At least we were spared the smug, condescending lecture, so there's that...
[RealClearPolitics] On CNN New Day Wednesday morning, possible 2020 Democratic contender Elizabeth Warren was asked about the prospect of Oprah Winfrey running for president.
"Senator Warren, last question. Oprah Winfrey for president, your thoughts?" co-host Alisyn Camerota asked.
"You know, wasn't that a fabulous speech?" Warren said. "And hearing Oprah's voice and her energy and passion and her determination, it's inspiring to all of us, and she shows great leadership. And I am delighted that she's doing it."
"I don't know" if America is ready for another celebrity billionaire president, she said. "Here's what I do know. We are right now in the middle of fights that will determine our future for generations to come." She's fighting for me, and for you! Group hug, everybody!
I'm not sure how I feel about this guy; less than enthusiastic is my current take. Yours (Frank G, Abu Uluque) will probably differ!
[ZeroHedge] In an ironic twist, just moments after Trump requested a "tough primary" for California Senator Dianne Feinstein for leaking the Fusion GPS interview transcript, he is losing California Republican Rep, and the richest member of Congress, Darrell Issa, who announced moments ago that he is retiring and won't seek re-election.
Issa, an influential republican in the House, has been in Congress since 2001, and his most high-profile role was as House Oversight Committee chairman during former President Obama’s presidency, a position he used to hold many hearings on what he viewed as govt misdeeds. Issa, considered the richest member of Congress worth up to $768 million, and his wife ran the nation’s largest manufacturer of vehicle anti-theft devices before selling the co. in 2000.
Below is Roll Call's wealth of congress index, putting Issa's wealth in context. I know ZH isn't the most sane website out there, but I guess one thing will never change - class warfare works.
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He was likely going to lose anyway. Hollywood and Donks (BIRM) had a target on him
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Someone is paying a small crowd to hold up anti-Issa signs on an intersection in Encinitas. They do it about once a week and its been going on for some time. Wonder if its slowly moving poll numbers.
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A somewhat more reliable source, although 10 News San Diego is the local ABC/MSM affiliate. He's on the way out, though.
I was disappointed when he voted against the tax bill. He said it would hurt his constituents but those are the very wealthy constituents who could deduct more than $10,000 in state and local taxes so that was certainly not in my best interests. I would have preferred that he talk about why California has such incredibly high income and property taxes.
My lasting impression is that he usually said the right things but never got much done. I hope we can get a real conservative to replace him but, yeah, Pelosi will spend a lot on this district.
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More than 100 women signed an open letter Tuesday arguing against the #MeToo movement.
The letter, signed by renowned French actress Catherine Deneuve as well as writers, historians, journalists and entertainers, was published in Le Monde to "we defend freedom to importune, indispensable to sexual freedom."
"Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or back-handedly, is not ‐ nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack," the letter said.
"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone’s knee or try to steal a kiss."
[PJ] In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the "the migrant crisis" is, in effect, "an invasion."
When asked by Bild why Hungary hasn't deemed itself able to welcome two thousand refugees while Germany has let in two million of them, Orban answered: "[T]he difference is: you want those migrants. We do not. We do our job by closing the Schengen-border with Serbia. Doing so has cost us one billion euros since 2015 and Brussels pays us nothing for it."
"The solution to this problem isn't to divide people who are illegally in the EU among EU member states. We believe that we have to solve the root of the problem instead of bringing these immigrants here [Europe]," the prime minister continued.
"We do not consider these people as Muslim refugees. We consider them as Muslim invaders. To travel to Hungary from Syria they have to cross through four other countries that are, although not as rich as Germany, certainly stable. They don't flee for their lives. This proves that they are economic migrants seeking a better life," Orban concluded.
Bild then asked Orban whether this makes those migrants inferior in some way. "If someone wants to come to your home," the PM answered, "then he knocks on the door and asks: 'Can we come in, can we stay?' They did not do that. Instead, they broke through the border illegally. That was not a wave of refugees, that was an invasion."
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Two 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.... hotbeds were destroyed Tuesday during a military operation at Hawi al-Azim area in northern Diyala, a military commander was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Tuesday, Commander of Tigris Operations Lieutenant General Mazhar al-Ezzawi said, "Security forces destroyed two hideouts of Islamic State and detonated a booby-trapped vehicle during a military operation that was launched on Monday to cleanse the western parts of Hawi al-Azim area in northern Diyala from Islamic State remnants."
"The Tigris Operations Command is determined to totally purge every inch in Diyala from Islamic State," he added.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has said troops are still following the remnants of 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.... , adding that his country will achieve prosperity like it defeated terrorism.
In a speech on occasion of celebrating the 96th anniversary of Police, Abadi said, "We are still following the remnants of the defeated bandidosbandidos hard boys in the desert and al-Jazira. We will conquer them."
"Congratulations to the champions of the Interior Ministry on their day, which comes at times of great victories against Islamic State," Abadi added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... the Saudi Okaz newspaper has quoted an Iraqi security report as saying that around 3,000 IS members are still at Nineveh desert, in addition to hundreds of snuffies in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Diyala and Salahuddin.
The report tackled logistic support that the snuffies still receive from unknown resources, according to sources speaking to Okaz. It was unclear if the report discussed presence of a plan for the snuffies to control regions between Diyala and Salahuddin through blocking all roads leading to them.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – One person was killed and two others were injured in a bomb blast in Baghdad Tuesday, a security source was quoted as saying.
“An explosive charge went off near the industrial district at Taji district north of Baghdad, leaving a civilian dead and two others injured,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“Ambulances rushed to the blast site and carried the dead body to the forensic medicine department, and the injured to hospital for treatment,” the source added.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – While Iraqis celebrate the 96th anniversary of the Iraqi Police Day, an Iraqi cop was injured in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
“An explosive charge went off while a police patrol was passing by Taji district north of the Iraqi capital, leaving a policeman injured,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Baghdad Today.
“The injured policeman was carried to hospital for treatment,” the source said.
In a related development, the same source said, “Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a vehicle at al Jihad neighborhood in western Baghdad.”
“The attack left the driver, who works for the Mayoralty of Baghdad, dead,” the source added.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq is getting USD75 million from the United States for stabilization efforts, while setting more than USD208 million for the reconstruction of war-scarred areas.
"U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman announced today that the U.S. government is providing $75 million in additional funding to help stabilize Iraq following its full liberation from ISIS," the embassy said in a statement on Tuesday.
"The United States plans to provide a total of $150 million for stabilization efforts in 2018, which will bring the total U.S. contribution to $265.3 million since 2015," the statement added.
"Strengthened by this new funding, the stabilization program will continue to help the populations of liberated areas return to their homes and resume normal lives by restoring services such as water, electricity, health, and education," it noted, adding that the funding will partly address the needs of ethnic minorities affected by 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.... presence.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Iraqi government has earmarked IQD248 billion (USD208.320 million) for the reconstruction of areas damaged by the war against Islamic State Death Eaters since 2014.
Mostafa al-Hiti, head of the Reconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terrorist Operations (REEFATO), told Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah that areas included within the fund’s operations include Anbar, Salahuddin, Nineveh, parts of Diyala, Kikruk, northern Babil and the Baghdad Belt.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has inaugurated a Kurdish emir for the first time at the region between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a senior security source said on Tuesday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, on condition of anonymity, the source said, “IS inaugurated for the first time one ots Kurdish leaders as an emir at Mutaibija region, on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin.”
The Kurdish leader, according to the source, “was working at the so-called Kirkuk State.”
On Monday, Jabbar al-Maamouri, senior leader with al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said in remarks that the militant group executed some of its members in Salahuddin province for refusing to carry out suicide attacks.
Mutaibija has complicated terrain, with numerous hills that serve as a good hideout for militants. Occasional attacks have been witnessed there by Islamic State against government and paramilitary troops deployments since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and PMUs, launched a major offensive to retake areas occupied by IS since 2014.
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – Two Islamic State militants were killed during a security operation in a border area between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a police command was quoted as saying Tuesday.
“A joint security force from Diyala police and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) carried out a military operation in Mtaibijh border area between Diyala and Salahuddin, killing two Islamic State militants,” the Diyala Police Command said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Mawazin News.
“The troops also destroyed four hotbeds that were used by the terrorist Islamic State group for storing foodstuffs,” the statement read.
“In addition, 10 mortar shells were seized and 12 bombs were dismantled during the military operation,” the statement added.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave with relics of tortured women was found in west of Mosul city, Nineveh, a police source was quoted saying on Monday.
“Relics of 20 women were found inside a mass grave while removing debris in western Mosul,” Col. Omar al-Hajjar told DPA.
The victims, according to Hajjar, “were executed by Islamic State as they were trying to escape toward the eastern side of the city during the liberation offensives last year.”
“Security troops recovered all the bodies along with their identity cards. They were transferred to forensic medicine department in Mosul to extradite them to their relatives,” he added.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.
Last week, MP Farah al-Siraj said 4,000 bodies are still under the debris in the Old City of Mosul.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh provincial council has denied finishing 50 percent of the rehabilitation works in the western side of Mosul, saying that reconstruction had not started yet, but just removal of the rubble.
In remarks on Tuesday, Mohamed Ibrahim, member of the council, said, “talks about reconstructing 50 percent the western flank of the city are totally untrue.”
“Only 40 percent of electricity distribution and water networks are rehabilitated in western Mosul, in addition to opening of some schools,” he added. “The reconstruction works have not started yet, but only removal of debris.”
Ibrahim noted that “the reconstruction of Mosul requires a lot of money as well as long time.”
On Monday, Federal Police Chief Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat said police forces finished 50 percent of their works to rehabilitate war-scarred areas of western Mosul. Refugees have been repatriated from camps to their living areas in addition to reopening of schools and bridges.
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May their families find Strength & be Comforted. May their murderers see Justice.
Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces on Tuesday advanced further and made more arrests as a recent operation continues to clear areas in Kirkuk province from remnant Islamic State militants.
The Popular Mobilization Forces said through their media that troops, backed by Iraqi army divisions completed the clearing of five villages northeast of the town of Hawija, Islamic State’s former stronghold in Kirkuk.
It said it seized munitions belonging to the group, and continue to chase fleeing militants at areas surrounding Hawija.
Hussein Ali Najm, commander of the PMF’s 56th birgade, said in a statement that troops had managed to arrest a large number of IS members at the eastern Hawija regions.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Paramilitary troops killed on Tuesday a senior religious leader in Islamic State group near a Kirkuk village, the troops’ spokesman was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alsumaria News, spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Forces’ northern axis Ali al-Hussieni said, “The PMF’s 16th brigade killed the so-called Islamic State mufti of Kirkuk and three of his companions during a military operation near a village at Daquq district in southern Kirkuk.”
The slain IS leader was identified as Abdul Qader al-Azzi.
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[Breitbart] A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.
The new regulations will make it impossible for asylum seekers and migrants who have lived off state handouts in the last three years to become citizens even if they have lived in Switzerland as permanent residents for the required time to make a citizenship application, Kronen Zeitung reports.
The previous law allowed migrants to apply for citizenship as long as they were not on state benefits at the time of their application.
Along with the welfare stipulation, the new act requires migrants to demonstrate a greater level of integration than before including making them prove they have a certain number of Swiss friends and acquaintances.
Language requirements vary by canton with most expecting an intermediate level of language proficiency judged on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at the B1 or B2 level.
While Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, asylum seekers have attempted to flood into the country through the southern Italian border. While many have used Switzerland as a transit country to reach Germany, others have remained in the Alpine state.
Various cantons and cities in Switzerland have attempted to push back against the tide of migrants by making it less appealing for them to come to the country. Late last year, the city of Zurich voted to dramatically cut benefits to failed asylum seekers who were in so-called "F-status" in which they cannot be deported.
[Spokesman Review] BOISE, Idaho ‐ An Idaho Republican state lawmaker who was under investigation for possible sexual abuse, died in an apparent suicide, according to authorities on Tuesday.
Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris said Brandon Hixon was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his Caldwell home early Tuesday morning. A family member discovered his remains.
Hixon, 36, was elected to the Idaho Legislature in 2012. At the time, Hixon was one of the youngest lawmakers elected to the Idaho House of Representatives.
He flew relatively under the radar during his time in the Statehouse until October, when he abruptly resigned from office after reports broke he was the subject of a criminal investigation for possible sexual abuse.
The Attorney General’s office was overseeing the investigation, but declined to comment Tuesday when contacted by The Associated Press.
"I hope that my efforts have helped improve the lives of my constituents in District 10, as well as all Idahoans," Hixon wrote in his resignation letter. "I will never forget all of my colleagues that I very much enjoyed working side by side with to make Idaho a better place for all."
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U.S. crude oil production is expected to climb to more than 10 million barrels per day (bpd) early in 2018, reaching that milestone for the first time since 1970, and to continue to surge into 2019 to a record high, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.
Production was expected to hit 10.04 million bpd during the first quarter of this year, the agency said in a monthly report. The 10 million-bpd milestone previously had not been expected to be reached until the fourth quarter.
The EIA revised its production growth forecast for 2018 sharply higher to 970,000 bpd from 780,000 bpd in its previous outlook.
U.S. output will be at an all-time high in 2019, surpassing 11 million bpd by the end of that year, a new high for national output, the EIA said in the report. The average production in 2019 will rise 580,000 bpd to 10.85 million bpd, the agency said in its first outlook for next year. Better than nuking Mecca
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Theoretically, our production exceeds our consumption and so we are a net exporter...right now we are ahead of KSA as the largest exporter of oil in the world...and we keep driving down oil prices as we get better at wringing oil out of those shale and tar sand deposits. Hence, the mass purge of dilettantes in the KSA royalty as they are having trouble meeting their budget goals with current oil prices.
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Well, a lot of that growth took place under Obama.
Riiiiight. Even Mitt called him on that fib. The growth took place in spite of Obama.
Thank you free enterprise. Well, relatively free enterprise.
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The United States produces 25% of the world's GDP with only 5% of the population. We have the world's most efficient economy by far. However I think that is racist or something.
[BBC] Japanese auto giants Toyota and Mazda have picked Alabama to build their new $1.6bn (£1.2bn) US factory, according to several reports. Graphic depicts Princeton, IN Toyota factory along US Route 41.
The firms revealed last year that they planned a US joint venture, with production scheduled to begin in 2021. At the time, President Donald Trump said the decision was "a great investment" in US manufacturing.
The choice for the factory location had reportedly been narrowed down to either Alabama or North Carolina. One US media outlet reported that North Carolina missed out because it did not offer the supply-chain logistics the two firms required.
The factory is expected to eventually produce 300,000 vehicles a year and employ about 4,000 people.
When contacted by the BBC, Toyota refused to confirm that Alabama had been selected, saying an announcement would be made "in early 2018". However US media was widely reporting a formal announcement would be made on Wednesday.
The auto industry is one area where President Trump has been pressuring overseas companies to do even more manufacturing in the US.
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So, an agreement between Ford and Toyota, as Ford owns Mazda.
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I'm surprised they didn't pick Detroit. Lots of vacant land and a skilled motivated union labor force.. Hell, you could even get an old auto plant for cheap, although you'd prolly have raze it an rebuild from the ground up.
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...oh, those Environmental statements and compliance with the clean up would just jack up the cost something frightful. Easier with untapped acreage.
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So, an agreement between Ford and Toyota, as Ford owns Mazda.
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Ford never owned more than 33.4% of Mazda (in the 1990s) and now has no interest in Mazda today since September 30, 2015, when Ford's shares had sunk to a little over 2% due to stock dilution, Ford sold its remaining shares in Mazda.
Ford-Mazda partership
[PJ] The Achilles' heel of the American government is the intelligence community, known as the IC to its intimates. Not that it doesn't have first-rate people, many of whom have worked in its nooks and crannies around the world for decades. Our information-gathering capability remains first rate, our field agents largely superb in their savvy and bravery. The problem, however, comes when that information gets transmitted back to the home offices in and around Washington, D.C. And there, depending in part on who's in power at the time, lies the rub.
The intelligence business has two sides: raw information, and analysis. One hundred percent accuracy in the first is one hundred percent useless should the latter be deficient. As it happens, the primus inter pares of the IC, the Central Intelligence Agency, is expressly designed to do both. As events from the fall of the Shah, the Iranian hostage crisis, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the events of 9/11 have shown, its track record is very spotty, and its failures attributable to analysis, not information. Seeing only what you want to see in information gathered by your colleagues, and then tailoring it for superiors who make political calculations first and informed judgments only second, is a recipe for disaster.
Comes now the news that -- surprise! -- the U.S. seriously underestimated the speed at which the rogue Communist state of North Korea has ramped up its nuclear program; a nuclear program that, let us not forget, was made possible by the Clinton administration:
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Seeing only what you want to see in information gathered by your colleagues, and then tailoring it for superiors who make political calculations first and informed judgments only second, is a recipe for disaster.
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So the same media that ridiculed and bitch slapped the Bush administration for CIA screw ups on Saddam's WMD now realizes that the CIA screwed the pooch on Kimmie's toys???
Memo to media, this is the same intel gathering clowns that are feeding you the Russian collusion narrative that you swear up and down is the gospel truth...
As I said before if I were an S-2 or a G-2, I would have to give CIA information an A-6...reliable source, unreliable information.
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Ah fuck all this shit and lies they get people to leave the intel community and all the computer dorks are friends with russia and the computer dorks are fucking russia and america and loving every fucking second of it! Playing off each side and laughing their asses off like the crapto coin divide the earnings into a share of that shit and you are talking thousandths and hundreds of thousands of a cent on a dollar not even a fucking penny! If the geek block heads fuck up tidal wave of sand castles and kingdoms going down the toilet !You never hear of them fucking up only the other country did it! Who is fucking who ?
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I find it hard to believe that the Nork desk was taken unaware. That upper management 'wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal' ('without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters') I find very believable.
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don't feed the trolls
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[Townhall] Shall this darkness and despair never relent? You already know that more than one million US workers have received tax reform-spurred bonuses, with at least 100 companies getting in on the act thus far, as even more corporations announcing new investment plans seemingly every day. We've covered the immediate fallout of the Republican tax law very closely, tracking the crimes against humanity wrought by this destructive Frankenstein monster, also known as the worst piece of legislation ever considered by Congress -- ranging from increased compensation, to enhanced hourly wages, to new hiring, to upgraded investments, to massive charitable contributions. Here is the latest atrocity, via the Darden restaurant group, which owns large national chains like Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse:
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Well, D'Oh! Management investing in employee loyalty is one thing. Being required to cover an ever increasing outlay on employee benefits is another. Bonuses are conditional on company well-being, the other can easily bankrupt a company -- not that the rentseekers or politicians really care.
[DailyMail] Massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Caribbean: Tsunami warnings issued for Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and more
The 7.6 magnitude earthquake occurred on Tuesday night at about 9.51pm
It struck in the Caribbean Sea just over 25 miles from the coast of Great Swan Island belonging to Honduras
The earthquake had a depth of 6.2 miles
A tsunami advisory was in effect for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
The wave could also potentially impact the coasts of Central American nations, including Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami advisory was in effect for hurricane-hit Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands after the earthquake and warned of possible waves up to 3 feet above tide level.
The wave could also potentially impact the coasts of Central American nations, including Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
Meanwhile the US National Weather Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned 'hazardous tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 1,000 kilometers of the earthquake epicenter'. It later said this threat had passed.
The quake rattled windows in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, which is roughly 323 miles to the east, but no damage was immediately reported.
It was also lightly felt in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, north of Honduras, according to Mexico's civil protection director. More at link, including maps, pictures and all the usual gory stuff.
[FoxNews] A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program, which shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation, Reuters reported, citing the judge's ruling.
Trump last year ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He gave Congress until March to find a fix.
Starting in March, young people protected under DACA were to lose their protections under the program.
As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval.
‐ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2018
Trump said he was willing to be flexible in finding an agreement as Democrats warned that the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants hung in the balance.
"I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with," Trump said during a Cabinet Room meeting with a bipartisan group of nearly two dozen lawmakers.
The Reuters report said U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the program must stay intact during litigation.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Trump appeared optimistic that Congress could reach a decision on the program.
Trump ended DACA in September. Immigration advocates estimate that more than 100 people a day lose the protected status because they did not renew their permits before the deadline, The Journal reported.
Trump is using border security‐including a border wall-- as a bargaining chip and Democrats want to use their sway on the spending bill to protect immigrants under DACA.
The plaintiffs in the suit included, among others, attorneys general from California, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and the University of California
Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, filed a motion seeking the preliminary injunction in November, saying that the move is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and causes "irreparable" harm to DACA recipients.
Becerra said in a statement late Tuesday that the ruling is a "huge step in the right direction."
"America is and has been home to Dreamers who courageously came forward, applied for DACA and did everything the federal government asked of them," he said. "They followed DACA's rules, they succeeded in school, at work and in business, and they have contributed in building a better America." I can't even...
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This is fucking ridiculous - an EO can be nullified by another EO. Judges should be disbarred for blocking this shit and Trump should just ignore these judges until the fight gets to the Supreme Court, just like his predecessor did on many occasions.
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So, what are the mechanisms for dealing with situations when judges exceed their authority?
Appeal it to the Supreme Court. San Francisco is in the 9th Circuit, so odds are good it will be overruled. I’m not sure, but I think this is where the ruling will be posted.
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If we really had a government of checks and balances, a fair handful of judges would be before Congress explaining why they should be allowed to keep their jobs (which is not being a aristocrat sitting for life and ignoring the Constitutional separation of powers).
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On March 24, 1999, Alsup was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by Thelton Henderson.[4] Alsup was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 30, 1999, and received his commission on August 17, 1999.
So, rule of law means little to him
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Another black robed tyrant decreeing what the law should be from the bench.
Long past time to start to treat them as dictators and lawless fucks and act accordingly.
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They are traitors and should be publically treated as such. Heck, send them to Gitmo and then vanish them into some nice place like Saudi where they can really enjoy their stay.
Five lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court for Northern California to reinstate DACA, with the lead case brought ironically by none other than Napolitano, who is now the president of the University of California. The cases were assigned to Judge William Alsup, a liberal Clinton-appointed judge who formerly clerked for the Supreme Court and served in the Clinton-era DOJ.
Alsup originally issued extraordinarily broad and invasive discovery orders to force the federal government—even the White House—to disclose a broad range of sensitive documents on DACA discussions, possibly including communications with President Trump that would be protected by executive privilege.
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco did not rein in Alsup, Sessions’ top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, went straight to the Supreme Court, which rejected Alsup’s order in a unanimous opinion.
Back in the federal trial court, Alsup’s latest decision rejected DOJ’s motion to dismiss the five lawsuits. Instead, he issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, ordering the Trump administration, “pending final judgment herein or other order, to maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis on the same terms and conditions that were in effect before the rescission on September 5, 2017.” The San Francisco-based district court further ordered the federal government to begin renewing work permits for DACA recipients.
DOJ can now take these cases back to the Ninth Circuit on an expedited basis, and request a stay of the district court’s reinstatement order while the appeal is ongoing. If the Ninth Circuit declines again to do so, then DOJ can immediately return to the Supreme Court and ask Justice Anthony Kennedy—who has jurisdiction over the Ninth Circuit—to issue a stay that will last until a final decision is rendered in the appeal.
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Just disband the 9th and set up about 3 new courts and make all the judges re-apply to be members of the new courts.
No different than layoffs when a company is diced and sliced by others in a non-chapt 11 situation.
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So, what are the mechanisms for dealing with situations when judges exceed their authority?
Something about lampposts, rope and assembly comes to mind.
[Free Beacon] The State Department waited nearly one year before standing up an independent investigative panel, known as an Accountability Review Board, to probe the unexplained attacks on U.S. personnel working in Cuba and their family members.
U.S. law requires the secretary of state to convene an ARB within 60 days after an incident of "serious injury" occurs to U.S. personnel serving abroad, which can be extended to 120 days if the secretary of state deems more time is needed.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson convened the board Dec. 11 and will formally notify Congress about its creation soon, Francisco Palmieri, the acting assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, told senators Tuesday during a Foreign Relations Committee oversight hearing on the attacks that on diplomats and other U.S. personnel in Cuba.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), who led the hearing, repeatedly criticized the State Department for failing to form the ARB until December when the first symptoms that diplomats had been harmed in Cuba occurred in late 2016.
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If it was the Mignonette or French shallot vinaigrette, it may have taken a while to get things in order. Multiple dining rooms, three kitchens and service pantries, etc. No small task.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s riveting spectacle of televised bipartisanship exposed the Democrats’ political weakness in the amnesty debate ‐ and also revealed remarkable GOP unity on the goal of ending the nation’s chain-migration system.
Time after time, Democrats pleaded for a quick passage of unpopular ’dreamer’ amnesty while also promising a later-meaning-never debate over popular immigration reforms, such as the elimination of the visa-lottery and the chain-migration system, which doubles the annual inflow of legal immigrants.
Time after time, in contrast, GOP leaders wrapped themselves in sympathy for the 670,000 DACA illegals while insisting that Congress must implement Trump’s popular policies by ending the huge visa-lottery and chain-migration programs which are slowly but steadily freezing Americans’ wages while turning Republican states blue.
A key moment came when Trump invited GOP Majority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy to shut down the Democrats’ demand for a quick amnesty by touting the president’s immigration priorities as a must-do item:
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I like Trump TV. It gives a level of transparency heretofore unknown. Trump TV is a good way to go around the MSM. It also reveals to the voters who the loser/obstructionists/bottlenecks are whether RINOs or Dems.
[Office of the Inspector General - Homeland Security] A new report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to face significant challenges with its screening of aliens who may have ties to terrorism. Auditors warn ICE may have missed opportunities to identify, apprehend, and adjudicate the status of aliens posing the highest risk to public safety and national security.
The report, "ICE Faces Challenges to Screen Aliens Who May Be Known or Suspected Terrorists (REDACTED)," concluded that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) faces significant limitations in implementing its Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounter Protocol (KSTEP). ICE established KSTEP to streamline the screening protocol of all aliens and to coordinate and exchange information with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Despite its implementation, the agency’s KSTEP policy fails to require continued screening of the majority of nearly 2.4 million aliens no longer in ICE custody but under ICE supervision. Continues.
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Auditors warn ICE may have missed opportunities to identify, apprehend, and adjudicate the status of aliens posing the highest risk to public safety and national security.
If ICE were subject to the intelligence community 'coordination' process, perhaps their "missed opportunities" were..... baked in.
[Khaama Press] A woman was killed and eight other non-combatants were killed in artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the incident took place on Monday after the Pak military opened artillery shelling on Sarkano district.
The district administrative chief of Sarkano Hanif Khairkhwa confirmed that several rounds of artillery shells landed in Shongari valley on Monday.
He said a woman was killed and eight other civilians from a local village were maimed in the shelling.
This is not the first time the eastern and some southern provinces of Afghanistan comes under rocket attack from the other side of the Durand Line.
The Pak officials are saying that the security forces of the country are only responding to the holy warriors attack.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the local officials in Kunar province saying that thousands of rounds of artillery and rockets have been fired on different parts of Kunar province since the start of the current Afghan year.
The Pak forces have also carried out artillery shelling on some parts of 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.. and Kandahar province where a brief clash also took place earlier last year between the Afghan and Pak forces.
[Khaama Press] The former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil unveiled the links between Syed Hamid Gilani and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network as Gilani’s recent remarks about Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has sparked furor among the officials and the Afghan people.
In an online statement, Nabil said Tuesday that Gilani has repeatedly transported a notorious leader of the Haqqani network in his personal car from Islamabad to Kabul in a bid to organize meeting with the detained Haqqani leader Anas Haqqani.
Nabil further added that the government is well aware that the deadly attacks in Kabul are being carried out by the Haqqani network but are claimed by ISIS group.
Nabil also added that efforts are underway by certain individuals for the release of Anas Haqqani but did not elaborate further regarding the efforts.
Gilani on Saturday claimed that all the members of the leadership council of the Taliban are based in Afghanistan.
He also went on to claim that the Taliban leaders are prepared to participate in peace talks with the Afghan government and that his party will form a delegation with the Ulema Council members to start peace efforts.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the Afghan intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), in a statement said Monday that it condemns the recent remarks by Gilani regarding the Taliban group leadership.
The statement further added that the Taliban group leadership council members are all based on the other side of the Durand Line and in key cities of Pakistain.
NDS in statement also added that the international community also has a well understanding regarding the issue regarding the Taliban safe havens in Pakistain.
[AlAhram] A Giza criminal court sentenced on Tuesday 23 people to life in prison, 223 others to 15 years, 22 to three years, and acquitted 109 on various violent offences committed during the 2013 dispersal of a sit-in in Giza’s Nahda Square in 2013.
In April 2015 the prosecution referred 379 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi to court over their participation in the Nahda sit-in in July 2013.
The Nahda protest, which took place in Giza near Cairo University, was one of two major sit-ins ‐ the other was in Cairo’s Rabaa El-Adaweya ‐ calling for Morsi’s reinstatement.
The defendants were charged with murder, attempted murder of two coppers, rioting, terrorising people, forming an gang, thuggery, vandalising public property, and possession of weapons.
The court has also ordered the defendants to pay compensation for vandalism; EGP 25.788 million to the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, EGP 2.902 million to Orman Park, EGP 10.9 million to Giza governorate, and EGP 137,000 to the Giza Zoo.
The verdict can be appealed before the Court of Cassation within 60 days.
Following the deadly dispersal of the sit-ins at Rabaa and Nahda on 14 August 2013, which left hundreds killed and thousands incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on a variety of charges, there was a wave of attacks by Morsi supporters on churches and cop shoppes around Egypt.
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[IsraelTimes] An Iranian reformist politician says some 3,700 people were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the days of protests and unrest that roiled Iran over the past two weeks, offering a far higher number than authorities previously released.
The protests, which vented anger at high unemployment and official corruption, were the largest seen in Iran since the disputed 2009 presidential election, and some demonstrators called for the overthrow of the government. At least 21 people have been killed in the unrest surrounding the protests.
The official news website of the Iranian parliament, icana.ir, quotes Mahmoud Sadeghi of Tehran as saying that different security and intelligence forces detained the protesters, making it difficult to know the exact number of detainees. He did not elaborate, nor did he say where he got the figure.
Previously, authorities have said "hundreds" were arrested in Tehran alone, not offering a total figure for arrests as the demonstrations spread into the Iranian countryside, including small towns.
Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has said about 42,000 people at most took part in the anti-government protests. Sadeghi’s figure of arrested offered Tuesday would mean nearly nine percent of those who demonstrated were arrested.
[Khaama Press] At least three holy warriors affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were blown up by own explosives 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 local security officials said the incident took place late on Sunday in the vicinity of the restive Achin district.
The officials further added that the holy warriors were looking to plant an Improvised Explosive Device in Ghani Khel area when the incident took place, leaving three of them dead.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups including the ISIS holy warriors have not commented regarding the report so far.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups frequently use explosives materials for the roadside kaboomings and boom-mobileings to target the government staff and security personnel.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... in majority of such incidents the ordinary civilians are targeted besides such bombings incur casualties to the security personnel and in some cases the Talibs themselves are killed or maimed.
Earlier, a big shot of the Pak Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), was killed in an kaboom triggered by own explosives in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Army said the Taliban leader Jan Wali who was also famous as Ahmad Sheena was killed in Shaltan district late in December.
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[Khaama Press] At least three turbans affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in Arclight airstrikes conducted in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps in the East said the airstrikes were carried out on Monday in the vicinity of Suki district.
According to Silab Corps, a Dshk heavy machine gun, a PKM machine, and a rocket launcher belonging to the holy warriors were also destroyed in the airstrike.
The anti-government armed bully boy groups including the ISIS turbans have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan army in the East said Monday that the ISIS turbans launched a coordinated attack on public uprising and Afghan local Police forces in Suki district.
A statement by the Silab Corps said the Afghan armed forces launched artillery and airstrikes in response to the ISIS attacks in Deriwa Gul valley.
The statement further added that twelve ISIS turbans were killed and around thirty others were maimed during the operations.
Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in East of Afghanistan where the anti-government armed turbans including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS gunnies are actively operating in some of its and often carry out insurgency activities.
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[Khaama Press] The Afghan national defense and security forces have jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! three key members of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group during an operation in Southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said Tuesday that the bandidosLions of Islam were arrested from the vicinity of Zeruk district.
"Yesterday, three senior members of armed Taliban were arrested during an Afghan National Police ambush in the Zirok district, southeastern Paktika province," the statement.
MoI further added "One vehicle, one radio handset and some amount of ammunition seized as well.
The group was the main planner and organizer of terrorist and destructive activities, armed assault and kabooms in different parts of Paktika province."
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including the Taliban Lions of Islam have not commented regarding the report so far.
Paktika is among the relatively restive province in southeastern parts of the country where the Taliban Lions of Islam and bandidosLions of Islam belonging to the other groups including the notorious Haqqani terrorist network are actively operating in some of its remote and restive districts.
Earlier, at least one turban was killed and six others were maimed during an Arclight airstrike in Barmal district of Patkika.
[Bangkok Post] Three people detained in connection with the arson attack on a passenger bus in Yala province on December 17 have confessed to carrying out the strike on the orders of two insurgents leading a group in Yala, a security source said Monday. The two insurgents are Abdulloh Tapohto and Ahama Luebaesa, both of whom remain at large in the area, the source added.
Four suspects were initially detained a few days after the attack, which resulted in no casualties or major injuries as the passengers were ordered off the bus before it was set on fire. When the bus stopped, 10-15 armed men dressed like soldiers emerged from roadside bushes and ordered everybody off the vehicle. They then doused the vehicle with gasoline and set it alight before leaving the scene.
Another 20 suspects were apprehended in a series of raids carried out late last week, the source said. The raids were carried out by police, military rangers and local administrative officials in Bannang Sata district. The raids and subsequent detentions were kept secret.
Several suspects told investigators the attack was meant to undermine public confidence in the government's economic zone which is being implemented in the southern border provinces.
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem Police chief Yoram Halevy issues an order preventing a planned gathering in East Jerusalem of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... , a Paleostinian terror group.
The event was slated to take place Tuesday, but officers arrive at the scene and prevent it from taking place, according to Hebrew media reports.
Three organizers are taken for questioning.
The DFLP has been relatively inactive in recent years, but was once a prominent terror group. It carried out the infamous Ma’alot massacre in 1974 in which 25 people, most of them Israeli schoolchildren, were murdered.
[NBCNewYork] A New York state assemblywoman from Brooklyn who claims to be an advocate for Sandy victims has been accused of bilking FEMA and New York City's's Build it Back fund out of thousands of dollars following the monster 2012 storm.
Rep. Pamela Harris was named in an 11-count indictment charging her with cheating the two storm relief agencies out of thousands of dollars before and after she was elected to the State Assembly in 2017. The indictment also accuses the Coney Island Sorry, you have to hit the link to figure out her party affiliation. Or maybe not.
of stealing from New York City Council coffers while running a nonprofit and lying about her schemes during bankruptcy proceedings in 2013.
As part of the scheme, prosecutors and FBI agents said she claimed the storm forced her out of her home by Sandy and into a rental on Staten Island, only to pocket $24,800 in housing payments from FEMA while living in her Brooklyn home, from 2012 to 2014. She also lied on a NYC Build it Back assistance application about living at the first-floor Staten Island apartment and submitted a forged lease and rental receipts, according to the indictment.
"Both before and during her tenure as a public servant, as alleged, Assemblywoman Pamela Harris went to great lengths to defraud local and federal agencies out of thousands of dollars," said William Sweeney, the FBI's assistant director-in-charge.
He added, "In fact, at a time when many residents in her district were dealing with the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Harris was busy brewing a storm of her own, one that resulted in her receiving significant payouts by the very federal agency charged with helping those truly in need."
The indictment states that she also lied about the payments and claimed the landlord at the Staten Island apartment was giving her $1,200 in monthly rental assistance while under oath during a bankruptcy hearing in 2013.
The 57-year-old is also accused of stealing more than $30,000 from New York City council between 2013 and 2015 while serving as the executive director of Coney Island Generation Gap, a nonprofit also known as CIGG that aimed at mentoring low- and moderate-income children interested in media arts.
According to the indictment, Harris funneled money given to the nonprofit meant to rent a studio space to her own personal bank accounts. And in 2015, she withdrew $22,800 directly from CIGG's bank account and deposited into her personal checking account. Then, authorities said, she used the money to buy plane and cruise tickets for her and her spouse, pay her mortgage and make online purchases at Kohl's and Victoria's Secret.
According to the indictment, when Harris found out she was being investigated, she asked witnesses in the alleged schemes to lie for her.
"When she learned that law enforcement was investigating her various fraud schemes, she pressured witnesses to lie to the FBI and cover them up," said Richard Donoghue, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which is investigating the case. "This Office and our law enforcement partners are committed to ensuring that those who serve the public are held accountable under the law to the same extent as the people they are privileged to serve."
Harris -- who represents Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Dyker Heights and parts of other nearby neighborhoods -- faces up to 30 years behind bars if convicted of the top charge, related to making false statements to FEMA.
A representative for the state representative wasn't immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
According to her biography on the Assembly's website, Harris is described as a "vocal advocate for (Sandy) relief efforts and previously helped by personally delivering food, clothes and blankets for her displaced neighbors." She's also spoken about the storm and rebuilding efforts in open and recorded State Assembly hearings.
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[IsraelTimes] Victim of deadly drive-by shooting attack named as Rabbi Raziel Shevach, a father of six who lived in a nearby settlement.
Israeli troops launched a manhunt in the northern West Bank on Tuesday night, after a fatal terror attack in which an Israeli rabbi was rubbed out while driving down a highway outside Nablus, the army said.
Paleostinian media reported that Israeli troops had closed down roads in the area and had begun entering nearby Paleostinian villages in a search for the Death Eaters behind the shooting.
The military confirmed that it had set up road closures around the Nablus area, following a "situational assessment" by the head of the army’s Central Command, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, the head of the Judea and Samaria Division, Brig. Gen. Eran Niv, and the head of the Samaria Brigade, Col. Gilad Amit.
"A number of actions were decided upon in order to locate the Death Eaters who committed the shooting attack, including security checks upon entrances and exits to and from the city of Nablus and placing forces and security crossings across the city," the army said.
"Additional forces were called to the scene in order to complete missions in the area," the military said in a statement.
Following the shooting attack outside the Havat Gilad outpost, settlers from the nearby Yitzhar community entered the adjacent Paleostinian village of Burin and began throwing rocks at Paleostinian residents, the Israel Defense Forces said. IDF soldiers who arrived at the scene dispersed the rock-throwing settlers, an army spokesperson said. There were no reports of serious injuries.
In a rare move, the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terrorist group’s military wing released a statement praising the attack, calling it "heroic" and a sign of future attacks to come, though the organization did not take responsibility for the shooting.
"The attack outside Nablus is the first real response to show the leaders of the enemies and those that are behind them (the United States), that things that you fear ‐ are coming," Hamas said in a statement, according to the Ynet news site.
Israeli defense officials have repeatedly warned that Hamas is looking to carry out terror attacks in the West Bank.
Shortly before 8:00 p.m., 35-year-old father of six Rabbi Raziel Shevach was driving in his car on the highway near his home in the Havat Gilad outpost when shots were fired at him from a passing car. Shevach was shot in the neck, but managed to call his wife and tell her to call an ambulance.
Civilian and military medics rushed to the scene and tried to stop the bleeding as they took him to Kfar Saba’s Meir Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! Soldiers immediately began searching the area for the shooters.
Shevach’s funeral will be held at the Havat Gilad outpost at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
The head of the local settler council, Yossi Dagan, harshly criticized the government for failing to install security cameras in the area.
"If they had been (installed), these vile murderers would have been caught. Raziel was killed near the community of Gilad Farms, where there are no security apparatuses, despite repeated requests from my regional council," Dagan said in a statement.
"This terrible attack should be a tremendous warning sign," he added.
In November, Dagan launched a hunger strike along with representatives of bereaved families calling on the government to immediately transfer funds to improve West Bank’s security infrastructure. The campaign ended with an agreement signed by Netanyahu which puts in writing a pledge to include NIS 800 million ($228 million) in the 2018 budget to be used for West Bank roads and infrastructure development.
In December, the government approved an additional NIS 40 million ($11.5 million) grant for Israeli local and regional councils in the West Bank. Yesha settlement umbrella council front man Yigal Dilmoni told The Times of Israel then that the allocation is merely an allocation that the settlements receive annually.
Clashes reportedly broke out between Paleostinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank following the funeral of Rabbi Raziel Shevach who was murdered in a terror attack last night.
Reports in Hebrew-language media say no one was injured in the incident near the Paleostinian village of Farata, close to where the funeral for the Israeli victim was held.
Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli NGO, says the scuffles broke out when a group of 20 settlers returning home from the funeral broke windows at the houses of several Paleostinian residents.
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[GatestoneInstitute] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has an nine-year long record of supporting the Islamist cause while refusing to engage with reformist Muslims.
Perhaps most disturbing were Trudeau's comments to a gathering of Islamist front groups: he told them that he shared their beliefs, their set of values and their shared vision.
Canada will not be able to plead ignorance or inability while facing accusations of complicity from any future American terrorist victims.
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I'm pretty sure 90% of Canada's problems would be solved if Quebec had to go it alone. Why the rest of Canada puts up with it is beyond me. Trudeau is just another liberal idiot.
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[AlAhram] Egyptian police potted eight gunnies on Tuesday after a shootout broke out while security forces conducted a raid on a terrorist training camp in North Sinai’s El-Arish, the interior ministry said in a statement.
The raid was carried out based on intelligence obtained by the National Security agency, which indicated that the suspects were involved in several terrorist attacks in the governorate.
A number of weapons as well as improvised bombs (IEDs) were found at the site.
The suspects’ identities or affiliations have not yet been determined.
Most of the terrorist attacks that have taken place in North Sinai in recent years, which have mostly targeted security forces, have been claimed by the ISIS-affiliated North Sinai-based group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian ambassador reprimanded after Revolutionary Guard agent convicted and sentenced for targeting pro-Israel official
The German government has protested to the Iranian ambassador in the country following the conviction of an Iranian agent for spying on targets including a former German politician who headed a German-Israeli friendship group.
The Pak man was convicted in Berlin last year of espionage and sentenced to more than four years in prison. His targets included Reinhold Robbe, who headed the German-Israeli Association, and a French-Israeli economics professor.
Iranian Ambassador Ali Majedi was summoned to the Foreign Ministry just before Christmas. After German media reported on the meeting, the ministry said Tuesday he was told that "spying on people and institutions with a particular relationship to the State of Israel on German soil is a blatant violation of German law."
The ambassador was told that such activities would not be tolerated.
In March 2017, 31-year-old Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi was sentenced to four years and three months in prison "for working for a foreign intelligence service."
German media reported during the trial that local security agencies believe Robbe was being eyed by Tehran as a possible liquidation target in retaliation for an Israeli operation against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The court found he spied "against Germany and another NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member," La Belle France, for the al-Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
Syed-Naqfi compiled dossiers on possible attack targets with ties to Israel. Investigators found detailed files on the men and their daily routines, with hundreds of photos and video clips.
The court heard they detailed the targets’ homes and work places, various access routes to them, as well as information on security guards, surveillance cameras and nearby cop shoppes.
The service suspected the al-Quds Force was preparing for a possible future conflict with the United States and Israel, when it would hit targets in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in a form of "asymmetrical warfare."
The Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -born Syed-Naqfi came to Germany as a student in 2012 and most recently lived in the western city of Bremen.
The defendant traveled to Iran at least twice, in October 2015 and February 2016, and received at least 2,052 euros ($2,237) for his intelligence activities.
He was jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in July 2016, but declined to testify during the trial ‐ "out of fear," according to his lawyer.
[Variety] Steve Bannon is stepping down as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network, in the wake of the furor over quotes he made in Michael Wolff’s book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."
In an announcement, the site said that "Bannon and Breitbart will work together on a smooth and orderly transition."
"I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform," Bannon said in a statement.
Larry Solov, Breitbart CEO, said, "Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish."
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'Stepping down' is the polite way of saying 'tossed out on your ass'. The only thing missing is the obligatory 'we're going in a different direction' / 'wants to spend more time with his family'.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Tuesday a Paleostinian teenage girl who was found in possession of a utility knife and a bottle of gasoline at a bus stop in the central West Bank, the army said.
An Israeli civilian spotted the teenager behaving suspiciously at the Shiloh Junction, north of Ramallah. He drew his pistol and called on her to halt.
The girl then took out and threw away the knife that she had in her possession, an army spokesperson said.
A short while later, Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrived on the scene and placed her under arrest. During a search of her bag, they found the plastic bottle full of gasoline, the IDF said.
"She is now being questioned," the spokesperson said.
[Ynet] A Paleostinian man was tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in the Shilo Junction in Samaria following a suspected stabbing attempt. No injuries were reported.
[IsraelTimes] PM tells NATO ambassadors that Israeli intel has thwarted 'several dozen major terrorist attacks,' some involving civil aviation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday indicated that Israel has prevented hijacked airplanes from crashing into European cities.
"We have, through our intelligence services, provided information that has stopped several dozen major terrorist attacks, many of them in European countries," he told foreign diplomats in Jerusalem.
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[DAWN] China on Tuesday rejected the speculations that it was planning to establish a military base in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Gwadar district, NDTV reported.
In June 2017, a Pentagon report had singled out Pakistain as a possible location for a future Chinese military base. The prediction came in a 97-page annual report to Congress that read: "China most likely will seek to establish additional military bases in countries with which it has a longstanding friendly relationship and similar strategic interests, such as Pakistain." China had categorically denied the report at the time.
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If I wasn't such a suspicious sort, I'd kind of get the impression the whole gist of this crap is 'divide and conquer'.
[ZeroHedge] A math education professor at Brooklyn College contends in a recent academic article that "meritocracy" in math classes is a "tool of whiteness."
Laurie Rubel implicates both meritocracy and "color-blindness" as ideological precepts that hold back racial minorities from succeeding in math classes in an article for the peer-reviewed Journal of Urban Mathematics Education. By now, this is 'same shit, different day' for most of us, so I just did a few 'graphs.
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Why don't we just take everyone who believes this and put them together somewhere and watch them take care of themselves. For example, put them to work in sales in Silicon Valley . . . .
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The classic science fiction story by H. Beam Piper Omnilingual(1957) has the humans investigating an alien city. The Rosetta Stone they use to understand is science, the Universal Language, a concept that this person does not grasp.
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Her research interests include probabilistic thinking, teacher education, diversity and equity in mathematics education, and the use of real-world urban contexts in the teaching of mathematics. In 2002-03, Rubel was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as part of the Diversity in Mathematics Education Center for Learning and Teaching.
She pretty much checked all the usual boxes, except "Competent"
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The real issue purposely ignored by the tenured liberal university endoctrination professors is that their public school liberal counterparts do a crappy job of teaching.
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[Ynet] Germany's highest court on Tuesday halted the deportation of a Ottoman Turkish citizen convicted of supporting an Islamist Death Eater organization, saying authorities should first ensure he wouldn't face torture or inhumane prison conditions in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The Federal Constitutional Court overturned a ruling by a lower court that ordered the deportation of the man, who was born and raised in Germany, after he was convicted of travelling to Syria and supporting a "terrorist organization."
Nearly a thousand people are believed to have left Germany to fight with Islamist Death Eaters. Some are now returning as the jihadist group's presence in the Middle East crumbles.
[AlAhram] A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence on Tuesday against four people convicted of forming a terrorist cell in Giza in a 2014 case.
The court, which has set a 19 February session to issue its final verdict, has referred the sentence to the Grand Mufti, the country’s top religious authority, whose opinion is legally required in death penalty cases but is not binding.
The defendants were charged with forming a cell that aimed to carry out attacks on members of the judiciary, attacks on public and private property, and protesting without consent.
The February court session will include verdicts for all 30 defendants in the case, which will be subject to be appeal.
[Ynet] A 37-year-old Syrian mathematician has been formally charged in Germany on allegations of promoting 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, obtaining bomb-making instructions and other crimes, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The man, who wasn't identified, is alleged to have posted videos on social media between July and December 2016 in which he urged support for IS and attempted to solicit new recruits for the group.
German prosecutors said they considered another post, in which the suspect praised the killing of Jordanian author Nahed Hattar , a prominent critic of IS, to constitute incitement.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has suspended military and intelligence cooperation with the United States in the wake of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's allegation that Pakistain has given the US "nothing but lies and deceit" and suspension of security aid for Pakistain, Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said while addressing a gathering at Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Speaking during a seminar titled 'Contours of Security Environment of Pakistain', Khan said the US is facing defeat in Afghanistan despite spending billions of dollars. He alleged that the US is using Pakistain as a 'scapegoat' for its failures in Afghanistan.
"Pakistain does not want to put a price on its sacrifices but wants them to be recognised," the defence minister said, adding that Pakistain will not allow Afghanistan's war to be fought on Pak territory.
Khan also said that the US is busy in a blame game against Pakistain rather than providing it with assistance to secure the Pak-Afghan border.
The US Embassy in Islamabad said it had not been informed about the suspension of military cooperation by Pakistain.
"We have not received any formal communication regarding a suspension," Embassy front man Richard Snelsire said, according to VOA news.
Answering a question during the seminar, the defence minister said that Pakistain took the right steps by blocking NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies to Afghanistan in the aftermath of 2011 attack at Salala check post.
But Pakistain is not taking the same route after Trump's recent tirade as it is a "leverage we want to use at the appropriate time", he clarified.
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Huh. After they sheltered bin Laden for years, I wonder what the difference will be
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Cooperation may not mean the same thing in Arabic that it does in English...
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How can we tell?
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Guess the 19th hole around Washington DC won't be the same no tea boys after a grueling day of dorky clothing back room deals to sell out the country and ass sex in the bushes ahhhhh wahhhhh!
[DAWN] North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South, the rivals said on Tuesday after their first formal talks in more than two years following high tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
The two sides also decided to hold military talks and to restore a military hotline closed since February, 2016.
Seoul and Olympic organisers have been keen for Pyongyang ‐ which boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in the South Korean capital ‐ to take part in what they repeatedly proclaimed a "peace Olympics" in Pyeongchang next month. But the North had given no indication it would do so until leader Kim Jong-Un's New Year address last week, instead pursuing its banned weapons programmes in defiance of United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... sanctions, launching missiles capable of reaching the United States and detonating its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
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The stage is being set for South Korea to send danegeld aid to North Korea once again, thus rendering obsolete the nominally tightened sanctions.
The new US administration declared an end to strategic patience.
Kim Jong Un made the strategic decision to ignore the Trump administration's rhetoric and respond with provocative missile tests and a hydrogen bomb detonation.
Now it looks like KJU made the right decision and will we rewarded generously. This will have global consequences, all of them bad for the West.
Maybe the election of Trump was nothing more than Western civilization's final dead cat bounce.
[DAWN] The Israeli army carried out air strikes and fired rockets at targets in Syria overnight, causing damage near a military position, the Syrian army said on Tuesday.
Israel's military has carried out several attacks on the Syrian army and its ally Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011.
The Israeli air force conducted strikes on the Qutayfeh area northeast of Damascus, causing the Syrian army to retaliate and "hit one of its planes", the Syrian army said in a statement.
Syrian air defences intercepted one rocket, but several more hit "near a military position, causing material damage," it added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the air strikes targeted Syrian army and Hezbollah weapon depots. The strikes sparked "successive kabooms and fires, causing material damage" in the depots, where land-to-land missiles have been stored among other weapons, the Observatory said.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Ministry of Defense has decided to transfer all office computers to the operating system Linux-based Astra Linux of the Moscow-based company RusBITEkh, the Izvestia newspaper reported, citing sources in the ministry.
The expanded version, Astra Linux Special Edition, with a built-in office suite will be used on the ministry's working computers, and on the next stage it will be used on smartphones and tablets, the newspaper said. If the new operating system meets military requirements, it will be installed on all computers in the ministry and will be the main one for automated control systems and workplaces, servers and on-board military equipment.
Dmitry Donskoy, Deputy CEO of RusBITEkh, confirmed the information to the newspaper. "A key feature of Astra Linux Special Edition is the unique system of information protection. The operation system is fully compatible with modern Russian-made computers. It works with high-tech domestic processors Elbrus, Baikal-T1 and Komdiv. They are the 'heart' of the last-generation supercomputers," he said.
As the publication notes, the Astra Linux system has been used by the Russian Armed Forces for several years, in particular, the information system of the Russian National Defense Control Center (NDCC). In addition, it is already used today in existing models of weapons and military equipment and in a number of promising projects.
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Main thing is it is free, as in , no money up front!
I suspect the issue is not the cheapness, but the fact that you get the source code and can see what is going on under the hood with your operating system.
My first IT job involved running the burster and decollater; moved up eventually to the plug boards on the card sorter. 10 years later I went to CDC and started bit banging for real.......those were the days my friend.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's military will continue its operation in Syria's Afrin and Manbij regions, President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said on Tuesday during a parliamentary address to his ruling AK Party.
In 2016, Turkey launched the Euphrates Shield operation on its Syrian border to eradicate what it called a "corridor of terror", made up by the dual threat of 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.... and Syrian Kurdish fighters.
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Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has released footage of the moment its forces shot down an F-15 fighter jet belonging to the Saudi-led coalition. American equipment destroying American equipment.
The video released by the Houthi-run al-Masirah television network early on Tuesday shows the exact moment when the aircraft is hit by a surface-to-air missile while flying over the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, the previous day. Looks like he was flying straight, turned on the afterburners, dropped two flares and then boom. No evasive maneuvers?
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Looks like he was flying straight, turned on the afterburners, dropped two flares and then boom. No evasive maneuvers?
On the other hand, I can guarantee that he's a member of a clan closely allied to House of Saud
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...Notice though that as spectacular as the video is, there is no indication that the -15S actually went down - I'm thinking what we saw here is a MANPADS (think Stinger, or other man-portable SAM) shot that didn't QUITE reach it's intended target. I'm guessing the Eagle driver needed new underwear when he got back, but he's otherwise okay.
Mike
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Best plane in the world is only as good as the pilot and mechanics.
Jack O’Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs for Lockheed Martin, at a presentation said that the SR72 could not have been made without digital transformation. This seems to indicate that a hypersonic vehicle has been built.
The SR72 is a mach 6+ hypersonic precision bomber that can also act as a spyplane.
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There have been wild-eyed guesses about a "above supersonic" methane-fueled spy plane, like the hypothetical SR-75 Aurora, percolating for a decade. It will be interesting to see what is actually behind the smokescreen.
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digital transformation means the danged thing wouldn't fly and was aerodynamically unstable and unflyable without a bunch of computers working their asses off to keep it going in one direction and in one piece...much like the dear departed F-119
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Let's not forget the $100 billion/per plane price tag. Hell, we can nuke anyone we want to spy on out of existence for less than the cost of alot of these programs.
[IsraelTimes] A German-Ottoman Turkish soccer player whose car was shot at on a German highway is in a "safe place" and receiving police protection after the apparent liquidation attempt, his lawyer says.
Deniz Naki, who plays in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and is known for his pro-Kurdish views, was unharmed in the shooting late Sunday which he believes was linked to his criticism of the Ottoman Turkish government.
The 28-year-old tells German media his SUV came under fire from a black van on the A4 motorway near the western town of Dueren, leaving two bullets lodged in his car.
"I was afraid for my life," says German-born Naki, who plays for the third-tier club Amedspor in the majority-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. "I am a walking target in Turkey because of my pro-Kurdish stance," he is quoted as saying.
German prosecutors have opened an investigation into attempted murder, and coppers have since taken Naki to "a hidden location" as a precaution, his lawyer Soran Haldi Mizrak tells the DPA news agency.
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Third-tier Turkish club player - the dude sucks. Since this isn't the first time he's gotten into hot water, I'm inclined to say someone in Turkey's government wants this guy to take the dirt nap.
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Erdogan's thugs don't get much range time.
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Most of the talented goons have been purged. The key marker of a Gulenist is a drive toward excellence and success, like the Calvinists. In order not to get caught in the Erdogan net...
[FOX] An attorney for the co-founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS revealed during a closed-door interview this summer with congressional investigators that "somebody's already been killed" as a result of the publication of the anti-Trump dossier.
The statement was contained in a 312-page transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's August interview with committee investigators, released unilaterally Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
The release itself provoked controversy, with an aide to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, calling it "confounding" for Feinstein to drop the transcript in the "middle of an ongoing investigation."
Among the many revelations in the document, though, is the claim from Simpson's attorney that someone died because the dossier -- which was commissioned by Fusion GPS -- was publicly released.
"He wants to be very careful to protect his sources," attorney Josh Levy said during the Aug. 22 Senate Judiciary Committee interview of his client. "Somebody's already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work."
[DAWN] At least seven people were killed on Quetta's Zarghoon Road when a jacket wallah rammed into a parked police truck on Tuesday, injuring 16 people, police said.
Five coppers and two passers-by were among those killed, Inspector General of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Police Moazzam Jah Ansari told news hounds. He said eight copperswere maimed in the attack.
According to News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack, saying a suicide bomber targeted a police contingent returning from duty at the provincial assembly building.
IG Ansari said the suicide bomber had walked up to the scene and went kaboom! near the back of the police truck. He said the earlier impression that the attacker could have travelled to the truck on a cycle of violence was not correct.
Bomb Disposal Squad officials said 10 kilograms of explosives had been used in the attack. Most deaths occurred due to the impact from ball bearings and pellets stored in the bomber's suicide jacket, said the IG.
IG Ansari while talking to news hounds said he could "tell in advance" that the suicide bomber must have come from across the Afghan border, as DNA tests showed suicide bombers involved in previous attacks in Quetta were foreign nationals too.
He said the Lions of Islam had targeted police in the attack and not the Balochistan Assembly, which is in the same area, as the blast occurred an hour after the assembly session had ended.
The injured, which include security personnel and civilians, were shifted to Quetta Civil Hospital's trauma centre after being administered first aid, the hospital's front man told DawnNews.
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[BaltimoreSun] Federal prosecutors revealed in new court documents that indicted state Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks confessed to taking cash payments in exchange for official business before becoming an FBI cooperator and upending another bribery investigation.
The allegations come as Oaks prepares to begin his 30th legislative session in the General Assembly, which begins Wednesday. While the U.S. attorney’s office says Oaks confessed both to taking cash payments and to interfering with an investigation, he has pleaded not guilty and has a trial scheduled for mid-April, right after the legislative session concludes.
Neither Oaks nor his defense attorney could be reached for comment Friday evening.
Oaks, a Baltimore Democrat, is accused of taking $15,300 in cash from someone he thought was a “wealthy Texas businessman” but who was working for the FBI, prosecutors said in the new filing. After agreeing to cooperate with investigators, Oaks recorded himself accepting a $2,600 cash payment from an FBI target under a table at an Annapolis restaurant in March 2017 and told the target he would talk to legislators about a bill favorable to the bail-bond industry, federal prosecutors wrote.
But in subsequent encounters, at a St. Patrick’s Day party at an Annapolis bar and separately before a caucus meeting, Oaks told the FBI target: “I’m going to ask you for something. Just say no,” according to court documents.
The person who gave the $2,600 to Oaks, identified in court papers only as “Person #1,” was confronted by the FBI, and prosecutors say he admitted paying Oaks and another undisclosed elected official thousands of dollars over the years. The person paid for parties hosted by Oaks, as well as round-trip flights and hotel rooms in Las Vegas, according to documents.
Oaks was convicted in 1989 of stealing thousands of dollars out of his campaign account while serving in the House of Delegates. He regained his seat in 1994 and was appointed to the state Senate last year to replace a legislator who stepped down because of ill health. His salary as a state senator is $50,330 a year.
The person targeted by the FBI using Oaks told authorities that he needed the senator to support legislation favorable to the bail-bond industry, according to court documents. The documents say the person had ownership interests in a bail bond business as well as a company that provided home health care services.
The role of cash bail in pretrial release was one of the most heavily debated and aggressively lobbied issues of the 2017 session.
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They identified him in the the first paragraph due to the missing (R) after his name. Like the old Soviet papers, Americans have to learn to read the style to get to the real information.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] In an interview with German newspaper Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the "the migrant crisis" is, in effect, "an invasion."
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq is getting USD75 million from the United States for stabilization efforts, while setting more than USD208 million for the reconstruction of war-scarred areas.
[Breitbart] A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.
[Spokesman Review] BOISE, Idaho ‐ An Idaho Republican state lawmaker who was under investigation for possible sexual abuse, died in an apparent suicide, according to authorities on Tuesday.
[PJ] The Achilles' heel of the American government is the intelligence community, known as the IC to its intimates. Not that it doesn't have first-rate people, many of whom have worked in its nooks and crannies around the world for decades. Our information-gathering capability remains first rate, our field agents largely superb in their savvy and bravery. The problem, however, comes when that information gets transmitted back to the home offices in and around Washington, D.C. And there, depending in part on who's in power at the time, lies the rub.
[DailyMail] Massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Caribbean: Tsunami warnings issued for Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and more
[FoxNews] A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program, which shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation, Reuters reported, citing the judge's ruling.
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
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[DAWN] Pakistain has suspended military and intelligence cooperation with the United States in the wake of US President 
North Korea
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Jack O’Banion, Vice President of Strategy and Customer Requirements, Advanced Development Programs for Lockheed Martin, at a presentation said that the SR72 could not have been made without digital transformation. This seems to indicate that a hypersonic vehicle has been built.
[FOX] An attorney for the co-founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS revealed during a closed-door interview this summer with congressional investigators that "somebody's already been killed" as a result of the publication of the anti-Trump dossier. 
