[CBS] Republican Governor John Kasich of Ohio says that a six-month window for Congress to compose legislation to handle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should instead take "six hours" to get accomplished by "reasonable" members of Congress.
"Congress has six months, it should take six hours to get this done, and the way I think they need to do it, they need reasonable Republicans and Democrats from the middle and build out a solution to this," Kasich said on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday.
Kasich added that the so-called "Dreamers" should have "permanent resident status and they ought to stay and be able to contribute."
The often outspoken governor called the DACA program a "simple moral issue" that can't be solved by political extremists on both sides of the aisle, but instead crafted by "common sense, normal thinking Americans."
While many DACA recepients are now concerned about their own legal status, fearful of possible deportations as a result of the administration's rescinding of the 2012 order, Kasich says "Dreamers" have a home in Ohio.
"We're putting kids, young people in jeopardy, this is not the America that we all love, this is a melting pot," he said. "If the dreamers want to go somewhere and live, come to Ohio, we want all the immigrants to come to Ohio, we know how much immigrants contribute."
[Miami Herald] Miami native Lissette Diaz is frantically trying to fly her family out from South Florida in case Hurricane Irma hits. But it may cost her thousands of dollars.
By Wednesday, prices for flights out of South Florida skyrocketed as high as more than $3,000 per person for domestic flights that would otherwise cost a fraction of the price during what’s typically one of the slowest times of the year for air travel.
Diaz, who grew up in Miami but is in school at Andrews University in Michigan, scoured Expedia.com Tuesday afternoon for a flight for her mother, adult cousin, 71-year-old grandmother, 11-year-old sister to New York.
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I suggest President Trump direct that PAX terminals at all the major USAF bases in Florida be opened and mission tasked to begin the orderly shuttling of civilians to northern destinations.
Box lunches and bottled water included w/o charge.
h/t Instapundit
It is not healthy for a society to live two lives that are antithetical, as America has been doing in recent decades.
Disillusionment with government and popular culture arises at anger over two entirely different realities. One truth is politically correct and voiced on the news and by the government. It is often abstract and theoretical. And the other truth is empirical, hushed and accepted informally by ordinary people from what they see and hear on the ground.
Public orthodoxy signals virtue, private heterodoxy ensures ostracism. So Americans increasingly make the necessary adjustments, modeling their lives in some part as those once did in totalitarian societies of the 20th century. The reality they live is the stuff of the shadows; the falsity they are told and repeat is public and amplified.
Cynicism and eventual anger at the schizophrenia are always the harvests of such bipolarity.
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Currently, one in three of all those hospitalized in California for any cause is found to suffer from diabetes, a frightening statistic, at least in part fueled by record numbers of those vulnerable within the burgeoning Hispanic resident population—who, for a variety of reasons, are especially susceptible to the disease.
Something to do with genetically related dietary changes? Perhaps we should not go there.
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Native Americans are also extremely susceptible to getting Type II DM as they age past 25 or so, and that limit seems to be falling. Go to a nearby powwow & check out the young people in powwow regalia who now resemble Michelin Tire Man. I did read of a single study of an isolated Mexican population, very thin & fit, little or no Type II DM there. This population is genetically close to both Hispanic & native American types. Researchers offered a subset of the village free food for several months, matched them to a subset who didn't get free food. The free food consisted of a typical US type diet, which was trucked in over bad roads. The free eaters health rapidly declined (just took a few weeks) as they rapidly gained weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure all rose rapidly compared to controls. Matched set stayed healthy. Study terminated early. Of course, it got no publicity or notice.
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I have a native American friend, 73 yo lady with type II DM. She is not obese. She walks 5 miles a day, every day. She walked the 5 miles of the Mackinac Bridge on Monday in 74 minutes. Her Type II DM is fully under control, and her good outcome is extremely rare. It's possible, although very unlikely, for others to do this.
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As long as the USDA and all of those PETA sympathizers continue to advocate high carb, low fat, low protein diets (all the better to protect cows and chickens from mean old people that want to eat them) we are going to continue to have obesity and Type II diabetes.
High carb diets cause the formation of insulin and high blood sugar which is converted to fat.
Insulin is the enemy, continuous production of high levels of insulin to process carbs only leads to diabetes.
The government is killing us.
Cut out most carbs, eat more protein, put down the Gameboy and go for a walk.
Pakistani police counter-terrorism officers on Monday killed four terrorists including a commander of the banned group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who was involved in the 2012 attack on the child rights activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
All four militants were killed in a police shootout, conducted at the Southern port of city of Karachi, police officials confirmed.
A man identified as Khursheed – a cousin of the current TTP chief Mullah Fazalullah – was identified among the dead. He was linked to various terrorist attacks on security personnel as well as the attack on Malala.
Malala was attacked and shot at close range by the gunmen in October 2012, as she left school in the Swat Valley.
Days after the attack, Pakistan's Taliban described Malala as a "spy of the West." "For this espionage, infidels gave her awards and rewards. And Islam orders killing of those who are spying for enemies," the group said in a statement.
In June 2015, a Pakistani court in the northwestern province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa freed eight out of the 10 militants charged with the shooting of Malala. That move however, raised serious questions about the country's criticized judicial system.
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Pakistan's Taliban described Malala as a "spy of the West." "For this espionage, infidels gave her awards and rewards. And Islam orders killing of those who are spying for enemies," the group said in a statement.
Uh, right. Looks like someone spends too much time reading the Crayon/banging their forehead on the ground too hard and not enough time figuring out the definition of words and logic.
[National Review] Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is "hate speech." The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.
On August 9, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and University of San Diego law professor Larry Alexander published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a revival of the bourgeois values that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority. The late 1960s took aim at the bourgeois ethic, they say, encouraging an "antiauthoritarian, adolescent, wish-fulfillment ideal [of] sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll that was unworthy of, and unworkable for, a mature, prosperous adult society."
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Univ. of PA faculty never seem to have a problem with extracting tax money from the 'Bourgeois' to fund their parasitic existence. Like medieval lords, the working class and merchants exist to serve them. BTW, the lords and the academia believe by their majesty they're just helping the poor indolent souls to survive in this world.
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Instead of the conventional "bourgeois values," that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority we have the suppression of free-speech, lemming-like behavior and the march towards mediocrity --much better, huh?
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Name the triggering 'Bourgeois' activities and images found in the non-inclusive photo.
To start with, "Mom" is wielding a dangerous weapon, as easily poured on her "misbehaving" menfolk as in their cups. Clearly they are carefully avoiding looking at her lest they trigger her anger. Then, too, she controls their food completely -- they will eat what she chooses, when she chooses, and in the amounts she allows...
Need I go on?
;-) Oh please continue dear lady, we so enjoy your astute observations.
The levity can only just be starting.
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Notice the traditional table cloth, matching drapes and English nets. The father appears to be seated with his back to the corner in the 'overwatch' position where he can easily monitor the window, entrances, and the family.
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My Dad went to work in a coal mine when he was twelve years old, loading coal at a dollar a carload. He was 34 when he got drafted in WWII. He was still mining the coal. He had a jeep roll over on him at Saint Lo, breaking his back. When he got out, he couldn't work in the mines anymore, so my Granddaddy got him a job in a quarry.
We occasionally had to borrow money from church mice, but we still had dinner as a family every evening. My mother tried to teach us manners and respect for others. We went to church every Sunday. We were encouraged to finish school. We enjoyed being "bourgeois" even though we were very working class.
Somehow, I don't feel guilty about that.
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[Right Wing News] We all know John McCain is a Democrat in a Republican hat, but the more he opens his unimaginably moronic pie hole, the more people want to punch him in his Mr. Potato Head-looking face.
Despite his claims that he didn’t support President Obama’s Executive Order (DACA,) he is now criticizing Trump for putting an end to it. He has either forgotten what side of the aisle he is supporting this week, or he’s been so confused by why his liberal puppet masters are trying to get him to do that he is just throwing things at the wall to see if they’ll stick.
Either way, the fact that he has a permanent spot on the fence doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in the people who elected Republicans to get things done.
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If I understood the news yesterday Trump was saying DACA was unconstitutional and that he wanted Congress to basically fix immigration law to make it legal or Trump will revisit the issue and send them a bill to vote on.
So Trump killed the unconstitutional law and then is forcing the Congress to put their names on the dotted line which is their job but also something they prefer not to do because jawing and moaning is more fun.
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"I was against it before I was for it".
D*mn, sounds like the wording structure of someone else we knew....
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He's just a bitter old man fulminating about successful people to distract himself from his own failures but it's far too late for him to do anything about it. It's pathetic. Why anybody even listens to him anymore is beyond me.
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Then he needs to do his job and make it a law. Congress is there to pass laws, not suck pork...
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Our 2008 nominee for president...
Why do I keep bringing that up? Because 1) it's now completely obvious to every sentient being that it was a mistake, and 2) the primary process that nominated ... this man ... remains unrepaired.
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We had much better candidates during the Republican primary in 2008 but all the money went to McCain. Tells you something about the people who contribute big money to presidential candidates...the same people who put up the money for ¡Jeb! and the same people who are now doing everything in their power to undermine Trump. But it's too late for McCain.
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Did they build "the dang fence" yet?
#4 Arizonians need to retire this guy for his sake and for the good of the country.
As long as Senate seniority is so boodlelicious, this isn't likely to happen.
[DailyMail] North Korea's latest nuclear weapons test has renewed fears of a devastating electro-magnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that could wipe out electrical grids across the US.
For the first time, North Korea specifically mentioned the possibility of an EMP attack on the US following Sunday's test of a 100-kiloton weapon, which the regime claims is a thermonuclear bomb.
The weapon could wipe out much of a city, but the pulse from a high-altitude blast could sow chaos and destruction far wider.
North Korea's state news agency warned that the weapon 'is a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack.'
A nuclear bomb detonated 19 miles above the earth would affect Kansas and the surrounding states. One detonated at an altitude of 294 miles would affect most of the continental US. The map above shows EMP blast zones (red) of detonations at different altitudes (black numbers)
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As anyone else with the capability, which the Norks have yet to achieve. Why haven't you taken hardening measures because of others but now with Kimmy you seem to pay attention?
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It would take several weapons to wipe out the US grid system. The effect of one warhead is limited by the size of the weapon and the altitude it's detonated.
Mainly, our cell phones would be fried but our Fleming valve audio amplifiers would be fine.
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Everything should have been hardened during the cold war. That it was not says a lot about our elites.
I'm not even talking about the Soviets either, solar storms and other natural things can cause all sorts of damage and our elites shrug and hope and spend the money on hookers or their new estates or whatever.
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A North Korean EMP attack would still be a nuclear attack by an identified adversary, very likely triggering nuclear retaliation.
I'd be more worried about North Korea organizing smaller scale (i.e. a few 100s or 1000s dead) WMD terror attacks on western targets.
North Korea, as a nuclear state sponsor of these attacks could then offer the alternative of paying protection money or getting used to monthly massacres.
If, hypothetically, there was a VX terror attack on Japan or even the US killing 1000s of people and North Korea was the likely state power behind this, only able and willing to maintain implausible deniability, would the US go to nuclear war over this? And what would be the consequences if there was no US response?
North Korea has already crossed the chemical WMD threshold. Nuclear deterrence and the use of WMD offer the not too unrealistic opportunity to turn Western nations into tributary states.
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A misslle launched from a ship in the gulf of Mexico would be impossable to intercept.
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Don't be all that surprised if/when a North Korean nuclear blast wipes out a large Chinese city. Stranger things in history have happened. You read it first on the 'Burg.
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"Everything should have been hardened during the cold war. That it was not says a lot about our elites."
One of the least well informed comments at Rantburg, against stiff competition.
DTRA has spent a lot of time and effort attempting to model EMP potential effects and devise manageable hardening approaches that cost less than the GDP every year. The explosion of electronics everywhere, including related to the power grid(s - there's more than one), and the role of the Internet in SCADA signalling to control the grid, makes this extremely difficult to do.
[Bus Insider] US aircraft operating over Syria have been taking out stranded ISIS fighters one or two at a time in recent days, as a convoy of the group's militants remains stranded in the desert, according to a Foreign Policy report.
Eight days ago, a convoy of 17 buses carrying 300 to 500 fighters and their families left the eastern side of the country after a truce was reached between surrendering ISIS fighters and Syrian government forces, which are backed by Hezbollah.
The US has objected to the truce, and in the days since the convoy departed, US aircraft have targeted 40 vehicles and any members of the convoy who stray too far from the main group.
"Whether it's to evade by foot or to relieve themselves, if they make it far enough out there for us to strike, then we will," US Army Col. Ryan Dillon told Foreign Policy.
Last week, US airstrikes destroyed a bridge and made a road impassable, and the convoy has since been stuck between the Syrian cities of As Sukhnah and Abu Kamal, the latter of which is on the border with Iraq.
Six of the buses have turned back toward territory held by the Syrian government; the rest have been resupplied by trucks coming from Syrian government territory.
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"taking small arms fire"
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You mean those same ISIS fighters the US has been providing weapons to?
[Cleveland.com] NEW CARLISLE, Ohio -- A newspaper photographer was shot by a deputy Sunday night after the deputy mistook the man's camera for a weapon, reports say.
The New Carlisle News reports its photographer, Andy Grimm, was taken to Miami Valley Hospital for surgery and is expected to recover from his wound.
Grimm had his camera and a tripod and was outside at about 10 p.m. Sunday attempting to take photos of lightning during a storm, the News reports.
Clark County Deputy Jake Shaw reportedly was on a traffic stop that didn't involve Grimm when he saw the photographer with the tripod and camera and mistook it for a weapon. Shaw then fired at Grimm, the News reports.
"I was going out to take pictures and I saw the traffic stop and I thought, 'Hey, cool. I'll get some pictures here,'" Grimm tells the News. "I turned around toward the cars and then 'pop, pop.'"
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Remembering the 'liberation' of Baghdad when a foreign reporter on a balcony pointed his shoulder braced camera at some American tanks, who only had a fraction of a second to determine at long distance if it was just a camera or an anti-tank missile launcher.
Given the ambush and killing of cops is 'de rigueur' promoted by the violent Left, take a jury son.
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My old hometown - go figure. The reporter is already out of the hospital. My observation is why was the deputy such a poor marksman? He felt endangered, or else he had no justification to shoot. He identified his target. He shot twice at a stationary target and neither were critical hits. I am glad the reporter was ok but if that had been a genuine bad guy with an actual weapon, the cop would have been subject to return fire based on his inability to put rounds accurately on the target.
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TP6932, ever fired a weapon? Ever fired a weapon at night? Ever fired a handgun at night under duress? Plus how far was the target from the policeman firing a handgun at night under duress?
Getting two hits under these circumstances is great shooting! Not so great for the photographer but can't win them all.
[Victory Girls] When did we become a nation of perpetually offended? It seems barely a week goes by without someone claiming a new form of micro-aggression. I can usually laugh it off. After all, if I don’t, I’ll become macro-aggressed and that’s not a good thing. Unfortunately, this morning I saw an article on The Daily Caller that not only had me shaking my head but wondering what in the world they are teaching in schools today. It seems two professors claim to have discovered a new form of micro-aggression. Nothing surprising there. Their sample base to support this so-called discovery is. They interviewed ‐ wait for it ‐ 13 non-white women at five different campuses and from this small group discovered "invisibility microaggressions", of which there are five different forms. My first reaction was to wonder if a microaggression from this small a group was a micro-microaggression. Then I wondered if it was all a joke. But no. There is a professional paper written about it. C’mon, give me a break.
So, what is a microaggression, other than the current buzz word of the socially enlightened?
[American Thinker] The DACA program being terminated by AG Sessions was a Federal program started by President Obama. The program was promoted as an administrative strategy to provide eligible youth relief from deportation. Since the entire issue has been clouded with political rhetoric it’s important to look at its legal and constitutional status.
The DACA program was started when on November 20, 2014 President Obama issued an Executive Order. It’s important to note that the US Constitution does not allow any president to set immigration policy. Since the DACA EO was directed to delay deportation of illegal immigrants it clearly falls under the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and those Federal rules can only be passed by Congress. The Constitution clearly states in Article I Section 8 clause 3 that only the Congress shall have power "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." It further states that all legislative powers shall reside in Congress, which shall be composed of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
The power to establish any rules regarding immigration do not reside in the office of President and never have. So, at this point the question is moot: President Obama did not have any authority to issue a DACA order through any "executive action."
President Obama himself stated twenty-two times that he has no authority over issues of immigration. This then means he can’t unilaterally change any immigration laws. But President Obama’s entire presidency was an exercise in executive overreach, and several of the changes he made to immigration law were overturned by the Supreme Court.
"President Obama himself stated twenty-two times that he has no authority over issues of immigration. This then means he can’t unilaterally change any immigration laws. But President Obama’s entire presidency was an exercise in executive overreach, and several of the changes he made to immigration law were overturned by the Supreme Court."
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And by the actions of the congressional leaders, they like it this way.
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"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."
~ Lee
[The Hill] The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the FBI and Department of Justice for documents about a controversial dossier that linked President Trump to Russia.
The committee issued the two identical subpoenas on Aug. 24, requesting that both agencies hand over documents containing information about the dossier, the FBI’s relationship to its author and whether the FBI had supported an opposition research project against Trump in the last months of the 2016 presidential campaign, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.
The subpoenas set a deadline of Sept. 1 for the documents to be handed over, but it was extended to Sept. 14 after both departments missed the deadline, according to the Examiner.
The panel also issued subpoenas Tuesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appear before the committee to say why they hadn’t handed over the documents.
"We got nothing," committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told the Examiner. "The witnesses have not been produced, and the documents have not been produced."
The controversial dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, contained unverified information about Trump that tied to him to Russia. That would be the same Christopher Steele who can no longer be contacted or located.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has also homed in on the dossier in their investigation into Russian election interference. The co-founder of the firm that ordered the dossier, Fusion GPS, spoke to investigators from that committee last month.
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"We got nothing," committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told the Examiner. "The witnesses have not been produced, and the documents have not been produced."
[Free Beacon] Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced Tuesday that he had accepted a position with the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action.
Clarke will become a spokesman and senior advisor to the PAC, Politico reported. Clarke announced his departure from Milwaukee County law enforcement last week.
Clarke is known as a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, having stumped for the president on TV and appeared at the 2016 Republican National Convention. He has also attracted controversy: during his tenure as Milwaukee County Sheriff, the jail Clarke oversaw was accused of mistreating inmates on several occasions. Some staff members remain under investigation.
Brian O. Walsh, America First Action’s president, released a statement on Tuesday the describe Clarke has having "devoted his life" to "making America safe again."
[Breitbart London] EU loyalists and Brexit doom-mongers have experienced another setback, with Britain’s manufacturers and retailers enjoying a surge in exports and sales.
"Britain’s manufacturers are enjoying buoyant conditions on the back of export markets going from strength to strength," announced the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in a press release, following a "major survey" of some 416 manufacturing firms.
"Manufacturers appear to have taken the recent political upheaval in their stride," noted EEF chief economist Lee Hopley, with the cheaper pound boosting British firms’ competitiveness abroad ‐ as experts predicted.
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Because the US is a nation that consumes, rather than saves. China's stuff is cheap because it's built by slave labor (their competitive advantage) and carries little/no tariffs. So we buy Chinese (or Vietnamese or Indonesian, whoever's cheapest) as fast as we can. Straight economics at work.
[Breitbart] With hurricane Irma expected to dump heavy rains and high winds on the U.S. Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp has ordered the Virgin Islands National Guard into active service and authorized them to seize privately-owned firearms and ammunition.
The order is worded so that they can seize firearms and ammunition as needed to carry out their duties.
A copy of the order was published by the Daily Caller. It announces that the Virgin Islands National Guard is called to active service for the purposes of "[maintaining] the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the Virgin Islands in the face of imminent danger or potential disaster from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irma."
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) began a massive assault in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, tonight, targeting the defenses of Faylaq Al-Rahman in Jobar’s Al-‘Arab Neighborhood.
Using a more than 15 surface-to-surface missiles, the Syrian Arab Army’s 42nd Brigade of the 4th Mechanized Division unleashed a powerful attack on Faylaq Al-Rahman’s positions, scoring several direct hits on the enemy’s trenches.
At this moment the Syrian Arab Army is still pounding Faylaq Al-Rahman’s trenches in the Al-‘Arab Neighborhood, as they prepare to launch ground assault in the coming hours.
If the Syrian Army can successfully take control of the Al-‘Arab District, they will likely force the Islamist rebels to sue for peace because the latter cannot survive in this suburb without it.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their offensives in the southeastern countryside of Damascus, targeting the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) last positions along the Jordanian-Damascus border.
Backed by Hashd Al-Sha’abi (Iraqi paramilitary), the Syrian Arab Army’s 5th Legion attacked garrisons 171 and 172 in southeastern Damascus this morning.
The Syrian Army units and their allies managed to overrun the Free Syrian Army’s defenses and impose full control over these garrisons, further expanding their presence along the Jordanian border.
With this latest advance, the Syrian Arab Army has inched closer to the imperative Tanf Border-Crossing, which is currently occupied by the U.S. military in the southeastern countryside of the Homs Governorate.
[AlMasdar] According to pro-opposition media, it appears that some forty (40) plus hard boy groups operating across Syria will merge to form a unified national army.
The commander-in-chief of this assortment of various Gulf-backed mercenary groups in Syria will be a zero-income heart surgeon by the name of Jawad Abo Hatab who runs the officially (self-declared) bankrupt Syrian Interim Government.
Dr. Hatab is both the president and defense minister for the so-called Syrian Interim Government. In his role as the defense minister, he is to now form a committee that selects a chief of staff for the new national opposition army.
Jawad Abo Hatab complained before opposition media about one month ago that the Syrian Interim Government had no money to pay its staff and that all those who worked with the anti-Damascus polity were considered volunteers.
Below is a statement, released on pro-rebel media, regarding the merging of forty different hard boy factions into a ’national army’ against the Assad government.
Images of two pages of Arabic writing with a terribly official looking eagle crest can be seen at the link. Possibly of interest to those who can read modern Arabic.
I seen dis movie.
The corpse found in cement overshoes in the waters off Brooklyn over the weekend has been identified as a member of a notorious local mob family, police said Tuesday. who buys cement overshoes in this day and age? Nice Bruno Maglis are comfortable AND stylish
The body of Carmine Carini, 35, was found Saturday near East 58th Street and Avenue U near his residence in Mill Basin ‐ with a cinderblock brick bound to his legs by an electrical cord and his body wrapped in a blue tarp and sealed with duct tape. "Natural causes" sez Quicy
"It was right out of ‘GoodFellas,' " a law-enforcement source said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a press conference Tuesday, "The victim was a reputed mobster's son. His father had the OC [organized crime] ties, not him. Right now, we're in an active investigation to see who was in his life at the time."
Carini died from blunt-force trauma to the head but had also been stabbed, police sources said. He was identified through fingerprints. Who leaves fingers any more? Kids nowadays
Carini's dad ‐ also named Carmine ‐ is an associate of the Colombo crime family, a police source said.
Carmine Sr. spent nearly a quarter-century behind bars for the 1983 killing of a Bay Ridge record-shop owner.
He was later freed in a plea deal after two mob turncoats revealed his cousin Vinnie was the actual killer ‐ only to wind up back behind bars a year later when he was busted posing as a cop to commit home-invasion robberies. "He was turning his life around"
Vinnie and another cousin, Enrico, later famously botched a hit on a former Mafia prosecutor and ended up paying the ultimate price.
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The body of Carmine Carini, 35, was found Saturday near East 58th Street and Avenue U near his residence in Mill Basin ‐ with a cinderblock brick bound to his legs by an electrical cord and his body wrapped in a blue tarp and sealed with duct tape.
It doesn't seem that one cinder block would offset the buoyancy that results from increasing internal gases. Just can't find good help these days.
[DAWN] Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Nafees Zakaria on Tuesday said that Pakistain is "seriously concerned" about the threat posed by terrorism and extremism in the South Asian region. Zakaria was speaking in reference to the BRICS' leaders summit document which named krazed killer groups allegedly based in Pakistain as a regional security concern. I'm not sure if this is "tu quoque" or scapegoating, but I know it's fallacious.
"Many terrorist groups based in the region ‐ including in Afghanistan ‐ such as the [banned] Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain and its associates like Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... (JuA) have been responsible for extreme acts of violence against Pak people," Zakaria said.
"We are deeply concerned at the presence of [banned] groups, like ISIS, East Turkestan Islamic Movement and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, in the ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan as they pose a threat to peace and security in the region."
Zakaria further said that Pakistain is concerned about the rise of bully boy ideologies and intolerance in the region, which have been "encouraging social stratification and systematic targeting of minorities".
Earlier on Tuesday, Defence Minister Khurram Dastagir refuted the BRICS nations' claim about the presence of krazed killer groups allegedly based in Pakistain.
While talking to the media after the Defence Cabinet Committee meeting, Dastagir said, "We have already said that there are no terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistain."
"Terrorist safe havens are found in Afghanistan; Pakistain does not fear any external aggression as its Army, Navy and Air Force are keeping a strict eye on the situation," he added.
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[Ynet] The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... mission in Mali says two peacekeepers have been killed and two others seriously injured when a convoy hit a mine in the northern Kidal region.
The mission says in a statement that the two injured peacekeepers were immediately evacuated Tuesday after their vehicles hit the explosives about 15 kilometers outside of Aguelhok.
A UN official says the peacekeepers were Chadian. The UN condemned the attack and others by Islamic turbans.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Sept. 5 that three Ottoman Turkish men’s right to a fair trial had been violated in 2003 and 2004, as the police unlawfully coerced them into confessing that they were "members of an illegal organization."
The court said the Ottoman Turkish police had accordingly violated Article Six of the European Convention on Human Rights regarding the cases of Bayram Koc, Ayhan Bozkaya and Mehmet Ali Turk, born in 1980, 1975 and 1972 respectively.
The three men complained to the ECHR about not having had access to a lawyer while being questioned by the police in 2003 and 2004, on suspicions, in particular, of membership in an illegal organization.
They all confessed, in the absence of a lawyer, to being members of an illegal organization and in the cases of Bozkaya and Turk, to having committed violent offenses in connection with their membership in these organizations.
During court hearings they later retracted parts of their confessions. All three applicants were convicted‐Koc, of membership in an armed organization, and both Bozkaya and Turk for the offense of, in particular, seeking to remove part of the national territory from the Ottoman Turkish state’s control‐and were given prison sentences. Their convictions were eventually upheld by the Court of Cassation in 2010, 2009 and 2006, respectively.
The three men later complained to the ECHR that their right to a fair trial was violated because their convictions were based on confessions obtained through unlawful coercion tactics in the absence of a lawyer.
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[DAWN] A spurt in attacks by 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... Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , double the figure of the previous five months, Amnesty said on Tuesday.
The increasing use of jacket wallahs ‐ often young women and girls forced to carry and detonate explosives in crowded areas ‐ has killed at least 381 civilians in the two countries, the rights group said in a statement.
"Boko Haram is once again committing war crimes on a huge scale, exemplified by the depravity of forcing maidens to carry explosives with the sole intention of killing as many people as they possibly can," said Alioune Tine, Amnesia Amnesty International's director for West and Central Africa.
"This wave of shocking Boko Haram violence, propelled by a sharp rise in suicide kabooms, highlights the urgent need for protection and assistance for millions of civilians... Governments in Nigeria, Cameroon and beyond must take swift action to protect them from this campaign of terror." Amnesty said at least 223 civilians died in Nigeria since April, underscoring that the real toll could be far higher.
"Between May and August, seven times more non-combatants were killed than in the preceding four months, while 100 non-combatants were killed in August alone," it said.
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[DAWN] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... said on Tuesday that a new $7.4 billion port would help to "break the shackles" of a three-month-old boycott of the gas-rich emirate by Arab states led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... The Hamad Port, which began operating in December, is a major hub for imports to Qatar, hit by a land and air embargo by some of its most powerful neighbours.
"This is a gateway to break the shackles imposed on Qatar," Qatari Transport Minister Jassim bin Saif al-Sulaiti said in a speech during an inauguration ceremony for the port held Tuesday. "Nothing can stop us and our ambition," he added.
In a relatively rare public appearance since the onset of the crisis, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attended the inauguration but did not speak.
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so now a naval embargo....
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This isn't the second or third time our beloved former president has vented his opinion to the world since retiring from the active life of politics, making the current emission merely tiresomely common.
[Iran Press TV] In a rare and lengthy statement following the end of his tenure, the first African American president described Trump’s move as "wrong," "self-defeating" and "cruel."
"To target these young people is wrong -- because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating -- because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel... It's a political decision, and a moral question," Obama wrote on Tuesday. "Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn't threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us."
His vice president, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... , has also reacted to the move by taking to Twitter.
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All previous presidents have had the class to refrain from criticizing their predecessors. Then there's this guy.
[Dhaka Tribune] The armed holy warriors in the Rakhine state, calling themselves the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), have called upon the Rohingya population to take up arms against the Myanmar army.
In an audio recording exclusively obtained by the Dhaka Tribune, Ata Ullah Abu Umar Al Junooni, leader of the murderous Moslem group, called for open war in Myanmar.
He asked the oppressed Rohingya people to join his insurgency to take the fight to the armed forces of Myanmar.
Ata Ullah asked the people to sacrifice their lives in accordance with the Koran in their struggle.
"If 300 people come from each village, 50 may die in the conflict, but the surviving 250 will win the fight for them."
The declaration comes in the wake of the rapidly escalating conflict in the Rakhine state. Thousands have fled to Bangladesh and hundreds are reported dead, including murderous Moslems, Rohingya civilians, and the Myanmar law enforcement agency members.
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[Al Jazeera] Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret 2.5 billion euro ($2.9bn) slush fund to pay off European politicians and launder money, according to an investigation by a group of European newspapers.
The fund operated for two years from 2012 to 2014 through bank accounts of four shell companies registered in Britannia, according to the investigation by papers including The Guardian and La Belle France's Le Monde and published on Tuesday by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Nicknamed the "Azerbaijan Laundromat", the origin of the fund is unclear "but there is ample evidence of its connection to the family of President Ilham Aliyev", the report said.
Authorities in the energy-rich country dismissed claims that the funds were linked to the first family and said the reports were "biased, unfounded and provocative".
"They are part of a campaign to smear Azerbaijan," presidential adviser Ali Hasanov told AFP news agency, pointing the finger at arch-foe Armenia and the "global Armenian lobby."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] It all started with a news report two weeks ago. A half-famous, minor jet-set TV personality called Murat Basoglu was "caught" by paparazzi in a boat off the Aegean coast cavorting with a woman who is not his wife.
It was later understood that the women in the boat was actually his niece, Burcu Basoglu Kabadayi, who is also married. She admitted that they had spent nights together with her uncle, after which her husband and the wife of Basoglu opened divorce cases demanding compensation. A prosecutor has also opened an investigation accusing them of "inappropriate behavior in public."
The scandal has triggered a debate on "incest" in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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I wonder if the spouses requesting the divorces are cousins to their spouses, and maybe cousins themselves. :-/
[DAWN] The son of a retired judge beat feet from police custody and died after jumping from the rooftop of a house in Morgah on Sunday night, police said.
The former justice of the Lahore High Court had filed a complaint with the Morgah police against his son Omer Khattab, 42, over a family dispute and asked the police to take him away.
In response to the complaint, the police picked Omer from his house on Sunday night. The police said while Omer was being taken to the Morgah cop shoppe in a police van, he jumped out of the vehicle and bravely ran away.
As the police started a chase, Omer entered a house and jumped onto the street from its rooftop and suffered fatal injuries. As seen on teevee and in on video games.
He was shifted to the Fauji Foundation Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! said the police.
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There’s a lot going on in the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Russia investigation that all the highfalutin’ newspapers that cover politics are still trying to ignore.
Well, investors had better know this stuff before it bites them in the assets. So here goes.
Numerous reports coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week said that former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer Clinton for prosecution long before he even interviewed key witnesses, including Hillary.
Remember, the Republicans now control this committee. So bad news isn’t going to be stifled anymore.
Clinton, you probably remember, "lost" her private emails, which she’d been storing on a personal computer server. Comey chastised her harshly in a televised speech but then said there was a unanimous decision not to recommend prosecution.
Clinton’s emails, which were stolen by the Russians, have never been found. But as I’ve mentioned numerous times, the messages are still in the possession of the National Security Agency (NSA), which offered to give them to the FBI.
Comey turned down that offer, according to a source who has been very reliable.
I’ve also mentioned that Comey fibbed when he said his agents unanimously agreed that prosecution was unnecessary. In fact, my source says that FBI agents were irate about the decision not to go after Clinton.
The controversy got pretty intense, which may be why Comey forced agents who worked on the Clinton matter to sign additional nondisclosure agreements.
There was another important development last week when a federal judge ordered the FBI to disclose more details about how it handled the Clinton investigation. That could put Comey in a hotter spot than he’s already in.
What’s this got to do with the investigation of Trump and any influence the Russians may have had over the last presidential election? Absolutely nothing.
But as I’ve said before, any investigation of Trump was likely to backfire when investigators started to look at the Democrats and their dealings.
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Yeah..."Clinton's e-mails....stolen by the Russians, have never been found"? Huh? It's not like a stolen car ended up in a chop shop, never to be recovered.
This whole story/narrative is simply absurd...and both sides are broke.
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The Liberal-Academic-Media complex (LAMe) and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) always overplay their hand. Why? Because they know they can get away with it; they've got each other's backs to make sure there are no real consequences to their misinformation, disinformation, and malfeasance.
Or at least that used to be the case. With the election of Trump, they got their first serious brushback. The people stood up and spoke up and sent a very clear message: we know what you're doing and we're not going to take it sitting down any longer.
The tragedy here-- or comedy, depending on your point of view-- is that LAMe is so blinded or infatuated with themselves and their "superiority"-- you could also call it hubris-- they are incapable of recognizing or acknowledging the folly of their ways. Which can only mean one thing: They are doomed to exacerbate or repeat it.
If the early polling in the 2018 senate race in Arizona is any indication, this is already happening. And so long as Trump remains Trump, I predict it will continue through the 2018 midterms and beyond.
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What I've never understood is an email goes from the sender, through at least one server, to the recipient. Even if you can't find the email in the recipient's email files there are probably copies (and backups) in the other two locations if anyone cares to actually look.
[KnoxNews] One of the most visible white nationalists at the recent Fort Sanders Confederate monument demonstration was, until until a few years ago, active in communist organizations, the Occupy movement and protests against racism.
Garon Archer, a native of Johnson City, was the protester on Aug. 26 who repeatedly screamed, "The Southern nation is a white nation."
He said he came to last Saturday’s demonstration to represent the League of the South, an Alabama-based white supremacist group that has said it considers mainstream U.S. culture "corrupt" and is rebelling against the "politically correct" and multicultural diversity in the South.
Two weeks earlier, Archer was visible in "Democracy Now!" footage of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Clad in a baseball helmet and holding a shield, he attacked a counter-protester. At a similar rally in New Orleans, he was recorded screaming racial slurs at a black woman. I didn't watch the videos, but if you click through to the article, they have videos of this guy in his various incarnations as white nationalist and Occupy Johnson City...
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I suppose we have white nationalists around East Tennessee but you don't usually hear much about them. I never heard of Garon Archer. He must not make too much noise. Johnson City is about 100 miles north of Knoxville. Many of these people seem to be confused and in search of identity and attention.
[AnNahar] Commandos armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers aim at a tank hundreds of metres away, fresh recruits to Afghanistan's most skilled fighting force -- an elite group whose growing strength, US generals say, worries the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... These new members of Afghanistan's Special Operations Command (SOC) will soon be on the frontline of the war that 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... has vowed "to win" by putting more American boots on the ground indefinitely.
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[Ynet] Muhammad Jalal Naji al-Sawiti, who has a senior position in the Paleostinian Preventive Security Service, writes 'We need Hitler' on a photo of the Nazi leader and calls to 'shed blood' for al-Aqsa in Facebook posts.
A member of the Paleostinian security forces was jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! last month on suspicion of incitement to violence against Jews and support for a hostile organization, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
Muhammad Jalal Naji al-Sawiti, a resident of Beit Awwa, holds a senior position in the office of the Paleostinian Preventive Security Service (PSS) head in Jenin.
He has been posting holy warrior content on his Facebook page recently, including a direct call to carry out acts of violence against Jews and words of praise, admiration and support for acts of terrorism.
Among other things, he posted a photo of the al-Aqsa Mosque with the call to "shed blood" for it. In addition, he posted photos of Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... , writing "We need Hitler," as well as a photo of Adolf Eichmann, noting he misses "people like him."
Al-Sawiti was indicted for incitement at the Judea Military Court on Monday.
[Ynet] IDF, police and Shin Bet forces shuttered a printer in Ramallah overnight Monday, which produces materials used for incitement to terrorism, the IDF Spokesman's Office said Tuesday morning.
In addition, the forces seized in Hebron tens of thousands of shekels from Hamas meant to fund terror activity.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return of Rohingya Moslems fleeing violence.
Bangladesh will on Wednesday formally lodge a protest against the laying of land mines so close to the border, said the sources who had direct knowledge of the situation but asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter.
An army crackdown triggered by an attack on August 25 by Rohingya holy warriors on Myanmar security forces has led to the killing of at least 400 people and the exodus of nearly 125,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh, leading to a major humanitarian crisis.
"They are putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence" between a series of border pillars, said one of the sources. Both sources said Bangladesh learned about the landmines mainly through photographic evidence and informers.
"Our forces have also seen three to four groups working near the barbed wire fence, putting something into the ground," one of the sources said. "We then confirmed with our informers that they were laying land mines."
The sources did not clarify if the groups were in uniform, but added that they were sure they were not Rohingya bad boys.
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And they will forget where the mines are in a year and in three years God himself won't know until he steps on one.
Mines are like that. Twenty years from now, those mines will still be there. "Most" of them will still be functional too.
The mines will last longer than the fence.
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Land mines are the gift that keeps on giving.
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Kinda like one of those welcome mats that say "Go Away".
[Al Jazeera] North Korea has threatened to send "more gift packages" to the United States, days after testing the biggest nuclear weapon it has ever detonated.
Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... in Geneva, addressed the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday after his country carried out its sixth nuclear test.
"I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force," Han told the Geneva forum.
"The recent self-defence measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the US," Han said.
"The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK," he added without elaborating.
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Meanwhile in Tokyo, ruling party heavyweight Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday on a TV show that Japan should review its policy of not allowing the U.S. to bring atomic weapons into its territory, according to Kyodo News. This would strengthen the deterrence provided by the alliance with the U.S. in the face of the North Korean threat, the lawmaker said.
Top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said that Japan was gathering information on North Korea’s electromagnetic pulse attack development.
Hours after detonating the device, North Korea’s state-run news agency called it a “thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.”
Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday that the explosion was 10 times more powerful than the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in the final days of World War II.
Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) Ten Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were wounded Tuesday in a roadside bomb blast west of Mosul, a senior commander was quoted saying.
Operations commander at the Peshmerga command in Sinjar mountains told Kurdish-run BasNews that ten soldiers sustained mild injuries when a bomb blast hit an area near Shaalan village, a place with a mostly Arab population.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the blast, but Islamic State militants have been behind hundreds of attacks against Peshmerga forces in Mosul and other provinces.
Peshmerga fighters have been actively involved in the Iraqi government’s campaign against Islamic State militants.
Iraqi government troops recaptured Mosul early July after more than eight months of fighting, marking an effective collapse of the self-styled “caliphate” declared by IS from the city in 2014. The group lost more than 25.000 of its militants in the Mosul campaign.
Iraqi troops gave encountered occasional attacks in Mosul after the city had been retaken. Taking Mosul back, the government troops, backed by paramilitary forces, later recaptured Tal Afar, west of Nineveh, late August.
The government is currently building up for an offensive to retake IS-held town of Hawija, Kirkuk. IS IS still holding more havens in Anbar and Salahuddin provinces.
[THEHILL] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned President Trump on Tuesday that only Congress can authorize a military strike on North Korea, as tensions with Pyongyang continue to escalate. You knew something like this was coming.
"The American Civil Liberties Union strongly urges you to uphold the Constitution, and the fundamental principle of separation of powers, by recognizing the sole authority of Congress to declare war ‐ and to refrain from the use of force against North Korea in the absence of explicit congressional authorization for the use of force," the group wrote in a letter to Trump on Tuesday.
"This drumbeat of threats over the past several weeks has raised concerns across the country about whether you will abide by the check on the president’s power that is fundamental to the Constitution’s separation of powers on war authority."
The letter cites a number of comments Trump has made over the past month about North Korea after the country test-fired intercontinental ballistic missiles and carried out its sixth nuclear test.
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Why don't you take that up with Congress run by the Uniparty which has funded wars for that same period. Which is why if you had any concept of the Constitution and it founders, they focused on keeping the standing army and navy small and backed off of alliances so that the Executive couldn't get involved in these things. That was all thrown out in 1948. You're late to the party. See - Thomas Jefferson vs Barbary Pirates, if you like precedent.
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Two points. 1. If we had to wait for Congress to do anything it might happen sometime towards the end of Trumps second term or never. 2. If there were a launch against the U.S., there would not be time to obtain a declaration of war against the Nork's. Are response would be required ASAP.
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Darth, technically we are in an armistice. Per Wiki: It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the Korean People's Army (KPA), and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army. It doesn't say why S Korea did not sign it.
Seems we were the first to abrogate the treaty by putting nukes in S.Korea in the 60's.
[Iran Press TV] Residents of Dayr al-Zawr erupted into the streets to celebrate their freedom on Tuesday, after the Syrian army advanced on the Brigade 137 base front on the western outskirts of the city, effectively breaching the siege that ISIS had laid since January 2015.
"We feel joy. We have been waiting for our heroic army for three years during a sick siege that we lived alongside our people in Deir al-Zor. Our confidence in our army, wide leadership and nation enabled us to know that this moment was inevitable because the people of Dayr al-Zawr are steadfast, they can bear anything for victory and we are confident that our people will be victorious. God willing, our people will come back and we can rebuild our country again after all Syrian lands are liberated," said a resident of the city.
Following the announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... offered his congratulations to Russian and Syrian armies over their large-scale victory against the terrorists.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Six persons were killed and injured in two blasts in north and west of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying.
“An IED exploded near a market in Khan Dhari in Abu Ghraib region, west of Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and four others wounded,” the source told Baghdad Today on Tuesday.
“Another bomb targeted an army patrol in al-Houra village in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, leaving one conscript injured,” the source said.
Ambulances transferred the wounded to hospital and the victim to forensic medicine department, the source said.
On Monday, six civilians were wounded as an IED blast occurred near a market in al-Dawanem region in southwestern Baghdad
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
A monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which excludes security members deaths, said 297 Iraqis, were killed and injured due to violence and armed conflicts during the month of ِAugust. Baghdad was the most affected province with 45 deaths and 135 injuries.
Baghdad has seen almost daily bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake IS-occupied areas in 2016. While most of of the explosions and attacks went without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State has claimed several incidents.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libyan security forces said on Tuesday that the bodies of 16 migrants colonists had been found in the desert near the country’s border with Egypt.
The bodies were found about 310 kilometers southwest of the coastal city of Tobruk, said Ahmed al-Mismari, front man for the Libyan National Army.
He said the area was still being searched and no more details were available about the migrants colonists’ identities.
In the past, patrols and rescuers have recovered the bodies of Egyptian migrants colonists who have perished after being stranded or abandoned by smugglers in Libya’s eastern desert.
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[DAWN] Philippine troops fighting IS-linked rebels in a southern city have encountered armed resistance from women and kiddies, the military said on Monday, as troops make a final push to end a conflict that has raged for more than 100 days.
Ground forces were braced for higher casualties amid fierce fighting in Marawi City on the island of Mindanao, where the field of battle has shrank to a small area in a commercial heart infested with snipers, and littered with booby traps.
"We are now in the final phase of our operations and we are expecting more intense and bloody fighting. We may suffer heavier casualties as the enemy becomes more desperate," Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, who heads the military in Western Mindanao, told news hounds.
He said the number of fighters was diminishing and a small number of women and kiddies, most likely family members of the rebels, were now engaged in combat. "Our troops in the field are seeing women and kiddies shooting at our troops so that’s why it seems they are not running out of fighters."
More than 800 people have been killed in the battle, most of them Lion of Islams, since May 23 when the Lions of Islam occupied large parts of the predominantly Moslem town.
The battle is the biggest security challenge in years for the mostly Catholic Philippines, even though it has a long history of Moslem separatist rebellion in Mindanao, an island of 22 million people that has been placed under martial law until the end of the year.
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[DAWN] The group that attacked Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... -Pakistain (MQM-P) leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan on Eid was also involved in recent attacks on police in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , according to a blurb issued by the Rangers on Tuesday.
The group which claimed the attack, the Ansar-ul-Shariah Pakistain (ASP), also carried out attacks on police personnel in Karachi's SITE, Bahadurabad, Azizabad, Northern Bypass and Gulistan-e-Jauhar areas, in which at least 7 coppers had been killed, read the handout issued after a high-level meeting at Rangers Headquarters.
All these incidents and the attack on the Sindh Assembly opposition leader on Eidul Azha were carried out by the same group, the handout said, adding that forensic testing of the weapons used in the attack had revealed a match with arms used in the previous attacks.
The meeting to review progress in the Izhar attack case was chaired by Director General (DG) Rangers Muhammad Saeed, and included Inspector General Sindh A.D. Khawaja and others.
Participants of the meeting were informed that Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui, a former Karachi University student, was the central leader of the ASP and had allegedly been involved in attacks on police and Izhar.
One of Izhar's suspected attackers was identified as Hassan bin Nazeer, a former student at NED and Sir Syed University, who had been working as a data lab technician at Daud University. Nazeer died on the way to the hospital after being caught and beaten by bystanders immediately after the attack on Izhar.
Others had expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, the meeting was informed, and efforts to capture all assailants were being made.
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[FoxNews] What happened?! Hillary Clinton obviously left off the question and exclamation marks from her book title, but no worries. If anyone has been confused about what happened last November, things were just cleared up by a simple meme on Twitter.
The photo shows a copy of Hillary's upcoming campaign memoir, "What Happened," next to another book – titled "I Happened." The second book cover shows a picture of a grinning President Donald Trump.
Simple, funny and most of all, true.
But if that answer isn't enough for Hillary supporters, they have a chance to have Hillary personally tell them a fairy tale, but only if they cough up $150 to nearly $2,400 for tickets and the privilege of seeing her in the flesh.
Hillary abandoned her supporters on election night, but hey, why go down to speak for free when you can wait until your book is finished and then charge everyone an arm and leg to hear your excuses for losing?
The promotional material for the book tour wants to make sure you know how much of a victim Hillary really is: "She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics."
The book tour promo material goes on to talk about the Russians. "She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces were that shaped the outcome."
Oh, so the Russians told Hillary to call half the electorate "deplorable" and "irredeemable?" Got it.
The truth is, in fact, boring and predictable. Hillary lost because of Hillary, including the conspiracy nonsense she peddles promoting "dangerous forces" as an excuse for her desperate inability to be honest and face reality.
During the election, Hillary took supporters – and the American people in general – for granted. And now she's taking them for a ride. Just ask Democrats in Wisconsin, a state she couldn't be bothered to visit during the campaign because, as the Borg know full well, resistance is futile.
Until it's not.
So don't fret Milwaukee! You are now on the list as Hillary is deigning to pay you a visit on the book tour. Yes, a year late, but she's confident in her contempt, and she's sure you'll pay her to lecture you.
On this day, as Houston is only really beginning to assess the damage of Hurricane Harvey, one wonders who could really use that $150 to nearly $2,400 that Hillary is pocketing for the pleasure of her company. People, their pets, and other animals who need rescuing from a hurricane's bacteria-laden flood waters? Families who need shelter and food to survive the aftermath? Or a twice-failed multimillionaire politician looking to cash in on her latest fiasco?
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At some point, Hillary, you've made enough money.
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It'd be like going to a carnival freak show. Ten cents is about all I'd pay and only if it was on my way to something else.
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Hillary has been the best thing to happen to Republicans in a long time. She scooped up hundreds of millions (maybe a billion) of leftist dollars for her campaigns in 08 and 16, ticked off the bernie faction and continues to embarrass the Dem party.
Yes it is annoying to read about her, but it has been a blessing to have her in politics.
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The Joint Command of Syria Allies issued a statement on Monday commenting on latest developments taking place on the Syrian battlefield, especially breaking the siege on Deir Ezzor.
The Joint Command Center- made up of Syria allies: Russia, Iran and Lebanese resistance forces- lashed out at the US-led coalition operating in Syria and Iraq, stressing that the delay in Deir Ezzor liberation was due to the international alliance’s conspiring against Syria.
“The deliberate strikes carried out by the coalition against the Syrian army, hindered the advance of the Syrian army and led to the expansion of ISIL Takfiri group and its control of Deir Ezzor.”
“Syrian people should know that the delay of victories (in Deir Ezzor) was because of US-led coalition direct and indirect support of Takfiri groups,” the statement added.
The command added meanwhile that colluding between the US-led coalition and the terrorist groups is proven with conclusive documents, noting that dozens of ISIL commanders and militants have been transferred throughout the past three months in a suspicious plot by the US-led coalition.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) lifted the 28 month long siege on the Deir Ezzor Governorate this afternoon, following a two month long battle with the so-called Islamic State (ISIL) in eastern Syria.
While this is no doubt a remarkable achievement for the Syrian Army, it is only a small glimpse into the battle that awaits them as they push deeper into the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
In particular, the next phase of the Syrian Arab Army’s offensive will concentrate on lifting the siege imposed by the Islamic State on the Deir Ezzor Military Airport.
Unlike the siege on the city, the Syrian Arab Army will not have the luxury of pushing through several kilometers of desert landscape to reach the provincial capital.
Instead, they will have to fight the Islamic State in the heavily fortified Thardeh Mountains that overlook the Deir Ezzor Airport from its western perimeter.
Liberating the Thardeh Mountains will be no easy task, given the large number of Islamic State terrorists that are present between this mountaintop and the Panorama area.
However, with air assistance from the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Syrian Arab Army should eventually break-through the Islamic State’s lines to retake the Thardeh Mountains.
The Thardeh Mountains were previously under the control of the Syrian Arab Army until October 2016, when the U.S. Coalition ‘accidentally’ bombed the latter, killing over 100 soldiers and forcing the remaining military personnel to withdraw to the airport.
[AlMasdar] Not long after lifting the siege on the Deir Ezzor Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shifted their attention south towards the strategic military airport.
Led by the Tiger Forces and elements of the 17th Division, the Syrian Arab Army kicked off the second phase of their Deir Ezzor offensive by pushing south of the 137th Brigade Base towards the Ayyash Storage area.
According to a military source in Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Arab Army is steadily advancing south towards the Ayyash Storage area, while also building an imperative buffer-zone around the 137th Brigade Base.
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[Ynet] For the first time since 2009, Arab family removed from Sheikh Jarrah home after long legal dispute; 'The owners allowed the Arab tenants to live on the property for five years without rent, but the tenants caused financial damages to the owners, so the eviction was inevitable,' says Arieh King, director of the Israel Land Fund that helped acquire the building.
Law enforcement authorities evicted an Arab family from its home in east Jerusalem early Tuesday after the property was purchased by Jews.
This is the first eviction of an Arab family from its home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood since 2009.
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[Breitbart] President Donald Trump signed emergency declarations in advance of Hurricane Irma for Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
On Tuesday, Hurricane Irma grew to a major Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 185 mph. President Trump’s declarations allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to respond as quickly as possible after the storm moves through the affected areas.
"Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide, at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency," the White House announced in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. "Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding."
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Hurricane Irma is moving to the west (280 degrees) at 15 mph. As of the 8 p.m. AST bulletin, officials reported the storm is located 85 miles east of Antigua. The barometric pressure continues to fall and is currently at 27.05 inches (916 mb).
The NHC reports:
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for...
* Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, and Nevis
* Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten
* Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy
* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra
* Dominican Republic from Cabo Engano to the northern border with
Haiti
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for...
* Guadeloupe
* Haiti from the northern border with the Dominican Republic to Le Mole St. Nicholas
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* Southeastern Bahamas
* Cuba from Matanzas province eastward to Guantanamo province
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Guadeloupe
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic from south of Cabo Engano westward to the
southern border with Haiti
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for...
* Haiti from south of Le Mole St. Nicholas to Port-Au-Prince
The storm is expected to impact the northern Leeward Islands late Tuesday night and move on to the Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Puerto Rico should experience the catastrophic winds of Hurricane Irma late Wednesday or Wednesday night. Forecasters call for the storm to move on to Cuba and begin a slow turn towards the southwestern tip of Florida on Sunday.
Emergency Management officials in Florida’s southernmost county issued mandatory evacuation orders in advance of the now-185 mph Hurricane Irma, Breitbart Texas reported. "You must evacuate, you cannot stay," officials warned.
"My wife is leaving the Keys today," Monroe County Emergency Management Director Martin Senterfitt said in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. "She would rather go to the dentist than sit in traffic. The sooner people leave the better. If ever there was a storm to take serious in the Keys, this is it."
[IsraelTimes] Initially suspected of being Islamist mole within spy agency, Roque M. now only faces charges of attempting to share state secrets
A German intelligence agent on Tuesday said he pretended to be a jihadist planning an attack in online chatrooms because he was bored, as he went on trial for attempted treason.
The 52-year-old suspect, named as Roque M., made headlines when he was nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! last November in what initially appeared to be a case of an Islamist mole at work in Germany’s domestic spy agency.
We had the story here. An interesting gentleman, who had a number of ingenious methods for coping with boredom.
But he was freed in July after prosecutors dropped most of the charges, finding no evidence of an attack plot or ties to Islamist groups.
"I never met with any Islamists. I would never do that. The whole thing was like a game," the suspect said at the start of his trial in the western city of Dusseldorf, according to DPA news agency.
A former banker and father of four, Roque M. told the court that he monitored the Islamist scene as part of his job for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), a role he described as "a lot of fun."
But he grew bored at the weekends when he was at home watching his disabled son, and immersed himself in the online world of Islamists, feigning to be one himself.
It was "an escape from reality," DPA quoted him as saying in court.
He even went so far as to arrange a meeting with a suspected Islamist at a gym, although Roque M. insisted he never had any intention of going.
In one of his online chats, he offered to help alleged Islamists gain access to his employer’s office in Cologne ...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there... "An attack on the headquarters would be in line with Allah’s will," he wrote, according to the indictment.
He was caught after he offered to share classified information about operations with someone who turned out to be a colleague working undercover.
The case initially sparked outrage, with Germany’s domestic spy agency fending off calls for a complete security overhaul for allowing an "Islamist" to infiltrate its team who had passed multiple screenings.
But as no evidence emerged of an actual Islamist plot, prosecutors left Roque M. facing the sole charge of attempting to share state secrets.
His trial is scheduled to run for five days.
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There was also suggestion that the father of four, who was born in Spain and raised in Germany, had a personality disorder. A senior official at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), where Roque. M. worked, told the Washington post that he may have been mentally ill, and perhaps even had multiple personalities.
which suggests the gentleman, suffering from a tad too many generations of close-cousin marriage, may be Moroccan. This would explain the French-looking name, the ability to read Arabic, and the four children.
[AnNahar] Israel has suspended granting work visas for new foreign charity workers arriving in the country, humanitarians say, in a move that could impede aid to Paleostinians.
Dozens of aid workers from major international NGOs have been unable to get work visas or faced delays in recent months, the humanitarians say.
Israel says the matter is procedural, but has not found a permanent solution to the issue in more than a year.
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[Ynet] La Belle France has decided to arm its surveillance drones in West Africa as part of counter-terrorism operations against Islamist murderous Moslems, Defense Minister Florence Parly said on Tuesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron has made fighting Islamist faceless myrmidons his primary foreign policy objective and the move to armed drones fits into a more aggressive policy at a time when it looks increasingly unlikely Gay Paree will be able to withdraw from the region in the medium to long-term.
La Belle France currently has five unarmed Reaper reconnaissance drones positioned in Niger's capital Niamey to support its 4,000-strong Barkhane counter-terrorism operation in Africa, and one in La Belle France.
[DW] Huseen K. has testified before the court, as his trial for murdering a student begins. He arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker despite having been previosuly tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... in Greece for almost killing a woman.
has admitted that he lied about his age when he arrived in Germany as a migrant in 2015, as his trial over the murder of student Maria L. opened in Freiburg on Tuesday.
Huseen K., to use his name as written in the German court papers, is suspected of raping and killing the 19-year-old medical student in Freiburg in October last year.
He told the court that he was 18 when he arrived in Germany, and not 16 as he initially claimed. He said he lied about his age because "when you're a minor, the situation in Germany is much better for you."
Huseen K. also disclosed other details of his identity that had until Tuesday remained unclear. The young migrant was born and raised in Afghanistan, but moved to Iran at age 13. After "problems with the police," he then fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , before moving on to Greece and finally Germany.
He told the court that his life in Germany had been marked by alcohol and drug abuse.
The young migrant is alleged to have drowned Maria L. by laying her unconscious body in the Dreisam river. He was arrested in December last year after DNA evidence and video footage near the scene linked him to the crime.
He is currently being tried as youth, although the court could move to convict him as an adult. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... adults between the age of 18 and 21 can still be tried as minors.
Germany's migrant policy under the microscope
The case sparked nationwide debate over Germany's migration policy. Huseen K. arrived in Germany during the height of the migrant crisis in the autumn of 2015, a year before he is alleged to have killed the young student. Arriving without documents, he was allowed to register as an unaccompanied minor.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... following his arrest in December in connection with the murder, it emerged that Huseen K. had previously been convicted in Greece for almost killing a woman by pushing her off a cliff. Despite being sentenced to 10 years, he was released after just over a year in order to make space in Greece's crowded prisons.
After he was released, he reportedly went underground and joined the wave of newly-arrived migrants colonists from the Middle East to sneak out of Greece and travel to Germany.
The revelations triggered a fresh wave of anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... 's decision to effectively tolerate the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees in 2015. Around 10 supporters for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party protested outside of the court room. Police said they had been made aware of the group's plans to protest beforehand, and that it did not turn violent.
Parts of trial to be conducted in private
At the beginning of trial opened Tuesday, the defendant's lawyer, Sebastian Glathe, told the judge that his client had "recently decided to address the allegations," albeit in a private testimony, away from the public. The move came as a surprise, as Huseen K. had refused to give any sort of statement during his 10 months in jug.
Despite protests from the prosecution and the victims' parents, the judge agreed that any statement Huseen K. made concerning his sexual history would be private.
Prosecutors have also been barred from asking the defendant on the incident in Greece.
An asylum seeker accused of raping and murdering an EU official's daughter attacked her to satisfy his 'sexual urges' before leaving her unconscious in a river to drown, a court heard.
Hussein claims to be Afghani but the court heard that there is evidence he is Iraqi. And his claim to be 17 at the time of the offence is disputed with a specialist saying he is at least 22.
According to Bild newspaper, during a morning session of hearings in which press and public were excluded he claimed to be 19.
Medical student Maria Ladenburger's father is a senior legal adviser to the European Commission in Brussels.
[Dhaka Tribune] 12:30pm- RAB spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan says operations have been suspended for the night, and will be resumed in the morning. He adds that RAB cannot yet confirm if the forces of Evil are deceased.
11:00pm- Sources say that the forces of Evil and their family members suspected to be in the hideout are presumed dead.
10:00pm‐ Sounds of gunfire still ongoing, building reportedly on fire.
9:47pm- Five kabooms heard, followed by sounds of gunfire from the bully boy den. Our correspondent Arifur Rahman Rabbi reports from the spot that RAB officials were caught unawares. Smoke is seen billowing from the Komol Prova building.
6:42pm‐ RAB spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan says Abdullah, the identified bully boy inside the Mirpur house informed the security agency that he along with his family and associates will surrender around 7:30pm to 8pm. Earlier, RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed confirmed the media that according to their estimation, a total of seven people, including Abdullah, two of his associates, his two wives and two children are currently holed up in the house.
6:17pm‐ Sources say that house owner Habibullah Bahar Azad is in RAB custody.
3:31pm- RAB Deputy Director Abdullah Al Mehedi tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We are continuously in contact with the bully boys. We are trying to convince them to surrender."
2:55pm- Law enforcers take position on the roads near the hideout.
12:57pm- Gulshan Ara, who stays on the third floor of the building, says: "We heard the sound of a blast around 1:30am. RAB officials evacuated us around 6am.
"I never had any interactions with the people living on the fourth floor."
12:10pm- Benazir Ahmed says: "A total of 65 people were evacuated from 23 flats of the building."
11:51am- RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed says: "A total of seven people, including bully boy Abdullah, two of his associates, his two wives and two children are hiding in the den.
"When contacted, Abdullah told us that he has over 50 IEDs with him."
He says: "Abdullah disguised himself as an electrician who also sold pigeons on the side."
Earlier in the day, RAB detained two suspected forces of Evil from Elenga area under Kalihati upazila of Tangail district. Based on the information given by the two suspected bully boys, the elite force is conducting the raid in Mirpur’s Komol Prova.
11:26am- RAB evacuates 65 people from the building ‐Komol Prova‐ located on Bordhon Bari Road in Darus Salam.
10:23am- Mufti says: "We were able to contact the forces of Evil inside the den. One of them identified himself as Abdullah.
"He sells pigeons and stays in the house with his family. We are not sure about the number of people inside it."
9:57am-Mufti Mahmud Khan tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We are suspecting that a top JMB bully boy is inside the den."
9:00am- RAB Deputy Director Abdullah Al Mehedi tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We have not yet begun the raid. We are trying to convince them to surrender."
8:30am- RAB evacuates the build and asks people living in the neighbourhood to stay inside their house.
8:00am- RAB urges the suspected forces of Evil to surrender.
7:30am- Mufti Mahmud Khan tells the Dhaka Tribune: "Militants have already hurled bombs targeting us from the fourth floor of the six-storey building."
7:00am- Mufti Mahmud Khan says: "Earlier we detained two forces of Evil from Tangail. They gave us information about this den."
6:30am- RAB front man Mufti Mahmud Khan confirms the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
1:30am- Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) cordons off a suspected bully boy hideout in Mirpur’s Darus Salam area in Dhaka.
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(Channeling Joe Friday):
"This is the city. I was working the night watch out of the local Upazilla.
My name is Khan. I carry a badge. And a big fricking stutter gun."
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It was a dark and drizzly night, but then again this isn't Chester.
Downtown had gotten word of the location of the headquarters of the local bad boys from one Prag the Weasel an infamous snitch.
Many years in various hellholes have given me an extra sense, I calls it me Spydy Sense.
HARK!
A Snider!
It only works against Dawna's, these were Burma.
That's it end of the line.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Splits are growing among foreign and local Islamic State members in Kirkuk over whether to surrender or stand up in face of Iraqi troops preparing to retake the group’s strongholds in the province.
A local source told Alsumaria News that commands of the Islamic State’s so-calld “Kirkuk State” and “Diyala State’, stationed in the town of Hawija, have put their fighters on alert anticipating violent twists as controversies exacerbate over whether to surrender or fight the upcoming battle.
According to the source, while foreign elements vote for fighting, local members largely back the surrender option.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command has recently declared the approach of operations to recapture IS strongholds in Kirkuk, most notably the town of Hawija which the militants held since 2014. Reports had told of reinforcements sent to the the town’s outskirts, but the exact date of the offensive is yet to be determined by the Iraqi command.
On Monday, Jabbar al-maamouri, a leader at the Popular Mobilization forces in Kirkuk, said IS militants families had begun evacuating their residences in Hawija.
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights predicts 85.000 civilians to flee the town as military offensives launch.
Iraqi forces had so far recaptured Islamic State’s former capital in Iraq, Mosul, in July, and also retook Tal Afar, the group’s last holdout in Nineveh province, a week ago.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has been working on arrangements in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, ahead of anticipated military operations to free the town, a local source said.
Speaking to Baghdad Today on Tuesday, the source said, “Hawija has 100,000 besieged civilians. The militant group could use them as human shields during the battle.”
The group, according to the source, “will depend on anything as well as logistic and military measures to protect itself. This means the group will use civilians for protection.”
The source urged the government to reconsider the civilians’ lives and provide them with safe passageways ahead of the battle.
On Monday, four IS leaders, including deputy chief in charge of the militants affairs, were reportedly killed by residents, who were prompted by millions of airdropped messages by Iraqi jets over the past few days in Hawija.
Hawija and other neighboring regions, west of Kirkuk, have been held by IS since mid-2014, when the group emerged to proclaim an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. The group executed dozens of civilians and security members there, forcing thousands to flee homes.
Earlier this week, further reinforcements from the Federal Police were sent from Baghdad to the town, as the military command declared last week, the end of operations in Tal Afar, the militants’ last haven west of Nineveh, and the approach of the launch of offensives for Hawija.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have begun using donkeys as a new method for movements and smuggling money from Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, to borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, a local source said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Tuesday, the source said, “IS militants in Hawija began using donkeys as method for movements to reach border regions that stretch out to Diyala and Salahuddin provinces including Hamreen mountains.
“Several militants and leaders carrying bags full of smuggled money infiltrated from Hawija to the other regions using donkeys,” the source added. “They took advantage of the donkeys’ ability to move across mountainous areas without making sounds like cars or motorbikes.”
“Available information shows that the leaders who sneaked from Hawija to borders between Diyala and Salahuddin with money in their possession over the past 48 hours exceed 12, using 11 donkeys,” the source added.
Rutba (IraqiNews.com) More than 1,000 displaced civilians have arrived from western regions in Anbar province to Rutba town, according to chief of the town.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, Sobhi al-Kubaisi said, “the local government in Rutba and security services received on Tuesday 1,200 civilians displaced from Annah, Rawa and Qaim towns in western Anbar.”
“Aid was provided to the displaced. Identities of the males and youths were checked to prevent infiltration of IS militants to safe regions in Ramadi and areas in its vicinity,” Kubaisi added.
Rutba is controlled by security troops, however, the town faces IS militants attacks every now and then that are being encountered by security. Tens of displaced civilians arrive daily from western regions to the town. Some have to pay for smugglers in order to flee IS militants.
Anbar’s western towns of Anah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them.
Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition regularly pound IS locations in the province.
In late July, a military source was quoted saying that Lt.Gen Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Nineveh Operations, ordered to besiege IS havens in western Anbar preparing to invade them.
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Islamic State militants have begun using donkeys as lovers a new method for movements and smuggling money from Hawija
Ya do what ya gotta do when you've left the Lil Missus (or two) behind with your spawn
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[Al Jazeera] [Al Jazeera] Brazilian police have searched the home of Carlos Arthur Nuzman, head of the country's Olympic committee, as part of a corruption probe into the 2016 Rio Games.
At least 70 officers - in liaison with French officials - on Tuesday also served two arrest warrants and conducted search and seizure operations in 11 sites across Rio, in an investigation into a suspected international vote-buying scheme to secure Rio de Janeiro's selection as the host of last year's Olympics.
Brazil's federal police and French officials, including well-known French anti-corruption judge, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, could be seen outside Nuzman's house in Rio's affluent seaside Leblon neighbourhood.
Nuzman himself was seen leaving by car as police exited his house carrying sacks of evidence.
In a statement, Brazilian police did not give names, but said they were probing "an international corruption scheme" aimed at "the buying of votes for the election of (Rio) by the International Olympic Committee as the venue for the 2016 Olympics."
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I like Brazilian people. Some of them are very much like Americans. I even thought about doing international business in some way in Brazil, but after closer scrutiny, I found two major problems:
1) Their government is very anti-business. You think the US Dems are bad, read the booklet provided by the Brazilian consulate to Americans considering doing business there. It is so pro-worker that there is almost no way to make money as a capitalist. The socialist party goes out of its way to take any profits.
2) To try to survive therefore, business people have to lie and hide a lot of their commercial activities from the government, which breeds corruption, which is getting to be the way to do things to keep a buck.
The rich who live in the high rises on the resort beaches such as Rio Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil got there not by just hard work, but by deceiving the "workers party" government in major ways.
Tikrit (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi paramilitary forces killed three suicide bombers before carrying out an attack in Salahuddin province, a media official was quoted saying on Tuesday.
Muhannad al-Ezzawi, media officer at al-Salam Corps said in a statement that the force, assisted by a number of civilians, killed three Islamic State suicide bombers late Monday before they could stage an attack against nightclubs in the town of Balad, 130 kilometers south of Tikrit, the province’s capital.
Fighters besieged the militants in the area, to which they responded with mortar firing, according to Ezzawi.
On Monday, al-Salam Corps said it foiled an attempt by IS to detonate electricity pylons in al-Ishaqi island in Salahuddin.
Al-Salam Coprs is the military wing of popular Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement.
Islamic State members have escalated their attacks against security forces and civilians inside Salahuddin and on the province’s borders with neighboring Diyala since Iraqi forces launched offensives to retake the group’s holdouts in Mosul in October 2016.
The group’s influence in Iraq is currently shrinking, with Iraqi government troops having recaptured Mosul, their former capital, Tal Afar, their last Nineveh stronghold and preparing to aim at other havens in Kirkuk, Anbar and Salahuddin.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Fifteen Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes between Salahuddin and Diyala provinces, a security source said on Tuesday.
“Army jets launched airstrikes on IS havens in al-Mayta and al-Boujumaa villages in Mutaibija,” the source told Baghdad Today.
The shelling, according to the source, “left four rest houses and five vehicles destroyed. More than fifteen members were killed.”
Iraqi jets carried out similar air raids targeting IS convoy and a rest house in Mutaibija, making these attacks the third in two days.
Occasional attacks have been witnessed in Mutaibija by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMUs, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014.
Pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, are still held by the militants which poses threats to the liberated regions. Iraqi troops are urged to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
It’s expected that the Iraqi government will head towards liberating other IS strongholds across Iraq, including in Salahuddin.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] No one underestimates what Kim Jong-Un says anymore. Almost everything he threatened of happened. The North Korean regime’s most recent move was the nuclear test which angered the US. A ballistic missile had also frightened Japan after it fell in its waters. North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-Un can destroy the neighboring city of Seoul in one day or kill a million or more Japanese people or fire a destructive nuclear head on an American base.
The world confronts a real nuclear threat for the first time since the Cold War. American 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... warned that all options are on the table ‐ which usually signifies threats to resort to military power. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... a war with this mad man will not be a walk in the park. The difference between Kim Jong-Un and other leaders who possess nuclear weapons is that he’s mad enough to commit any crime without blinking. He killed his paternal aunt’s husband then went to eat dinner at her house. He also assassinated the ministers of defense and education.
It’s because of him that Japan decided to end its policy of not attaining offensive weapons ‐ a policy that Japan has adopted since its defeat and surrender in World War II. The Japanese are finally convinced that the world is no longer safe and that they must bear the responsibility of protecting themselves.
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Washington has viewed North Korea as an enemy that has threatened its allies in that part of the world since the days of Kim II-sung. The US only settled with adopting a blockade policy against it. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... this policy did not prevent Pyongyang from developing its military capabilities which now threaten the US itself as well as the entire international community that is confused about how to confront Kim Jong-Un and whether it should confront him or please him. Submitting to the mad Korean leader’s demands will encourage other mad men across the world to adopt the same approach. For instance, there are similar leaders in Iran. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... a military confrontation may cost millions of lives.
The world is thus anticipating developments especially that Washington has excessively made threats and said that it will not allow Pyongyang to possess nuclear weapons. The latter though has carried out six nuclear tests and developed its capabilities to transfer its nuclear weapons. It proved this in the test which flew beyond Japan, and it’s saying it’s about to finish developing a nuclear bomb.
We cannot separate North Korea’s crisis from the problem of dealing with our neighbor Iran which has good relations, including military and nuclear cooperation, with Kim Jong-Un’s regime.
The Iranian command aspires to be in a situation similar to North Korea’s. It aspires to be capable of developing its nuclear offensive capabilities in order to solidify its power inside Iran and subjugate the region. Iran expanded and it cannot continue to do so without a nuclear weapon that strengthens its gains. The verbal confrontation between Trump and Kim Jong-Un without decisively ending the problem may cause a bigger rebellion in which countries like Iran, and that are not possible to deter or besiege, are involved.
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We can thank Bill Clinton for North Korea and we can thank the empty suit for Iran.
Classic examples of naïve diplomacy or diplomacy at any cost, willing to believe a bad agreement beats no agreement at all or that enabling the enemy will have no consequences if they sign a treaty.
[DAWN] Police claimed to have killed four faceless myrmidons linked with the bad boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS) here on Monday afternoon. One of them was allegedly involved in an liquidation attempt on Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... and other terrorist attacks in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... The alleged encounter took place in an under-construction housing scheme off Superhighway, according to the officials.
Malir Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar Ahmed Khan told Dawn that police had received information from an intelligence agency about the presence in the area of some faceless myrmidons previously belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) and now associated with IS. They were planning a major terrorist attack in the Quaidabad area after Eidul Azha, he said.
When Malir police raided an under-construction house in Scheme-33, the suspects opened fire on them and tried to flee. A heavy exchange of fire took place in which all the four suspects were killed on the spot.
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[DAWN] Four Pak universities have made it to the 14th annual edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings this year. That's where they teach 'em all that logic stuff.
The rankings reflect a decline from last year's list, which included seven Pak institutes among the top 1,000 in the world.
Of the four, only Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) is among the top 500 universities. The shift into the 401-500 cohort for QAU is an improvement from its position in the 601-800 band in last year's rankings.
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Hurricane Harvey has decimated the Gulf Coast, but the incredible tragedy has at least set the scene for some amazing moments.
Like this, the greatest image of any cat ever taken.
Look at this badass cat. Floods have decimated whole neighborhoods, including this kitty’s hunting grounds. Surrounded by water, there’s no way for Action Garfield to get things done without dealing with that cruel mistress of the briny deep. And so, Rambopuss grits his teeth, sets his ears back, and gets to work.
Seriously, cats are the thing I am the most allergic to in this world, but if this cat walked into my house I’d expect him to look me dead in the eye and say, “Deal with it. I swam through a hurricane and I am twice the man you are.”
[Dhaka Tribune] Myanmar newspapers have only sporadically referred to the forced displacement of the Rohingya. On the occasions they do, they are usually from international news agencies like Reuters or AFP
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HOUSTON (AP) ‐ The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey
A report released two decades ago about the Harris County reservoir system predicted with alarming accuracy the catastrophic flooding that would besiege the Houston area if changes weren’t made in the face of rapid development.
The report released in 1996 by engineers with the Harris County Flood Control District says the Addicks and Barker reservoirs were adequate when built in the 1940s.
But it notes that as entire neighborhoods sprouted over the years around the reservoirs in western Harris County, as many as 25,000 homes and businesses at the time were exposed to the kind of flooding Harvey has now brought.
Engineers proposed in the report, obtained by The Dallas Morning News , a $400 million solution that involved building a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel.
Arthur Storey, who in 1996 was director of the flood control district, says he’s embarrassed that he "was not smart enough, bold enough to fight the system" and implement an action plan to prevent the damages of Harvey from occurring.
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"a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel"
Hoho haha. You'd have an elevation drop of what, maybe 10 or 12 feet? Plus the Galveston Bay Foundation sued to stop plans that require large flood discharges into the ship channel, because it negatively impacts the estuary.
I say we need more crawfish holes. Did you ever put a water hose down a crawfish hole? You're putting water right back into the water table. Nature's own drains.
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[DailyMail] During a visit to Britain earlier this year, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — was given a hero’s welcome. After being met by the Queen and Prince William at Buckingham Palace, she travelled to the Guildhall to be given the Freedom of the City of London.
And in so many ways, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 in recognition of her lifelong battle for freedom, deserves all the acclaim.
SNIP
Her government is complicit in the military-led persecution of Myanmar’s minority Muslim population (the country’s dominant religion is Buddhism) which is as ugly as anything carried out during the days of junta rule.
Huge numbers of Muslims have been subject to a systematic programme of rape, murder, starvation and intimidation that began last autumn.
Over the past several months, more than 120,000 have been driven from their homes following a campaign of violence. Hundreds have been killed, with one human rights charity publishing chilling eyewitness accounts of people being beheaded or even burned alive in bamboo cages by security services.
There are many reported cases of gang-rape, normally carried out by soldiers from the country’s powerful, self-ruling army in their easily recognisable green uniforms.
At least 70,000 have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh (where, sadly, they are treated almost as abominably).
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The Burmese aren't rich enough to play the globalist Kumbaya game. So, how about focusing on the Syrian Christians et al and how they as a minority were treated by ISIL? Where were you? Welcome to 4000 years of human history. The beautiful rainbow meets reality, particularly when you don't have the riches to blind yourself or buy indulgences or pay Danegeld.
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It's more ethnic than religious. It's common to see muslims go about their business in Myanmar. You can tell they are muslim by their distinctive dress.
But the media wants to dress it up as muslim persecution.
Qaim (IraqiNews.com) An airstrike killed a senior Islamic State leader and seven of his escort in western Anbar on Tuesday, a military source said.
The source told Alghad Press that U.S.-led coalitio warplanes bombarded the house of Hilal Ismail al-Salmani in the town of al-Qaim, killing him and seven of his companions.
The source told the website that Salmani’s residence had been a major Islamic State headquarter in al-Jazeera region.
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”. So far, there has not been a wide-scale campaign to retake those regions, but occasional offensives by government forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces have managed to take over several surrounding villages.
The Iraqi government declared victory over Islamic State in Mosul, the group’s former capital in Iraq, in July, and said it was going to proceed towards other group holdouts, including Anbar. Government troops are currently preparing to expel the group from Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.
Late July, Iraqi army warplanes reportedly dropped millions of messages on western Anbar telling locals that liberation offensives for the province were nearing, and advising them to stay away from militants’ deployments.
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[Rooters] Commercial ventures planned between Russia and North Korea three years ago are not being implemented because of Pyongyang’s missile testing program, the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, Alexander Galushka, said.
Russia has been under international scrutiny over North Korea because it has taken a more doveish approach to Pyongyang than Washington, and Russian trade with North Korea increased sharply at the start of this year.
The United States government earlier this month imposed new North Korea-related sanctions that targeted Russian firms and individuals for, it alleged, supporting Pyongyang’s weapons programs and providing oil.
However Galushka, in an interview with Reuters, said Moscow was faithfully implementing the international sanctions regime on North Korea, and held up the stalled bilateral projects as an indication that Pyongyang was paying an economic price for its weapons program.
“Russia has not violated, does not violate and will not work outside the framework (of the resolution) that was accepted by the U.N. Security Council,” said Galushka, who also heads a Russia-North Korean Intergovernmental Commission.
Russian businesses discussed a number of projects with North Korea in 2014. But then North Korea conducted military tests, including some involving nuclear weapons, and the projects became difficult to implement, Galushka said.
One such project, called “Pobeda”, or “Victory,” would have involved Russian investments and supplies that could be exchanged for access to Korean natural resources.
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Vlad just doesn't feel the investment is worth it to save a Chinese puppet state... Sanctions, We don't worry about no steenking sanctions!--Vlad (paraphrasing the old movie line)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... said the country's Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias feared a "coup" but that there were no longer any tensions with them, despite strains in the past fortnight.
"There is no crisis and conflict at the moment," the 75-year-old strongman said late Monday in an interview on al-Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... al-Yom television, which his party controls.
On August 24, hundreds of thousands put on a show of force for Saleh at a rally marking the 35th anniversary of his Arab nationalist General People's Congress (GPC) party.
"There were fears and suspicions that the rally would be a coup" against the Iran-backed Huthis, and "this is what their leaders told us," said the former president.
Saleh said Houthi leaders told him there had been "an operation" against them and a GPC plot to "take control of state institutions".
In response, Saleh said he had sent two letters to Abdel Malek al-Houthi, head of the militia group, to reassure him.
"I asked him not to believe the suspicions, and he reacted positively," he added.
Cracks emerged in the alliance between Saleh and Houthis after the two publicly accused each other of treason and back-stabbing.
In an unprecedented outbreak of violence between the allies on August 26, a colonel loyal to Saleh and two militias were killed.
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"Trust me"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
[Miami Herald] Miami native Lissette Diaz is frantically trying to fly her family out from South Florida in case Hurricane Irma hits. But it may cost her thousands of dollars.
[Right Wing News] We all know John McCain is a Democrat in a Republican hat, but the more he opens his unimaginably moronic pie hole, the more people want to punch him in his Mr. Potato Head-looking face.
[Cleveland.com] NEW CARLISLE, Ohio -- A newspaper photographer was shot by a deputy Sunday night after the deputy mistook the man's camera for a weapon, reports say.
[Victory Girls] When did we become a nation of perpetually offended? It seems barely a week goes by without someone claiming a new form of micro-aggression. I can usually laugh it off. After all, if I don’t, I’ll become macro-aggressed and that’s not a good thing. Unfortunately, this morning I saw an article on The Daily Caller that not only had me shaking my head but wondering what in the world they are teaching in schools today. It seems two professors claim to have discovered a new form of micro-aggression. Nothing surprising there. Their sample base to support this so-called discovery is. They interviewed ‐ wait for it ‐ 13 non-white women at five different campuses and from this small group discovered "invisibility microaggressions", of which there are five different forms. My first reaction was to wonder if a microaggression from this small a group was a micro-microaggression. Then I wondered if it was all a joke. But no. There is a professional paper written about it. C’mon, give me a break.
[American Thinker] The DACA program being terminated by AG Sessions was a Federal program started by President Obama. The program was promoted as an administrative strategy to provide eligible youth relief from deportation. Since the entire issue has been clouded with political rhetoric it’s important to look at its legal and constitutional status.
Joe 
North Korea
[THEHILL] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warned President Trump on Tuesday that only Congress can authorize a military strike on 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] Philippine troops fighting IS-linked rebels in a southern city have encountered armed resistance from 
[FoxNews] What happened?! Hillary Clinton obviously left off the question and exclamation marks from her book title, but no worries. If anyone has been confused about what happened last November, things were just cleared up by a simple meme on Twitter.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump signed emergency declarations in advance of Hurricane Irma for Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
[DW] Huseen K. has testified before the court, as his trial for murdering a student begins. He arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker despite having been previosuly 
North Korea
[DAWN] Police claimed to have killed four 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen's ousted president 
