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At least seven were arrested in Portland on Sunday during violent clashes between Antifa demonstrators and white nationalists.
Two police officers were injured as protesters threw rocks and smoke bombs at police during the 'Patriot Prayer' rally.
Authorities in the city were preparing for violence at around noon as anticipation grew for a rally that was staged by the right-wing organization.
At around the same time, police made sure to create a buffer between Patriot Prayer and several hundred counter-protesters belonging to another group which demonstrated under the banner ‘Shut Down White Supremacy'.
There was also a street march organized by the group Portland Stands United Against Hate.
The tensions nearly escalated to a tragedy after police arrested one man who witnesses say attempted to plow his pick-up truck into a group of Antifa demonstrators.
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Useful idiots...so much cannon fodder for Soros
[Victory Girls] Every culture tells the stories of its heroes. There are multiple reasons for telling the stories of heroes. As long as we tell the story and say the name of the hero, he still lives. Telling the story of the hero inspires each successive generation to heroism. Rick Rescorla was a hero on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York City. His story must be told and the name of Rick Rescorla must be said aloud to keep him alive.
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[American Thinker] There is a body of evidence that early hormonal manipulation can have horrific consequences.
We have to ask ourselves, what happens to all those women using hormonal contraceptives when they stop their pills in anticipation of wanted pregnancy. Does the normal human cycle return immediately, or is there a rebound effect where, even if ovulation occurs, the ambient hormonal background in the womb is screwed up? This article addressed the question of whether gonadal steroid exposure during prenatal development is one of the factors, in at least one of the pathways, that lead to variability in sexual orientation outcomes. Based on the compelling evidence that prenatal testosterone exposure influences children’s sex-typical play behavior, on the well-established links between childhood play interests and adult sexual orientation, and on the evidence showing altered sexual orientation in women exposed to high levels of androgens prenatally, because of CAH, the answer appears to be "yes." - National Institutes of Health
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Nature's method of culling the non-productive? Who then, will become the new inhabitants? In light of the recent migrations in Europe, and the debates on immigration here in the States, a rather rhetorical albeit sobering question I suppose.
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'Sexual orientation' is nature's way of promoting the reproductive success of first born sons and decreasing sibling reproductive rivalry. It's perhaps not surprising that hormonal birth control promotes this phenomena.
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TLDR; unrestrained use of technology and government by hypergamic women who will do ANYTHING to avoid negative consequences of an unplanned pregnancy is taking down Western civilization.
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Muslim families are big. They have no interest in small families. It has been my experience anyway.
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It is an an interesting question. Epigenetics and adaptation to short term evolutionary stresses... such as starvation during famines. It seems that we (scientists) really know less than we (scientists) thought we knew.
[Powerline] Edina is a wealthy suburb of Minneapolis that at one time had one of the finest public school systems in the United States. As I have documented here, here, here and here, the Edina schools decided some years ago to prioritize left-wing indoctrination over academic excellence. The result has been a decline in academic performance, and a pervasive atmosphere of oppression and bullying directed against non-conforming students and parents.
A blockbuster story on the Edina schools will soon be coming out. In the meantime, consider this beginning-of-school-year email from the principal of Edina’s Highlands Elementary School:
[Daily Caller] Eric Chase Bolling, the son of former Fox News anchor Eric Bolling, died on Saturday. His passing is being celebrated by leftists on Twitter to mock his father, who lost his job on the cable news network following allegations of sexual harassment.
TMZ reported that Bolling Jr., who was 19, died from a drug overdose. Numerous leftists on Twitter called his death a fitting punishment for his father’s alleged actions.
"I knew [Eric Bolling] was a POS, but it is incredibly rare to see karma deliver such harsh justice," wrote @Donnie2Scoop. "The teen son deserved better."
Dozens of other progressives mocked Bolling for his son’s death, also calling it karma. Many gloated over the tragedy, sharing GIFs and images to express their joy at his suffering.
[Reuters] DALLAS - A gunman killed seven people at a home in a Dallas suburb on Sunday evening before being shot dead by police called to the scene, authorities said.
The shooting took place in Plano, a suburb north of Dallas.
David Tilley, a spokesman for the Plano Police Department, said the shooter was killed by the first responding officer after an exchange of gunfire. The officer was not injured.
Seven people were found dead in the Plano home.
Two additional shooting victims were taken to a local hospital. Their condition was unknown.
"We’re trying to put all the puzzle pieces together," Tilley said.
There was no information yet on the relationship between the suspect and the victims. Local media reports that the shooting occurred at a Dallas Cowboys viewing party could not be confirmed either.
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A neighbor said a friend of one of the homeowners said the violence had been sparked by a domestic dispute, but police have provided no details about the relationships between the victims and the gunman. The couple identified in public records as the homeowners sought a divorce in July.
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From the updated story at Snomble Throluter4608's link:
Relatives confirmed to WFAA-TV (Channel 8) on Monday that one of the victims was 27-year-old Meredith Hight and that her estranged husband was the shooter.
"She was a cook, and a quite fine one, and she loved hosting friends and families," said her mother, Debbie Lane. "This was her first opportunity to do it after the divorce, and he didn't take it well."
A small photo of the pretty, blond Ms Hight can now be seen at the link.
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon blasted the "geniuses" in former President George W. Bush’s administration for selling out American workers and getting the country stuck in the Middle East in a 60 Minutes interview with CBS anchor Charlie Rose.
Bannon took offense at establishment Republicans associated with the Bush administration who went out of their way to question President Donald Trump’s competence during the 2016 campaign even though nearly all of their "genius" ideas‐like Paul Wolfowitz’s brand of nation-building and neoconservatism‐turned out to be disastrous.
"I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt," Bannon told Rose, adding that the former Bush administration officials get him riled up with anger like nothing else. "They’re idiots, and they’ve gotten us in this situation, and they question a good man like Donald Trump."
Bannon blasted "the geniuses in the Bush administration that let China in the W.T.O.," and reminded Rose that the "genius in the Bush administration told us, ’Hey, they’re going to be a liberal democracy. They’re going to be free-market capitalism.’ The same geniuses that got us into Iraq."
Bannon also denounced George W. Bush and "his entire national security apparatus," which included people like Condi Rice, Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney.
Consistent with the disdain he has always had for the bipartisan permanent political class in Washington’s "Boomtown," Bannon also blasted "the Obama crowd," which he said was "almost the same."
"Clinton crowd, almost the same," he continued. "It’s three administrations."
The Breitbart News executive chairman clashed in the White House with national security adviser H.R. McMaster, who represented the foreign policy views of the Bush foreign policy establishment. Bannon’s absence in the White House was almost immediately felt when Trump’s first speech without Bannon as his chief strategist, which was about increasing America’s involvement in Afghanistan, was heralded as a "classic neocon speech," with some fanboys even saying that neocon Paul Wolfowitz is now president.
Chris Froome pulls off the rare Tour de France / Vuelta win in the same year, but I'm mentioning something much more sinister / idiotic I spotted when they were handing out the trophies at the end of the race.
There was a building in the background from which some jagoffs hung a fairly big banner - REFUGEES WELCOME, and the TV crew (Olympic Channel, formerly NBC Universal) made it a point to show it a second time for about twenty seconds. To me, it's just another data point on how far Europe's political 'leadership' slid into this complete insanity.
[IsraelTimes] The international protest movement to boycott Israel is increasingly encountering resistance in Germany's big cities. Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich have said BDS uses language from the Nazi era.
For over ten years, an international network of protest against Israeli policy toward the Paleostinians has existed: the "Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions" (BDS) movement. It began in 2005 when numerous Paleostinian organizations expressed extensive criticism of Israeli policy towards the Paleostinians. Internationally, the call to boycott Israeli products from the occupied territories and holdings of Israeli companies was based on a long-term campaign in the 1980s against the apartheid system in South Africa.
For a long time, BDS' stance was regarded as critical of Israel as a whole or anti-Zionist. But recently, several German metropolises have judged the protest movement to be "anti-Semitic" and have outlawed official support to the movement.
At the national level, the anti-BDS movement is also gaining steam. At its annual convention in Essen in December 2016, Merkel's CDU party approved a petition that would make the party condemn or oppose any BDS activities. Becker also initiated that petition.
[Iran Press TV] Israeli fighter jets have violated Lebanese airspace and flown low over parts of the country in flagrant violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
Security sources and residents said the Israeli aircraft crossed into Lebanese airspace over the southern city of Sidon, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital, Beirut, on Sunday, causing sonic booms that broke windows and shook buildings.
The sonic booms also caused panic among local residents. The Israeli military is yet to comment on the incident.
The incident came a day after Leb’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said the Arab country would lodge an "urgent complaint" with the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council against Israel over an Arclight airstrike conducted from the Lebanese airspace on a military facility in the western Syrian province of Hama.
The Syrian army said in a statement on September 7 that Israeli warplanes had fired a number of missiles at 2:42 a.m. local time (0042 GMT) from the Lebanese airspace against one of its military positions near the town of Masyaf, located approximately 40 kilometers west of the historic provincial capital city of Hama.
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[DAILYCALLER] Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.
Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to "unintended consequences" and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations, The Oregonian reported.
"There are still criminal gang members. That doesn’t go away because we don’t have a gang designation," said Capt. Mike Krantz, according to The Oregonian. "We’re not pretending gang violence doesn’t exist. We’re just taking this one thing away."
City officials and community activists had long urged the bureau to stop attaching the gang designation to criminal suspects, claiming the practice disproportionately impacted people of color. A review of police data by The Oregonian last year found that 81 percent of the "criminal gang affiliates" in Portland’s database were racial or ethnic minorities.
"This is too long coming," said Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is also the city’s police commissioner. "It was the right thing to do."
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They could go all retro and call it the Negro Crime Database.
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OK let's imagine you child is killed by one of those gang members the police refuses to track. Now what do you do? You sue the city to death or yo go postal on leftists and city officials?
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In liberal bastion's we are at the point where racial political correctness trumps the truth. That in er city minorities cannot be disproportionately criminal is an unacceptable truth. Like the inquisition, heresy cannot be allowed.
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Not going to follow NOAA's model of 'readjusting' old numbers to fit the narrative? I'm sure these "New Whites" could be labeled as a 'potential' terrorist group in Rightthink.
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The left is not the enemy but something more dangerous: The intellectual equivalent of a drowning swimmer who will pull any potential rescuer under with them in the struggle to match belief with actual events.
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[Telegraph] British couple have been hiding in a rat infested bathroom with no water for five days as the Caribbean island they were living on descends into lawlessness in the wake of Hurricane Irma, their family have said.
Jos Smart, 26, and his girlfriend Julia Taylor, 30, say they have been abandoned by the British Government and are too afraid to leave the half destroyed hotel that they found refuge in amid reports of looting and violence.
The Category 5 storm hit the island on Wednesday and it has since been placed under curfew to try and restore order.
British Troops and police officers have been sent to help the British Virgin Islands (BVI), but families of those on St Maarten, which is Dutch and shares the island with the French St Martin to the north, say that because it is not a British territory their loved ones have been abandoned. Perhaps because the responsibility for rescuing people from Dutch territory lies with the Dutch? Well, Julia does appear to be quite a legitimate distraction from the weather.
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...You know, something I remember from Hurricane Hugo was that the VI - ours and everybody else's - pretty much went full Mad Max afterwards, and that I made a promise to myself to never visit the place. Glad to see I made the right call.
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Never start a land war in Asia
Never visit a Caribbean island during hurricane season
Never visit a Caribbean island during hurricane season
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Trump has a $14 million mansion (at least before the hurricane it was) on that island. I hope he hired a bunch of PMCs to protect it unless he has really good insurance on it. He's had it up for sale for quite awhile.
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I'm disappointed. I expected a story about Morning Joe and his GF Mika.
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The airports were destroyed in St. Martin, Tortola, and St. Thomas so the KY National Guard, with units that do not need to land, were rescuing people and transferring anyone with a passport to Puerto Rico. Jamaicans with passports but no US visas were trying to get off island and I think they decided to figure it out in PR. I don't think people realize the extent of devastation after a direct hit from a Cat 5 storm, with no communication or power on islands that must import everything, but these former colonies also had the prisons destroyed with about 150 prisoners running loose in the BVI. All homes and vegetation were destroyed, including the VG Yacht Harbor for mega yachts THE Aga Khan was fond of, & the mosque in Roadtown. 'Left Behind' in the Caribbean with machete wielding thugs is truly a terrifying thought.
[Iraq News] More than seventeen 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.... members were killed, while other civilians were maimed in Arclight airstrikes in western Anbar, a security source said.
"U.S.-led Coalition jets bombarded on Sunday IS locations in Qaim, Annah and Rawa, west of Anbar. Seventeen IS members, including leader, Mohammed Abboud Abd Manaf, were killed in Wadi al-Kasr region, located between Annah and Rawa. IS member in charge of the group’s prisons in Qaim, known as Farhan Rafiq Eteiwy, was also killed," the source told Alghad Press on Sunday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, "the shelling left five civilians maimed, with two of them at death's door. Moreover, a group’s weapon stash was destroyed."
On Friday, Coalition jets reportedly bombarded three booby-trapped vehicles in several regions in Annah, killing several Lion of Islams. Late August, 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.
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[Iraq News] Blasts were heard Sunday at 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.... offices in Kirkuk as the province anticipates military operations to retake areas held by the bad boy group since 2014.
A local source told Alsumaria News that violent kabooms were heard at three Islamic State headquarters in central Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk) following strikes by warplanes from the United States-led coalition.
"One of the targeted locations was used by the group as a secret meeting room, and had been under tight security," said the source.
A week ago, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said operations would launch sooner to recapture Hawija. The announcement came shortly after the JOC said it totally took over Tal Afar, the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Nineveh province. Earlier in July, Iraqi troops, backed by a United States-led coalition, recaptured djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Islamic State’s former capital, after more than eight months of battles.
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That worked well. [Iraq News] Iraqi police forces killed 14 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.... faceless myrmidons in northeastern Diyala province on Sunday, a local police commander was quoted saying.
Jassem al-Saadi, Diyala police chief, said in statements that the bully boys, who were killed in an operation at the area between Imam Weiss and Naft Khana, had arrived to the area fleeing from Tal Afar, the Islamic State’s stronghold in western Nineveh which Iraqi forces recaptured late August.
Four rest houses and a collection of boom belts and arms were destroyed in the operation, according to Saadi.
Violence and armed conflicts left 297 Iraqis dead and maimed during the month of ِAugust, according to a monthly count by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths.
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[DAWN] At least 34 non-combatants were killed on Sunday when Russian warplanes targeted ferries carrying them across the Euphrates River near Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group initially reported 21 deaths in Russian air strikes but later raised the toll to 34, saying that "more bodies have been found in the river".
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said nine children were among those killed fleeing fighting and that "dozens" of people were maimed in the strikes.
He said the raids targeted "more than 40 ferries" that had left al-Boulil town southwest of Deir Ezzor city for the eastern shore of the river.
The Observatory relies on a network of sources inside Syria, and says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used.
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[DAWN] Four people, including three members of the Hazara community, were killed and two others were maimed when unidentified gunnies opened fire on their vehicle in Quetta's Kuchlak area on Sunday evening.
The members were "targeted" on their way from the Chaman border crossing at the Pak-Afghan border, said police official Zahoor Khan.
Two women travelling in the car were maimed and transferred to Quetta's Civil Hospital for treatment, Khan told DawnNews, adding, "The incident seems to be an act of assassination'>assassination."
The suspects sped away on their cycle of violences after opening fire, Khan said.
Moments later, police officials and law enforcement agencies' personnel arrived at the site of the incident as investigations into the shooting were underway.
In the aftermath of the attack, traffic at the busy Kuchlak Bazar was jammed for one hour.
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[DAWN] North Korea illegally exported coal, iron and other commodities worth at least $270 million to China and other countries including India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka in the six-month period ending in early August in violation of UN sanctions, UN experts say.
The experts monitoring sanctions said in a report released Saturday that Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... 's government continues to flout sanctions on commodities as well as an arms embargo and restrictions on shipping and financial activities.
They said North Korea is also reportedly continuing prohibited nuclear activities with weapons-grade fissile material production at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, construction and maintenance at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, and at a uranium mine in Pyongsan.
The eight-member panel of experts said it is also investigating the widespread presence of North Koreans in Africa and the Middle East, particularly in Syria, "including their involvement in prohibited activities."
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Sink the NORK fleet.
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[DAWN] Rohingya holy warriors, who sparked an army crackdown in Myanmar that has seen nearly 300,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh, on Sunday declared a unilateral ceasefire to allow aid to reach the increasingly desperate refugees.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... (UN) said 294,000 bedraggled and exhausted Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since the holy warriors' attacks on Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state on August 25 sparked a major military backlash.
Tens of thousands more are believed to be on the move inside Rakhine after more than a fortnight without shelter, food and water.
Three Rohingya are reported to have been killed by a mine near the border allegedly laid by Myanmar security forces to stop the runaways returning.
Mainly Buddhist Myanmar does not recognise its stateless Moslem Rohingya community, labelling them as "Bengalis" ─ illegal immigrants colonists from Bangladesh.
A further 27,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus have also fled violence that has gripped the northern part of the state.
"The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) hereby declares a temporary cessation of offensive military operations," the group said in a statement on its official Twitter account.
It urged "all humanitarian actors" to resume aid delivery to "all victims of humanitarian crisis irrespective of ethnic or religious background" during the one-month ceasefire period until October 9.
ARSA called on Myanmar to "reciprocate this humanitarian pause" in fighting.
There was no immediate response from Myanmar's military, but on Saturday authorities said they would set up three relief camps in Rohingya-majority areas.
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Last I heard, the Myanmar gov said "Thanks, but no thanks".
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Muslims in the Philippines have gotten autonomy because they're fighting against Pinoys, who fight by American rules, more or less, except they don't have an American budget. Muslims in Burma will probably lose big time. Because the Burmese government plays by non-Western rules. Rebels and their civilian supporters will either cease their insurrection or be massacred or expelled.
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: A local holy man, who had imposed ban on music, on Saturday tendered an apology to the political administration for taking law into his hands.
Sources said father of the holy man, Mohammad Ibrahim akka Bacha Jan, and three other family members were summoned to the offices of political administration in Landi Kotal, where officials reprimanded them for taking law into their hands by not only conducting raids at private properties of some local residents but also imposing ban on all types of music in the Shinwari territory of Landi Kotal.
They said the political administration was under pressure from public after the ban.
In their written apology they contended that the incident (burning of music instruments) which occurred on Sept 8 and the announcements made were result of a misunderstanding and would not be repeated in future.
"We will not take the law into our hands in future and will remain peaceful citizens," the statement said and added that they repented their deeds.
The apology came after strong criticism from the civil society and even the ordinary citizens.
Hakim Shinwari, a local trader, said it was tantamount to creation of a parallel administration, which the local residents won’t tolerate.
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[Iran Press TV] An Iranian missile boat has warned off an American warship approaching an Iranian dhow in the Sea of Oman, the Navy of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Army said in a statement on Sunday.
"The dhow, Shams (Sun), had set sail from the port city of Jask in southeastern Iran to test its motor. Forty-five miles (72 kilometers) into the sea, the vessel’s motor started to malfunction, prompting the sailors to alert the Iranian Navy," it said.
The Navy dispatched Falakhan (Sling) missile boat to the vessel’s rescue, which towed the broken-down dhow to the port but before that, the US destroyer was seen approaching the site, it said.
"The American warship left the area with a warning and the announcement of the Falakhan missile boat's timely presence in the region," the statement said.
Iran's naval patrols and US warships have been engaged in a series of face-offs in the Persian Gulf in recent months, where Washington has accused Iranian vessels of "harassing" American warships.
Iranian military commanders say while their units continue routine patrols, US naval units have changed their navigational patterns since 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... came into office, often engaging in provocative maneuvers near Iran's vessels.
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[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that dozens of terror plots were stopped in the past two months by the Shin Bet domestic security service.
"In July and August, the Shin Bet thwarted over 70 terrorist cells that were planning attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians," Netanyahu said before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. "Israeli civilians don’t know everything that the Shin Bet does."
He did not elaborate on the nature of the attacks or how many arrests were made. The Shin Bet confirmed the number but declined to offer details.
The security service regularly makes announcements of arrests and foiled terror plots in Israel and the West Bank, though it often waits until charges are filed to confirm arrests.
Last week the agency said in its monthly report that it had recorded 110 terror attacks in August compared to 222 the previous month, when tensions around the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem generated a major spike in incidents.
The decrease brought the number of attacks back to a level similar to before the July conflagration, which resulted in the highest number of incidents in any month since December 2015. From January 2016 onward, Israel saw an average of 121 attacks against its citizens per month.
[AlAhram] German authorities believe 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 holds some 11,100 blank Syrian passports that can be completed with any individual's details, weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.
Investigators have assembled a list of serial numbers of the blank passports and the authorities that issued them, the newspaper reported, citing confidential documents from federal police and the interior ministry.
The stolen passports are genuine identity papers that have not yet been filled out with an individual's details, making them a valuable tool for forgers.
In total, German security services are aware of some 18,002 blank Syrian passports stolen from Syrian government sites, including thousands held by groups other than IS.
"Developments in connection with the refugee situation have shown that terrorist organizations are using the opportunity to infiltrate potential attackers or supporters into Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Germany undetected," a spokeswoman for the BKA federal criminal police told Bild am Sonntag.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... "'Fake or altered passports are mostly used for illegal entry without further motives like carrying out a terrorist attack," the spokeswoman said.
Some 8,625 passports checked by German migration authorities in 2016 turned out to be fakes according to the documents seen by Bild am Sonntag.
But the files provided no information on how many of the passports were among those that had passed through IS' hands.
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The Russian tank’s manufacture Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) displayed publicly for the first time a new version of T-90 main battle tank during the demonstration of newest armored vehicles in honor of the tanker’s day on the territory of the 33rd combined-arms training range.
The upgraded version of T-90 main battle tank is called T-90M. The new tank will likely feature many of the technologies developed for Russia’s revolutionary T-14 Armata.
The T-90M will also incorporate advanced defensive systems such are slat armor, active protection systems and new reactive armor. The T-90 main battle tank is an armed with a fully-stabilized longer 2A46M-4 125 mm smoothbore gun. This gun is also used to launch 9K119 Refleks (NATO designation AT-11 Sniper-B) anti-tank guided missiles, in the same manner, as ordinary munitions.
Secondary armament consists of a coaxial PKT 7.62 mm machine gun and a roof mounted remotely-controlled NSVT 12.7 mm machine gun, used against both ground and air targets. The new 125mm tank gun that is destined to be the main gun for the T-14 Armata is a more durable version of the current gun. The barrel also is longer than the old model, which will increase velocity and range, but to what extent is anyone's guess. The Russians ain't sayin'.
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The latest variant of the T-72... I am not sure what to make of this -- the US can't seem to come up with something to replace the "Ma Deuce" M2 HMG or the B-52...
[IsraelTimes] Nadav Argaman says the Gazoo-based terror group is ready for renewed conflict with Israel
The head of the Shin Bet security service said Sunday that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is setting up a base in Leb with Iranian support as part of its ongoing efforts to deepen its connections with the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s "Shiite axis."
Speaking to ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting, Nadav Argaman warned that the Paleostinian terror group, which rules the Gazoo Strip, has "continued to invest considerable resources in preparation for a future conflict, even at the cost of its citizens’ welfare."
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[DAWN] MITHI: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has warned that hidden hands are busy fomenting religious extremism in Thar and if they are not stopped, the entire region will turn into a hub of religious fanatics within no time.
Talking to journalists here on Saturday, the veteran leader said that America was responsible for all the mess in the region.
Talking to journalists here on Saturday, the veteran leader said that America was responsible for all the mess in the region. Enemies of Pakistain would continue to create hurdles in the implementation of China-Pakistain Economic Corridor projects and various other schemes in smaller provinces, he cautioned.
He criticised successive rulers for failing to formulate strategies to face challenges. The rulers and corrupt officials were responsible for the poor state of schools across the province, he said.
He deplored that on the one hand rulers were eyeing huge coal reserves in Thar to end energy crisis in the country, while on the other they did not bother to reopen hundreds of schools lying closed in the desert district.
He 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... over declining literacy rate among girls and urged his party workers and supporters to press the government to reopen closed schools. "The rulers have deliberately kept people of Sindh in a state of utter backwardness so that they could continue to exploit them," he said.
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[Ynet] French prosecutors on Sunday issued preliminary terror charges for two men linked to an explosives lab discovered in an apartment near Paris.
Paris counter-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins said the men detained last week were charged with terrorist association and the manufacture of explosives.
Molins said the men—a 36-year-old apartment owner named Ali M.R. and a man known as Frederic M. who was previously known to intelligence authorities -- aimed "to manufacture a bomb" to carry out an attack in France. He said, however, no specific plan had been found.
The explosive materials—along with the message in Arabic "God is great"—were found accidently in the lab in the Paris suburb of Villejuif on Wednesday after workmen had been called to fix a nearby water leak and told authorities after noticing suspicious products in an apartment.
Up to four kilograms (nearly 9 pounds) of the explosive TATP could have been manufactured from the material discovered, Molins said. TATP, a peroxide-based explosive, has been employed often by Islamic extremists.
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 6 people died on Sunday after a jacket wallahwent kaboom! in a restaurant just outside a bigwig’s office in the central Somali city of Beledweyne, police and residents said.
The al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... group said it was behind the attack.
"At least six people died and several others were maimed. A suicide bomber blew up himself in a restaurant," major Hussein Osman, a police officer told Rooters from Beledweyne.
The Sunday afternoon blast took place outside the office of the governor of the Hiran region, where he was holding a meeting, police and residents said.
"We are behind the attack at the Hiran governor’s headquarters. There are casualties. We targeted the workers of the Hiran administration," said Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military operation front man.
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I don't know what's sadder. The idiots who think it was all our fault because we "don't understand and deserved it" or the idiots who think it "was a conspiracy by the CIA and whoever else they can think off".
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...I've always thought that what should have happened in that first week was 41 standing up and saying, "There will be blood."
And meaning it. And doing it. Level Kabul. Take down anything even resembling military power in Iraq, and telling the Iranians as a matter of national policy that our response to any further terror attacks would be swift, brutal, and overwhelming force. The nation would have backed him, and the world would have sat down, shut up, and looked the other way.
Instead, we have...this.
Mike
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The 'kinder gentler' war strategy. How's that worked out for you? /rhet question
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All of those 9/11 terrorists were either Soddies or Yemenis. And yet we still kowtow to the Soddy king. Oil be damned. It makes no sense.
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Should've sanctioned wetwork on those known responsible, however high up it went.
Sixteen years of service, Fred. Thank you. I've followed you from the first I heard of you on Glenn Reynold's blog
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We have done nothing on the ideology front. We should have been denouncing the evil in Quran and Islam and having Muslims leaving Islam by the m
illions. In fact we are in full retreat.
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Does Rantburg's blogroll still work? Last time I checked, it was full of dead links.
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I also think rantburg should memorialize May 15, 2005.
That was the day of the well publicized, much endorsed Muslim march against terrorism in Washington DC. There were fewer than 100 people, many of whom were not muslim.
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That is what is pathetic, that although there are plenty of law-abiding citizen and "against" violence, they refuse to come out and denounce Islamic terrorism.
[SPORTS.YAHOO] Seattle's Michael Bennett and Oakland's Marshawn Lynch joined other NFL athletes Sunday in protesting the treatment of minorities by US law enforcement during the first weekend of the regular season.
Both Bennett and Lynch remained seated during The Star-Spangled Banner before the Seahawks and Raiders season-opening games as part of a continuing wave of protests that began last year with former the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Bennett sat as teammate Justin Britt stood next to him with his hand on his shoulder while another teammate, Thomas Rawls, stood on Bennett's other side before the game against the Green Bay Packers.
Bennett's brother, Martellus, who plays for the Packers, stood at the end of the Green Bay bench with his right fist in the air.
Two weeks ago, Bennett was detained on a Las Vegas street for about 10 minutes by police who were investigating the firing of gunshots in the area.
Bennett has alleged that he had been the victim of racial discrimination after being threatened at gunpoint by the police. He said they "singled" him out for "nothing more than being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Police denied the charge and said Bennett was detained briefly because he was spotted running from the police before jumping over a wall. Bennett was handcuffed but police did not arrest or charge him.
Raiders runningback Lynch also sat during the anthem just like he did a number of times during the preseason. Lynch, unlike Bennett, has declined to discuss his reasons for doing so.
In Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , players linked arms with police, military and firefighters during the anthem before the Browns' opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. No players knelt during the song.
Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins and Los Angeles Rams linebacker Robert Quinn also raised their fists in protest before their games started.
Kaepernick remains unsigned after trying unsuccessfully to land a job with another team following his release from the 49ers.
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The market will speak to the NFL and their lack of leadership and character.
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It boggles me why the owners just don't put their collective foot down. IMAO, this is no different than any other job where you are expected to show up on time, wear clothes you wouldn't normally and do what you're told. You can have all the free speech and personal expression you want on your own time.
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Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins: Signing Bonus US$ 1.5million, base salary US$ 6.0 Million.
Joe Average Viewer wanting a Politics-Free Zone:in 2013 58% of the fans were paid 75,000$ or less annual salary...
[SPORTS.YAHOO] At least Los Angeles now has two NFL teams to not care about.
There should be some excitement for both teams in Los Angeles as this season starts. The Chargers just moved there, and every other team in professional sports history that has relocated has been greeted warmly by their new city. Not the Chargers, who didn’t come close to selling out their temporary 30,000-seat soccer stadium in Carson for the preseason.
There should be some excitement for the Rams too. Last season wasn’t very good, but new coach Sean McVay was hired and there were good results for second-year quarterback Jared Goff in the preseason. Also, fans get excited for just about any team starting a new season. And for Week 1 of just the second season for the Rams back in Los Angeles, it looked like the Coliseum was maybe half full.
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In five years when Brady, Rogers, E. Manning, and Brees are gone, the NFL will hit a slide and stay there for a bunch of years.
It's their turn. The NFL has had a good run over the last fifteen or so years but every one of the big four goes through peaks and valleys. The NFL is due and their commissioner is accelerating the crash.
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"Peak NFL". No sympathy for the NFL. It already enjoys an anti-trust exemption. What a joke. No tears shed here.
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It's been said that sports (and other entertainment) is an escape from the day-to-day politics. Now that sports (NFL) have become "political" (see also ESPN's demise), sports are no longer the escape people temporarily desire.
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sports are no longer the escape people temporarily desire.
How soon before they bring back the old Roman Games. I know a lot of liberals would love to watch Christians vs Lions -or- to give it a 20th Century update: Unarmed Christians vs Lions of Islam...
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Everyone knew this would happen, yet LA was given two NFL teams.
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Everyone knew this would happen, yet LA was given two NFL teams.
Not only that, I heard talk of having teams in Europe again. NFL Europe was a massive failure, yet the suits / brain dead commissioner Roger Goodell keep bringing this crap up. The NFL deserves a few years in the wilderness.
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If you move to as city with alot of low-income residents for a demographic, chances are you won't get full-stadiums with ticket/concession prices as they are. I can't imagine the Chargers or Rams staying financially afloat beyond the decade.
I believe, Spanos will sell the team in a couple years to a conglomerate interest that will move the team BACK to San Diego.
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they currently get around $200M+ from the TV package alone. Hard to drive a franchise into the ground without Nick Maduro as an owner
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[AlAhram] Two boats crowded with 305 Syrian refugees arrived in Cyprus overnight, police said on Sunday, one of the largest group landings of migrants colonists to the island since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011.
The vessels were tracked sailing to the north-west of the island and were thought to have set off from the Ottoman Turkish coastal city of Mersin.
"For their safety they were towed to harbour," a police front man said. One of the vessels had been taking in water, the front man added.
Cyprus is the closest European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member state to Syria, yet many fleeing conflict have largely avoided the island because it has no direct easy access to the rest of the continent.
The single largest group arrival since the Syrian conflict started was 345 people who were rescued in September 2014.
Police said they were questioning a 36 year old Syrian man believed to have been steering one of the vessels. The others would be taken to a reception centre west of the capital, Nicosia.
The Syrians, who included many minors, appeared in good health. A woman and her infant were taken to hospital for precautionary reasons, the front man added.
[AlAhram] Ten bandidosholy warriors were killed and nine copperswere maimed on Sunday in a shootout in central Cairo's Agouza district as police were executing a raid, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior.
Security forces had received information that a number of bandidosholy warriors who escaped the restive North Sinai were hiding out in two apartments in Agouza and were planning a number of attacks in central governorates.
Police were met with gunfire when they attempted to execute an arrest warrant on the suspects at dawn, according to the ministry.
A number of weapons were found in the two apartments.
Six of the suspects have been identified, all of whom had registered addresses in the Greater Cairo area. Two of the suspects were wanted on terrorism-related charges in North Sinai.
Egyptian security officials said the militants were members of Hasm, a breakaway Brotherhood faction that has targeted police and army officers in Cairo over the past year in a series of brazen attacks.
Police found in the two apartments bomb-making materials, assault rifles and ammunition as well as maps of vital state installations and computers in which instructions and details of future attacks were stored, they said.
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- Navy Admiral William Moran gave testimony about two warship accidents
- Moran said budget constraints and hectic pace of operations no excuse
- Accidents involving the USS John S. McCain in August and the USS Fitzgerald in June resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors
- Moran urged congress during his testimony to stop providing defense budgets by way of stopgap measures
- Wide-ranging investigation found that more than a third of warships based in Japan had expired certifications
Four Navy vessels have been involved in accidents this year in the Pacific
- Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, a three-star officer, was relieved of duty after the McCain crash
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But I'm sure all personnel have their "diversity training" certificates, LGBTQWTF sensitivity awareness, and all of the 307 new pronouns (with more on the way!) down pat, right?
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#3 But I'm sure all personnel have their "diversity training" certificates, LGBTQWTF sensitivity awareness, and all of the 307 new pronouns (with more on the way!) down pat, right?
Posted by: PBMcL 2017-09-11 01:14
...If just ONE sailor implicated in either one of these incidents turns out to be under trained (or not trained at all) but they're 100% up to date on their Social Actions training, then people need to go to jail for gundecking the training, and SECNAV needs to take the opportunity to shut down the stupidity - "People are dead and ships are crippled because we can't get our priorities straight. Once we've done that, we can talk about social actions."
Would be nice, but not sure it's even possible now.
Mike
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[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish authorities said Sunday they stopped 313 migrants colonists on the Black Sea attempting to reach Balkan countries in the last two days, suggesting the emergence of an alternative route to Europe.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's coasties said it stopped a fishing boat carrying 93 Syrians and one Afghan off the northern coast of Istanbul. The coasties says they were with a suspected Ottoman Turkish smuggler.
The coasties also intercepted 68 Syrians and two Iranians in a sailboat with one alleged Ottoman Turkish smuggler 36 nautical miles east of Bulgaria on Saturday.
Late Friday, an official vessel stopped 149 Syrians and two Ukrainians thought to be smugglers in a fishing boat emitting a distress signal 14 nautical miles east of Romania.
The migrants colonists and suspects were brought to northwestern Kirklareli province in Turkey for processing.
[Inquirer] Philippine troops arrested a member of the Abu Sayyaf under top leader Radullan Sahiron in Sulu, the military disclosed Friday. Milham Saham was intercepted by soldiers in Patikul town on Thursday evening.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) described Saham as a notorious member of the terrorist group.
Military spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said, “Troops conducted a checkpoint following reports on the alleged movement of the Abu Sayyaf in the area, resulting in the arrest of Abu Sayyaf member Saham."
“Saham was positively identified by informants as an Abu Sayyaf member under Sahiron. He was previously associated with the groups of late sub-leaders Hairulla Asbang and Alhabsy Misaya,” Western Mindanao Command said.
He is also linked to the group of sub-leader Alden Bagadi, known as Sayning, who is his cousin. Saham is a Abu Sayyaf militant known to residents of Barangays Buganginan and Kaunayan in Patikul.
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[Circa] Florida sheriff issued a stern, but unusual warning ahead of Hurricane Irma's landfall: Shooting bullets into the storm won't help keep you safe.
'To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma,' the Pasco County, Florida sheriff tweeted. 'You won't make it turn around & it will have very dangerous side effects.' Rarely reported side effects include:
- an erection that will not go away (priapism). If you have an erection that lasts more than 4 hours, call a hooker get medical help right away. If it is not treated right away, priapism can permanently damage your penis.
- sudden vision loss in one or both eyes. Sudden vision loss in one or both eyes can be a sign of a serious eye problem called non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). Stop shooting at the hurricane and call your healthcare provider right away if you have sudden vision loss in one or both eyes.
- sudden hearing decrease or hearing loss. Some people may also have ringing in their ears (tinnitus) or dizziness. If you have these symptoms, stop shooting at the hurricane and contact a doctor right away.
[Iran Press TV] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has touched on US meddling in other countries' internal affairs in a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro whose country is grappling with months of unrest.
Venezuela has been convulsed by months of unrest, which has plunged the oil-rich country into the worst economic crisis in its history. The government says Washington is instigating the unrest and trying to undermine the South American country.
"We have no doubt that the new methods of the US government cannot last for long," Rouhani said on the sidelines of the first science and technology summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Astana.
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[DAWN] Government cargo planes flew in supplies and troops began distributing boxes of food to jittery survivors of an 8.1-magnitude earthquake that destroyed a large part of Juchitan and killed at least 37 people in the district, even as officials on Sunday raised the nationwide corpse count to 90.
Some people continued to sleep outside, fearful of more collapses, as strong aftershocks continued to rattle the town, including a magnitude 5.2 jolt early Sunday. Some prompted rescue workers to pause in their labour.
Local officials said they had counted nearly 800 aftershocks of all sizes since late Thursday's big quake, and the US Geological Survey counted nearly 60 with a magnitude of 4.5 or greater.
Teams of soldiers and federal police armed with shovels and sledgehammers fanned out across neighbourhoods in Juchitan to help demolish damaged buildings. Dump trucks choked some narrow streets as they began hauling away the many tons of rubble.
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[DAWN] Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lt Gen Nadeem Raza in a visit to the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday warned that the corps would "respond aggressively and effectively to any Indian miscalculation or misadventure" along the Pak-India border, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.
The corps commander visited the Battal and Dawarandi sectors in Azad Jammu and Kashmire, where he "appreciated the high morale of the troops" and their "effective response" to ceasefire violations by Indian troops, read the ISPR handout.
Lt Gen Raza, while speaking about India's surgical strike claims ─ which have been denied by Pakistain ─ reiterated the troops' resolve to respond to such "misadventures" in the future, ISPR said.
India claimed to have carried out ’surgical strikes’ against 'launch pads of terror' in Azad Jammu and Kashmire days after 19 Indian soldiers were killed were killed during an attack on the Uri army base in September 2016. India had also accused Pakistain of involvement in the Uri attack while Pakistain denied all such claims.
Following the alleged strikes, tensions between Pakistain and India soared, with cross-border exchanges of fire becoming a new normal. India also stepped up a drive to diplomatically isolate Pakistain on the international platform.
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Muslims are really not good at pretending to be nations.
[IsraelTimes] PA official says Ramallah working to prevent African states from voting for Israel
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... on Sunday agreed to a request from the Paleostinian Authority to form a committee aimed at stymieing Israel’s bid to becoming a member of the United Nations
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[Iraq News] Iraqi army forces jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a Ottoman Turkish woman before she blew herself up in the troops northwest of Nineveh, state TV reported on Sunday.
Al Iraqiya TV said the woman, of an Azebaijani origin, tried to storm into the troops and blow herself up in Ayadiyah, 15 kilometers northwest of Tal Afar, 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.... ’s last bastion in Nineveh province.
A report by the channel showed army commanders interrogating "Naela", as she was identified by her captors. She said she had entered Iraq three years earlier with her husband, also a Turk, before he was killed in an air raid. She later got married to another Iraqi member of the Islamic State.
She was arrested wearing an boom belt but was persuaded to surrender, according to the report.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The Nigerian coppers are leaving Somalia following their role in role in securing peace in the country.
The officers who were commended by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... were awarded medals and certificates at a ceremony held in Mogadishu on Friday.
Speaking at the ceremony, AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) Police Commissioner, Brig. Gen. Anand Pillay, hailed the officers for their efforts in aiding Somalia hold a successful electoral process that culminated in the election of a new President and members of parliament.
"You came here at the time when you were needed most, especially to support the Somalis in the parliamentary and presidential elections, which you all have supported well," Pillay noted.
He added that the officers were at the centre of activities and plans that ensured Somalia had a successful election and eventual inauguration of a new president.
He was, however, saddened that the contingent was bowing out at a time when their services were needed most, especially during the transition period and also after the recent UN Security Council Resolution 2372, which called for the scaling up of the size of AMISOM Police.
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[IsraelDefense] The ImageSat Company of Israel, which operates the Eros-B satellite, publishes satellite images of North Korea from recent months, exposing North Korea's ongoing preparations for conventional war.
Air Force bases that feature fighter jet hangars hidden inside mountains; secret tunnels; underground hangars; anti-aircraft batteries; workshops for the production of aircraft spare parts; and more. The ImageSat Company of Israel, which operates the Eros-B satellite, publishes satellite images of North Korea from recent months, exposing North Korea's ongoing preparations for conventional war.
The images include a visual coverage of airports where dozens of fighter jets are parked. They also show preparations made by North Korea's air-defense forces, as well as changes at the Yongbyon nuclear site.
There is no doubt that alongside the missile tests, the nuclear tests and the unveiling of the nuclear and hydrogen warheads, the North Korean leadership is also preparing for war. If one should break out, it is possible that we shall witness a joint American, South Korean and Japanese invasion of Pyongyang.
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" ...If one should break out, it is possible that we shall witness a joint American, South Korean and Japanese invasion of Pyongyang complete destruction of North Korea."
There, fixed it. No reason for invasion of NORK.
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...One point - I can see the RoK accepting Japanese air, logistic, and intel support, but I'm not sure that even today they would tolerate even a single Japanese boot on Korean soil.
Though one never knows...
Mike
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[FreeBeacon] Hillary Clinton said in an interview airing Sunday that her career as a political candidate is over, adding she was not finished with politics because "our country's future is at stake."
In an interview on the CBS program "Sunday Morning," Clinton declared she would remain active but that she was "done with being a candidate."
"Is your political career over?" CBS anchor Jane Pauley asked.
"Yes. As an active politician, it's over," Clinton said.
"You will never be a candidate for office‐" Pauley started.
"I am done with being a candidate, but I am not done with politics, because I literally believe that our country's future is at stake," Clinton said.
In her narration of the report, Pauley said Clinton still seemed "gobsmacked" over the defeat at the hands of Donald Trump, saying she "dishes out blame and she accepts responsibility."
Clinton hit Trump for saying being president was harder than he thought it would be.
"Well, yeah, because it's not a show. It's real. It's reality for sure," Clinton said.
The network interview, recorded Friday, is the first in a series of media appearances as Clinton promotes her memoir What Happened, which delves into her 2016 election loss.
In released excerpts, Clinton has laid blame for her defeat on herself but also on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the media's coverage of her private email scandal, former FBI Director James Comey, Russian meddling in the election and other factors.
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I do hope she isn't serious; Americans need her to stay prominent, as a living reminder of exactly what the Democratic Party stands for: nothing more than a greedy, grasping, raw lust for power.
So keep on cackling, kvetching and scolding, Hillary! America needs you!
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Wait a minute didn't she also say she was considering the Ministry? For a minute, I was enjoying my dream. Yeah, there is that part of Hillary that lies like a frigging bad rug.
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I'm just waiting for her to break down and start claiming the "Little Grey people" hacked the voting machines and elected Trump to keep themselves secret.
I'm only half-kidding.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of Arclight airstrikes targeted the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Death Eaters in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan, located close to capital Kabul, leaving several dead, including some of their senior commanders.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the past 24 hours in the vicinity of Salman Fars area located in the central parts of the province.
The statement further added that twelve Taliban Death Eaters including three of their senior commanders were killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
At least seven Taliban Death Eaters were also among those maimed in the Arclight airstrikes, the provincial police commandment said.
According to the local officials, the Taliban leaders killed in the Arclight airstrikes have been identified as commander Esmatullah, Qari Dil Agha, and Rafiqullah also famous as Haidar.
The officials are saying that the Death Eaters had gathered in Charka village and were apparently planning their future attacks when they came under fire.
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[IsraelTimes] Sources says terror group has recently purchased $25 million worth of diesel, giving enclave six hours of daily electricity between blackouts, and possibly staving off protests.
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[IsraelTimes] Assailants said to tell victims, 'You are Jewish, you have money,' before brutally attacking them, threatening to kill them
Three members of a prominent French Jewish family were kidnapped, tied up, brutally beaten and robbed on Thursday night in their home in the suburb of Livry-Gargan northeast of Gay Paree, French authorities said Sunday.
According to the National Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), three individuals broke into the house Roger Pinto, the president of the Siona group representing Sephardic Jews, by cutting through the home’s window bars. They then cut off the electricity in the house, tied up Pinto’s son, and held and beat his wife. It was only on Friday morning, several hours later, that Pinto managed to discretely contact police, causing the intruders to flee.
According to the BNVCA report, the unidentified attackers told their victims, "You are Jewish, you have money."
The assailants, black men in their 20s or 30s, according to the victims’ description, took jewelry, cash and credit cards.
The Pintos were taken to hospital for treatment. They suffered some minor injuries but were deeply traumatized, the report said.
The BNVCA called the attack "manifestly anti-Semitic" and "premeditated," and said the family was "threatened with death" and "violently beaten."
In a statement on Sunday, CRIF, the umbrella body of French Jewish organizations, said it "powerfully condemns the very violent and anti-Semitic aggression."
"This odious act is proof, if we needed any, that the Jews of La Belle France are especially threatened in the street, and even more disturbingly, within their very homes," CRIF President Francis Kalifat said.
"After the atrocious murder of Sarah Halimi in her home, this new attack must bring the authorities in our country to a heightened vigilance and deterrence-inducing steps," he added.
Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jew, was killed by her Moslem neighbor in April in Gay Paree. Prosecutors dropped the anti-Semitic accusation from his indictment, drawing fierce condemnation from the Jewish community.
The Union of Jewish Students of La Belle France also condemned Thursday’s attack, lamenting "the insecurity of French Jews."
Israel’s ambassador to La Belle France, Aliza Bin Noun, offered her own "support to the Jewish family in Livry-Gargan" and "strongly condemn[ed] this anti-Semitic attack" in a tweet Sunday.
The incident is one of several cases in La Belle France in recent years in which criminals singled out Jews out of the apparent belief that they have money.
In 2014, three men broke into the home of a Jewish family in Creteil near Gay Paree. One of them raped a young woman there while another guarded her boyfriend, whom they took prisoner, and a third went with the couple’s credit card to extract cash from an ATM machine. They too allegedly said they targeted the couple because the victims are Jewish.
Occurring amid a major increase in anti-Semitic violence in La Belle France accompanying Israel’s war with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo that year, the Creteil incident echoed for many the traumatic murder and torture in 2006 of Ilan Halimi, a Jewish phone salesman who was kidnapped by a gang led by a career criminal with a history of targeting mostly Jewish victims.
Some French Jews regard the 2006 Halimi murder as the turning point in the emergence of a wave of violence against Jews in La Belle France and Belgium, in which more than 12 people have died since 2012 in at least three jihadist attacks on Jewish targets.
[Hartford Courant] Mayor Luke Bronin fired a warning shot at lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Thursday, saying Hartford would seek permission to file for bankruptcy if the city didn’t get the state aid it needs by early November.
In a sharply worded letter to House and Senate leaders and to Malloy, Bronin cautioned: “If the state fails to enact a budget and continues to operate under the governor’s current executive order, the city of Hartford will be unable to meet its financial obligations in approximately 60 days.”
Malloy unveiled new budget proposals Thursday that would restore funding for municipalities and reject major education cuts planned for Oct. 1. Democrats and Republicans met in an attempt to reach common ground.
But Bronin warned that the “extraordinary measures” other towns are considering in response to the state’s ongoing budget gridlock — layoffs, cuts to services and drawing from rainy day funds — are actions Hartford has taken already.
In 2016, the mayor laid off 40 workers and cut millions from city departments. He also used most of Hartford’s rainy-day fund to help offset deficits. Still, Hartford had to borrow millions in June to help pay its bills.
House Majority Leader Matthew Ritter said he was optimistic that lawmakers would reach an agreement soon.
In July, Hartford hired an international law firm to explore the prospect of seeking Chapter 9 protection. Bronin said the firm, Greenberg Traurig, had “initial conversations” with a large bond insurer and that talks with bond holders are planned for the coming weeks.
Last month, Moody’s Investors Service noted that the financially troubled city was rapidly approaching debt repayment deadlines. Hartford owes $3.8 million in September and $26.9 million in October. The ratings agency said the city’s “path to fiscal sustainability will likely require debt restructuring along with some combination of labor concessions, other expenditure cuts and new revenues.”
Hartford wouldn't be the first city in Connecticut to file for bankruptcy. Bridgeport sought Chapter 9 protection in 1991, but a federal judge dismissed the petition, saying the city was capable of paying its bills.
Bronin must get approval from Malloy to file for bankruptcy. Just a clue on why they're in the mess they're in...
Ironically CT had no state income tax until 25 years ago. They are very proficient at collecting other people's money but not very prudent in spending it.
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>CT had no state income tax until 25 years ago
That's probably why they're broke, you need debt to replace the damage done by immoral income/sales taxes
[Iran Press TV] US Republican Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... has warned North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... against attacking America and its allies, saying such aggression will lead to the Eastern Asian country’s "extinction."
Washington needs to "make sure that Kim Jong-un knows that if he acts in an aggressive fashion, the price will be extinction," McCain told CNN on Sunday.
The head of Senate Armed Services Committee said Washington should strengthen its missile defenses in South Korea while putting more pressure on China to stop the North’s development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
He also said that the administration of 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... should start considering deploying nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
"The [South] Korean defense minister just a few days ago called for nuclear weapons to be redeployed," he said, saying that the call "ought to be seriously considered."
South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo said that he and his American counterpart James Mattis had already discussed the nuclear deployment in the South, which would be a first in over 25 years.
He also called on Washington to move "strategic assets" like US aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and B-52 bombers to the peninsula.
McCain was also fond of the idea, saying that the US needed to further encircle the North by expanding its military presence in the region.
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Jeeze Louise, McCain has been reading up on the style handbook of KCNA again. **sigh***
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[MIAMIHERALD] As Hurricane Irma lashed Florida with heavy winds and rain, TV stations captured groups of people breaking into stores.
Footage from WPLG Local 10 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, shows multiple people breaking through the front window Simon's Sportswear, entering the store and walking out with various items.
According to WPLG Local 10, the looters had also broken into other stores in the nearby area, including Footlocker and CashAmerica Pawn Store.
The Fort Lauderdale police department later arrested 9 people related to the incident.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: Political and religious parties of 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 Saturday condemned the kidnapping of Jamaat Ahle Hadees provincial chief Maulana Ali Muhammad Turab and said they would observe a strike in the city on Sept 12.
Speaking at a joint presser, Senator Hafiz Hamdullah of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl, Maulana Abdul Haq of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and Maulana Abdul Qadir Luni of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Nazaryati as well as many other leaders demanded taking all possible steps for early recovery of the kidnapped leader.
They warned that political and religious parties and members of the civil society would mount a massive protest if the authorities failed to meet their demand.
They said a strike would be observed in the bustling provincial capital on Sept 12, adding that future line of action would be devised in view of the government’s response.
Most of the leaders were of the view that the provincial government had failed to maintain law and order in Balochistan as the religious scholar was kidnapped in broad daylight along with his son and two others.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have managed to regain full control over a power station in Dayr al-Zawr as they push to drive the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters out of the strategic eastern city.
Syrian government forces and their allies recaptured the facility, which lies west of Dayr al-Zawr air base, on Sunday following intense festivities with ISIS holy warriors, pro-government and Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency reported.
Moreover, Syrian soldiers managed to wrest control over the highway linking Dayr al-Zawr to the city of Sukhnah, and advanced on the Brigade 137 base as well as al-Panorama district. Scores of ISISbad boyz were potted and injured during the operations and their military hardware destroyed.
Syrian army units also tightened the noose around scores of ISISDeath Eaters on the outskirts of al-Taim oil field, killing and injuring many of them.
The developments came only a day after Syrian army troops and pro-government fighters managed to break a nearly three-year siege imposed by ISIS Takfiris on Dayr al-Zawr air base.
Syrian government forces and their allies had launched a new push on Friday towards the besieged military airport, as part of a multi-pronged offensive to retake the entire Dayr al-Zawr, located 450 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus, from ISIS krazed killers.
At least 40 trucks carrying basic commodities such as fuel, food and medical supplies for civilians, in addition to two mobile clinics, arrived in Dayr al-Zawr on Thursday, only two days after Syrian army forces and fighters from popular defense groups reached the eastern city and breached the ISIS siege.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali government forces have launched Sunday morning a massive crackdown in several districts in Banadir region after separate killings in Mogadishu by unknown Gunmen.
Somali security forces conducted the operation, targeting Yaqshid, Hiliwaa, Boondheere, Hamar Jajab and Hodan districts in Banadir region.
Witnesses told Shabelle radio that a number of people were tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! during the operation, in connection with the liquidations in Mogadishu.
The government officials have not yet released any statement, regarding the operations.
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[DAWN] SARGODHA: The black coats on Saturday locked Assistant Commissioner Dr Anam Sajid in her office following exchange of words between the officer and the lawyer. She was later rescued by police.
According to sources, a local lawyer, Rana Willayat, was arguing his appeal in the court of the AC. During the arguments, the AC exchange hot words with the lawyer and directed her staff to expel him from the court.
At this, juniors of the lawyer got enraged and locked the doors of the court and office of the AC.
On being informed of the situation, the city assistant superintendent of police reached the spot with his subordinates and rescued the AC after breaking the locks.
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[Iran Press TV] After being expelled from Tal Afar, the ISIS terrorist group has left behind some 1,400 foreign wives and children, who are now in the custody of the Iraqi government.
According to Iraqi security and aid officials on Sunday, those left behind are mostly from Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and Central Asia, with some also from European countries.
Iraqi officials are currently engaged in the process of verifying their identities and nationalities, as many of the women have lost or destroyed their original credentials.
The group, which is the largest group of foreigners linked to ISIS in Iraq, are currently being housed in a specially-designated camp, which they are not permitted to leave.
On August 31, Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that the northern city of Tal Afar and the entire Nineveh province have been purged of the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists.
Iraqi prime minister says city of Tal Afar and entire Nineveh province have been freed of ISIS terrorists.
The Iraqi government is currently negotiating with the women’s home country embassies for their returning home.
"I want to go back (to La Belle France) but don’t know how," said a French-speaking woman of Chechen origin who claims to come from Gay Paree. She also said that she has no idea concerning the current whereabouts of her husband who brought her to Iraq to join the terrorists.
Some of the women claim that they were tricked by their husbands into joining the gunnies during trips to Turkey.
"My mother doesn’t even know where I am," said a French woman of Algerian descent. "I had just given birth to this little girl three months before... He said ’let’s go for a week’s holiday in Turkey.’ He had already bought the plane tickets and the hotel," she added.
Tal Afar, situated about 150 kilometers from Syria's border, was among the last ISIS-held cities in Iraq. The liberation of Tal Afar deprives ISIS of what was once a key supply route between its territory in Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi army soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units have been leading a major operation to rid the country of the Takfiri elements.
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[AmericanThinker]. If the U.S. pre-emptively attacks North Korea, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and other places in Asia might get blasted in retaliation, but America will have knocked out North Korea's nuclear capability. Right?
Wrong ‐ at least in the opinion of a U.S. senior intelligence consultant who worked on a secret study of North Korea's nuclear program for the government and disagrees with widespread intelligence opinion, echoed by the press, that there are no viable options for dealing with North Korea's nuclear threat except negotiations.
Dwight R. Rider, 30 years a targeting specialist for the U.S. with a master's degree from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), says the reason the U.S. intelligence community (I.C.) says negotiation is the only option is that the I.C. rejected the study his group made that identified hidden nuclear facilities and weapons in North Korea and now realizes they don't know where to target. Thus, in their minds, any pre-emptive attack might have only minimal effect on North Korea's capability and leave the rogue state with plenty of retaliation options.
Rider is so worried about the U.S. making wrong decisions regarding what to do about the North Korean threat that he's decided to go public, including writing a letter to President Trump and other officials he thinks might be able to influence Trump's actions.
"It is unlikely that long-standing issues between North Korea and the U.S. can be resolved through negotiation," Rider writes in the letter to the president. "Any effort to force North Korea" to bow to outside pressure "means regime change." That's not acceptable to North Korea, he says. Therefore, "some level of force may be necessary."
The problem is, he charges, that U.S. targeters don't have good information, and any strike deemed necessary might thus be impotent, inviting retaliation.
The only reason I'm privy to this is that Rider is a source for me in updating an early book of mine, Japan's Secret War, about Japan trying to make an atomic bomb in North Korea during World War II. As an expert in North Korean topography and nuclear signatures, he believes, as I do, that North Korea's nuclear program grew out of what the Japanese, who occupied the peninsula during the war, left there after the surrender. In my updating, we've become friends, and he's voiced the targeting problem more than once. With the current threat escalation and his fear that U.S. planners have bad information, Rider decided to try to correct the situation.
"I believe North Korea's uranium enrichment program long predates it's rather recent interest in plutonium and other nuclear weapons. I believe North Korea has far more capabilities than our intelligence community believes."
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How quick we forget the "Defenders of the Faith". Geeze, Gates of Vienna? . He saved the city from the Muslim hordes invading southern Europe..... Under Kara Mustafa. The Day of the Siege September 11th, 1683. The desercation of his statue is no surprise on this day.
John III Sobieski led the charge at the head of 3,000 Polish heavy lancers, the famed "Winged Hussars". In this he ranks as the Polish Charles Martel. No wonder the Muslims hate him.
John III Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death.
[IsraelTimes] New pictures show impact, geo-strategic sensitivity of Arclight airstrike attributed to Israel on an Assad regime site where chemical weapons, missiles were believed to have been produced.
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"I'm not in favor of violence" Nothing that a good ol' mugging won't cure
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...Something I've said for a very long time is that since the end of WWII, the tradition in the West has been that if you want to riot you can do so pretty secure in the knowledge that the worst you'll face is maybe an overnight in a crowded holding area and you'll be a hero in your little circle afterwards for Standing Up To The Man(TM).
A whiff of grapeshot, however, tends to put the fear of God in these idiots. Makes you wonder how much of the reaction to the death of the young lady in Charlottesville was actual, stark, screaming, sudden terror at the possibility that this is no longer a game - that if you want to Resist, then there's a price.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Saturday granted bail to three men, alleged to be agents of the Indian intelligence agency RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... , in cases pertaining to anti-state activities and possession of explosives and illicit weapons.
Mohammad Shafiq Khan alias Pappu, an employee of the 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... Water and Sewerage Board, Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar Tension, Mohsin Khan alias Kashif, Khalid Aman alias Dad and Adil Ansari have been charged with allegedly spying for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), getting training in India, being involved in anti-state activities and carrying kaboom and weapons.
The Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four of the five accused in August 2015 after an encounter in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and found explosives and unlicensed weapons in their custody. Accused Ansari was arrested later.
Shafiq, Jabbar and Mohsin, through their lawyers, moved bail applications in the main as well as connected cases and after hearing arguments from both sides, the ATC-I judge granted them bail against a surety bond of Rs500,000 each.
The prosecution has so far examined one out of seven witnesses while the high court had already granted bail to Ansari.
According to the prosecution, the accused worked for RAW, got training in India and were involved in terrorism. The court had already declared London-based MQM leader Mohammad Anwar and two others, Mehmood Siddiqui and Mohammad Salman, proclaimed officers.
It maintained that accused Aman disclosed during interrogation that Mr Anwar and Mr Siddiqui had played a role in getting them trained by RAW. It further said that Aman in his confessional statement before a judicial magistrate also said that after training he was arrested and sent to a Delhi jail following a brawl with his accomplice Javed Langra.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Powerline] Edina is a wealthy suburb of Minneapolis that at one time had one of the finest public school systems in the United States. As I have documented here, here, here and here, the Edina schools decided some years ago to prioritize left-wing indoctrination over academic excellence. The result has been a decline in academic performance, and a pervasive atmosphere of oppression and bullying directed against non-conforming students and parents.
[DAILYCALLER] Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.
[Telegraph] British couple have been hiding in a rat infested bathroom with no water for five days as the Caribbean island they were living on descends into lawlessness in the wake of Hurricane Irma, their family have said. 
[Iraq News] Iraqi police forces killed 14 
North Korea
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[DAWN] MITHI: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has warned that hidden hands are busy fomenting religious extremism in Thar and if they are not stopped, the entire region will turn into a hub of religious fanatics within no time.
the personification of Somali state failure...
- Navy Admiral William Moran gave testimony about two warship accidents
[Inquirer] Philippine troops arrested a member of the Abu Sayyaf under top leader Radullan Sahiron in Sulu, the military disclosed Friday. Milham Saham was intercepted by soldiers in Patikul town on Thursday evening. 
[Iran Press TV] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has touched on US meddling in other countries' internal affairs in a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro whose country is grappling with months of unrest..jpg)
[DAWN] Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lt Gen Nadeem Raza in a visit to the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday warned that the corps would "respond aggressively and effectively to any Indian miscalculation or misadventure" along the Pak-India border, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of 
[Hartford Courant] Mayor Luke Bronin fired a warning shot at lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Thursday, saying Hartford would seek permission to file for bankruptcy if the city didn’t get the state aid it needs by early November.
John 
[MIAMIHERALD] As Hurricane Irma lashed Florida with heavy winds and rain, TV stations captured groups of people breaking into stores.
[Iran Press TV] Syrian army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have managed to regain full control over a power station in Dayr al-Zawr as they push to drive the 
[Iran Press TV] After being expelled from Tal Afar, the 
[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Saturday granted bail to three men, alleged to be agents of the Indian intelligence agency 
