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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Again, Psycho Mass Shooter at a School
Should be War on Terror but I think not in the conventional sense - this is yet another case of a nut wanting to created terror for his personal infamy, (I think. Unless his name turns out to be Mohammed.)
Five dead, seven scenes being investigated after Rancho Tehama shooting
Johnston said they do not have an accurate count of all those who have been injured. Johnston added they know that the shooter was engaged by officers shortly after arrival and they believe the shooter was killed by two officers who engaged with him.
A witness named Tiffany, who operates Coffee Addiction Coffee Shop near the school, told KRCR News Channel 7 she heard 90-100 shots fired.
Moved to Lurid Crime Tales at 10:00 p.m. ET because it looks like another nut with a history of violence, not a jihadi. Five dead, including killer Kevin Janson Neal, ten injured after the killer was unable to get into the locked-down school, and went elsewhere to get his shooting on. Some members of Mr. Neal's family are missing, with the hint that Mr. Neal may be responsible.


Posted by: Glenmore || 11/14/2017 14:43 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mental illness and terrorism are linked, but not the same. News coverage of incidents is definitely provoking berserk outbursts like this. More to come, for sure.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/14/2017 16:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Sociopathic Schizophrenia
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently his neighbors report he'd been shooting hundreds of rounds, probably in his neighborhood. He was not, apparently, arrested for the issue. Whether his neighbors didn't report it or the cops didn't follow up...or there wasn't actually a law about discharge of a fire arm within the jurisdiction....
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/14/2017 17:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Military vehicles 'heading towards Zimbabwe capital' amid political purge
Military vehicles have been seen heading towards the Zimbabwean capital Harare after a military chief warned the army could "step in" amid a political row.

On Monday, the head of the armed forces General Constantino Chiwenga demanded an end to a purge in the ruling ZANU-PF party after the sacking of the country's vice president Emmerson Mnangangwa.

General Chiwenga said his forces may intervene if the removal from influential positions of key figures in Zimbabwe's 1970s liberation wars goes on.

Mr Mnangagwa, 75, a veteran of the liberation wars, had been viewed as a probable successor to 93-year-old Robert Mugabe before the president fired him on 6 November.

His sacking appeared to pave the way for Mr Mugabe's 52-year-old wife Grace to succeed him.
Well OK then...
Posted by: Spot || 11/14/2017 11:52 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I'd appreciate some help in figuring our just who the heck I'm supposed to be rooting for here...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/14/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Whoever is the winner, the general population is still scr*wed.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/14/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I can't see any good guys.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/14/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Sixty to seventy thousand years of brutal tribal tyranny interrupted by a microscopic period of western colonialism. Appears they're back on track with their true legacy. Bugger on !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 16:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Ian Smith smiles from the grave...
Posted by: borgboy || 11/14/2017 16:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Appears they're back on track with their true legacy.

But this time around with Ak-47s.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 16:34 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
UCLA Basketball Players Freed By China After Trump Intervenes
[Daily Caller] LiAngelo Ball and his two UCLA basketball teammates were freed from Chinese custody early Tuesday after President Donald Trump intervened on their behalf.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill had all boarding a Delta flight home after being detained for over a week. They slipped out of possibly serving up to ten years for allegedly stealing from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China.

Trump spoke directly to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the players during his trip to Asia, and now they’re out less than 24 hours later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 08:53 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cheap positive publicity for Xi, with a possible upside attaboy chip for him to use in later negotiations. We get these clowns back. Trump acts like Trump. I have seen articles harrumphing about not leaving Americans detained in foreign hellholes. There is something to that, but if these guys did the crime, they need to be punished, not bailed out and feted.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/14/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going to have to say that Trump is making a big mistake here. I think we should have left them there.

I dunno what color these assholes were, but they were just a bunch of Entitled Western Race Retards who are gonna suffer a lot when they're older as our civilization finally goes bankrupt.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/14/2017 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  I won't believe it until I see it on BET. /sarc
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/14/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  stealing from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China.

Idiots probably thought the goods were authentic. Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm sure the 'authentic' and 'inauthentic' goods come from the same assembly line in the same factory.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/14/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7 
I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).


In a nutshell, they believed all the bullshit ladled out in history class about the main source of evil in this world being because of the Confederacy, the Nazis, and Boss Hawg and the Duke Boys, Bo and Luke. And then proceeded to steal worthless trinkets with a high price tag because of its worthless designer label.

The Party killed more people than Hitler in the process of consolidating their power, in a population of people they didn't traditionally think of as racial inferiors.

In order for me to go to UCLA, I'd need about 60,000 dollars a year.

These are entitled viciously retarded people.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/14/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's see if they take a knee after this.
Posted by: newc || 11/14/2017 13:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Thinking they could get away with it (not be spotted) makes me question both their innate and cognitive abilities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Tall and black is no way to sneak around China, son.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||

#11  President Trump should have let due process take its course, then if he quietly wanted to intervene, then fine. These UCLA b-ball team mates needed to have a come to Xi (sus) moment.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/14/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||

#12  The all-around propaganda value of this being what it is, who's to say the "victims" weren't in on it too?

I recently read somewhere that there's a buck to be made outside a Paris LV store (Place Vendome?) from cash-clutching Chinese tourists looking to get around a two thingies per customer limit.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/14/2017 19:02 Comments || Top||

#13  I'd say they don't come home with the intended bragging rights.
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 20:50 Comments || Top||

#14  Considering the $ cost (delay/extra flight), the institutional "embarrassment" and Ball being involved, I'd think "STFU, idiots" would be in order
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 21:01 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF deploys Iron Dome, raises alert amid Gaza terror threat
[IsraelTimes] Deployment of missile defenses comes 2 weeks after military destroyed an Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
attack tunnel, leading to death of at least 12 of the group's operatives.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the anti-missile systems had been installed in central Israel, but would not elaborate on their exact location, citing army policy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 08:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad (Palestian)


Amid war of words, IDF nabs top Islamic Jihad official in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Arrest comes after rare warning to terror group over suspected plot to carry out attack against Israel in retaliation for Gazoo tunnel kaboom

Israeli forces tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
a top commander of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group in the West Bank early Monday morning, a day after Jerusalem warned the group amid rising tensions over Gazoo.

The Shin Bet security service confirmed that Tariq Qa’adan was picked up by the Israel Defense Forces in Arrabeh, southwest of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.

Qa’adan serves as a senior officer in the Gazoo-based terror group’s West Bank wing, the Shin Bet said.

A Shin Bet official said Qa’adan was arrested "for being a member of a terrorist group."

IDF soldiers also arrested 13 other Paleostinian suspects in overnight raids in the West Bank, the army said.

Qa’adan’s arrest came two days after Israel released a stern warning to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, saying that it was aware the terror group was planning to carry out an attack in retaliation to the IDF’s demolition of one of its attack tunnels that crossed from Gazoo into Israeli territory last month.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 08:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad (Palestian)

#1  Wonder who tipped the IDF off?
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/14/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone eliminating the competition?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/14/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Mahmoud the Weasel
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Single IS group plot behind string of French, Belgian attacks: Prosecutor
[AlAhram] The Gay Paree and Brussels attacks, a botched shooting on a high-speed train and a foiled plot in Belgium may have all been part of one big 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 operation, Belgium's federal prosecutor said Monday.

Speaking on the second anniversary of the November 13 Gay Paree attacks, chief prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw confirmed for the first time what Sherlocks have been saying privately about the possible links.

"We indeed realise that Verviers, Thalys, November 13 and the March 22 attacks may have been one big operation by ISIS," the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, Van Leeuw told Belgian radio.

Verviers is a city in French-speaking Belgium where an armed police raid on January 15, 2015 -- shortly after an attack on the Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine in Gay Paree -- led to the dismantling of a cell suspected of plotting to attack the police.

The investigation found that the Verviers cell was directed from abroad by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Moroccan Belgian who fought for IS in Syria and played a key role in the November 13 Gay Paree attacks before he was killed by a French police raid days later.

Abaaoud is also believed to have ordered the botched attack by Moroccan gunman Ayoub El Khazzani on the high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Gay Paree on August 21, 2015.

Three men linked to Abaaoud were charged in the last few weeks in La Belle France and Belgium in connection with the Thalys attack.

"We have to dig," Van Leeuw said, adding the investigations were getting harder as detectives no longer had access to some telephone data.

Investigators said the November 13 gun and kabooms in Gay Paree showed that they were largely organised from Belgium by Abaaoud's network who were acting on orders from the IS high command in Syria and Iraq.

The attacks cost the lives of 130 people.

Investigators said other members believed to have been from the same Belgian-French cell carried out the March 22, 2016 suicide kabooms in Belgium that killed 32 people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 08:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The train shooting was "botched" by golly. The perp forgot to find out if there were Americans around.
Never forget to find out it Americans are around.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/14/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||

#2  As I recall, his gun jammed, Richard. If it hadn't, the Americans would have been a bit bloodied before they subdied him, and others would have died.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 21:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
NYPD Deploying Heavily-Armed Anti-Terror Squads to Major Sports, Concert Venues
Comforting to know.
[CBSNY] The NYPD will be rolling out additional security around Madison Square Garden and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as the holidays approach.

The department has trained local officers in the Midtown South and 78th precincts and have armed them with semi-automatic Colt M4 Commando rifles, 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa reported.

The officers are familiar with the venues and the neighborhoods, and are designed to quickly respond to combat a terror threat in the venues.

The officers have already had two weeks of training and would augment the specially earmarked Strategic Response Group that roam the city.

Similar patrols are expected next year at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field and other summer or outdoor venues.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill ordered increased security measures after a jacket wallah killed 22 people at Manchester Arena in England in May, the New York Post reported.

The news comes weeks after eight people were killed and a dozen others injured in a terrorist attack along a bike path in Lower Manhattan. Sayfullo Saipov is accused of driving a rented pickup truck down the West Side bike path, plowing into bicyclists and pedestrians for an entire mile before crashing into a school bus. He is facing terror charges.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 08:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Having walked the streets of Manhattan during afternoon rush hours, I think there is no way the police can protect pedestrians against truck drivers, short of barring trucks (or pedestrians, take your pick) from Manhattan.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/14/2017 16:24 Comments || Top||

#2  It's NYC - why would you even want to protect people? (Especially Yankee/Giant fans.)
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/14/2017 16:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess this is easier than rounding up bad guys.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Plus they get to catch a game and get paid
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||

#5  If the NYPD id deploying officers to Madison Square Garden and/or Barclays Center, that would be a major clue that perhaps, just perhaps, it might be a good idea not to go there.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 11/14/2017 18:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe. At a Nets game, could be there for the players.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AL Secretary of State: If State GOP Pulls Support for Moore and He Gets the Most Votes, Election Would Be ‘Null and Void'
[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "Fox News @ Night," Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said that the Alabama Republican Party can formally pull its support for its Senate nominee Judge Roy Moore, and if this happens and Moore still gets the most votes, the election would be null and void.
This coming from an admitted philanderer. Tiny Heflin Alabama could not hold this man, he obviously has Washington aspirations.
Merrill said Moore could withdraw from the race, or the state Republican Party could formally pull its support. He further stated that if that happens and Moore receives the most votes, "our election would be declared null and void, and Governor Ivey would have to call another special election, and we’d start the process all over again."

Merrill commented on the prospect of Governor Ivey delaying the certification of the election results, and said he would be "very surprised," if this happened, seeing as it would be "unprecedented in the history of the state for that to occur after the results of the people were made known. It would be very unusual."

He added that Ivey has already changed the election date already, but that was done before the process had begun.

Merrill concluded that if the current seatholder, Senator Luther Strange (R-AL), resigned before the election, "[T]he governor would certainly have to appoint someone to fill that term that Senator Strange is currently completing. Of course, the way that our code reads is that the individual who is in that role would continue to serve until at such a time that the senator was duly elected and duly sworn in to fulfill the commitment as the junior senator from the state of Alabama. So, in the instance that you just described, Senator Strange would no longer be in the picture. However, that individual who was in that role would continue until this election was completed and certified."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 07:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who are these people, these so-called voters, and what do their wishes matter ? [sarc off]

The 45 year old accusations ...'week old accusations' (corrected per Rob at #4) right or wrong, I am now WELL BEYOND these questions. The rights of the voter and our democracy has eclipsed this tawdry issue, along with it's bringers.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  They believe that they're above the law, and that they, not the voters, know best. Lamppost and rope time for all these so-called public servants.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/14/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Paging Luther Strange. Luther Strange to the white courtesy phone, please.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/14/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  They're not 45-year-old accusations; they're week-old accusations of events 45 years ago. There's no historical support for them.

A very salient point. Correction made. Thanks Rob.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/14/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  the Alabama Republican Party can formally pull its support for its Senate nominee Judge Roy Moore, and if this happens and Moore still gets the most votes, the election would be null and void.

Wait a minute "Who decides elections? It's the voters--right?"

I don't know much about Moore but it seems like momentum is building from both the uniparty for him being toast.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Its my understanding that he's much like Trump - which explains why the uniparty hates him so much.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/14/2017 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  We had accusations back in '92, didn't stop the Donks electing such man. Why should anyone be bothered now? Yes, that's right, its all about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:56 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess they, the rulers, got the voters' mood right.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#9  both Trump and McConnell supported Luther Strange in the primary

I personally like Luther Strange just because of his name - its part DC, part Marvel
Posted by: lord garth || 11/14/2017 9:52 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't think there's any question this is a hit job. Nor do I think there's any question Moore will be ousted one way or another.

I simply hope Moore sues his accuser's. There's a high standard of malicious intent needed for public figures, but this? When the stories fall apart, this will meet those requirements.
Posted by: Charles || 11/14/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#11  That signature looks suspect. It's written with two pen inks.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/14/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||

#12  It's all about Morals.

He may have kissed the Girls instead of raping them or drowning them in the Chappaquiddick River.
Posted by: newc || 11/14/2017 13:38 Comments || Top||


#14  I am sorry, but if the State GOP pulls support for Moore, then he would be running as an Independent, no?

Also, what Alabama law permits nullification of an election if 'the wrong person won it?' What would constitute 'wrong'? What would keep the Democrats from nullifying the election of 'the wrong people'? Please cite statute and section, Mr. Merrill, or be silent.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/14/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#15  I've come to not believe anything the Donks or Rinos say. I'd do just the opposite of what they say.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#16  I think if the smear job gets exposed its all over for Mitch
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/14/2017 16:20 Comments || Top||

#17  I think if the smear job gets exposed its all over for Mitch Posted by Bright Pebbles

Ok, so for fast forward, which keys to do I hit ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||

#18  Reminds me of all the shenanigans to stop Trump from getting the nom, then the win, then electors' votes, then the final cert in January.

Hopefully Capt. O'Hagan won't shoot me for saying "shenanigans".
Posted by: charger || 11/14/2017 16:46 Comments || Top||

#19  The Wrong Republicans would rather lose the seat than see it go to a Real Republican.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/14/2017 19:25 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Tribal Justice Awaits Returning Iraqis who Joined IS
[AnNahar] In the unforgiving deserts of Iraq, there is just one way to deal with defeated members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group who try to come home -- tribal justice. No pardons are possible among tribes which have agreed among themselves to treat with the utmost severity those members who became jihadists.

As for the families of IS members, many have already fled, fearing reprisals.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 04:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  As it should be.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:33 Comments || Top||

#2  "You chose...poorly"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 18:52 Comments || Top||


U.S. Admits Possible Role in Arming Iranian-Backed Militants in Iraq
h/t Instapundit
U.S. officials acknowledged Iranian-backed forces in Iraq could be using American-made arms, an admission that comes amid growing concern on Capitol Hill the U.S. government is quietly working with militia fighters in Iraq who are directly tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
No sh*t?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 03:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  This article is from the Free Beacon.
It's biased and the title is out of context
Posted by: Goober Threretle3668 || 11/14/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Prior administration?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Cough-Clapper
Posted by: Voldemort Threrenter9997 || 11/14/2017 18:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
From One Frenzy to the Next
h/t Instapundit
[AmGreatness] America is in another of its Salem moments. Frenzy is almost a living, breathing monster. It moves from host to host, fueled by rumor, gossip, and self-righteous furor.

The Greeks knew well of the transitory nature of these mass panics. They claimed such fits were inspired by the Maniae, the three daughters of Night who were the goddesses of insanity, madness, and crazed frenzy. We’ve seen all three of them in action throughout the past year.

...For about six months, cable news shows, the internet, and the major newspapers ginned up the charge of "Russian collusion"‐as a means of explaining the otherwise inexplicable and unacceptable defeat of Hillary Clinton by someone without either political or military experience.

...The hysteria then moved on to the once dormant NFL "take a knee" protests, which were reignited by Trump’s public castigation of the players.

Soon the players’ incoherent messaging was passed off by the media as some sort of grassroots Rosa Parks civil rights movement. But as viewers turned their channels and stadia emptied, the hysterical outbursts began to cool.

...About the same time came the statue hysteria. America woke up one day and decided that century-old statues of Confederate generals or archetypical southern soldiers were proof of pernicious racism. So they had to be removed‐by the dead of night and by the mob if necessary. Once these iconic impediments were gone, then social justice would be achieved, as if mute stones, not beating human hearts, explain deteriorating racial relations.
IMCO, the competition for principal victim group status is quite fierce - and, lately, "African-Americans" been losing to bearded men with vagina envy
...The next collective furor arose over Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sometime in October 2017, the progressive film titan was abruptly condemned as sick, evil, and unhinged‐after 30 years of common knowledge that he routinely sought to use his power of hiring and firing to leverage or force sexual gratification.

Once Weinstein’s progressive armor was pierced and he was exposed as a groper, assaulter, and likely rapist, then dozens, perhaps hundreds of similar stories of powerful media and film men surfaced. Some were not only pronounced guilty of past consensual though asymmetrical sexual relationships but of abusive sexual acts and cruelty. Apparently, the mostly progressive male entertainment and media hierarchy had long equated the 1960s-era liberal legacy of "sexual freedom" with a blank check for their own sexual coercion and phallic exhibitionism. We all had assumed a continuity of Hollywood culture of updated Harry Cohns, but Hollywood’s preemptive moral finger-pointing at others apparently allowed their hypocrisies to stay in-house.

As the collective furor grew, the net widened. More stories, but from 10, 20, 30, and 40 years past, surfaced‐calibrated to the current celebrity or perceived visibility of the perpetrator. The charges initially also ranged from horrific (and quite believable) allegations of rape and gross groping and assault to what used to be called male-power rudeness and bullying‐and eventually including even the occasional crudity and stupidity that can accompany seduction.

...The Russians always liked to interfere and gum up American elections. It is, after all, the credo of Vladimir Putin to be mostly against what America is mostly for. But as the Obama Administration warned in a dig at Donald Trump (shortly before the election, when it was sure that Hillary Clinton was to be its picked successor), such Russian attempts at election sabotage usually were irrelevant and largely impotent. Instead, what fed the furor was not collusion facts per se, but the idea of yet another post-election weapon to take Trump out before he could dismantle the Obama bureaucratic and executive-order legacy.

Certainly, it is bothersome that the racist and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, the brilliant but diabolical slave-trading Nathan Bedford Forrest, is still worshiped in bronze and stone. But the stone smashers lacked the education and ethics to differentiate individual Confederates like a Forrest from a Longstreet, and so smashed boldly on.

The distance from Lincoln to Lee narrows to almost nothing. Every mute statue becomes a sinner and fair game for the more authentic revolutionary to outdo the latest violent act.

Dozens, perhaps hundreds of women have had their entertainment careers ruined by choosing to fight off the crude assaults of the Weinsteins and their ilk, who sometimes gravitate to the top of entertainment and media, masking their depravity by claiming progressive exemptions and penances. But at this point in the frenzy, most Americans cannot keep up with whether a puffed up and arrogant Dustin Hoffman three decades ago was an uncouth potty mouth in his celebrity trailer as he sought to seduce vulnerable women. Most of the public had long assumed such creepy Hollywood behavior anyway.

What then causes often legitimate writs abruptly to explode into collective fits that end up either ensnaring the innocent or taking legitimate concerns beyond human reason?

...History is full of such frenzies‐the stasis on Corcyra, the Spanish Inquisition, the Committee of Public Safety, or the strange career of Joe McCarthy. They all can start over some legitimate grievance and all can quickly turn manic. And as we play each fit out, expect the madness to come full circle as it always does, when the spell wears off and 51 percent of people finally revolt at the very thought of tearing down Washington’s statue, or lumping together a criminal rapist with a loudmouthed sexist of 20 years past, or envisioning a multimillionaire spoiled, has-been quarterback as the next Jackie Robinson‐or treating a fake-news smear document as if it were the New Testament.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 03:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Couple observations.

-People who want to kill statues in the middle of the night really want to kill actual people in the middle of the night.

-Women and minorities have gone full primitive pagan and have convinced themselves that if they throw enough white males into the volcano then they will all have wonderful lives with all the material things they've told themselves they deserve
Posted by: no mo uro || 11/14/2017 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  -Women and minorities have gone full primitive pagan and have convinced themselves that if they throw enough white males into the volcano then they will all have wonderful lives with all the material things they've told themselves they deserve

Communist inspired social anarchy has been brewing for decades. The attack on statuary was symbolic. They've now moved on to the 'live fire exercise.'

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Call me when they've breached the Bill Clinton Line.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Quietly, The U.S. Builds Its First Army Base Inside Israel
[Hot Air] In a little-noticed but significant move by the Trump administration, the United States has begun construction on its first military base within Israel.

The permanent facility flying the U.S. flag will be independently operated by American troops on the IDF Air Defense School grounds in southern Israel’s Negev Desert near Beersheba. Its mission was described as defending against rocket and missile attacks.

But it’s also both a symbolic gesture of the deep political and defense solidarity that both countries’ leaders have stressed and a substantive one, since it places an unknown number of American military members on the ground where hostile fire has fallen. Both Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have vowed that bilateral relations are now the closest in history.

Groundbreaking for the isolated, new U.S. base was first reported earlier this fall by Defense News, but attracted little immediate attention.

Speaking at the modest ceremonies, U.S. officers enigmatically called the facility Site 883 Life Support Area. "This life support area represents the first ever stationing of a U.S. Army unit on Israeli soil," said Maj. Gen. John Gronski.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 02:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, the working girls will be happy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  No! No more globalism! Bring the troops home!
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 11/14/2017 3:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Will the Hamaases target with Iranian rockets?
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2017 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Site 883 Life Support Area

Site Tripwire 883. FIFY
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Med Evac point?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Why don't we do that with the kurds?
Posted by: irishrageboy || 11/14/2017 18:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Why don't we do that with the kurds?

Lack of access to the sea. Reinforcement and resupply via lumbering air transports is no picnic. Especially when they have to fly through multiple SAM belts.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/14/2017 18:43 Comments || Top||


Government
Feds Collected Record Taxes in October; Still Ran $63 Billion Deficit
(CNSNews.com) - The federal government hauled in record total tax revenues in the month of October, taking in a total of $235,341,000,000 during the first month of fiscal 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.

The federal government also brought in record individual income tax revenues for the month of October, taking in $127,832,000,000 in individual income taxes.

Despite its record total tax intake of $235,341,000,000 for the month of October, the federal government still ran a deficit of $63,214,000,000 for the month because it spent $298,555,000,000.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 02:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I ran into DEEP STATE today. So allow me to try to paint the picture...

A friend and I came up with an idea and decided to patent it. I read a 700 page book on how to patent it yourself and so I created the best patent I could possibly come up with from the DIY manual.

But since this was our first patent and since I live in a major city that has a patent office I decided to go there today to get them to make sure at the very least I filled out the right forms.

Entrada. Two security guards with enough weapons on them stop a Putin invasion of the city. And they demanded an ID too, after I passed the metal detector test. They pointed to a glass door where a guy was setting behind a desk and said "He's the patent guy."

I walk in and he says you are in the right place buy I can answer no questions because I am SECURITY. I replied thought these two other guys were security. He said I am patent security. He says I will call a person from upstairs to answer your questions. A lady shows up and I start to go over the forms with her and she immediately says, "I can't answer your questions, I am just the girl upstairs." So I try to simplify and I ask a very simple question about form 1. She says, "Let me go find an answer." 30 minutes later she has fallen in the toilet or something I guess so I found the answer on the internet with my phone and told the guy who is to do nothing but set there and stair at the two security people working only 30 feet away to tell her never mind.

DEEP STATE! It is so frightening to behold.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 11/14/2017 4:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, and the third security guy demanded my ID too and I swear he looked at it for a good 20 minutes. I guess he had nothing better to do.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 11/14/2017 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3  HS - the truth is that we should deport the illegal aliens, eliminate the positions for the people you encountered, and each of these people should be doing jobs that the illegal aliens do, at a vastly lower income than what their government sinecure pays.

But the Democrats have created literally millions of easy, well-paid, anxiety-free and metric-free "jobs" like theirs in order to bribe them into being loyal Democrat voters. The recent election in Virginia is the result of people like the ones you encountered in the patent office voting in an absolute panic to keep their magic paychecks. If the continuation of their magic paychecks harms you or the nation, oh well.
Posted by: no mo uro || 11/14/2017 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Proving once again that you don't have to be particularly gifted to recognize totalitarianism, but it helps in the telling.

After 8 long years of the Soetoro regime, I'm shocked and amazed the US Patent Office and the formal documentation of American exceptionalism still exists!

Excellent contributions in 1-3 above.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 no mo uro--The recent election in Virginia is the result of people like the ones you encountered in the patent office voting in an absolute panic to keep their magic paychecks.

Ya mean elections are still rigged and sold and bought?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't tell me.....but, it was a 'gun free zone' (or one of those No Firearms posting at the front door)?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:03 Comments || Top||

#7  The JFK building in downtown Boston (Federal building) is a 'gun-free zone'. Security actually confiscated a small baseball bat I had in my briefcase when I went to the IRS office there a few years ago.

I felt like saying - 'Yes, I'm going to beat the refund out of the IRS agent!'
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Did you tell security that you were going to use the little baseball bat to kill he yourself depending on how badly things went?
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Gorb - nah - they were serious as hell. Like that's going to intimidate me.

Although I admit - I do pick fights with the IRS agents about half the time, just because I like antagonizing them and /or it's pushback whenever they start getting officious or just acting like jerks. They love pushing people around but I'll be damned if they pull that shit on a CPA.

I was walking in a few late tax returns and the mini baseball bat was a little gift from the same guy. I didn't even give it a second thought until these guys told me 'We cant' allow weapons into this building'. Really - that's a weapon?
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 16:05 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sessions open to idea of Clinton Foundation special counsel
[AP] WASHINGTON ‐ Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to look into Clinton Foundation dealings and an Obama-era uranium deal, the Justice Department said Monday in responding to concerns from Republican lawmakers.

In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which is holding an oversight hearing Tuesday, the Justice Department said Sessions had directed senior federal prosecutors to "evaluate certain issues" raised by Republican lawmakers. President Donald Trump has also repeatedly called for investigations of Democrats.

The prosecutors will report to Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and recommend whether any new investigations should be opened, whether any matters currently under investigation require additional resources and whether it might be necessary to appoint a special counsel to oversee a probe, according to a letter sent to Rep. Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, the Judiciary Committee’s Republican chairman.

The letter from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd did not say what specific steps might be taken by the Justice Department to address the lawmakers’ concerns, or whether any of the matters Republicans have seized on might already be under investigation by federal authorities.
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#1  It is beyond obvious at this point that the Deep State is blackmailing Sessions into inactivity. He should be on top of this stuff, and yet he does little or nothing. We know for a fact that their spying gives them tremendous power to selectively leak about their enemies, and Sessions needs to be replaced with someone that can do the job.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 11/14/2017 3:35 Comments || Top||

#2  We know for a fact that their spying gives them tremendous power to selectively leak about their enemies

You must be referring the the 'spying' that POTUS correctly referred to at Trump Towers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  It is beyond obvious at this point that the Deep State is blackmailing Sessions into inactivity.

It's either that, and / or the DOJ employees are throwing the monkey wrenches in by sitting on their hands and doing nothing. Either way, it would be nice to leave, nuke it from orbit and start over from scratch.
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  And this: Yep, that right there
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/14/2017 16:27 Comments || Top||


Rabid Anti-Trumper Arrested in Calif. after Threatening to Go on Killing Spree
[PJ] Have you ever heard of David Kenneth Smith? Chances are you haven't ‐ he's a rabid anti-Trumper, thus his story didn't fit any convenient narrative. News of his arrest was treated as a local story with no national significance. However, if this freak had been a right-wing activist, he'd have been a front-page story in every paper in the country.

Smith, 39, was arrested in Orange County, Calif., on Nov. 2 following an investigation involving the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was charged with one felony count of making criminal threats after threatening a university professor through emails and posting threatening YouTube videos ‐ in one he talked about going on a "killing spree."

Police recovered nine loaded firearms registered to Smith after his arrest, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials.

On Nov. 1, Smith allegedly began exchanging emails with an instructor at Soka University in Aliso Viejo about disciplinary actions taken against him for smoking marijuana when he attended the university in 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 02:06 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any news on the Vegas shooter's motive ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Police said the Vegas shooter had lost tremendous amounts of money in the past year, Besoeker. And then there is the question of the anxiety meds -- we know anxiety/depression meds trigger violent ideation in some people.

Beyond that, though, nothing definitve as far as I am aware.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  And so many others waiting to explode.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/14/2017 18:02 Comments || Top||


Proving absolutely nothing - Three Roy Moore Accusers Say They're Republicans
[Daily Caller] Three of the women who have accused Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on them when they were teenagers, including both of the women who have accused Moore of sexually abusing them, are reportedly Republicans.

That Moore’s alleged victims are Republicans appears to work against the Moore campaign’s defense that the accusations are made up for political purposes.

The latest accuser, Beverly Young Nelson, says both she and her husband, who is a truck driver, are Republicans and voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 01:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Moore is a conspiracy theorist and an advocate of far-right politics. He earned significant national attention and controversy over his strongly anti-homosexual, anti-Muslim, and far-right views, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,[8][9] as well as his past ties to neo-Confederates and white nationalist groups. Moore was a leading voice in the birther movement, which promoted the debunked

Which one of these issues (or all) is what his betters don't like. The accuser is said to be a Clinton supporter and worked in her campaign. What is the actual evidence. I know Gloria Allred says things but what is the actual evidence?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Can someone start a fund me page to accuse Mitch McConnell of pedophilia? Let's see how he likes it when the FBI raids his house at 2 am.
Posted by: jpal || 11/14/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2017/11/14/something-roy-moore/
Posted by: james || 11/14/2017 18:50 Comments || Top||


Tom Steyer: Billionaire Democratic Donor was a Fusion GPS Client
[Daily Caller] Years before Fusion GPS became famous for its work on the Trump dossier, the opposition research firm worked for Tom Steyer, the billionaire Democratic donor currently waging a $20 million TV campaign to impeach President Trump.

A Daily Caller investigation reveals that in 2012, Steyer, a hedge fund chieftain and environmental activist, hired Fusion GPS and its founding partner, Glenn Simpson, to conduct an investigation to help pass a ballot initiative aimed at closing a tax loophole for California businesses and funneling money to clean energy projects.

Steyer poured $32 million into "Yes on Prop 39," a committee he formed to support ballot initiative Proposition 39. The successful campaign made Steyer a rising star in the world of Democratic politics. The party’s most generous donor in the 2016 election cycle ‐ giving more than $90 million to various political action committees ‐ Steyer is said to be considering running for political office.

The connection between Fusion GPS to Steyer and his "Yes on Prop 39" campaign has not been previously reported, and there is almost no public information linking them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 01:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funding of the dossier? Perhaps the riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma has been solved.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 1:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Good - he continues to spend good money after bad. As I've commented previously, this guy has zero political instincts and is reacting purely out of spite. Stay out of his way while he continues to destroy himself and his pot of gold.
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a term Dunning–Kruger effect for people with delusions of competence in their field of endeavor. But what is the term for people who think that competence in one area makes them universally competent - all these IT/market speculator billioneres?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 3:01 Comments || Top||

#4  prop 39 basically confiscated some corporate taxes (est. $300-500M) that would have gone to the general fund to use in energy efficiency projects in California school (K-12)
Posted by: lord garth || 11/14/2017 5:53 Comments || Top||

#5  a Fusion GPS Client My only surprise is that he doesn't own Fusion GPS.

Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  We're very busy in Washington right now doing the people's business. After the Tax Reform Act is passed, congress and the DOJ will have to have a look at this so-called research firm Fusion GPS. You'll see !

[___] Likely
[___] Unlikely
[_X_] Never fok'n happen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Fusion GPS is an equal opportunity service provider.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#8  But what is the term for people who think that competence in one area makes them universally competent

I can't name it, but lots of scientists firmly believe their brilliant insights in their area of expertise necessarily translates to brilliant insights in other fields. The legitimately brilliant Linus Pauling and his mega-doses of vitamin C comes to mind.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 9:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Cobbler, stick to your last.

Not that anyone knows what a last is anymore.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#10  TW, it’s not completely unwarranted, since applying logical and evidence based thinking to a problem often gives a better result than raw emotion. But scientists often get it wrong, even in their own field. For example, Lord Kelvin felt that x-rays would prove to be a fraud and heavier than air flight is impossible.

Hawking has a hopefully terminal case of ultracrepidarianism.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 9:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Well done, KBK.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#12  ultracrepidarianism
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#13  ultracrepidarianism

It is a well-known ism in the field of psychology/psychiatry. Wait a minute, I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#14  I look at that word, ultracrepidarianism, and immediately I know why it is not a well known or often used word.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/14/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#15  One question though: Do Steyer's TV commercials air outside of California? Are they nationwide?

I ask because as I listen to the way he speaks, his tone of voice, the totally unfounded accusations he makes and as I watch his facial expressions it seems to me this guy is way in the heck further off his rocker than all of the rest of the loonie, lefty politicians and SJWs. I think if he was wound up any tighter he'd start foaming at the mouth and require a straight jacket.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/14/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#16  An ultracrepidarian pastor
Encroached on the turf of his master:
"The law is an ass!"
Heard His canons, en masse,
As they raced to enforce the cadastre.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/14/2017 15:54 Comments || Top||

#17  Cobbler, stick to your last.

Peach please!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#18  Abu, I saw one of Steyer's spots on the satellite over the weekend.
His main lack of personality issue seems to be that he talks to people like they're his employees. Not terribly persuasive.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/14/2017 18:52 Comments || Top||

#19  "Listen, you dumb proles. What lies do I have to tell you to get you to fall in line. Don't make me spend more than I have to, dammit."
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 18:58 Comments || Top||


FBI May Be Investigating Planned Parenthood Over Dealings In Aborted Fetuses
[Daily Caller] The FBI signaled this week agents may be investigating whether Planned Parenthood’s dealings in fetal tissue were legal.

Sources told The Hill the FBI has requested documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee obtained from the committee’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue dealings. The investigation came after the Center for Medical Progress published a series of explosive videos in 2015 revealing the abortion giant was harvesting and distributing aborted baby parts for researchers.

CMP alleges Planned Parenthood was illegally profiting from the exchange of limbs and organs, and the House and Senate launched investigations into the non-profit’s practice. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley referred Planned Parenthood to the FBI at the conclusion of that investigation, saying his committee found evidence indicating the group was profiting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 01:33 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Selling human body parts usually isn't considered a 'non-profit' definition by a 'normal' IRS. Not that we've had normal for, what, a generation.?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Various FBI senior agents have been wondering why they don't have a $6000 Rolex. This is how you get one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/14/2017 18:46 Comments || Top||

#3  off the pile...

Postmodernist mystery of birth!
How humans appear here on Earth:
A moment of danger
When mom meets a stranger.
An unexplained change in her girth.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/14/2017 19:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, make THEM eat baby hearts.
See how protection averse they are then!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Labor leader: the Left forgot what it means to be Jewish
[Jpost] Zionist Union leader Avi Gabbay continued his trend of making controversial statements Monday, when he told party activists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba that "the Left forgot what it means to be Jewish."

Gabbay recalled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whispered that statement in the ear of the late Sephardi kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kadourie and was caught on camera. That October 1997 incident caused a major political uproar.

"Do you know what the Left did in response to [what Netanyahu said]?,'' Gabbay asked a questioner at the event. "It forgot what it means to be Jewish. They said 'they say it about us but now we are just liberals' but it is not true. We are Jews, and we must speak about our Jewish values."
Labor used to be Israel's biggest party - and then they became EUropean style social democrats.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 01:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's just not in Israel or the EU.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Istanbul Airport Attack Suspects on Trial over Terror
[AnNahar] Forty-six suspects -- one third of them Russian nationals -- went on trial Monday in connection with last year's triple suicide kaboom of Istanbul's main airport, an attack that killed 45 people.

They are accused of "attempting to destroy the constitutional order" and "murder", state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

They are also charged with "membership of an armed terror group" and "forming and running a terror group," said the indictment. The grave offenses mean a potential record jail term -- up to 3,342 years -- if convicted.

Anadolu said 42 of the accused, who had been under arrest, appeared in court at Silivri, outside Istanbul, in a hearing due to last four days. The other four suspects remain on the lam.

Sixteen of the accused are Russian nationals and the others are Chechen, Tunisian, Egyptian, Algerian, Syrian and Ottoman Turkish.

Those killed in the suicide kabooms at Ataturk Airport on June 28, 2016, included 19 foreigners and it was one of the worst attacks to rock The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's biggest city that year.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack but Turkey says 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 was behind the airport blasts. The court indictment also said IS "targeted the Ottoman Turkish republic."

Two of the three assailants in the massacre were identified as Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, according to court papers which did not identify the third attacker.

They are believed to be from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and entered Turkey from Syria's Raqa, IS's then de-facto capital, a month before the airport atrocities.

Ottoman Turkish media had previously identified the man who organized the attack as Akhmed Chatayev, the Chechen leader of an IS cell in Istanbul who reportedly found accommodation for the bombers.

The attackers had scouted the airport three times, on June 3, 8 and 23, according to the indictment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 00:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Amazon to produce ‘Lord of the Rings’ television series
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Amazon.com Inc has bought the global television rights to “The Lord of the Rings,” the company said on Monday, in what may be its biggest and most expensive move yet to draw viewers to its streaming and shopping club Prime.
This week: Saruman's putting on a new show at the Club, but doesn't want Gimli to be in it.
Amazon said it will produce a multi-season series that explores new storylines preceding author J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment in the famed fantasy trilogy.
This week: Sauron's been selling whiskey to the Orcs. Aragorn and Jim Hardy have to get the goods on him.
Three movies made of the trilogy in the early 2000s, filmed in New Zealand and based on Tolkien’s novels, garnered nearly $3 billion at the box office and 17 Academy Awards.
This week: Gandalf accidentally turns himself into a hat rack.
New Line Cinema, which distributed the film trilogy, the Tolkien Estate and Trust, and publisher HarperCollins will work with Amazon to produce the television series. Amazon did not say how much it was paying for the rights.
This week: Rosie thinks she might be pregnant. Sam tells her he's too young to settle down...
The project underscores a shift in Amazon’s video programming. Its studio started in 2010 with a focus on unique shows beloved by critics, such as “Transparent,” about a father coming out as transgender to his family.
This week: Pippin's barrel of Old Toby is missing. He suspects Bilbo.
That was a winning formula for attracting Hollywood talent, awards and buzz, though not Prime subscribers around the world.
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#1  This week Aragorn lectures the Hobbits on the evil of pipeweed
Next week Jesse Underhill forms the Shire Association for the Advancement of Orcs Bringing all peoples of Middle Earth under one large Rainbow.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/14/2017 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Legolas & Gimli as a gay couple? Frodo trans-gendered? Sauron = Trump?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess the Shannara series is doing well.

Better to grab up a property like Conan (or Dark Company). Something that isn't memorized and doesn't come with encyclopedia's explaining the minutia.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  And isn't so boring. Honestly, I find it hard to watch these days despite owning all the extended editions. By the third one, it got very cliche and the Hobbit ones didn't make that feeling go away. I've only watched it once and feel no desire to rewatch.

And I tried to watch the Shannara series...modern fabrics, accents and actors made of wood just make it....bad.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/14/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The LOTR trilogy was fine. Like Silentbrick, I had trouble watching one of the Hobbit movies, and I think a series will suck eggs worse than Lt. Tom Paris playing 'Captain Proton' on the holodeck of the USS Voyager.
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Sauron = Trump?

p.s. (from Grom Jr) Gollum is a Jew
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#7  I never put that together but the name is from Jewish myth and he is crazy over his precious like the worst stereotype. Yet Gollum is the one that destroys the ring and saves Middle Earth.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Sweet chicken fried nuggets of pig crap.

The Shannara show...I read the books..show was everything kinda ho hum about the books with a Twilight polishing. Felt like I was watching some show on MTV.

Thought the Fellowship trilogy was good, especially trying to live up to the material. Hobbit trilogy was a puppy mill massacre. The only thing they got right was an explanation of dragon sickness, which from a real lecturer of literature explained would have been a well known allegory when Tolkien wrote The Hobbit.

Other than remaking House of Cards, there are some logistical problems here, if you will. That is, characters who transition from The Hobbit to Fellowship, Bilbo and Gandalf and also buddyfkd into this topic, Legolas and Saruman. Who is going to fill those roles? Also, we already know whether good or evil will win, because the conclusion is sitting in boxes next to the TV. All there is to do is have a bunch of brand new characters isolated from any previous brand work other than a name drop here and there doing whatever. If I wanted to watch a bunch of characters I don't care about talk about things which don't matter in a fantasy setting, I can watch ScyFi or ESPN.

I simply do not understand why The Silmarillion isn't tapped, other than drugsn'sex overtaking creativity in non-reality entertainment. Sure, the book is as exciting as watching a box turtle hunt down a beetle, but there are some plot points which are not only open ended but could be expanded into a three or even six part movie series.

Great in-line Fred.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 14:25 Comments || Top||

#9  There are vast amounts of good scifi and alternate history that would make great TV or movies.

Netflix has shown me that only the worst scifi makes it to the screen. And I can't watch the current comic book adaptations. Children's entertainment.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/14/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Heard a joke years ago about a Hollywood producer who was driving to work one day and had a brainstorm about a new original idea for a show that had never been done.
He called in and quit over the phone because he was so ashamed.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/14/2017 16:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Where did the old b/w SC from the 50's go?
Too close to documentary news I guess.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:14 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Keurig Backing Down: Coffee Company Admits Public Decision To Pull Ads From Hannity Created 'Unacceptable Situation'
[DAILYWIRE] On Monday, Keurig CEO Bob Gamgort issued a memorandum to employees denouncing his own company’s Twitter announcement that it had pulled advertising from Sean Hannity’s television program on Fox News. That advertising pullout came in the wake of an astroturfed campaign from Media Matters based on false allegations that Hannity expressed support for child molestation and had attacked sexual assault accusers.

The pullout led to a massive backlash on Twitter, where Keurig owners began smashing their machines and announcing that they would boycott the company.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing in the memo that says Keurig is backing down. CEO Bob says they need to change their internal policies and procedures so they don't step on their corporate dick again so publicly. But nothing about continuing to advertise on Hannity's show.

If the company goal is to sell as many units of stuff to as many people as possible, it is insane to choose sides on some social issue which will piss off half your customers. Sure, you can sit at the cool kidz table if you have the right policies and mission statement, but the remaining half of your customer base isn't going to buy twice as much stuff.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/14/2017 3:59 Comments || Top||

#2  If the company goal is to sell as many units of stuff to as many people as possible

You must be thinking of Chinese companies, or something
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 4:05 Comments || Top||

#3  To late. A big hammer and gas fixed the issue. And “Painfully mediocre coffee — for only $50 a pound!”

As seen in the footage, one user put sparklers in their machine and then threw it in a pool.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  That advertising pullout came in the wake of an astroturfed campaign from Media Matters based on false allegations that Hannity expressed support for child molestation and had attacked sexual assault accusers.

MM behind pulling the ads. David Brock, Democratic Alliance, George Soros, Tom Steyer, the Center for American Progress and John Podesta, a part of MM, ought to be enough to tell anyone what's going on. Where's my Keurig and hammer?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Men and women like Hannity, Jonah Goldberg, Laura Ingraham, Conway, Gorka, VDH, Carlson, and Bannen could possibly be all we have left. Perhaps we should guard them well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Companies act like this because they fear a lib onslaught. If they also feared a backlash to their actions by the rest of us, maybe they’d keep their virtue-signaling mouths shut.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#7  John Q, I listened to that interview and how anyone could think Hannity expressed support for child molestation or attacked sexual assault accusers is delusional.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/14/2017 9:43 Comments || Top||

#8  What's in David Brock's and John Podesta's closets?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  A lot of really creepy stuff
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/14/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#10  What's in David Brock's and John Podesta's closets?

You mean apart from satanic rituals?
Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/14/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Remember when you could go to the movies and be entertained without worrying about politics? Remember when you could just have a cup of coffee and not worry about who sold it to you or what the founder said about the president? Maybe I was just not as aware of these things back then as I am now. But it's like walking in the back yard when the dog poop hasn't been scooped for a while and it's really tiresome. Why can't we just get back to doing business?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/14/2017 10:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Learning is defined as a change in behavior.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/14/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#13  When opportunistic virtue signaling goes bad.
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#14  What's in David Brock's and John Podesta's closets?

David Carradine?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#15  I just got 40 cups of the Black Rifle AK-47, so I guess I'll just wait awhile to crush my Keurig.
Posted by: bman || 11/14/2017 17:21 Comments || Top||

#16  David Carradine?

That's a winner! Also Cringe of the Day.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/14/2017 17:38 Comments || Top||

#17  *amen*
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 18:54 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Hundreds join #MeToo march in Hollywood against sexual abuse
[DAWN] Hundreds of people marched on Sunday in Hollywood, joining a growing movement against sexual harassment and abuse that emerged after movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and later a string of film personalities faced accusations of misconduct.
Hearts and prayers. [urp!]
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Victimhood the highest aspiration?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I happened so quickly I didn't notice that our cities have turned into one big college campus.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm having a real hard time coming up with sympathy for the women.

If they were truly young (age<17) okay, but the sleasey nature of Hollywood and the need to f*** your way to the top has been known for nigh on 100 years so they knew what they were getting into for the most part. Then they pull out their sob stories after decades? This doesn't make the guys any less despicable but as g(r)om implied victimhood sells now.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/14/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I feel like an underachiever.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Qandeel murder case: court extends judicial remand of Mufti Qavi for 7 days
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Multan on Monday extended the judicial remand of holy man Mufti Abdul Qavi for seven days in connection with the ongoing investigations into Qandeel Baloch murder case.

Qandeel had been murdered last year, allegedly by her brother Mohammad Waseem, who said he killed her in the name of 'honour'.

During Monday's hearing, the public prosecutor pleaded before the court to extend Qavi's remand. The plea was granted and Qavi was sent on remand until November 20.

Earlier, Mufti Qavi was produced before the court amid strict security following the completion of his 12-day remand.

Qandeel's father Azeem was also present in the court of Judicial Magistrate Pervaiz Khan. The magistrate ordered the police to submit the complete challan
... list of charges ...
in the case before the court within four days.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Anbar Antix

Iraqi forces capture 6 villages in western Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army has liberated six villages from Islamic State militants in west of Anbar, a security source said on Monday.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “the army’s seventh division managed to liberate villages of al-Bayda, al-Bowaiba, al-Jaabariya, al-Samma, Melili and al-Rumiya, west of Rawa town.”

The troops, according to the source, who preferred to remain anonymous, “freed the villages after IS militants escaped toward the desert.”

“Troops reached to the borders of Rawa ahead of invasion to free it,” he added.

On Sunday, Qutri al-Obeidi, a senior leader with al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), said in remarks that the militants fled all locations in Rawa and headed toward regions in south of Salahuddin, after the security troops declared intentions to invade the town in addition to airstrikes by army jets targeting the militants’ hideouts.

Posted by: badanov || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korean soldier shot while defecting to South Korea
[DAWN] A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side on Monday while defecting to South Korea at the border truce village of Panmunjom, the South's military said.

The soldier, thought to be low ranking, was shot in the shoulder and elbow and was picked up bleeding on the South side of a portion of the border known as the Joint Security Area (JSA).

It is rare for the North's troops to defect at the truce village, a major tourist attraction bisected by the borderline and the only part of the frontier where forces from the two sides come face-to-face.

“Our military has taken in a North Korean soldier after he crossed from a North Korea post towards our Freedom House,” Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, referring to a building on the South side of the village.

A JCS official quoted by Yonhap news agency said the South's soldiers heard a gunshot and then retrieved the unarmed soldier in the mid-afternoon.

He was evacuated to a private hospital by a UN helicopter, the official added, saying thsoldierer had regained consciousness but declining to comment on whether his injuries were life-threatening.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The rest of his unit is on their way to a re-education camp as we speak.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/14/2017 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Ahhhh, Hot lips.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 4:06 Comments || Top||

#3  John Kerry shot come home from "vacation".
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Missile attack wounds 1 in PKunar
Pakistani forces once again resumed missile shelling in Kunar province, with more than 120 having been fired off in the past 24 hours, Kunar police chief Juma Gul Hamat said.

A number of residents from Shiltan district of Kunar province said the Pakistani military has fired off more than fifty missiles since Saturday. Missiles have also been fired on Dangam and Narai districts, police confirmed.

The police chief also confirmed that one person was wounded.

However, Pakistani officials have claimed that they targeted terrorist groups by firing off the missiles but residents said the missiles hit their houses and the surrounding forests.

Official information shows that at least 1,500 missiles were fired on Kunar province from Pakistan during the month of September.

In February the Ministry of Defense (MoD) warned that Pakistan’s missile attacks on the eastern regions of the country would have serious consequences, suggesting that a diplomatic solution to the issue between the two neighbors was needed.
Posted by: badanov || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Air raids on market kill 53 in north Syria town
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes on a market killed at least 53 people, including children, in a town in northern Syria on Monday despite a "de-escalation zone" in place there, a monitor said.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear whether the strikes on rebel-held Atareb had been carried out by Syrian warplanes, or those of Damascus’s ally Russia.

The monitor said three strikes hit the town’s market, adding that five children were among the dead, as well as three coppers.

A photographer contributing to AFP saw massive destruction at the scene, with rubble from damaged buildings covering the street and panicked civilians carrying away the injured.

Three men helped one of those hit in the attack, his face drenched in blood and his features almost completely obscured.

Nearby, the body of a man in a blue shirt and dark trousers lay where he had died.

Civil defense workers rushed alongside civilians to evacuate the injured, with one man in a thick beanie hat carrying a wailing child in a pink sweater away from the scene.

Elsewhere, the bodies of at least three children were laid out on the ground, partly covered by thick bolts of fabric.

Atareb is in the west of Aleppo province, in an area that is part of a "de-escalation zone" agreed under a deal earlier this year between Syria’s allies Russia and Iran, and rebel backer The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
The zone mostly covers neighboring Idlib province, which is largely held by opposition forces and a murderous Moslem group formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Despite the government’s recapture of Aleppo city late last year, rebel groups maintain a presence in the west of the province.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Southeast Asia
Four rangers hurt in Yala bomb blast
[Bangkok Post] Four rangers were slightly wounded in a bomb explosion in Yala province while on the way to a civic activity at a village on Sunday morning.

Police and members of an explosive ordnance disposal unit rushed to Ban Dalapae in Bannang Sata district after learning of the blast. In the middle of the road, they found a slightly-damaged truck next to a bomb crater. Four rangers traveling in the pick-up were slightly injured, suffering from a ringing in the ears.

The bomb was detonated as two armored vehicles were passing by. The blast damaged only the first vehicle.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Mattel announces Ibtihaj Muhammad doll, the first Barbie to wear a hijab
[BUZZ.BLOG.AJC] Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is quite a doll – literally. She’s thrilled to have inspired a Barbie in her likeness, and especially proud that the doll will be the first Barbie to wear a hijab. “This is a childhood dream come true,” she posted. The doll is part of the “She-ro” line.

“We are so excited to honor Ibtihaj Muhammad with a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll!” Mattel posted. “Ibtihaj continues to inspire women and girls everywhere to break boundaries.”
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She had better look like a paper towel tube with arms if Mattel doesn't want some kind of fatwah issued against them.
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Does it come with a pink VBED?
Posted by: Airandee || 11/14/2017 12:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Comes with no cl1toris or lab1a
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The hate hoaxer? Nice choice Mattel.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 14:29 Comments || Top||

#5  An obvious Mattel marketing ploy. How many will Mattel permit Ken to wed ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6  There are all kinds of possibilities for Mattel. Just think of all the 57 fluid genders. There's got to be other marketing possibilities as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 16:10 Comments || Top||

#7  A 3/4 life-size Hijab inflatable JohnQC. Think of the HOV lane possibilities. You could count on NEVER being pulled over.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 16:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Is she at least nine years old?
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 21:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Free standing eco-targets!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:20 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Why is Saudi Arabia so determined to destroy Hezbollah?
[Ynet] Analysis: The strongest Arab country today is leading the Sunni battle against an Iranian takeover of the Middle East. Once the ’black monster’ ISIS disappears from the region, the ’yellow monster’ Hezbollah will become the largest and most dangerous Islamic terror organization in the world, receiving orders from Tehran‐and this is something the Saudis are unwilling to accept.

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 declaring war on Hezbollah, not for its love of Israel as much as for its hatred of Iran. Not a day has passed in the past few months without the Saudi press attacking the Lebanese organization and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  The only problem is, Saudis themselves are no better.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, g(r)omgoru. The Saudis partially own Al Qaeda and ISIS, sharing Al Qaeda with Iran.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  They probably share ISIS as well - cui bono?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  I understood ISIS to be a Sunni operation propped up by Saudi Arabia to (a) get the worst zealots out of the magic kingdom (b) fight the Shia takeover of the region.

ISIS is basically gone leaving the Saudi's a bit desperate.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Who benefited most from ISIS?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Saudi Arabia as it kept the Shia from consolidating gains in Iraq.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 14:13 Comments || Top||

#7  No Iran, who got free pass on it's nuke program + Iraq as a satrapy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 14:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I could be wrong but I think Iran got a free pass first, projected into the region after the US pulled out peacekeepers, and ISIS was the Sunni response.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 17:01 Comments || Top||

#9  And once Iraqi "army" run from ISIS, it was reconstituted - with USA support - from Shia militias. The ones owned by Iran. What, you think Obama gave all this money and threatened using USA forces to stop IAF attack on Iran's nuclear assets just on ValJar's say so?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 17:24 Comments || Top||


Iraq
6 ISIS Bad Guys gunned down in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Six militants were killed, while fourteen others were arrested in Kirkuk, commander said, adding that 152 bombs were defused.

“Iraqi troops managed to kill six militants after following them. Three of them were in al-Batma village, while others were in al-Jadaa villages in Hawija, west of Kirkuk,” Maj. Gen. Ali Fadel Omran, commander of Kirkuk Operations, told AlSumaria News on Monday. “ A weapon stash including huge amount of weapons and explosives for Islamic State member was seized.”

“Troops also arrested other 14 IS members in al-Multaqa town.” Omran said. “Military units are continuing efforts of combing and securing the oil pipeline stretching between K-1 reaching to al-Fatha region. So far, 152 bombs were defused.”

On Friday, troops, according to Omran, “launched wide-scale campaigns to comb regions in east of Hawija and Hamreen mountains.”
Posted by: badanov || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Exports of computer services increase by 32pc
[DAWN] The export of computer services grew over 30 per cent year-on-year to over $111 million during the first two months of 2017-2018, according to the Pakistain Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
"Hello. This is Kevin calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Viagra prescription?"
"I don't have one. [click]"

According to data collected by the PBS, as export of services grew by 32.11pc, Pakistain earned $111.38 million against the services worth $84.31m.
"Hello. This is Daniel calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Cialis prescription?"
"Really? Say something in Canadian!"
[click]
"Hoser!"

Pakistain earned $54.37m by exporting software consultancy services, showing growth of 69.22pc when compared to exports of $32.126m last year.
"Hello, this is Robert, calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Xanax prescription?"
"No, goddammit!"
[click]

Export of hardware consultancy services grew by 144.41pc to $0.72m as compared to the export of $0.3m of the same services during the last year.
"Hello, this is Herbert, calling from Canadian Pharmacy. Would you like to renew your Oxycodone prescription?"
[grumble][click]"Zzzzzz!"
The services for maintenance and repairs of computers also earned $0.39m compared to $0.23m last year, showing growth of 68.97m.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The unindicted Awan clan are keeping busy.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/14/2017 4:05 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Iran searches for survivors as quake kills 400 near Iraq border
[DAWN] Iranian rescue workers dug through rubble in a hunt for survivors on Monday after a major earthquake struck the Iran-Iraq border, killing at least 415 and injuring thousands.

The 7.3-magnitude quake hit a border area 30 kilometres southwest of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan at around 9:20 pm on Sunday. Many people would have been at home when the quake hit Iran's western province of Kermanshah, where authorities said it killed at least 407 people and injured 6,700.

Across the border in Iraq, where the areas are more sparsely populated, the health ministry said eight people had died and several hundred been injured.

Some Iranians spent the night outdoors after fleeing their homes in the mountainous cross-border region, huddling around fires at dawn as the authorities deployed help to affected areas.

A woman and her baby were pulled out alive from the rubble in the Iranian town of Sar-e Pol-e Zaham, the worst hit in the quake, local media reported.

Officials said they were setting up relief camps but that access to the areas was not easy.
Update from The Times of Israel at 10:25 a.m. ET: death toll increased to 530, injured now more than 6,700. Both are subject to change, given that there are always double counts and overcounts in the early days after a disaster, whether natural or man-made. No change in the Iraqi numbers at this point, but the Iraqi side of the border is sparsely populated.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Proof that God hates Iran now?
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Verily, it is the Will of Allah (pbuh)!
Posted by: borgboy || 11/14/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Sad that Allan hates the Kurds so much.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/14/2017 16:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Inquiry ordered after 14-year-old killed in shoot-out between Karachi police, drug dealers
[DAWN] Police authorities on Monday ordered an inquiry to ascertain the role of the police in the killing of a 14-year-old rubbed out during an exchange of fire between police and alleged drug pushers in the Orangi Town area of the city.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammed Younis Chandio said that the police had received a drug-related complaint on the Madadgar 15 helpline against Kashif, alias Dabbu, from the Quaid-e-Awam Colony of Orangi Town.

"As police party took him into custody, certain people of the area put up resistance and tried to get him freed," said the SSP.

Alleged drug pushers located in the area also resorted to gun sex to get the suspect released, at which the police responded. During the exchange of fire, one 14-year old, Rehan, who was standing outside his house in the vicinity, sustained a critical bullet wound on his chest and died.
"Mom! The cops are shootin' it out wid the druggies out front!"
"Go have a look and tell me what's happenin', Mahmoud!"
"They're tryin' to arrest Kashif alias Dabbu!"
"What else?"
"[BANG!] Aaaiiieee! I am undone!"
"Ahmed, get out there and lemme know what's goin' on! And, uh... push yer brother's body inside!"

The death of the teenager angered the area's residents, who protested outside the Mominabad Police Station.

The demonstration attracted the attention of higher authorities, who pacified the protesters by suspending Station House Officer (SHO) Mumtaz Marwat and registered a murder case against policeman Majid and a civilian, both of whom were subsequently jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Africa Horn
Assailants hurl grenade at security checkpoint in Mogadishu
[RADIOSHABELLE] Assailants believed to be Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
holy warriors were reported to have hurled a grenade bomb at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday morning.

A witness has confirmed to Radio Shabelle that the attack was targeted UAE-trained soldiers at a barracks in Kawo-Gudey vicinity in Dharkenley district.

An elderly woman has been slightly maimed by the blast.

The security forces cordoned off the area around the kaboom site, and detained a suspect in the grenade attack, according to the eyewitness.

No group has yet grabbed credit for the assault in Mogadishu which was the latest in series of incidents in the seaside capital over the past few years.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Afghanistan
Supporters of ex-Taliban chief Mullah Mansoor are shielded: Pak Senator
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Pak Senator Farhatullah Babar has said the supporters of the ex-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor have been shielded by certain circles in the government.

Babar who is also the secretary general of the People’s Party of Pakistain (PPP) has told Dawn News "Those who aided Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour secure a Pak identity card and passport are shielded as is obvious from the replies given to questions asked in the Senate recently."

Senator Babar made the remarks amid reports suggesting that efforts are underway to mainstream the Islamist groups including the Taliban into the politics with the revival of the defunct six-party religio-political alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).

The alliance will also include Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman who is well recognized for his support to the Afghan Taliban.

This comes as reports emerged last week suggesting that the minister of interior of Pakistain in his letter to the Senate had said that contrary to media reports that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor had been carrying a Pakistain passport and National Identity Card (NIC) ‐ it had emerged that the card had actually been issued to a man named Muhammad Wali, son of Shah Muhammad.

The minister had also added that three officials from National Database and Registration Authority have been handed a major punishment as a departmental inquiry against the officials of the department completed regarding the issuance of the fake cards.
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Suicide attack rocks Kandahar in South of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom rocked southern Kandahar province in West of Afghanistan later this afternoon.

Preliminary reports indicate a jacket wallah has detonated his explosives close to a convoy of the foreign forces in Dand district.

Provincial governor’s front man Qudratullah Khoshbakht confirmed that a heavy kaboom has taken place in Dand district but did not disclose further information regarding the type of the blast and the possible casualties.

A security official in Dand district confirmed that a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives close to a convoy of the foreign forces.

He said there are no reports available regarding the casualties as a result of the kaboom.
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Psychic who foresaw Trump's win reveals predictions for 2018
[MIRROR.CO.UK] World conflict and terror predictions
  • A trade embargo with North Korea will fail and the US will strike at railway line and bridge to disrupt imports.

  • Kim Jong-un will be deposed by his own people and he will go missing, with some claiming he his living a secret new life in China.

  • A world flu epidemic, possibly linked to biological warfare started by North Korea or a terrorist group.

  • Japan will pay to hire American missile defense services.

  • Ukraine will be accused of the illegal sale of missiles and nuclear technology.

  • A massive Bitcoin fraud will be uncovered and thwarted that funds terrorism and war. A well-known American company will be involved in the scandal.

  • Terrorists will make an airborne chemical weapon gas attack by multiple drones on a European capital city. This could be London or Berlin – or both.

  • A chemical weapon attack on a school will be thwarted at the last minute.
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#1  Maybe. What are the chances he would be correct on all of them?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Other than the drone attack I’d say most of the events are highly likely.
I️ thought Ukraine had already been accused of selling missiles. Or parts
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/14/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think they're Drone drones, I think they're Walmart drones.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Can I add mine?: I predict Hillary will continue her book tour and name at least 12 more reasons she didn't win......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/14/2017 18:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Chechen families of ISIS militants in Syria handed over to Russia
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Kurdish authorities in northern Syria Sunday handed over to Russia Chechen women and kiddies found in Raqqa city which was retaken in October from murderous Moslems, an AFP correspondent said.

Kurdish and Arab fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance announced on October 17 they had regained full control of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the ISIS group in northern Syria.

After its explosive rise in 2014 and conquest of vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, ISIS established a "caliphate" that attracted thousands of imported muscle, including from Chechnya.

"We are officially handing over ISIS families to the Russian state," Nuri Mahmud, spokesperson for the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the SDF, told news hounds in Qamishli in the northeast province of Hasakeh.

Abdel Karim Amr, an official with the autonomous Kurdish authorities in the area, told AFP: "We have handed over Russian citizens whose hands were not tainted by the blood of Syrians."

He said 13 women and 29 children were transferred to Russian officials.
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Afghanistan
Defense minister rejects Hekmatyar’s alleged remarks regarding ethnic war
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The acting minister of defense Gen. Tariq Shah Bahrami rejected the alleged remarks by the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
regarding the ethnic war.

Speaking to news hounds in Kabul, Gen. Bahrami said the ongoing war in the country is being waged for the defense of the country and against the terrorist groups.

He insisted that the conflict certainly has not links with the ethnic violence and war.

This comes as reports emerged few days earlier quoting Hekmatyar as saying that the ongoing conflict in the country has links with the ethnic violence.

However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the party in a statement said the remarks of Hekmatyar have been amended and wrongly reported by the media outlets.

The statement further added that Hekmatyar in his speech at the central council meeting of the party had pointed out towards the conflict in Ghor province and had stated that the war in the province is between the two ethnic groups.

Hekmatyar had also added that the more than two thousand families were forced to flee the area in Teyora district belonging to a specific ethnic group led by a local elder loyal to Hezb-e-Islami, according to Hezb-e-Islami statement.

The leader of Hezb-e-Islami had also claimed that the opposite side belongs to another party and was misusing the government facilities.
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Africa North
U.N. Begins Evacuating Refugees from Libya to Niger
[AnNahar] A group of vulnerable refugees from several African countries, who had been stuck in war-ravaged Libya, have been evacuated to Niger, the U.N. said Sunday.

The U.N. refugee agency said the evacuation of 25 "extremely vulnerable refugees" from Libya Saturday marked the first of its kind.

The chaos-ridden country has long been a major transit hub for migrants colonists trying to reach Europe, and many refugees and migrants colonists have fallen prey to serious abuse there at the hands of human traffickers and others.

"We are taking people out of a very dangerous situation," UNHCR front man William Spindler told AFP.

The group evacuated Saturday was made up of 15 women, six men and four children of Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n, Æthiopian and Sudanese nationalities, UNHCR said.
So now they'll be even farther from home, but at least they won't be in Libya.
"All of them will be hosted in a guesthouse in Niamey until their resettlement applications are processed," Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR's Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Situation, said in a statement.

Extracting the refugees from Libya should make it easier for possible resettlement countries to evaluate their cases.

Gay Paree for instance said last month it would open centers in Niger and Chad to help identify people who might be granted asylum in La Belle France.

The U.N. agency has called for countries around the world to step up and offer desperately needed resettlement places to refugees stranded in 15 countries along the Central Mediterranean migration route.

It has estimated that 277,000 places are needed for refugees in Algeria, Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Æthiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia.

UNHCR in September urgently called for 40,000 resettlement places for refugees in the 15 countries, pointing out that since the beginning of the year, only 6,700 places had been provided.

"We hope to be able to carry out more evacuations in the near future," Cochetel said, stressing though that such evacuations "will remain limited in scale as long as resettlement commitments remain insufficient."

He also reiterated UNHCR's call for the creation of "more regular and safe ways for refugees to find safety and international protection," in a bid to stop them from embarking on perilous journeys across the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

So far this year, more than 152,000 people have attempted the dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean to Europe, and nearly 3,000 have died trying, according to fresh U.N. numbers.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel signals free hand in Syria as US and Russia expand truce
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel signaled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a ceasefire in the area.

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...
and Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
on Saturday affirmed joint efforts to stabilize Syria as its civil war wanes, including with the expansion of a July 7 truce in the southwestern triangle bordering Israel and Jordan.

A US State Department official said Russia had agreed "to work with the Syrian regime to remove Iranian-backed forces a defined distance" from the Golan Heights frontier with Israel, which captured the plateau in the 1967 Middle East war.

The move, according to one Israeli official briefed on the arrangement, is meant to keep rival factions inside Syria away from each other, but it would effectively keep Iranian-linked forces at various distances from the Israel-held Golan as well.

Those distances would range from as little as 5-7 kms and up to around 30 kms, depending on current rebel positions on the Syrian Golan, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Moscow did not immediately provide details on the deal.

Israel has been lobbying both big powers to deny Iran, Leb’s Hezbollah and other Shi’ite militias any permanent bases in Syria, and to keep them away from the Golan, as they gain ground while helping Damascus beat back Sunni-led rebels.

In televised remarks opening Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not speak about the new US-Russian arrangement for Syria.

His regional cooperation minister, Tzachi Hanegbi, sounded circumspect about the deal, telling news hounds that it "does not meet Israel’s unequivocal demand the there will not be developments that bring the forces of Hezbollah or Iran to the Israel-Syria border in the north".

’Red lines’
"There’s reflection here of the understanding that Israel has set red lines, and will stand firm on this," Hanegbi said.

That was an allusion to Israeli military strikes in Syria, carried out against suspected Hezbollah or Iranian arms depots or in retaliation for attacks from the Syrian-held Golan.

In the latest incident, the Israeli military said it shot down a spy drone on Saturday as it overflew the Golan. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman blamed the drone on the Syrian government. Damascus did not immediately respond.

Repeating Israel’s warnings to Iran and Hezbollah, Lieberman said: "We will not allow the Shi’ite axis to establish Syria as its forefront base".

Russia, which has a long-term military garrison in Syria, has said it wants foreign forces to quit the country eventually.

The US State Department official, who briefed news hounds on condition of anonymity on Saturday, said that goal could be served by Russia’s pledge to remove Iranian-linked fighters from the truce zone in southwestern Syria.

"If this works, this is an auspicious signal, would be an auspicious signal, that our policy objective - the objective that I think so many of us share, of getting these guys out of Syria ultimately - that there’s a path in that direction," the official said.
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Southeast Asia
Four Abu Sayyaf rebels surrender in Basilan
[Inquirer] Eight Abu Sayyaf rebels surrendered to the military in Sulu on Saturday. Task Group spokesman Cirilito Sobejana said the eight militants were followers the slain Abu Sayyaf leader Alhabsy Misaya. He said, in a statement, "We are very thankful to the local government, other stakeholders, and all the peace-loving Tausugs who rally behind us in our campaign to end terrorism in Sulu."
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Iraq
5 ISIS Bad Guys smoked in airstrikes near Diyala
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes launched at the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, officials said.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, Mohamed Daifan al-Ebeidi, head of Udhaim provincial council, said, “a fighter jet of the army followed an armed IS cell, composed of three militants, in hills located near al-BuJumaa region, on borders between Diyala and Salahuddin. All of them were killed.”

“The presence of IS members on the borders between Salahuddin and Diyala still represents a security challenge,” Ebeidi added.

Meanwhile, Abdul Khaleq al-Azzawi, member of Diyala provincial council, said two militants were killed as aerial shelling targeted a vehicle on the borders between the two provinces.
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Clearwater Beach man facing eviction over emotional support squirrel
[WFLA] CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) ‐ A Clearwater Beach resident is fighting to keep his emotional support squirrel that lives with him at Island Walk Condominiums.

Ryan Boylan and Brutis are inseparable.

He rescued her last year after Hurricane Matthew.

"Ever since then I mean, oh my God, I can’t imagine not being around her," said Boylan.

But he could lose her.

Property management discovered Brutis back in April when she was chased up a tree by a dog.

According to a complaint filed by the condo association to Boylan and the condo owner, exotic animals are not allowed. He never told the board about the animal.
Bushy-tailed tree rats are exotic? I got a fortune chittering in my back yard!
He was sent a notice last month to give up the squirrel or be evicted.

"I was very sad that he had to basically push every single limitation that he could to try and get me out because of Brutis," said Boylan.

In the complaint, attorneys state Boylan never submitted paperwork that Brutis was an emotional support animal until this past summer.
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#1  In the complaint, attorneys state Boylan never submitted paperwork that Brutis was an emotional support animal until this past summer.

Never submitted paper work? Exotic animal?

He should have submitted the "Endangered species" paperwork.
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#2  Tree rats.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/14/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  I got me some pretty emotional squirrels around here. You should see how angry they get when they can’t reach the suet.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  A female named Brutis?
Is this one of the 57 genders they keep talking about?
Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/14/2017 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Bushy-tailed tree rats are exotic? I got a fortune chittering in my back yard!

I can't imagine it being a large fortune, the competition will undercut the market price.

I keep trying to chase them off the bird feeders where I have had 5 or more at a time.....now chipmunks.....
Posted by: AlanC || 11/14/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#6  As long as he keeps of the squirrel on a leash I see nothing wrong with it.
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 20:59 Comments || Top||

#7  "He's not on a leash. He's contained in my bodysuit"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 21:02 Comments || Top||

#8  I was just stalked by one when leaving Mulligan's in Palm beach. Had to do a 'left shift' with my lovely spouse to stay between him and her.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Pakistani militants among 4 killed in US drone strike in Nangarhar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Death Eaters including Pak nationals were killed in a dronezap in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the Death Eaters killed during the Arclight airstrike belonged to the ISIS terrorist group.

The statement further added that the Arclight airstrike was carried out Mamand Dara area of Achin district and the deaths included two Pak nationals.

Some weapons, ammunition, and explosives belonging to the terror group were also destroyed in the Arclight airstrike.

The ministry of defense of Afghanistan had eariler said at least two ISIS Death Eaters were killed and their hideout was destroyed in an Arclight airstrike conducted in Achin district of Nangarhar.

The anti-government armed bad boy groups including the ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
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Taliban gun down 8 Kops in Farah Sunday
At least eight police soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a police check post in Farah province, local officials said Monday.

According to the officials the incident took place late Sunday night in Regi area of Farah city.

One other police soldier was wounded in the attack.

Mohammad Aqbal Baher, Farah police spokesman, confirmed the incident and said that the Taliban attacked and destroyed the check post.

Meanwhile Mohammad Nasir Mahri spokesman for the governor said they believed one of the soldiers colluded with the Taliban over the attack.

Taliban took all the weapons from the check post with them, officials said.

Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
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-Land of the Free
Hand over your weapons
By David Scharfenberg

IN THE AFTERMATH of the Texas church shooting last week, Democratic lawmakers did what they always do: They skewered their Republican colleagues for offering only “thoughts and prayers,” and demanded swift action on gun control.

“The time is now,” said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, “for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.”

Trouble is, it’s not clear the “something” Democrats typically demand would make a real dent in the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. Congress can ban assault weapons, but they account for just a tiny sliver of the country’s 33,000 annual firearm deaths. And tighter background checks will do nothing to cut down on the 310 million guns already in circulation.

In other words, the proposals aren’t just difficult to enact in the current political climate; their practical effects would also be quite limited. On occasion, though, leading Democrats will make oblique reference to a more sweeping policy change: seizing a huge number of weapons from law-abiding citizens.
The second step in the one-two dance of confiscation.
At a New Hampshire forum in the fall of 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke approvingly of an Australian gun buyback program that collected more than 650,000 weapons — a buyback that, she neglected to mention, was compulsory.
"Buyback" is a false term. It suggests that private property paid out of private pockets somehow belong to the government in exchange for printed money. It is also false because, paid or not, it was confiscation. Inasmuch as the constitution mandates the government sufficiently compensate individuals when taking their property, it first says shall not be be infringed.
And just a few months earlier, then-President Barack Obama offered coded support for the same confiscatory approach. “When Australia had a mass killing — I think it was in Tasmania — about 25 years ago, it was just so shocking, the entire country said, ‘Well, we’re going to completely change our gun laws,’ and they did,” he said.
Bully for them.
Democrats have even let the word “confiscation” slip out, on occasion. After the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. in 2012, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a radio interview that when it came to assault weapons “confiscation could be an option, mandatory sale to the state could be an option.”
New York has mandated AR registrations, to which New Yorkers responded enthusiastically with one out of 20 actually registering their ARs. The law is being open flouted, as it should be, with 95 percent of gun owners refusing to play the left's game of registration, the first step in the one-dance dance of confiscation. The law is a spectacular failure.
It was an option Cuomo didn’t pursue. But five years after that slaughter of schoolchildren — and with fresh tales of murdered kids on the floor of a Texas church — might gun-control advocates expand their agenda?
Please, be my guest, expand your agenda to include theft of property no rightly belonging to the state. It fits your criminal views of the relationship of the government to the individual.
The logic of gun control lies, at bottom, in substantially reducing the number of deadly weapons on the street — and confiscation is far and away the most effective approach. Is there any conceivable turn of events in our politics that could make confiscation happen? And what would a mass seizure look like?
I suspect that popcorn futures would go through the roof. This criminal advocate should know that some of us are prepared to defend our rights through every means at hand, including active and passive resistance.
ON APRIL 28, 1996 a deranged man named Martin Bryant used a semi-automatic rifle to slaughter 12 people in 15 seconds at the Broad Arrow cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, a popular tourist spot on the site of a former Australian prison colony.

He killed eight more in the gift shop, and several others in the parking lot. And as he drove away, he came across Nanette Mikac and her two daughters fleeing the scene.

Bryant told Mikac to get on her knees and as she wailed, “Please don’t hurt my babies,” he blew a hole through her forehead and fired several shots into her 3-year-old, Madeline. Alannah, 6, ran into the woods and Bryant gave chase. When he found her curled up behind a tree, he put his gun to her neck and fired.

Bryant, who killed 35 people that Sunday afternoon, shocked Australia into action.
A terrible act by a hostile individual, to be sure.
It took just 12 days for conservative Prime Minister John Howard to announce a full slate of gun restrictions in a nation with a long tradition of frontier firearms. There was a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons and shotguns, an extensive registration system, and a 28-day waiting period between getting a permit and buying a gun.
Not noted is the fact that only about 20 percent of firearms were actually turned in. Despite stampeding their legislators into an act of government overreach, Australians flipped off the law and the people who conceived of it.
But the centerpiece was the mandatory buyback, with a temporary tax financing the multimillion dollar purchase of hundreds of thousands of weapons deemed illegal under the new law.
A national government using its sovereign power to print money to aid in their criminal act of theft of private property.
Some feared resistance. Howard, at one point, wore a bulletproof vest during a speech to a group of gun rights supporters. But the buyback went forward peacefully, and it claimed an estimated one-fifth of Australia’s gun stock — one of the largest gun confiscations in modern history.
SMFD
The seizure and the other gun control measures seem to have had a significant effect. Since passage of the law, the country hasn’t seen a single mass shooting — defined as a killing of five or more people, not including the gunman.
So, despite the twisting of phrases there have been mass shootings since.
A study by researchers at Australian National University and Wilfrid Laurier University found a 59 percent drop in the firearm homicide rate and a 65 percent decline in the firearm suicide rate in the decade after the law was introduced. And while critics have noted the firearm death rate was already declining before passage of the legislation, the data show it dropped twice as fast afterward.
Statistics
Here in the United States, interest in large-scale gun buybacks — both voluntary and involuntary — has mounted with each mass shooting. Matt Miller, a journalist and onetime senior fellow with the left-leaning Center for American Progress, has proposed what he calls a “massive, debt-financed” buyback.

The idea is to supersize the small-scale, voluntary buybacks that happen in American cities — offering hundreds of dollars more per weapon in a bid to make them more effective. “Instead of $200 a gun, Uncle Sam might offer $500,” Miller wrote, in an opinion piece in the Washington Post after Sandy Hook. “After all, overpaying powerful constituencies to achieve public policy goals is a time-honored American tradition; we do it every day with Medicare drug benefits and defense contractors, to name just two.”
Welfare, public broadcasting and the arts to name two more.
John Rosenthal, co-founder and chairman of Massachusetts-based Stop Handgun Violence, says it may be time to embrace a mandatory buyback — the relentless tide of mass shootings leaving weary activists with little choice.

“I am so struggling right now to find the strength to keep going,” he said earlier this week, a day after the Texas church shooting. “And guess what, I have been thinking a lot about Australia. They had that one horrific event, with 35 killed, with an assault weapon. They banned them, they bought them back — and there hasn’t been a mass shooting since.”
John, you should seek counseling. It sounds like you need it badly.
It’s a model the Aussies themselves have been touting to any Americans who will listen — suggesting it could succeed in the United States with a little political courage, especially on the right.
No need t worry about the right going along. They have been playing the outraged conservative role so much, you'd think they'd get an Oscar for their performance. No need to worry about the right. You'll get, at the very least, a number of golden throats and writers on the right going right along with such a scheme.
In Australia “many farmers resented being told to surrender weapons they had used safely all of their lives,” wrote Howard, the former prime minister, in The New York Times a few years ago. “Penalizing decent, law-abiding citizens because of the criminal behavior of others seemed unfair. Many of them had been lifelong supporters of my coalition and felt bewildered and betrayed by these new laws. I understood their misgivings. Yet I felt there was no alternative.”
You'll notice he let his feelings get in the way of doing the right thing.
THE TROUBLE WITH all of this is that America is not Australia.
First thing the writer has gotten right so far.
As Howard himself has noted, Australia is a more intensely urban society than the United States, meaning there is a larger natural constituency for gun control Down Under — and a smaller rural opposition.

The Australian gun lobby, moreover, is not as powerful or well-financed as the National Rifle Association. And the Aussies don’t have a constitutionally protected right to bear arms.
Wow, second thing the writer has gotten right. He's on a roll.
While the Second Amendment isn’t absolute — no less than conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ruled that it’s “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose”— it would undoubtedly serve as the basis for a robust legal challenge to any involuntary buyback program. And the courts would not be the only site of resistance.
Courts as a site of resistance. Please. They have been driving on the wrong side of the road on guns since my own recent memory. They'll be like the right. Theft and murder? No problem! We'll sign off on it.
Gun culture runs especially deep in a country born of violent rebellion. And over the last couple of decades, firearms have become one of the most important fault lines in American culture. It is hard to overstate the devotion — or if you prefer, the fanaticism — of the 3 percent of the population that owns half the guns in circulation.
Circulation. And not all guns, either, assuming the statistics are correct, which I will not concede.
Many of those hard-core gun owners see their weapons as a guard against government overreach. And sending government agents to claim them could end very, very badly. An NRA article on the specter of Australian-style confiscation coming to the United States is subtitled “There Will Be Blood.”
It's called cost and it will be borne by both sides.
Part of the problem is the sheer scale of the enterprise. An operation on par with the Australian buyback — claiming one-fifth of American guns — would mean tens of thousands of police officers collecting some 60 million guns. It is, on some level, simply unimaginable.

But perhaps gun-control advocates can propose something smaller — something more targeted.
Targeted. Good one.
Before Elliot Rodger killed six and wounded 14 in a shooting spree in Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2014, his mother and a social worker raised concerns with the police. But because Rodger had broken no law, there was nothing law enforcement could do.

After the rampage, California lawmakers passed a measure allowing family members to seek court orders seizing guns from disturbed people before they can hurt anybody. Similar laws are in place in Washington, Indiana, and Connecticut. And legislators in 18 other states, including Massachusetts, considered so-called “extreme risk protective order” legislation this year, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Laura Cutilletta, legal director for the Giffords Law Center, says Devin Kelley, the Texas church killer, would have been a “perfect candidate” for an order of this kind. “People knew that there was something going on with him,” she says. “He was sending threatening messages to his mother-in-law. . . . He had [committed] domestic violence and animal abuse.”
What is not mentioned is that the order can be ex parte. Who remembers the heady days after the Lautenberg Amendment, when protective orders were given out on mere accusation with little basic for fact, and when sanctions were applied to incidents that happened decades ago. It hit another common law principle. Ex post facto. Gone by merely signing a law into effect. In the new order, the individual subjected to the order will have no recourse and no day in court. A woman can just go to the courts, lie like a rug, and boom, instant revenge, all sponsored by the state. It is "perfect" because it hits all the right buttons the left wants to hit. Destruction of the family, destruction of the individual's rights, and gun confiscation. And the best part, 20 years on, the right cheerily supports the latest madness.
Cutilletta says restraining orders and other measures designed to deprive the most dangerous people of guns — like background checks and tighter restrictions on domestic abusers — are more politically viable, and legally defensible, than gun confiscation. And they can have an impact, she says: States with tougher gun laws have fewer firearm-related deaths.
Not the way I heard it. But I guess the writer got the quote he wanted. Well done.
Still, even if we find a way to keep guns out of the hands of people who have engaged in disturbing or violent behavior — no small task, given all the stories of the troubled shooters who slipped through the cracks — it will only get us so far.

The United States’ astronomically high rates of firearm violence aren’t rooted in some unique American propensity for derangement and delinquency. Studies show our levels of mental illness and basic criminality are on par with other wealthy countries.
Whatever happened to pure evil? You can't tell who is crazy, but you can tell who is evil. And the best way to prepare for evil, either from an individual or from a government high on printed money.
Other common explanations, like the social fissures created by our racial diversity, have been debunked by researchers, too. The only explanation left — an explanation borne out by a number of careful studies — is the sheer size of the American arsenal. There are 310 million handguns, shotguns, and semi-automatic weapons in American homes, garages, and waistbands.
Rookie numbers. We can do better.
Ultimately, if gun-control advocates really want to stanch the blood, there’s no way around it: They’ll have to persuade more people of the need to confiscate millions of those firearms, as radical as that idea may now seem.
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#1  “The time is now,” said Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, “for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.”

Murphy faces re-election next year and is playing to his base. Sen. Murphy, I'd check and find out what's really behind some of these shootings. Oh, you don't care because its part of the talking points handed to you. Where do your talking points come from? Same question for the press, "Who hands you your talking points?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  How about we offer the libs a permanent buyback arrangement at 75% of market value, with a minimum of X dollars depending on type. This would help remove the Saturday Night specials from circulation and wouldn’t affect honest gun owners.
Posted by: KBK || 11/14/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Offer them nothing. Make them lead the confiscation parties. After the first couple go very badly, the enthusiasm will wane
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  "Hand over your weapons"

Nicht nur NEIN, aber SCHEISSE, NEIN.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/14/2017 15:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't give an inch on firearms. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the other rights.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 16:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Just knowing who wants the American citizen disarmed is clear evidence of the desired end-state.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela Defaulted, Selectively
[BARRONS - The following pulled from Yahoo - spit, spit] Standard & Poor's declared Venezuela in "selective default" on Monday, after it failed to make $200 million in payments on its global bonds, becoming the first credit ratings agency to do so.

The agency said it acted after a 30-day grace period had passed on payments on two bonds.

"We have lowered two issue ratings to 'D' (default), and we lowered the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to 'SD' (selective default)," the agency said.

S&P's verdict came after the Venezuelan government met with international creditors in Caracas but offered no concrete plan for restructuring its $150 billion debt.

Participants at the meeting told AFP that officials said the government intended to form working groups to evaluate short- and mid-term debt renegotiation proposals, but gave no specifics.

"We would very likely consider any Venezuelan restructuring to be a distressed debt exchange and equivalent to default given the highly constrained external liquidity," S&P said.

"In addition, in our opinion, US sanctions on Venezuela and government members will most likely result in a long and difficult negotiation with bondholders," it said.

Besides the two bond payments it has defaulted on, Venezuela is overdue on four other debt payments but they were still within the 30 day grace period, S&P said.

Ratings on those bonds also will be lowered to "D," of default, if not paid on time, it said.

The unpaid obligations total $420 million, the agency said.


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#1  Oh noes - there go my interest payments, printed on toilet paper!
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Years ago my Insurance Agent was trying to sell me a retirement annuity based on a *drumroll* International Stock Fund. When I saw Venezuela in it ( 15% returns, no less!!!) I quietly told him I wasn't interested...
Posted by: magpie || 11/14/2017 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  That was about 4-1/2 years ago, wasn't it magpie?

Same thing from my broker.

Gave her same response you did.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/14/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Wine From Prehistoric Georgia (Caucasus, not East Alabama) With an 8,000-Year-Old Vintage
[NYTIMES] Raise a glass to Georgia, which could now be the birthplace of wine.

The country, which straddles the fertile valleys of the south Caucasus Mountains between Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the Middle East, may have been home to the first humans to conquer the common grape, giving rise to chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and thousands of other reds and whites we enjoy today.

In a study published Monday, researchers found wine residue on pottery shards from two archaeological sites in Georgia dating back to 6,000 B.C. The findings are the earliest evidence so far of wine made from the Eurasian grape, which is used in nearly all wine produced worldwide.

"Talk about aging of wine. Here we have an 8,000-year-old vintage that we’ve identified," said Patrick McGovern, a molecular archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and lead author of the study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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#1  Where is Orson Welles when you really need him
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/14/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#2  (Gulp)

Sorry, was that the last of it?
Posted by: charger || 11/14/2017 16:48 Comments || Top||

#3  "Here we have an 8,000-year-old vintage"
Wouldn't this be what is commonly known as vinegar?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/14/2017 18:44 Comments || Top||

#4  "Dilly Dilly!"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 18:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Boone's Farm Apple $1.32.
"Fresh as the day is young!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:19 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Maoist militants gun down cop who gave them a lift
[Inquirer] New People’s Army guerrillas shot and killed a policeman in a hinterland village in Davao City on Monday. The policeman died from multiple gunshot wounds after two men, who had hitched a ride on his motorcycle in in Tugbok district attacked him.

Police spokeswoman Andrea dela Cerna, said the policeman was on his way to work after dropping off his wife, a school teacher, when he was shot by his two passengers. The attackers then fled with the victim’s firearm and motorcycle.

Southern Mindanao police commander Manuel Gaerlan condemned the vicious murder, calling it “a senseless and cowardly act against a good public servant, police officer and loving husband.”

“This act is a manifestation that the NPA and other communist front organizations have no regard for human rights and international humanitarian laws,” Gaerlan said in a statement.
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The Grand Turk
Over 4,800 suspects detained in one week in Turkey on terror, drugs charges
[Hurriyet Daily News] Nearly 5,000 suspects have been detained in one week across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on terrorism, drug trafficking and smuggling charges, the Interior Ministry said on Nov. 13.

The ministry’s weekly report also stated that security forces "neutralized" 38 snuffies last week in nationwide operations between Nov. 6 and Nov. 13. Some 16 were killed, 14 were detained, and eight surrendered, it added.

In total, 1,456 operations were carried out against illegal organizations, in which 1,167 suspects were locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
for alleged links to groups such as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and others.

In addition, 78 shelters and 21 improvised explosives were destroyed during counter-terrorism operations in eastern and southeastern provinces of Bingöl, Bitlis, Erzurum, Hakkari, Van and Mus, according to the Interior Ministry report.

It also stated that security forces seized drugs, smuggled tobacco and fuel during 2,796 anti-narcotics operations in a total of 77 provinces across Turkey, in which 3,682 suspects were also arrested.

As part of cybersecurity operations, legal action was also taken against 173 people.

In the campaign against illegal migration, 6,890 undocumented migrants colonists, including 527 in Ottoman Turkish waters, were held while 110 suspects accused of aiding them were detained, the statement added.
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#1  Turkey is resurrecting the Ottoman.

Turkish PM Erdogan Says Idea Of “Moderate Islam” Invented By West To Weaken Muslims…
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS recaptures Al-Bukamal using ambushes and traps, Russia denies
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two days ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that ISIS recaptured al-Bukamal city in the eastern governorate of Deir al-Zour in Syria - its last stronghold in the country and the most strategic one - from the Syrian regime and its allies which they entered on Friday declaring victory.

A number of tribal leaders and local residents in the city have confirmed it.

On the other hand, Russia denied, stressing that the Syrian regime and its allies did not withdraw from the region, and that all rumors are "pure lies".

The observatory quoted tribal leaders and residents saying that ISIS fighters had regained control al-Bukamal city after ambushing Iranian-backed factions led by the Hezbollah, which had taken control of the city a few days earlier and forced it to withdraw.

They added that ISIS’s fighters, who were hiding in tunnels in the center of al-Bukamal city, had surprised the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters united with Iraqi Shi'ite fighters who had entered Syria across the border.

The Shiite fighters attacked the city in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor after heavy Russian bombing that resulted in dozens of civilian deaths and widespread destruction.

Ambush and ISIS deceit
Qahtan Ghanem al-Ali, a tribal leader, spoke about how the city was recaptured by ISIS, when their fighters made an unexpected attack using jacket wallahs and missile attacks, after deceiving the Iranian factions that ISIS had left the city.

Syrian forces on Thursday had declared victory over ISIS and had said that they had killed many holy warriors, while dozens of them had surrendered. They also announced that thay had gained control over al-Bukamal pointing to the disintegration of ISIS who had control over the city for three years.

Al-Bukamal is a major supply and communication center for bandidos forces of Evil between Syria and Iraq, and it represents a major prize for the Iranian-backed factions.

The observatory and residents said that planes believed to be Russian intensively bombed al-Bukamal city and its suburbs for three days till Sunday, with at least 50 civilians, mostly women and kiddies, dead since Friday.

In response to their losses, the Iranian factions withdrew by attacking villages east of the city where hundreds of families fleeing from al-Bukamal had found temporary shelter in.

In one of the air raids on al-Sukkaria town east of the city, at least 30 people, mostly women and kiddies, were killed, as per what two former residents of the city said.
Russia denies

On the other hand, the commander of the Russian military forces in Syria on Sunday denied the news of the withdrawal of the regime forces from city al-Bukamanl on borders with Iraq after having control over it on Friday.

The Russian military official from Syria told the Russian Information Agency Novosti that: "All that was announced claiming that the regime forces had been withdrawn away from the city is not true. Since Friday, the whole city in under the control of the Syrian regime forces supported by its allies."

The Russian military front man added: "Currently, the search inside the city and its suburbs is about to be finalized. The soldiers are clearing terrorists’ hotspots that are scattered around the city, and they are hunting down the individual turbans who are now facing the Syrian army alone, and after that we will start clearing the area from explosives and mines which ISIS usually leaves behind after being defeated.
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#1  Don't know where to post it:
Raqqa’s dirty secret-
hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British
Posted by: newc || 11/14/2017 23:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Transracial' man born white feels like he is Filipino
[WTSP] Ya, sure. Ay bane feel like I bane Swëdish. Ay don't speak Swëdish, but ay bane have a purdy gøød åccent, and ay sure dew like meatbålls!
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#1  I feel like I was born a billionair. Where's my money
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 11/14/2017 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I always wanted to be a Martian.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/14/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I woke up feeling like a brain surgeon. Tomorrow I might feel like a rocket scientist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Feeling Filipino is he? Shouldn't make him all bad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  I identify as SmellyAnusious - the God of Gaseous Bodily Emissions. You are all required to bow down and take a good sniff or face my Wrath....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/14/2017 8:31 Comments || Top||

#6  The history book swill not look kindly on the therapists and psychologists of our times.

Complete and total failure on all fronts.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/14/2017 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  "'Transracial' man born white feels like he is Filipino"

And I "feel" like he's an attention-seeking IDIOT.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/14/2017 15:08 Comments || Top||

#8  I've heard of people who thought they were Napoleon Bonaparte, too.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2017 15:30 Comments || Top||

#9  You're not Filipino, you're just an asshole.
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#10  I feel like Ron Jeremy. Where are the twins?
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 21:01 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan forces to adopt offensive approach in next fighting season: Ghani
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
says the Afghan national defense and security forces will adopt an offfensive approach to defend the country against the imposed war.

Speaking during a gathering of the Attorney Generals, President Ghani said the country is facing an imposed war and the Afghan forces have no option othan than to defend the country.

He said the Afghan cops will adopt an offensive approach next year, apparently gesturing towards the next fighting season.

In other parts of his speech, President Ghani said people are frustrated with the lack of justice and the nation is prepared to support the judiciary institutions with the reforms being implemented.

President Ghani insisted that he will never interfere in the work of the judiciary institutions and will not anyone to interfere.

He also added that the activities of the irresponsible armed individuals are no more acceptable and threats will responded with the threats.

The Afghanistan's Caped President also added that the notion of those having more weapons is more powerful should end and the law should be imposed on all citizens of the country equally.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Daily Depraved Digest

Democrat party Congressional candidate David Alcon arrested on stalking charges
Democrat David Alcon had been running for the open District 2 congressional seat in New Mexico until two weeks ago when a warrant was issued out of Santa Fe for his arrest. Since then, he’s been hiding from police. They found him in an apartment in Albuquerque on Friday.

Alcon is accused of stalking by a woman who claims he started texting her after seeing him at a Halloween party. She has known Alcorn for a decade and had received texts in the past, but these were getting more aggressive. He texted that he loved her and wanted to have children with her. He also sent her a picture of his genitals. When he texted that he was outside of her home, she called police.

Tom Sizemore caught molesting girl in 2003
Actor Tom Sizemore was told to leave a Utah film set in 2003 after an 11-year-old actress told her mother that he had touched her genitals, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Months later, he returned for reshoots in Malibu after her parents declined to press charges. The incident has never been revealed publicly.

John Travolta fingered for 2000 sexual assault
Hollywood star John Travolta has been named in a criminal complaint by a 21-year-old masseur who accused the actor of sexual battery that reportedly took place in 2000.

According to the bombshell police report, the masseur alleged that Travolta groped his bare buttocks and indecently exposed himself during a deep body massage at the LaQuinta Hotel in Palm Springs, California.

Sulu sez the Rooshuns dunnit
Is there nothing the Russians can't do?
George Takei has blamed Russian bots for spreading an actor's claim that he was drugged and sexually assaulted by the Star Trek icon.

Takei, who has denied the sexual assault allegations, tweeted out a chart that reportedly showed Russian bot activity over 48 hours. The Tweet has since been deleted.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  John Travolta fingered for 2000 sexual assault

No shit, and on a man? This is sad - he's one of the few real actors in Hollyweird.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought Spacey was a good actor as well but then again I think most actors live in a la la land of delusion and make-believe. Hollywood is Predatory Land where people are bought and sold.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember "Primary colors"? I betcha if you put him on one side of the room and Willy in another, lots of people who came to meet Willy would go to Travolta.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  No shit, and on a man? This is sad - he's one of the few real actors in Hollyweird.

That just goes to show you what a great actor he is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/14/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#5  A complex. A character fracture.
A sexy, magnetic attractor:
A star, or a pastor!
Or heartsick disaster
Who spackles the cracks with Max Factor.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/14/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Who That Dat
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/14/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/middle-east/2017/11/11/saudi-princess-unveils-kingdoms-dark-side/

Saudi Princess’ tell-all includes Bangladeshi children traded as sex slaves
Hollywood linked?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/14/2017 16:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Remember "Primary colors"?

the Bill Clinton satire?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 22:22 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia to reopen Yemen airports and seaports after brief closure
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
said Monday that the Arab coalition fighting the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militia will begin reopening airports and seaports in Yemen, days after temporarily closing them after an Iranian-made missile attack on Riyadh.

"The first step in this process will be taken within 24 hours and involves reopening all the ports in areas controlled by" Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which the coalition backs, the Saudi mission at the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
said.

Those ports are in Aden, Mokha and Mukalla. For ports in rebel-held or disputed territories, like Hodeida, the mission said it had asked the UN to send a team of experts to discuss ways to make sure weapons can’t be smuggled in.

The Saudi-led coalition hopes that will prevent "the smuggling of weapons, ammunitions, missile parts and cash that are regularly being supplied by Iran and Iranian accomplices to the Houthi rebels," the statement said.

Saudi Arabia announced it shut down all ports after a Nov. 4 ballistic missile attack on Riyadh near its international airport by the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia and the United States have accused Iran of supplying the ballistic missile used in that attack, saying the missiles bore "Iranian markings."
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China-Japan-Koreas
Trump’s deeply personal reaction to North Korean insults is a break with tradition
[DAWN] IN a string of tweets fired off on Sunday morning from Hanoi, Vietnam, 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...
responded with sarcastic insults to a recent message from the North Korean government that had referred to him as "old".
That's called for in Juche.
"Why would Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
insult me by calling me ’old,’ when I would NEVER call him ’short and fat?’" Trump wrote in his tweet, referring to the leader of North Korea’s ruling dynasty. "Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend ‐ and maybe someday that will happen!"
After our own equivalent of a Songun Army First policy.
The message marks an unusually personal escalation of the tensions between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang’s weapons programme. It is also another sign of the change in rhetoric used to address North Korea since Trump took office: though North Korea has long been known for hurling bellicose insults at world leaders, rarely have those world leaders responded in kind.

Of course, Trump is a not your average world leader. The current president is a pugnacious social media user often willing to respond with his own harsh words when he feels wronged. As a spokeswoman for his wife, Melania Trump, put it earlier this year, when Trump is attacked "he will punch back 10 times harder".
"Sea of Fire, baby!"
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#1  Bwahaha!
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course, Trump is a not your average world leader. The current president is a pugnacious social media user often willing to respond with his own harsh words when he feels wronged.

Did they just figure this out?
Posted by: Raj || 11/14/2017 11:40 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Leader' of banned Islamic group detained in Kyrgyzstan
[RFE/RL] Authorities in the northern Chui region of Kyrgyzstan say they have arrested the leader of a banned Islamic group. Regional police department spokesman Nurbek Toktosunov said on November 13 that a 47-year-old man arrested in late October is "the leader of a religious community that follows the teachings of the Yaqyn Inkar Islamic movement."

Yaqyn Inkar was founded in India. Authorities in Kyrgyzstan consider it an extremist organization and banned it in June.

Toktosunov said that the suspect has two wives, as well as 12 children who have never been officially registered and were not enrolled in school. He the suspect regularly visited India and Bangladesh to participate in Yaqyn Inkar seminars and in 2003 translated several books of the religious group from Urdu into Kyrgyz and Russian.

Members of Yaqyn Inkar try to live as people did when the Prophet Mohammad was alive. They do not use modern technical devices, refuse medical and social services, travel on foot, and wear only traditional white clothes.
Islamish?
Heh heh. Took me a minute to catch that one!
In 2016, before the group was banned, Kyrgyz officials expressed concerns about the religious movement, saying it was propagating its ideas without obtaining legal permission.
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Africa North
Libyan human rights activists say 28 prisoners tortured and shot in Wirshefana
[Libya Herald] In a grim echo of the al-Abyar summary execution of 36 men two weeks ago in the east of the country, 28 shot bodies also showing signs of abuse have been found in the west.

The Libyan National Commission for Human Rights’ (LNCHR) said that the victims, who were found beside a road in Alhira, 60 kilometres from Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, were men captured during recent fighting in the Wirshefana area.

"We have received information that several Wirshifana military officials were killed and their bodies were desecrated, " said the LNCHR, "after they were tossed into the calaboose by the joint forces under the Zintan Military Council’s command in cooperation with the Presidential Council’s western military zone.

It called for an immediate investigation by the attorney-general and by UNSMIL. It also asked why relatives had been refused permission to see and bury their dead. Fourteen of the bodies had been sent to Espiaa hospital and the remainder to Tarhouna.

The LNCHR’s Ahmad Hamza told Rooters today that the bodies showed signs of torture and the victims had been shot in the head and chest.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Corrine Brown won't learn fate until Dec. 4
[NEWS4JAX] Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown won't learn her fate in her federal corruption case until Dec. 4.

Judge Timothy Corrigan said that Brown's hearing will take place as scheduled Thursday, but that he will not announce his sentence for several weeks.

Sentencing hearings will take place as scheduled on Wednesday for Brown's co-conspirators, Carla Wiley and Ronnie Simmons.

Corrigan also set time limits on Brown's character witnesses. Three of them can speak for five minutes; everyone else is afforded two minutes. Brown's attorney said he plans to bring dozens of witnesses to testify to Brown's good works and contributions to the community.

Corrigan said he wants to take the matter of the trio's sentencing decisions under advisement and will release the decisions on Dec. 4 at 10 a.m.

"There is going to be an entire two-day sentencing for all the defendants that are getting sentenced," said Randy Reep, an attorney not affiliated with the case. "That is a lot for Corrigan to go over. The idea of ruling right from the bench and having the gavel fall is Hollywood style, but that is not how the law is really done."

Brown, 71, was found guilty of 18 counts of federal mail, wire and tax fraud for soliciting donations for a fake charity, using that charity as a "slush fund" for herself and her associates, and lying on her taxes and congressional disclosure forms.

Brown asked twice for the sentencing hearing to be delayed, but those motions were denied.

A court officer will recommend that Brown be ordered to serve seven to nine years in federal prison, but Corrigan does not have to follow that recommendation.
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#1  No mention of the party affiliation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 3:08 Comments || Top||

#2  She must have been too obvious in her stealing. See Hilda, F. Wilson or Maxine for how its done successfully.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Brown, 71, was found guilty of 18 counts of federal mail, wire and tax fraud for soliciting donations for a fake charity, using that charity as a "slush fund" for herself and her associates, and lying on her taxes and congressional disclosure forms.

and wearing really bad wigs
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't worry the MSM will cover Roy Moore instead.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/14/2017 10:56 Comments || Top||

#5  and wearing really bad wigs

And yet Maxine Waters roams free.
Posted by: charger || 11/14/2017 16:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
'Colin Kaepernick Is A GQ 'Man Of The Year
If you are reliably leftist like a fair number of these recipients are, that's how you bag these awards, given out by fellow leftists.
GQ magazine certainly isn’t shying away from attention with the cover for its 2017 Men of the Year issue. Colin Kaepernick will be the face on the cover of the publication’s December issue, a provocative choice that is sure to generate a sizable amount of controversy.

Those who prefer a cover without Kaepernick can potentially choose the other covers produced for GQ’s Men (and Women) of the Year issue, which include Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert and Gal Gadot, now known throughout the world as Wonder Woman. Which cover subscribers might receive in the mail is a toss-up, of course.
As I noted in the comments, 'Enjoy this award, Colin - it's not like you're getting Super Bowl MVP anytime soon!'
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#1  I've decided to wrap my Keurig in a GQ magazine and a Kaeperrnick jersey and set it on fire.
Posted by: anymouse || 11/14/2017 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't vote. He should have gone for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Do I need to state "with sarcasm?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, he has destroyed the NFL.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/14/2017 16:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Boerboel and Chihuahua breeding, it's just not done. Teresa Kaepernick might agree.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2017 16:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Wonder who at GQ thought up dressing him like an extra in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!

And...is that a cicada on his necklace? Potsticker? Seriously, I thought fashion was what GQ is; this is a silly photo.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#7  GQ and Esquire, home of The Mangina™
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/14/2017 19:48 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
2 soldiers martyred in attack on Pak-Afghan border checkpost: ISPR
[DAWN] At least two soldiers were martyred and four others injured in a suspected Death Eater attack on a checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
on Monday, according to an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement.

"Terrorists from [the] Afghanistan side attempted [an] attack on Pak posts along [the] Pak-Afghan border in Bajaur Agency. The attempt was effectively responded killing 8-10 fleeing turbans while many seen running back [were] injured," ISPR said.

The martyred soldiers were identified as Capt Junaid Hafeez and Sepoy Raham.

"The absence of Afghan [state] writ on [the] Afghan side of the border, like many other areas, facilitate turbans to undertake such attempts," ISPR said.
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Hekmatyar calls warmongers as ‘humiliated enemies’
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
once again slammed the parties involved in the conflict calling them as humiliated warmongers waging insurgency and violence based on the missions of the foreigners.

Hekmatyar made the remarks during a meeting with the Jihadi leaders and tribal elders of northern Kunduz province.

He said those who are seeking their interests based on a mission given to them are waging war and violence in Kunduz and other parts of the country.

The leader of Hezb-e-Islami further added that the warmongers have lost their status and support among the people and the nation will not stand behind them after this.

He did not disclose further information regarding the groups or individuals sparking violence but in the past Hekmatyar has strongly condemned the insurgency led by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, other Death Eater groups and irresponsible armed individuals.

Hekmatyar joined grinding of the peace processor in September last year after months of negotiations with the Afghan high peace council.

The peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami was signed amid optimisms the agreement will pave the way and encourage other groups to join grinding of the peace processor, specifically the Taliban group.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the ongoing efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to end the violence through reconciliation have not yielded any positive results so far.
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Terror Networks
Bin Laden’s Machiavellian plan and his coordination with Iran and Qatar in Libya
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
did not perceive the Arab uprisings of 2011 as a young democratic spring born on Facebook and Twitter; he rather saw it as an opportunity and a major breakthrough for bully boys.

In his recently published diary, Bin Laden asserts that the uprisings will not stop at its centers, but will expand to include the entire region and the fall of all its regimes. He asserts that he and Al Qaeda and its offshoots, especially the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, must create alliances and coordinate with whoever has the best interest in witnessing the fall of these regimes, especially Iran and Qatar
Continued on Page 49
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#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Reads like something from RAND Corp.
Wait...oh, nevermind.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/14/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||



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