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Yeah, but it's what the defense contractors want to sell, and that's what's important.
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11/06/2017 18:27
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...Actually, it's what the USN wants to pay for.
Mike
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11/06/2017 18:29
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From the author's LinkedIn entry:
I have an MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University, and served as university instructor for the Peace Corps in the beautiful deserts of Gansu, China
This guy obviously has no background in military procurement. Neither have I. But unlike him, I can count. His background leads him to visualize an end-point and gather data from there. Me? I just look at the data presented and think about why people who have done this their entire lives might rationally have come up with this particular end product. This fella? He probably thinks we should not have a navy, let alone build any new weaponry for it.
The LCS is expensive because so much stuff is automated. The Perry-class frigates had a crew of 215. The LCS was supposed to have a crew of 40, which expanded to 70+. At a fully-loaded cost of $150K per person (including housing benefits, PX access, back-loaded bennies like VA benefits, veteran pensions, etc) that's a payroll savings of $20m per year. My SWAG is that these ships are supposed to last a minimum of 20 years. That's $400m in savings per ship.
The reason for some of the equipment problems probably relates to new design problems. They're shoehorning large numbers of new features into a single ship. No real surprise that there would be problems along the way. Given that this is a peacetime procurement process, i.e. there is no pressing need to push cookie cutter designs into service to replace vessels destroyed by enemy action, new features stemming from new requirements are being slip streamed into each new iteration. The added complexity means even more problems. But that's the benefit of peacetime development. It's more expensive, but you get to work the kinks out, instead of having large numbers of sailors killed due to a feature that doesn't work because it wasn't properly tested. Many bugs can't be known beforehand until the equipment is tested in extended operation.
If they can really operate the ship with 1/3 the crew of a Perry-class vessel, this is a real revolution. The engines are probably brand new designs, given that the two models can operate at 45 knots, compared to the Perry's 29. These are PT boat speeds, except PT boats are 1/5 the length, and 1% the displacement.
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Link don't work. I used Google-fu to find this tidbit: "where people without toilets risk having their welfare benefits taken away and can be barred from running for public office." I was curious how you could shame someone who is OK with taking a dump in public.
[Nuus 24] Harare ‐ Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party youth league has endorsed First lady Grace Mugabe as the right candidate to occupy the vice presidency ahead of the extraordinary congress set for December, a report said on Monday.
According to the state-owned Herald newspaper, the youth league's secretary general Kudzanai Chipanga said that Grace was the right candidate because her loyalty to President Robert Mugabe was unquestionable.
This came just a day after the first lady reportedly declared that under fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be gone from both the government and Zanu-PF before the congress.
"Trouble causers in the party must go before the next congress. He (Mnangagwa) must be dropped before we meet at congress in order for us to have unity in the party," Grace was quoted as saying.
Chipanga said that the youth league was behind Grace’s call for the removal of Mnangagwa.
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"Trouble causers in the party must go before the next congress. He (Mnangagwa) must be dropped before we meet at congress in order for us to have unity in the party," Grace was quoted as saying.
I recommend sending for Debbie Wasserman Schultz as quickly as possible. She can help map the way ahead.
[Breitbart] California Governor Jerry Brown told religious leaders gathered at the Vatican Saturday that the world needed a "total ... brain washing" to convince leaders of the seriousness of the threat of climate change.
Brown, who burned tons of carbon in jetting to Vatican City as part of a 14-day visit to Europe, spoke to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown said that while President Donald Trump’s election was a problem for the cause of climate change, it was not the main challenge.
He called for "brain washing" among the world’s leaders:
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Because the facts are unconvincing as they don't match the claims, and the manipulated facts keep getting spotted, and so far the brain washing has worked well with the typical liberals and children.
#8
We need an import tariff on stuff that California pretends to make, on top of no longer subsidizing stuff like Teslas. They practice economic warfare against us and make us pay for it.
[WSJ] During the worst of last month’s wildfires in Northern California, Dick Fredericks got a phone call that passed on "some magical words": His house was safe.
The message from a private firefighting service hired by his home insurer, Chubb Ltd. CB -0.66% , was accompanied by an email with some two dozen photos, including one of the service’s firefighters pumping water from Mr. Fredericks’s swimming pool to extinguish a brush fire on his Sonoma Valley property.
Increasingly, insurance carriers are finding wildfires, such as those in California, are an opportunity to provide protection beyond what most people get through publicly funded fire fighting. Some insurers say they typically get new customers when homeowners see the special treatment received by neighbors during big fires.
"The enrollment has taken off dramatically over the years as people have seen us save homes," Paul Krump, a senior executive at Chubb, said of the insurer’s Wildfire Defense Services. "It’s absolutely growing leaps and bounds."
The services are complimentary to policyholders in certain ZIP Codes or states that are prone to wildfires. Some insurers require policyholders to enroll in the programs in advance, to give permission for workers to access the property and to obtain contact information.
Chubb’s service, which began in 2008, is offered in 15 states. American International Group Inc. AIG -4.59% launched its Wildfire Protection Unit in 2005 in 14 California ZIP Codes. The unit has since expanded to 385 ZIP Codes in California, Colorado and Texas. Other insurers extending services includePrivilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange, or PURE, and USAA.
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The important point is that most properties are saveable with appropriate actions and property owners are mostly at fault for not taking the right actions.
A pet issue of mine in Aus. Where bushfires feed the media's cult of the victim.
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Soon we will be taught that it is unfair and probably racist for some rich people to get more firefighting benefit than what is provided to the average person. And besides, it infringes on the firefighters' union contracts.
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One concern is that when the private firefighters get in trouble - serious personal danger - they will call on the regular crews to come to their aid in what would have otherwise been an area they would write off as too risky.
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here in Sun Valley Idaho it is common practice to send private firefighters to help with insured expensive homes, esp considering the folks who have homes here, Jawn Kerry, Oliver Stone, Tom Hanks, The Wrigley's,Herbert Allen, Clint Eastwood (the only Republican), and the list goes on and on........ just sayin
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I've read somewhere that it is possible to buy an outdoor sprinkler / fire suppression system using foam/water material to give minutes to hours protection of real estate from wildfires. You can imagine what that costs if even the multimillionaires don't want to pay for it.
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& #12
(search wildfire suppression systems for outdoors)
onestopfire.com
homefirefightingsystems.com
*not endorsing either location and/or products, just a good starting point for what is out there and some price points.
So for about $5000 you get a portable pump, hose, and foam or gel, which you want, nay need one or the other unless you plan on fighting the fire with that machine, to which I suggest uploading your will to the cloud beforehand.
Not sure what an outdoor system would run, but retro-fitting houses sucks money just in labor.
Either way there are going to be water issues - cannot depend on the faucet to be on - and powering the pumps so gasoline supplies as well.
Now that portable rig is 200 lbs. -before- water gets into it, and it looks like it does not off road at all, and 100' of hose is probably not going to do it. Pretty labor intensive.
And swimming pools do not have as much water as it seems when it comes to wetting a property. Much better to hit hot spots and make wet lines. Keep vegetation away from defending structures and cut low, trim tree branches at least 6' to 10', embers are your enemy so fire rated roof and gutters clean chimney closed go a long ways. Keep the big fire away, and make sure it can't creep into your siding by the foundation and we're doing good.
When the wind is doing 70, time runs quick and embers definitely hate you, and spraying into the wind, they way you need to, just doesn't work. We got a lot of finger wagging about where were our firebreaks? Wellfokmahn, we could have fallen back to the Missouri River and still got jumped. But the humble plow and keeping the big fire loads away from structures saved quite a few buildings - some with people sheltering in it. Plowed the ground, especially on the windward exposures, and the fire had virtually nothing to eat near the structure.
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Most of the really expensive modern homes I see are designed to impress the neighbors with conspicuous consumption doo-dads rather than the non-glamorous stuff that really makes a building valuable, safe & useful.
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Organized firefighting originated in England after the Great Fire of London. It was private enterprise, exactly light what is reported here. In fact today, one can collect old 'fire marks'. Each company gave out these marks to their customers to put on their buildings so that the fire companies would know whether to fight their fires. They were also advertising for the fire companies. Actually they evolved into fire insurance companies, and some still exist today.
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Yup, though I have seen a walk-through of a really nice house, wish I remembered whose because he had the auto-sprinklers, large water tank and swimming pool (+ equipment to draft), all the cogs and sprockets needed to run a hose effectively, and his own brush truck he could and did operate on his own, never mind having help. Nice little barn which looked more like a pool house.
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The pictures at those links, nice houses, but played a good game of Where's Waldo with all the fire dangers. Geesh, trim those trees back just to keep the sap from falling all over everything.
[AP] In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
Just a day before, this corner of Ravenna Park was an illegal home for the down and out, one of 400 such encampments that have popped up in Seattle’s parks, under bridges, on freeway medians and along busy sidewalks. Now, as police and social workers approached, some of the dispossessed scurried away, vanishing into a metropolis that is struggling to cope with an enormous wave of homelessness.
That struggle is not Seattle’s alone. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region’s success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. All along the coast, elected officials are scrambling for solutions.
"I’ve got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing," said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. "There’s nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up."
The rising numbers of homeless people have pushed abject poverty into the open like never before and have overwhelmed cities and nonprofits. The surge in people living on the streets has put public health at risk, led several cities to declare states of emergency and forced cities and counties to spend millions - in some cases billions - in a search for solutions.
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"....and counties to spend millions - in some cases billions - in a search for solutions...."
The fail is strong in these counties. Here's a big, fat, hairy clue - money is not the answer. Why iffin it were, problem woulda done been solved by now.
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Trickle down economics works if you are a panhandler.
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"I’ve got economically zero unemployment in my city, and I’ve got thousands of homeless people that actually are working and just can’t afford housing," said Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. "There’s nowhere for these folks to move to. Every time we open up a new place, it fills up."
Cause the property tax on a 20 million dollar home brings more revenue to the apparatchiks than a block of affordable housing. Not to mention campaign donations.
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P2k, you're never gonna get affordable housing with the property tax rates in California. It simply ain't gonna happen. I've seen condos, glorified apartments, going for $1 million. The solution is in the graphic for this post (see above). Put these people on the next freight train to flyover country. That's most likely where they came from anyway. You don't have any friends or family in California? No contacts? No job? No money? No prospects? Time to move along then.
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De-industrialization and the importation of low skilled immigrants both legal and illegal has consequences. The idea of total globalism as an economic model brings with it the lower standard of living that the rest of the “globe” knows far too well.
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Put these people on the next freight train to flyover country.
We don't want'em and that makes no sense.
Greater populations provide more tax dollars for social services. Sparse, scattered populations already can't handle the volume of natives.
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P2k, you're never gonna get affordable housing with the property tax rates in California.
Cali is well beyond the point of no return. Largely a self inflicted wound made ever more possible by allowing mortgage interest rate deductions that are well beyond just the the income of 95% of Americans. Them prices wouldn't have gone up if it wasn't for that welfare for the rich.
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NOT a self inflicted wound. I've said this over and over again: The influx of illegal aliens into California was a federal failure. George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Baraq Obama inflicted this scourge upon us thereby ensuring the preeminence of the Democrat party here. I've told you all before: California used to be a Red State producing presidential timber such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, senators like George Murphy, Sam Hayakawa and Pete Wilson. Sadly, those days are gone. We didn't have any homeless freaks back then. We didn't have exoctic, sub prime mortgages back then. If you couldn't put 20% down, you either rented or moved outta here. Those weird mortgages were responsible for the skyballing price of housing.
I've told you this too: There will never, ever be affordable housing in coastal California because the demand for apartments and even little granny shacks is so high. Maybe most Rantburgers wouldn't want to live here but the demand for real estate here is world class. You might pay more in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Tokyo or Singapore but hardly anywhere else.
If you can't hack it here, it's time to move on.
I don't care where these people go. I just want our politicians to enforce the vagrancy laws. No more coddling. No more handouts. No more tent cities. No more hepatitis A. No more urine and feces on the sidewalks. Just get them outta here.
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The only reason they pushed those 'homeless' out of the rich neighborhood is that 'donations' mean more than the mere dozen-or-so democratic votes of the homeless - who would most likely just go bother some other 'not so rich' neighborhood anyway.
And isn't Seattle sponsoring a 'safe zone for drug users' so they have a 'safe place' to shoot up their junk without fear of being harassed by the cops? And then they will wonder why crime is spiking in those neighborhoods (which, BTW never seem to be in the rich urban areas....).
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I lived and worked in Westminster, Irvine, Costa Mesa, Garden Grove and often flew out of LAX and Burbank. I volunteered for every out of town and offshore assignment because I enjoyed the Real Estate appreciation but couldn't stand to live there, exactly because of that Abu, and I grew up on Chicago's south side!
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funny how all the socialist west coast cities are suddenly inexplicably experiencing mass homelessness. Seattle,Portland,San Fran,Los Angeles, San Diego.... all run by entrenched leftists who are convinced socialism is the cure
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We didn't have exoctic, sub prime mortgages back then. If you couldn't put 20% down, you either rented or moved outta here. Those weird mortgages were responsible for the skyballing price of housing.
Another federal failure, BTW, invented by denizens of the DC swamp and not inflicted upon Californians by themselves.
And good for you, Skidmark. If I wasn't so hung up on the ocean I'd move to a small town in the Midwest myself. For the money I'd make on my house I could live like a king back there.
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11/06/2017 13:32
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746, San Diego has a Republican mayor. The way he talks about the homeless you might think he's a donk but he's not.
Again, many if not most of California's problems are a result of federal policies that could just as well impact all of the rest of you.
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homelessness is UP across the board from what I've seen traveling this summer. not aware of the San Diego Mayor, thanks for the heads up
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In addition to the standard homeless, and the addicted/mental problems homeless, we now have millennial homeless that choose the lifestyle. They tend to migrate more than the other types but I've heard claims of fairly large yearly salaries from panhandling.
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Solution is for companies to move their ops to mid america.
However, even when the finances say to move, a lot of the CEOs won't do so because they like where they are.
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Minimum lot size requirements and regulations with respect to multi-unit complexes are probably an issue, cost-wise. If the state did away with those, developers would find a way to shoehorn fairly cheap, but spartan multi-level complexes into small spaces. Of course, property owners next to these complexes could see their property values crash.
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scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
I'm waiting for the first Cholera epidemic. What do you think the response will be of the pampered elite children then?
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scooped up the refuse of the homeless A few years ago a homeless man sleeping in a New Mexico bosque with overgrown grass, was turned into "refuse" by a huge lawnmower / bush hog machine. The operator stopped when huge chunks of fresh red human came out of the discharge chute, but -- he was too late.
Dr. Janet Haas, president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, said the outbreak is unusual for the U.S. because the spread of the liver infection has been blamed on a lack of basic hygiene and sanitation, not contaminated food.
That means public health officials can't solely rely on previous containment methods.
and...
In San Diego, where nearly 85 percent of all confirmed cases are located, cleaning crews are hitting the streets, attacking them with high-pressure water mixed with bleach to sanitize any surfaces contaminated with feces, blood or other body fluids.
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Two dimensions: a) the country has experienced a deep depression but the consequences have been deliberately removed from public discourse (aka "media") so far because the president for the last 8 years was a Democrat; b) Americans tolerate the indecent and criminal behavior of homeless people because the political and intellectual classes tell them that is the right thing to do.
The already-started re-growth of the economy will help (whatever Trump has been doing is less than 1% of what ought to be done, and some of his anti-free-trade ideas are not great). But we also have to destroy the anti-American ruling class of moochers and looters.
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[Zero Hedge] The shocking latest twist in what has been a chaotic weekend in Saudi Arabia is news that a helicopter transporting 8 high-ranking Saudi officials (including prince Mansour bin-Muqrin) has crashed in the south of the Kingdom, near the border with Yemen.
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Bad things named Stinger, Redeye, and Strela.
Although, as I recall, this used to happen a lot around Saddam. (Safety wires? We don't need no stinkin' safety wires!)
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[Guardian] Johnnie Langendorff says he raced after gunman with a member of Sutherland Springs community who had earlier fought with killer.
A dramatic account of a high speed car chase after a mass shooting in a Texas church has emerged from one of the gunman’s pursuers, who describes a gunfight and subsequent crash.
Motorist Johnnie Langendorff has told how he was driving near to Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Sunday morning when he saw two men shooting at each other.
He saw the church gunman ‐ now named as Devin Kelley ‐ take off in his car and a member of the local community came over to ask for help.
Langendorff told a local TV station Ksat.com: "I pulled up to the intersection where the shooting happened. I saw two men exchanging gunfire, the other being the citizen of the community. The shooter of the church had taken off, fled in his vehicle, the other gentleman came and said we need to pursue him. And that’s what I did, I just acted.
Langendorff said he did not know the community member.
#1
I have always been aware by first hand experience of the drastic difference between country people and urban people when comes to confronting crime. After moving to the city everytime I interdicted againat a crime in progress city people would say you're crazy. If you live in a rural area and don't interdict you are considered a disgrace.
#2
At the appropriate time, a trip to the Oval Office for engraved S&W pistols presentation. Star of Texas on one side, Presidential Seal on the other, child/grandchild scholarships, free hunting license for life, F-150 King Ranch, etc.
#4
Latest word is the shooter had a hostage during the shootout and chase. The local with the rifle who engaged the shooter was a biker dude. Police might have not fired to prevent collateral damage to the hostage but apparently to a cowboy and a biker dude you just made a bad situation worse for yourself with the natives.
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The U.S. is now experiencing a second violent civil war. With extreme mass violence coming from the left against large groups of people on the right. Hundreds of casualties suffered by the right in Ppl as Vegas. Dozens killed in a church. Open defiance of the flag at sporting events. Trump supporters being beaten over and over again at campaign rallies.
This is open, violent warfare now taking place from the left against the right. Historically the most violent since the first civil war and it will only get worse.
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A citizen with a firearm stops a criminal with a firearm.
Speeding
Reckless Endangerment
Discharge of a firearm within the city limits
Aggravated Assault with Conspiracy
Attempted Murder
Premeditated Felonious Assault
#10
We were in New Braunfels for the weekend and left after church; did not hear of this until our daughter in Oregon called us, worried, while we were stuck in traffic on I-35 near Waco. Lucky we didn't go to the wrong church.
[Townhall] The National Football League’s colossal failure to properly handle a public relations disaster stemming from league wide National Anthem protests as a way to draw attention to police brutality has led to dismal ratings throughout the season. Thousands, if not millions of fans, have tuned out the NFL this fall, with #BoycottNFL a popular Twitter feature on any given Sunday.
But, so far there has not been quite exactly any legendary sports figure to jump aboard and disavow the NFL for allowing players to kneel during the anthem. That changed last night when Vin Scully, one of the most popular sports announcers for the better half of the past century, pledged to never watch an NFL game again.
Speaking to a crowd in California, Scully expressed his dismay and grievance towards players who kneel during the anthem as a sign of disrespect towards the military.
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You won't hear of this via MSM but Dallas Cowboy players went to military installations and signed autographs, during the game today coaches wore military style caps, players had military style towels and military and police joined them on the bench during the game. Their NFL announcers wore not one but two different style flag pins on their lapels. It was an all out patriotic effort by Jones and team.
#4
I miss football. But the owners have seriously screwed it up. Too timid to enforce a little bit of discipline on their players? If they want to quit because the owner makes them stand respectfully during the national anthem then LET THEM QUIT, DAMMIT! There are certainly at least a hundred guys waiting in the wings for a chance to play in the NFL for every one of these kneelers.
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The feel the burn where it counts, revenue projections and advertisers complaining. Don’t let them think for a moment they are forgiven. Some insults are forever.
#7
Raj is right, but once it moved beyond Kaepernick it became a problem. Owners didn't want to bench the best players and be non-competitive so they tolerated it far to long until the whole league began circling the drain. I'm not sure they can do anything now to save the NFL short of somehow taking College football off of the airwaves, firing protesters and replacing them with military folks.
#8
I tried to at least read about the weekend's NFL games this morning and just couldn't get interested, even though the home team won and is doing pretty well. I guess 14 months is long enough to break the habit.
Where oh where have the real sports casters gone? Heard a couple olde schoolers make the KSU/KU game actually interesting to watch. Morning news comes on and its gossip girl boy time talking about shoes and pretty things. Dedicated sports channels are even worse; local guy I can pass because local market guy, the sports channels have no excuse. Either two over the top personalities out yelling each other, pretty boys talking about personalities and nice hands, or a covey retired athletes who after drawing straws to pick a team mumble platitudes and generic stock phrases disguised as keys to the game.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] In an issued statement by President of the Republic, Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... ’s media bureau on Saturday, it indicated that the President was informed by telephone of Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. ’s government resignation.
"President Aoun received a telephone call from Prime Minister Saad Hariri, currently outside Leb, informing him of the resignation of his government," the statement said.
It was learnt that President Aoun is awaiting the return of Prime Minister Hariri to Beirut to know more about the circumstances of his resignation.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a report on illusory sovereignty and land in Bahrain on the sidelines of the Gulf crisis, Bahrain’s official news agency said it had the right to demand that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... return the rights that Doha had carved out of the body of Manama for a century.
After the Kuwaiti mediation stalled and after Qatar continued to fail in its 2013 and 2014 commitments, brought in foreign forces to empower itself and opened its doors wide to terrorist groups, Manama has taken new measures in addition to the previous ones taken by the boycotting countries in order to protect its security and stability.
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[NATION.PK] The newly-appointed chairman of an Islamist party Sunday called on its followers to refrain from protests and sit-ins, saying such moves were against national interests.
Ziaullah Qadri, chief of a faction of Tehrik Labaik Ya Rasool Allah , announced the party won't pursue its demand for Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Law Minister Rana Sanaullah 's resignation.
"The provincial minister has clarified and satisfied Ulma-e-Kiram," he said. "In present scenario, protests and sit-ins would divide the nation and are against national interests."
Qadri also expressed satisfaction on government’s action on the clause regarding finality of Prophethood .
Tehrik Labaik Ya Rasool Allah of Allama Khadim Rizvi is registered with Election Commission of Pakistain with name Tehrik Labiak Pakistain while Dr Asif’s group, of which Qadri is the chairman, calls its political wing as Tehrik Labaik al-aalmi.
The Tehrik’s faction of Khadim Rizvi dissociated itself from Dr Asif Ashraf Jalali’s Tehrik Labiak Ya Rasool Allah which ended its six-day sit-in in Lahore and Islamabad on Sunday. Dr Asif led the rally in Islamabad on Tuesday but it failed to get the attraction of the government due to the thin participation of people.
Rizvi's faction is all set to hold Lahore to Islamabad long march on Monday with six points of demand: end restrictions on registration of FIR under 295/C, hang all culprits involved in blasphemy, take action against those involved in amending affidavit of Khatam-e-Nabuwat, abolish loudspeaker act, end-all cases against leaders and workers of Tehrik and include Islamic teachings in the curriculum which were previously excluded.
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[NATION.PK] After waking up from a deep slumber and addressing the concerns of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Ministry of Interior has forwarded 29 terrorism-related cases to the military courts after a break of almost 10 months.
The ministry forwarded these cases to the military courts after COAS in a letter written to Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had showed his concerns that the federal government had not sent any terrorism case to the military courts since January this year.
The official sources in the interior ministry informed that soon after the prime minister sought an explanation from the ministry about its low response in dealing with terrorism-related cases for military courts , it hurriedly forwarded 29 cases to the military courts that were already approved by the cabinet.
The COAS in a Demi-Offcial (DO) letter written to the PM had said that though he had no doubts about the government’s seriousness in implementing the National Action Plan (NAP), yet no case had been forwarded to the military courts during the last many years.
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal through his official Twitter account also said that 29 cases already approved by the cabinet had been sent to the military courts . While another 80 were awaiting approval of the cabinet, he said, adding that after these 80 cases, the ministry has no pending case to be sent to the military courts .
Prior to the referral of 29 cases, the Ministry of Interior had recommended 190 cases to the military courts out of the total 317 cases forwarded by the provincial apex committee to the ministry , says a working paper prepared by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA).
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[2acheck] In addition to our own research Second Amendment Check has decided it is worth sharing the work of others. Therefore, we are sharing the NRA-ILA’s lists of:
"Anti-Gun National Organizations"
"Anti-Gun Corporations/Corporate"
"Anti-Gun Publication and Media Outlets"
"Anti-Gun Individuals & Celebrities"
At Second Amendment Check we always attempt to source our material in our quest to provide objective and credible information. Again, these lists have been compiled by the NRA-ILA, whom we recognize as a credible source of information. Having said that, the exact criteria for making it onto the list are unclear, and the claims of being "Anti-Gun" have not been independently verified or validated by Second Amendment Check.
Also, after having had these lists published on their public website for many months, they have been removed after receiving some recent attention in the alternative media. As noted in the Feb 11, 2013 update in this this Huffington Post article, the NRA-ILA has quietly removed the list from their website, but it can still be found in a web archive from January. The reason for the removal of this list is not yet known. Speculation suggests that the NRA ILA didn’t want to call unwanted attention to itself, or perhaps that it is reassessing or updating that list. Second Amendment Check will attempt to get to the bottom of this mysterious disappearance. They missed Mila Kunis who was addressed on the site yesterday. Got a few dead ones there also. But it's a start.
Extensive. Somebody has been taking copious notes.
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I used to work for one of the anti-gun engineering firms, and they got the name of the president correct - for 20 years ago. The firm was swallowed up over 15 years ago and ceased to exist.
I hope the rest of the names and addresses are more accurate!
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[Fox] The 279 firefighters who graduated from the New York City fire department's academy last month include the son of a firefighter killed on 9/11 ‐ and the son of a terrorist.
Rookie firefighter Omar Ahmed Sattar, 30, is the eldest son of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, who was convicted in 2005 of "soliciting crimes of violence" and conspiracy to murder Jews.
The elder Sattar, now 58, was a seemingly mild-mannered postal-service worker raising his family in Staten Island. Behind his peaceful facade, the court found, he was an Islamist extremist who used his home as a communications hub to further the schemes of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Muslim cleric who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six, as well as failed plots to blow up other New York City buildings and tunnels.
Ahmed Sattar, also known as Abu Omar and Dr. Ahmed, was tried along with Rahman’s radical defense lawyer, Lynne Stewart, and another accused terrorist, Mohammed Yousry.
According to federal charges, he and a co-conspirator in 2000 published a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, in Rahman’s name, calling for the killing of Jewish civilians.
He and cohorts also tried to use the Oct. 12, 2000, al Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 US sailors, to extort the US into freeing Rahman from prison, court papers say.
[BLOOMBERG] Niger permitted the U.S. to use armed drones in the fight against Islamist Lions of Islam in the West African nation, Agence La Belle France-Presse reported, citing Defense Minister Kalla Moutari.
Drone strikes will be a "decisive and key response" to highly armed combatants in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , Moutari was quoted as saying on state-owned radio. The U.S. currently deploys unmanned surveillance craft in Niger, which has previously been reluctant to allow the use of armed drones.
While Niger doesn’t have known jihadist groups in its territory, it’s increasingly affected by the spread of Islamist militancy in West Africa. Four U.S. troops and five Nigerian soldiers died on Oct. 4 when their convoy in the Tillabery region was ambushed.
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Great. More open-ended meddling in other countries' affairs with no victory conditions.
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It will be all over soon and quiet once again. These things only last until the next one. You'll see.
[RUDAW.NET] Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga ministry has suggested joint deployment of Iraqi and Kurdish forces to the disputed areas and international borders between the Kurdistan Region and its neighbors, but Iraq has so far refused the proposal, Secretary General of the Peshmerga ministry told news hounds.
Kurdish and Iraqi military officials have so far met three times to find a solution to tensions between the two sides. The main obstacle to reaching an agreement is that the Iraqi military "want all their demands be implemented, without leaving any space for negotiation," Jabar Yawar said at a presser Sunday evening in Erbil.
The US-led anti-ISIS Coalition has been overseeing the talks and acting Peshmerga minister Karim Sinjari will meet with the Coalition on Monday in Erbil, Yawar said.
The Peshmerga have also shared their position and progress on the talks in a Sunday meeting attended by Kurdish political officials, including the head of the Department of Foreign Relations, with foreign missions present in Erbil.
Kurds and Iraqis have each presented the other with their suggestions for how to resolve tensions that escalated in the wake of Kurdistan’s independence referendum and Iraq’s takeover of the disputed areas.
One issue to be resolved is control over Kurdistan Region’s international borders and the disputed territories claimed by both governments. The Peshmerga want to joint deployment of forces to these areas.
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[DAILYCALLER] Happy belated Halloween ‐ the only night of the year 14-year-olds willingly show up to Kevin Spacey’s house. As I write to you, more traumatized young men are spilling their guts to journalists about being fondled or seduced by Spacey. "I would call him a pedophile and a sexual predator," says a man who has come forward to describe a sexual relationship he had with Spacey when he was just 14 ‐ which ended, he says, with Spacey trying to rape him. If you have sex with a fourteen-year-old you're a pedophile, unless you're another fourteen-year-old.
I’m as disgusted as you are by Kevin Spacey’s transparent attempt to cloak himself in gay privilege as a way of distracting us from allegations he tried to fuck a child.
This is why identity politics is so poisonous: it seeks to establish separate rules for separate groups based on perceived, or more often simply imaginary, victimhood. Gay people should be held to the same standards as everyone else.
This is why identity politics is so poisonous: it seeks to establish separate rules for separate groups based on perceived, or more often simply imaginary, victimhood. Gay people should be held to the same standards as everyone else. An idea dating back to before Hammurabi, who was codifying previous codes. The idea of one law for everyone has been honored more in the breach than in practice ever since, but at least the idea's been given lip service.
The purpose of the Left’s categorization of us all into marginalized identities is to establish separate standards of behavior for everyone. If you read left-wing blogs you’d be forgiven for thinking that gay people are perfect paragons of upstanding moral rectitude and the worst thing a black person has done in the last 50 years is break wind at the DMV. The rest of us know better: we know people are messy and complicated, and that just because someone is a paraplegic lesbian Moslem DREAMer, it’s also possible for her to be a total prick. It might even be ‐ whisper it ‐ more likely!
I’m gay. I'm not.
I have been very drunk. Me too, though not recently.
It never made me want to touch kids. Me neither.
Kevin Spacey is a disgrace to faggots ‐ and I say this as someone whose gay card has been ripped up, spat upon, set on fire and then put out with piss repeatedly. But whatever his crimes ‐ and I hope he pays for them in the most obscenely painful ways imaginable at the hands of LeRoy from Cell Block E ‐ Spacey has inadvertently done the conservative cause a massive service this week. Because his cack-handed damage control has permanently devastated identity politics. Doubtful he'll ever see Cell Block E. Roman Polanski hasn't.
Those of us belonging to so-called victimhood groups but whose politics align more closely with the Republican Party have known for some time that identity politics have never been applied agnostically. Specifically, the Left can’t stick by their own rules when a woman, a black guy or a fag does the unthinkable and expresses libertarian or right-wing political positions. Or says something nuanced about sex... Like, you look down the grocery aisle and you see soft golden hair and a curvaceous butt. Then the vision turns "her" head and he has a mustache. Does that mean you're a homosexual or that the guy looks like a girl from the back?
I take pride in being the most lied-about and censored man in America. Venue after venue has caved to public pressure, canceling my talks. Promoters talk a good game until furious liberals attack them on social media. Then they collapse into a sobbing heap quicker than a teenager in Spacey’s dressing room. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... I’ve sold out multiple auditoriums for the Australian leg of my Troll Academy tour; we’re adding more dates all the time. Despite all this, most Americans would prefer speech to remain free. A CATO poll this week revealed that 58 per cent of Americans have political views they’re afraid to share for fear of reprisal. For Republicans, that number rises to 73 per cent. Among "strong liberals," just 30 per cent feel the need to watch their tongues. The implication is clear: socially acceptable politics in America aren’t just left-of-center. They are violently left-of-center, and getting worse.
Once upon a time, a teacher might be fired for being gay. These days you’re more likely to be fired for being straight. The Washington Post reveals that a black lesbian called Camille LeNoir ‐ her real name, probably ‐ lost a job offer after coming out as straight. New Mexico State University told her to delete a video, in which she said homosexuality was "not worth losing your soul over," if she ever wanted to work in college basketball. LeNoir, 31, is suing. Since she’s now a former lesbian, LeNoir deserves a properly full-throated defense. Women’s basketball is 98 per cent lesbian, per Stanford player Candice Wiggins, so LeNoir should be grateful for her excommunication. The locker room stench must be ungodly enough on its own. Ewww! Too much imagery there! Imagination overload... Shutting down...
Imagine you’re a right-wing comedy writer. You come up with a scenario in which a Moslem immigrant, here in the United States on something called a "diversity visa" (I know it’s a bit rich, but bear with me) steals a Home Depot truck and kills 8 people. A school bus is hit. He yells "Allahu akhbar" while committing this act of ISIS-inspired terrorism, which CNN promptly explains is uttered "under the most beautiful of circumstances." A guy at his mosque says he "totally gets" why the guy did it. The Left-wing press nods along sympathetically to his incoherent criticisms of the Bush administration, and publishes stories warning against "Islamophobia." ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... His wife claims she is "shocked and horrified and scared and sad" and people believe her. You know what, never mind. It’s too implausible. It'd never fly. Too implausible. Better stick with cat-eating space aliens.
The Left’s gratuitous vandalism of American institutions and its hostility to the principles that have made this country great cannot be fought with essays in magazines. The Left can only win by forcing us onto the uneven playing field of political correctness and constructive dialogue. I choose war. By the way, how'd that Communist revolution go yesterday?
Sexual misconduct allegations flood statehouses
Statehouses from Boston to Sacramento have been rocked by an onslaught of sexual misconduct allegations, creating unprecedented pressure on state legislative leaders to take immediate action.
Kommie Icon Hamilton Fish going down (so to speak)
They told the women that he had grabbed the neck of a high-ranking female employee at The Nation Institute nearly 10 years ago, back when he was president of the nonprofit media organization. They told the women he could be demeaning, even creepy. It was the least they could do. The Nation Institute had parted ways with Fish — about two years after the neck-grabbing incident — but he left under cover of a sprawling non-disparagement provision. Nation Institute vets could warn his future charges only in secret.
Uma Thurman: When I’m Ready, I’ll Say What I Have to Say
Actress Uma Thurman says she’d like to comment on Hollywood’s ongoing sexual misconduct scandal but will wait a little while longer, until she is less angry, to do so.
Weinstein recommended for No-Fly list by NYPD
Homeland Security is now watching America's borders to make sure that Harvey Weinstein doesn't try to flee his impending rape charge, it has emerged.
Alex Baldwin questioned sexual harassment victims
Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento and Patricia Arquette — whose sister Rosanna also accused the disgraced film producer of sexual misconduct — are both on the attack against Alec Baldwin for his comments regarding victims of sexual harassment and rape taking settlements.
Venit, the head of talent agency William Morris Endeavor's motion picture group, was identified by Variety as the powerful executive whom Crews accused on Twitter of groping his privates.
Jessica Barth sez her agent drugged and attacked her
'Ted' star Jessica Barth has accused talent agent David Guillod of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2012, and now the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating her claim.
Guillod, the co-CEO of talent and literary agency Primary Wave Entertainment, announced Friday he would take immediate leave from his company while it investigates Barth's accusations stemming from a dinner date in May of 2012.
Kris Nixon was working in central London when the Hollywood star was artistic director at the Old Vic, and alleges he was invited back to his flat for a party.
[RUDAW.NET] The cabinet of ministers of the Kurdish government in Erbil has dismissed the drafting of Iraq’s 2018 budget without Kurdish participation as a violation of the constitution and the country’s financial laws, urging Baghdad to give the region its fair share of the national budget.
In a four-point statement on Sunday Erbil denounced the reduction of KRG’s share of the federal budget from 17 percent to 12.6 percent as "violating of section 3 of Article 121 of the constitution,"
KRG officials had long complained that Baghdad never sent Erbil its full 17 percent in the past, but this is the first time to official reduce the share by law since the constitution was passed in 2005.
In recent days the central government has also hinted that it will start dealing with the Kurdistan Region as separate provinces and give them their share of the national budget individually, something denounced by Erbil as an attempt to dismantle the constitutionally recognized KRG as an autonomous region.
"The draft of the budget has been prepared irrespective of the federal law and the Kurdistan Region has been deliberately ignored," read the KRG statement. "It also mentions the Kurdistan Region as northern provinces in clear violation of Article 121 that recognizes the Kurdistan Regional Government and its authorities."
Erbil says that Baghdad "must give Kurdistan Region its fair share of the budget, especially given that there isn’t an accurate census in Iraq but 17 percent of Iraq’s population has been agreed on in the constitution,"
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That was the initial bitch they held legitimately in Kurdistan.
The pieces of shit in the piece of shit Baghdad was stiffing the Kurds for basic operating funds after the Kurds liberated the piece of shit Baghdad to only end up being run by piece of shit Iranian thugs in piece of shit Baghdad by a piece of shit Sunni piece of shit President that invaded Kurdistan.
Erbil (IraqiNews.com) Sixty Kurdish fighters were killed in confrontations with Iraqi federal and the pro-government paramilitary troops, Kurdistan said.
In a press conference aired on the Kurdish NRTTV on Sunday, Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of Peshmerga Ministry said that the recent confrontations left 60 fighters of Peshmerga killed and 150 others wounded.
Peshmerga, according to Yawar, seeks resolving conflicts between Baghdad and Erbil “through dialogue and constitution.”
“We have to return back to talks to resolve all issues,” Yawar said. “The current issues are political not military ones.”
Meanwhile, Yawar expressed fears that military confrontations with Baghdad, in case of not reaching a political understanding. He added that Kurdistan made a proposal of seven issues for Baghdad to resolve those issues and are currently awaiting the response.
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If the Kurds decide to fight, I doubt the Iraqi army can roll over them. I tend to think it's broken from years of hard fighting. Without US air support, the Iraqi army will take massive casualties, the way it did against ISIS, before Uncle Sam jumped in.
[Al Jazeera] At least 15 people have been killed in Yemen's coastal city of Aden, a local resident said, in an attack claimed by the local affiliate 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 the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group.
The resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told Al Jazeera that several people died in the city's Khormaksar district on Sunday after an explosives-rigged car blew up outside the criminal investigation department (CID) building.
Armed men, some of whom were wearing military fatigues, then proceeded to storm the facility where festivities were "still ongoing," the source said.
A separate source told Al Jazeera that at least "three terrorists" entered the CID building wearing boom jackets, but said there were no reports of hostages.
"No gunfire, no kabooms, the situation is currently calm," the source said.
Also in Aden on Sunday, a boom-mobile targeted the Dar Saad-based office of Yemen's Islah (Congregation for Reform) party, the country's largest opposition group, the source said.
The building was abandoned and there were no reports casualties, the source said.
ISIS took responsibility for the attack on the CID building, according to its Amaq,website, claiming the gang killed around 50 officers.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the claims.
Earlier on Sunday, images posted on social media showed a pitched street battle between security personnel and unknown fighters near the CID building.
Masked militants set off a large car bomb outside a security headquarters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden early Sunday killing at least 17 people before storming the compound, officials said, sparking combat that continued well into the night.
Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters, the security officials said the militants placed snipers on the roof and gunned down most of the security forces inside. The officials gave conflicting accounts of what happened next inside the building. They initially said that the militants had taken an unknown number of people hostage. Later they said that they opened cell gates and released prisoners.
Security forces backed by an Apache helicopter continued to fight for control of the installation after nightfall, chasing down militants in the surrounding structures and neighborhood. Some hostages were killed, they added, without providing specific figures. They said at least five soldiers were among the dead.
Witnesses said at least four militant snipers could be seen on the roof of the compound. They also described mayhem as dead bodies littering the compound's front courtyard couldn't be retrieved because of the continuous sniper fire. Shallal al-Shayae, the security chief, was not inside the compound at the time of the attack, the officials said.
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[Libya Observer] The armed forces and different brigades involved in the military operation in Wershiffana district in southwestern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... issued Saturday evening a joint statement saying that their operation comes at the height of unprecedented and systematic criminal activities as well as banditry in the district.
The statement, which was issued under the name "Statement of joint force to support western region's security," said many button men - who are not from Wershiffana and are working under the name of "Popular Front for Liberation of Libya" - are now in the district and most of them are mercenaries, thus creating a security challenge to west Libya and to the whole country in general.
"The political parties have failed to reach an agreement to rescue Libya from disastrous security violations and lawlessness, that is why we are going to take some needed measure to thwart any more deterioration in the country's security." The statement says.
Military Council of Zintan, Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, al-Jamil Military Council, Tarhouna Security Room, and Um al-Jurasan Military Council signed the joint statement.
"Those participants of the military operation all agreed to prevail security and support security institutions to help arrest outlaw button men who come from outside Wershiffana and then return them to their families after they pledge not to engage in crimes and destabilization activities again." The statement goes on.
"House of Representatives and High Council of State's should convene continuously so they can reach an agreement and renounce their personal gains for the good of Libya." It adds, saying they are not driven by tribal or regional motives in their operation.
Fighting erupted in Wershiffana district in western Libya on Wednesday between local gangs and the forces led by commander of the western military zone, Osama Jowaili, who was appointed by the Presidential Council.
The military operation aims, according to the leadership, at fighting off criminals and bandidos as well as "Popular Front for Liberation of Libya" button men, who are loyal to deceased dictator Moamar Qadaffy and are positioned in Wershiffana.
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[NATION.PK] After a twitter show of name-calling between Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... and Trump, this visit to Asia would be a more towards a more traditional kind of diplomacy.
The primary purpose of the visit is to send a strong message to North Korea. Trump’s visit to a US military complex south of Seoul in South Korea is indicative of strong front off to the hermit kingdom. The ASEAN meeting is also the perfect stage for Trump to solidify allies and partners against the North Korean threat and move toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the more important question to resolve, and one that has the most implication for Pakistain, is the question of Trump’s further policy with Asia, and if the inwards policy of United States will allow China to fill the power vacuum. Trump’s meetings with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and with China’s Xi Jinping are important, considering Japan’s expanding regional security role and China’s intentions of a more global policy.
Trump’s reaction to China will be harder to predict, keeping in mind the inconsistent policy towards China. Certainly, Xi Jinping’s recent move of enshrining his expanding global policies would not sit well with Trump. Trump’s visit, as well as acknowledging China’s support in sanctions against North Korea, however signifies a positive step.
However disjointed Trump can sometimes be, he is likely to hold his "America First" slogan in his visit, and is likely to drive the message home at the Asian-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC). Trump seeks improved bilateral trade deals with Japan and South Korea and set on talks with China to roll back the US deficit.
The visit of 11 days is one of the longest foreign visits of a US President to Asia and serves to be decisive and influential. Whether Trump’s goals of rolling back on North Korea and his trade pushes are achieved, at least, Asia can brace itself for an answer on US’s approach for the next four years.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] With the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) pressing to expel jihadist forces from the northeastern countryside of Hama, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies are setting up an anti-tank traps to make government forces pay a heavy price for advances on the ground.
Footage released by HTS on Sunday shows its fighters launching a guided missile towards an SAA artillery position at the newly liberated town of Shakushiyah, striking a 130 mm field gun which likely took damage upon impact:
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling...... Jaish al-Nasr (Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... branch) destroyed a SAA bulldozer on Sunday as it sat stationary on the southern outskirts of Abu Dali, a former trade village which HTS overran last month.
The bulldozer was knocked out by a US-manufactured TOW missile supplied to the FSA; subsequently, thick black smoke could be seen rising over the targeted site.
Remarkably, three similar videos were released by HTS and allied FSA factions on Friday too, suggesting a drastic increase in the use of anti-tank missiles against the SAA.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A group of pro-government fighters asked the civilians in the northwestern province of Idlib to stay away from rebel positions and headquarters ahead of a prospected incursion into the jihadi-held province.
"We are addressing the innocent and honorable civilians of Idlib who have not been involved with Jabhet al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... , Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... or the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... : seek safety away from the jihadists before the sweeping ground invasion toward Abu Duhour airbase begins during the next 24 hours," the soldier said in a video posted on social media today.
The soldier identified himself as one of Khalid al-Daher group; a pro-government faction fighting jihadi rebels and who are originally from the villages surrounding the Abu Duhour airbase.
The Syrian Army has amassed troops in southern Aleppo countryside in bid to grab more lands from the hardline fighters in Idlib northern countryside.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Although not the most fantastic or headline-grabbing operation currently being undertaken by Syrian pro-government forces in comparison to their battles against ISIS in Deir Ezzor province, the northeast Hama offensive ‐ being carried out with only a fraction of the Syrian Arab Army’s vanguard strength ‐ is nonetheless offering worthy insight into the true strength northwest Syria’s most powerful jihadist militia ‐ Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham.
Although not the main opponent of pro-government forces since the start of 2017, fears that the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group may have used such a lengthy breathing space to recover from its devastating defeat in Aleppo city have proven to be unfounded.
The inherent weakness of Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham can be seen in the fact that the jihadist paramilitary still (after many years) has to rely on fire support ‐ mostly in the form of heavy artillery and anti-tank guided missile systems ‐ from other rebel militias fighting under the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... banner.
To this end, well-trained shock troops and car kabooms (the scale of which are nowhere near what 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.... terrorist group is able to muster) are simply no longer enough for Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham to turn back or chase away Syrian pro-government forces.
Furthermore, although possessing over one hundreds tanks and armored fighting vehicles in June 2016, Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham has since been reduced to less than a couple dozen such assets following multiple failed offensive operations over the last sixteen months which have taken a very heavy toll of the militia’s mechanized forces.
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[PJMEDIA] "The Church of England claims it has not changed its doctrine but its practice on the ground has already changed: clergy are adopting lifestyles which are not biblical and teaching that such lifestyles are holy in the sight of God," the document explains. "This revisionism is causing a crisis not only in Southwark Diocese but across the whole of the Church of England."
The document issues a very hefty charge. "When the church redefines sin and eliminates repentance, it can no longer offer the good news of eternal salvation from sin in Jesus; the church no longer remains distinctly Christian; it is no longer salt and light in the world," the declaration reads.
This document ends with a clear Reformation-style challenge. "Where leaders refuse to repent and submit themselves to the Word of God, the Lord raises up new leadership for His church and new structures: just as He did through Martin Luther 500 years ago."
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Martin Luther did not nail anything to asy door you idiots. He sent two letters to the Head Bishops of the horrible Catholic Church in his time.
The Lord holds nothing against you but your own ignorance on how you do treat others and how you handle the card you were dealt.
Proven Personally in Faith, absolved you of your problematic issue.
Just keep the bedroom in the bedroom and no one should say a word about it.
According to one account, Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. Scholars Walter Krämer, Götz Trenkler, Gerhard Ritter, and Gerhard Prause contend that the story of the posting on the door, even though it has settled as one of the pillars of history, has little foundation in truth.[36][37][38] The story is based on comments made by Philipp Melanchthon, though it is thought that he was not in Wittenberg at the time.
It seems there's no evidence to the door nailing thing. IF there is, I haven't found/seen it so far. Then again I spend a total of some fifteen minutes doing this search so...
Government of National Accord (GNA) deputy interior minister Faraj Al-Gaem was unhurt in a Benghazi car-bomb attack which seriously injured seven people.
Gaem’s motorcade was passing a restaurant in the city’s Sidi Khalifa district when there was a large explosion. Six members of his party were wounded along with an Egyptian member of staff in the restaurant.
Gaem, who was appointed to the interior ministry this September by Presidency Council (PC) head Faiez Serra, is a member of the Awagir tribe, which is dominant in the Benghazi area. His nomination was greeted with fury by Libyan National Army (LNA) commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter who ordered all local officials and security forces to ignore any instructions he issued.
During the Revolution Gaem was an important Benghazi militia leader. When Hafter launched his Dignity (Karama) operation against Islamist militants in the city, Gaem joined him. However, the relationship was ruptured after the-then LNA spokesman Colonel Mohamed Hejazi accused Hafter and his family of corruption.
In what was seen as a direct challenge to Hafter, soon after his appointment to the GNA’s interior ministry was announced, Gaem flew from Tunis into Benghazi where he was greeted by armed members of his tribe who had forced their way onto the apron of Benina’s recently-opened airport.
It is unclear how much time Gaem has since spent in his home city. Shortly after today’s attack he told Libya News TV that he was in good health and had not been injured though four of his men had been wounded.
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[TheLocal.fr] A legal source said Italia sent to La Belle France the brother of a Tunisian man who stabbed two young women to death in the southern French port of Marseille last month.
French Sherlocks suspect Anis Hanachi, described as a former jihadist fighter in the Iraq-Syria region, of complicity in the attack by his brother Ahmed.
The source said Anis would be charged on Friday.
According to Italian anti-terrorism chief Lamberto Giannini, French Sherlocks are looking into whether Anis "indoctrinated... Ahmed and caused his radicalisation".
He was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me!
in the northern Italian town of Ferrara six days after Ahmed Hanachi, a 29-year-old Tunisian, fatally stabbed the two women outside Marseille's main rail station on October 1 before being rubbed out by police.
[RUDAW.NET] A large number of students displaced from Tuz Khurmatu with their families have no access to Kurdish language schools as education centers inside refugee camps are designed for Arabic language only.
"There is no school to study. We want a school set up for us. We have come here and there are only Arabic schools. When is that going to end? We want them to open a Kurdish school for us." Ghariba Salim, a schoolgirl lamented.
Mothers at the camp worry for their children’s education as they don’t know when they might be able to return to their town, 65 kilometers south of Kirkuk.
They understand even if they return, there is no place where their children could resume their studies as based on eyewitness accounts around 21 schools have been burned down in the town by the Shiite militia groups.
"I am really worried about my children because they cannot go to school. My daughter passed grade 6 and cannot sit in the next class," complained a woman, saying her three other kids have also been deprived from school.
According to data published by the Garmiyan Humanitarian Affairs Department, 4,000 Kurdish students and 654 teachers were displaced after they fled their homes fearing abuses and retribution at the hands of Shiite militiamen.
The Garmiyan Education Department has handed out admission forms to all the students displaced to the region in order to separate Arabic and Kurdish studies programs.
"We will certainly execute our responsibilities. We are worried about these displaced persons and will not let their future ruined. We will provide their needs no matter how," Dara Ahmed, head of the Garmiyan Education Department, told Rudaw.
Ahmed went on to add "We are going to distribute the students over our schools in Kalar and Kifri and those remaining will be sent to the Tazade camp where Arab displaced persons are sheltered in."
Some 6,120 families were displaced from Tuz Khurmatu to Garmiyan. The population of the town is 180,000 people, of whom 70,000 are Kurds.
Iraqi forces and Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi took control of Tuz Khurmatu, from the Peshmerga on October 16.
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[Al Jazeera] The leader of Leb's Hezbollah movement has called the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. a "Saudi imposed decision".
In a televised appearance on the Hezbollah-owned Al Manar TV, Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that Hariri's resignation speech was "written by Saudi".
"It was not our wish for Hariri to resign," he said of the sudden and unexpected move.
"Even if he was forced to resign, the way in which it was executed does not reflect Hariri's way in dealing with things," Nasrallah added, questioning the text of Hariri's speech broadcast during his visit to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday.
Hariri blamed interference in Leb by Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah for his decision to quit, adding he feared an liquidation attempt.
Hariri said Iran fomented "disorder and destruction" in the country and meddled in the internal affairs of Leb and other Arab states. He described Hezbollah as "Iran's arm" in the country.
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No, you wanted to assassinate him with your Piece of shit asshole accomplices that shut down security checkpoints as his motorcade passed by.
Just like you Iranian pieces of shit assassinated his Brother by killing everyone in a bomb attack.
Iran is the most despicable piece of shit terror operation left standing on this Earth and I plan to take it down inside of it's own evil intestines.
And if I cannot do that, I myself will cut open your gut and strangle you with them.
(figuratively speaking)
As only GOD may do.
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So hear OUR Prayer.
[IsraelTimes] Footage released by police shows arrest of Paleostinian cell members as they prepare an attack against Israeli forces
Border Police on Sunday released footage of the ambush and arrest of a Paleostinian terror cell as it attempted to plant a bomb near the West Bank security barrier.
The arrest was made last Monday, when police forces watching a section of the barrier northeast of Jerusalem identified a suspicious vehicle approaching the fence.
Three men then emerged from the vehicle and began to set up an bomb that included a gas canister. Police said their apparent intent was to activate the bomb against Israeli security forces patrolling near the barrier.
Policemen approached the cell members and fired warning shots in the air. Two of the men were locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , while one fled. He was arrested the following night in the cell members’ hometown of Bayt Duqqu.
The three, aged 17-19, were all indicted at the Ofer military court on Thursday on terrorism charges.
[Ynet] As the Middle East keeps producing uncertain situations with a potential for a regional crisis, Israel made a strategic decision Friday that its ‘covenant of blood’ with the Druze community is more important than its strategic support for the rebels working to drive the Syrian army away from the Golan Heights.
This was also one of two basic demands Israel presented to the Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights as a condition for humanitarian aid: You must not harm the Druze community. The second demand was that Islamic State fighters and other radical Islamist forces won’t be allowed to act against Israel from the Golan border.
Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? Not when it comes to Friday’s incident in the Syrian village of Hader and Israel’s relations with the Druze in the Golan Heights.
Israel made a strategic decision over the weekend that its “covenant of blood” with the Druze community is more important than its strategic moral and humanitarian support for the groups of rebels who are working to drive the Syrian army away from the Golan Heights. As a result, Israel warned in public that it would target the anti-Assad rebels if they were to harm members of the Druze community in the Golan, in spite of the fact that the Druze support Bashar Assad’s regime and have encouraged him to take over the Israel border area.
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[AmericanThinker] Conrad Black, writing that the Russian collusion story was blowing up, suggested that Wasserman-Schultz had engaged in skullduggery before former DNC head Donna Brazile threw this week’s latest bombshell at the DNC and in particular Hillary Clinton, whom the party appears eager to yank off the stage. Brazile charged that the DNC was nearly bankrupted by Obama and was saved only by cash infusions from Hillary Clinton, but in return for the lifeline, Clinton took control of the party and used that power to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. More, Brazile argued that the victory fund which was to be used to fund party races down ticket was instead grabbed by Hillary for her own campaign, with very little dribbled out to other candidates.
John Hinderaker, over at Powerline Blog, notes Brazile’s charges amount to a claim that Hillary and the DNC engaged in a “criminal conspiracy” Read the whole thing...
[DW] Clashes between police and Kurdish protesters occurred over banned PKK symbols. Germany has taken a harder line against PKK symbols in response to criticism from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey.
German police clashed with Kurdish demonstrators protesting against 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... in the western city of Dusseldorf on Saturday.
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Sulaimaniya (IraqiNews.com) Unidentified fighter jets have shelled some regions in Sulaimaniya province, a Kurdish governmental source said on Sunday.
“Several fighter jets shelled on Saturday night for one hour Asos mountain, located in Mawat town, Sharbazher region in Sulaimaniya,” Camran Hassan told DPA.
“The shelling ignited fire in the forests there as well as headquarters of Kurdistan Free Life Party and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),” he added.
This is the first time that headquarters of these two parties are shelled in the region, Hassan said.
Sharbazher and Mawat have no ground borders with Turkey.
[Al Jazeera] The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... carried out at least 29 air strikes on Sanaa province, hours after Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Residents told Al Jazeera that bombs "rained down" on several neighbourhoods of the capital on Sunday, targeting a stage in al-Sabeen square used by Houthi rebels for military parades, the nearby presidential palace, the national security headquarters and the interior ministry.
The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported more than 15 air strikes in Sanaa and a further 14 in the districts of Sinhan and Bani Bahloul.
Fatik al-Rodaini, an activist based in the capital, told Al Jazeera some of the raids targeted Sanaa's old city, a UNESCO world heritage site.
"This is the worst day I've experienced since the start of the war," Rodaini said.
"I am fearing for my children's lives. They haven't gone outside all day. Just a few minutes ago I was thinking of letting them run to the shops but we heard another loud kaboom and my wife said 'no'.
"The Saudis don't care about our children, our future, our lives. They know that civilians live in close proximity to government buildings yet they continue to target those areas - they just don't care."
Hours earlier, the Saudi military confirmed intercepting a ballistic missile that was fired from Yemeni territory towards the kingdom.
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At this moment in time it may seem like the worst day since the start of the war, but eventually you will come to realize that this day is merely average - worse than yesterday, but better than tomorrow.
[RUDAW.NET] The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has discussed dissolving its politburo office and holding a party congress early next year following the death of its founder and the fall of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a stronghold of the party, a bigwig told Rudaw on Saturday evening.
The PUK’s leadership held a meeting on Saturday in Sulaimani, but no decision was made.
Aso Mamand, a member of PUK’s politburo office, said the party’s congress will likely be held before the end of January, but before Newroz at the latest. Newroz is the Kurdish New Year, celebrated on March 21.
Regarding the fate of the politburo, he said it was proposed to appoint an 11-member committee to replace the politburo with a mission to prepare for the congress and oversee party activities in the interim.
Rudaw understands that Kosrat Rasul, the acting head of the party, is being put forward to head the new executive committee.
Mamand said the PUK’s Leadership Council, the party’s highest authority, will meet again on Monday to make final decisions on the issues discussed on Saturday, including setting a date for the congress.
The PUK has been plagued by rifts in its leadership. Last year, Rasul and his then deputy Barham Salih denounced what they called an unethical group within the party leadership and announced the formation of a decision-making body.
In September, Salih broke from the PUK and established his own political entity, the Coalition for Democracy and Justice.
In recent weeks, PUK leaders have received mounting criticism for the fall of Kirkuk. The party announced on October 24 that it had opened an internal investigation into what went wrong on October 16 in the oil-rich province.
Rasul, who is also former vice president of the Kurdistan Region, and other senior PUK members, including family members of the late party founder Jalal Talabani, traded accusations of blame back and forth in the aftermath of October 16.
Talabani’s eldest son, Bafel, has been widely reported as having negotiated a deal with Iranian Quds commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi officials that permitted federal forces to enter Kirkuk without strong resistance. Although he is a PUK member, Bafel does not hold any official role. He denies the accusations.
The PUK is one of the two main ruling parties of the Kurdistan Region that has strong influence over the Peshmerga and security forces in the provinces of Sulaimani and Halabja.
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[Al Jazeera] The snap resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. over the weekend reflects a push by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to openly confront Iran, its longtime regional adversary, and Iran's Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, analysts say.
It will also likely plunge Leb into a fresh political quagmire, as the country's fragile coalition government suffers a severe blow and general elections set for May appear increasingly uncertain.
Joseph Bahout, a visiting fellow with the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, noted that tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been building for some time, and the Saudis have recently shown "a will [to confront] Iran and Hezbollah in Leb".
Hariri, a Lebanese Sunni politician and longtime ally of the Gulf kingdom, announced his resignation from Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Saturday.
In a televised speech, Hariri said he believed he faced threats to his life.
He called out Iran for sowing "disorder and destruction" in Leb, and criticised Hezbollah, a Lebanese political and armed resistance movement allied with Tehran, for building "a state within a state".
"I say to Iran and its allies - you have lost in your efforts to meddle in the affairs of the Arab world," Hariri said, adding that the region "will rise again and the hands that you have wickedly extended into it will be cut off."
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I expect China won't mind Iran's progress to completing the Shiia Crescent.
[DAWN] Police on Saturday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against senior journalist and TV anchor Hamid Mir on kidnapping charges, Dawn has learnt through sources.
The case has been registered in the light of the decision of the Islamabad High Court. The court had issued the order a few days ago on a petition filed by Shamama Malik, the widow of Khalid Khawaja, who had allegedly been kidnapped from his house in Islamabad’s G-10/2 sector in March 2010.
The FIR has been registered at the Ramna cop shoppe of the capital in response to the complaint lodged by Ms Malik in which she had alleged that Hamid Mir and Usman Punjabi with the help of their "hooligans" had kidnapped her husband Khalid Khawaja.
Later, Mr Khawaja was taken to North Wazoo, it stated, adding that on April 30, 2010, his well perforated carcass was found in Karam Kot. The body was brought to Islamabad but autopsy was not conducted, the complainant states, adding: "my son lodged a complaint at Shalimar cop shoppe over the incident, but no action was taken, except registration of a report."
"The police also did not record the version of my son," Ms Malik alleges in her complaint. She claims that her deceased husband and Hamid Mir had differences over the Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... operation.
Due to the same reason, Hamir Mir and Usman Punjabi got Khawaja kidnapped and murdered, the FIR alleges. An audio conversation allegedly between Hamid Mir and Usman Punjabi over the issue has also been made part of the record at the Shalimar cop shoppe.
When contacted, Hamid Mir said it seemed to be a politically-motivated case aimed at blackmailing him. He complained that the court had issued the orders to the police without giving him an opportunity to present his viewpoint.
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[PhilStar] The Indonesian widow of slain terror leader Omarkhayam Maute was arrested in Iligan City yesterday, with her six children taken into custody by the state. Minhati Madrais, alias Baby, was nabbed after Philippine security forces received information that she had been spotted in Barangay Tubod. Madrais reportedly admitted she is Omar’s widow.
Iligan City police chief Leony Roy Ga said, "We were able to trace her relationship with Omar through the photos provided to us. In some of the photos she was with Omar."
Police said Madrais moved to Iligan from Marawi when the battle broke out between government forces and the Maute group on May 23. She claimed she was taken to Iligan but could not identify who brought her there.
Ga said Madrais would be charged with illegal possession of explosives. Her six children, all minors, will be turned over to the custody of the state.
Sporadic gunfire was still heard in Marawi City yesterday, almost two weeks after combat operations were formally terminated. Col. Romeo Brawner, deputy commander of Task Force Ranao, said, "We are still hunting down stragglers,” adding there could be as many as 39 rebels hiding in the deed city based on information from captured Indonesian militants.
“We do not have information how many militants are still there. But we will hunt them down.”
Meanwhile, officials expect more attacks from the Abu Sayyaf terrorists following the killing of Hapilon. Local officials in Basilan said Radzmil, a henchman of Hapilon, has been active since last month to prove that he is the best successor to Hapilon, emir of the Islamic State in Southeast Asia.
Two militiamen were killed and beheaded on Friday in Sumisip town in Basilan. Residents said the attack was another show of rage over the ongoing construction of a road that will traverse the remaining enclaves of the Abu Sayyaf in the Punoh Mahadje and Sampinit areas. The trans-central road will connect the towns of Sumisip and Maluso to Barangay Santa Clara in Lamitan City, capital of Basilan.
The Abu Sayyaf are worried the overland arterial network will make their lairs accessible to police patrol cars and military armored vehicles.
Local residents urged the military and the police to tighten their surveillance on four Abu Sayyaf commanders, among them Radzmil, who are all aspiring for the leadership of Hapilon’s group.
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[Al Jazeera] Sacked by Spanish authorities, ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has turned himself in to Belgian police after an EU-wide arrest warrant was issued.
Four other cabinet members also turned themselves in at 9.17am local time on Sunday, according to the Belgian prosecutor's office.
The five are due to appear in court later in the day when an investigative judge will decide whether to detain or release them.
The arrest warrant, which Puigdemont is expected to contest, was issued on Friday. He was wanted by Madrid for "lying" and "disobedience".
Al Jazeera's David ChatEx-Catalan leader turns self in to Belgian police
er, reporting from the Brussels prosecutor's office, said: "[Puigdemont] was saying all along he was going to cooperate with the judicial authorities here. He is now in the hands of police having surrendered himself.
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[Ynet] After denying international efforts to help extract five missing PIJ forces of Evil believed to be trapped underground following Monday's tunnel blast, IDF reveals to be in possession of their bodies; PIJ: 'The bodies of the five deaders will not remain for long in Israel's hands. We know how to recover bodies of our people.'
The bodies of the five missing Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) forces of Evil killed in the terror tunnel that the IDF blew up last Monday are being held by the IDF, it was cleared for publication Sunday evening.
The IDF Spokesperson stated the bodies were located during supplementary operations to expose and thwart the terror tunnel and the operatives inside it.
In response to the IDF's announcement, PIJ alluded to future kidnappings to force exchange deals for the bodies of their deceased bad boys.
"The bodies of the five deaders will not remain for long in Israel's hands. We know how to recover the bodies of our people," PIJ said. "The campaign continues and will not end."
PIJ has already admitted to digging the tunnel in an effort to infiltrate Israeli territory to kidnap Israeli citizens, to be exchanged‐dead or alive‐for Paleostinian forces of Evil held in Israeli prisons for security offences.
On Friday, Paleostinian television network al-Quds, affiliated with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, reported that efforts in the Gazoo Strip to locate the bodies had been halted. al-Quds claimed in its report that Israel was trying to locate the bodies in a part of the tunnel situated on the Israeli side of the border.
On Thursday, Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, petitioned the High Court to "allow Paleostinian search and rescue teams and civil defense to enter the buffer zone on the Gazoo border to extract people currently trapped underground, some 50 meters from the border fence and inside the Gazoo Strip."
In its response, the state on Sunday asked the High Court to reject the petition out of hand, due to the fact "it is not relevant and the assistance requested is not relevant," because the missing faceless myrmidons have been declared dead.
The state further noted that "there is operational activity that has not yet been completed. At present, IDF forces are still carrying out different operations in the field relating to the tunnel."
Currently, the bodies of Lt. Hadar Goldin and Sgt. Oron Shaul are being held by Hamas in the Gazoo Strip. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai on Thursday stressed that Israel "would not allow search efforts in the Gazoo Strip security zone without progress on the issue of Israeli POWs and MIAs."
In response to COGAT's announcement, Hamas and Islamic Jihad declared the five missing faceless myrmidons were dead, bringing the corpse count to 12, with 11 others injured.
"The demolished tunnel is not the only tunnel we have that crosses into Israel," Hamas said, stressing it would not provide information on Israel's MIAs and POWs in return for the five missing terrorists' bodies.
[Ynet] Despite recent reconciliation agreement and several good will gestures by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Fatah seems hesitant to fully commit to deal; Fatah continues arresting Hamas operatives in West Bank, preventing any foothold for rival, hoisted by concerted Israeli efforts to do same; President Abbas yet to remove sanctions levied against Gazoo.
Intra-Paleostinian reconciliation between the rival Hamas and Fatah movements may be technically be underway in the Gazoo Strip‐with the Paleostinian Authority (PA) assuming civilian control over the strip‐but it has not stopped Paleostinian security forces from arresting dozens of Hamas operatives, some of them bigwigs.
During the month of October, the Paleostinian Authority's General Intelligence and Preventive Security tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! more than 50 Hamas operatives in the West Bank. In addition, 130 further operatives belonging to other factions such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) were also arrested.
The continued policy of arresting dissidents in the West Bank points to the steadfastness of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's insistence to not allow Hamas to gain a foothold‐even the smallest civilian one‐in the West Bank, going against Hamas bigwigs' hope that the PA would show more leniency following the reconciliation agreement.
Paleostinian security forces arrests were carried out concurrently with the regular, nightly search and arrest operations conducted by IDF forces within the PA's territory, effectively blocking Hamas from developing any military or civilian infrastructures in the area.
The Paleostinian government resumed control over its Gazoo Strip ministries at the beginning of October, with Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah entering the strip accompanied by his cabinet of ministers.
Hamdallah was also accompanied by senior Paleostinian Security Forces officials, including head of Paleostinian General Intelligence Majid Faraj, who even met Hamas's Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar personally.
Their meeting did not stop Faraj, however, from returning to the West Bank and orchestrating a wave of arrests, during which 40 Hamas operatives were picked up within only a week and a half.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... the Gazoo Strip showed an inverse trend, with Hamas releasing Fatah operatives arrested months ago due to their political affiliation as a gesture of good will.
It appears the PA continues to maintain aloofness when it comes to the reconciliation, despite Abbas's declarations to the contrary. Hamas, for its part, dismantled its shadow government, handed over civilian control to the Paleostinian government, transferred control of the border checkpoint to the PA and dismantled its forward operating bases, used to question passersby and collect taxes.
Despite the aforementioned actions on Hamas's part, Abbas has refrained for the past two months from announcing the removal of sanctions he'd placed on the strip before the current reconciliation effort bore fruit.
One US service member has died as a result of wounds sustained during operations in Logar province, Saturday afternoon, Resolute Support mission confirmed in a statement.
"On behalf of US Forces – Afghanistan, we offer our deepest condolences to the family of our fallen brother,” said General John Nicholson, commander, US Forces – Afghanistan.
"Despite this tragic event, we remain steadfast in our commitment to the Afghan people and to support them in our mutual fight against terrorism.”
No further details were released regarding the circumstances that lead to the service member’s death.
However, it comes just a week after another US service member died in the same province from wounds sustained during a helicopter crash on October 27.
Resolute Support said at the time the crash had not been the result of enemy action and that they had full accountability of all personnel.
Six other US crew members were injured in the crash, Resolute Support said in a statement.
[DAWN] A Saudi prince was killed on Sunday when a helicopter crashed near the kingdom's southern border with war-torn Yemen, state television said.
The news channel Al-Ekhbariya announced the death of Prince Mansour bin Moqren, the deputy governor of Asir province. It said the helicopter had several officials on board, but did not reveal the cause of the crash.
Was he one of the unnamed corrupt ones?
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan said the personal security detail of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who resigned on Saturday, had "confirmed information" of a plot to kill him.
Speaking in an interview on Future, an Arabic television channel owned by Hariri, he said Hariri was in Riyadh, adding there were "security threats to the prime minister and the kingdom is keen on his safety."
He added that Hariri resigned from Riyadh for security reasons.
"Saudi Arabia is different than the terrorist state Iran. We respect Lebanese parties despite their different opinions," Sabhan added.
Speaking to the Lebanese television channel LBC, Sabhan said Hariri is completely free to return to Leb, adding, however: "We do not want kabooms and destruction to happen again in the Hariri family."
Sabhan also said that Saudi Arabia supported all of Hariri’s stances in the past, including the agreement related to choosing a Lebanese president, adding that the Saudi kingdom did not incite Hariri to resign.
"We cannot but be sad over Leb’s situation due to Hezbollah. We call for peace but those who try to (harm) the kingdom will find what they do not wish for," he added.
"Hezbollah is a militia that tried to transfer Syrian battles to Leb and to harm Leb and Arab countries," Sabhan also said, asking: "What’s the difference between Hezbollah and ISIS?"
[AlMasdar] In a statement released by the Lebanese Armed Forces on Sunday, the army announced that there is no trace of any assassination plots against abdicating Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The statement read that the intelligence services connected to the army, despite several arrests and investigations, had not found “the presence of any plan for assassinations in the country.” So there you have it. They report, you decide.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi Ministry of Interior issued a statement on Monday with a list of 40 names of leaders and elements responsible for planning, executing and supporting various terrorist activities by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... terrorist group, as well as financial rewards for information leading to their arrest or whereabouts.
The announcement came as part of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s effort to stop terrorism and fight krazed killer ideology. Houthi militias have increasing terrorist activities and continue to harm the security of Saudi Arabia.
Houthi militias have also been known to have ties with Hezbollah in Leb.
Ballistic missiles were used in a significant precedent where these dangerous missiles were available to the terrorist militias, who violated the legitimacy when directly threatened Saudi Arabia to intimidate the citizens and cause insecurity in Saudi Arabia and impact its stability.
Saudi Arabia announced the first list with 40 names of Houthi leaders and members responsible for planning, executing and supporting the different terrorist activities in the Houthi group.
It also announced financial rewards for whoever gives information that leads to arresting the desperados or even locate them, calling for whoever has this information to contact Saudi authorities.
Those in the list include Houthi leader, Abdul Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, with a $30 million bounty placed on him.
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Dog saves Paris-area Jewish family from intentionally set house fire
5 November
[IsraelTimes] Home's door had been set on fire after midnight; family suspects Islamist Arab neighbor who expressed anti-Semitic views online. Police detained the neighbor in connection with the incident. Last week, an unidentified person set the family’s car on fire. Witnesses saw a man wearing a hoodie set it alight.
A wooden mosque, or palace, adorned with a half-crescent sits in the sand. Small blue minarets rise to the side. In the sand, there are wooden palm trees and camels.
Franziska Giffey told the Berliner Morgen Post that other playgrounds in the district are based on themes from fairy tales, including "Captain Bluebear” and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” The decision to construct an "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" themed playground was made together with two local nurseries, including one that goes by the same name, she said. Güldane Yilmaz, the Turkish-origin head of the multi-cultural "Ali Baba and his Thieves" nursery, is also shocked by the response from some.
No, 30,000 migrants haven’t disappeared in Germany ‘without a trace’
3 November
[TheLocal.de] When Bild reported on Thursday that 30,000 rejected asylum seekers had gone missing without a trace in Germany it was soon picked up in the international media. The only problem? It isn’t true.
Bildblog.de points out that figures for people who have been told to leave the country don't just include failed asylum seekers. They could also be tourists whose visas have expired. Further complicating the matter is the fact that local authorities don’t always keep track of the exact status of the migrants to whom they give money according to German asylum law. That means that somewhat more than 23,617 people with deportation orders might in fact be registered for welfare.
This is not the first time Bild has produced bogus reporting on refugees this year. In February the tabloid was forced to admit that a report on mass sexual assaults by migrants in Frankfurt over New Year had been completely made up.
Right-wing leaders denounce ban on Brussels ‘Islam safari’
3 November
[IsraelTimes] Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders and Filip De Winter, a leader of Belgium’s Vlaams Belang party, say that by imposing ban Belgian government 'proves' Muslim neighborhood 'not part of Belgium'. The authorities banned the visit as a threat to public order flowing from their planned protest’s “ostensibly insulting and discriminatory nature.”
Molenbeek — an impoverished neighborhood of around 95,000 people, many of them Muslim, from nearly 100 nationalities — is trying to shed an image as an extremist hotbed.
That's hard to do when we keep seeing reports of jihadis from there being arrested for involvement in attacks on the local population,
1.6 million people seek humanitarian protection in Germany
3 November
[DW] The Federal Statistical Office has revealed that 2 percent of the people who lived in Germany at the end of 2016 had lodged asylum applications. That's more than double the figure for 2014. In almost all cases residency is limited, including for 75 percent of those already rejected.
According to Destatis, 64 percent of the applicants were male and the average age was 29.4 years. Half of the people registered as seeking protection come from just three countries: Syria (455,000), Afghanistan (191,000) and Iraq (156,000).
French football chief 'very careful' over threat against coach Deschamps
1 November
[TheLocal.fr] French football federation president Noel Le Graet said he was adopting a "very careful" approach after a photoshopped image of national team coach Didier Deschamps emerged accompanied by threats from Islamic State sympathisers. The French federation chief, who announced Deschamps had agreed to extend his contract until 2020, was reacting to a mocked-up picture depicting the former World Cup winner published by the pro-Islamic State Wafa Media Foundation.
According to experts, there is no proven and authenticated link between groups such as the Wafa Foundation and Isis or its official communication outlets.
EU threatens visa restrictions for countries that don't accept rejected asylum-seekers
29 October
[DW] The European Union is upping the pressure on countries that don't take back rejected asylum-seekers by making it harder to obtain visas, a newspaper reported. The threat has already resulted in a deal with Bangladesh. In the spring, a majority of migrants who crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy originated from Bangladesh.
Berlin security staff pushed young refugees into prostitution
25 October
[DW] Young refugees, including minors, have been lured into prostitution by the security guards hired to protect them. Insiders have told a German public broadcaster that the guards pay high prices for young refugees.
EU to implement border fingerprint checks similar to United States
25 October
[DW] The EU will soon establish a database of fingerprints and other biometric data for visitors from the US and other countries outside the bloc. The move aims to improve security, but some see an attack on human rights.
Germany terrorism prosecution cases soar: report
22 October
[DW] German federal prosecutors have opened up more than 900 terrorism-related cases so far this year, including 800 related to radical Islamists, according to a report published in the German language nespaper Welt am Sonntag on Sunday. The number of terrorism cases has jumped nearly four-fold compared to last year, when federal prosecutors opened about 250 proceedings. In 2013, there were about 80 terrorism cases in the courts.
The sharp rise has stretched manpower at the Karlsruhe-based federal prosecutors office, the newspaper reported. Nearly 300 terrorism cases have been transferred from federal authorities to state prosecutors.
Not all of the current terrorism cases in the system deal with actual plans to carry out attacks in Germany. Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq who fought for the "Islamic State" (IS) or other radical groups may also be tried for membership in an international terrorist group without planning attacks in Germany.
In addition, the Federal Criminal Police Office estimates nearly 700 people in Germany are Gefährder (loosely translated as dangerous,) or radical Islamists who represent a security risk and are capable of carrying out violent attacks.
Italy and US to share database of terrorists' fingerprints
20 October
[TheLocal.it] The United States and Italy on Friday signed an agreement to share their fingerprint databases in a bid to root out potential extremists among migrants travelling to the West. The "technical understanding", which updates a serious crime accord from 2009, was signed by Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti and Elaine Duke, acting US Homeland Security Secretary.
EU introduces new measures to combat 'low-tech' terrorism
18 October
[DW] The EU has announced more than €180 million will be dedicated to stopping terrorist attacks by smaller, less complex cells. After a series of attacks around Europe, the bloc is aiming to make public spaces safer.
BEIRUT: At least 75 civilians were killed in a Daesh group car bombing that struck a gathering of people displaced by fighting in eastern Syria, a monitor said Sunday.
Saturday’s attack in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor killed “at least 75 displaced civilians including children” and wounded 140, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Abdel Rahman said the victims had fled battles in the province, where Syrian regime forces and a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces, are fighting the extremist group in separate offensives.
The Britain-based war monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground inside Syria for its information, reported Saturday that dozens had died in the blast.
Fighting across Deir Ezzor province has sent thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives, some straight into the desert.
Some had sought refuge in a desert area controlled by the SDF on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River where the Saturday bombing struck.
It was not the first attack attributed to Daesh against civilians fleeing Deir Ezzor.
On October 12, a car bombing in the northeastern province of Hasakah killed at least 18 people, including displaced people and Kurdish security forces, the Observatory said.
Sonia Khush, Syria director at the Save the Children charity, said Saturday an estimated 350,000 people have fled the recent fighting in Deir Ezzor province, half of them children.
“The situation in the city, and surrounding countryside has been especially bleak with civilians trapped between the fighting and all too often caught in the crossfire,” she said.
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[RUDAW.NET] Iraq’s Shiite militia crossed the border into Syria during festivities with ISIS in the Euphrates River valley, a conflict monitor reported.
Fighters of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, crossed the border at al-Qaim and were fighting ISIS in the al-Hiri area, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday.
Al-Hiri is located in the countryside east of the Syrian city of al-Boukamal, the last major urban centre still in ISIS hands.
After exchange of artillery, ISIS pushed the Iraqi forces back across the border, the Observatory stated.
A spokesperson for one group within the Hashd al-Shaabi confirmed to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that they had clashed with ISIS in the border area, but denied they had crossed into Syria.
Jaafar al-Husseini of the Kataeb Hezbollah said his forces fired rockets into Syria from al-Qaim on the Iraqi side of the border. The Iraqi army and Hashd al-Shaabi took control of al-Qaim from ISIS on Friday.
Husseini confirmed that Iraqi militias are already present inside Syria among Iranian-backed militias fighting side-by-side with Syrian government forces and he added that the Shiite militias will take part in securing a route from Iran to Leb.
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[DAILYCALLER] A moderately prestigious university in Germany has instituted a religious code of conduct in response to complaints about Muslim students caterwauling praying noisily in the library and flooding campus bathrooms with water as they ritually cleanse their feet.
The University of Hamburg is the site of the new set of religion-related rules, reports Times Higher Education, a London-based education news website. The 42,890-student university is the first in Germany to institute such a code.
The University of Hamburg’s executive board determined that the religious code of conduct is necessary after receiving numerous complaints. In addition to the bathroom flooding and the loud library praying, people described as “external Salafists” have demanded that female Muslim students wear veils on campus, according to school president Dieter Lenzen.
“To date, there have been no complaints about Buddhist students, just a few about Christian students, but a great many about Muslim students,” Lenzen also said, according to Times Higher Education.
Muslim students have been “disturbing university life,” Lenzen said.
The University of Hamburg’s new religious code of conduct — released in October — forbids students from hollering praying loudly anywhere on campus. However, “quiet prayer may be acceptable in the library.”
The code also outlaws “discrimination against male or female visitors by dividing the room according to sex/gender” in the school’s Room of Contemplation, an area reserved for religious observance.
Prior to the implementation of the new code, and without permission from school officials, some Muslim students at the University of Hamburg had installed a curtain separating men and women for prayers in the Room of Contemplation.
Another part of the religious code of conduct formally allows campus restaurants to ignore requests for food items “in line with religious dietary guidelines and restrictions.”
Still another code section states that students cannot request time off for religious festivals and holidays. Students must “bear the consequences” if professors don’t want to make special accommodations.
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leave masses of debris in 'prayer rooms'
pile woolen carpets at their convenience
block fire exits and access
crowd halls and stairways to their 'special place'...
[Al Jazeera] Papua New Guinea's immigration minister has told Al Jazeera Australia must "immediately facilitate" a New Zealand offer to take 150 refugees formerly detained in an Australian prison camp on its Manus Island.
The strong words came as New Zealand's prime minister said on Sunday the offer remains alive during a bilateral presser in Australia, even as its prime minister declined to accept.
Almost 600 men have refused to leave the prison they were detained in until October 31 when food, water, and electricity were cut off. They say moving to other accommodation on the island - as Australian and PNG authorities are urging them to do - would put them at risk of attacks by locals.
They also dispute Australian government claims that alternative facilities are ready to live in.
On her first foreign visit as leader, New Zealand's newly elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reiterated her country's four-year-old pledge to take the refugees.
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How 'bout Kamchatka?
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[Al Jazeera] Iran has said that the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. on Saturday aims to "create tension in Leb and the entire region".
In a statement on Iran's state news agency, Iranian foreign ministry front man Bahram Qasemi said his country rejects "Hariri's claims against Iran as a repetition of false and unfounded anti-Iran accusations by the Zionist regime, the Saudis and the Americans".
In a surprise move, Hariri announced his resignation in a televised speech during a visit to the Saudi capital Riyadh, blaming Iran and its Lebanese ally, the Hezbollah movement, for his decision.
Hariri said Iran had fomented "disorder and destruction" in the country and meddled in the internal affairs of Leb and other Arab states.
Referring to Hezbollah, whichIran: Hariri resignation aims to stoke regional tension is backed by Iran, Hariri said: "Iran's arm ... has managed to impose a fait accompli on Leb through the power of its weapons" in the last few decades. "They have built a state within a state," he said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AP] In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless - mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, an outdoor propane heater. Workers in masks and steel-shanked boots plucked used needles and mounds of waste from the underbrush.
[Guardian] Johnnie Langendorff says he raced after gunman with a member of Sutherland Springs community who had earlier fought with killer.
Lucky we didn't go to the wrong church. On 1 Aug 1966 I was lucky I didn't go to the wrong college library that day in Austin.
Michel Aoun
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
[Fox] The 279 firefighters who graduated from the New York City fire department's academy last month include the son of a firefighter killed on 9/11 ‐ and the son of a terrorist.
[DAILYCALLER] Happy belated Halloween ‐ the only night of the year 14-year-olds willingly show up to Kevin Spacey’s house. As I write to you, more traumatized young men are spilling their guts to journalists about being fondled or seduced by Spacey. "I would call him a pedophile and a sexual predator," says a man who has come forward to describe a sexual relationship he had with Spacey when he was just 14 ‐ which ended, he says, with Spacey trying to rape him.
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
[NATION.PK] After a twitter show of name-calling between 
[ALMASDARNEWS] Although not the most fantastic or headline-grabbing operation currently being undertaken by Syrian pro-government forces in comparison to their battles against ISIS in Deir Ezzor province, the northeast Hama offensive ‐ being carried out with only a fraction of the Syrian Arab Army’s vanguard strength ‐ is nonetheless offering worthy insight into the true strength northwest Syria’s most powerful jihadist militia ‐ Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham.
[PJMEDIA] "The Church of England claims it has not changed its doctrine but its practice on the ground has already changed: clergy are adopting lifestyles which are not biblical and teaching that such lifestyles are holy in the sight of God," the document explains. "This revisionism is causing a crisis not only in Southwark Diocese but across the whole of the Church of England."
[IsraelTimes] Footage released by police shows arrest of Paleostinian cell members as they prepare an attack against Israeli forces
[RUDAW.NET] The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has discussed dissolving its politburo office and holding a party congress early next year following the death of its founder and the fall of 
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[PhilStar] The Indonesian widow of slain terror leader Omarkhayam Maute was arrested in Iligan City yesterday, with her six children taken into custody by the state. Minhati Madrais, alias Baby, was nabbed after Philippine security forces received information that she had been spotted in Barangay Tubod. Madrais reportedly admitted she is Omar’s widow.
“We do not have information how many militants are still there. But we will hunt them down.”
[DAILYCALLER] A moderately prestigious university in Germany has instituted a religious code of conduct in response to complaints about Muslim students 
