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So what does the GOP establishment do in 2018 when it comes before us dirty, nasty normals and tries to make the case that its members deserve being reelected to Congress instead of being tarred and feathered? After seven years of solemn assurances, it couldn’t even get its act together and keep its promise to put a stake through the heart of the abomination that is Obamacare. But hey ‐ when Donald Trump kept his promise to undo DACA, that sure spurred the True Conservatives to action. The deductibles my employees pay just went up two grand a year because if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor or something, yet that sort of real world pain for real world people doesn’t spur our righteous Conservative, Inc., stalwarts to action. But threaten to actually enforce a law Congress passed and cut the monocle-and-top-hat set off from cheap foreign serfs who will vote hard left if given the chance? Now that’s an emergency. All hands on deck!
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I think the word "cuckservative" is more appropriate here.
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Not truly conservative by any srtetch of the imagination - McConnell and his beltway cronies have trashed every conservative effort to replace those squishes, starting back with Thad Cochran, and continuing thru today with the jackass crony Strange getting all the wieght those fakers can throw against first Mo Brooks, and now Judge Moore. Same thing going on in Arizona for Flake.
As long as people like McConnel, Cronyn, Ryan, etc are "leadership", the GOP will not act at all, because they want a big government that they control, not one thats smaller and answerable to anyone other than them and their cronies (Including Schumer and pelosi in the cronies)
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grom, we have third parties. They don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting anybody elected but they serve one purpose. You can cast your vote for them as a protest against the two main parties. Mostly it's a symbolic gesture but if you have a Dem against a RINO in a really tight race in a conservative district the RINO might be able to see where he went wrong if there are enough votes cast for third parties. Might even smarten him up a bit. Like when Carly Fiorina ran against Barbara Boxer. No way in hell was I gonna vote for Fiorina but Boxer was obviously out of the question too. So I voted third party. Don't think Fiorina got the message though because two years later she was running for president. She might have been CEO of Hewlett-Packard but I never accused her of being smart.
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Vote the Third Party, unless this would give the seat to the "wrong" party (contested district).
C-SPAN program pollster/operatives seminar: 25% will always vote for Party A and 25% will always vote for Party B. The battleground is getting 51%+ of the Undecided and if you stay at home and never vote Nobody Cares What You Think! So a Third Party Vote is important because it adds another person to the target group that they have to win over.
[AP] ‐ Police say three employees of a Cleveland Taco Bell opened fire on two armed robbers, killing one.
Police have said two masked robbers entered the restaurant early Wednesday and ordered three employees to lie on the floor. Police say three other employees pulled out handguns and opened fire, shooting one of the suspects six times. The other suspect ran off.
The Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday said the man killed was 24-year-old De’Carlo Jackson.
Investigators say Jackson was found with a loaded gun in his hand. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. No one has been arrested. The employees who opened fire are said to be two 19-year-old men and a 23-year-old man.
A Taco Bell spokeswoman told Cleveland.com the company is "shocked" by the shooting and is offering counseling to employees.
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#9 According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio. Those two 19 yr olds might be in trouble.
It's better to be tried by twelve than carried by six...
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According to Google, you have to be 21 to buy a gun in Ohio.
..but you can enlist and within a year have firepower in your hand that dwarfs anything you can buy at the local gun store. N.B. If they're 18, according to Title 10 USC, they're already members of the federal militia.
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...The "horror" would set in as thousands were killed or wounded. In some estimates, North Korea would inflict 20,000 casualties a day just in Seoul during for the first few days. The herculean effort to limit collateral damage witnessed in our Middle Eastern wars will be impossible to repeat. We will operate within the laws of armed conflict, but significant loss of innocent life would be unavoidable due to the locations North Korea chooses to base or hide its weapons.
We will use cluster weapons that spread bomblets over areas the size of football fields. We will return artillery fire wherever enemy batteries are firing. When optimum for military conditions, we will hit targets in the middle of urban areas; it would be impossible to prevent civilian casualties. To fight effectively, we will have to bomb command facilities in the heart of neighborhoods. We will destroy missiles on mobile launchers even if they are placed in sensitive areas. Our ground forces will pour fire into the enemy without an excessive regard for damage. And, yes, we will bomb targets more widely than in recent decades. In short, a real war - not a f*cking PC exercise. However, far as I'm concerned,
UN observers are welcome to stay in Seoul's best hotels.
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Story is, 7th fleet is so overloaded with forward deployment that they can't keep up with standards. The paperhangers know what they have to pencil whip through so that they can get get a good review and get out of there. But there are still only 24 hours in a day.
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[Townhall] Dennis Rodman offered to "straighten things out" between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the United States as tensions mount over the rogue regime’s nuclear tests.
Rodman, who has gone to North Korea several times as a sports ambassador and spent a lot of time with Kim Jong Un, told a British television show he might be able to help.
"For me to go over there and see (Kim) as much as I have, I basically hang out with him all the time. We laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together. We ride horses, we hang out, we go skiing, we hardly ever talk politics and that’s the good thing," Rodman said, Reuters reports.
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It's the least he can do since Pudgy's been providing North Korean girls to work out Rodman's kinks for years.
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Maybe Rodman ought to go back in the archives of the Telegraph and see what Kim Jong Un thought of Obama back in December, 2014. Kim appears to be a racist. Telegraph.
[Guardian] India’s army chief said on Wednesday the country should be prepared for a potential two-front war given China is flexing its muscles and there is little hope for reconciliation with Pakistan.
General Bipin Rawat referred to a recent 10-week standoff with the Chinese army in the Himalayas that ended last week. He said the situation could gradually snowball into a larger conflict on India’s northern border. Rawat said Pakistan on the western front could take advantage of such a situation.
The Press Trust of India news agency quoted Rawat’s remarks at a seminar organised by the Center for Land Warfare Studies, a thinktank in New Delhi.
India fought a war with China in 1962 and three wars with Pakistan, two of them over control of Kashmir, since securing independence from Britain in 1947. All three countries are nuclear powers.
Rawat said credible deterrence did not take away the threat of war. "Nuclear weapons are weapons of deterrence. Yes, they are. But to say that they can deter war or they will not allow nations to go to war, in our context that may also not be true," the news agency quoted him as saying.
India last week agreed to pull troops from the disputed Doklam plateau high in the Himalayas, where Chinese troops had started building a road. The 10-week standoff was the two nations’ most protracted in decades, and added to their longstanding strategic rivalry.
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I would have thought this was obvious as Pakistan is somewhat of a client of the Chinese. At the very least if war developed India could expect buzzing and distractions upon one of the borders (along with probably cyber attacks). At the worst full on two front war. Luckily those mountains really are nearly impassable for a modern army.
Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful solar flares ‐ the second was the most powerful in more than a decade.
At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare ‐ the most powerful sun-storm category ‐ blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface. That flare was the strongest since 2015, at X2.2, but it was dwarfed just 3 hours later, at 8:02 a.m. EDT (1202 GMT), by an X9.3 flare, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0).
According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-frequency radio experienced a "wide area of blackouts, loss of contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth," and low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded for an hour.
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[Reuters] Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Thursday it plans to open another headquarters in North America and spend more than $5 billion for its construction and operation.
The e-commerce company, currently based in Seattle, said it was yet to zero in on a location, but expects to expand the new headquarters to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.
Amazon said it was seeking proposals from local and state government leaders for the new headquarters.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) had reportedly spent about $5 billion on its spaceship-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Amazon said its new headquarters should ideally be located in a metropolitan area with more than one million people and one that can attract and retain technical talent.
The company’s Seattle headquarters is spread across 8.1 million square feet in 33 buildings and employs more than 40,000 people.
Amazon expects the new headquarters to be a "full equal" to its Seattle office, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement.
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Amazon said its new headquarters should ideally be located in a metropolitan area with more than one million people and one that can attract and retain technical talent.
Don't worry, the psychotic bums in San Francisco are transportable, they can be taken anywhere you need the sidewalks shit upon to make the finicky techies seem at home.
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Sell-SELL- SELL! Several years ago I read a stock market analyst that opined that "Whenever a large corporation builds a fancy new headquarters to glorify themselves then Upper Management has lost track of their core interest -- making more money. Sell. The. Stock."
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I think, you miss the point here, magpie. And the point is to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs. Methinks, Amazon have heard the cries against the Big Three.
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... but expects to expand the new headquarters to include up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.
One of the Major Logistics hubs for the US Air Force is Tinker Air Force Base, OKC, OK has...more than 26,000 military and civilian employees and is the largest single-site employer in the state of Oklahoma. The installation covers approx. 9 square miles (23 km2) and has 760 buildings with a building floor space of over 15,200,000 square feet (1,410,000 m2).
So, *hmmmm*, that's kinda really impressive -- assuming Amazon doesn't bite off more than it can chew.
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This is a headquarters, not a distribution center. I'm thinking they're looking for a reliable leftist work force, and a different internet trunk line to cover outages. Different power interconnect.
And move outside of Kimmie's range footprint.
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#9 This is a headquarters, not a distribution center. --ed in texas
Why would you need 50,000 people for a Headquarters in the 21st Century?
BEIRUT (AP) ‐ Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria early Thursday, killing two soldiers and causing material damage, the Syrian army said.
The airstrike targeted a facility near the town of Masyaf that some said was tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program, in a stronghold of President Bashar Assad that is also heavily protected by the Russians.
In a statement, the Syrian army said the Israeli warplanes fired several missiles while in Lebanese air space, and warned of the "dangerous repercussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the region."
There was no immediate comment from Israel, which has rarely confirmed or commented on such strikes.
While largely staying out of the Syrian civil war, Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes against suspected arms shipments believed to be bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which is fighting alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces. Israel has also struck several Syrian military facilities since the conflict began, mostly near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Assad, not wanting to draw Israel into his country’s war, has never responded.
[ABC] NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - A fight broke out Tuesday night at a Home Depot store in North Miami as customers sparred about plywood during Hurricane Irma preparations.
There were long lines and limited materials at the store as South Florida residents scrambled to stock up on hurricane supplies.
Local 10 News was there as tensions boiled over between two customers.
"He just hit me," Joshua Shempko told a Home Depot employee, pointing to another customer near the exit.
Shempko said the man hit him during a dispute about plywood.
h/t Instapundit
A panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in a split decision, stayed the district court’s granting a permanent injunction against enforcement of certain sections of the Texas Voter ID law. Those protesting the law, claimed it was unconstitutional because it would prevent, or at least deter, voters without a "valid form of ID" from voting. The Fifth Circuit, in a surprising turn, not only applied the law to the issue before it but they also applied common sense.
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They blame it on everything. My favorite is "They can't afford to go into town to get an ID." But they can afford to go into town to set up welfare benefits, etc..
The Syrian army warned Israel of "serious consequences" Thursday after officially confirming media reports claiming Israeli fighter jets carried out a strike on targets on the state’s Scientific Studies and Research Center (CERS) near the city of Hama, which is responsible for research and development of nuclear, biological, chemical and missile technology and weapons. Don't drink your own ink,
Bashar.
[Townhall] Dr. Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia Univeristy professor and former senior CIA analyst on North Korea, said that Pyongyang will never give up its nuclear weapons. Their aim, she said, is to be able to strike anywhere in the United States with a nuclear weapon.
"What they said is they are going to complete their nuclear program. Perfect their nuclear arsenal," she said Sunday on Fox News. "They are not going to stop until they get there, get to the point where they can attack anywhere in the United States with a nuclear test. They are not going to give up nuclear weapons. Talking is fine but we have to be realistic. They are not going to give up nuclear weapons ever."
Terry’s assessment comes after the rogue regime claims to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb Sunday that could be mounted to an intercontinental ballistic missile. The test triggered an initial magnitude 6.3 earthquake, and nuclear weapons experts estimated the weapon was up to seven times more powerful than the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
[American Thinker] CNN has dismantled its vaunted Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians investigative unit in a wretched concession to reality. The only thing the unit found was an empty well for stories, surrounded by a crust of fake news. The whole caper damaged the network's credibility, and the public just wasn't buying it anymore. So the whole unit had to go.
What a shabby end to what the network had put so much stock in in the heady days of trying to oust President Trump just as he had taken office.
The New York Times attributes the unit's sorry end to confusion in the fact-checking process ‐ which is baloney for anyone who has ever worked in a newsroom ‐ claiming that on one bad story, a lawyer's concerns were ignored. That's not the way it works in most newsrooms ‐ normally, the lawyer has the loudest voice about what goes to press, given the potential for lawsuits, much to the resentment of the reporters. Well, the CNN editors ignored it and paid for it with their jobs when it came back to bite them.
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They ware waiting for the opportunity. So far the Hurricanes have shown Trump in a positive light (compared to his predecessors) but something will come along and they'll all pile on.
[Wash Examiner] A former House Democrat tech staffer who fled the country to Pakistan while under criminal investigation has struck a deal with federal officials to return to the U.S. and appear at an arraignment, according to court documents.
Hina Alvi is the wife of Imran Awan, and both face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. Both worked for Democrats for several years, and Awan worked directly for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., when she was chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
A document filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia indicates that federal prosecutors have struck a deal with Alvi that would allow her to return to the U.S., but would also require her to surrender her passport and afterwards not book any international travel. The deal only surrounds how Alvi will turn herself in, and is structured so that she can avoid being arrested in front of her children when she returns to the U.S., "during the last week of September 2017."
Alvi, and Awan in particular, are the focus of investigations by the FBI and Capitol Police regarding irregularities for purchases of some computers and other equipment which was later discovered to be missing. The pair, and their associates, could have had access to sensitive government information over the years.
In July, the Daily Caller reported that the FBI seized smashed hard drives from Awan's home.
Despite the computer-related interests, Awan and Alvi are facing charges in which federal officials claim that they used false information to obtain home equity lines of credit, and intended to send the money overseas.
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She will be necessary in the construction of the 'home equity loan' case. The fact that these people had placement and access to high level, national election data or U.S. Intelligence (USI) communications is conveniently not mentioned.
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The implication is he deliberately left the DWS laptop and incriminating material where it would be found. And he didn't expect to be arrested leaving the country.
Which makes me think he was instructed to by his paymaster. I don't believe they have examined the laptop yet.
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Which makes me think he was instructed to by his paymaster. I don't believe they have examined the laptop yet.
But which 'paymaster'... theirs, ours, or both ?
Sound tradecraft would be using multiple laptops and accounts depending upon whom you are communicating with. I would offer the excellent work of Platte River Networks as an example.
OJ will discover the "real killers" before we see ANY such laptops. Just my hunch.
[CNN] (CNN)Florida Gov. Rick Scott says to expect more evacuations across the state ahead of Hurricane Irma, the powerful Category 5 storm plowing through the Caribbean.
"If you're told to evacuate, get out quickly," Scott said Wednesday. "We can expect additional evacuations as this storm continues to come near our state."
Based on Irma's projected path, which includes Florida's heavily populated eastern coast, the enormous storm could create one of the largest mass evacuations in US history, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties combined have about 6 million people.
Monroe County, home to the Florida Keys, has already ordered mandatory evacuations. Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, issued a mandatory evacuation Wednesday for areas east of Federal Highway.
Other eastern Florida population centers could also see similar evacuations soon, depending on the path of the hurricane, which is expected to near Miami on Sunday.
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Locking things down at the nuke plant I work at.
Navy nuke school in Charleston, SC, is shutting down and wants everyone out by Saturday. Will be picking up our son from there, and two of his classmates. Will have to go in on I-95, so things are going to be a bit hairy.
[The Hill] Hillary Clinton believes that it "was a mistake" for her to not go after FBI Director James Comey during the 2016 election, according to a newly released excerpt from her upcoming book "What Happened."
Clinton wrote that she wanted to "hit back hard" at Comey for calling her "extremely careless" for using a private email server as Secretary of State but that her campaign advised her against it, according to excerpts of the book published by The Daily Beast Wednesday.
"My first instinct was that my campaign should hit back hard and explain to the public that Comey had badly overstepped his bounds ‐ the same argument [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein would make months after the election," Clinton wrote.
"That might have blunted the political damage and made Comey think twice before breaking protocol again a few months later. My team raised concerns with that kind of confrontational approach."
"In the end, we decided it would be better to just let it go and try to move on. Looking back, that was a mistake."
Comey later reopened the investigation into Clinton’s use of private server weeks before the election as part of the investigation into Anthony Weiner's underage sexting scandal, which Clinton wrote caused longtime aide and Weiner's then-wife Huma Abedin to "burst into tears," in a previously released excerpt.
"What Happened" is set to be released on Sept. 12.
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You have to understand that when a Clinton says the word 'hit' - it means something entirely different then what you think it means. Just ask Seth Rich and dozens of others...
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In all seriousness, who cares what this pathetic excuse for a woman thinks about anything anymore, her inner-circle and the "true-believers"-- which are akin to cult members-- notwithstanding?
No Republican or Conservative cares enough to buy her book. Most, if not all, "Feel the Bern" Democrats or Liberals don't care enough to buy her book. What remains are Clintonian insiders, sycophants, and bottom-feeders (aka the ruling class), many of whom will probably receive a free copy for their years of loyal service.
Which all begs the question, who is going to pay good money for this joke of a book? I predict not many.
I have no idea what kind of advance she received but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a poor business decision. Of course, LAMe (the Liberal-Academic-Media complex) will fail to acknowledge or learn from it, as they've been doing for decades now.
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You know about those T-shirts they print for both Super Bowl teams declaring them champions, and then they ship all of those T-shirts of the losing team to Africa for the kids? That's what's gonna happen to most of the copies of this book.
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Eltoroverde, the way I understand it, the standard plan is to have the DNC buy enough copies to pop it onto the best seller list. At that point sales are nearly assured. The DNC would then give the things away to donors.
It will be telling if the DNC doesn't buy up a ton of her books and it just flops.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Cory Booker showed up for the start of Sen. Robert Menendez's bribery trial on Wednesday to support his fellow New Jersey Democrat.
Booker sat in the front row right behind Menendez, according to the New York Post.
Menendez is charged with 12 corruption-related counts, including six counts of bribery. Federal prosecutors allege that his longtime friend Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist who was convicted of defrauding Medicare for millions of dollars in a separate case, gave Menendez lavish gifts and large campaign donations while the senator used his office to benefit Melgen.
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Commentary from AofS afternoon rant said that MSNBC called Menendez a Republican repeatedly when talking about the corruption trial. Anyone confirm this ?
[Breitbart] Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most vocal pro-amnesty voices in Congress, claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is essentially endorsing "white supremacy" by winding down former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty.
He also blasted White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as a "hypocrite who is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear" who "should be drummed out of the White House along with the white supremacists."
"This Administration is on a very dangerous trajectory towards the full-throated endorsement of white supremacy‐the likes of which we haven’t seen in the open from a sitting President for a century," Gutierrez said in his typically understated manner.
Gutierrez blasted Trump for pardoning former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, praising "those who marched at the University of Virginia with torches shouting ’Jews will not replace us,’" and launching his campaign for the White House by taking a strong stance against illegal immigrant criminals from Mexico.
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I don't see where Luis ever served in the military. Luis Gutierrez was a taxi cab driver in Puerto Rico. Do cab drivers wear uniforms down there? I don't ever recall seeing them wearing uniforms. Maybe Luis should shut his pie hole. Another community organizer activist.
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When they don't have anything else they play the race card.
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Hmmmm...any you're not a disgrace to someone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States? You, know the piece of paper that says "We the People of the United States" not the world.
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Luis Gutierrez is a representative in a very gerrymandered district. He stated off as a campus radical and went straight to being a "community organizer" (like somebody else we know).
His knowledge of the military comes from Hollywood movies. His entire performance in congress comes straight from professional wrestling.
i.e. He is nothing but a clown.
Al
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Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army warplanes destroyed on Wednesday a convoy of Islamic State militants in northeastern Diyala, a security commander was quoted saying.
Maher al-Ezzawi, commander of Dijlah Operations, told Alsumaria News that army fighter jets bombarded the convoy at Wadi Thallab (80 km northeast of Baqubah), killing al militants in it.
Ezzawi said the strike was carried out based on “accurate intelligence information”.
Islamic State militants have launched occasional attacks against security forces and civilians in Diyala over the past few months, coinciding with government operations that managed to recapture the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest bastion in Iraq, and the town of Tal Afar, their last holdout in Nineveh province.
The government and its military commanders intend to wage further offensives at other Islamic State havens across the country, including Diyala, seeking to mark an end to the self-proclaimed “caliphate” the group declared back in 2014. Commanders have marked Kirkuk’s town of Hawija as the next target of anti-Islamic State operations.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A soldier was killed, three others were wounded in an Islamic State attack launched against security checkpoint in south of Salahuddin, a security source said.
Speaking to Baghdad Today on Wednesday, the source said, “IS targeted a joint security checkpoint for army and Popular Mobilization Forces using hand grenades and heavy weapons in Yathrib region, south of Salahuddin.”
“The attack left a soldier killed and three others of the army’s second division wounded,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
Yathrib was one of the main IS strongholds in Salahuddin before being freed.
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.
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.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government Shia-led paramilitary troops have repulsed an Islamic State attack, killing five militant in north of Salahuddin.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said on Wednesday that “the 29th brigade repelled an IS attack in ain al-Naml region, north of Salahuddin.”
“The attack left five militants killed and their vehicle burnt,” the statement added.
Earlier on the day, an army soldier was killed, while three others were wounded as IS militants attacked a joint checkpoint for army and PMFs in Yathrib region, south of Salahuddin.
On Tuesday, al-Salam Corps, the military wing of popular Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement, said it killed three IS suicide bombers late Monday before they could stage an attack against nightclubs in the town of Balad, south of Tikrit, the province’s capital.
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[Ynet] Swedish prosecutors say a person has been jugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in southern Sweden on suspicion of preparing a terror offense.
Prosecutor Ewamari Haggkvist says the person was arrested Tuesday, adding the suspicion "is reasonable."
She said Wednesday she could not give further details but "the reason for the person being arrested is that the suspect could damage the investigation."
The Aftonbladet tabloid said the man was in his late 30s and his crime was committed after Aug. 21.
Haggkvist said a Swedish court would have to decide before Friday whether to hold the person in pre-trial detention.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army forces killed 17 Islamic State members in Nineveh on Wednesday as they continue efforts to purge areas recaptured from the militant group, military media said.
The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the army’s 15th division killed 17 militants while combing the Ayyadiah region, northwest of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s last bastion in Nineveh which joint forces took over late August.
Six of the killed militants, who attacked the army force during the combing patrols, wore explosive belts, according to the media service.
Troops also managed to set free three women who were held by the militants, the statement added.
Iraq government forces recaptured Mosul, Islamic State’s former capital in Iraq, early July, and later headed west to Tal Afar, regaining control there late August. Militants had lost up to 30.000 fighters during both campaigns, according to military officials.
The Joint Operations Command has marked the IS-held town of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, as its next target of operations. Islamic State militants are still holding a few remaining havens in Anbar and Salahuddin-Diyala borders.
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[DAWN] India's top court proposed measures on Wednesday to stop what it called "growing violence by vigilantes" who claim to be protecting cows, revered as holy by Hindus.
India is reeling from a spate of horrific lynchings by Hindu murderous Moslems mostly targeting the country's Moslem minority, who have historically eaten beef.
Critics say that murderous Moslems emboldened by the current Hindu nationalist government's tough stance on cow slaughter are using beef as a pretext to target the community.
The Supreme Court was responding to a private petition from Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.
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[Jpost] Godiva announced it will no longer produce liquor-filled desserts, leading some to claim the company is bowing down to Islamic law.
Godiva, the fabled Belgian chocolates producer, has recently come under the fire of the critics after it announced in April of this year that it would discontinue the production of its alcohol-filled pralines in order to appeal to a "wide universal audience."
This week, Belgian media announced that the liquor-filled pralines have been taken of the shelves in all 80 countries the company sells sweets in.
Critics were also quick to point out that a decade ago, the company changed hands and had been transferred to the ownership of the Turkish company Yildiz Holding.
Soon thereafter, social media was abuzz with speculation that the sweets conglomerate made the change in order to increase its sales in the the Islamic and Arab world ‐ seeing as the consumption of alcohol is forbidden (haram) in Islam.
Critics were also quick to point out that a decade ago, the company changed hands and had been transferred to the ownership of the Ottoman Turkish company Yildiz Holding.
Outraged lovers of Godiva's liquor-filled sweets took to social media to express their dismay, going so far as to discuss the option of boycotting the company. They even took to calling the sweets "Halal chocolates," referencing what they believe is the real reason behind the company's decision to stop manufacturing the chocolates in question.
"They are no longer Belgians," claimed some offended former-clients.
This is not the first time Belgians have been complaining about traditional foods are being tweaked to match the changing demographics of a pluralistic Europe. In 2015, the makers of Sirop de Liège, a Belgian favorite since 1902, announced they will seek a Halal certificate to gain access to the Islamic markets of Indonesia and Egypt.
Just like in the Godiva case, clients felt the change is an unwelcome one, leading some to post angry comments on Facebook stating they will throw away their syrups and that it's outrageous to "force" non-Moslems to eat Halal foods.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A 2,500-year-old mausoleum in the southern province of Antalya has become the victim of vandalism.
Considered one of the symbolic mausoleums of the Lycian era, the mausoleum, located in the Gölova neighborhood, 12 kilometers away from the Elmali district, had classical-age paintings and Byzantine-era decorations. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the inside and outside walls of the structure have been scraped off and painted with colored paints.
"A 2,500 year old mausoleum is the victim of graffiti. It is disappearing in front of us," said Ertugrul Gun, a local, who reacted against the situation.
"We are sad about this vandalism against historical values. We have sent photos to various directorates to clean the structure and protect it. I hope it will be protected before it sees more damage," said Gölova Mayor Ali Kucuk.
"I was very sorry when I saw the structure. It was completely destroyed. We have ordered for the writing to be cleaned using a nutshell. We do not use the sanding method because it may cause scratches," said Antalya Relievos and Monuments Director Cemil Karabayram.
The structure, dating back to the fifth and sixth century B.C., was examined by U.S. Professor Machteld J. Mellink. The structure had previously been damaged by treasure hunters.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has called on the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to explicitly say if it does not want Ankara as a full member, describing German politicians’ "anti-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... stances" as an implementation of "Nazism and fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... "We want EU bodies and European countries to be sincere and real in their policies on Turkey," Erdogan said at a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) meeting on Sept. 6.
"Take this decision as soon as possible. If you cannot tolerate the current shape of Turkey’s relationship with the EU, then declare [an end to it] and do it bravely. That will help everyone see your real face," he added, recalling German 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 statement that Berlin will ask other EU leaders to either suspend or end Ottoman Turkish accession process in October.
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What part of "NO!" don't you understand, O Sublime Porte?
#6
The Germans were perfectly flirty
As Erdogan purred, "Yer so purdy!"
With straw in her tresses,
Europa confesses:
"So dirty... and hung like a birdy."
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One civilian was killed, seven others were wounded in two bomb blasts that occurred in north and south of Baghdad, a security source said.
“One person was killed, while two others were injured as an IED, placed near a wholesale store in al-Hamamiyat village in Taji region, north Baghdad, went off,” the source told Baghdad Today on Wednesday.
“Five others were injured due to a blast caused by a bomb, placed near a market in al-Mahmoudiya region, south of Baghdad,” the source added.
On Tuesday, six people were reportedly killed and injured in two blasts in north and west of Baghdad.
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.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Fighter jets have shelled a store for Islamic State militants in western Anbar, leaving ten members killed, a security source said.
“Warplanes bombarded an IS store in Qaim town, Anbar, leaving it completely destroyed with ten members killed,” the source told Alghad Press on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, coalition jets pounded house of IS leader Hilal Ismail al-Salmani in the town of al-Qaim, killing him and seven of his companions in Qaim.
Last week, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the air force bombarded six IS locations in Qaim, killing 94 members, including a senior security commander and a close aide to the group’s supreme leader abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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.
Late July, Iraqi army jets reportedly dropped millions of leaflets on western Anbar telling locals that liberation offensives for the province were nearing.
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[STUDYFINDS.ORG] Is life in and of itself like a fine wine, that is, does it get better with age? While many of us fear what’s to come in our elder years, a new survey finds that most older adults are actually more content than their younger or middle-aged counterparts. As someone who's aged, I can agree: Life is like a fine wine. It gets better with age. Then it turns to vinegar. I'm very content with my lost hair, my arthritis, my dentures, and not being allowed around power tools. Really I am. Would I lie to you?
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One of the greatest income redistribution programs in history helps makes it so. Soon that will end when the great government ponzi scheme collapses.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) President Masoud Barzani has once again said the referendum on independence scheduled to be held on Sept. 25 will not be delayed if no better alternative emerges, as the Ottoman Turkish, Iraqi and regional authorities, as well as the United States and Britannia, vocally oppose the vote.
Speaking to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s al-Arabiya on Sept. 5, Barzani said his objective is "to achieve independence for the nation" and once again vowed that his own duties "will finish after independence is achieved," adding that he "was born for the independence of Kurdistan."
Barzani previously said he will not stand in presidential elections scheduled to be held on Nov. 1, nor will he support his family members running.
During the interview, Barzani said those calling for the referendum to be delayed should "provide an alternative."
Also on Sept. 5, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim reiterated The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s strong opposition against the referendum, describing the move as a "grave mistake."
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Looking over the Narcissistic Personality Disorder was like looking at the description of most political office holders -- though John [expletive] Kerry was the first person that came to mind as an exemplar of this class.
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Yes. And the people who voted for obutthole? Twice? Didn't somebody write a book called The Madness of Crowds?
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I was counting on Trump to MAGA and MASA (make America sane again). He probably could go a long way in doing this if there were not so many self-serving obstructionists.
[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday recovered seven bodies including those of two women and two children from the myrmidon hideout at Darus Salam in Mirpur, Dhaka after a 38-hour-long raid.
The charred remains were found inside an apartment on the fourth floor of the six-storey Komol Prova apartment building on Bordhon Bari Road, about 250 yards far from the Darus Salam cop shoppe.
RAB officers were still sweeping that floor for more explosives after a suspected New JMB myrmidon, his four family members and two associates had blown themselves up on Tuesday night.
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When I'm looking to hire someone, I basically have two questions:
1) Can they do the job?
2) Are they going to cause more problems than they solve?
Last thing a business needs is employees tarnishing the brand.
Personally, I'd have more sympathy for the footballers if they were actively doing something to solve the problems they are protesting, rather than just playing "Look at me!". Howzabout taking one of those millions and starting a scholarship fund?
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Never dawns in their concussed brains that the average viewer/fan is making far far less in their salary/pay than what they're making doing 'entertainment'. You'll see more black millionaires on Sunday than in any country back in Africa. So, yeah, go flipp'em the finger about oppression, because you're so unique (just don't ask the Pilgrims, the Quakers, the Huguenots, the Scots-Irish et al).
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What, Twitter and Farcebook ruin careers in an equal opportunity fashion? Who knew?
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#1 When I'm looking to hire someone, I basically have two questions:
1) Can they do the job?
2) Are they going to cause more problems than they solve?
Last thing a business needs is employees tarnishing the brand.
I agree SteveS. A third might be, 3. Do they add value to the organization? Decrease costs, increase revenue and profits, increase ticket sales...instead of pissing off the largest number of fans possible.
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I like the fake speech attributed to various owners:
Today, regardless of your personal opinions, we recognize the sacrifice and pain that so many have endured as symbolized by our flag and national anthem. When the National Anthem is played in a few minutes you WILL stand and you WILL put your hand over your hearts. You do this because you know that millions will be watching and looking at your example. You gentlemen are world class athletes, but you are also actors. You perform on a stage that is 100 yards long. But most of all I want you to remember, you are the actors, but this is MY stage and you will play the role you are paid to do by me.
If only one had the guts to call these prima donna millionaires out on it..
[DAWN] The message is uniform from friend and foe alike: Pakistain’s tolerance for externally oriented krazed killer groups is no longer acceptable and a serious national effort needs to be made if the country is to remain on the right side of international opinion.
The significance of the BRICS declaration that included a condemnation of violence in Afghanistan and a specific mention of the Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... should not be underestimated.
The presence of India in the five-nation bloc clearly influenced the language of the declaration in implicitly pointing towards Pakistain, but China, Russia, Brazil and South Africa will only have added their voices to the growing chorus of concern because of genuine considerations of their own.
Pakistain must not make the mistake of dismissing the signal from the world’s leading emerging economies. It does not appear to be an aberration and cannot simply be ascribed to overwrought allegations and concerns of India, Afghanistan and the US.
In truth, while Pakistain has made significant strides in the domestic fight against militancy, there is a contradiction at the heart of the country’s efforts to fight militancy, terrorism and extremism: an unwillingness to acknowledge that past policies, and an ongoing selective approach to fighting militancy, have contributed to the problem.
Without an honest reckoning with the past, the reorientation of the state from one that supported jihad under the umbrella of the Cold War to one that recognises the great cost that it inflicted on Pakistain’s economy, society and standing in the global community cannot be complete. And without recognising that Pakistain’s record in fighting militancy, terrorism and extremism at home has been patchy and inadequate, greater success is likely to prove elusive.
The bewildering aspect of the state’s anti-militancy strategy is that it continues to pursue perfunctory measures such as banning krazed killer groups without any real determination to shut down the operations of those groups in various guises. The only real attempt at drawing up a comprehensive anti-militancy strategy is the flawed National Action Plan, which has been implemented poorly and without uniformity.
Certainly, some outside allegations by India, Afghanistan and the US either seek to place excessive blame on Pakistain or are meant to try and dissuade the latter from pursuing its legitimate security interests. It is also the case that the important gains Pakistain has made in its fight against militancy often go unacknowledged and unappreciated.
But on this there must be clarity: Pakistain’s fight against militancy is its own fight for its own long-term peace and prosperity. Too often external criticism has been used by the state to deflect and deny legitimate critiques of its anti-militancy policy.
The BRICS declaration suggests an international trend that Pakistain cannot afford to ignore. The domestic fight against militancy must be made smarter, harder and more purposeful.
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Welcome to the real world of 4000 years+ of human slavery. The turn around started in earnest among Protestant British colonies in North America around the early 18 Century, not that you would ever recognize such an event in human history as the Left needs to destroy real history. Where's the guilt grafting in that? /rhet question
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Slavery enabled societal advances - the labor of slaves freed time and generated resources for a few critical minds to create significant things. In Egypt and Rome in the distant past, and significantly, in the creation of the United States - men like Washington and Jefferson would not have been available to lead the Revolutionary army or write the Declaration of Independence, for instance, and independence was a very close victory. Black Americans should be given credit for, and take pride in, their role in creating this country - even if their role was not voluntary.
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My impression was that: (1) By the 1800's there were already more than enough slaves (breeding stock excess to plantation workforce, to be brutally clear) in the New World -- mass slavetrading was not cost effective; (2) There was money to be made selling Opium in the Far East (Chinese Products for Opium); and (3) the Old Merchant Families could feel righteous about not doing what they had effectively already stopped doing.
#3
With all this, I'm wondering if there is some internal problem with China. Seem like china want a war to distract their citizens form some other issue/problem.
[IsraelTimes] Official memorial rethinking research after being criticized for saying ex-president was correct in doing little to prevent slaughter
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will re-evaluate a study that said there was little the B.O. regime could do to prevent genocide in Syria after removing the document from its website.
The Tablet online magazine, which obtained portions of the study, reported that it was met with "shock and harsh criticism by prominent Jewish communal leaders and thinkers."
The paper, which was to be released officially on September 11,
...an interesting choice of date...
argued that "a variety of factors, which were more or less fixed, made it very difficult from the beginning for the US government to take effective action to prevent atrocities in Syria, even compared with other challenging policy contexts."
"It wasn't his fault. Stop picking on the Lightbringer!"
A message on the museum’s website said: "Last week the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a research study that examined several decision points during the Syrian conflict. Since its release, a number of people with whom we have worked closely on Syria since the conflict’s outbreak have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s with the study. The Museum has decided to remove the study from its website as we evaluate this feedback."
The report used computational modeling and game theory methods, as well as interviews with experts and policymakers, to determine that US involvement in the wake of the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta would not have reduced atrocities in the country and may have contributed to them, according to Tablet.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... has attacked with poison gas and sent to prison camps tens of thousands of Syrians since his country’s civil war began six years ago.
Abraham Foxman, the director of the Center of the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the History, told Tablet that the museum leadership must have determined it "made a misstep" in undertaking the report, pointing out that the genocide has not yet ended and that such a judgment is beyond the museum’s mandate.
Yes.
Foxman, who noted that he served three times on the Holocaust Commission, also said, "I believe that it’s appropriate ‐ indeed, it’s imperative ‐ for the museum to deal with questions of genocide in contemporary current events."
Longstanding critics of B.O. regime foreign policy noted on social media that at the end of his term, Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... appointed to the Holocaust museum board a slew of White House staffers, including some involved in the Syria decisions, and questioned whether this influenced the study.
Given the habitual behaviours of that lot, it seems very highly likely.
Tablet pointed out that the study was launched before the appointments.
Yes, but they knew who was doing the appointing.
Some of the board members who had formerly worked for the B.O. regime said they were not aware of details of the report until its completion.
And the others?
Holocaust museum board members are not typically involved in its day-to-day activities.
No doubt that's true, but these were not typical board appointees.
#1
Once the leftards started erasing and destroying symbols of history, the flood gates were opened. Darlings of the left don't escape from their own meddling with history and legacies.
Liberals claim that so-called "Dreamers" are not a burden on the economy or the budget, but that’s not quite true. It is true they are not eligible for food stamps or welfare, but they definitely are eligible for major benefits, especially huge tax refunds ‐ even though they may have paid no taxes.
The reason is that Obama made them eligible for Social Security numbers that allows them to collect disability and SSI benefits. But maybe the most valuable benefit they get is tax refunds. Let’s say a Dreamer has four children. The Dreamer would get $1,000 dollars apiece for each child and an Earned Income Credit that could amount to $6,269. That means the Dreamer could add up to $10,629 a year, every year.
According to the Daily Caller, which performed a fact-check on the subject:
Illegal immigrants are ineligible for most public benefits according to federal law, including means-tested programs like Medicaid, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Notable exceptions include emergency medical care and federal disaster relief.
But DACA allows recipients to apply for social security numbers, which are required to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a major tax benefit for lower-income earners. The program allows recipients to participate in Social Security and Medicare as well, but they generally cannot receive benefits until retirement age.
Generally speaking, DACA recipients are still ineligible for many forms of public assistance. Nonetheless, the program does expand access to some federal benefits.
There is another major problem with Dreamers inasmuch as they can get a driver’s license using their Social Security card and can register to vote using just their SS card. It is also almost impossible to catch them if they vote illegally. There are at least 800,000 Dreamers. You do the math.
In New York state, they grant benefits to eligible Dreamers:
What public benefits are non-citizens with deferred action eligible for in New York?
Non-citizens granted deferred action are considered "permanently residing under color of law" (PRUCOL) and are eligible for all state funded benefits, including Medicaid, Family Health Plus, the Family Planning Program and for cash assistance (welfare) through the Safety Net program.
Once an individual can provide proof that a request for deferred action has been filed, (s)he is eligible to apply for New York’s medical health insurance benefits even before a decision is made by USCIS. To be eligible for cash assistance, however, the person must wait until USCIS actually approves the request for deferred action. It should be kept in mind, though, that the receipt of cash assistance, unlike medical assistance, can raise public charge concerns if the individual at some later date becomes eligible to apply for permanent resident status.
Non-citizens with deferred action are not eligible for any federal public benefit, including federal financial aid, food stamps, housing subsidies, and the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan Program. They will not be eligible to purchase health insurance through the federal Healthcare Exchange when that becomes operational in 2014.
No wonder so many illegals come into the country. It’s like waking up in the morning with a money tree in the front yard.
#1
Don't forget in state tuition and preferential admissions at state universities.
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This must be what the dreamers were dreaming about--all the free boodle.
Our kids are not referred to as "dreamers" by the politicians. Why not? We did not slip across the border illegally and have anchor babies (dreamers). Why do so many people want to come here (probably the boodle and opportunities)? We are, apparently, in the minds of many politicians so inferior culturally, that we must: 1. Create diversity programs, 2. Recognize other cultures as being superior to ours, 3. Not require assimilation, and 4. Not require illegals to wait in line to become citizens.
[DAWN] Referring to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as a "controller of corruption", the Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its dissatisfaction with the institution's performance in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... .
A three-member bench of the apex court was hearing a petition seeking bail of former Balochistan food minister Asfandyar Kakar who was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by NAB earlier this year on charges of embezzlement.
"Important cases in Balochistan have seen long delays," Justice Dost Mohammad, who was presiding over the apex bench, said during the hearing.
Justice Faiz Essa remarked that Director General (DG) NAB Balochistan, Irfan Naeem Mangi ─ who was a member of the Joint Investigation Team that investigated allegations of money laundering against the Sharif family ─ should be made a co-accused in the case against Kakar due to the poor performance of the NAB.
The judge added that NAB authorities were misusing the law and matters could only be improved by opening cases against them.
Justice Mohammad, however, said that due to Mangi's involvement in the Panamagate JIT, he could not be included in the case against the former provincial minister.
"Those caught red-handed in Balochistan are released by NAB. The bureau has made a joke of all corruption cases," Justice Essa remarked, adding that the trials due to be completed within 30 days do not get wrapped up even in 30 months.
"To this day, NAB has not completed any trial within 30 days," the justice said. "Rs701 million have been stolen, but NAB is sleeping."
"Those who draw a salary from the taxpayer's money are abusing the law," Justice Essa said.
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[DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: A married woman who was allegedly raped and blackmailed because of a video clip of the rape made by her tormentors, had to bribe lower police staff to get a case registered against the suspects after a senior officer declined to help her in getting justice.
Narrating her ordeal at the local press club where she had come with her husband on Tuesday, ’N’, a resident of Mauza Bhuta Kot of Sheikh Wahan area, said she worked as a match-maker and was lured to Rahim Yar Khan by a relative on the pretext of visiting a family in Multan for the purpose in May this year.
Instead of taking her to Multan, she said the prime suspect ’H’ and his friend ’J’ took her to a house here in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, that was owned by one of their acquaintances.She said at the house, both ’H’ and ’J’ raped her in the presence of their friend and the suspects made a video clip of the crime.
The suspects threatened her that they would post the clip on social media if she informed anybody about the rape, she said. She said later the suspects started blackmailing her and threatened her they would sell the video clip if she did not pay them money.
She claimed that she had been giving the suspects money on different occasions by selling her cattle and even jewellery and so far they had extracted around Rs300,000 from her. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand...... she said the suspects sold the video clip to many persons against Rs1,000 each despite taking money from her.
Being unable to arrange more money, she said she approached the Saddar deputy superintendent of police (DSP) with a complaint but he did not listen to her.
Later, she lodged an FIR (No 250/17) on Aug 31, 2017, against the suspects under Section 376 of the Pakistain Penal Code after paying Rs15,000 bribe to a sub-inspector Ehsan and the moharrar of Saddar cop shoppe.
After that the police incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! ’H’ while ’J’ and the house owner got interim bails. She said now the suspects were forcing her for a "reconciliation" and threatening her with dire consequences if she pursued the case.
She said she did not get a case registered under cyber crime law because she was illiterate and did not know about it.
The district police public relations officer denied all the allegations levelled by ’N’ against police officials, saying the police would act according to the law in the light of the medical report of ’N’ that was still awaited.
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Riyadh- Contradictory statements of Houthi and Saleh militias have reflected the deep dispute between the coup parties in Yemen.
Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh denied on Monday any tension between his party (General People’s Congress) and Houthis. Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, the head of the Revolutionary Committee, however, put a condition of forming a committee of wise men in case Saleh wishes to settle the disputes between the coup parties.
Further, humanitarian organizations monitored Houthi militias arresting of pro-Saleh supporters – some were seen removing Saleh posters following orders of Houthi leaders.
Vice Premier and Minister of Civil Service Abdulaziz al-Jabari stated that the Yemeni developments unveil deep disputes among insurgents no matter how much they endeavor to conceal them – he added that both parties adopt different programs: one dreams to return to authority and the other executes the Iranian regime approach and practices a sectarian program in the country.
“Implementing wilayat al-faqih in Yemen is against the will of Yemeni people who believe in coexistence, peace and removing discrimination, and see that reaching the authority occurs via democracy and elections,” Jabari told Asharq Al-Awsat.
He added that Houthi militias want to control Yemeni territory while the ousted president wants to maintain his condition and popularity to guarantee his position in any potential political settlement.
Journalist Waddah al-Jaleel said that, “Houthis are aware that Saleh is fully ready to sell them out in any political deal with the other parties. Therefore, they want to besiege him and eradicate his force, if not get rid him of him before he sells them out. In this way they become representatives of the Zaidiyyah geography being fought over.”
[TheLocal.fr] Two people have been arrested after police found components that can be used to make bombs in an apartment in a Paris suburb.
Two men have been arrested after police found components that can be used to make explosives in an apartment in a Paris suburb which media reports describe as a "bomb factory."
Security forces rushed to the scene after a plumber working in the building in the southern suburb of Villejuif saw what he thought resembled detonators and called the police.
The building was evacuated and work ordered to be stopped on a building site next to the apartment block while bomb disposal experts examined the material.
The flat was empty at the time of the discovery of the suspect devices and the two men were arrested in a car in the nearby suburb of Le Kremlin-Bicetre, media reports said.
One of them was reportedly the tenant of the apartment.
France Info radio said that the flat was like a "laboratory" and contained sulphuric acid, acetone, oxygenated water - ingredients that can be used to make explosives such as the TATP favoured by jihadists - as well as electric components, batteries and basins.
Other media reported that gas canisters were also found.
Traces of TATP -- known as the "mother of Satan" -- were found in a house where the alleged attackers in the twin jihadist assaults in Spain last month that killed 16 people were believed to have been trying to build bombs. TATP is a homemade explosive created by mixing precise quantities of acetone, oxygenated water and sulphuric, hydrochloric or nitric acid -- all of which are easily available in high street stores.
Nail polish remover is essentially acetone, while oxygenated water is a commonly used disinfectant.
The mixture creates a coarse powder of white crystals that requires only a basic detonator to explode, triggering a huge blast of burning gas.
The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed that "elements that may be part of the composition of explosives" were found in the flat in Villejuif.
Its counter-terrorism section has opened an investigation under potential charges of "criminal terrorist association" and "possession, transportation and production of explosive substances in relation with a terrorist action by an organized gang."
France is still under a state of emergency after November 2015 terror attacks killed 130 people.
Poland's stance on migrants unchanged despite EU court ruling
6 September
[Ynet] Poland will continue to refuse to accept migrants under a European Union relocation scheme despite a ruling by EU's highest court that Brussels had the right to force member states to take in asylum seekers, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said on Wednesday.
"I was convinced that such a decision would be made (by the court), but this absolutely does not change the stance of the Polish government with respect to migration policy," Szydlo told reporters on the sidelines of a business conference.
Earlier on Wednesday, the European Union's highest court dismissed complaints by Slovakia and Hungary about EU migration policy.
Hungary Says EU Migrant Quotas Ruling 'Irresponsible'
6 September
[AnNahar] Hungary on Wednesday slammed as "irresponsible" a rejection by the EU's top court of its challenge to a scheme to relocate thousands of migrants around the bloc via mandatory quotas.
"The decision by the court... is irresponsible and we believe that this decision threatens the security of all of Europe," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after the ruling by the European Court of Justice.
He vowed to use "all legal means" against the "absolutely unacceptable" judgment, calling it "the result of a political decision not the result of a legal or expert decision".
"Politics has raped European law and European values. This decision practically and openly legitimates the power of the EU above the member states," he said.
EU orders Sweden to shut down border checks
6 September
[TheLocal.se] The EU has ordered Sweden to end its border controls by mid-November, saying they are not needed anymore.
The measures in the passport-free Schengen zone were only supposed to be temporary and originally designed to last six months, but they were extended by a further half a year in May 2016, then three months more the following November. According to EU rules, the extension can only be granted three times, and the last one is due to expire on November 12th.
The controls have been unpopular among commuters in the south of Sweden and in the Copenhagen region in Denmark, who have complained that they make journeys across the Öresund Bridge more time consuming.
File under: Not seeing the forest while meticulously counting the trees
6 September
[TheLocal.se] Swedish nationals born in Africa and Asia tend to vote significantly less than other Swedes, and are more prone to vote for left-wing parties, a new government-commissioned report shows. The report showed that not only is the voting participation among people born in Africa and Asia significantly lower than among other Swedes, but warned that due to current migration trends, this gap is at risk of widening, at the cost of a balanced and well-functioned democracy.
“Among Swedish citizens with origins in the Nordics, North America, Oceania and Latin America, voting participation was at around 80 percent, while the share of Swedes who voted and were born in Africa and Asia was below 70 percent,” the report said. “If democracy loses its legitimacy among large groups in society, there’s a risk it will shake to its core.”
Commenting on the findings in an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter, authors and researchers Pieter Bevelander and Mikael Spång wrote that: “The fact that most of those who immigrate to Sweden today come from these regions indicates that voter participation could fall further in the future.”
'Good time to take in your share of refugees': UN to Denmark
6 September
[TheLocal.dk] Low numbers of refugee arrivals mean that Denmark should be able to accept its quota of transferable refugees, says the UN. But the country’s two biggest political parties, the Venstre (Liberal) Party, which is the senior partner in the coalition government, and the opposition Social Democrats say that it is too early for Denmark to accept refugees relocated to it by the UN, writes Politiken.
“Since 2015, the number of asylum seekers in Denmark has fallen dramatically. This year only approximately 2,000 new asylum seekers have come to Denmark. This would be a very good time for Denmark to resume accepting quota refugees,” Melissa Fleming, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told Politiken.
The quota system enables the UN to relocate refugees whose needs cannot be met in countries that neighbour the conflicts they have fled from. The UN is currently able to relocate one percent of its registered refugees, although as many as ten percent actually need to be relocated, according to Politiken’s report.
Denmark has accepted 500 of the UN’s quota refugees annually since 1989 – until last year, when it suspended its participation in the programme. Several other countries have also stopped accepting or reduced quota refugees.
Marcus Knuth, immigration spokesperson with Venstre, told Politiken that Denmark could resume taking in quota refugees in future.
“But we need to look further ahead. We have big integration problems with the large number that came in 2015,” he said.
The Social Democrats also dismissed immediate recommencement of quota refugee arrivals.
“We are not against taking in quota refugees. On the contrary, all refugees should come to Denmark via that system,” MP Dan Jørgensen told Politiken, adding, “We would prefer the EU to control its outer borders, so we can stop the terrible trafficking by people smugglers over the Mediterranean. Then we would be about to take in a number from the UN system."
French police clash with migrants in Calais
3 September
[TheLocal.fr] Police fired tear gas and three officers were injured on Saturday in clashes with migrants near the French port of Calais who took advantage of a traffic jam to sneak onto trucks, authorities said.
"Our British colleagues had opened only nine out of 14 lanes this weekend though we expected 9,000 vehicles in the Eurotunnel and 7,500 at the port," local deputy police chief Jean-Philippe Vennin told AFP.
He said the lane shortages considerably slowed down traffic on the main A16 motorway and at about 4:30pm, around 50 migrants "took advantage of the bottleneck to board a few trucks".
An AFP correspondent on the scene said there were about 60 migrants waiting near the motorway. Police engaged "in a game of cat and mouse" and used tear gas to disperse the migrants, said Vennin. Migrants who successfully climbed onto a truck were then chased away by the driver after being alerted by nearby motorists, the source added.
Angela Merkel is pelted with TOMATOES during raucous election rally as furious voters call her a liar over her refugee open doors policy
May this be translated into votes for AfD in the upcoming election.
06/09/17
German leader Angela Merkel was hit by a tomato thrown by one of the hundreds of protesters who had gathered to watch her speak at a pre-election tally in Heidelberg on Tuesday.
Gang of migrants clash with French riot police leaving three officers injured as they try to board UK-bound lorries stuck in Calais traffic jams full of shocked British holidaymakers
Rinse and repeat.
03/09/17
Violence broke out after the French blamed the British for failing to open enough vehicle lanes at the end of the holiday season. At least 60 mostly young men tried to take advantage of the chaos.
Sweden Rivals Mexico for Grenade Attacks, Shooting Fatalities Five Times Higher Than Neighbouring Countries
6 September
A new report has shown that the number of fatal shootings in Sweden is up to four to five times that in Germany and the number of hand grenade attacks is on par with Mexico.
Swedes Charge Rwandan-Born Man over 1994 Genocide
6 September
A 49-year-old Rwandan-born man was charged in Sweden Wednesday over the 1994 genocide in his African homeland.
Asylum Seekers Take over Park in Small Town, Kick Out Mothers, Children
6 September
A children’s park in the eastern German town of Ebersdorf has been taken over by young male asylum seekers who terrorise locals and have banned women and children from entering the playground.
Finland Considers Giving Returning Islamic State Fighters Priority Housing
6 September
Around 80 Finnish citizens have travelled to the Middle East to fight for Islamic State and now the government is considering allowing those who return to skip housing queues to help them better integrate back into society.
Report: Population Explosion in Africa Will Fuel Ongoing Migrant Crisis
5 September
A new analysis by the Austrian armed forces warns that Europe should be cautious about celebrating the slowdown of migration from Africa saying the numbers could be much higher in the near future.
EU Dismisses Hungarian Request for ‘Solidarity’ over Border Controls, ‘We Won’t Support Fences’
4 September
The European Commission has announced that it will not fund border fences, slapping down Hungary’s request for help financing immigration control measures that the nation says protect Europe from an even larger influx of illegal immigrants.
Failed Asylum Seekers Use Italy as Back Door to European Union Residency
4 September
Thousands of migrants whose asylum applications were rejected in Northern Europe are returning to Italy because it is ‘easier’ to obtain European Union residency documents, according to claims from regional officials and aid workers.
German Authorities Tipped off to over 330 War Criminals Among Asylum Seekers
4 September
German authorities have been tipped off to the identities of over 330 war criminals from Syria and Iraq amongst ordinary asylum seekers since 2015, with many of the tips coming from other asylum seekers.
Iraqi Asylum Seeker Arrested for Attempted Rape in Alpine Resort Town
4 September
A 20-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker has been arrested after he tried to rape a woman who was hiking in the German ski town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Romanian Coastguard Intercept Boat of 87 Migrants on Black Sea
3 September
Romania’s coastguard says it has intercepted a fishing vessel carrying 87 migrants in the Black Sea that was sailing toward the Romanian coast. A statement said border police spotted the vessel on Sunday morning east of
Illegal Immigrant Charged with Supplying Hundreds of SIM Cards to Islamic State Jihadists in Iraq and Syria
3 September
An illegal Iraqi Kurd appeared in court charged with supplying over 400 mobile phone SIM cards to jihadists in Iraq and Syria to set up social media accounts.
BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies are fighting to secure a corridor to troops in Deir Al-Zor, a day after they smashed through Daesh lines to break the jihadist siege.
The army reached Deir Al-Zor city on Tuesday in a days-long thrust that followed months of steady advances east across the desert, breaking a siege that had lasted three years.
Daesh counter-attacks lasted through the day, trying to repel the army, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Fierce battles raged around the city, as troops sought to expand the route and allow aid in, the British-based war monitor added.
“Work is progressing to secure the route and widen the flanks so as not to be cut or targeted by (Daesh),” said a commander in the military alliance backing Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“The next step is to liberate the city,” the non-Syrian commander said.
It points to a tough battle ahead as the army aims to move from breaching the siege to driving Daesh militants from their half of the city, the sort of street-by-street warfare in which they excel.
Syrian state news agency SANA said the army had made gains expanding its control near the corridor after heavy artillery and air strikes.
Assad and his allies — Russia, Iran and Shiite militias including Hezbollah — will follow the relief of Deir Al-Zor with an offensive along the Euphrates valley, the commander said.
The Euphrates valley cuts a lush, populous swathe of green about 260 km (160 miles) long and 10 km (6 miles) wide through the Syrian desert from Raqqa to the Iraqi border at Al-Bukamal.
The area has been an Islamic State stronghold in Syria but came under attack this year when a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias besieged and assaulted Raqqa.
Rapidly losing territory in Syria and Iraq, Daesh is falling back on the Euphrates towns downstream of Deir Al-Zor, including Al-Mayadin and Al-Bukamal, where many expect it to make a last stand.
Still, the jihadist group specializes in urban combat, using car bombs, mines, tunnels and drones, and has held out against full-scale attack for months in some towns and cities.
Daesh has 6,000-8,000 fighters left in Syria, despite losing most of its territory across both Iraq and Syria since September 2014, the United States-led coalition said.
Food convoys
Parallel with their thrust toward Deir Al-Zor, the Syrian military and its allies have been fighting Daesh in its last pocket of ground in central Syria, near the town of Al-Salamiya on the Homs-Aleppo highway.
On Wednesday, army advances gained control of four villages there, further tightening the pocket, a military media unit run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah said.
In Raqqa, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance says it has taken about 65 percent of Daesh’s former self-declared Syrian capital.
Deir Al-Zor lies along the southwest bank of the Euphrates. The government enclave includes the northern half of the city and the Brigade 137 military base to the west.
The army also holds an air base and nearby streets, separated from the rest of the enclave by hundreds of meters of Daesh-held ground and still cut off from the advancing army.
Government forces will push toward the besieged air base, the pro-Assad commander said.
Instead of breaking the siege along the main road from Palmyra, stretches of which remain in Daesh hands, the army reached the Brigade 137 along a narrow salient from the northwest.
The corridor from the west into Brigade 137 was only about 500 meters wide, the commander said.
The United Nations has estimated that 93,000 civilians were living under Daesh siege in Deir Al-Zor in “extremely difficult” conditions, with some high-altitude air drops supplying them.
Deir Al-Zor’s provincial governor told state-run television that convoys loaded with food and medicine were on the way, along with ambulances and a mobile clinic. Residents in the enclave had gone years without vegetables, fuel, and other necessities, Mohammed Ibrahim Samra said.
“Despite all this, the schools kept running,” he said. “Our people in Deir Al-Zor have suffered a lot ... and they still held on to their land.”
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The Syrian Arab Army units expanded their control around Regiment 137 in the southwestern side of Deir Ezzor and inflicted heavy losses on ISIL terrorists, at a time when fierce infighting erupted between the terror organization’s mercenaries due to the state of collapse it is suffering under the continuous victories of the Syrian army.
SANA reporter in Deir Ezzor said the army units operating in the southwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor are working to expand their control in the vicinity of the Regiment 137 after breaking the siege imposed on the city yesterday for more than 3 years.
The reporter pointed out that the Air Force has directed intensive strikes on the hideouts and fortified points of ISIL in the areas of al-Malha, al-Thardah and near al-Taim oil field and the villages of Shula and Ayyash and Bugheiliyeh, which resulted in the destruction of some of the targets and the elimination of many terrorists.
The Syrian Arab Army units controlled on Tuesday a number of strategic hills around the town of Kabajib, 50 km southwest of Deir Ezzor.
Meanwhile, local sources from the western countryside of Deir Ezzor reported that some ISIL terrorists were killed and injured as infighting erupted between Iraqi mercenaries and others of the French nationality in the town of Granij.
Source: SANA
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[DAWN] Two people allegedly associated with the Ansar-ul-Shariah Pakistain (ASP) group tied to the attack on 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 Khwaja Izharul Hasan were locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... on Wednesday, a security official told DawnNews.
According to the official, the suspects were identified as Professor Mushtaq ─ a teacher at the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) who was arrested in Quetta ─ and Mufti Habibullah, who was arrested in Pishin district.
According to initial reports, Mushtaq allegedly ran an educational institute 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... , while Habibullah ran seminaries in Karachi and Hyderabad. They were allegedly involved in the brainwashing of students they came into contact with in Karachi.
They have been shifted to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location, the official said.
The ASP grabbed credit for an attack on Khawaja Izharul Hasan on Eidul Azha, and has also been linked to recent attacks on police officials in Karachi. Security officials save said it comprises highly-educated individuals, with at least two suspects identified as students of Karachi University and NED.
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[TheLocal.es] Spanish and Moroccan authorities have jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! six jihadists who were preparing "large-scale attacks", Spain's interior ministry said Wednesday.
Spanish police and security authorities in Morocco "have dismantled a jihadist terrorist cell composed of six people", a ministry statement said, indicating that five of them were arrested in Morocco and one in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.
The arrests came nearly three weeks after a group of jihadists, many of them of Moroccan origin, killed 16 people in two deadly attacks using vehicles and knives in Barcelona and another seaside resort in northeastern Spain.
"An investigation by the Moroccan security services found evidence that this group was planning large-scale terror attacks, holding discreet nighttime meetings during which they carried out physical training and simulated murder by decapitation," the ministry said.
A similar statement issued by the Moroccan interior ministry and quoted by MAP news agency, referred to group members "training how to slit throats with knives."
The agency said the cell became active in Beni Chiker, a town in the northeastern province of Nador, with its members "planning to carry out a range of execution operations in Morocco and Spain."
Five of the suspects are Moroccan nationals, one of whom had residency in Spain, while the sixth was a Spanish national of Moroccan origin, it said.
Police in Spain said the leader of the cell was a 39-year-old Spaniard of Moroccan origin living in Melilla. He was arrested by the security forces while visiting Morocco.
"He used his position as an assistant teacher in a centre for reeducating minors to carry out recruitment activities and to radicalise young people in a vulnerable situation," the interior ministry said.
It said such activity was "in line with the global strategy" of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Since mid-2015, Spain has arrested 199 people accused of links to extremism, the ministry said.
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Idlib (Syria News) Ten people were killed, while others were wounded in a bomb blast that hit Idlib Municipal Stadium, in the city of Idlib, north of Syria.
Idlib media center informed, on Wednesday, that ten persons were killed in a blast that hit the Municipal Stadium in the city of Idlib.
Some eyewitnesses and Civil Defense members also revealed that they saw an armed reconnaissance plane while bombing a fuel tank near the stadium area; meanwhile, media source affirmed the blast was due to the explosion of an ammunition vehicle inside the stadium.
It is noteworthy that the city of Idlib suffered several car bomb blasts lately, in addition to the absence of air strikes, since joining the de-escalation agreement made in May 2017.
[DENVERPOST] Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks "He's got an enormous Schwanzstucker!"
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Seems rather lenient if a group of male nurses checked out an incapacitated female the police wouldn't be claiming it's an internal matter would they?
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Spoke to a man who transports bodies for the state. One woman was left exposed for three days naked. She was every bit of three hundred pounds also. Nasty business but someone has to do it. Three straps and bagged. That body's not going to move on its own. Had a scare one time. Chime tone. What's that?. Phone in patients things was still turned on. Yes, I asked; can a woman have sex with a cadaver?. No. she was trying to get money from estate I guess. Sick puppy.
[Hurriyet Daily News] President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has accused the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) of carrying out an aggressive stance against the ruling government, likening it to behavior "in line with terrorist aims," with CHP spokesperson Bulent Tezcan reacting by saying the president’s discourse is polarizing.
"The main opposition party acts with the understanding of seizing the administration, the ruling Justice and Development Party [AKP] and myself, at the expense of the loss of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , instead of coming to power by winning the hearts and minds of the nation with their efforts and programs. Their language is not the normal language of an opposition party, it is almost the language of a terrorist organization," Erdogan said on Sept. 6, speaking to the AKP’s provincial heads.
"Whatever they [terrorist organizations] do, they [the CHP] does the same," Erdogan added.
"We will not hand our country over at the mercy of an understanding, which gives the impression they are in line with a terrorist organization and Turkey’s enemies with every step they take, every word they say and every policy they implement," he said.
The CHP’s spokesperson Tezcan reacted to Erdogan’s claims, arguing Erdogan excessively uses a discourse over "terror" to polarize society.
"Everyone knows the discourse of AKP leader Erdogan’s language. I don’t need to define it. We say ’justice,’ he says ’terror.’ Our nation can tell the difference," Tezcan said, after his party’s Central Executive Board meeting on Sept. 6.
"Our nation knows our language contains nothing but justice, peace, democracy, brotherhood and reconciliation. We will continue to use this language," he said.
"If you look at who is using the word ’terror’ most frequently, who is using ’conflict’ and ’polarization’ in politics, then the person who divides this society will be revealed," he added.
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[DAILYCALLER] “Stunningly, Barrett has asserted that judges should not follow the law or the Constitution when it conflicts with their personal religious beliefs,” AFJ claims. Legal academics have strongly disputed this characterization of her position.
Feinstein signaled sympathy with those concerns, and referenced a law review article that Barrett wrote in 1998 entitled “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases,” which appeared in the Marquette Law Review. Barrett concluded that a Catholic trial judge who is a conscientious objector to the death penalty should recuse himself if asked to enter an order of execution against a convict. She emphasized that the set of circumstances considered in the article were narrow, and that she participated in death penalty cases as a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court.
“When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the panel, of Barrett’s writings regarding the professional obligations of Catholic practitioners.
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Isn't there something in the Constitution prohibiting religious tests for public office? Of course, the Constitution really doesn't mean much to the Congress critters anyway unless it suits their purposes.
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Besides, the "religious test" in those days meant that you couldn't discriminate against Lutherans over Presbyterians, for example. Catholics were (and still are) fair game.
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[IsraelTimes] Border Police officers tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! a Paleostinian teenager at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday after finding a knife in his possession, police said.
The suspect was a Paleostinian minor from the Hebron
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
area. He was passing through a checkpoint near the city’s Tomb of the Patriarch’s holy site, when he was stopped for a more thorough examination after raising the suspicion of the Border Police officers, a police spokeswoman said.
Following his arrest, the youth was brought in for further questioning, she said
The incident is still being investigated, she added, while saying that Border Police officers at the scene believed the Paleostinian sought to carry out a stabbing attack at the checkpoint.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's highest court ruled on Sept. 6 that the European Union states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, dismissing complaints by Slovakia and Hungary and reigniting an angry row between east and west.
The government of Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Victor Orban was characteristically blunt about the European Court of Justice, calling its decision to uphold an EU policy drafted in the heat of the 2015 migrant crisis as "appalling" and denouncing a political "rape of European law and values."
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Germany, which took in the bulk of over a million people who landed in Greece two years ago, said it expected the formerly communist states, including Poland, which supported the complaint, to now fall in line and accept the ruling that the Union is entitled to impose quotas of asylum-seekers on states.
The Luxembourg-based ECJ rejected the Hungarian and Slovak claims that it was illegal for Brussels to order them to take in hundreds of mainly Moslem refugees from Syria, which they said threatened the security and stability of their societies.
"The mechanism actually contributes to enabling Greece and Italia to deal with the impact of the 2015 migration crisis and is proportionate," the court said in statement.
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And this, dear pupil, is why we must never, ever, give up our sovereignty to anyone else - like the United Nitwits.
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Distinguishing between the modern EU and traditional European feudalism is left as an exercise for the Reader.
In traditional European feudalism the top people led in warfare - took chances.
p.s. They also been pretty competent in warfare - that's how Europe conquered half the world.
[NY Post] WASHINGTON ‐ President Trump has sided with a Democratic proposal to tie Hurricane Harvey funding with a three-month increase to the debt limit and funding the government through Dec. 15.
Trump announced the deal with "Nancy" and Chuck" after huddling with the top Democratic leaders ‐House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer ‐ and top GOP leadership at the White House.
"We essentially came to a deal, and I think the deal will be very good," Trump said aboard Air Force One Wednesday. "We had a very, very cordial and professional meeting."
The Democrats touted getting the deal they essentially wanted that avoids a government shutdown Oct. 1 over the president’s border wall demands.
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After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana and now the most powerful in history headed to Florida and who knows what other states, you gotta compromise until you can get spending under control again. The Dems wanted 18 months, they got 3 and just enough increase to keep things going til then.
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The man looked and saw and said I could be President in a year. The man looked and saw and said in a year and a half, I will have to work with these people.
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I see this as a serious kick in the shorts to the (R) folks in Congress.
If you're not going to do anything, we'll work with the competition to get something done. Kind of like if you aren't going to finish my roof that you started, I'll get another company that will, plus give them credit for the whole job.
If or when your attitude changes, we'll reconsider.
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If the Repubs pass DACA and not repeal Obamacare, they had better beware of pissed off voters -- like ME!I am proud Trump went around Ryan and McConnell -- they have NOT delivered what they promised.
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He knows he has to bypass the Republican leadership if he wants anything done in Congress.
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There is an article that claims Trump has reduced the debt by 100 billion during his first 6 months. Debt. I think debt reduction is in his wheelhouse after this spate of hurricanes. As Hupeting Sforza8196 said.
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Trump has revealed the GOPe for what they are, and they'll never forgive him.
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You stab me in back and I will leave you high and dry, MoFo.
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I wonder if the debt ceiling has ever, even just once, resulted in fiscal restraint? If not, then Trump is right to avoid the annual histrionics of increasing it.
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa called on the world to "do more" against terrorism at a tribute to the deaders of the 1965 war on Pakistain's 52nd Defence Day at General Headquarters on Wednesday.
"Despite all our efforts, our countless sacrifice and over decades of war, we are being told that we have not done enough against terrorism," the army chief said, referring to recent criticism by United States (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... over Pakistain's alleged inaction against terrorist 'safe havens'.
"If Pakistain has not done enough in this war, then no country in the world has done anything," he asserted.
"Only Pakistain has seen this level of success with such limited resources. From Operation Sher Dil, to Rah-e-Rast, Rah-e-Nijat, Zarb-e-Azab and now Radd-ul-Fasaad, we have paid for each inch [of gains] with our blood."
"And now, I say that the world must do more."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... war crimes Sherlocks on Sept. 6 said they had evidence that Syrian government forces were behind a chemical attack that killed dozens of people in Khan Sheikhun in April.
In the first U.N. report to officially blame Damascus, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria said it had gathered an "extensive body of information" showing the Syrian airforce was behind the horrific sarin gas attack on April 4.
"All evidence available leads the Commission to conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe Syrian forces dropped an aerial bomb dispersing sarin in Khan Sheikhun," the report said.
At least 83 people, a third of them children, were killed and nearly 300 maimed in the attack on Khan Sheikhun, a town in the opposition-held northern province of Idlib, it said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor, has previously given a corpse count of at least 87.
Syria's government has denied involvement and claims it no longer possesses chemical weapons after a 2013 agreement under which it pledged to surrender its chemical arsenal.
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[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish police rubbed out an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lion of Islam who was set to carry out a suicide kaboom on a cop shoppe in the Mediterranean city of Mersin on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.
The assailant, wearing a vest packed with explosives, was killed outside the cop shoppe in the Yenisehir district, which security sources said is located next to the regional headquarters of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's MIT national intelligence agency.
"One member of the ISIS terrorist organization, wearing a suicide bomb vest, was captured dead in front of the Mersin Yenisehir district's ... central cop shoppe," the interior ministry said in a statement.
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[DW] Public health experts have urged "everyone older than six months" to receive a vaccine. Australia has witnessed a severe flu season and one particularly virulent strain, prompting fears in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the US.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday reiterated guidelines that "everyone older than six months" should receive vaccinations after Australia witnessed a severe flu season.
"Complete immunization should occur by the end of October, if possible. There is no evidence that administering the influenza vaccine early in the season increase the risk of infection for children," the AAP said in a statement.
Public health experts have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s about the upcoming flu season in Europe and the US after 73 people died in Australia this year from a strain of flu dubbed Influenza A, or H3N2 (H3), which is more resistant to flu vaccinations than most and often affects the elderly.
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.
[Townhall] Dennis Rodman offered to "straighten things out" between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the United States as tensions mount over the rogue regime’s nuclear tests. 
[The Hill] Hillary Clinton believes that it "was a mistake" for her to not go after FBI Director James Comey during the 2016 election, according to a newly released excerpt from her upcoming book "What Happened."
[Free Beacon] Sen. Cory Booker showed up for the start of Sen. Robert Menendez's bribery trial on Wednesday to support his fellow New Jersey Democrat.
[Breitbart] Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most vocal pro-amnesty voices in Congress, claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is essentially endorsing "white supremacy" by winding down former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty.
[STUDYFINDS.ORG] Is life in and of itself like a fine wine, that is, does it get better with age? While many of us fear what’s to come in our elder years, a new survey finds that most older adults are actually more content than their younger or middle-aged counterparts.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Hurriyet Daily News] 
