[Politico] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s assignment of as many as several hundred State Department officials to quickly clear a huge backlog of public records requests is being met with deep skepticism by rank-and-file employees.
Tillerson says his goal is transparency. But many State workers fear the real reason is political: expediting the public release of thousands of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s official emails.
The staffers also suspect the move ‐ which will reassign many of them from far more substantive duties and has already sparked a union complaint ‐ is meant to force many of them to resign out of frustration with what are essentially clerical positions.
The issue spotlights the deepening distrust toward Tillerson at Foggy Bottom, where his attempts to restructure the department, cut its budget and centralize policymaking have already hurt morale. But it is drawing applause from conservative groups, which have been pressuring Tillerson to act on a backlog of 13,000 Freedom of Information Act requests ‐ many of them relating to emails and other records from Clinton’s tenure.
"We haven't understood why there's been a slow-walking of releasing records, and we've been quite public in counseling the administration to take an approach of extreme transparency," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative activist group that has sued the Trump administration for more Clinton documents.
"It looks like someone's listening," Fitton added.
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It's time to think differently and start moving certain Federal headquarters to different parts of the country, like Nome, East St. Louis or Gary, Indiana. That'll make the shitbags quit a lot faster.
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#5 It's time to think differently and start moving certain Federal headquarters to different parts of the country, like Nome, East St. Louis or Gary, Indiana. That'll make the shitbags quit a lot faster.
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[Yahoo] Harvey Weinstein hired journalists and highly trained ex-spies and military personnel who used fake identities to try to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, The New Yorker reported Monday.
The news came as the Television Academy, which hands out Emmy Awards, was said to have expelled Weinstein "for life," following a similar move by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which gives out the Oscars.
Among the private security agencies hired by Weinstein starting around fall 2016, the magazine said, was Black Cube, which is largely run by former officers of Israeli intelligence agencies, including Mossad. Another was corporate intelligence giant Kroll.
Two Black Cube private eyes met with actress Rose McGowan -- before she publicly accused Weinstein of raping her -- to obtain information.
One of the investigators secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan while pretending to be a women's rights advocates, said the magazine, citing dozens of pages of documents and seven people directly involved in Weinstein's efforts.
The spy used a different fake identity to meet with a journalist while claiming to have an accusation against Weinstein, in order to learn which women were talking to the media.
Weinstein and the private eyes also used journalists themselves to extract details from women who were making claims against Weinstein.
During his yearlong effort, Weinstein and his team would collect information on dozens of people, compiling psychological profiles with their personal or sexual histories in order to contradict, discredit or intimidate his targets.
The New Yorker said Weinstein sought the assistance of ex-employees from his movie enterprises to help in his efforts collecting names and placing calls.
Investigations also sometimes went through Weinstein's lawyers, according to the magazine. Among them was David Boies, who represented Al Gore in his 2000 presidential election dispute with George W. Bush.
The New Yorker said Boies himself had signed a contract demanding that Black Cube seek to uncover information to stop the publication of a New York Times story about Weinstein's sexual abuse at the same time his firm was also representing the Times in a libel case.
Boies told the magazine "it was a mistake" to have been involved with the investigators.
Weinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister dismissed the report, saying: "It is a fiction to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time."
Neither Hofmeister nor Boies immediately responded to requests for comment.
- Television Academy expels Weinstein -
Police launched investigations in London, Los Angeles and New York after around 100 women accused Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to rape.
Meanwhile, industry publication Variety said the Television Academy has voted to permanently expel Weinstein.
"The Academy supports those speaking out against harassment in all forms and stands behind those who have been affected by this issue," it told Variety, adding that it was reviewing the organization's code of conduct.
"The unfolding and widespread examples of this horrific behavior are deeply disturbing to the Academy's leadership.
"We are determined to play a role in protecting all television professionals from predatory harassment, ensuring they are able to practice their craft in a safe environment."
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Boies from the:
failed anti-trust suit against M$S.
attempt paid by M$S tried to effectively steal Linux for the Morman interests.
attempt to steal the US election in 2000
from the endless IBM/ATT consent agreement suit.
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Drudge headline says ol Harv will be indicted next week. The left eating it's own? No longer useful, is he? Knows something the Clintons don't want getting out? Questions, questions, questions, flooding the minds of concerned Americans everywhere...
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[Yahoo] An enraged woman forced an airliner to make an emergency landing after she discovered I suspect is was more confirmation than discovery.
mid-flight that her husband was apparently cheating on her.
The woman, an Iranian national, was travelling from Doha to Bali with her husband and child on a Qatar Airways flight on Sunday, India's Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.
As her husband slept, she used his hand to unlock his fingerprint-protected phone, revealing the alleged affair in all its sordid detail.
Angered by the discovery, the woman reportedly started to hit her husband. The cabin crew intervened but were unable to calm the situation.
With the inflight episode spiralling out of control, the pilots decided to make an unscheduled stop in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
The woman, her husband and their child were taken off the plane, which then resumed its journey to Indonesia, an unnamed security official told the paper.
"The family spent the day at Chennai airport and was sent to Kuala Lumpur by a Batik Air flight. No police action was taken," the official said.
Qatar Airways was not immediately available for comment when contacted by AFP. My takeaway? Proof positive that women are selfish. And sneaky.
And men are cheating dogs. Some of each, at any rate.
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[Wash Times] MSNBC’s Joy Reid told her fans Monday that the National Rifle Association has machinations of building an America where "packs of warlords" can kill at will. The host of "AM Joy" reacted to Sunday’s church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, by claiming NRA members ‐ over 5 million Second Amendment advocates ‐ seek the creation of "private armies" operating outside the rule of law.
The comments came one day after 26-year-old Devin Kelley killed 26 churchgoers and wounded another 20 in a rampage reportedly linked to a domestic dispute.
"Americans are living like packs of warlords, with heavily armed people everywhere, any one of whom can kill dozens at will. This is insane," Ms. Reid said at the start of a series of tweets. "And the @NRA has decreed that the answer to this is more warlords, hoarding more guns, like little private armies. The @NRA ethos is that everyone is your enemy. Every tribe is your enemy, and you need to be prepared to kill a lot of people all the time."
The NRA bills itself as the "foremost defender of Second Amendment rights" for all Americans, and "the premier firearms education organization in the world."
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....why are bastions of Democratic power such homes to those drug warlords and their gangs?
It is entirely by design. Clustering of democratic urban voting blocks cannot survive on welfare alone. Business and industry have already fled. The only economy remaining is the drug trade.
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So the NRA is going to attack churches in small Texas towns where the people cling to their Bibles and Guns? I should think Ms. Reid would be happy about that.
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Pravda style propaganda designed to encourage acts of violence by extremists. These propagandists of violence should be classified as enemy combatants by DHS, given at best life in prison.
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Said individual has never met a mid east warlord. Maybe her employer (owner, slaver as the current monolog goes) can pay to arrange that. May it be a one way trip...
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[Breitbart] With the NFL facing cratering TV ratings, it is also important to note that fans are staying away from the stadiums, too. Fans have remarked on the sparse crowds at several games since last Thursday night. For instance, Levis Stadium in San Francisco did not appear to have many fans in the seats.
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The U.S. government may not believe in sedition and treason but the people of this country do. There was a rebellion at the voting booths last fall. People don't like their values being trashed by government or in the stadium.
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Precisely John, and I am reasonably certain the factors which you have mentioned played a huge role in the defeat in thee last election of the manifestly loathsome Hillary Clinton.
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Levis Stadium in San Francisco did not appear to have many fans in the seats.
Um, Levis Stadium is in Santa Clara, 40 miles away from SF. They've always had attendance problems and the playing field is the worst natural turf playing surfaces anywhere. With respect to this stadium, SF's owners asked for this one.
[Don Feder's Grasstops, Lorton, VA] Now that you're through being nauseated, incensed and generally disgusted with the Bowe Bergdahl sentence ‐ 20 lashes with a dishonorable discharge ‐ keep it in context. The travesty is symptomatic of the political correctness that's rampant in our military.
Bergdahl's non-punishment may have been a way for the judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, to give the middle-finger salute to Trump, who called the deserter "a dirty rotten traitor who should have been executed."
In an e-mail to his parents before he took French leave in 2009, Bergdahl said he was "ashamed to be an American" (twice), that "the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools," that "the US Army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at... It is the army of liars, backstabbers and bullies," and "the horror that is America is disgusting." Don't hold back.
Six good men died searching for this piece of human offal. The wife of Master Sergeant Mark Allen testified at the sentencing hearing. Shot in the head looking for Bergdahl, Allen was sentenced to life in a wheelchair, unable to speak, raise his hands or hug his 9-year-old daughter.
In exchange for "the dirty rotten traitor who deserved to be executed," Obama traded five top Taliban commanders, who are presently plotting the deaths of more Americans.
Obama announced Bergdahl's release in a Rose Garden ceremony, flanked by his parents. His National Security Advisor Susan Rice hailed the deserter as a soldier who served "with honor and distinction." Lying comes easily to Rice, who spent two weeks telling the world that the Benghazi butchery was sparked by a video. A bit more at the link.
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PC has been in the military for a long time although maybe not as much as now. Patton ran afoul of it as well as MacCarthur and Chesty Puller--others as well more recently. The military is a part of our government like a marriage for better or worse.
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Am I perplexed by Col. Nance's ruling? Absolutely. That said, I am certain that a lot of peeples wanted this affair to go away ASAP, and the DD, etc., accomplished that.
[Jpost] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised the Iraqi flag on the Iraq-Syria border in the town of al-Qaim on Sunday. It was a symbolic gesture more than three years after Islamic State took over a third of Iraq, committed genocide against Yazidis and mass murdered thousands of others. But Iraq is still deeply divided as the prime minister has attempted to roll back the rights of the Kurdistan autonomous region and as Shi’a militias run checkpoints throughout many Sunni Arab areas.
Iraq is emerging from years of brutal war with millions of internally displaced people and many cities damaged or destroyed by fighting. But even in the midst of the end of this conflict, Iraq has launched a new conflict against its Kurdish region, sending tanks to retake the disputed district of Kirkuk. Iraqi security forces have clashed with Kurdish forces as it attempted to break through to a strategic border crossing called Faysh Khabur near Syria and Turkey. Dozens have been killed since October 16. Although a kind of ceasefire is in place, the situation does not bode well.
There is a new sense of nationalism and religious fervor in Iraq. Shi’a sectarian flags fly from not only militia units but also appear in regular Iraqi Army units. When Iraqi forces rolled into Kirkuk they brought the flags with them. And in Mosul, a Sunni city, they hang them at the checkpoints. This triumphalism is about symbols and the Iraqi Parliament is also trying to ban symbols it doesn’t like. On October 31, the parliament sought to enforce laws that criminalize "Zionist symbols," including the Israeli flag. This was likely in response to the numerous displays of the Israeli flag in the Kurdistan region during the lead-up to the September 25 independence referendum. It won't end well
[Free Beacon] The Air Force announced on Monday that it did not share records on the Texas church shooter's 2012 domestic-violence-related court-martial with the FBI's firearms background-check system, allowing him to pass numerous background checks over several years to obtain at least four firearms.
"Initial information indicates that Kelley's domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations," Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokesperson, told the Washington Free Beacon.
The shooter, 26-year-old Devin P. Kelley, was court-martialed in 2012 for what Stefanek told the Washington Free Beacon was "assault on his spouse and assault on their child." He was sentenced to 12 months in military prison for the assault and received a demotion to the Air Force's lowest rank. His assault resulted in serious injuries to the child in question.
"He assaulted his stepson severely enough that he fractured his skull, and he also assaulted his wife," Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force, told The New York Times. "He pled to intentionally doing it."
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Let's not be too harsh. That Pr0n isn't going to watch itself.
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The basis of the dishonorable discharge by way of courts martial shouldn't have been any reason to avoid reporting the finding which as a felony conviction should have been entered. Doesn't anyone know how to play this game?
Those are the questions that journalists are supposed to ask. Even in high school journalism classes, even junior high school, this mantra is drilled into the students. The answer to one of those basic questions is missing in this article. Can you guess which one it is?
Last night I watched CBS news and I'm guessing their coverage wasn't too much different than ABC, NBC or CNN. They went to great lengths to talk to people in Sutherland Springs and tell all of their stories as well as those of the victims. I feel sorry for those people. I really do. But what I really want to know is who dropped the ball, why was this nut case allowed to buy guns and what is being done to fix it. Not a peep about that from CBS. With all of the investigative resources available to that organization, not one peep, no indication whatsoever that they are even thinking about that one little basic question. They were careful, however, to include calls for more gun control by various left wing congresscritters. Instead of more gun control, why can't the laws that are already on the books be enforced?
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Churches are easy targets for ISIS and the deranged left.
Church's need a carry concealed members at the door as people enter and exit and doors that can be secured once the service starts.
We also need people to start telling the cops when their friend, who they know has mental issues, starts to post violent things on Facebook. Might save their friend from a suicide or worse.
Unfortunately I think most of the deranged left don't have many friends.
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"Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein directed a complete review of the Kelley case by the Air Force Office of the Inspector General," Stefanek said. "The Service will also conduct a comprehensive review of Air Force databases to ensure records in other cases have been reported correctly. The Air Force has also requested that the Department of Defense Inspector General review records and procedures across the Department of Defense."
OK. I guess I should have followed the link and read the entire article before I went off. Doesn't let CBS off the hook though. News organizations like that should be hounding the Pentagon for answers.
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Despite all the clamor about the in-laws, I do not think family issues were the only (or even the main) reason he shot up the church.
I think it was straight up anti-Christian hatred. If he wanted just the in-laws, he could of shot them in a more secluded spot with fewer panicked people running into the line of fire. He wouldn't have needed to kill children. He wouldn't have concentrated on the pastor's family.
You need to concentrate on his vicious screeds on facebook. These will tell you what he was really thinking.
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It gets worse. Kelley escaped from the looney bin in 2012. The dishonorable discharge should have been a disqualifier for a weapon purchase. He also assaulted his wife and child. The child suffered a skull fracture. He was denied a carry permit.
[Ynet] Muhammad Zafran planned to ram truck into soldiers waiting at bus stop outside IDF base in central Israel, but was caught by police while attempting to steal the truck; he admitted to seeking 'Dire Revenge' against Israel for its conduct on the Temple Mount.
A Paleostinian who stole a truck and planned to use it to run over IDF soldiers was charged Monday with preparing to commit murder as an act of terrorism.
Muhammad Zafran, 40, from Ramallah was also indicted for endangering human lives on a public transportat lane, vehicle theft, entering and staying in Israel illegally, driving without a driver's license and other offenses.
According to the indictment, Zafran entered Israel illegally last month in order to carry out a nationalistically-motivated attack.
On October 19, 2017, Zafran broke into a truck that belongs to a business in Holon using a pipe wrench.
An employee who noticed him in the act started running toward the truck. Upon noticing the employee, Zafran drove in his direction, nearly hitting him.
Upon failing to do so, Zafran kept driving toward a nearby IDF base.
The employee reported the theft to the police, which pursued the stolen truck.
In an effort to evade the police, Zafran sped and drove wildly on the road, risking drivers in his vicinity.
When police closed in on him and ordered him to stop, he rammed the truck into the police car, pushing it against the safety railing and bringing it to a stop.
Zafran, according to the indictment, then continued driving toward Rishon Lezion, ran a red light at an intersection and collided with other vehicles.
He eventually had to stop due to faulty operation of the truck and was caught by police.
In his interrogation, he repeatedly stated he belongs to the Fatah organization, and that he wished to become a martyr.
He admitted to planning to run over soldiers waiting at a bus stop outside an IDF base as "Dire Revenge" for Israel's conduct on the Temple Mount.
A prisoner who shared a cell with Zafran said the latter told him he wanted to kill Jews.
[Ynet] An IDF force inspected a Paleostinian who was behaving suspiciously at the Tzofim checkpoint in Samaria, finding a knife hidden on his person. The suspect was taken for questioning.
[Breitbart] A review of FBI Director James Comey’s professional history and relationships shows that the Obama cabinet leader ‐ now under fire for his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton ‐ is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. His personal and professional relationships ‐ all undisclosed as he announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton ‐ reinforce bipartisan concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
These concerns focus on millions of dollars that Comey accepted from a Clinton Foundation defense contractor, Comey’s former membership on a Clinton Foundation corporate partner’s board, and his surprising financial relationship with his brother Peter Comey, who works at the law firm that does the Clinton Foundation’s taxes.
Lockheed Martin
When President Obama nominated Comey to become FBI director in 2013, Comey promised the United States Senate that he would recuse himself on all cases involving former employers.
But Comey earned $6 million in one year alone from Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin became a Clinton Foundation donor that very year.
Comey served as deputy attorney general under John Ashcroft for two years of the Bush administration. When he left the Bush administration, he went directly to Lockheed Martin and became vice president, acting as a general counsel.
How much money did James Comey make from Lockheed Martin in his last year with the company, which he left in 2010? More than $6 million in compensation.
Lockheed Martin is a Clinton Foundation donor. The company admitted to becoming a Clinton Global Initiative member in 2010.
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Better take a look at Mueller's relationships as well. There are plenty of conflict of interest issues going on. You start peeling back the onion that is the Clinton Crime Syndicate and you find all sorts of conflicted relationships--it's like trying to swallow a glob of spit once you start the peeling back process.
[THEHILL] Thanks to ObamaCare, a family health insurance policy bought on the health insurance exchange can cost the same or more than leasing a 2017 Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren or even a Rolls-Royce.
ObamaCare open enrollment for 2018 has begun, so a friend and tax policy expert living in Northern Virginia recently went looking at his family’s health insurance options. A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield silver-level family HMO plan with a $3,500 deductible would cost my friend $2,179 per month. The BlueCross gold-level HMO with a $1,000 deductible would cost $2,500 per month.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... people tend to choose Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) when possible because they allow patients more flexibility; you don’t necessarily have to see a family doctor before contacting a specialist. But consumers pay for that extra flexibility ‐ especially under ObamaCare.
The BlueCross silver-level family PPO plan with a $3,500 deductible would cost $2,729 per month and the gold PPO with a $1,000 deductible is $3,087.
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I gave up late last year, faced with a 50% premium increase in CO. I told my wife I was done seeking self-reliant solutions. We ended our business after more than a decade. My wife took a full-time job at a large company so we get "health insurance" for a family of four without paying more for it than for housing and food, and we don't have to justify ourselves to the IRS. I'm sure we're not alone. I doubt we'll get back to running our own business again.
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Sorry Si vis pacem that you got mauled by Obamacare. Many have. There is something very wrong with a healthcare system that does this to its citizens. Obamacare was never meant to provide healthcare but to be a piggybank for insurance companies, lobbyists and left-wing politicians. See Hillary and the Clinton Foundation for how that's done.
[Al Jazeera] Zim-bob-we's information minister has announced the dismissal of Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president for showing "traits of disloyalty".
The expulsion on Monday removed a potential successor to Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... , the 93-year-old president and leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party.
It also cleared the decks for Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, to succeed her husband.
Explaining the reasons for Mnangagwa's removal, Simon Khaya Moyo, the information minister, said: "The vice president has consistently and persistently exhibited traits of disloyalty, disrespect, deceitfulness and unreliability.
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[Al Jazeera] With a fundamental, strategic shift affecting the foundation of the South Korea-US alliance, and China competing strongly for South Korean kinship, Tuesday's state visit to Seoul will be a diplomatic minefield for US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Over two days, Trump will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in and address the National Assembly. Foregoing a photo opp at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) - a standard stop for visiting presidents - he will go to Camp Humphreys, a vast military base 50km south of Seoul that is rising as a new hub for the 28,500 US forces on the peninsula.
A critical undercurrent during the visit will be the ongoing shift in Washington's strategic focus, driven by North Korea's expanding nuclear capabilities.
Since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, the defence of South Korea has been the Korea-US alliance's foremost priority. Now, with the United States increasingly in North Korea's crosshairs as it extends the range of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, Washington must consider its own defence.
This development is opening fissures in the alliance. While Trump has threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea, Moon told Korea's National Assembly last week that "our top priority is to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula ... No military action on the Korean Peninsula shall be taken without prior consent of the Republic of Korea."
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When I was there Camp Humphreys (the Hump) was a dirt runway and a rusty chain link fence.
[NATION.PK] Minister for Foreign Affairs Khawaja Asif says Pakistain`s effective counter terrorism efforts have dismantled the surge of terrorist networks, reported Radio Pakistain.
Khawaja Asif said it is unfair to blame Pakistain for whatever ails Afghanistan have toady as Pakistain has eliminated terrorism from its soil after great sacrifices and now there are no terrorist safe havens here.
He was addressing the 4th Round of US-Pakistain Bilateral Dialogue held in Islamabad on Monday with the title 'Convergence amid Divergence: Identifying Pathways to Cooperation in a Challenging Environment'.
The Foreign Minister said with self defence and self-interest as our first priority we are fully committed to protect the illusory sovereignty of our motherland. He said we will also not allow our soil to be used against any other country.
Khawaja Asif said in the era of challenging and complex international relations, states should focus on long term partnerships and cooperation.
He said with peace and stability in Afghanistan as our ultimate goal, we have been and are ready to extend every possible cooperation to achieve that end.
The Foreign Minister said Pakistain has also reached out to other regional countries and regional fora like SAARC in its efforts for peace in Afghanistan.
Khawaja Asif said intelligence sharing is imperative for improving border management with Afghanistan. He said the United States should share timely intelligence and Pakistain will take action itself.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham launched a powerful assault in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate, today, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions near the key town of ’Atshan.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s assault would prove successful, as their forces managed to seize two towns from the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF).
According to HTS’ official media wing, their forces seized the towns of al-Baleel and Umm Turaykiyeh after a fierce battle with the government units in northern Hama on Monday.
A source from the Syrian Army told al-Masdar News this evening that their forces were unable to maintain their ground at these towns because their soldiers were gassed by the swarming HTS and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) hard boys.
The total number of soldiers that were exposed to the chemicals is unknown.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iran dismissed as "irresponsible and provocative" accusations from regional arch-rival 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... on Monday that it was responsible a weekend missile attack on Riyadh launched from war-ravaged Yemen.
An Iranian foreign ministry statement quoted its front man Bahram Ghassemi as saying the accusations by the Saudi-led coalition were "unjust, irresponsible, destructive and provocative".
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... has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Hundreds of thousands have been martyred or injured in the aggression, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
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[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Monday claimed to have incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! three bandidosforces of Evil allegedly linked to the Death EaterIslamic 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.... (IS) group from the outskirts of the metropolis.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar said that police conducted a raid at a house in the Ahsanabad area of Karachi after receiving a tip from an intelligence agency.
Officials recovered two 30-bore pistols, one 9mm pistol along with propaganda literature from the possession of the suspects, the SSP said.
"Books, pamphlets, stickers and CDs regarding terrorism were recovered from their custody," Rao Anwar said.
He claimed that the suspects were planning to recruit young people for their Death Eater group.
The detained suspects were identified as Muhammad Umer, Khalid Minhas and Shakeel Ahmed.
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[DAWN] A member of Pakistain's diplomat corps serving at the consulate in Afghanistan's Jalalabad city was rubbed out on Monday evening, DawnNews reported.
Two assailants riding a cycle of violence opened fire on Nayyar Iqbal as he bought goods from a shop, Pakistain's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zahid Nasrullah Khan, said.
Iqbal hailed from Sialkot and was working in the consulate's visa section.
Attaullah Khogyani, the front man for the provincial governor in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , confirmed his murder.
"Police have launched an investigation into the incident. No arrests have been made so far," Khogyani said.
Iqbal was an assistant to the consul general in Jalalabad, the capital of the restive Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistain.
Khan said he had "absolutely no idea" why Iqbal, a father of five, was targeted.
The staffer's body has been shifted to a hospital in Jalalabad for a postmortem examination.
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Three soldiers died yesterday as Libyan National Army (LNA) commanders abandoned their plan to starve out the remaining militants holed up in the Benghazi’s Sidi Akribesh for over four months.
Moreover, for the first time in weeks, an LNA war plane launched a strike on the district. In the past, army sources speaking on condition of anonymity because of the LNA clampdown on unauthorised statements about the fighting, had said that the “few buildings” still controlled by the militants constituted too small a target for air attack.
After the aircraft assault LNA units advanced but apparently met stiff resistance. Besides the three killed, 12 other soldiers were injured. It is reported that one of the militants, named as Ahmed Masoud al-Fakhri, said to be from Ajdabiya, was also killed in the fighting.
The continued presence of an unknown number of fighters is an embarrassment to the LNA, whose commander, Khalifa Hafter broadcast triumphantly in early July that the battle for Benghazi was over.
In violence elsewhere in the city, a rocket attack on Benghazi Radio’s broadcasting studios slightly injured a number of people, including the poet Khadija Bsikri. It is thought that it was an RPG that was fired at the first floor of the building in Abdel Moneim road, some three kilometres away from Sidi Akribesh.
Meanwhile, unexploded ordnance, which hard-pressed LNA engineers have not yet had the opportunity to clear, has taken yet another life. A civilian named as Faraj Al-Abdali was killed in a blast as he entered his old apartment in the Suq Al-Hout district.
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[RUDAW.NET] First of all, I am not a Kurd, I am a Chaldean Assyrian Syriac Christian from Erbil, a descendent of Babylon and Assyria, a descendent of the one of the most ancient Christian churches, the Church of the East.
I have lived all my entire life beside my Kurdish friends, most of them Moslems, and others Yezidis and Kakeis. Since elementary school in my town Ankawa, which is considered today the largest Christian city in Iraq and Kurdistan, and until finishing my MA studies in Erbil, I had made many good Kurdish friends.
The Kurds, a nation of 45 million, have been separated between several countries, and they have struggled more than a century for their rights to be identified as a nation, to have the right to speak their own language, to sing their songs freely, to govern themselves according to their values and principles. Sadly they were killed, tortured, oppressed, and even denied their existence by the countries they have lived in, only because they wanted to live according to their standards and not according to other people goals.
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Finally, I want to send a message to all supporters of religious and ethnic coexistence in the world, to the lovers of peace and harmony: please help Kurdistan in these difficult times, please do not leave us alone in the face of tyranny and oppression.
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See Catalan independence for an idea of the difficulty in breaking away. Also see Brexit. There is a lot of push-back by the Globalists/NWO types against nationalism movements.
A Kurd nation would probably be good for the Kurds but it's not too popular with Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four Islamic State locations on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin province have been shelled, an official said on Monday.
“Aerial shelling targeted IS locations in Mutaibija basin, on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, amid news of casualties among the enemy,” Abdul Khaliq Medhat told AlSumaria News.
“The frequent shelling of IS gatherings and rest houses in Mutaibija contributed to reducing risks of the militant group against nearby regions, including Hawi al-Udhaim in Diyala,” Medhat added.
Mutaibija has complicated terrain, with numerous hills that serve as a good hideout for militants. Occasional attacks have been witnessed there by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMUs, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014.
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[THEHILL] The American Psychological Association (APA) criticized President Trump for saying the Sunday mass shooting at a Texas church was a "mental health" problem and not about guns.
"Calling this shooting a ‘mental health problem’ distracts our nation’s leaders from developing policies and legislation that would focus on preventing gun violence through a scientific, public health approach,” said APA President Antonio E. Puente in a statement Monday.
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Tonight on News@10 a reporter said Devon Kelley's sister-in-law gave a statement today, which included extensive brain damage from his LSD usage earlier.
[ALMASDARNEWS] In an unexpected turn of events, a Russian delegation arrived in rebel-held northern Homs on Monday to negotiate with local Islamist groups over the possibility of reopening the M5 Highway which runs vertically through the rebel pocket.
As reported earlier by al-Masdar News, the meeting took place at the crossing into Dart Kabeera town; new revelations confirm that five Islamist commanders from various rebel factions attended the talks although the outcome of the negotiation is yet to be revealed.
Footage of the meeting shows heavily armed Russian bodyguards entering the rebel stronghold while Syrian gunnies armed with AK-47’s allowed the reconciliation delegation to pass safely
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[DAWN] Yemeni forces ended a hostage crisis on Monday with 29 police and six civilians dead, a day after the attack claimed by the myrmidonIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group began with suicide kabooms, official sources said.
Assailants on Sunday stormed the criminal investigations unit in Aden, the Yemeni government's de facto capital, setting it alight and taking hostages after killing two policewomen.
The attack began on Sunday, when two jacket wallahs blew themselves up at the entrances to the criminal investigations unit and the city's security headquarters.
Overnight, the security forces tried three times to seize back the unit, but each time a suicide bomber went kaboom!, stopping them from entering, a security official said.
A fourth suicide kaboom occurred on Monday morning, before the security forces finally brought an end to the standoff in the southern port city.
A total of 29 members of the security forces were killed during the attack and hostage crisis, the official said.
Among them were six coppers whose bodies were found buried under the rubble of the building along with six civilians, including two children.
"The security forces have managed to enter the building and clear it of the elements of evil and terrorism," said the interior ministry of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's internationally recognised government.
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[DAWN] ANOTHER index, another appalling ranking. Pakistain’s latest embarrassment comes in the form of the second-worst rating in the world for gender parity on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016. Pakistain ranks 143rd out of 144 countries, bettering only war-torn 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... in terms of gender equality. The low grade indicates that Pakistain is doing poorly on all gender indicators: educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.
The ranking may surprise those who celebrate the great strides Pak women make every day. They, not our men, are the ones winning Nobel Peace Prizes and Oscars. They are slated to lead political dynasties, win human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... awards, staff our malls, and play a greater role in law enforcement.
But the women we celebrate are exceptions not representatives. Indeed, many of them owe their success to the typically poor circumstances of other Pak women ‐ they are notable because they have somehow survived, documented or mitigated the deplorable condition of women in this country. Rather than deploy amazing individuals as a bulwark against criticism, we should acknowledge and address the brutal reality of the gender gap.
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Syrian Army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, established control over Sarha al-Shimalieh village in northeastern countryside of Hama.
SANA reporter said that Monday the army units hunted al-Nusra Front terrorists in the northeastern countryside of Hama, establishing control over Sarha al-Shimalieh village to the west of Atheria town after destroying the last gatherings and fortifications of the terrorists there.
The army units are pursuing the remnants of al-Nusra terrorists in the village vicinity, while Engineering units of the Syrian Arab Army began dismantling mines and IEDs planted by al-Nusra among the citizens’ houses, public squares and streets, the reporter said.
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[IsraelTimes] While American embassy says it received assurances from Ankara of no more detentions, tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! employee who sparked row remains in jail
The US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said on Monday that they had resumed limited mutual visa services following an almost month-long suspension, in a diplomatic row between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... allies ahead of the Ottoman Turkish premier’s visit to Washington.
The US decision to stop handing out visas took effect from October 8 and was followed by a tit-for-tat move by Turkey to stop giving Ottoman Turkish visas to Americans.
Ottoman Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will go to the US on Tuesday, November 7, for a visit until November 10, during which he is due to hold talks with US Vice President Mike Pence.
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I'd extremely vet this shit. Anyone Yippy's regime allows to exit is probably an agent
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[THEHILL] Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin on Monday said he does not consider the former Air Force service member identified as the gunman in a Texas mass shooting as a veteran, and that he would not have had access to mental health help from the department.
"I do not consider him a veteran. That would give him much more respect than he deserves," Shulkin said of Devin Kelley, whom law enforcement identified as the gunman in a church shooting Sunday in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Kelley had served in the Air Force in Logistics Readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico beginning in 2010, but was court-martialed in 2012 for an assault on his then-wife and child. He was sentenced to 12 months confinement, received a reduction in rank and was discharged in 2014 for "bad conduct," according to the Air Force.
"He is a criminal and I think that he was convicted and with a dishonorable discharge does not deserve to have the same title as the men and women who have served this country and have honorably been discharged," Shulkin said during remarks at the National Press Club in Washington.
Shulkin said there is a distinction between those who have received an other than honorable discharge and those who have received a dishonorable discharge. Those with the former, he said, "we do believe are in need of our assistance and help, particularly with mental illness."
"Those dishonorable discharged have violated the law, have violated our morals and ethics, and I do not believe deserve the types of services and benefits and VA would not be providing those benefits," Shulkin explained.
"This is not a person who has ever been treated in the VA system and would not be eligible for those benefits," he said.
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According to law, someone who has received a dishonorable discharge is not a veteran.
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^ what the man wrote. However, it is also known that any request to upgrade one's discharge from a Congresscritters office is likely to be approved.
[RUDAW.NET] The US-led Coalition and the Peshmerga ministry held a "positive" meeting on Monday regarding the military standoff between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces, a Peshmerga spokesperson told Rudaw.
The Coalition is overseeing the ongoing talks between the two sides. Military officials from the Kurdistan Region and Iraq have held three security meetings but no official agreement has yet been made.
Halgurd Hikmat said the Coalition listened to the concerns and the position of the Peshmerga with regard to the current tensions between the Kurdistan Region and Iraq that first broke out when Iraqi forces and their Iranian-backed Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi took control of Kirkuk on October 16.
The Peshmerga had been in control of Kirkuk and much of the disputed or Kurdistani areas since 2014 after the Iraqi forces withdrew in the face of ISIS advances.
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[RUDAW.NET] An Iranian newspaper that is close to the Supreme Leader ran a controversial headline on Monday suggesting that 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 in 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... will next target Dubai, after recently firing a ballistic missile at Riyadh’s airport.
Kayhan ran an editorial saying that no area in 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... is out of range of the missiles of Houthi rebels who are now in control of the capital Sanaa.
The article listed a number of targets including Riyadh, Jeddah, and Saudi’s oil and gas company Aramco. It added the Houthi rebels may even go a step further and target Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The editor of Kayhan is the representative of the Supreme Leader at the newspaper.
The editorial breached press regulations concerning Iran’s national security, according to the press regulator as reported by national media.
The UAE is part of the Saudi-led alliance that launched an air and military campaign against Houthi rebels in 2015 following the start of the civil war between the Saudi-backed Yemen government and the Houthis.
The newspaper claimed that Saturday’s missile attack on Riyadh sent shockwaves through the ruling elite of the oil-rich kingdom and that young Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman would have not believed it possible the Houthis could target the Saudi capital.
The Saudi-led alliance has claimed that the missile was supplied to the rebels by Iran. Saudi’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Monday they will respond to the Iranian threat at an "appropriate time."
The newspaper also ran a second piece on the missile issue, mocking US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s statement that the missile fired at Riyadh’s airport was Iranian. It stated that the Saudi-led alliance was bombarding Yemen with weapons supplied by the United States and others.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... have recorded more than 13,000 civilian casualties in the civil war that has become a hot spot where Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting for influence.
The two are also supporting rival parties in Syria, Bahrain, and to some extent in Iraq.
Their rivalry has also caused upheaval in Leb. The country’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri announced his resignation over the weekend while visiting Saudi Arabia. He said he did so because Iran has planned to cause chaos and destruction in Leb and throughout the Arab world.
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[Al Jazeera] Iraq's top court has said the country's constitution does not allow for the secession of any part of the country from the state.
In a statement on Monday, Iyas al-Samouk, Supreme Federal Court spokesperson, said the national charter expressly calls for the preservation of Iraq's unity and territorial integrity.
The court is responsible for settling disputes between the central government in Baghdad and the country's regions and provinces, including northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
The court's rulings are final and cannot be contested by higher judicial authorities.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Several Saudi princes were recently tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! by federal police forces in the capital city of Riyadh after an n anti-corruption campaign was launched by the King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... regime this past weekend.
Among the princes arrested by the Saudi authorities was the billionaire Talal bin Waleed, al-Arabiya TV reported on Sunday.
The apprehended princes were pictured at the Ritz Carlton on Monday, sleeping on side-by-side mattresses provided by the luxury hotel.
Photos of the imprisoned princes at the Ritz Carlton quickly went viral on Twitter and Facebook, today, as several users mocked not only the apprehended men, but also, the Saudi regime.
[Al Jazeera] 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 anti-corruption purge has widened after one of the country's top businessmen was reportedly detained, accounts were frozen and a no-fly list was drawn up.
On Monday, Nasser bin Aqeel al-Tayyar, a board member at Saudi Arabia's biggest travel company, was reportedly added to the list detainees, which already included some of the country's most influential officials and entrepreneurs.
Among those detained are 11 princes, four ministers and several former ministers, in what is seen as an unprecedented crackdown that has shaken the kingdom.
The dramatic steps were the latest in a series of measures by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to assert power over the country and its previous leaders.
On Saturday, King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud announced that his son, the crown prince, would oversee a newly formed anti-graft commission that would purge the country of corruption.
The anti-graft commission has uncovered evidence pointing at "widespread corruption", its president Khalid bin Abdulmohsen al-Mehaisen said in a separate statement.
"Saudi anti-corruption authorities... have worked painstakingly for three years to investigate the crimes in question," he added.
The information ministry on Sunday said the bank accounts of those arrested will be "frozen" and any assets related to the corruption cases will be registered as state property.
Here are some of the high-profile names swept up in the purge:
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal
The 62-year-old flamboyant billionaire tycoon, ranked among the richest men in the world, was among those arrested in the crackdown. The Kingdom Holding Company -- in which the prince has a majority stake -- owns The Savoy in London, the Fairmont Plaza and the famed George V hotel in Paris.
Prince Miteb bin Abdullah
The 64-year-old son of the late king Abdullah was ousted as the head of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, an elite internal security force. He was once seen as a leading contender for the throne.
Waleed bin Ibrahim al-Ibrahim
He is a brother-in-law of the late king Fahd and owner of the Middle East Broadcasting Company (MBC), one of the most influential satellite networks in the Arab world. He was among those detained.
Prince Turki bin Abdullah
The son of the late Saudi king Abdullah and the former governor of Riyadh province was among those arrested.
Adel bin Mohammad Faqih
The minister of economy and planning, once the point man for the kingdom's sweeping economic reforms, was ousted from his post in favour of his deputy. He is the former mayor of the Red Sea city of Jeddah and previously also served as labour minister.
Ibrahim al-Assaf
One of those detained is Ibrahim al-Assaf, a former finance minister who this year represented King Salman at the G20 summit in Germany.
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And Carlos Danger goes to a Club Fed. Our betters have better accommodations.
Saw it in an (e-trade?) advert a while back: "First Class is there to remind you that your're not in First Class."
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A paramilitary personnel has been killed as a bomb blast exploded in southwest of Kirkuk, a security source said on Monday.
“A bomb from Islamic State’s war remnants exploded as a personnel of al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] in Hawija was removing bombs from a village in al-Rashad town, leaving him immediately killed,” the source told AlSumaria News on Monday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, “police cordoned off the blast spot, while the victim was transferred to forensic medicine department.”
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[THEHILL] Fox News has canceled ads purchased by Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer that call for President Trump’s impeachment, CNN’s Brian Stelter confirmed Monday.
"Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money," Fox News told Stelter.
Steyer said Friday in a statement that Fox News informed him on Oct. 31 that it was refusing to air the ad entitled "Join Us."
Steyer said the decision "shows no respect for democracy."
Steyer launched his $10 million "Need to Impeach" ad campaign in late October, drawing the ire of Trump, who called Steyer "wacky & totally unhinged."
House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Calif.) on Sunday downplayed the idea that Democrats will seek to impeach Trump if they take back the House in next year's midterm elections.
She suggested Democrats will allow the various investigations of Trump to play out in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
"I believe that whatever we do, we have responsibility first and foremost to unify the nation," she said. "Second of all, you can’t go down any path without the facts and the law. If that’s there, perhaps it will come out in these investigations."
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"Due to the strong negative reaction to their ad by our viewers, we could not in good conscience take their money," Fox News told Stelter.
Apparently those at CNN are too stupid to figure it out for themselves.
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[Tom Steyer], California Donk mega-donor liberal climate change activist Tom Steyer dumped $13 million of his own money into the last election cycle as of March 2016 — probably more by election time.
He must be a little pissed that Hillary blew $1.4 billion only to get beaten by the guy who was never supposed to. She didn't even campaign in Wisconsin. I'm still enjoying the schadenfreude of it all.
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Yes, JohnQC, I believe he is more than a little pissed. Have you seen his ad? He is the very definition of unhinged, wound up tighter than a drum and now he's throwing good money after bad. But, hey, it's his money. If I was Fox I'd go ahead and take it.
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Someone should convince him to invest in the NFL, buy empty seats and fill them with homeless or something.
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AU, that'd make them liable for breaking contract and even if they put it on after midnight with a warning about "this really, really, really is not satire".
rjschwartz, good idea but make sure everyone has had their shots.
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Almost, of course if you take the money you must then air the ad. But Steyer looks so uptight and phony that he's doing himself more harm than good. So I say take his money and let him.
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"Sign our petition" is just another way of saying "Give us fresh contact information". Someone has to replace the "Harvey Bucks" that will now be directed toward $700/ hour legal fee's to keep his sorry fat ass out of the GreyBar.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, the Sanaa-based Yemeni Government unveiled a brand new type of underwater missile which was manufactured by Houthi engineers and will be deployed to combat Saudi vessels that are spotted traveling through the Red Sea.
The torpedo, nicknamed Al-Manbab, is reportedly capable of hitting enemy ships from far away although its exact firing reach remains unknown for now.
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Link doesn't work.
Sure they are not these Houthi Chinese Silkworms? link to silkworms
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That site is a nasty set of "news". Looks like a propaganda site to me. American helicopters moving Daesh commanders out of harm's way, etc. I feel soiled just having looked at the damned thing.
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MELTDOWN: Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy Blocks Breitbart for Reporting ‘Christianity Not a Fundamental of Europe’ Interview
5 November
Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan-Guru Murthy blocked Breitbart London journalists after the news network reported his claim that Christianity is “not really a sort of a fundamental of Europe”.
UK ‘Loses’ 56,000 Migrants Due for Deportation, Including Over 700 Ex-Cons
3 November
Amber Rudd’s Home Office has lost track of some 56,000 migrants who were supposed to be deported, including over 700 criminals.
Man Charged With FGM: Only Second Prosecution in British History, 31 Years After Ban Introduced
3 November
A man in London has been charged with female genital mutilation (FGM) in what is only the second case of its kind in the UK, despite the practice having been illegal for 31 years, and dozens of new cases being discovered by health authorities every day.
UK Spending Almost £1m a Day in Foreign Aid on Asylum Seekers and Illegal Migrants in Britain
2 November
Home Office contributions to Britain’s foreign aid budget totalling £362 million a year are mostly spent on illegal migrants and asylum seekers in the UK.
Channel 4 Rebrand Sees Broadcaster’s Logo Ferrying Migrants to Dover
1 November
Channel 4’s latest rebrand has been hailed as a “celebration of immigration in Brexit Britain”, with a new short featuring the UK broadcaster’s logo ferrying migrants across the English Channel.
Murder Gang Saudi Can’t Be Deported Because He ‘Devotes His Time to Charity’
30 October
A judge has ruled that Britain cannot deport a Saudi migrant who has been previously jailed for a host of crimes because he has been “devoting his time to charity”.
Arab Illegal Immigrant Raped British Woman, Abused Female Police Officer
18 October
A Kuwaiti migrant who arrived in the UK illegally beat and raped a British woman on a riverbank just two weeks after he was given leave to remain in the UK.
[IsraelTimes] French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo said Monday it was pressing charges after receiving fresh death threats over a cartoon of the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who faces rape allegations. The provocative magazine, which suffered a deadly jihadist attack in 2015 after publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, depicted Ramadan with a huge erection in its edition last Wednesday, saying: “I am the sixth pillar of Islam.”
Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau, the magazine’s editor, said the threats and hate mail had “never really stopped” after the January 2015 jihadist attack in which 12 people were gunned down at its offices.
“It’s always difficult to know if these are serious threats or not, but as a principle, we take them seriously and press charges," he told Europe 1 radio.
Refugee centers in Germany suffer near daily attacks
6 November
[DW] Far-right attacks on refugee homes in Germany still happen nearly every day, statistics show. Though the total number of attacks is down, there are still more incidents than before the 2015 refugee crisis.
Berlin Politicians Call Special Meeting Over Fears Organized Arab Criminals Have Infiltrated Police Force
5 November
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) have called for a special meeting of the Berlin government over allegations that organised Arab criminal gangs have infiltrated the police force.
Danish Immigration Minister’s Car Runs Over Immigrant After Attempt to Assault Politician
4 November
A visit to a deportation centre for illegal migrants by the Danish minister for immigration and integration Friday quickly turned violent as angry residents attempted to attack the politician, before throwing themselves in front her departing car. Danish immigration and integration
Austria’s Right Wing and Populist Parties Agree to Slash Migrant Benefits, Taxes in Coalition Talks
4 November
Austria’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the right wing populist Freedom Party (FPO) have agreed to slash benefits for migrants and introduce five-year residency rules to curb welfare for European Union (EU) nationals.
Channel 4 News Presenter Tells Hungarian Minister: ‘Christianity is Not Really a Fundamental of Europe’
4 November
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, a presenter for publicly-owned broadcaster Channel 4, left the Hungarian prime minister’s spokesman “stunned” after asserting that Christianity is “not really a fundamental of Europe”.
Hungary Asks ‘Is Everyone Entitled to Religious Freedom Except for Christians?’ After Anti-Cross Ruling
3 November
Hungary has offered to take a Christian cross which the French authorities say must be removed from a statue of Pope John Paul II in Brittany. The courts had originally ruled that the entire statue, donated to the small town of
Continent Totally Unprepared For Another Migrant Crisis: European Police Union
3 November
A new survey of police across the European Union has revealed that many officers feel totally unprepared to handle another large wave of migrants. citing too few personnel and resources.
Number of Migrants Arriving in Greece from Turkey up 200 per cent
3 November
The number of migrants arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey since this August is up 200 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Conservative, Anti-Mass Migration Parties See Surge in Popular Support in Poland, Hungary
2 November
Both ruling parties in Hungary and Poland are seeing a surge in public backing following their sustained rejection of internationalist bodies’ pro-mass migration policies, signalling citizens prefer governments that stand by conservative values and protect their nations’ borders.
Women Sexually Assaulted By ‘North African, Arab’ Migrants in Cologne on Halloween
2 November
German police officers in the city of Halle were attacked by a gang of “youths” on Halloween night, and police in Cologne were forced to call for reinforcements due to sex attacks and violence from young migrant men.
Cost of Asylum Seekers Up 73 Per Cent in One Year to Over Nine Billion Euros
2 November
A report from the German Federal Statistical Office claims the amount of money spent on asylum seekers increased last year by 73 per cent, with the government spending a total of €9.23 billion on migrants.
Senior EU Minister: Countries REFUSING to ‘Open the Door’ to Muslim Migrants Will ‘Destroy Europe’
1 November
Countries which “do not want to open the door” to Muslim migrants and try to “protect Christianity” could “destroy Europe”, claims the EU’s longest-serving foreign minister.
Two Austrian Classrooms Now Consist Of 100 Per Cent Migrant Children
1 November
Two Austrian classrooms, in Villach and Klagenfurt, consist of children purely from migrant backgrounds and not a single child speaks German as a first language.
Failed Asylum Seeker Who Allegedly Killed Daughter in Germany Caught in Spain
1 November
Failed Pakistani asylum seeker Sohail A., who is suspected of killing his two-year-old daughter last week in Germany, was apprehended by police in the Spanish coastal city of San Sebastián.
Expert: ‘Dangerous’ Chechen Migrants Take over Brandenburg Islamist Scene
1 November
Historian Christian Osthold, who is an expert in the history of Russia and Chechnya, claims that “dangerous” Chechen migrants have taken over the Islamist scene in Brandenburg with many having links to Islamic State.
Mass Brawl Breaks out Between Italians and over 30 Asylum Seekers
31 October
Four asylum seekers were reported to judicial authorities over the weekend in Pisa after 10 Italian citizens and 30 asylum seekers engaged in a mass brawl in what the local police described as a revenge attack by the migrants.
Hungary: Protecting Europe from Soros Like Game of Thrones Fight Against Winter Threat
31 October
Nations in Central Europe have joined together to save the continent from George Soros’ plan for a ‘mixed, Islamised’ Europe, according to a senior Hungarian MEP, who compared the Visegrad nations’ opposition to forced mass migration to fantasy drama Game of Thrones.
Swedish Students and Vulnerable Pushed to Back of Housing Queue for Migrants
31 October
A new report claims that Swedish students and other individuals considered to be vulnerable have been sent to the back of the housing queue as properties have been prioritised for recently arrived migrants.
Swedish Public Broadcaster Employees Convicted of People Trafficking
31 October
Three employees of Swedish public broadcaster SVT have been convicted of people trafficking after they smuggled a 15-year-old Syrian boy into Sweden from Greece in 2014.
German Migrant Agency Fails to Send ‘Refugees’ Back, Even When Home Nations Are Safe
29 October
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has been accused of treating refugee status as a path to immigration as they rarely ever check to see if approved refugees’ homelands are safe for them to return to.
While 14,000 Failed Asylum Seekers Await Deportation, Govt Plane to Afghanistan Flies With 166 Empty Seats
27 October
The German government has resumed deportations to Afghanistan but according to reports, the authorities placed a mere 14 people on a 180-seat aircraft despite there being 14,263 Afghans scheduled for deportation.
Two Million Euro Deportation Centre Deports Just 86 Migrants a Year
27 October
The regional government in Hamburg relocated their deportation detention centre last year and so far the new location has cost 2.4 million euros, despite only facilitating the deportation of fewer than a hundred people.
Danish Woman Given Just Three Months in Prison for Sexual Relations with Underage Asylum Seeker
26 October
A 52-year-old Danish woman has been sentenced by a court to a three-month conditional sentence after she was found guilty of engaging in sexual relations with an underage asylum seeker.
Saxony Migrant Homes Host to Murder, Rapes, Hundreds Of Violent Assaults
26 October
Newly released figures from the government of the German region of Saxony reveal the extent of crime in asylum homes showing there have been more than 2,000 criminal incidents including murder, rape, and physical violence.
Pro-Migrant NGOs Call for Greece to Release Migrants onto Mainland
25 October
Pro-migrant NGOs working at asylum centres on the Greek islands in the Aegean are calling for the government to release the migrants to the mainland citing poor conditions and overcrowding in the asylum camps.
German Mainstream Media Calls Migrant Crime Area ‘No-Go Zone’
25 October
A new report claims that migrant youth gangs in the Ebertplatz area of Cologne are becoming increasingly more violent leading some to describe the area as turning into a no-go zone.
Migrant Who Trafficked Drugs from Asylum Home Gets Only One Year in Prison
24 October
A 31-year-old asylum seeker who ran a drug trafficking operation out of an asylum home in the German town of Gummersbach has been sentenced to only one year and two months in prison despite the scale of his operation.
Merkel: Give Turkey Billions More Euros to Keep Migrants out of Europe
23 October
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has advocated giving the Turkish government billions of more euros for Syrian asylum seekers in order to reinforce the European Union (EU) migrant pact, while EU leaders agreed to give Turkey less money to prepare for EU accession.
Austria: 25 Per Cent Rise in Sex Attacks, Almost Half Committed by Migrants
20 October
The Austrian government has released new crime statistics that show sex attacks have risen 25 per cent overall since last year and that migrants make up close to half of all known suspects in sex crime cases.
Swedish Politicians Call For Army to be Deployed to No Go Zones to Keep Peace
20 October
Twenty members of the Moderate Party in Sweden have proposed the government deploys the armed forces in some of the country’s most dangerous no-go zones to combat “gang violence”.
Hungary Fears ‘Soros Influence’ in Election After Open Borders Activist Injects $18bn into Foundation
20 October
George Soros will use his organisation, now the second largest political activist charity in the world, to “influence” Hungary’s 2018 general election, claims a Hungarian member of parliament.
‘Mentally Ill’ Asylum Seeker Receives Two Year Sentence for Raping Woman in Airport
18 October
A ‘mentally ill’ asylum seeker from Somalia was sentenced to two years in prison for raping a woman in the garage under an airport arrivals lounge in Norway.
[AnNahar] Hundreds of civilians have returned to a battered district of Syria's Raqa in what a U.S.-backed force said was the first wave of returns since it cleared explosives left by jihadists.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group lost control of Raqa -- once its primary Syrian bastion -- on October 17 after a months-long battle with the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Tens of thousands of people fled the city during the offensive, reducing Raqa to a ghost town of collapsed buildings.
The SDF said in an online statement on Sunday that hundreds of families had returned to al-Meshleb, Raqa's easternmost district.
"The SDF informed civilians from al-Meshleb that they could return to their homes after mine-removal teams had finished clearing the entire neighborhood of explosives left indiscriminately in civilian homes by IS," the force's press center said.
It said the district was the first to which residents had returned since the city's "liberation from ISIS," an Arabic acronym for IS.
After capturing Raqa, the SDF sealed off the city to allow for mine removal operations in bombed-out neighborhoods.
Residents often amassed at checkpoints in recent weeks, waiting for permission to access the city and see if their homes were still standing.
Some civilians who sneaked in were killed by unwent kaboom! ordnance.
Mine-clearing and reconstruction operations in Raqa are being coordinated by the Raqa Civil Council, a provisional local government body appointed by the SDF but based outside the city.
"Yes, residents of al-Meshleb returned to their homes -- but the whole city hasn't been cleared of mines yet," senior council member Omar Alloush told AFP on Monday.
The deputy head of the council's reconstruction committee, Nazmi Mohammad, said the body had dispatched 10 bulldozers to Raqa to help clear rubble and blocked-off roads in al-Meshleb.
After capturing Raqa in 2014, IS used the city as a hub for the administration of its self-styled "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.
Following months of losses in the face of multiple offensives, touted IS fighters are now defending their last redoubts further down the Euphrates Valley.
More than 330,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests that were brutally suppressed.
Kentucky state pol resigns in wake of sex scandal
(CNN)On Sunday, Kentucky's House Speaker Jeff Hoover (R) resigned his leadership post under pressure -- following revelations that he and several other legislators had settled a sexual harassment complaint with a woman.
Florida state politician caught in sex accusations
TALLAHASSEE — Six women who work in Florida’s Capitol say the state Senate’s powerful budget chairman, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Latvala, has inappropriately touched them without their consent or uttered demeaning remarks about their bodies.
The women, who include Senate staff and lobbyists affiliated with both major parties, told POLITICO Florida they did not want to be identified for fear of losing their jobs, getting a bad reputation in the male-dominated Capitol or running afoul of an influential politician who can kill their clients’ issues. The incidents, they said, occurred over a period of several years, happening in the privacy of Latvala’s Senate office or in public places like the Capitol rotunda, a bar or an elevator.
Weinstein tried to get ahead of coming avalanche of accusations
In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. Black Cube, which has branches in Tel Aviv, London, and Paris, offers its clients the skills of operatives “highly experienced and trained in Israel’s elite military and governmental intelligence units,” according to its literature.
Spacey blames abusive childhood for sex problems
Today Spacey's reputation lies in tatters. He has announced he will seek psychological help to tackle his demons, but his career is effectively finished.
His award-winning Netflix series House Of Cards has been abruptly terminated amid reports that eight members of the show's crew have accused him of sexual misconduct.
And the man who single-handedly saved London's Old Vic theatre during his 11 years as the famous playhouse's artistic director has been dumped by his agent.
Fotos emerged detailing one of Spacey's gay encounters
As Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey is facing growing allegations of sexually assaulting teenage boys, DailyMailTV has uncovered nearly two-decades-old pictures of the House of Cards star cuddling and massaging a young man in a public park
They were taken the day before Spacey won his Best Actor award for the 1999 movie American Beauty and years before he came out as gay on October 29.
The intimate pictures show Spacey, then 41, taking the unidentified 21-year-old male model into the hills above Topanga, California, close to where the star grew up.
We recently spent $2500 on a young Black Angus bull. We put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn't even look at a cow. I was beginning to suspect he was gay, if that's possible for a bull.
Anyhow, I had the Vet come have a look at him. He said the bull was very healthy, but possibly a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once a day.
Holy crap! The bull started to service the cows within two days. All of my cows! Hell, he even broke through the fence and bred all my neighbor's cows! He's on his way to servicing every cow in the county. It's incredible - He's been breeding just about everything in sight. He's like a machine!
I don't know what in hell was in the pills the Vet gave him but they kind of taste like peppermint.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Keeping up their trend of inviting never-Trump Republican politicians on the show, the liberal hosts at ABC’s The View welcomed Arizona Senator Jeff Flake ...Republican junior senator from Arizona, elected in 2012. Prior to that he was a U.S. Representative for twelve years... with open arms, on Monday’s show. After he used the Senate floor two weeks ago to lambast President Trump while announcing his retirement, the Arizona senator was ready to continue his media friendly tour, and The View was only happy to give it to him.
Host Meghan McCain introduced Flake as a "family friend" saying she was "heartbroken" to see him go, since Congress needs "more men in office like [him] right now." After loud cheers and applause from the audience, (also the reaction when Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... was on the show last week, the complete opposite treatment of what any other Republican guest gets on the show,) an impressed Flake remarked:
"If we had an audience like this in the Senate gallery I would never leave!" he joked.
McCain continued her gushy remarks about Flake, noting he had never been a Trump supporter, and asking him why he was retiring now.
The Republican senator explained that he could not win re-election with Trump in office, because he didn’t agree with his positions. Flake dismissed his dismally low approval rating as result of the Trump phenomena:
Let me just say, the honor of my lifetime is to be in the Senate especially as junior senator to Senator McCain. It’s been wonderful. But I felt that I could not run the kind of race that I would need to run to be competitive. I could not speak out as I am now and as I have been over the past several months. There is no way you can be competitive in a Republican primary particularly in a state like Arizona right now if you don't agree with the president's positions or if you don’t condone his behavior.
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BS.
You are a Democrat lite, not a Republican and certainly not a conservative.
Flake, you missed the zeitgeist of the times. A critical mass of Americans now understands that the debate is not and should not be whether or not the cogs in every alphabet agency clown farm get a 4.8% raise instead of a 5% raise like the Democrats want to do, it's whether the agency and those jobs should exist at all.
And the debate isn't whether or not we should keep giving millions of Americans unnecessary public sector anxiety-free and metric-free jobs in exchange for loyalty to whichever politicians gave them the jobs, bloating the size of the public "work" force by four times in two generations with no significant increase in the amount and quality of government services to show for it and paying for them with money borrowed against the future while looking the other way to let in foreigners to do the real work or not. This system cannot be tweaked, it is unsustainable and needs to be destroyed, no half-measures.
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Dave Weigel, The Washington Post: I called Jeff Flake the Sunday before the election. I said, “I have one round of questions if Hillary wins, and one if Trump wins.” And he just started laughing, saying, “Why would you bother asking the second one?” LINK
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They all go left once they get to DC. Some go further than others, but they all go left. Term limits are a start, but ultimately a much emasculated federal gummint is the only real fix.
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Based on history, you can't win political elections by telling the truth: the people want to be lie to.
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I once believed that they went left when they got to Washington, now I believe that they are like the 'token conservatives' working for news media, that they are lefties pretending to be conservative long enough to get the job.That way if the Dems win they push their agenda forward and if the 'token conservative' wins there is nobody there to stop the lefts agenda being pushed forward.
[NATION.PK] The notion that modernity comes in many forms is exemplified in the person of Saudi’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. In the latest quixotic adventure, the Crown Prince has placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! 11 princes on corruption charges; including the billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Since June, through various royal decrees, the young crown prince has consolidated his grip on government’s affairs. A display of consolidation was shown in a separate move when he recently replaced the head of the Saudi National Guard and the navy chief with the minister of economy.
These arrests along with replacing the high officials indicate an accelerated change in the kingdom that first came to light when came after Muhammad bin Salman replaced Muhammad bin Nayef as the crown prince.
All these moves, collectively, show the ruthless manner in which Muhammad bin Salman has consolidated power so far. Being the young crown prince and with so much power and authority in his hands, he’s setting himself up to rule the kingdom for a long time with no opposition.
He can be seen as one of the typical dictators of the Middle East ruling the country with the U.S approval. As many commentators and analysts see him as the new face of modernity for his liberal ideas ‐lifting the ban on women driving, indicating privatisation of oil, and initiating projects and resorts where Saudi laws don’t apply‐ his bold and authoritarian decisions provides a truer image of him.
His erratic behavior has already created a crisis in the Middle East as the war in 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... is not ending soon and the diplomatic standoff with 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... is yet to be solved.
Keeping all these contradictions and adventures initiated by the young prince, we should be prepared to expect more unpredictable moves and adventurism from the Saudi government.
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I am somewhat concerned that we may see a Lebanon-style civil war develop, with at least four factions; quasi-modern royals, paleo-royals, Sunni religious zealots, and Iranian-backed Shia (the majority, IIRC.) Best case outcome is a big improvement, but all the others border on catastrophic. Too uch, too soon?
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to the national police chief, ISIS has appointed Amin Baco as the new 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.... emir in southeast Asia following the death of Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute, leaders of two local ISIS-inspired branches, on October 16.
Amin Baco is of Malaysian nationality and pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015. He is believed to have escaped the battle of Marawi, fleeing to the countryside of Mindanao Island instead.
On October 23, the Philippine Army proclaimed full control of Marawi city after taking out the remaining ISIS garrison, exactly five months to the date since the jihadist uprising began.
Aside from Baco, the Philippine military is also on the lookout for Abdulla Hapilon, the son of killed Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... (ISIS franchise group) leader Isnilon Hapilon.
"I gave the direction to our ground commanders that once we we get Amin Baco and Hapilon, we have broken the chain of command for ISIS in Mindanao," Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez said on Monday.
No official statement has been provided by ISIS on Amin Baco’s alleged promotion.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Paleostinian Authority has openly accused the Israeli regime of supporting terrorist groups in Syria, specifically in the Golan Heights. The accusation comes after Tel Aviv threatened on Friday to directly intervene on Syrian soil in order to "protect" a Syrian Druze village close to the de facto Israeli border.
On Friday, an elaborate attack by forces of Evil from the former 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 .. ... Front on the Syrian town of Hader left nine people dead and 23 maimed. Hader, mainly populated by members of the Druze religious community, was hit by a boom-mobile, followed by an exchange of gunfire between forces of Evil and troops of the Syrian army.
Following the attack, the Israeli regime issued a declaration that it was considering direct military intervention in order to allegedly "protect" the villagers from further harm. The news was received with considerable outrage, as Hader is currently in the hands of pro-government forces. The Druze community of Syria, from which recently deceased Major General Issam Zahreddine hailed, is overwhelmingly supportive of the Syrian Arab Republic and President Assad.
The Israeli statement was met with protests by Druze in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which were dispersed by Israeli police forces.
In an official statement, the Paleostinian Authority said that Israel had "tactically retreated" from its earlier decision to "support the so-called Syrian opposition from occupying the Syrian Druze village of Hader." Furthermore, the Authority stated that Israel’s retreat came "under pressure from Druze reactions in Israel" to "the suspicious relationship between the regime in Tel Aviv" al-Nusra terrorists, who are part of the al-Qaeda organization.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, the Syrian al-Qaeda branch and a couple Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) factions gathered all available fighters for a major joint counter-offensive in the northeastern countryside of Hama.
Targeting a rural area just north of the M42 Highway that was captured by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in recent weeks, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS/Al-Qaeda) and the FSA’s Jaish al-Nasr and Central Division managed to retake the towns of al-Baleel and Umm Turaykiyeh in the afternoon, reportedly using a chemical substance to kick off the offensive.
In the evening hours, jihadist forces also overran the neighboring village of Umm Khazaym. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... a SAA military source told al-Masdar News moments ago that opposition claims of any further gains were false.
Pictures of the counter-offensive show jihadists gathering for the attack and posing for pictures in the newly captured area. A couple of the photos, published online by the FSA and HTS respectively, even show the exact same fighters, indicating that the groups are operating shoulder-to-shoulder on the battlefield
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It's evil and evil vs evil and evil.
Sort of like a pro wrestling event but with guns and stuff.
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According to other reports, some of these COMMISSIONED guys went to sea without actual training, but with DVDs they were supposed to watch.
Can a sailor reject a deployment if the guys steering the boat don't know how to steer the boat?
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Many, many occasions training OP teams in new tech when the senior troops didn’t bother with the lectures, material, tests or lab. Didn’t want to play the common man I guess.
IIRC those ships have guns and missiles, what happens when someone screws up the controls for those?
I'm flashing on that scene from "Independence Day" where Randy Quaid pushes the wrong button and launches a missile while on the ground.
"I picked the wrong day to quit drinking."
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Not really all that comfortable with readiness status of our military.
If every one of our sailors (and I doubt the issue is exclusive to the USN) aren't trained well enough to manage their charges and charglings in their sleep, how will they perform under the pressure of warfare?
That worked well. They're all gonna scream to the heavens again in a couple days. Listen for it. [AMERICANTHINKER] One anonymous wit posted on the internet "Top Reasons For The Low Protest Turnout on November 4th":
Mom said I had to be home before dinner.
My unicorn is sick.
The pepper spray still burns from last time.
Mom threw out my ISIS mask.
[I] didn't have any clean "Hello Kitty" panties to wear.
Protesting is too much like work.
[I'm] still waiting for Soros to pay me for the last protest.
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I heard that in order to pay for the bus to the location of the start of the war, and since their parents said "No, you are still grounded!" they would have to do something Fascist like sell girl scout cookies. (joking, they actually realized they hate getting shot in the nuts by beanbags.)
There is no final success, only struggle, as long as the education, entertainment, financial services, and public employee industries have financial and philosophical energy directed towards corrupting our youth and extracting money from the truly productive.
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Grom does get it. The left has been trying to dismantle a country and culture for a long time. You can't keep hammering and tearing down the culture of a country for decades without having a bad effect.
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and on to ball diamonds to take out Republican Representatives...
and in next door yards to break ribs and puncture lungs of a Republican Senator
and...
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And the crappy turnout will paradoxically dishearten the harmless ones and further radicalize the dangerous ones.
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Hate to think we're not going to have anymore of these videos. What's Kaepernick going to do with himself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZWZOUmkVN4
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I think Kaper ended up losing about five yards on that carry.
[PJMEDIA] Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was assaulted at his Bowling Green, Ky., home on Friday and sustained minor injuries. According to police, Rene Boucher has been enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for the assault. Boucher is a 59-year-old anesthesiologist who supports Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... (I-Vt.) on universal health care and has widely shared his fierce opposition to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Among other things, Boucher wrote on Facebook, "May Robert Mueller fry Trump's gonads."
Paul also got caught up in the infamous attack at the Republican practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in June, when a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire, seriously injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). Paul seems unable to catch a break.
"On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3:21 p.m., KSP Troopers responded to the residence of Rand Paul in Warren County, in reference to a report of an assault," Kentucky State Police said in a news release Saturday. "Upon their arrival, it was determined that Rene Boucher had intentionally assaulted Paul causing a minor injury." A record from Warren County Regional Jail confirmed that Boucher was booked at 8:51 p.m. Friday. Neighbors report that Sen. Paul was mowing his lawn at the time of the attack and that the two neighbors have been embroiled in an ongoing dispute.
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They were neighbors. The civil lawsuit will remove Boucher's name on that deed
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This guy who attacked Paul can't be particularly analytical. Paul has been in the same camp (though coming from another direction) as the other GOP senators who have derailed several of Trump's legislative goals so far.
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Perp Sounds like he's been experimenting with his work tools.
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Civil sue the turd for lifelong pain and PTSD infliction.
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How long until Senator Paul will be able to return to negotiating and voting in the Senate? In the meantime, the Republicans will be down both his energy and his vote, preventing who knows how many initiatives.
And how much was prevented in the House after the other Bernie Bro shot up the Republican softball team?
[LawNewz] A woman lost her job after giving President Donald Trump the finger. Juli Briskman was off-duty when she was riding a bicycle past the president’s motorcade, and gave him the one-finger salute. The greeting was caught on camera, and the image soon went viral. Briskman herself then used it as a profile picture on Facebook and Twitter. That last part, apparently, was too much for her employer, government contractor Akima LLC. Within days, they fired her, Briskman told HuffPost.
"They said, ’We’re separating from you,'" Briskman told reporter Jennifer Bendery. "Basically, you cannot have ’lewd’ or ’obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ’obscene.’’"
While Briskman wasn’t working at the time she did this, and she doesn’t mention where she works in her social media profiles, the company told her it could hurt their business. The terms of her employment were at-will, so the company was within their right to do what they pleased.
Still, Briskman believes that the company hasn’t exactly been consistent with their lewdness policy, as a male coworker once posted on Facebook calling someone else ""a fucking Libtard asshole." Briskman said that employee kept his job after deleting the comment.
"How is that fair?" she asked. "Life is unfair."
- John F.Kennedy
Briskman said this wasn’t the first time she flipped off the motorcade, and despite losing her job, she does not regret what she did.
"I’m angry about where our country is right now. I am appalled. This was an opportunity for me to say something."
She says now that she’s looking for work again, she hopes to get a job with an advocacy group like PETA.
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her employer is a govt contractor
this is similar to saying "Coke Sucks" when you work for Coca Cola
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There's probably a job for Juli Briskman with the DNC.
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It's OK for her to give Trump's motorcade the finger and play it up in social media, she feels, but just let some guy call her a dumb b*tch in front of everyone in a meeting and see how she feels about that.
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she hopes to get a job with an advocacy group like PETA.
Perfect place for this cow.
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Best part.
No one knew who had flipped the finger to Don. She told her employers who promptly fired the idiot on the spot. Marched her out of the building. Bye.
A steady paint chip diet is never good as it brings out the true liberals.
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Eh. Without a link from her to the company, how is it going to hurt business? Sauce for the goose and all that. I and the UW administration differ dramatically on a number of things, but I don't claim to represent them: it isn't their business.
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[Al Jazeera] Yemenis have denounced 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 decision to close the country's land, air and sea ports, calling it an "unnecessary and dangerous act of collective punishment" that puts millions of civilians at risk and exacerbates the plight of the country's most vulnerable.
Yemenis are now being collectively punished for the actions of a few Houthis.
The kingdom, which is currently leading a coalition of Sunni Arab states in bombing Yemen, said it was "immediately" closing off access to all of Yemen's ports 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.
Within hours of the missile being intercepted, Saudi Arabia launched a series of air strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, targeting the Houthi-controlled presidential palace, the national security headquarters and the interior ministry.
In a statement released via the state news agency SPA, the coalition urged Yemenis and humanitarian groups to "avoid areas of combat operations, areas populated by the Houthis, areas and ports exploited by this Iranian-controlled militia to smuggle weapons, and areas from which this militia launch its attacks against the Kingdom."
"To address vulnerabilities," the coalition said, "... it has been decided to temporarily close all Yemeni ground, air, and sea ports".
Yemen's national airline, Yemenia, which is jointly owned by Saudi Arabia, said it would no longer fly out of Aden and Seiyoun, areas in south 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... that are under the control of the coalition.
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[Yahoo] Harvey Weinstein hired journalists and highly trained ex-spies and military personnel who used fake identities to try to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, The New Yorker reported Monday.
Angered by the discovery, the woman reportedly started to hit her husband. The cabin crew intervened but were unable to calm the situation.
[Breitbart] A review of FBI Director James Comey’s professional history and relationships shows that the Obama cabinet leader ‐ now under fire for his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton ‐ is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. His personal and professional relationships ‐ all undisclosed as he announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton ‐ reinforce bipartisan concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
[THEHILL] Thanks to ObamaCare, a family health insurance policy bought on the health insurance exchange can cost the same or more than leasing a 2017 Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren or even a Rolls-Royce. 
[Al Jazeera] Zim-bob-we's information minister has announced the dismissal of Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president for showing "traits of disloyalty".
North Korea
[NATION.PK] Minister for Foreign Affairs Khawaja Asif says Pakistain`s effective counter terrorism efforts have dismantled the surge of terrorist networks, reported Radio Pakistain.
[THEHILL] The American Psychological Association (APA) criticized President Trump for saying the Sunday mass shooting at a Texas church was a "mental health" problem and not about guns.
[THEHILL] Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin on Monday said he does not consider the former Air Force service member identified as the gunman in a Texas mass shooting as a veteran, and that he would not have had access to mental health help from the department.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] One anonymous wit posted on the internet "Top Reasons For The Low Protest Turnout on November 4th":
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
"They said, ’We’re separating from you,'" Briskman told reporter Jennifer Bendery. "Basically, you cannot have ’lewd’ or ’obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ’obscene.’’"
