regions of Afghanistan where both the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Death EaterIslamic 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 affiliates operate.
It also borders neighboring Pakistain and has Quite by coincidence, of course.
been the scene of heavy fighting in recent years.
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[DAWN] The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a motion recommending that the government launch a regional diplomatic initiative to coordinate responses to 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 new Afghan policy, which takes a dim view of Pakistain’s anti-terrorism efforts.
The entire house, which converted itself into a Whole Committee, devised the recommendations based on policy guidelines proposed by a six-member subcommittee. The Senate chairman said that the house had come up with the recommendations after discussions with the Ministries of Defense and Interior.
After the recommendations were accepted, the Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani ordered that the recommendations also be forwarded to all Pak embassies around the world. The recommendations were also sent to the National Assembly.
"It has been proven yet again that the Senate comes together proactively when it comes to matters of national security," he observed.
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The cockroaches scurry when the light's turned on
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Pakistan's senate appears to be as blustery and ineffective as ours.
[DAWN] The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution rejecting the "hostile and threatening" statements made by US President Donald J. Trump and Gen John W. Nicholson -- the top US commander in Afghanistan.
During the NA session, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif read out the resolution, which was earlier passed unanimously by the lower house.
The resolution categorically rejected Gen Nicolson's claims regarding the existence of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... shura in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Quetta.
The NA also disapproved of the "unacceptable targeting of Pakistain" by Trump in his speech while he announced Washington's new South Asia policy.
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[Libya Observer] Security officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that under a deal backed by Italia, Libya’s struggling UN-proposed government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has paid militias implicated in trafficking in Sabratha to prevent migrants colonists from crossing the Mediterranean to Europe aka Islam's Lebensraum....
AP added that the move was clear in the fact two months have seen a sharp drop in crossings, a welcome sign for EU leaders desperate to stem the flow of migrants colonists.
"But the drop also appears to be in large part due to the deals struck with the two most powerful militias in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, the biggest launching point for the mainly African migrants colonists making the dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean. The militias, one known as "Al-Ammu" and the other as Brigade 48, are headed by two brothers from the area’s large al-Dabashi family." AP reported.
It added that at least five security officials and activists based in Sabratha said the bully boyz were known to be behind smuggling of migrants colonists.
The policy has raised an outcry among some in the Libyan security forces and activists dealing with migrants colonists, who warn that it enriches militias, enabling them to buy more weapons and become more powerful. In the country’s chaos, the militias can at any time go back to trafficking or turn against the government, they say.
The Washington Post said Italia worked directly with the militias and Italian officials met the leaders of the militias.
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Cheaper to pay the militias than provide free cell phones, housing,etc.
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[FREEBEACON] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D., Calif.) denounced the radical leftist group "Antifa" and its violence in Berkeley, Calif. over the weekend.
The black-clad, masked, so-called "anti-fascist ...anybody not a leftist... s" attacked and assaulted members of a peaceful right-wing protest in Berkeley. The famed college town has seen other far-left violence this year in response to conservative speakers appearing on campus.
In a statement published to her official website, Pelosi said the "perpetrators should be locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! and prosecuted."
"Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts," Pelosi said in her statement. "The violent actions of people calling themselves Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted."
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Election campaign time coming up. When the elections are over, back to vile activities.
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Based on this photograph, if I was 15 years older I might think about asking if she would like to go West Coast Swing dancing (provided she clean up her nose problem with a pencil sharpener or something).
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If she has one more facelift, she'll have a beard and cleft chin
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San Fran Nan Condemns Antifa: ‘Our Democracy Has No Room for Inciting Violence’ expect when it serves our purposes.
FIFY. BLM. Occupy, anti-Trump. Those polls must be really ugly. However, when you sell your soul to the Left, they generally never give it back. Best to google how Mao dealt with his Red Guard.
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Interesting though, how Nan can get away with denouncing Antifa but the minute any Republican says anything he's a nazi. Trump is the only one who could work up the courage to speak the truth while the rest of them cowered in their offices.
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[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] How high and mighty the pundits and politicians sounded after Charlottesville. How dare President Trump say many sides were responsible?
But now as the violence from the leftist Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... group escalates and shows what the anti-Trump resistance really is about, my oh my, are they bailing.
Hillary lackey and Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia now says:
“I disavow anyone — we won’t tolerate violence of any kind. You’re entitled to protest. First Amendment certainly protected. As I’ve said after Charlottesville, anyone who came to our state, anyone who committed violence, on any side, will be arrested. […] Everybody’s entitled to do their protest but were not going to accept violence from anybody.”
What happened to the cry of False Equivalence when President Trump said the same thing a couple of weeks ago?
I am guessing the polls show Democrats failed in another attempt to portray President Trump as Hitler.
The equivalence was not false.
It was dead on the money.
For more than a year, Democratic Party operatives have used the threat of violence and even violence to shut down conservative speakers.
Now out of the blue, Democrats have decided to start condemning this.
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It took the left way too much time to disavow Antifa support. Waaaaay longer than it took Trump to disavow any bad elements who tried to support him.
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Now out of the blue, Democrats have decided to start condemning this
Because their minions/handlers in the press couldn't contain the narrative any longer.
Too many photos, audio clips and videos posted online.
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we won’t tolerate violence of any kind
Bullshit, McAuliffe. You stood back and tolerated it pretty well in Charlottesville.
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Perhaps even helped it to create the photo-op for the narrative for 2018 and beyond. They have unleashed the far left's brown shirts and discovered they are t really easy to manage.
[RT] Activists groups seeking funds to help for relief from Hurricane Harvey are coming under fire for alleged exploitation. One such group, the Texas Organizing Project is being singled out for raising funds to benefit labor unions. This is besides the bad guys with guns.
In a post on social media calling for donations, the Texas Organizing Project stated that all donations “will only be used to organize in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.”
The statement drew criticism that the group was a front for big labor and the funds would support organizing the efforts of unions such as SEIU 1199, AFL-CIO, and the American Federation of Teachers, and not hurricane victims.
“So you are scamming kind-hearted people out of money making them believe that you are going to help Harvey victims, is that it? Harvey victims need help now with the very basics of life, not political activists making money off their horrible situation! You should be ashamed of yourselves. As a Texan myself, I cannot believe how wrong-minded your solicitation for donations is,” charged one.
Another opined “All donations made here will only be used ‘to organize in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.’ So none of the money will actually be given to hurricane victims. Good to know.”
A repost of the fund link on Twitter by political activist, Linda Sarsour, generated over 1,000 comments criticizing the goal of the fund.
With one tweet “Grifting money away from hurricane victims is about as low as someone can get.”
Another opined “@Twitter @TwitterSupport these relief funds are being funneled towards a political PAC and not towards victims .... do something pls”
Others took to Twitter to blast the relief efforts. Sarsour then tweeted that the ‘alt-right’ must have sent out an email blast.
Later she tweeted a list of organizations of where to send donations.
Calls to the Texas Organizing Project to ask about the fund and its beneficiaries as well as to SEIU 1199 were not returned.
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Has the Red Cross moved to smaller facilities in a less expensive local economy and transitioned to salaries akin to the Salvation Army recently? And are they going to sequester funds sent for Harvey in anticipation of future disasters like they did for 9/11? There are various levels of exploitation.
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New Echota, elevation 659'. The Coosawattee can flood in the Spring, but there's plenty of high ground nearby. Perhaps the Cherokees knew something.
Salvation Army, Samaritan's Purse, Mennonite Disaster Services, Southern Baptist Disaster Services. I'm sure there are others.
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Mennonite, Southern Baptist Disaster Services came out here. SA has brought us sandwiches to endurance fires. Don't know much about SP, but that is good company.
Red Cross is all show no flow. They get the prime booth locations and plenty of media. Seem to have earned themselves a bit of a reputation.
About donating to SA, I was told the most effective way to help is to donate to the local chapter rather than the umbrella - nothing wrong with the umbrella, just faster more efficient with local knowledge.
Thanks DG8368, interesting read. I'm glad everyone is getting into the assist, but I did have to giggle a bit after the 'Sure there are a lot of sportsmen with boats going about but Anarchists, yeah, totally there, totally organizing a response. Antifa:boots on the ground.'
It is the same advice we are giving here; don't just throw money at it, do your research. There are coyotes and vultures at every disaster.
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Apparently the only person who likes RC is BHO who is out shilling for donations.
About that organized anarchy article, they smear RC as too corporate. Could almost hear the sneer. Tyson Foods drove a truck full of food and a pro grill & team all the way out here and fed the town and responders for an evening. Didn't ask for any special thank yous or nothing, just loaded and came.
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Red Cross in San Diego had a rough period with an incompetent aloof aristocratic leader Dodie Rotherham the National RC removed, along with their entire board in 2002, in which the $ donated didn't reach the wildfire victims intended. Since then, they've cleaned house and their act up. Can't say how Texas's RC is....
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[RT] Three coppers in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, have been shot, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. Three suspects, two women and a man, were detained after a high-speed chase.
One sheriff's deputy and two California Highway Patrol officers were shot, according to the sheriff.
The shooting occurred near Fulton Avenue and Auburn Boulevard in the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento, California, KOVR reported.
Sheriff's office front man Tony Turnbull told the local news channel that the sheriff's Auto Theft Task Force witnessed two women in the area get into a stolen vehicle at about 8am. Officers followed that vehicle to Elk Grove and detained the women, while additional officers served a search warrant at the Ramada Inn hotel in the 2600 block of Auburn Boulevard.
A suspect with a high-powered rifle reportedly opened fire on multiple officers from behind a hotel room door. Two CHP officers were shot first, before a sheriff's deputy was hit in the back of the hotel, from a room balcony, according to the sheriff's front man.
The suspected shooter was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! after leading Sacramento law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit in a gray Dodge Challenger, which crashed around 1pm near El Camino Avenue and Millrace Road, officials told KCRA.
The suspected shooter was shot by law enforcement at the crash site, the sheriff's front man confirmed.
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[AnNahr] At least 18,500 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since fighting erupted in Myanmar's neighboring Rakhine state six days ago, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.
Plumes of smoke billowed from several burning villages in the worst-hit section of the state, according to an AFP news hound on a government-led trip to the area, as the violence showed little sign of abating despite security sweeps by Myanmar's police and troops.
The streets of Maungdaw -- northern Rakhine's largest town -- were virtually deserted as fires flickered among charred remains of houses and the occasional burst of gunfire echoed in the distance.
The festivities began on Friday after gunnies from Myanmar's Rohingya Moslem minority community staged deadly surprise raids on police posts.
At least 110 people, including 11 state officials, have been confirmed dead and thousands of Rohingya have poured across the border to Bangladesh despite Dhaka's attempts to stop them.
"As of last night, 18,500 people have come across," Chris Lom, the IOM's Asia-Pacific front man, told AFP, adding an unknown number were still stuck on the Myanmar side of the border.
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The song sez no man is an island.
Not wrong, when his foes own the highland,
So carry on phoning,
Ignoring the droning,
Belong! Well... until you go silent.
At home on the range with the cattle,
The ant and the grasshopper battle.
An eagle-eyed bird,
Its discouraging herd...
Gonna straddle the fence or skedaddle?
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The bruthas he calls "toms" and "judases" we would call, "the sane ones".
I'm rather amazed that people haven't reflected on the history of how "whitey got his white privilege" in the first place. Wretchard at Belmont Club pointed out that white boys are the most dangerous: White Lighting.
[IsraelTimes] UNIFIL given widened powers after US and Israeli called for it to do more to tackle Hezbollah arms buildup
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... extended the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in southern Leb Wednesday night, and gave its forces widened powers to address Hezbollah’s weapons buildup in the area.
As a result of the changes, which were approved by the UN Security Council, UNIFIL will increase its oversight activities in southern Leb, including by entering villages where the Hezbollah terror group operates.
The resolution highlights that UNIFIL has the authority to "take all necessary actions" in areas where its forces are deployed and must ensure that its area of operations is "not utilized for hostile activities of any kind."
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon welcomed the decision, saying in a statement that "the resolution requires UNIFIL to open its eyes, and forces it to act against Hezbollah’s terror buildup in the area."
He described the resolution as "a victory for Israel."
The resolution came following complaints from Israel over the international body’s failure prevent Hezbollah from gaining strength.
La Belle France, a key player on the Security Council, argued that UNIFIL had succeeded in maintaining calm in south Leb, but the United States pushed for action by the mission against Hezbollah, which it accuses of stockpiling weapons and readying for war.
Thank you, President Trump. It is such a pleasure to be able to write that sincerely instead of with bitter sarcasm.
"Conditions in south Leb are very dangerous today. The clouds of war are gathering," US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... told the council after the vote. "UNIFIL exists to help prevent war from happening again and it is supposed to do that."
The resolution also requests that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres look at ways to increase UNIFIL’s visible presence, through patrols and inspections, but within its existing mandate.
"UNIFIL can, of course, do better and do more," said French Deputy Ambassador Anne Gueguen, but she stressed that the force was indeed keeping the peace. "No one in this council can imagine for one second the environment that would exist there without UNIFIL."
Rejecting the demands from the US and Israel for UNIFIL’s mission to be expanded, Leb had called for the peacekeeping force’s mandate to be renewed without changes.
Responding to the Wednesday vote, indeed, the Lebanese mission to the UN tweeted that the mandate had been extended "without changing."
For a given definition of unchanged, at any rate.
Set up in 1978, UNIFIL was beefed up after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, tasked with guaranteeing a ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from a demilitarized zone on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
It now has 10,500 troops on the ground monitoring the ceasefire and helping the Lebanese government secure its borders.
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"The clouds of war are gathering," US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council after the vote. "UNIFIL exists to help prevent war from happening again and it is supposed to do that."
Funny, I was under the impression that the 'hurricane of war' had already made landfall.
[IsraelTimes] The U.S. administration has been dismayed by Leb's "submission to an agreement led by the Syrian regime and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... " that led to the evacuation 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.... bully boyz from the eastern border region, and has accordingly decided to halt its military support for Leb, a media report said on Wednesday.
Washington has decided to "cease military support to Leb and retrieve around 50 modern tanks that it had convinced Riyadh to pay for and supply to the Lebanese army to support it in its battle against terrorism," An Nahar newspaper said.
"These tanks deployed in several posts and took part strongly and effectively along with other weapons in the army's battle in the outskirts of al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek," the daily added.
The army had launched an unprecedented military offensive to oust IS bully boyz from the eastern border region on August 19. Separately but simultaneously, Hizbullah and the Syrian army began an assault to remove IS from the Syrian side of the border.
Simultaneous ceasefires were announced on both sides of the border on Sunday morning to allow for negotiations over the fate of nine Lebanese troops kidnapped by IS bully boyz in 2014.
The Lebanese army has insisted that it has not coordinated any move with Hizbullah or the Syrian army.
The Hizbullah-led agreement resulted in the recovery of nine bodies likely belonging to the captive troops, the evacuation of hundreds of IS bully boyz and their families from the Lebanese-Syrian border to eastern Syria, and the handover of a Hizbullah captive and several corpses to the Iran-backed group.
President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Army Commander General Joseph Aoun declared victory over IS on Wednesday morning, two days after Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... described the removal of IS' bully boyz as Leb's "Second Liberation Day."
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Shafilea Ahmed was murdered by her parents at their home in Warrington
A body language expert has analysed footage of Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed
The pair strenuously denied any involvement but Iftikhar's nod gave them away
After her sister was arrested for robbing her parents she told police of their murder
Iftikhar and Farzana were jailed for life in 2012 - nine years after Shafilea died
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I once talked to a highway patrolman on the day he retired from the force. I asked him what he would miss most about his job, and he quickly responded, "The lies, I'll miss the lies the most. Some days I thought 'If I hear one more lie, I'm going to start shooting. But it never came to that.'"
The Syrian-Russian warplanes targeted on Wednesday the gatherings of ISIL terrorists in different areas in Hama eastern countryside and Raqqa southern countryside, killing scores of takfiri militants and destroying their vehicles.
The Syrian-Russian air raids also destroyed the terrorists’ fortifications in Deir Ezour.
The Syrian army regained several position in Damascus southern countryside on the border with Jordan, killing scorers of terrorists.
Source: Al-Manar Website
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ATTENTION: Please DO NOT – I repeat – DO NOT use the $1 – $2 – $50 or the $100 bills. They have pictures of former slave owners on them! Send them all to me and I will dispose of them properly!
DO NOT just throw them away. They need to be disposed of properly and I am certified to do so.
Please contact me for further disposal instructions. We must get these out of circulation immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.
#3
There are certain Italian special interest groups in New York who can (and probably will) address the issue. They have their own set of laws, just like you.
Rick Blaine: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to invade.
[DAWN] Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Wednesday lambasted the new policy for Afghanistan and South Asia announced by 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... , saying Pakistain was not responsible for the failure of US and its allies in Afghanistan.
Nisar also ridiculed Trump's claim that the US has paid "billions and billions of dollars" to Pakistain and called on the government to issue the record of the past 20 years to "expose" American claims.
"It's not billions of dollars, it's peanuts," the former interior minister said while addressing the National Assembly.
Nisar said that Coalition Support Fund payments from the US were for services rendered by Pakistain in the fight against terrorism.
He also criticised the US for dragging its feet in making payments from the military fund, adding: "If our bill [for military services] is $500 million, they [US] sit on it for months [...] and end up giving us $200 million."
"They have ruined our roads, our airspace and our country, but are not ready to pay for the expenses."
"Put your money where your mouth is," Nisar railed, adding that the US has been able to point fingers because Pakistain did not keep a proper record of American assistance.
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[DAWN] Smoke billowed from at least three burning villages in the remote section of Rakhine state where Myanmar's military is carrying out sweeps for Death Eaters, an AFP news hound saw on Wednesday.
The violence, which erupted six days ago after Rohingya bully boyz staged surprise raids on police posts, has shown little sign of abating, leaving at least 110 confirmed dead and sending thousands fleeing.
The displaced include ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and the persecuted Rohingya Moslem minority, thousands of whom have massed at the "zero line" border with Bangladesh which they are barred from crossing.
The bodies of two Rohingya women and two children washed up on Bangladeshi soil on Wednesday, an official there told AFP, as villagers took to rickety boats or tried to swim across a frontier river.
On Wednesday villagers in Rakhine continued to flee their homes.
A Rohingya villager near the town of Maungdaw, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said residents fled his hamlet as security forces approached and torched their homes.
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[RT] Russia and China are due to sign a mutual agreement on space exploration from 2018 to 2022, a spokesperson from Russia’s official space agency has confirmed. It will include satellite development and missions to the Moon. The deal, which covers five fields of space exploration, is expected to be signed in September, RIA Novosti reported Monday.
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#9 D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, THIS IS AMERIKA, THE OWG MIGHTY USSA = OWG WEAK USRoA, NOT AMERICA - THE FED + GLOBAL POLITBURO CAN'T BE SHUTDOWN BECAUSE OUR DEBT-TO-GDP RATIO OF INSOLVENCY ISN'T OVER 200% LIKE JAPAN'S!
So there.
[Jay Ward = TV's DENNIS THE MENACE here].
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[FoxNews] It doesn’t weigh nearly as much as a bull – but it apparently packs just as hard of a punch.
Two men sprinting down a Spanish town’s streets during its animal-friendly “Running over the balls” event were left with serious injuries after the 660-pound resin object flattened them along the course.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... reportedly stunned a 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... crowd Tuesday evening after she called for "patience" with President Trump, saying the president can do good for the country if he learns from his mistakes.
Ms. Feinstein made the comments during an hourlong conversation with former Rep. Ellen Tauscher at a sold-out Commonwealth Club event in Herbst Theater. According to several reports, Ms. Feinstein was on the receiving end of hisses and boos when she took a more diplomatic approach to discussing the president and whether he should resign or be impeached.
"I think we have to have some patience, I do," Ms. Feinstein, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and a senior member on Intelligence, told the crowd. "It’s eight months into the tenure of the presidency ... We’ll have to see if he can forget himself and his feelings about himself enough to be able to have the empathy and direction that this country needs."
If he doesn’t, she said, "there are things that can be done." She added, however, that Mr. Trump would most likely serve out the rest of his term.
"This man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term," Ms. Feinstein said. "I just hope he has the ability to learn and change. If he does, he can be a good president."
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the crowd reacted to the comments with "stunned silence, broken only with scattered ’No’s’ and a few hisses and some nervous laughter."
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"I just hope he has the ability to learn and change. If he does, he can be a good president."
Just standard Leftist Jargon for any elected official being assimilated by the Progressive Collective.
TL/DR: If he becomes a RINO he is 50% less despicable...
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Feinstein has a long history of trying to appear a bit less radical than colleagues like Boxer and Pelosi. Don't let her fool you.
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I'm pretty sure they've been polling and all the top Democrats have a list of bullet points they need to say on camera to be used in future campaign ads hoping to undo the damage they've already done to their brand.
It won't work. It'll drive the far left away as well. Snicker.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s state gazette on Wednesday published the names of 296 individuals who have been added to the state's terror list by court order, including two leading members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
On 24 July, a Cairo criminal court ruled that the 296 people be added to the national terrorist list for three years, as they had all been found guilty of engaging in attacks or planning attacks on the state’s institutions and security forces.
Included in the judgement is Mahmoud Ezzat, the Moslem Brüderbund's deputy Supreme Guide, who fled Egypt in 2013 after a crackdown on the group.
Ezzat has been found guilty of planning terror attacks in Egypt while abroad.
The list also includes Ibrahim Mounir, the Brotherhood's secretary-general in London, who was likewise found guilty of planning attacks in Egypt from abroad.
In December 2013, the Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist organization.
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi reserved its decision on the decade-old Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder case on Wednesday after the defence counsel concluded their arguments.
It is expected that the judgement will be announced at Rawalpindi's Adiala jail this week, as Judge Muhammad Asghar Ali Khan earlier said he would require two days to scrutinise and compile all the records.
In today's hearing, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor, Chaudhry Azhar, said that former president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... ─ declared "most wanted" in the case ─ could not appear before the court because he is under threat by the Al Qaeda.
Naseer Tanoli, the lawyer of Aitzaz Shah who is accused of helping and financing the attack, told the court that the FIA's investigation into the case is full of defects.
Tanoli observed that the FIA had not asked any of the suspects about when they were locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! .
The FIA prosecutor argued that if there were discrepancies regarding the dates of the arrests of the suspects, the fault lies with the police, not the FIA.
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[PacificPundit] As I said yesterday, the response to Hurricane Harvey has brought out the best in most Americans, regardless of party ID, color, race or creed. It has also brought up the ugliness of some who call themselves Americans from price gouging, to looting to out right mocking of suffering people. Left wing filth news sight Politico just displayed the ugly side of Harvey, with a cartoon mocking Texas flood victims. This is something you’d expect to see on Salon or something, but Politico proves to be no better.
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All they have is hate. What are they going to do?
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As I said yesterday, the response to Hurricane Harvey has brought out the best in most Americans, regardless of party ID, color, race or creed.
For the most part that is true despite the few incidents of looting and price gouging. Left to our own devices we don't need Washington as much as they think we do.
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Hey blue Houston et al. Here is what your colleagues really think of you. It is ok, it happened to me too. People I grew up with. Better for it.
This is just provocative bigotry at its absolute sloppiest. People I know who could fit this stereotype are out on horses, in boats, whatever they can do to help. They were there Saturday, Sunday, before this was a story they were there before there was a story. Keep it up, show us what you all really think. I want to see that flabby, pale ass you all hope gets pinched by your cocktail buddies as you tee hee about poking stuffed animals. This is fourth grade, you are professionals, show me, because I laugh.
[RT] South Korea has released dramatic footage of a missile test, conducted last week, showing the launch of two missiles, one with a 310-mile (500km) range and the other with a 500-mile (800km) range, which may counter North Korea.
The tests were the last ones before the deployment of the missiles, South Korea’s state-run Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said, as cited by Yonhap news agency.
The ADD said the missiles will serve as key elements in South Korea's pre-emptive strike scheme.
"Our military has the missile capability with top-level precision and power to strike any place in North Korea if necessary," the ADD said. "It will greatly reinforce missile forces and power down the road as well."
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[IJR] As horrible as Hurricane Harvey has been, there have been countless glimpses of the best of humanity following the disaster.
When KHOU 11 News news hound Brandi Smith spotted a trucker with his life in danger from the flooding, she flagged down police to rescue the man.
After Aransas Police Officer Jack McCarty saw an American flag about to fly away, he weathered the fierce elements to save it.
NFL superstar J.J. Watt was paying close attention to it all, too. In fact, as of Tuesday, Watt has helped raise over $1 million for flood victims.
Rescues are still underway, and the flooding hasn't ended. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... while the spirit of unity stays alive, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) has decided to make things political.
How? Turner is pledging himself to represent any illegal immigrants colonists in court who might face deportation in Houston.
According to the Texas Tribune:
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Monday morning sent a clear message to members of Houston's immigrant community who might fear seeking help during Hurricane Harvey because of their legal status.
"There is absolutely no reason why anyone should not call [for help]. And I and others will be the first ones to stand up with you," Turner, an attorney, said to news hounds. "If someone comes and they require help and then for some reason [someone] tries to deport them, I will represent them myself."
Sanctuary cities were outlawed in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed Senate Bill 4 into law in May. When Abbott signed the bill, he said, via Dallas News, "It simply makes sense. Citizens expect law enforcement officers to enforce the law, and citizens deserve lawbreakers to face legal consequences."
Turner, on the other hand, wants to put the law, which goes into effect September 1, on hold as rescue efforts continue. Though even after the dust settles, Turner hasn't shown any signs of goodwill toward the immigration law.
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Don't think anyone is giving a shit about that right now, but like I said, hey blue Texas, here is what your colleagues think of you. Looks like the conch holder just let a whole bunch of people cut in line for attention and assistance.
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He's talking about helping people who need help.
Can we let this tit for tat crap alone til the freakin' ground dries up?
It sounds like IJR are the ones making it political...
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OTOH, the Left makes everything about politics and their agenda moves from strength to strength irrespective of electoral defeats and bad polling.
And there will always be some natural disaster or other unexpected crisis to address; can we really expect to fix the long term problems this country faces if we're always putting action on hold in order to be good sports?
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Well, the so-called National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is some $25 Billion under water with little hope of recovery. All NFIP has done is ENCOURAGE people to build in flood prone areas, with everybody else in the country picking up the tab.
[PJMEDIA] Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee ...the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome... (D-Texas) said federal lawmakers should begin working on a Hurricane Harvey aid package worth about $150 billion, more than double the amount Hurricane Sandy needed five years ago. U.S. population = 330m. That comes out to $454.54 for every man,
woman, gender indeterminate, and child.
Jackson Lee told CNN today that the funding to recover from the massive flooding is needed "because this not only includes the Houston Harris County area, which is 6 million in its metroplex, but all of our areas, such as Beaumont, that was hit last night, Victoria and Corpus and places in south Texas."
"We don't know where else Hurricane Harvey will come," she said. "And we understand it may turn back to Houston on tomorrow and the next day."
The confirmed death toll from the storm thus far is 15, including a family of six and a Houston police officer caught in the floodwaters.
The National Hurricane Center said today that Harvey, now a tropical storm, is moving north-northeast at a glacial 5 mph. "A general north-northeast track is expected today and tomorrow. On the forecast track, the center of Harvey is expected to be just offshore of the middle and upper coasts of Texas through tonight, then move inland over the northwestern Gulf coast early Wednesday," said their latest public advisory. "Maximum sustained winds remain near 45 mph (75 km/h) with higher gusts. No significant change in strength is expected before the center moves inland. A gradual weakening should begin thereafter."
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I don't know how those idiots keep electing this idiot.
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The Texas population is (est.) 28,449,186 so $5272.56 for every Texan 2,000$ for every Texan after Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Dimwit) gets her sponsors a spot at the feeding trough. *OINK!*
[TAMPABAY] A tweet suggesting that the devastation of Hurricane Harvey was "instant karma" for the red state of Texas has cost a University of Tampa professor his job — making him just the latest academic fired for off-duty speech.
The University first distanced itself from sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey on Monday. But a tide of online outrage continued. A #FireKenStorey hashtag spread far beyond the university. Angry Facebook comments piled up.
"Don't think this is a school we will be looking at for my daughter anymore," one commenter said. An alumnus wrote, "Good thing I already paid you, because I'll never send the school another dime again."
On Tuesday morning, the university fired him.
"We condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them, and understand the pain this irresponsible act has caused," spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement.
Storey told the Tampa Bay Times that, while saddened, he understands UT's decision. He got caught up in today's political climate, he said, and knows now that every 140-character post needs to be able to stand on its own.
"What they see in those tweets is not who I am," he said. "I am somebody else."
"How I worded it was wrong. I care about people. I love this country. "I didn't want to be fired. If I ever get another job I'll keep my mouth shut."
"I would never want to wish harm upon anyone." "I am an asswipe."
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Not The University of Texas UT. Still in bad taste.
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His comment was indeed stupid. I don't think he should have been fired. Imagine the outrage here if a conservative professor had been fired for saying Houston deserved it because they have a Democrat for a mayor.
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
We can point and laugh at him, but fire him, no.
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If he said that in a Tweet - can you imagine what he says in the classroom?
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I am fine with him having been fired. He got caught this time; it is unlikely this was an isolated instance. Also, the in-line is perfect.
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I don't think he should have been fired.
I do. I think they should be fired by the hundreds every time they open up their mouths and disparage fellow American citizens simply because they have different political beliefs. These lefty cocksuckers want to fire & bankrupt cake bakers in Oregon, pizza shops in Indiana, and so on. Give it back to them in spades until they cry uncle and stop.
[OpsLens] "I served as a police officer in one of the most pro-demonstrator, anti-cop cities in America, Seattle. "
De-policing, a phenomenon where officers avoid proactive patrol, including enforcing pedestrian violations, littering, and investigating suspicious people and circumstances, is occurring in many American cities. Officers do not wake up one morning and decide to de-police.
Circumstances, such as political and department leaders showing little or no support, force cops to alter their behavior and adopt a professional survival mode. Still, many politicians and law enforcement leaders deny de-policing exists. They don’t want to admit their "enlightened" social justice policies have any negative consequences.
I served as a police officer in one of the most pro-demonstrator, anti-cop cities in America, Seattle. I retired at least ten years sooner than I might have due to the social justice indoctrination disguised as law enforcement training infecting the department. I now also look at law enforcement through a "de-policing" lens. Meaning, does a policy compromise officer safety or the effectiveness of police officers to do their jobs properly?
In today’s anti-cop environment, leftist politicians, community activists, and their allies in the media are inundating people with the false narrative that police officers are wantonly shooting minorities for sport. There’s even a socialist Seattle city council member who continues to describe two Seattle police officers as murderers and racists despite a King County inquest jury having found they acted properly in a fatal shooting incident.
The two officers are now suing her for defamation. People like her caricature cops as corrupt thugs and draw a moral equivalence between criminals killed by cops and police officers murdered by criminals--as if it’s supposed to be a fair fight.
Officers need discretion to do the job effectively. In today’s anti-cop world, one leftist strategy is using politically motivated policies to usurp officer discretion. Consider policies mandating universal report taking and vehicle and body camera use. The cameras do have legitimate positives, but there are still practical negatives to consider regarding policies.
Cops have to wonder if agencies will use the videos to go on "fishing expeditions" to find officer "misconduct," even absent a complaint. Not true misconduct but actions that used to be, and still should be, within officer discretion? I’ve heard enough disturbing anecdotal evidence to believe this is happening. When superiors fish for officer violations, cops may feel forced to waste time taking unnecessary reports or effectively de-police.
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Most people who criticize or protest police officers know little to nothing about the extensive training and demands required for police work and most likely don't care. The term, the "thin blue line" is the line between the civilized and the uncivilized.
[HOTAIR] North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un has called for more missile launches targeting the Pacific Ocean, which is pretty hard to miss over there.
Kim expressed "great satisfaction" over the success of his military’s recent missile launches, not all of which were actually successes, and said they form "a meaningful prelude" to containing the expansionist American territory of Guam, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army warplanes killed 94 Islamic State militants in Anbar on Wednesday, including a senior leader close to the group’s supreme commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, military media reported. But not too close, right?
The War Media Cell said that the air force, using intelligence services information, bombarded six IS locations in the town of Qaim. Several group entrenchments were destroyed in the strike, leaving 94 members dead.
Those killed included Zafer (Abu Ayman) al-Rawi, a senior security commander, and Millat Hashem Farahat, a former commander in Tal Afar and a close aide to Baghdadi.
Islamic State militants are still holding the towns of Qaim, Rawa and Anna, in western Anbar, since 2014, when they occupied a third of Iraq to proclaim their self-styled “caliphate”.
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Immolated; as in napalm. Or Willie Peter.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The smell, you know that gasoline smell... Smelled like victory.
I can't post any more unless I pull out my Internet Explorer browser. It has to do with Chrome-based browsers refusing to accept POST requests for security reasons. Is Rantburg going to upgrade to fix the problem? Details at the link.
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This happens when you post to a forum system (e.g., vBulletin) and within your post, you refer to another post. This common practice has been made super-cumbersome. For example, ..." yes we were discussion this very thing last month in {hyperlink and title of another forum post} ..."
This needs to be dialed back. It obviously didn't get subjected to enough field testing ha ha.
Trying to duplicate this now... Hasn't worked so far...
I haven't been able to duplicate it. The explanation I've seen on a Google forum doesn't make my Chrome barf, maybe because I use Linux. I've never gotten that error in thousands of posts. The "workaround" fix involves leaving the Burg vulnerable to cross-server pollination (XSS), which I don't want to do.
Until recently, Chrome was my browser of choice. I've switched to Opera lately and I like it. We had parted ways ten years or so ago when a new release broke existing Rantburg code. It's been very well-behaved for me this time.
I started ditching Google when they fired that tech for being politically incorrect. Opera's good, and I've used Brave as well. I use Duck Duck Go in place of Google search. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about mail. Maintaining a mail server's always been a pain in the underwear for me, so I've been relying on Gmail.
I don't know what the alternatives' politix are. I don't want to know. If I've got to recognize seventy two genders and vote Democrat before I'm dead and feel guilty about being a white person I'll switch to something else.
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At one time Opera used the Chrome engine.
This sounds like 'too many redirects'.
Some people use their browser in a VM which can create an additional redirection.
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A browser is like a pair of shoes...you don't want to be aware of them while you're using them (take it from a guy who has troublesome feet). After a couple of weeks Opera has been pretty good for me.
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[Wash Times] Forty years later, the story still seems hard to credit: In the summer of 1977, Capitol Hill was gripped by revelations of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program, targeting unsuspecting American citizens, in some cases by luring them to brothels to be fed LSD-laced cocktails.
The blockbuster hearings that summer, chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and aided by a timely dump of intelligence documents, touched some of the country’s rawest nerves: the assassination of Kennedy’s brothers, the possibility of mind-controlled "Manchurian candidates" and the increasing prominence of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs across Western culture.
Although the CIA program officially ran from 1953 to 1964, its dark and fertile legacy stretches to today, living on in modern conspiracy theories about U.S. intelligence agencies’ ability and willingness to manipulate society through surveillance, disinformation, celebrity culture and strategic news leaks.
Security advocates argue that domestic intelligence-gathering is vital for the sake of homeland security. Critics counter that revelations that the CIA and the National Security Agency can hack into phones, computers and even televisions connected to the internet show their powers are still too great and threaten essential personal liberties and constitutional protections.
The 1977 MK-Ultra hearings first tilled similar suspicions and were considered a critical pivot in official and popular attitudes toward the nation’s intelligence community. Triggered in part by the shock of the Watergate scandal, they also revealed the U.S. government’s covert assassination programs and surveillance of American citizens brought to light by the Church Committee’s 1975 investigations of the FBI, CIA and NSA.
The August 1977 MK-Ultra hearings specifically explored what seemed like an outlandish idea straight out of science fiction: the possibility of government mind control.
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revelations of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program, targeting unsuspecting American citizens, in some cases by luring them to brothels to be fed LSD-laced cocktails.
During those times, there were plenty of knowledgeable, willing participants who were taking LSD voluntarily. These were also the times of "free love" so that the enticement of brothels was not all that great.
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I learned most of what I needed to know on this topic from Stanley Milgram's book "Obedience to Authority" Detailed comprehension of this book should be required to get a high school diploma.
[RT] The Iraqi military is engaged in fierce fighting against 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.... Death Eaters in the Tal Afar district, where bully boyz have fled from the city itself and remain holed up in the town of al-Ayadiya. As the operation enters its final stage, RT looks at what is making it so difficult.
"The gates of hell" is what Iraqi Colonel Kareem al-Lami calls the battle now facing Iraqi troops near Tal Afar, according to Rooters.
US-backed Iraqi troops lauded the almost complete liberation of the strategic town of Tal Afar, held for three years by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS), on August 27 after a week-long operation. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the forces are currently struggling to defeat the bully boyz in the small town of al-Ayadiya a few miles north of Tal Afar, where the remaining Death Eaters continue to resist.
This last step towards the liberation of the district is even tougher than the battle for djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , located some 60km to the east, Colonel al-Lami says. That operation took eight months and was finished in June.
"We thought the battle for Mosul’s Old City was tough, but this one proved to be multiple times worst," al-Lami told Rooters on Wednesday.
Diehard Death Eaters with nothing to lose
Hundreds of Death Eaters are reportedly holding the ground in al-Ayadiya. Their exact numbers remain unclear, and they are apparently some of the toughest fighters that IS has.
"Our intelligence shows that the most diehard ISIS [IS] fighters fled Tal Afar to al-Ayadiya," Lieutenant Colonel Salah Kareem said, as cited by Rooters. "We are facing tough fighters who have nothing to lose and are ready to die."
Those bully boyz who don't stand and fight attempt to flee the battle zone by hiding among displaced civilians on the run. At least 200 Death Eaters were found during security checks of 2,000 refugees, Iraqi news reports, citing the Kurdish Peshmerga, which is also fighting against IS in the area. Kurdish forces also killed 130 more Death Eaters on the way to Syria, Iraqi news reported on Tuesday.
Ruins filled with explosives During their retreat from the city, IS bully boyz left behind deadly traps that have turned Tal Afar "into a sappers’ nightmare" as explosives could be hidden anywhere, RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported from the ground.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017. (D., N.Y.) said Wednesday that Democrats are ready to fight with Republicans over tax reform legislation.
"This is going to be one of the biggest fights of the next three, four months, and Democrats are ready for it," Schumer told news hounds on a conference call held by a left-leaning group organized to oppose tax cuts for high earners, according to the Washington Examiner.
Earlier this month, 45 of 48 Senate Democrats signed a letter to 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... and GOP leaders demanding that they not support any bill that gives new breaks to the wealthiest Americans or adds to the deficit.
Schumer warned Wednesday that if the Republican tax reform plan lowers rates for the wealthy, "the American people are going to rise up against it."
His comments came the same day that Trump is traveling to Missouri to begin a public campaign for tax reform. Trump is expected to describe his plan as a benefit to middle-class workers that will create a more favorable tax system for American businesses to compete with global competitors.
Trump is seeking a simpler tax code, including middle-class tax cuts, to push for more job creation.
But Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said that the bulk of the responsibility is on Congress, not the president, to pass tax reform.
"At the end of the day, tax legislation has to happen in Congress and the House," Cohn told the Financial Times last week. "The Boodle Central will be drafting legislation and we will be on the road and holding meetings in Washington and elsewhere explaining why it is so important to have tax reform in America."
Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), chairman of the House Boodle Central, has said that Trump will play an essential role in the legislative process to overhaul the country's tax system.
"You can't do this without presidential leadership," Brady said earlier this month. "My sense of President Trump, he's all in on tax reform."
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Damned congress has been running the govt and the country down the tubes economically for decades. The congress is worthless. Destructive. Looting. Grifting. Sociopaths. They need to be fired.
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Yeah, those Dems are totally against adding to the deficit. When somebody else does it
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If the Republicans tried to pass a resolution that said a clear sky was blue, the Democrats would oppose it.
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The very popular Trump Rallies and the calling out of the obstructionists (in both parties) MUST continue.
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He's already proven he has enough RINO senators in his back pocket to stop anything Trump wants to do.
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Schumer and the Democratic just might get butt hurt on this one. America is waking up to their corruption. The Democrats and some of the RINOS have used government coffers for their personal piggy bank for too long.
[RT] Germany’s top diplomat has backed the suggestion of Social Democrat (SPD) leader and Chancellor hopeful Martin Schulz, who has pledged to rid his country of US nukes. Okay. Bye.
He won't win, so it doesn't really matter what he says.
Washington, meanwhile, is pressing ahead to modernize its nuclear stockpile.
Sigmar Gabriel's remarks came at the end of his official visit to the US Wednesday.
"Certainly, I am convinced that it is important to finally talk again about the arms control and disarmament," Gabriel told the DPA news agency, as quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Europe:
Islam's Lebensraum.
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I agree with the man. We've lost enough baby sitting for the ungrateful. You'd be surprise the number of service members we've lost in training and vehicle accidents in the place. Somewhere around 1980, Western Europe passed the US in combined GDP and population. Like any welfare, its never ending. Time to follow the French model for NATO, keep some liaison personnel there, everyone else comes home. It's their problem.
[NYDAILYNEWS] An 84-year-old man was punched in the head by a subway psycho who said he hates white people, but the plucky victim says he’s taking it in stride and feels sorry for his attacker.
John Stewart was riding a Brooklyn-bound J train after boarding at Sutphin Blvd. in Jamaica on Aug. 23 at about 2:30 p.m. when, he said, he dropped his cane onto another straphanger’s legs.
"I was trying to hold my cane and the pole at the same time. Apparently my cane fell on his legs and that’s what upset him. But I don’t condemn him," he said.
As the train rolled into the Woodhaven Blvd. stop, the straphanger stood up and slammed him in the right side of the head.
"I hate white people and I hope they burn in hell!" the unhinged straphanger shouted.
"I’m not blaming him. I’m blaming the societies that put him in this situation. I think our society really has to get it together and ask real honest questions. There are a lot of hurting people out there," Stewart told the Daily News Tuesday.
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Blaming the "societies" has been the modus operandi for the last 50 years. How well has that worked out?
I get the impression that the vicitm's plea for "our society to get it together and ask real honest questions," has little, if anything, to do with personal responsibility and accountability.
Some people will never get it; even when it literally punches them in the face.
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the vicitm's plea for "our society to get it together and ask real honest questions" OK, as a member of society I'll ask him a real honest question "WTF is wrong with YOU?"
[NYPOST] A US warship shot down a medium-range ballistic missile in a test off Hawaii on Wednesday ‐ as North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un vowed to forge ahead with more missile tests in the Pacific, officials said.
The USS John Paul Jones detected and tracked a missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai before intercepting it with SM-6 missiles, the US Missile Defense Agency said. nice picture at link
The interception comes after a previous failed test in June from the same guided missile destroyer, Fox News reported.
"We are working closely with the fleet to develop this important new capability, and this was a key milestone in giving our Aegis BMD ships an enhanced capability to defeat ballistic missiles in their terminal phase," MDA Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves said in a statement.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel has tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a Paleostinian wedding singer after he performed a song about a terrorist who fatally stabbed three people in the settlement of Halamish, the Paleostinian Prisoners Club says.
The singer was among four Paleostinians arrested early Wednesday, three of whom perform in a band together, a spokeswoman says.
The army confirmed it arrested one person in Beit Rima, one in Kafr Ein and another in Kobar, the hometown of stabber Omar al-Abed.
Paleostinian media says the band, led by singer Mohammed al-Barghouti, had been singing about Abed, who stabbed to death three members of the Solomon family last month.
A video of the band performing the song, which praises Abed, has been posted on social media.
"Hey you, who asks about real men, you will find them in Kobar... Omar al-Abed is an earthquake who took Dire Revenge on behalf of al-Aqsa... he came from above the mountains carrying a knife on his side, and when he announced the clash, he made the Zionists lie on the ground... even if they detain my mother and my father, and demolish our home, we will never wear clothes of disgrace," the lyrics read, according to the Ma’an news agency.
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.
[Daily Caller] As FBI director last year, James Comey began writing drafts of a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton, even before all witnesses in the investigation -- including Clinton herself -- had been interviewed.
[Daily Caller] A 22-year-old black man in Kansas City who once said he wanted to "kill all white people" has been charged with murdering two middle-aged white men and is suspected of killing three more.
[FOX] The Pentagon acknowledged Wednesday that there are thousands more American troops deployed in Afghanistan than repeatedly disclosed.
[Free Beacon] Federal prosecutors asserted in a new document filed Wednesday that Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ.) started taking bribes from a wealthy donor shortly after he entered the Senate in 2006.
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals with Tehran's state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter.
Pervez 
[DAWN] Twelve members of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) surrendered to security forces in 
Nancy 
[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] How high and mighty the pundits and politicians sounded after Charlottesville. How dare President Trump say many sides were responsible?
[RT] Activists groups seeking funds to help for relief from Hurricane Harvey are coming under fire for alleged exploitation. One such group, the Texas Organizing Project is being singled out for raising funds to benefit labor unions.
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Michel Aoun
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
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[IJR] As horrible as Hurricane Harvey has been, there have been countless glimpses of the best of humanity following the disaster.
[TAMPABAY] A tweet suggesting that the devastation of Hurricane Harvey was "instant karma" for the red state of Texas has cost a University of Tampa professor his job — making him just the latest academic fired for off-duty speech.
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[RT] The Iraqi military is engaged in fierce fighting against 
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
[RT] Germany’s top diplomat has backed the suggestion of Social Democrat (SPD) leader and Chancellor hopeful Martin Schulz, who has pledged to rid his country of US nukes. 
