(CNN) President Donald Trump's longtime confidante Roger Stone accused lawmakers of making "falsehoods, misstatements, and misimpressions" with allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials during his appearance before a congressional panel on Tuesday.
Stone, a one-time adviser to Trump, issued a combative opening statement Monday evening ahead of his highly anticipated appearance before the House intelligence committee Tuesday morning in a closed session.
Following his meeting, Stone said he had a "frank exchange" and described the preceding as "an entirely political exercise."
Stone said he denied any Russian collusion or knowledge of the hacking of John Podesta's email during the roughly three-hour closed-door session.
In his testimony, Stone attacked the very lawmakers questioning him, calling out the statements of three Democrats on the panel, including ranking member Adam Schiff of California.
"Multiple members of this committee have made false allegations against me in public session in order to ensure that these bogus charges received maximum media coverage," Stone said in his statement. "Now, however, you deny me the opportunity to respond to these charges in the same open forum. This is cowardice."
[Business Insider] The FBI arrested 10 people on charges of fraud and corruption in men's college basketball on Tuesday.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that assistant coaches at Arizona, Auburn, USC, and Oklahoma State had been arrested along with managers, financial advisers, and representatives of the international sportswear company Adidas.
Jim Gatto, the director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas, was among the defendants. Gatto is accused of conspiring with coaches to pay high-school athletes to play at universities sponsored by Adidas (referred to as "Company 1" in the case).
The investigation, which had been in progress since 2015, was led by the FBI and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Three separate complaints have been filed.
Gatto and four other defendants have been charged with "making and concealing bribe payments" to high-school student athletes and/or their families.
[Forbes] The people who brought you "military transformation" 20 years ago have a new idea. It's called "multi-domain battle." It isn't a bad idea, but it isn't really new either -- it repackages some common-sense warfighting concepts for an era in which conflicts will be waged more on the electromagnetic spectrum and in cyberspace. So the armed forces need to synchronize their operations with the aim of achieving superiority across all the "domains" of warfare -- not just in the air, on land and at sea, but in space, on the EM spectrum, and in the cyber realm.
If this seems kind of obvious to you, then you haven't read the white papers circulating around the Pentagon. They make multi-domain battle sound like an intellectual breakthrough -- the same way military transformation supposedly was in the 1990s, or "airland battle" in the 1970s. In reality, multi-domain battle is just the latest plea for inter-service cooperation in fighting wars. The only thing that really changes over time with these various warfighting visions is the technology -- but the visions tend to be way out ahead of what is technologically do-able.
Which brings me to the Air Force's recently disclosed move to cancel replacement of one of its most unique warfighting assets. It's a radar plane called the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (J-Stars) that can track moving ground targets over a 20,000 square mile area, focusing in on items of particular interest and using its sensor to take pictures through clouds, dust or the dead of night that can be quickly shared with friendly forces. The information can reveal where enemy combat vehicles are, which direction they are headed, and at what speed.
It's an invaluable tool for U.S. Army commanders; the Marines have their own version of the same kind of radar on the Navy's new Poseidon maritime patrol plane (the radar can track ships too). But sometime later this week, the Air Force is likely to put out a position paper explaining why it doesn't want to buy a new manned aircraft that can replace the 16 aged J-Stars in the current fleet. It will claim manned radar planes can't survive in a world of multi-domain battles and near-peer adversaries equipped with the latest weapons.
[GuidoFawkes] A fringe event at Labour conference has heard calls to expel Jewish activists from the party, while a speaker compared Israel to Nazis and the audience was banned from tweeting in an attempt to silence "hostile" coverage. The room echoed its agreement as a speaker protested that the Jewish Labour Movement was given a campaigning awarded yesterday, instead calling for the group and Labour Friends of Israel to be "kicked out" of the party. A speaker, Miko Peled, said Israel and Israelis should not be treated differently to white South Africans during Apartheid or Nazis. He claimed Israel was committing "genocide" in Gaza. He said those present should stop calling Israel by its name, a view taken up by other speakers who then referred to it only as "the Zionist state". The notorious Tony Greenstein, who was suspended by Labour for ranting about "Zionist scum" was applauded, and there were cheers for Ken Livingstone... there are some in the US Democratic Party who have the same or slightly more nuanced idea
Too many of the rest think the same, but are not ready to give up all those lovely donations, organizing skills, and fat Rolodexes full of contacts.
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Dissident Jews bleating on about Israelis oppressing Arabs. When dissident Arabs go on about Arabs oppressing Christians, Kurds and other ethnic/religious minorities, maybe there will be hope for peace between Arabs and their neighbors.
BLUF:
[Breitbart] He referenced ads that "were completely false," like the one that claimed he does not "believe in the Second Amendment." He then reached into his pocket, pulled out a concealed carry handgun, held it up high and said, "I believe in the Second Amendment." The crowd went wild.
Moore added, "You know, they say that guns are bad; that they kill people. Well I know a lot about guns‐I’m the one that used guns in combat. I know what guns do...[But] guns don’t kill, people kill. [You could say] cars kill, are we going to get rid of our cars? Are we going to get rid of our knives? No. We’ve got to bring morality back to our country."
The applause of the crowd hit a crescendo as Moore added, "We’ve got to uphold the Second Amendment."
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...My argument about political correctness is not tendentious or partisan ‐ it's analytical. The core of the argument is that when groups care a lot about maintaining conformity of belief on some matter of critical interest to them, then the hunt for heretics is always ongoing. We're always looking for deviants. The willingness to speak in certain ways can be a sign of deviance, because if speakers know that punishment awaits them for speaking in particular ways, the only speakers willing to take the risks are indeed people who are not reliable on whatever the core belief or value is.
...Take affirmative action. We're not supposed to notice that Asians are being turned away in droves from the elite universities. We're not supposed to notice that blacks are included on the basis of some silly argument about diversity. At Brown, we call them "historically underrepresented groups," as if observing the historical underrepresentation constitutes in and of itself an indictment of the institution and not of the groups themselves.
We're 50 years past the civil rights movement and blacks, to get to Harvard or Princeton or Brown, still depend upon being judged by different standards than other people. And people are called "bigots" if they ask questions about this? This is trivial, and it's not engaging real arguments.
...My problem with the use of the term "structural racism" is not with the observation that there are struggles that are deeply embedded within the American political economy that have implications for racial inequality. My problem is with the claim that such structural differences are indicted as racist simply because there are racial disparities.
Laws are structurally racist in that respect. Is it structurally racist if I end up with more black people in prison because there are more black robbers? Is that structural racism? It's structure, to be sure, but whether it's racism is an argument that remains to be made.
...I think, ultimately, that we have to get out of the blame game and start getting practical about what interventions will change the facts on the ground. We can talk about housing policy. We can talk about education policy. We can talk about what kind of social safety nets we want in this country. There are big arguments to be had about those things. If we get concrete and specific about the interventions that we're going to get behind that would remedy some of these problems, that seems to me a productive conversation.
...So [Ta-Nehisi] Coates's historical account is a lie. It tells only one part of the story. It erases the responsibility that African Americans have for our own condition. I refuse to accept that we don’t have responsibility for our condition. I refuse to accept that we're not free-acting agents able to determine our own future.
Ironically, he imputes more agency and more capacity for judgments to white people in his argumentation than he does to black people. Black people are merely puppets at the end of the string that whites are pulling in his narrative. Confused by the racist Algebra
I'm referring to the welfare state here. I've often thought that by not working and having the State provide one with many of life's needs (and a few wants) leads to both a resentment towards the State as well as an even greater sense of entitlement. Such resentments and growing senses of entitlement will never be satisfied and because they will not, it often leads to crime and violence.
There are those who fan these flames of resentment and dissent for political gain--that is for votes and power. The result is that we all lose; we end up with a nation of pissed-off tribes at odds with each other. We end up with a Balkanization rather than a "United" States. I am still amazed at the selfishness of those who promote these divisions for their own gains.
A quote that exemplifies the marriage between the Welfare State and the political power of the State is often attributed to LBJ:
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them n*****s voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".
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"There are those who fan these flames of resentment and dissent for political gain--that is for votes and power. " They are called democrats, and if any black person voted for them, they annul their own argument.
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Look, we live in strange times. It seems that every time I turn around I hear of another science fiction magazine being in trouble, and yet, wouldn’t you know it, the Puffington Host has decided to publish some and picked Barbra Streisand to write it.
It’s not very good, of course. No one really expects this "celebrity written fiction" to be wonderful. Normally the done thing is to pair the "name in another field" and an experienced writer, like what is happening with Clinton and Patterson. But Barbra has decided to go it on her one and the result.... Well, it’s funny. We just don’t think it’s entirely intentionally funny. Also, we won’t lie: some of the funny had us crying a little, because, well... you know...
Props for her beginning, which establishes clearly that we are in a parallel world with the following:
May our country learn a lesson from this tragic mistake of 2016.
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I mean, if we had first blacks, then women, we’d eventually around 2040 be reduced to electing the only Black, lebanese, one-legged, deaf dyslexic woman in the country.
I don't know why some people do this instead of something useful. If you start considering all the diverse victimhood groups and stringing them together as above, what has one achieved? Nada. The sun will burn out before you accomplish anything.
[Zero Hedge] Electricity, internet access and cell phone service have been offline in parts of Puerto Rico for a whole week. And with the island still struggling to rescue people stranded in remote villages, those managing the emergency recovery effort have yet to focus their attentions on the monumental task that looms ahead: Rebuilding the island’s devastated infrastructure, from communications to sewers and water treatment plants that have been damaged by flash flooding and 155 mph winds that Hurricane Maria visited upon the island.
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Give them independence:The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, FALN) was a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization that, through direct action, advocated complete independence for Pu
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EMP does for electronics what the Neutron Bomb was advertised to do for people. No cars, no elevators, no water pumps or blow dryers, etc. but buildings still standing with few blast effects.
PR looks like high wind shock wave devastation in a poor building code neighborhood.
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Given the huge amount of money they borrowed, spent, and cannot pay back, I have a simple question: what infrastructure was it spent on?
For instance, I noticed the failing dam is almost 90 years old. How did they allocate and spend money to maintain the dams?
If the answers are none and/or they didn't, then you sleep in the bed you made.
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A damn good argument against large infrastructure.
It's too expensive now but imagine this... Nice solid solar cell collectors like the Tesla Solar tiles and a power wall instead of power lines.
Well a storm like that comes through. Some people would loose roofs and power. Some would not. So the whole island would not be without power. It would limp but it would be functional.
Now the same for other infrastructure. Large low earth sat nets like the ones close to implementation. Thousands of sats are not taken down by a hurricane. If the flat phased array antenna on your roof or car survives to provide WiFi (typical way they will be used as wifi routers) Then enabling wifi on your cellphone and will enable you to communicate near your home. Downed phone lines and cell towers will not matter. If the wifi operates with carrier enable (like say Xfinitiy) then you could have mobility with your wifi cell all over the disaster area.
Perhaps the hardest would be sewer and water in built up regions.
The US Secret Service arrested a person with firearms near the White House Sunday morning, the agency said in a statement on Monday.
Uniformed Secret Service officers were approached by the person at an intersection close to the White House, the statement said.
"The encounter with the individual resulted in Secret Service Officers taking investigative action. The individual was arrested for possession of several firearms," the statement said. No further details were provided. I'm curious
Three Israelis were murdered Tuesday morning in a suspected terror attack in the town of Har Adar outside Jerusalem. Another Israeli was badly wounded.
According to the Border Police, the Palestinian assailant approached the town's gate posing as a laborer. When the people manning the gate grew suspicious of him, he pulled out his weapon and opened fire.
After an exchange of gunfire, the assailant was shot dead, but not before fatally injuring three people and severely wounding one more.
Israel's Channel 10 news identified the attacker as 37-year-old Namer Mahmoud Ahmed Jabbar, a father of four from the Palestinian village of Beit Surik. The man is said to have a valid work permit allowing him to enter Israel. The whole word condemns the Burmese for treating Muslims as dangerous animals.
[Wash Times] Radio host Rush Limbaugh ‐ also an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan ‐ has a message for President Trump after a weekend of national-anthem protests in the NFL: owners are "scared to death."
Dozens of pro football players ‐ at least some in every game Sunday ‐ refused to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" in reaction to Mr. Trump’s recent statement that protesters should be fired.
Mr. Limbaugh told millions of listeners that conservatives should cheer because the decision by players to politicize the sport is backfiring.
"The left is attempting to publicly damage, take hold, whatever, of the NFL," Mr. Limbaughsaid. "And people who are not political ‐ and there are a lot of those in this country, more than you would think ‐ are seeing it. And they don’t like it, and now there’s a president speaking out against it. In public, it is Democrats who are now showing up to be the party supporting actions against the flag. The Democrats are being seen as the party that encourages protest against the anthem and the country itself. I’m telling you, sports media guys and gals, there’s no way Donald Trump loses this, the way you’ve got it going."
Mr. Limbaugh also acknowledged during the broadcast that Sunday’s protests prompted him to actively avoid a Steelers game for the first time in over four decades.
When you hire thugs and morons, don't be shocked when they act like thugs and morons. Simply fine them a few dollars and keep them on the payroll. What children at home see their father watching on television is of no consequence to the bottom line.
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Pelvic thrusts ought to be fined. I recall a Bear Bryant quote which was “When you get in the endzone, act like you've been there before.” There is a lot to be learned from the Bear although he has been gone a long time. Bear Bryant quotes. Many are pithy like Patton and Mattis although not quite as salty.
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The league’s Game Operations Department uses the manual to govern the conduct of home clubs, to ensure they protect players and provide the conditions for a fair and fan-friendly contest," reads the NFL's website. "Clubs face warnings and other penalties for noncompliance."
The NFL rulebook makes no mention of the national anthem. But the game operations manual does.
Here's what the game operations manual says regarding the national anthem, according to an NFL spokesperson:
The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking.
The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition.
It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.
It's important to note the use of the word "may" here. The NFL is not considering punishing fines on players or teams who choose to kneel or stay in the locker room during the national anthem, the spokesperson says."
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was caught a little while back in a restroom with a prostitute. His actions last night on Monday Night Football proves he is still a seedy old man.
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I discovered last night that there are other things on TV besides football...The Planets.
Note: The first time you click the play button for the video it opens a new window for an advertisement. Patience. The second click plays the video.
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...well, if you believe your loyal fans are just someone else to screw over, it makes sense. I doubt they'll find replacements in SJW Left to cover the loss.
I see the NFL, in aggregate, seeing the Brinks truck somewhat lighter on the tires, will come up with some kind of weak-kneed palliative to quiet the storm. Morlocks, PC's and idjits will buy into it, but those who have decided against feeding the beast will know better.
"How many teams can Canadian and European demographics handle?" may very well be a topic of discussion for the "New" NFL.
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In a league owned by billionaires, I can't believe the owners allowed themselves to be drawn into the cesspit of pissing off half of your potential customers. This entire fiasco should have been shutdown LAST SEASON in no uncertain terms. Instead, they drop in ratings for the product will grow. I'm guessing by season's end there will be a 20% drop in the ratings (I'm not sure how that will translate into merchandising and other revenue streams).
I would *never* want to be a "Republican Realtor" or a "Liberal Heart Surgeon"--why would the NFL allow its *business model* to get sucked into partisan politics?
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The one silver lining to the whole thing is ESPN on the hook for multi-million dollars to the NFL for the ever decreasing audience. Couldn't happen to a nicer 'couple'.
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I'd apply the Gore rule: when these guys start giving 90% of their income to support their cause, I'll start believing they really care. That day will not come.
[Breitbart] Sunday on CBS’s "60 Minutes," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he and President Donald Trump were very different people, explaining they had "different upbringing" and "different life experiences."
McCain said, "He is in the business of making money. And he has been successful both in television as well as Miss America and others. I was raised in a military family. I was raised in the concept and belief that duty, honor, country is the lodestar for the behavior that we have to exhibit every single day."
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#3 McCain is a piece of trash. What was the state of Arizona thinking?
Purple Heart recipient "endorsed" by Richard Nixon. His (some would say incomplete) story got him in and, once there, hard to get rid of as Swamp Crotch.
Now that the Grim Reaper is knocking, I expect Mr. McCain to be more guided by his internal voices than constituency.
As controversy surrounding President Trump's comments on NFL players protesting during the National Anthem embroiled the country this weekend, one 97-year-old veteran spoke out.
The president on Friday said of professional football players taking a knee or showing a symbol of protest -- most in reaction to American police brutality -- during the singing of the National Anthem that he would "love" to see NFL owners "get that son of a b***h off the field." His comment sparked a wave of backlash, including statements from league commissioner Roger Goodell and team owners alike."Courageous Patriots have fought and died for our great American Flag --- we MUST honor and respect it! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump tweeted on Sunday, and one veteran is speaking out -- but not in agreement with the president.
"My grandpa is a 97 year-old WWII vet & Missouri farmer who wanted to join w/ those who #TakeaKnee: 'those kids have every right to protest,'" The tweet from grandson Brennan Gilmore reads.The veteran is John Middlemas of Willard, MO., and his original taking a knee post has since been retweeted some 123,000 times and liked 324,000 times.
"I wanted to communicate what I always told to my grand-kids and everybody else," Middlemas said to The Springfield News-Leader on Sunday. "When they'd go to bed at night, we'd tell the kids we wanted to be like Jesus."While Middlemas' action was bold, grandson Brennan says it is nothing new to the military man.
"My Grandpa has been an ally to the civil rights movement for many years," Gilmore said in a follow-up tweet on Sunday. "He's an amazing man always on the side of justice."
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Just because he is a vet and/or 97 years old does not make him a patriot. Many of the wife beaters who play football says the Anthem is pro "White Supremacy".
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Oh, poor Metropolitan Police
Who capture Mohammedan geese!
If ever they fish you,
Please assist them with their inquiries. give them a tissue
To practice their catch and release.
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"Unfair to the brave British police
Who'd rather be men than meek meese!
The best left in Britain,
We're Bolshevik-ridden
To keep the Religion of Peace."
[DAWN] Four suspected bully boyz were killed on Monday during operations conducted by the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... 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... in various parts of the province, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
According to the ISPR statement, four "wanted terrorists" belonging to the outlawed Baloch Republican Army (BRA) and the United Baloch Army (UBA) were killed during the operations, while 24 others were apprehended.
Among those killed were Thango and Keleri of the BRA, the ISPR said. According to the statement, they were involved in the abduction of civilians and responsible for attacks on law enforcement personnel.
The two other suspected bully boyz killed were identified as Muhammad Khan and Jalal Deen ─ both members of the UBA. According to the ISPR, they were involved in bombing railway lines, the planting of improvised bombs and destroying power lines.
Among the 24 suspects apprehended by the FC personnel was Samiullah, a resident of Dera Murad Jamali who, the ISPR statement said, was a jacket wallah linked to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... al-Alami.
During the operations, FC personnel seized large machine guns, small machine guns, rifles, pistols, IEDs, rockets, mortar shells and hand grenades, the ISPR said.
According to the ISPR statement, 16 kilogrammes of explosives and 15,032 rounds of mixed calibre ammunition were also seized in the operation.
The raids in Balochistan were carried out as part of Operation Raddul Fasaad, which the army had launched in February in the aftermath of a fresh resurgence in terror attacks in Pakistain.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The director of a film reviled by the American people highlighted rejecting science as an explanation for why the movie bombed. In an interview with The Frame on Thursday, Mother! Director Darren Aronofsky responded to the movie’s highly unusual F-grade Cinemascore this way: "... You have other people who basically believe in the power of a iPhone that they can communicate to 35 million people in a blink of an eye, yet they don't believe in science in other ways."
He continued, "It has as many people believe in it as believe in gravity. And it scares me and it's time to start screaming. So I wanted to howl. And this was my howl. And some people are not going to want to listen to it. That's cool."
The movie website Dark Horizons noted that the Jennifer Lawerence film "has earned the dubious honor of being one of only nineteen films in history to receive an F-grade CinemaScore ‐ a marker more of failed expectation than a bash of its quality."
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Heaven's Gate was one of the top 10 flops of all time. The following captures the essence of the money: . When all was said and done, critics despised the film, and the fans didn’t come out to see it either. As Vincent Canby of The New York Times put it, the film, “fails so completely that you might suspect Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of ‘The Deer Hunter,’ and the Devil has just come around to collect.”
The disgraced ex-congressman was sentenced to 21 months in prison Monday for convincing a high school student to undress and touch herself via Skype in 2016.
Weiner, 53, had faced as much as 10 years in the slammer after pleading guilty in May to one count of transferring obscene material to a minor. The feds said Weiner, a former Congressman from Brooklyn, began a two-month sexting session with the North Carolina teen shortly after she messaged him on Twitter in January 2016.
He pleaded for probation on the grounds that his online dalliance with the 15-year-old was due to his sick obsession with sexting strangers rather than an obsession with underage girls. The government had asked for two years in prison.
It’s just the latest chapter in Democratic politician’s very public downfall, which started in 2011 when he was forced to resign from Congress following his first sexting scandal.
His 2013 run for NYC mayor also went up in flames when it emerged that he was still sexting under the alias "Carlos Danger."
The feds said the latest and most insidious chapter of Weiner’s sexting problem began on the evening of Jan. 23, 2016, when a high-school student messaged him on Twitter, prompting a flurry of "provocative" responses from the former public servant, who knew the teen was in high school, court papers show.
"As January turned to February, their intermittent exchanges grew more lascivious," Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge in court filings.
By the end of February, Weiner ‐ who by this time knew the girl was only 15 ‐ was video-chatting with her via Skype and using "graphics and obscene language" to ask her to "display her naked body and touch herself, the feds said.
He also sent her "obscene material" on self-destructing messaging apps like Kik and Confide, including adult porn and a message "describing what he would do to her, if she were 18," according to court filings.
In September 2016, the girl sold her story to British publication Daily Mail, and in May he cried as he pleaded guilty to one count of sending obscene material to a minor.
His wife ‐ Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin ‐ finally filed for divorce on the same day he pleaded guilty.
FRANCE has ordered Iran to stop testing missiles after Tehran announced on Saturday it had successfully launched a new ballistic missile with a range of 2,000km despite being told by the US to stop all nuclear-related activities.
France said it was extremely "concerned" by Iran’s ballistic missile test and urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to launch an investigation into the controversial launch.
French foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnès Romatet-Espagne said in a statement: "France asks Iran to cease all destabilising activity in the region.
"France has asked Mr Guterres to carry out a full report on the launch .... and will consider with its partners, notably European, the means to obtain from Iran the cessation of its destabilising ballistic activities."
Mrs Romatet-Espagne added Iran was in "clear violation" of UN resolution 2231 and urged Iran to "respect" the terms laid out in the 2015 nuclear deal.
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France ORDERED Iran to stop missile tests????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
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Better do it too! Or they just might surrender to you!
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"You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
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Mrs Romatet-Espagne added Iran was in "clear violation" of UN resolution 2231 and urged Iran to "respect" the terms laid out in the 2015 nuclear deal.
French Soldier (from Monty Python):
"I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey bottom biters"
[Iran Press TV] A high-ranking politician in the US House of Representatives has officially announced the start of an investigation into use of a private email account by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Maryland Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... wrote a letter to Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband, on Monday, calling on him not to scrap any potential evidence.
"Before requesting copies or calling for the public release of all official emails you sent or received on your personal email account, I first request that you preserve all official records and copies of records in your custody or control," wrote the top Democrat on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "Your actions in response to the preservation request and the information you provide in response to this letter will help determine the next steps in this investigation."
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He protected Lerners (IRS) use of personal email. And harassed "True the Vote". Every time he ends up getting his ass kicked.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... strongly condemned the killing of at least three people including a former presidential security staff during an operation in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Office of the Former President in a statement said a former intelligence staff and Nangarhar customs department worker are also among those killed.
Karzai accused the American forces for the killing of the three people in Jalalabad city, the historic provincial capital of Nangarhar.
"The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai expressed his deep grief regarding the killing of three people, including the ex-presidential security staff, intelligence staff, and Nangarhar customs department staff," the statement says.
It also added that the former President calls on the government of Afghanistan to take immediate actions to prevent the violations of the foreign forces.
The government and security officials have not commented regarding the report and Karzai’s statement so far.
But the provincial government earlier in a statement said at least three Talibs including one of their local leaders were killed in a special forces raid in this province.
The statement further added that the raid was conducted by the Afghan special forces in Bati Kot district and at least nine suspects were also taken to custody during the operation.
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[DAWN] A teenage domestic servant was found dead in his employer’s apartment in the Sharea Faisal area on Sunday, police said.
They said that Sanaullah Murtaza, 16, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the servant quarter of the apartment located on the 18th floor of Sea Breeze Plaza on Sharea Faisal.
Saddar SHO Pir Shabbir Haider said: "The apartment is owned by senior lawyer Salahuddin Gandapur."
Sub-Inspector Tahir Mushtaq said that it appeared to be a case of suicide.
He said that the teenager wanted to go to his native town, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , but his parent asked him to stay in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Quoting his relatives, the officer said that he contacted his parents over the phone in D.I. Khan and told them that he was going to end his life. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... his parents did not take the threat seriously, he added.
Dr Seemin Jamali, the executive director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, said that the teenager was brought dead to the hospital. The body was shifted to a mortuary for a post-mortem examination in order to ascertain the exact cause of his death.
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[DAWN] SAHIWAL: A widow has appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... and regional police officer (RPO) to take steps for recovery of her eight-year-old son from two custodians of a madressah who are influential in the area.
Irshad Bibi, a resident of Chak 38/D, Kaloun, Depalpur, told the media in the press club that her son, Irfan, had been missing for the last two months. She said her son was studying at the madressah whose custodians were two prayer leaders, Qari Muhammad Afzal and Qari Muhmmad Saddique.
Irshad said her son went missing suddenly two months back and both prayer leaders were not telling her anything about his whereabouts. She said had no knowledge whether her son was alive or not. She had registered a first information report (FIR) with the Depalpur City Police Station but alleged that the police were supporting the prayer leaders as they were influential in the area.
Irshad Bibi said she had no financial resources to move the court and demanded the CM and the RPO to recover her son.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] This week's Mainstream Media Scream features the Trump-inspired debate over the National Anthem and NFL players taking a knee to protest it.
It came Sunday on Meet the Press during an exchange over President Trump's comments between National Review editor Rich Lowry and Detroit Free Press editorial page editor Stephen Henderson:
Rich Lowry of National Review: "He's not randomly attacking these players. He is attacking them because they're kneeling during the national anthem. And the national anthem is not a white supremacist symbol. And the President has become-"
Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press: "Some of the words of the national anthem are white supremacist."
Lowry: "You think the national anthem is racist?"
Henderson: "I think this is a country whose history is racist, whose history is steeped in white supremacy, and the anthem reflects that in its very words, in verses we don't sing anymore."
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: "Henderson well reflects the racial obsession of those given such prominence in the media, who see the bad in America before the good, and see everything through a racial prism. They have disdain for the millions, for whom Trump speaks, who are angry millionaire players would disrespect the national anthem of a nation which has provided such opportunities."
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Leftist barking dogs usually get hit by a car sooner or later.
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Ah, the Detroit Free Press. The newspaper of the city with an illiterate in charge of the schools.
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Trump should mention him.
the dems will then support him and he'll win another term by default.
"We want to run this country because we hate it" won't win an election.
Idlib (Syria News) More than thirty members of Sham Legion were either killed or wounded in a Russian air strike on their headquarters in Tal Mardikh area, in the eastern countryside of Idlib.
Enab Baladi News reported that the Russian warplanes bombarded the headquarters of Sham Legion, killing more than ten members of the legion and wounding 30 others.
The Russian warplanes also carried out over ten air strike on a cave where the legion members took cover during the aerial shelling, killing all the members, while Civil Defense teams are still trying search for more casualties.
It is noteworthy that the Russian and Syrian Air Forces have escalated their air strikes on cities and towns of the southern countryside of Idlib and northern countryside of Hama, in the last few days.
Homs (Syrian News) The Syrian army forces and allied militias, on Monday, recaptured four villages, after heavy clashes with the Islamic State militants, in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Qasioun News reported that the Syrian army carried out military operations against the Islamic State group, and recaptured five kilometers square in four villages near the area of Jib al-Jarrah, east of Homs.
Meanwhile, Russian warplanes launched dozens of air strikes on the Islamic State-held villages and towns in Hama.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian army, backed by Russian air forces, to tighten the siege on the Islamic State-held areas, in the countryside of Hama.
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Less than a week after Facebook agreed to turn over to Congressional investigators copies of the 3,000-odd political advertisements that the company said it had inadvertently sold to a Russia-linked group intent on meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the contents of the ads have – unsurprisingly – leaked, just as we had expected them to.
Congressional investigators shared the information with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, which has repeatedly allowed information about its investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign actively colluded with Russian operatives to leak to the press. Once this happened, we knew it was only a matter of time before the ads became part of the public record.
And, shockingly, descriptions of the ads provided to the Washington Post hardly fit the narrative that Democratic lawmakers have spun in recent weeks, claiming the ads – which didn’t advocate on behalf of a specific candidate, but rather hewed to political issues like abortion rights – were instrumental in securing Trump’s victory.
After initially denying the story this spring, Facebook came clean earlier this month, saying its investigators had discovered that the company sold at least $100,000 worth of ads – and possibly as much as $150,000 – to Russia-linked group that bought the ads through 470 phony Facebook pages and accounts.
WaPo reports that the ads represented issues on both sides of the ideological spectrum, which would suggest that the buyers didn’t intend to support a specific candidate, but rather their own unique agenda. More at the link
[WashingtonPost] The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African American rights groups, including Black Lives Matter, and others suggesting that these same groups pose a rising political threat, say people familiar with the covert influence campaign.
The Russian campaign ‐ taking advantage of Facebook’s ability to send contrary messages to different groups of users based on their political and demographic characteristics ‐ also sought to sow discord among religious groups. Other ads highlighted support for Democrat Hillary Clinton among Muslim women.
These targeted messages, along with others that have surfaced in recent days, highlight the sophistication of an influence campaign slickly crafted to mimic and infiltrate U.S. political discourse while also seeking to heighten tensions between groups already wary of one another. Sooooo, it appears the magic Facebook bullet the Libs were so pining for turns out to be the Ruskies sowing chaos instead of simply being tools for Mr. Trump. A sort of Radio Free Europe w/o the radio ? You'll notice Facebook kept the money
[Ynet] New rules, which range from an indefinite ban on visas to more targeted restrictions, will go into effect Oct 18, impacting citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, and some Venezuela officials; 'Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet,' Trump tweets.
Citizens of more than half a dozen countries will face new restrictions on entry to the US under a proclamation signed by 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... on Sunday that will replace his expiring travel ban.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Eight persons were killed and injured as two bomb blasts exploded in south and east of Baghdad, a security source said.
“A bomb exploded near stores in Kasret Waatash in east of Baghdad, leaving a person killed and five others wounded,” the source told Baghdad Today on Monday.
Moreover, “a bomb targeted police patrol in Arab Jabour region, south of Baghdad, leaving two persons injured,” the source added.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces are clearing the road to a second Islamic State haven in western Anbar preparing for a military offensive to recapture it, a local official was quoted saying.
Rageh al-Eissawi, a member of Anbar province council’s security commission, said in a statement that security forces launched wide-scale combing operations at roads leading to the town of Rawa preparing for an invasion against Islamic State militants.
He said the operations coincided with intensive air raids on the area by Iraqi warplanes.
Bomb squads are also clearing roadside bombs planted by the militants at those areas, Eissawi added.
Iraqi army forces on Thursday completely took over the town of Annah, just two days after operations launched to free western Anbar from IS.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants are holding 65000 civilians inside their last two remaining havens in western Anbar, a human rights monitor said as military operations managed to reclaim a third bastion.
Those are trapped inside the cities of al-Qaim and Rawa, and are prevented from leaving by mobile militant patrols, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights. It predicted thousands of civilians to flee to Baghdad and security-held areas in Anbar, voicing fears that the militants were possibly going to use the civilians as hina shields.
Iraqi army forces on Thursday completely took over the town of Annah, just two days after operations launched to free western Anbar from IS.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Al shabaab, the Qaeda-linked Somalia-based forces of Evil claimed to have killed at least four Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... state soldiers in an attack near Galgala mountains in Bari region.
The incident which took place late Sunday, has left two soldiers and a civilian, according to the local residents. al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... ambushed convoy travelling between Bosaso and Galgala.
Medical officials confirmed to Radio Shabelle that they had received five maimed soldiers, the bodies of two soldiers and one woman following the attack in Galgala hills.
The mountains which lies about 40 kilometers south of Bosaso, a regional commercial center had been a hotbed of Al shabaab for many years.
Al-Shabaab forces of Evil said they carried out the attack, targeting a military vehicle carrying soldiers to the Puntland base in Galgala Highlands.
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[DAWN] IN recent days, following a tip from a discreet informant, two bodies were exhumed from a graveyard in Sherpao Colony, Karachi. A post-mortem examination conducted thereafter revealed that the two individuals had been subjected to intense torture in their final hours: they had been beaten, tied to a charpai and electrocuted until they died, and then promptly buried under the cover of the night.
The bodies, it later transpired, belonged to two star-crossed lovers, both of them teenagers. As the police investigated further, it ended up unthreading the grisly details of a macabre tragedy. The young couple, it appears, had planned to elope, but before they could do so, their families found out. Initially, they decided to settle the matter amongst themselves, but a local jirga intervened, dismissed the settlement and ordered that the couple be killed instead. The parents dutifully obeyed. And all honour lost, was apparently regained.
If this sounds all too familiar, it is. This tragedy is as modern as it is ancient, as old as it is new. It is a story that we have heard countless times before, only rephrased, restructured and reordered: characters come and go, but the plot remains unchanged.
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[THEGUARDIAN] A Sri Lankan man who raised suspicion by the way he kept looking around in an airport departure lounge was found to be carrying nearly 1kg (2.2lb) of gold stashed in his rectum. Remember the Edgar Allen Poe story? The Gold Bum? Rectum? Damn near killed him!
The 45-year-old, who was headed for India, was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at Colombo airport on Sunday after customs officials noticed "suspicious movements", said customs front man Sunil Jayarathne. "Suspicious movements?" Heh heh. Good one.
The man was carrying 904.77g of gold worth 4.5m rupees (£22,000), but was freed after a payment of 100,000 rupees, he said. Such methods of smuggling were not unusual, he said.
"The gold was wrapped in plastic bags inserted in to his rectum," Jayarathne said, adding that there were four bags.
"This is not the first such detection and this is a common method of smuggling."
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I suppose there were no volunteers to collect the payment.
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He's already being mocked by the manufacturers of range targets;
I went out with a friend and my daughter to a very nice upscale range a week ago Sunday, and my choice of target was this.
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Given they, the Norks, already declared their withdraw from the ceasefire agreement years ago, the state of war is what now exists. No need for a squeamish paper shuffle in Congress (not that Obama bothered to get one for adventures in Libya or Syria).
A top North Korean official in charge of US affairs has arrived in Russia for diplomatic talks.
Choe Son Hui, director-general of the foreign ministry's North American affairs bureau, landed at an airport in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East, on Monday.
Her itinerary and the purpose of the trip have not been announced. But diplomatic sources say she is expected to meet a Russian senior official to discuss the situation in the Korean Peninsula.
Choe exchanged views on the issue with the Russian ambassador in Pyongyang last Monday. North Korea's state-run media also reported last week that the ambassador and embassy officials visited Mount Paektu, which is regarded as sacred in the North.
The Russian government is critical of North Korea's nuclear and missile development, but also insists that dialogue is important in solving the issue.
North Korea is apparently trying to approach Russia as the administration of US President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on the North.
There have been several such false alarms in recent days. Fun with kaffirs, or someone testing the system?
[AlAhram] French authorities have removed three passengers from an EgyptAir plane in Paris prior to its departure for Cairo, following claims that one of the passengers was overheard talking on the phone about a bomb on board, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported on Monday.
An official source at EgyptAir said that flight MS800 arrived safely at Cairo International Airport early on Monday morning, having been delayed by seven-and-a-half hours due to the incident.
Prior to takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, two passengers reported to the captain that they had overheard another passenger mention a bomb while speaking on the phone.
The captain informed French authorities who took the plane to the cargo area for an inspection of the luggage.
The three passengers involved were taken into custody and the aircraft was finally allowed to depart after a delay of several hours.
The Airbus A330-300 was scheduled to depart from at 4 pm on Sunday afternoon, but its departure was delayed until 11:30 pm, arriving in Cairo at 3:40 am on Monday.
French authorities have not provided a detailed account of the incident.
Hamdaniyah (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have foiled an attack by Islamic State militants on the borders between Iraq and Syria.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said on Monday that “the first brigade troops repulsed a wide-scale attack by IS militants on the Iraqi-Syrian borders in al-Muthalath region, which links the borders to Hamdaniya.”
“Militants who were on board of a vehicle were killed,” it added.
The Shia-led PMFs were formed in 2014 as per an edict by Iraq’s top Shia clergy to combat the militant group.
IS has increasingly targeted security forces and civilians across Iraq over the past months coinciding with operations by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces which sought to retake areas occupied by the group since 2014.
Launched last week, an operation managed to take over al-Zab river region, the northern part of Makhoul mountains and several villages west of Tigris River. Joint Operations Command announced on Sunday completing the first phase of operations to recapture Hawija, the group’s holdout in southwestern Kirkuk.
The government hopes to eradicate a self-styled “Islamic Caliphate” IS declared from Mosul after it had taken over large areas of the country and of neighboring Syria.
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Sabratha hospital has issued an urgent call for trauma kits and blood as the fighting in the town continued for a tenth day, with at least 17 dead and 48 wounded since the violence began.
So pressed is the hospital that casualties are being sent elsewhere. A woman hit by shrapnel today in her kitchen was transferred to Zuwara for treatment
Thus far all mediation attempts by local elders have failed, with two uneasy truces quickly breaking down. The Libya Red Crescent has reportedly evacuated almost all the population from the old part of two where the fighting has become fiercest.
There are international concerns for the safety of the outstanding ruins of Sabratha’s ancient city. Pictures last week showed a shell hole in the monumental masonry of the theatre. Today UNESCO called for a ceasefire and appealed for this precious part of Libya’s archaeolgical heritage to be protected.
However a halt to the fighting has been rejected by the Anti-ISIS Operations Room (AIOR) which says it is battling jihadists in the form of the Amu Brigade, also known as the Brigade of the Martyr Anas Al-Dabashi. This militia is effectively the same as the 48th Battalion, which the Presidency Council’ has said is part of its armed forces.
A normally reliable social media source said today that three migrant detention camps under the control of the Amu Brigade could not be reached. The source also said that while rivals fought in Sabratha, people-smugglers in Zuwara had stepped up their operations.
[RADIOSHABELLE] A senior Somali military officer was bumped off in Mogadishu Sunday evening, security sources told the media.
Gunmen armed with pistols fatally shot General Abdullahi Mohammed Sheikh Qururuh and a bodyguard as the two men were walking home from a mosque in the Somali capital, witnesses said.
The attackers walked past General Qururuh and the bodyguard, then turned and shot them from behind, the sources quoted the witnesses as saying.
Both victims was struck down in his prime.
Qururuh was a senior army officer at Somalia’s command and control headquarters in Mogadishu. He served previously as deputy commander of logistics for the Somali army.
There no immediate claim of responsibility for the liquidations. al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Death Eaters are believed to be involved in most such attacks on government officials.
One week ago a similar shooting in southern Mogadishu killed a senior Somali intelligence officer and his bodyguard.
The attackers in that case were in a vehicle that fired on Mohamud Moallim Hassan Qoley and his bodyguard in the capital’s Dharkaynlay district. al-Shabaab grabbed credit for those killings.
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[NYTIMES] Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Because a marriage license is really, really expensive.
Fewer Americans are marrying over all, and whether they do so is more tied to socioeconomic status than ever before. In recent years, marriage has sharply declined among people without college degrees, while staying steady among college graduates with higher incomes.
Currently, 26 percent of poor adults, 39 percent of working-class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults ages 18 to 55 are married, according to a research brief published today from two think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and Opportunity America.
In 1990, more than half of adults were married, with much less difference based on class and education: 51 percent of poor adults, 57 percent of working-class adults and 65 percent of middle- and upper-class adults were married.
A big reason for the decline: Unemployed men are less likely to be seen as marriage material. But they're good material for shacking, having children, buying cars, and taking out mortgages on houses.
“Women don’t want to take a risk on somebody who’s not going to be able to provide anything,” said Sharon Sassler, a sociologist at Cornell who published “Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships” with Amanda Jayne Miller last month.
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Bull$hit. Most of it is so they can claim more benefits.
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gorb - I concur - the NYT isn't even close to acknowledging that the flightiness of the the 1969 revolution, alongside the Johnson rewards for being unmarried (they continue to grow with more kids), as well as the predation to legally capture targets of unsuspecting guys for financial gain.
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Marriage is a privilege. I started to type "white privilege" since these two words have recently been wedded together so frequently. The NYT's writer must never have had a really, really bad marriage--one that is both scary and scarring. Those who have had such a marriage don't usually think of the word "privilege"--they usually think of "escape."
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Monday accused the security forces in Myanmar of waging a "Buddhist terror" against the Rohingya Moslem minority in the country, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Erdogan, who has repeatedly highlighted the plight of the Rohingya, again accused the Yangon government of carrying out a "genocide" against the people in Rakhine state.
In a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan lamented the failure of the international community to lay sanctions against the Myanmar government over its campaign.
"There is a very clear genocide over there," Erdogan said.
Erdogan, who has held talks by phone with Myanmar's key leader, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, added: "Buddhists always get represented as envoys of goodwill."
"At the moment, there is a clear Buddhist terror in Myanmar... I don't know how you can gloss over this with yoga schmoga. This is a fact here. And all humanity needs to know this."
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All the true Gods gather their worshipers against the adherents of the demon Allan.
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday warned that "hostile agencies from abroad are trying to destabilise our country", days after a cross-border attack on a checkpost near the Rajgal Valley border martyred one soldier, the army's media wing said in a blurb.
"They [hostile agencies] fear the Army being a hurdle to achieving their nefarious designs," Gen Bajwa said during a visit to the family of Lt Arsalan Alam, the 22-year-old martyred soldier, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) handout.
The army chief said the armed forces would continue to perform in the country's best interests and stand by the nation against all challenges, the handout read.
"Pakistain's enemy is our enemy. Use of force is the prerogative of the state alone," he said, according to ISPR.
The army chief vowed to restore peace and rule of law "whatever sacrifices it may cost."
During his visit to Lt Alam's family home in Murree, the army chief paid tribute to the soldier and offered prayers for him, the ISPR said.
He also interacted with his family and said that the army and nation are proud of their deaders for their sacrifices, ISPR said.
"No power can harm us... [as long as] we have such valiant sons of the soil and their brave parents in Pakistain," he added.
The Pakistain Army recently concluded Operation Khyber IV in the Rajgal valley and declared that the area was cleared off terrorists.
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Not to be confused with domestic agencies trying to destabilize the US.
[Breitbart] A Brussels police officer has been arrested after authorities caught him handing over information to a terror cell who were under criminal investigation.
Officer Momo E.S., who comes from a North African background, had been under investigation by authorities for weeks before his arrest. Police say that he used the social messaging service WhatsApp to give the terror cell details on what was going on with the police investigation into their group’s activities De Tijd reports.
The committee investigating Mr E.S. say that they are currently working on finding out just how many messages he sent to the terror cell and what specific information has passed on to them.
It is said that he would have had access to information indicating when potential raids on suspects would have occurred and may have passed on the information to allow the suspects to evade capture.
The officer will be charged for violation of professional secrecy and corruption but so far prosecutors have not brought up any terrorism-related charges.
Jeddah- The manipulation of liquefied natural gas prices by Houthi rebels has led to a drastic rise in the prices of gas canisters, 60 percent of which are sent to areas under insurgent control.
This has led the prices to rise more than 400 percent from 1,200 Yemeni riyals ($4.8) to 5,000 riyals ($20).
Undersecretary of Oil and Minerals Ministry Eng. Shawqi al-Mekhlafi told Asharq Al-Awsat that the legitimate government has been taking care of all the Yemenis.
Based on this responsibility, the Yemen Gas Company (YGC) provided the entire country with domestic gas, but the Houthi militias have systematically destroyed the institutions and practiced illegal bill collection and competition in the black market, leading to unreasonable prices.
Mekhlafi pointed out that the official prices are still the same and have not been modified by the Ministry of Oil, which is currently producing about 75 gas tank trucks, each loaded with 25 tons of gas. One ton is used to fill 86 canisters, distributed according to the density of the population in each governorate and city.
He said that the official price of the gas cylinder is 1,200 Yemeni riyals ($4.8), and this price goes to all Yemeni provinces, including areas that fall under the control of Houthis and Saleh’s forces.
Those areas receive more than 60 percent of the volume of production, Mekhlafi added.
In the worst case scenario, the price of each gas canister in the liberated areas amounts to 1,500 riyals ($6), Mekhlafi explained, noting that in areas under the control of the militias the prices have amounted to 5,000 Yemeni riyals ($20) in recent weeks.
He stressed that the legitimate government, in cooperation with the Saudi-led Arab coalition and the United Nations, allows vessels carrying petroleum products to dock at the port of Hodeidah, but the Houthi militias sell the shipments double the price.
[Daily Excelsior] Army today said that they foiled a major attack on Army’s Kalgai camp near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri area of Baramulla district and recovered body of another holy warrior , taking the number of holy warriors killed in the operation to four.
Deputy Commander of 12-Brigade of Army based in Uri town, Colonel Harpreet Singh, told a news conference that holy warriors were well equipped and intended to carry out a major attack on Army’s Kalgai camp in Uri.
"These Death Eaters had infiltrated well equipped with explosives and intended to carry out a major attack on the army camp at Kalgai. The alertness and resilience of Army troops who engaged and neutralized the Death Eaters resulted in foiling another devastating terror strike in Uri sector", said Col Singh.
The Army officer said that they were trying to carry out last year’s Uri Brigade Headquarter type of attack. "Absolutely the way they have attacked and the warlike stores including IEDs suggested that they were likely to carry out the attack of the same magnitude", he said.
Army today said that they recovered body of another holy warrior from Kalgai area of Uri taking the number of holy warriors killed in the operation to four. The operation was launched yesterday and it was resumed this morning following reports that more holy warriors were hiding in the area.
Col Singh said that the search operation is still underway and we planned to clear the whole sector. He said operation is still underway and "we are trying, to sanitize the whole area. We had inputs especially regarding these four".
While giving details of the operation Col Singh said: "specific information was received by the Army from the sources about the presence of suspected terrorist in the adjoining areas of Kalgai camp. Late in the night of 23 September army established a cordon in the area by midnight and intercepted the Death Eaters while they were moving.
After an exchange of fire the terrorist took shelter in inhabited house wherein civilians were also present and they took the residents as the hostages. The civilians were rescued and taken out safely in a deliberate operation. After the daylong fire fight, four likely foreign Death Eaters were eliminated and a lot of warlike stores was recovered from them including IEDs".
The Army officer said: "While one terrorist was killed in the early morning, the remaining three kept the troops engaged by moving from one house to another taking the advantage of thick foliage and maze fields there. The houses were cleared by the Army in a deliberate operation during which the remaining three Death Eaters were also eliminated. The local mosque in the close vicinity was cleared by the police keeping the sensitivities in mind".
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[Ynet] The Lebanese president says he wants some 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in his country to henceforth start returning to their homes, voluntarily or not.
President Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , in a state visit to La Belle France, said Monday that UN assistance given to aid Syrian refugees in "camps of misery" in Leb would be better used to return them to their country "from now on."
"We don't want to wait for their voluntary return," Aoun insisted, speaking at the Elysee Palace alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
Aoun said that most of the Syrian regions from which the refugees hail are "now secure."
[DAWN] Iran has shut its border with Iraqi Kurdistan in response to its independence referendum, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
"At the request of the Iraqi government, we have closed our land and air borders" with Iraqi Kurdistan, foreign ministry front man Bahram Ghasemi said at a presser.
The referendum is "illegal and illegitimate," he added.
Iran had already announced on Sunday that it was stopping all flights to and from Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the vote.
President Hassan Rouhani spoke overnight with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, saying: "The Islamic republic of Iran fully supports the central government of Iraq."
[Ynet] The Iraqi army started "major maneuvers" with the Turkish army at the border, the Iraqi defense ministry said on Monday.
The two countries are coordinating measures against the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq in retaliation for a non-binding independence referendum organized there on Monday.
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All of them a lot more eager to fight then they were against ISIS.
[DAWN] Pakistan's Mission to the United Nations (UN), responding on Monday to a photograph mix-up made earlier by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi, accused India of hiding behind a picture to divert the world's attention from the situation on the ground in India-held Kashmir (IHK).
Lodhi, during a fiery speech in the UN General Assembly on Saturday, had shared photographs of victims of pellet gun attacks ─ infamous for depriving victims of their sight ─ purportedly taken in held Kashmir.
One of the photographs shown by Lodhi, however, stirred controversy when observers pointed out it was a picture of a Palestinian girl injured by strikes in Gaza, taken by photographer Heidi Levine in 2014.
Indian media outlets were quick to point out that Lodhi had erred, and the diplomat came under fire on social media for the blunder.
The Indian mission to the UN, exercising its right of reply, lambasted Lodhi for "callously holding a picture of an injured girl", and accused her of seeking to divert attention from "Pakistan's role as the hub of global terrorism".
Lodhi "misled this assembly by displaying this picture to spread falsehoods about India, a fake picture to push a completely false narrative," an Indian diplomat alleged. She went onto share a photograph of an Indian soldier allegedly killed by militants in held Kashmir's Shopian district.
Pakistan's mission, in its latest rejoinder to India, asserted: "No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it does not and cannot hide the truth."
The Pakistani representative claimed the Indian representative had "once again chosen to divert the attention of the international community from the real issue ─ the real issue of human life, of human eyes, of children and infants blinded forever, of women raped and elderly killed every day by the reign of brutality unleashed by occupation forces in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir."
"The real issue is of Security Council resolutions, which India refuses to implement," the Pakistani representative said.
"No matter how many times you repeat a lie, it does not and cannot hide the truth. Raking up debate on pictures has backfired," he maintained.
"India, who kills and tortures innocent Kashmiris, is seeking to hide behind a photograph," he claimed, adding: "Indian state terrorism has been amply documented by successive human rights reports from various international organisations. There are thousands of those pictures for everyone to see."
"India’s diversionary tactics will not change the situation on ground. It is the situation on ground that India has to answer for. It is its war crimes that India has to answer for. It is the call for legality, morality and conscience that it has to answer for," he asserted.
The Pakistani representative went on to accuse Indian leaders of "pursuing a policy of state sponsorship of terrorism, funding and arming terrorist organisations like the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and the Jamaatul Ahrar to launch terror attacks inside Pakistan" as part of its strategy to become "a regional hegemon".
"India is churning out operatives of mayhem from its factories of terror," he said. "Operatives like Commander Jadhav, who are spreading terror and violence across Pakistan. We caught Jadhav red-handed, we will catch others as well and bring them to justice," he said.
Although the photograph shown by Ambassador Lodhi does appear to be an old photograph of a girl in Gaza, the use of pellet guns by Indian forces against Kashmiris has been criticised on the record by rights organisations such as Amnesty International.
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Fake launches, photos and now politicians speeches!
What's next? Meteorites?
[HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Ben Roethlisberger on Monday afternoon released a statement saying he regretted his Pittsburgh Steelers boycotting the national anthem on Sunday.
The NFL team was the first of three to not come out for the pregame ritual.
"I was unable to sleep last night and want to share my thoughts and feelings on our team’s decision to remain in the tunnel for the National Anthem yesterday," the Super Bowl-winning QB said in a statement. "The idea was to be unified as a team when so much attention is paid to things dividing our country, but I wish we approached it differently. We did not want to appear divided on the sideline with some standing and some kneeling or sitting.
He continued, "As a team, it was not a protest of the flag or the Anthem. I personally don’t believe the Anthem is ever the time to make any type of protest. For me, and many others on my team and around the league, it is a tribute to those who commit to serve and protect our country, current and past, especially the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice."
Steelers' lineman Alejandro Villanueva, a former Army Ranger, stood an the entrance of the tunnel for the anthem. His jersey has been the top seller since that moment, according to Fanatics. The NFL shop also moved his jersey to the top spot on the team store page.
The other two teams to not come out for the anthem were the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks.
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The other two teams to not come out for the anthem were the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks.
On National People's Radio yesterday, Tennessee and Seattle were described as being no-shows for the anthem but there was no mention of the Steelers and Alejandro Villanueva at all. Curious, eh?
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Now the Cowboys chose to show the world they are 'also rans' in the team over American loyalty competition. Guess they've had more practice kneeling in the shower room.
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Sides are being chosen. When the cold war turns hot, a lot of 'players' (not just in sports) in the game will be crying for talk. When the bullets fly, the time for talking is over.
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The highest paid athletes in the history of the world are byching and moaning about social injustice. In a land with the greatest opportunity and freedom known to man, perhaps the cry of 'social injustice' is little more than media fed, tribal demagoguery.
Could it be there is nothing that will satisfy their hatred and lust for conquest ?
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The way the Steelers got beat up by the Chicago Bears it would seem they were distracted by something. I'm guessing they had political bull crap on their minds instead of football. Their fans got cheated.
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How's that? What's wrong with watching a football game and cheering for the home team? Can't we just get back to enjoying life instead of making everything political? No? We're screwed.
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The widespreade levels of disrespect and minority racism against all things "white" and traditional in American culture is having an effect, just not the one they anticipate. Another round of calls for conversation really are leftspeak for more concessions (programs, money, power). What is actually happening is that sides are forming and minds are closing. Instead of decreasing the racial/political divide they have deepened it.
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It will be interesting to see how sales react to dale Jr's decision to back the kneelers. NASCAR fans tend to carry a flag or two to wave and this guy just crossed a line.
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Earnhardt Jr. is retiring and will not be in the Chase. Like McStain, he's free to make unpopular choices because soon it will not matter anymore to him career-wise...
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IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THERE ARE ALREADY PLACES ON THE NET WITH RUNNING JOKES ABOUT BEN ROETHLISBERGER, AND THIS JUST REINFORCES IT!
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Not all of NASCAR is of the same mind as Dale, Jr.
Former NASCAR driver and current team owner Richard Petty said he would fire anyone on his team who protested. “Anybody that don’t stand up for the anthem oughta be out of the country. Period,” he said. “What got ’em where they’re at? The United States.”
Personally, I'd be more impressed with the 'protests' if all these highly-paid children were doing something that actually made a difference rather than yelling "Hey, look at me!". Start a charter school. Mentor some kids. Be a father - either to your own kids or a surrogate for someone else's. If you really care about 'oppressed minorities', put some skin in the game.
[IndyStar] WASHINGTON ‐ President Trump will announce in Indianapolis Wednesday details of his plan to overhaul the federal tax code, the White House announced Monday.
While the tax plan is still being developed, Trump will talk at the Indiana State Fairgrounds about elements that have been finalized, said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Those elements include the reductions in corporate and individual tax rates Trump wants to see, as well as how he would eliminate "loopholes that have rigged the current tax code in favor of the wealthy and well-connected."
If the plan becomes law, Sanders said the result will be "massive job creation and economic growth."
"We are confident the American people will be very excited about what we are proposing," she said.
The event in the Farm Bureau Building will be Trump’s first visit to the state since his inauguration. Trump is scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. Details about public admission have not been released.
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Taxes need to be fair and simple. Tax cuts should come with government cuts. The congress has not done tax reform since I was a boy. Congress does not do sh*t. They will talk a good game but they will do nothing about taxes. They are stalling President Trump on anything that he wants to accomplish.
Meanwhile the government is bankrupt except for its ability to print money out of thin air.
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Deir Ezzor (Syria News) The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Monday, launched an attack on the headquarters of the Islamic State group, northeast of Deir Ezzor.
Qasioun News reported that The Syrian Democratic Forces militia launched an attack on the headquarters of the Islamic State group, near al-Soor City, northeast of Deir Ezzor.
Clashes broke out between the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants; meanwhile, the international coalition warplanes bombarded the headquarters of the Islamic State group in the villages of Hassan Gomaa and Garya, which are located on the banks of Khabour River.
The attack was launched after the SDF seized the industrial City, north of Deir Ezzor, then moved towards the northeast areas, after seizing Koniko oil field.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State lost large areas in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, while the Russian Ministry of Defense posted photos showing coordination between the U.S. troops and the Islamic State militants in the area.
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[Daily Caller] Secretary of Defense James Mattis steered clear of passing any type of judgement on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem during a press gaggle on a flight to India Monday.
"I’m the secretary of defense. We defend the country," is all Mattis would give on the subject. Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Rob Manning went a bit further in a briefing with reporters Monday with respect to service academy players, expressing his "hope" that they would stand.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced the NFL and players who kneel during the anthem in recent days.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A US Arclight airstrike left at least five turbans of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out on Sunday in the vicinity of Haska Mina district.
The statement further added that a Toyota Corolla type vehicle of the holy warriors was targeted in the Arclight airstrike, leaving at least five turbans dead.
Several weapons, ammunition, and explosives loaded on the vehicle were also destroyed, the statement added
In the meantime, the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... murderous Moslems launched a coordinated attack on the security posts in Hesarak district, erupting a heavy shootout with the security forces.
According to the police commandment, at least two Taliban murderous Moslems were killed after the Afghan forces responded to the enemy fire.
The local security officials are saying that the local residents and security personnel have not suffered any casualties during the Arclight airstrike and festivities.
The US forces conduct Arclight airstrikes, mainly using unmanned aerial vehicles, almost on daily basis in a bid to eliminate the terrorist safe havens and prevent them from expanding their foothold in the country.
The Arclight airstrikes resumed last year and after a broader role was granted to the US forces by the former US administration.
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[Iran Press TV] In a likely bid to block his candidacy, an Egyptian court has handed down a jail term to a major opposition leader widely expected to challenge President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in next year's polls for offending public morals.
During his trial on Monday at the misdemeanor court of Cairo’s Dokki neighborhood, Khaled Ali, who did not appear in the court, was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay 1,000 Egyptian pounds (about $57) on bail for publicly making an indecent finger gesture.
The alleged offense took place back in January outside an Egyptian courthouse in the capital Cairo, where Ali and other attorneys had just won a major case against Sisi’s government, obstructing its efforts to hand over the possession of the country’s two strategic islands in the Red Sea to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Despite the ruling, the Egyptian president approved the transfer of the two islands to the Saudi regime, which finances Cairo with massive supplies of oil.
The Monday’s verdict against the prominent opposition figure can be appealed but if it stands, it will prevent him from running for president.
This is while London-based rights group Amnesia Amnesty International censured Ali’s sentencing as a "politically-motivated" in a statement issued on Monday.
"Khaled Ali’s politically-motivated conviction today is a clear signal that the Egyptian authorities are intent on eliminating any rival who could stand in the way of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s victory in next year’s elections. It also illustrates the government’s ruthless determination to crush dissent to consolidate its power," said Amnesia Amnesty International’s Head of North Africa Campaigns, Najia Bounaim.
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It's been a long time since we've had a bleg. I always hate to ask. I feel like I'm promising to gladly pay you Tuesday for a donation today.
Still, the Burg costs money to run. Software's mostly free, but the hosting company charges us, and we have hardware costs. We've got the server in Baltimore and a backup server that currently lives in my bedroom. My beloved Lenovo laptop, that I use to try and stay connected if I'm traveling or in the hospital, gave up the ghost this summer. And then there's the cost of beer and gin...
I try to keep the blegging to a minimum, but every once in a while I have to. So if you've got it, please help keep us going. We've been around longer than most, and with your help we'll be around longer than even more.
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What's the best channel that gets money to you soonest?
The tshirt store or books?
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Fred, thanks so much for what you do. You will be getting my humble amount of sheckles via the donate button at the bottom right hand corner of R-Burg. I always worry a bit about using the internet to carry on any transactions.
[Ynet] While Arab countries barred supporters of the Islamist movement from holding events honoring Mohammed Mahdi Akef, tossed in the calaboose in Egypt for his involvement in killing of protesters in 2012, public ceremonies were held in only three places: Turkey, Gazoo... and Israel.
A religious ceremony in memory of former Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef was held in Umm al-Fahm
...home of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, the sons of the community have been in the news a number of times during the current effort...
on Saturday.
The Moslem Brüderbund is a patron of both Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement.
Akef was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted, along with the rest of the leaders of the Moslem Brüderbund, for his involvement in the killing of demonstrators outside the organization's offices in Cairo during the wave of mass protests against the regime of Mohammed Morsi in 2012.
His health deteriorated while in prison, and he was transferred to a hospital, where he died last week at age 89.
The ceremony in his memory was held at a mosque in the Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, with several dozens of people in attendance.
Dr. Mashoor Fuaz, a prominent religious leader in the city, led the ceremony. "The Islamic nation lost one of its great preachers, who stood firm in the face of tyrants and refused to serve as a tool for oppression," Fuaz said in his eulogy. "He preferred to live behind bars than give up his religious and political principles."
Most Arab states barred religious services in Akef's memory, and ceremonies that were held were mostly done in secret. In Egypt, the family had to bury him in a small ceremony late at night to prevent the Moslem Brüderbund from taking advantage of the funeral to hold a rally.
The only places where public ceremonies were held in Akef's memory were The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the Gazoo Strip, two countries with strong affiliation to the Moslem Brüderbund and its worldviews.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, slammed Hamas for holding a memory for Akef, saying "It appears Hamas can erase from its flag the empty words and leave only its true symbol: the two swords of the Moslem Brüderbund, their real leaders."
Mordechai's comments were made before the memorial service in Umm al-Fahm.
One of the participants at the Umm al-Fahm ceremony told Ynet, "It doesn't matter if we're attacked for holding a prayer in memory of the former Moslem Brüderbund leader. He deserves more than this. We don't care about any objections, only about doing what we believe. The Moslem Brüderbund is always portrayed as a group of terrorists, but the truth is they want to make life good and safe."
Their end goal is no different than ISIS, it's only on methods and timing that they disagree.
Another participant insisted that "All we can do is hold prayer in his memory. A person like this contributed a lot. We will never forget him."
Umm al-Fahm has been in the spotlight in recent months as the home of three Israeli Arab bully boyz who carried out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount, killing two Israeli Border Policemen.
The attack led to a temporary closure of the Temple Mount complex, followed by the addition of security measures, which caused violent rioting in east Jerusalem and in the West Bank and to a crisis in Israel's relations with Jordan and with the Paleostinian Authority.
Thousands took part in the funerals of the three attackers in Umm al-Fahm, calling them "heroes" and "deaders."
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[Washingtonian] Jack Burkman popped back up Monday to tout the latest milestone in his obsessive interest in the case of Seth Rich: an ad seeking tips on the murdered Democratic National Committee staffer that Burkman says will air on cable news in the 22 largest television markets, including on Tuesday morning on Washington.
In the spot, the lawyer and lobbyist identifies himself as the leader of an "independent commission" investigating the Rich case. That’s a reference to the Profiling Project, a group of George Washington University forensic students he says he’s been funding to review Rich’s death, which has been the subject of several unfounded conspiracy theories, including one pushed by Burkman himself, which likely explains his decision to produce the ad with Russian subtitles.
Rich died early in the morning of July 10, 2016, after being shot outside his home in Northeast DC after walking home from Columbia Heights, where he had spent the evening at a bar. Rich was found with bruises on his legs and hands, and his watchband was torn, suggesting signs of a physical altercation. DC’s Metropolitan Police Department has been investigating Rich’s death as the result of an attempted armed robbery gone awry. But Burkman believes that Rich was killed by a Russian hit squad after finding out the DNC’s email servers had been hacked by the Kremlin, a narrative that exists as a kind of odd cousin to the more popular‐and equally unfounded‐conspiracy theory that Rich was the victim of a revenge killing after supposedly furnishing Wikileaks with Democratic Party emails.
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Burkman believes that Rich was killed by a Russian hit squad after finding out the DNC’s email servers had been hacked by the Kremlin. {An alternative view is that} Rich was the victim of a revenge killing after supposedly furnishing Wikileaks with Democratic Party emails.
I thought the Russian hack theory put forth by CrowdStrike had been discredited. The proof for the latter theory seems to be far stronger.
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I don't think Mueller wants to get involved in Seth Rich's murder investigation. After all, most of the people on the kangaroo court on his staff are Hillary supporters. Mueller's purpose is to go after Trump and to get him neutered/impeached. Mueller is yet another backstop of the shadow government to prevent Hillary, WJC, Lynch, Holder, and Obama from getting prosecuted for their crimes.
Narratives surrounding the DNC hack & Antifa reveal media bias and government bureaucracy at their worst.
U.S. intelligence agencies said Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee e-mail accounts, leading to the publication of about 20,000 stolen e-mails on WikiLeaks.
But that finding was reportedly based largely on the DNC’s strange outsourcing of the investigation to a private cybersecurity firm. Rarely does the victim of a crime first hire a private investigator whose findings later form the basis of government conclusions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is many things. But so far he has not been caught lying about the origin of the leaked documents that came into his hands. He has insisted for well over a year that the Russians did not provide him with the DNC e-mails.
When it was discovered that the e-mails had been compromised, then‐DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz weirdly refused to allow forensic detectives from the FBI to examine the DNC server to probe the evidence of the theft. Why did the FBI accept that refusal?
That strange behavior was not as bizarre as Wasserman Schultz’s later frenzied efforts to protect her information-technology specialist, Imran Awan, from Capitol Police and FBI investigations. Both agencies were hot on Awan’s trail for unlawfully transferring secure data from government computers, and also for bank and federal-procurement fraud.
So far, the story of the DNC hack is not fully known, but it may eventually be revealed that it involves other actors beyond just the Russians.
There is not much left to the media myth of James Comey as dutiful FBI director, unjustly fired by a partisan and vindictive President Donald Trump. A closer look suggests that Comey may have been the most politicized, duplicitous, and out-of-control FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover.
During the 2016 election, Comey, quite improperly, was put into the role of prosecutor, judge, and jury in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. That proved a disaster. Comey has admitted under oath to deliberately leaking his own notes ‐ which were likely government property ‐ to the media to prompt the appointment of a special counsel. That ploy worked like clockwork, and by a strange coincidence it soon resulted in the selection of his friend, former FBI director Robert Mueller. Read the rest at the link
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So far, the story of the DNC hack is not fully known, but it may eventually be revealed that it involves other actors beyond just the Russians.
When or if ever revealed it will most likely be far stranger than we can imagine.
Re Assange. I tend to believe him. He seems to have a kind of ethic where protecting sources and truth-telling is valued. Many argue about how he obtains the info which he publishes. They also question his lack of a filter when revealing State and Deep State secrets. There is an argument to be made about his lack of a filter which could be dangerous to those who practice spy craft and those who carry out government policy. He has short-circuited the usual machinery of government. Some things need the light of day on them whereas others require discretion--how to balance these is a problem.
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It was recently disclosed that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had warned the Obama administration in 2016 that Antifa was a domestic terrorist organization that aimed to incite violence during street protests. That stark assessment and Antifa’s subsequent violence make the recent nonchalance of local police departments with regard to Antifa thuggery seem like an abject dereliction of duty.
I think the term dereliction of duty is being too charitable. Collusion is more like it.
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Indeed, beware of narratives and misinformation. There is a lot of that going on these days--they seem to be more plentiful than the truth.
Rif Dimashq (Syria News) Syrian army, backed by the 4th brigade, carried out two military operations, on Monday, on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta area, in Rif Dimashq Province.
A source told Qasioun News informed that the Syrian army, backed by the 4th brigade, carried out two military operations on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta area from Ain Tarma towns and Hosh Dawahra area in Rif Dimashq Province. However, Syrian rebels managed to foil the attacks and shelled several villages and towns in Eastern Ghouta.
Meanwhile, Syrian army troops bombed the villages and towns of Douma, Arbin, Kafrbatna, Madira, Nashabya, Beit Lahm, Jasrin, Hamorya, Hazze, Raihan and Shayfonya.
Furthermore, dozens of rockets fell on the residential neighborhoods in Ain Tarma, causing only material damage to the property.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian army failed in the past few months to achieve any progress in Eastern Ghouta area, while deployed troops in the area.
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran hailed Saturday's launch of 1,250-mile range Khoramshahr that could reach Israel, but sources now say video was recycled footage.
US officials have reportedly said that Iran’s claim it tested a ballistic missile over the weekend that could reach Israel was a lie, and a video of the launch was in fact recycled footage of a previous missile test.
Iran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile, in defiance of warnings from Washington that it is ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal over the issue.
State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on Friday. It also carried in-flight video from the nose cone.
But according to a Fox News report, two US officials claim that the video was more than seven months old and dated back to a failed launch in late January, which resulted in the missile exploding shortly after lift off.
The Iranian broadcaster gave no date for Saturday’s apparent test, although Tehran officials had said on Friday that it would be tested "soon."
Previous Iranian missile launches have triggered US sanctions and accusations that they violate the spirit of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers.
The Mad Mullahs are clearly not bound by the letter of the agreement. It seems a bit silly, therefore, to expect them to pay any attention to the spirit of the thing.
Trump has threatened to scrap and/or amend the agreement over the issue, saying that Iran’s missile program could give it the technical know-how for a delivery system for a nuclear warhead when a sunset clause in the deal expires in 2025.
He is due to report to Congress on October 15 on whether or not he believes Iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal. If he decides that it is not, it could open the way for renewed US sanctions and perhaps the collapse of the agreement. Trump said on Wednesday he had made his decision, but was not yet ready to reveal it.
[IsraelTimes] Newly tested Khoramshahr rocket, capable of reaching Israel, is entirely homegrown, officials insist.
There has been speculation, particularly from Iran critics in Washington, that the Khoramshahr was based on North Korea’s intermediate-range Musudan missile.
In 2010, a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks showed that US intelligence officers believed North Korea had shipped Musudan missiles to Iran.
But some analysts say the differing ranges cast doubt on those concerns.
A detailed report earlier this year by the US-Korea Institute at John Hopkins University in the United States found: “The available evidence cannot verify speculation that the Iranian missile is similar to North Korea’s Musudan.”
Iran and North Korea have cooperated on military technology in the past.
During Iran’s war with Iraq in the 1980s, it turned to North Korea as one of the only sources of military assistance, importing a stockpile of Nodong missiles.
Iran used the Nodong to develop its own medium-range Shahab-3 missile, first tested in 1998, and it has continued to improve on the design since.
But there has been scant evidence of direct cooperation between the two countries in recent years, with Iran seemingly keen to distance itself from the East Asian pariah state.
Instead, Iran has emphasized its home-grown missile program, and denied that this breaches any international laws, though it has drawn repeated UN resolutions demanding an end to missile development by Tehran.
“Since the criticism of American officials, the speed of missile development has increased several times,” said General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh, head of aerospace forces for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, according to state television on Monday.
“All the materiel and pieces for our missiles are manufactured locally and do not come from abroad,” he said.
He said the Khoramshahr missile was 13 meters (43 feet) long and could carry an 1,800 kilogram (almost 4,000-pound) payload.
[DAWN] Chichawatni Saddar police on Sunday took a private school’s principal into custody for allegedly raping students.
According to SHO Rai Khizer, the main suspect has been taken into custody. On Saturday, he said his brother was held as boys had accused him of sexual abuse.
The school is located at Chichawatni Bypass, Lahore-Multan Motorway. Around 200 students in class-VIII, IX and X are enrolled here. The school has hostel and boarding facility.
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[Al Jazeera] Voting stations set up for the Iraqi Kurdish referendum have closed their doors and counting of ballots has begun, according to the official supervising body.
Voting closed at 6pm local time (16:00 GMT) on Monday, and the final results were expected to be announced within 72 hours.
Erbil-based Rudaw TV, citing the Independent High Elections and Referendum Commission, said 78 percent of the more than five million eligible voters turned out to vote.
In Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... authorities declared a curfew an hour and a half before polls closed as jubilant Kurds started to celebrate.
Kurds in the northern Iraqi city flocked to polling stations, but there has been lingering opposition of the vote among the Arabs and Turkmen who live alongside them.
Voters were asked to tick either Yes or No on the ballot asking them just one question in Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Assyrian: "Do you want the Kurdistan Region and Kurdistani areas outside the (Kurdistan) Region to become an independent country?"
The referendum is opposed by the Iraqi central government in Baghdad as well as the neighbouring countries of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran, besides major international powers.
[Iran Press TV] Iraq’s Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has called for a referendum on the unity of the entire Iraq, stressing that the Israeli-backed plot to partition Iraq had failed.
"All confirm the unconstitutionality of the referendum [for independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region], because it is clearly aimed at [undermining] the unity of Iraq. This vote would have serious repercussions for the future of Iraq in general and Kurdish region in particular," Maliki said in the capital Baghdad on Monday.
The Iraqi vice president also called on the central government in Baghdad to take legal actions against all those who support the Kurdish separation vote, stating that the policies adopted by Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, were meant to tear Iraq apart.
"The positions of Iraq's neighboring countries have been firm and clear concerning this illegal action," Maliki said, urging those countries "to boycott the Kurdistan region politically and economically and stop security cooperation with it."
Maliki had already denounced the Kurdish independence referendum in a meeting with US Ambassador to Iraq, Douglas Silliman, on September 17, warning that Baghdad would not tolerate the establishment of "a second Israel,"
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi politicians have demanded deployment of government troops to areas disputed with Kurds amid rising tensions between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government over a controversial independence referendum.
Hakim Abbas Mousa Abbas al-Zamili, a politician from the Sadrist Movement, said on Monday that the parliament had approved several tough measures in response to the contentious Kurdish independence vote.
He added that in line with these measures, Baghdad would have to act to "protect Iraq's unity and to deploy troops in all [disputed] areas."
Zamili further stated that the measures also called for the closure of all border crossings with the Kurdish region.
The Iraqi parliament considers the Kurdish independence referendum as "unconstitutional" and has called for punitive measures against all Kurdish officials and civil servants involved in it, the Iraqi politician pointed out.
[Iran Press TV] United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Secretary-General António Guterres has voiced his worries over the "potentially destabilizing effects" of a controversial referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region from Iraq’s central government.
"The Secretary-General respects the illusory sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity of Iraq and considers that all outstanding issues between the federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should be resolved through structured dialogue and constructive compromise," said Guterres’ front man, Stéphane Dujarric, on Monday.
He added that Guterres also voiced hopes that following the referendum United Nations-mandated activities throughout Iraq, including in the Kurdistan region, will be permitted to continue unhindered.
Syria rejects controversial referendum Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has rejected the independence referendum by Iraq’s Kurds as "unacceptable," stressing that Damascus only recognizes a unified Iraq.
"We reject any action that leads to the fragmentation of Iraq...This step is unacceptable and we do not recognize it," he added.
Another Syrian foreign ministerial official, Ayman Soussan, also slammed the vote noting that it was the result of the US’ regional policies.
"This is the result of American policies that seek to break apart the countries of the region and create conflicts between their parts," he said, adding that the referendum "harms Iraq and the Kurdish brothers." "Destabilizing effect".... how would we know ?
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They (the Kurds) did retain their 'heavy weapons' for self defense and didn't commit them for ISIS operations, as I recall.
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I highly doubt the Kurds will be unable to repel invasion on their home territory. Heavy Armor graveyard, and Iraq's army hasn't exactly been competent. I have to wonder how many of the would fight them to begin with. Turkey is the big question, will Erdogan invade? Because then we're put into a pinch.
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Vote = "Yes", reportedly
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[DAWN] Myanmar’s army said on Sunday it had discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 Hindus, including women and kiddies, in Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Moslem Rohingya bully boys.
Thousands of Hindus have fled villages where they once lived alongside Moslems, alleging that they were targeted by bandidosforces of Evil whose Aug 25 raids plunged Rakhine into communal violence.
The announcement could not be independently verified in an region where access has been tightly controlled by Myanmar’s army.
"Security members found and dug up 28 dead bodies of Hindus who were cruelly and violently killed by ARSA hard boy Bengali murderous Moslems in Rakhine State," a statement posted on the army chief’s website said. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is the group whose attacks on police posts triggered an army backlash so brutal that the UN believes it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Moslem minority.
More than 430,000 Rohingya have fled the region to Bangladesh in under a month. Around 30,000 Hindus and Buddhists based in the area have also been displaced by the violence. Both communities have told AFP they were terrorised by Rohingya bully boys.
The army said that security officers found a total of 20 dead women and eight men in two graves, including six boys under the age of ten. A strong smell led security officers to the burial site outside of Ye Baw Kya village, the army said.
Unverifiable photos published by the government’s Information Committee showed corpses laid out in rows on grass near two mud pits where they were found.
Myanmar government front man Zaw Htay confirmed the grim discovery to AFP, as did a police brass hat in Rakhine who requested anonymity. The village where the bodies were found, Ye Baw Kya, lies near a cluster of Hindu and Moslem communities in northern Rakhine called Kha Maung Seik.
Last week Hindus from the area told AFP that bandidosforces of Evil swept into their villages on Aug 25 with sticks and knives, attacking people who stood in their way, killing many and taking others into the forest. Hindu women are believed to have been kidnapped by the bully boys.
The grim discovery of the graves will further fuel already white-hot hatred between ethnic groups in Myanmar.
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When Buddhists and Hindus get angry you KNOW the Moslem population was at it again.
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[Business Insider] The FBI arrested 10 people on charges of fraud and corruption in men's college basketball on Tuesday.
[Breitbart] Sunday on CBS’s "60 Minutes," Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he and President Donald Trump were very different people, explaining they had "different upbringing" and "different life experiences."
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The director of a film reviled by the American people highlighted rejecting science as an explanation for why the movie bombed. In an interview with The Frame on Thursday, Mother! Director Darren Aronofsky responded to the movie’s highly unusual F-grade Cinemascore this way: "... You have other people who basically believe in the power of a iPhone that they can communicate to 35 million people in a blink of an eye, yet they don't believe in science in other ways." 
[NYPost] It's hard time for Anthony Weiner.
FRANCE has ordered Iran to stop testing missiles after Tehran announced on Saturday it had successfully launched a new ballistic missile with a range of 2,000km despite being told by the US to stop all nuclear-related activities.
[DAWN] A teenage domestic servant was found dead in his employer’s apartment in the Sharea Faisal area on Sunday, police said.
North Korea
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[DAWN] IN recent days, following a tip from a discreet informant, two bodies were exhumed from a graveyard in Sherpao Colony, Karachi. A post-mortem examination conducted thereafter revealed that the two individuals had been subjected to intense torture in their final hours: they had been beaten, tied to a charpai and electrocuted until they died, and then promptly buried under the cover of the night.![]("https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthepoliticalcarnival.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2Fnkorea2.jpg")
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[Washingtonian] Jack Burkman popped back up Monday to tout the latest milestone in his obsessive interest in the case of Seth Rich: an ad seeking tips on the murdered Democratic National Committee staffer that Burkman says will air on cable news in the 22 largest television markets, including on Tuesday morning on Washington.
[DAWN] Chichawatni Saddar police on Sunday took a private school’s principal into custody for allegedly raping students.
[Al Jazeera] Voting stations set up for the Iraqi Kurdish referendum have closed their doors and counting of ballots has begun, according to the official supervising body.
Massoud Barzani
