One item from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) publication of Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson’s Aug. 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that has not gotten too much attention is the part where the spy responsible for producing the Trump-Russia collusion dossier, Christopher Steele, tipped off the FBI in early July 2016.
According to Simpson, "I believe it was ... [the] first week of July..." citing public sources.
Well, that was before George Papadopoulos reportedly entered the picture. According to the New York Times’ report published on Dec. 30, 2017, "when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role."
The Democratic National Committee emails began appearing on Wikileaks on July 22, 2016.
Meaning, by the time the Australian diplomat had tipped off the FBI about George Papadopoulos ‐ who apparently was bragging in a bar in May 2016 that the Russians had emails that would make Hillary Clinton look bad ‐ Steele had already told the FBI about his first memo dated June 20, 2016, that alleged the Russians had Donald Trump on tape with prostitutes at a hotel in Moscow.
Now, whether it was Steele’s contact with the FBI in early July or the Australian diplomat later that compelled the FBI to open its investigation, per Simpson’s testimony, by mid-September, the agency wanted everything Steele had. Steele most certainly played a role in the agency’s investigation.
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In other words, the mainstream media attempting to sell this as an "external" tipoff by a diplomat is horseshit. Fake News, just to fit their narrative. And you want to bet the reversal of it NEVER makes the same placing and repitition of the initial "news"?
I swear, if "the revolution" ever comes, Im putting press editors and reporters on the "kill on sight" list for their role in the collapse of the republic.
CNN’s Jim Acosta was shown the door, when he decided to be disrespectful to President Trump during a meeting with the President of Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Acosta asked if President Trump wanted only people from "Caucasian or White" countries.
In response, President Trump immediately pointed towards the door and said "out." Vid at link. Mr. Trump is the most fun of any President in memory, imho! Article also moved to Page 3, since it is not WOT Operations
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Imagine someone questioning Obama like this in the middle of a foreign leader visit. The press themselves would have exiled the guy. It just illustrates how crooked the press has become.
Posted because the follow-through is so freaking stupid and hilarious. Party on!
[NYPost] A wild all-night party in Harlem turned gruesome Monday, when a man who was asked to leave plunged from a window and got impaled through the groin on a spiked fence, police and witnesses said.
The situation escalated further when two revelers argued over how to help ‐ and one bashed the other so hard with a beer bottle it spattered blood all over the kitchen floor.
"We were all drinking. We were all talking here. Just hanging out," Celso Guzman Rios, 31, said about his skewered pal Eliseo Alvarado-Gonzalez, 27.
"Me and another guy went out to buy beer and we saw him hanging on the fence. . . When I saw him on the fence, I said, ‘Holy f-cking sh-t!' "
The incident began shortly before sunrise, as Rios, Alvarado-Gonzalez and three others held the night-long rager at an apartment on West 135th Street near Riverside Drive.
At one point, Alvarado-Gonzalez was asked to leave because he was making too much noise, cops and witnesses said.
But instead of just taking the stairs, the man "jumped" out the window, Rios said.
"He didn't want to leave. My friend said, ‘Leave or I'm going to call the police.' But he wouldn't leave. Then I lost sight of him," Rios said.
Rios had no clue his trouble-making party pal had plunged more than 12 feet ‐ and landed on an 8-foot-tall wrought-iron fence ‐ until he returned from the beer run around 7 a.m., he said.
Alvarado-Gonzalez had become impaled on the spiked fence through the right side of his groin ‐ and a pool of blood formed on the pavement below.
"I lifted him up. He didn't scream or anything. He must have been numb. He must have been too drunk to feel anything," Rios said. "There was a lot of blood flowing from his leg."
Inside the apartment, a fight then broke out between two of the partygoers over whose friend Alvarado-Gonzalez was ‐ and thus whose responsibility.
"He's you're friend, why don't you help him!?" one of the drunken men shouted, according to Rios.
A furious Jamie Mendez, 28, allegedly smashed a Corona bottle over the man's head, police and witnesses said.
"I thought he was going to kill him," Rios said of the brawl. Mendez was later arrested on second- degree assault charges and hauled away in handcuffs.
Emergency responders had to cut out a 4-foot section of the fence to pull Alvarado-Gonzalez from it.
"I held him up until the police came," Rios said. "The police arrived and started cutting the fence to free him."
Alvarado-Gonzalez was rushed to Mount Sinai St. Luke's hospital, where he underwent surgery and was placed in a medically induced coma, a police source said.
He was in critical condition on Monday night and expected to be taken out of the coma on Tuesday, the source said.
Police were investigating whether any criminality was involved on Monday night.
Though Rios initially said Alvarado-Gonzalez jumped, he backpedaled later, saying, "I really don't know what happened ‐ if he jumped or someone pushed him."
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[FOX] Black Rifle Coffee Company is not where you go to get your average cup of Joe. The Salt Lake City-based venture is making waves with high-quality coffee while taking a pro-Trump, pro-gun and pro-military stance.
The company’s founder, Evan Hafer said his coffee is becoming very popular among conservatives.
"Progressives hate me and conservatives love me. So if you’re pro-American, pro-America you’re going to love my coffee," Hafer told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria."
The former Army Special Forces vet started roasting coffee in 2006 so he could have fresh coffee while deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hafer said his passion for coffee, coupled with his military experience, is how Black Rifle was created.
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If you’re going to be a niche producer, it’s clever to find a niche with seriously pent up demand. Now there is somewhere for those rejected by those idiots at Starbucks to go.
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After all of the PC BS coming out of Charbucks, I went after Black Rifle Coffee.
Good stuff, a close second is Silver Spur coffee.
Both are far less expensive, don't taste like yesterday's coffee boiled to the bottom the carafe, and you don't have to put up with all of the trendy BS and fat women ordering 1600 calorie frapawhatchacallems.
I could go on but I love a company that celebrates all of the irrational silliness that comes with testosterone and rejoices in its positive contributions.
[UK Express] NORTH KOREA’S nuclear programme can only be stopped by ’overwhelming’ force from the United States, an expert has claimed.
North Korea has accelerated its nuclear programme this year and has refused to shut down its development, ramping up World War 3 fears.
Kim Jong-un has also entered talks with South Korea and will take a team of athletes to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month.
President Donald Trump has been praised for his role in applying pressure to the leader of the rogue state and bringing the dictator to the negotiation table with the south.
John Bolton, a former US Ambassador to the UN has claimed that only "overwhelming force" will put an end to Kim Jong-un’s nuclear dream.
[BBC] A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, has been shot dead outside his party offices in the Serb-run north of Mitrovica.
Ivanovic, seen as a moderate Kosovo Serb leader, was shot four times in the chest and died later in hospital, his lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said.
Serbian government negotiators walked out of EU-mediated talks with Kosovo Albanians in Brussels after the news. Kosovo remains ethnically divided since unilaterally splitting from Serbia. Mitrovica - in northern Kosovo - is divided, with the south run by Kosovo Albanians.
Shadow of conflict
Ivanovic, 64, headed a Kosovo Serb party called Freedom, Democracy, Justice. He had played a leading role in negotiations with Nato and the EU.
He was facing a retrial for alleged war crimes against ethnic Albanians committed in 1999.
In January 2016, EU judges in Kosovo sentenced him to nine years, but the verdict was overturned by an appeals court a year later.
Ivanovic had denied all charges.
"This is a criminal and terrorist act that must be and will be punished," Serbian delegate Marko Djuric said, announcing his move to walk out of the Brussels talks.
The Serbian government is holding an extraordinary security meeting in Belgrade.
[CNN] Japanese national broadcaster NHK issued an on-air apology Tuesday after issuing an alert incorrectly claiming that North Korea had launched a ballistic missile.
The message, received by phone users with the NHK app installed on their devices, read: "NHK news alert. North Korea likely to have launched missile. The government J alert: evacuate inside the building or underground. "
The broadcaster apologized for the error, adding "the news alert sent earlier about NK missile was a mistake. No government J alert was issued." The mistake was corrected within minutes. Seppuku at 11:00!
The false alert came on the same day as the US and Canada planned to host talks in Vancouver over the crisis on the Korean Peninsula after a year of missile tests and threats from the North.
The subject of sanctions on North Korea is expected to be on the agenda, as well as the country's participation in next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea.
South Korea and Japan will participate in Tuesday's talks, though North Korea's largest trading partner, China, will not be present.
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"We trusted HI EMA. Sorry"
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[The Hill] An executive representing Swiss bank UBS said Monday that President Trump's economic achievements warrant "high marks."
According to CNBC, UBS Wealth Management America’s chief investment strategist, Mike Ryan, said Trump has "changed the perception of what's possible in Washington."
"I think prior to his election, the prospects of tax reform, of regulatory relief or any sort of sensible approach to infrastructure, were off the table," Ryan reportedly added at a meeting in Singapore.
Ryan’s praise comes weeks after Republicans in Congress passed a sweeping tax overhaul, delivering on Trump’s key promise of reforming the tax code during his first year in office. Trump sold the plan as one that would benefit the middle class and American workers, though critics argue that it disproportionately helps the wealthiest in America.
The overhaul reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, though Ryan acknowledged Monday that the reformed tax code is "not everything that we hoped for."
The banking executive also described the U.S. tax code prior to the bill passed in December as "very inefficient," CNBC reported.
[BootsAndSaber] Democratic governor contender Chris Kennedy abruptly left a candidate forum Monday, criticizing Republican candidate Jeanne Ives for what he called "ignorance and stupidity" after she said Chicago’s gun violence could be solved if more fathers stayed in the home.
The controversy came when Ives, a three-term conservative lawmaker from Wheaton who is challenging Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, responded to a question on curbing gun crimes.
"The problem is the gun violence in this city of Chicago, predominantly. And you know how you’re going to solve it? Fathers in the home," she said. As the audience booed and shouted, she repeated, "Fathers in the home."
Kennedy later got his turn to respond.
"Well, I wish I could agree with you. I didn’t have a father in my life. Somebody shot him," Kennedy, the son of the assassinated former U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, said to Ives before he left the forum amid applause and a standing ovation from hundreds of attendees. A Kennedy "drop the mike" thing, eh?
As expected, Ives was frequently at odds with the Democratic candidates, and she occasionally drew the scorn of the audience as she repeatedly suggested city and county residents share in the blame for such issues as crime, high taxes and a lack of quality public education because they re-elect Democrats.
"That is your problem. Your taxes are too high and opportunity’s not here," she said. "We need jobs and opportunity, and we’re not going to get that if you keep electing these same people as before."
"You know, some stuff hits a raw nerve and, um, I think that should be a debate about great ideas, a clash, and not one of emotions," Kennedy said as he exited about an hour into the 90-minute forum.
Oh, the irony that Kennedy decries a clash of emotions as he makes a direct emotional appeal without offering a single idea of his own. Meanwhile, Ives is correctly identifying some of the societal causes of violence. And the folks of Chicago wonder why so much of the city has become a s***hole. Just another rent-seeking Kennedy. I think of them as Clinton's with a (small) touch of class and some serious gene-pool issues.
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An Entitled Limerick, or The Kennedy School
A Kennedy can't be a coward!
Ted towered above us, empowered,
A profile in knavery
Inhaling his bravery
Backstage at the dowdy Old Howard.
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Ives made a great statement a month or so ago about the constantly failing state pension. "Move them in mass to 401Ks or IRAs and give them a choice which one." Then no more pension monies with state hacks touching it.
As Twitchy reported earlier, the guy in Hawaii who panicked everyone with a false incoming ballistic missile alert has been "reassigned" for the time being during an investigation.
"Warning Point?" Where have we (maybe) seen those words before? Could it have been in a July 2017 Associated Press photo of Jeffrey Wong, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency’s operations officer?
The original AP photo accompanied stories in several newspapers and magazines last summer and it’s true ‐ on the monitors pictured behind Wong are sticky notes. And, when zoomed in sufficiently, they seem to show the words "Password Warningpoint2."
See pix and posts at link.
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[Reuters] Surging shale production is poised to push U.S. oil output to more than 10 million barrels per day - toppling a record set in 1970 and crossing a threshold few could have imagined even a decade ago.
And this new record, expected within days, likely won’t last long. The U.S. government forecasts that the nation’s production will climb to 11 million barrels a day by late 2019, a level that would rival Russia, the world’s top producer.
The economic and political impacts of soaring U.S. output are breathtaking, cutting the nation’s oil imports by a fifth over a decade, providing high-paying jobs in rural communities and lowering consumer prices for domestic gasoline by 37 percent from a 2008 peak.
Fears of dire energy shortages that gripped the country in the 1970s have been replaced by a presidential policy of global "energy dominance."
"It has had incredibly positive impacts for the U.S. economy, for the workforce and even our reduced carbon footprint" as shale natural gas has displaced coal at power plants, said John England, head of consultancy Deloitte’s U.S. energy and resources practice.
U.S. energy exports now compete with Middle East oil for buyers in Asia. Daily trading volumes of U.S. oil futures contracts have more doubled in the past decade, averaging more than 1.2 billion barrels per day in 2017, according to exchange operator CME Group.
The U.S. oil price benchmark, West Texas Intermediate crude, is now watched closely worldwide by foreign customers of U.S. gasoline, diesel and crude.
[Daily Caller] One Silicon Valley executive had a few choice words to describe Americans living in the heart of the nation, and they were not flattering.
Melinda Byerley, MBA and founder of Timeshare CMO, a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up, tweeted out Saturday afternoon describing what middle America could do to "get more jobs in their area."
Byerley says that the first thing those in middle America need to realize is that "no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people." Particularly, in a "shithole" filled with people who are "violent, racist, and/or misogynistic." In Byerley’s opinion, "big corporations," do not consider moving to the heart of America because "those towns have nothing going for them."
The towns have "no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system."
The MBA claims that "we," the educated people, like herself, "would like to live a more rural lifestyle," but they "won’t sacrifice tolerance or diversity to do so." Especially, these folks do not want to live in "states where the majority of residents are voting for things against their own interests," solely, because these voters "don’t want brown people to thrive."
She declares that if middle American towns can begin fixing their schools, and, essentially, "clean up their act," then people like Byerley will "want to live there." She even says that the fixing these problems would bring the "best and brightest" of our youth who "would rather scrape by in SF than live in a huge house somewhere if it meant dealing with with bigots and backwards ideologies every day," to middle America. It's nitwits like this that make it easy to omit "MBA" from my bio.
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I bet she mouths-off against Trump for language (assuming he actually said shithole) and doesn't see the hypocrisy. Makes me glad I live in Idaho, "rural" America. I don't want the butt-ugly beast here with her prejudice. I used to work in Silicon Valley. Attitudes like this are a dime-a-dozen.
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Where is Boeing now? Mr. Wife threw out Procter&Gamble, WalMart, Kroger, Eli Lilly, Ashland, Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, factories for BMW, Mercedes, and Toyota without pausing to think.
The lady is behind the times. Forbes ran the following article in April, 2016:
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Funny the last I checked, ITT, Xerox, Dell, BMW, Honda, Toyota (making those nifty snowflake mobile Priuses) and Mercedes Fucking Benz were all located in the DEEP SOUTH where people have a work ethic, no sense of entitlement, and respect for their fellow man...not to mention going to church on Sunday.
Any guesses as to what elitist pompous sneer factory she went to?
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Kinda funny in a karma sort of way: I clicked the headline to RTWT, and in between a couple of paragraphs was an ad to clean your dog's teeth for better breath.....
Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
MBA, Finance and Strategy
2000 – 2002
Activities and Societies: McAllister Speech Finalist; Special Honors in Management & Leadership and Negotiations
Illinois Wesleyan University
BFA, Theatre Arts--Stage Management
1987 – 1991
Activities and Societies: John L. Clark Award for highest GPA in my major (3.9) Illinois State Scholar, Student Senate
The rest of her profile is also a lesson in hubris.
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Coastal Shithead. Keep on doing that while we in Texas vacuum up all those businesses you are running out of Cali. I for one will laugh my ass off when California collapses under its own weight of government regulation, taxes and elitist bullshit like this.
h/t Instapundit
[NationalReview] There’s a great scene in the wonderful 1982 movie My Favorite Year, which is set in 1954. Peter O’Toole plays a semi-washed-up actor named Alan Swann, famous for swashbuckling roles. For reasons too complicated to explain here, Swann tries to shimmy down the side of a building using a fire hose. He ends up dangling just below a cocktail party on a balcony. Two stockbrokers are chatting when one of them notices Swann swinging below them. "I think Alan Swann is beneath us!" he exclaims.
The second stockbroker replies: "Of course he’s beneath us. He’s an actor."
It may be hard for some people to get the joke these days, but for most of human history, actors were considered low-class. They were akin to carnies, grifters, hookers, and other riffraff.
...Needless to say, times have changed. And I suppose I have to say they’ve changed for the better. But that’s a pretty low bar. I don’t think acting is a dishonorable profession, and I’m steadfastly opposed to banning plays, musicals, movies, and TV shows.
But in our collective effort to correct the social stigmas of the past, can anyone deny that we’ve overshot the mark?
I think part of the answer has to do with the receding of religion from public life. As a culture, we’ve elevated "authenticity" to a new form of moral authority. We look to our feelings for guidance. Actors, as a class, are feelings merchants. While they may indeed be "out of touch" with the rest of America from time to time, actors are adept at being in touch with their feelings. And for some unfathomably stupid reason, we now think that puts us beneath them.
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A lot of this would disappear if we went back to the original copyright periods not to exceed 28 years. Suddenly a lot of money in entertainment would disappear as well.
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I have never considered actors to be a moral guide. Richer, yes. Better looking, yes. But more moral? Ha! Look at the marital history of almost everyone in Hollywood. You almost never see someone who is married to one person for Life. And that doesn't count all the affairs, shack-ups etc.
Face it, actors are only famous because they are good at reading words somebody else wrote, and pretending to be someone else.
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Remember the vapors so many had when the world-renowned scientist Meryl Streep testified before Congress about Alar?
I remember... going out and buying Red Delicious apples. I knew even before then that the number one job of the media is to scare the shit out of its readership.
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Well at one time actors modeled good citizenship and high morals and ethics as well as "strong manly" behavior and a respect for women, the elderly, children and dogs.
All of this new wave cinema thing in which they idolize the "antihero" is the problem.
Our movie industry wants to portray the nuclear family in the most dysfunctional terms, men as louts and evil, capitalism as bad, the military as evil, and law enforcement as corrupt.
So when Bogie, the Duke, Randolph Scott, and Clark Gable left the scene we were left with these wannabes who would get a sniff in the golden age of film.
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Its the left - they push appearance over substance, feelings over facts. Uneducated morons, which most actors are, are convenient vehicles for this, and the media aids it by promoting and publicizing them uncritically. For example Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on Vaccines, or Gwenneth Poltroon Paltrow on just about anything.
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I can't wait til a CGI character gets accused of sexual assault
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^ Or vice versa?
A presser: "The crew made a habit,"
Sniffed plaintiff Ms. Jessica Rabbit,
"Of watching the spot
Where my body was not,
So I knew that they wanted to grab it!"
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ The next phase in data collection is right under your feet.
Online clicks give retailers valuable insight into consumer behavior, but what can they learn from footsteps? It’s a question Milwaukee-based startup Scanalytics is helping businesses explore with floor sensors that track people’s movements.
The sensors can also be used in office buildings to reduce energy costs and in nursing homes to determine when someone falls. But retailers make up the majority of Scanalytics’ customers, highlighting one of several efforts brick-and-mortar stores are undertaking to better understand consumer habits and catch up with e-commerce giant Amazon.
Physical stores have been at a disadvantage because they "don’t have that granular level of understanding as to where users are entering, what they’re doing, what shelves are not doing well, which aisles are not being visited," said Brian Sathianathan, co-founder of Iterate.ai, a small Denver-based company that helps businesses find and test technologies from startups worldwide.
But it’s become easier for stores to track customers in recent years. With Wi-Fi ‐ among the earliest available options ‐ businesses can follow people when they connect to a store’s internet. One drawback is that not everyone logs on so the sample size is smaller. Another is that it’s not possible to tell whether someone is inches or feet away from a product.
Sunglass Hut and fragrance maker Jo Malone use laser and motion sensors to tell when a product is picked up but not bought, and make recommendations for similar items on an interactive display. Companies such as Toronto-based Vendlytics and San Francisco-based Prism use artificial intelligence with video cameras to analyze body motions. That can allow stores to deliver customized coupons to shoppers in real time on a digital shelf or on their cellphones, said Jon Nordmark, CEO of Iterate.ai.
With Scanalytics, Nordmark said, "to have (the sensors) be super useful for someone like a retailer, they may need to power other types of things," like sending coupons to customers.
Scanalytics co-founder and CEO Joe Scanlin said that’s what his floor sensors are designed to do. For instance, the sensors read a customer’s unique foot compressions to track that person’s path to a digital display and how long the person stand in front of it before walking away, he said. Based on data collected over time, the floor sensors can tell a retailer the best time to offer a coupon or change the display before the customer loses interest.
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Won't work at Home Depot or Lowes where they stack materials and push carts blocking the aisles to form a maze. That or they're working with psyc majors examining humans rather than rats on a school project.
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Complaints ( real or imagined) of up-skirt photography in 5, 4, 3,....
and as to Home Depot, will doggy paws count? I hate, truly hate store that allow non service animals in. hate, hate, hate....
[San Diego Union-Tribune] El Cajon police officers arrested about a dozen people for feeding the homeless at a city park Sunday afternoon.
The event was organized by a group called Break the Ban, which formed after the El Cajon City Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance in October prohibiting the distribution of food on any city-owned property.
City officials said the ordinance was a way to protect the public from hepatitis A, but critics have called it a punitive measure to dehumanize and criminalize the homeless.
Mark Lane, one of the event’s organizers, said about 12 to 15 people were passing out food and toiletries to the homeless at Wells Park on East Madison Avenue when police arrived.
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Haven't they learned to run from the cops when they're breaking the law? Idiots. I had that shit down to a science when I was a punk teenager - I could probably outrun Usain Bolt back then!
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The issue is doing it on public land: a Park. The El Cajon law doesn't prohibit it on private property. Wells Park becomes unusable by the general public
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Frank has it. You wanna take your kids to a park that is filled with bums, vagrants, weirdos, drunks, druggies and nut cases? Looking after the poor is one thing but letting your streets and parks become a habitat for homeless freaks is just plain stupid.
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Other parts of San Diego have serious issues with homeless people crapping in the open and getting sick.
Seems as if El Cajon tried to be preemptive about the problem and 'helpful people' who knew better circumvented that effort.
Break the Ban should be held responsible for anyone sick as a result.
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...skip school and homework, do drugs and alcohol, screw what the elders tell you listen to your peers, be unique, and you too can join the encampment here. Seem like a good real life lesson.
This is simply astounding - a high level Obama political appointee is still whining about the 2016 presidential election, fourteen fucking months later. Even worse than that? All of the broads female UN diplomats she invited to this seem to be on the Hillary Clinton cheerleading squad. I'm not shocked, but this makes me want to sue them to pay us back out UN dues for the past decade.
[WashingtonExaminer] Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power hosted all of her fellow female ambassador to the U.N. at her apartment on election night in 2016 for what she anticipated would be a celebratory evening watching Hillary Clinton win the presidency, Power revealed in a new interview.
"Well, I’ve had a lot of bad ideas in my life, but none as immortalized as this one," Power, who served as the ambassador to the U.N. during the Obama administration, told Politico in an interview published Monday.
On the night of Nov. 8, 2016, Power threw a party for the 37 female diplomats at her apartment in New York City, a scene that is captured in the new HBO documentary, "The Final Year."
Power told Politico in a new interview that she had hosted 37 women ambassadors for an election night party in 2016. She said she had hoped it would be a fairly close race between then-candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton because she wanted all of her guests to have enough time to mingle with one of her guests, Gloria Steinem.
"So, your concern was that actually that the evening was going to be over early," reporter Susan Glasser asked in the interview.
"Too soon. I wanted to milk the soft power dividend of this moment, and instead, and HBO was there, I guess unfortunately or fortunately, to capture it all, but instead, you really see what so many people went through, which was all of that sense of promise and excitement, and frankly, a dose of complacency," Power recalled. "And then, it slowly dawning on us that not only was this going to be much closer than anybody anticipated, but that it was not going to end well."
The press, including those from mainstream and conservative-leaning outlets, mocked Power for creating a new phrase
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[AwfulAnnouncing] Saturday afternoon’s Falcons-Eagles game on NBC drew a 17.4 overnight rating, down 5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 2016. It was the lowest for the early Saturday time slot since 2009.
The Patriots-Titans matchup Saturday night on CBS was the lowest-rated game of the weekend, with a 16.6 overnight. That was down 9 percent from last year and 18 percent from 2016 and was also the worst performance in that window since 2009.
The Jaguars-Steelers contest in the early window Sunday on CBS pulled a 20.4 overnight, down 12 percent from 2016. (Last year’s game in that slot was moved to primetime due to weather.) That was the lowest mark in its window since 2002.
Finally, the Vikings-Saints duel Sunday afternoon on Fox drew the best overnight rating of the weekend (21.8) but was still down 23 percent from last year and 17 percent from 2016.
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Boring... What we need is more "expert commentary" and more Time Outs: for commercial breaks and official replay. \s
The thuggish player behavior and childish sideline protest theater is just the final insult.
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I've got a Windows !0 PC (spit) and I get their PMS news. They are desperately touting the NFL. They wont mention the declining viewership/attendance or show the number of empty seats. "Oh look! a squirrel! and it is getting kicked in the nuts!"
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This is the year the NFL lost me. I didnt leave the NFL, it left me. Coddling kneelers, feminist bullshit touts, the bogus "pink" month for Komen (far better funds for cancer fights), and general kwotowing to SJWs, preaching Progressivism instead of actually delivering football to those who want to see it.
[GEO.TV] A wild wolf has been found in the northern Belgian region of Flanders for the first time in more than a century, an environmental group said Saturday.
"Our country was the only one in continental Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to have not been visited by a wolf," since the animal began recolonising the continent, Landschap said.
Overhunting, industrialisation and urban sprawl progressively led to the disappearance of the wolf from most of Western Europe since the beginning of the 20th century.
Since the Bern Convention of 1979, the wolf has gone from public enemy to a protected species as "a fundamental element of our natural European heritage".
In some countries, like Romania and Poland where there have always been wolves, people adapt to treat an attack on sheep "like an accident, like a flock that falls into a ravine", says Farid Benhammou, a specialist on predators.
But in the new zones of wolf colonisation ‐ in La Belle France and in some regions of Italia and Spain ‐ there are major tensions, with farmers particularly unhappy at their re-emergence.
The wolf detected in Flanders in early January had an electronic tracker collar around its neck which allowed it to be identified as coming from neighbouring Germany.
The same animal had been spotted around Christmas in the Netherlands, according to Landschap.
"In recent days the wolf has stayed near the Phlegmish town of Beringen and the military base at Leopoldsburg. The animal has covered 500 kilometres (300 miles) in ten days," the group said.
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As long as the Wolf's name is not Fenrir it's cool.
[IsraelTimes] Officials say suspects were not religiously motivated, attempted to create chaos amid anti-government protests nationwide.
Just high spirited boys being boys with molotovs in need of throwing.
Five men were tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection with a firekaboom on a historic synagogue in Tunisia.
Four of the men, ages 19 and 20, were arrested on Friday and a fifth, age 21, believed to be the main culprit in the January 9 attack, was arrested on Saturday, the Kapitalis news website reported. None of the men, residents of the island’s main city of Houmet Essouk. had a criminal record and were not known to security services, according to the report.
The Molotov cocktail thrown at the El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba caused minor damage and no injuries. The incident occurred amid protests over economic conditions taking place in several Tunisian cities, though not in Djerba itself, Rooters reported.
The Tunisian Interior Ministry said the suspects’ attack was not religiously motivated, but rather an attempt to "create chaos" amid the anti-government protests throughout the country, Ynet reported.
Four Jewish families live in the area. Most of the Djerba Jewish community, which numbers in the hundreds and is the largest in the Arab world, lives two miles north of there, in a neighborhood that is under heavy protection and whose entrances are guarded around the clock by the country’s internal security services.
Tunisian police have increased their security around the Djerba Jewish institutions.
In 2002, forces of Evil blew up a vehicle near the El Ghriba synagogue, killing 21. The synagogue, in the village of Er-Riadh, dates back to 586 BC, although the current building was reconstructed in the 19th century. It is sometimes cited as North Africa’s oldest synagogue.
[Al Jazeera] Fierce festivities between two rival Libyan groups have left at least nine people dead and forced the closure of the main airport, underscoring the bleak prospects for the North African country as it marks seven years since the Arab Spring uprising.
Security officials told Al Jazeera on Monday that all flights had been suspended from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... 's Mitiga airport until further notice, after fighters from the Bugra rebel group attacked the Special Deterrence Force, a group that controls the installation.
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Dang, that Arab Spring just keeps on keeping on.
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A Georgetown University adviser has resigned after he tweeted that he wished a "#metoo moment" on conservative blogger Allie Stuckey.
Georgetown said in a statement Monday that it had accepted Jeff Bernstein’s resignation from the Masters of Science in Foreign Service program advisory board over comments that were "deeply inconsistent" with the school’s values.
"Encouraging, threatening or condoning violence and harassment against another person, in any form and on any format, is deeply inconsistent with the values of the program, our school and our university," the school said.
Mr. Bernstein deleted his Twitter account after writing to Ms. Stuckey, founder of The Conservative Millennial and former TheBlaze TV host: "Wishing you a #metoo moment. Maybe then you won’t be so insensitive."
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It's like the story I read somewhere about an old Nazi (party member from the beginning) who was transferred to Eastern front as a punishment. His crime: he had a cushy job collecting Jews for transfer to extermination camps - but he was nasty and didn't pretend that this is a temporary detention.
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Lost his sweet job too: "Bernstein was also fired from his job at Solebury Capital as a result of his conduct. Solebury learned of Bernstein’s conduct Sunday evening and “immediately investigated the matter,” according to Lisa Wolford, a spokeswoman for Solebury.
“Based on that review, we promptly terminated his employment with Solebury,” Wolford wrote in an email to The Hoya."
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This is why good manners are important, especially when one is exercised, as Mr. Bernstein clearly was. As such, exquisite manners are a basic requirement for anyone in foreign service.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed and 64 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack so far this year in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.
Two men detonated explosives vests in Aviation Square, a commercial district and gathering point for day laborers seeking work, scores of whom were killed and injured, according to the official.
Iraq declared victory last month over Islamic State (IS) militants who seized control of nearly a third of the country in 2014. However, IS continues to carry out attacks and bombings in Baghdad and different parts of the country.
The German foreign ministry condemned the devastating attack in Baghdad and expressed its condolences to the families of those killed.
The attack in Aviation Square was one of the deadliest in Baghdad since a massive truck bomb killed at least 324 people in the nearby commercial district of Karrada in July 2016.
The Karrada bombing was the deadliest single attack in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were wounded in a bomb blast, south of Baghdad, a security source said on Monday.
“A bomb placed on the side of the road in Jisr Diyala region, south of Baghdad, went off in the morning, leaving three people injured,” the source told AlSumaria News.
“Security troops cordoned off the blast spot and transferred the wounded to nearby hospital for treatment,” the source, who asked to remain anonymous, added.
Early on Monday, a twin suicide bombing rocked al-Tayaran Square in central Baghdad killing 26 and injuring 95 others.
[Ynet] Depth of destroyed tunnel estimated to be dozens of meters underground, height and width large enough to allow passage of dozens of terrorists, equipment; tunnel discovered weeks ago, Egypt notified of its existence over weekend, said to be incensed with Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, at breach of illusory sovereignty; Kerem Shalom Crossing to reopen Tuesday.
The Hamas tunnel destroyed over the weekend underneath the Kerem Shalom Crossing was several dozen meters deep, according to estimates, and its height and width are said to be more considerable compared to previous tunnels, enabling the passage of a several-dozen-strong force, as well as armaments, through it.
The tunnel was first discovered several weeks ago, while Egypt was notified of its existence this past weekend, and is incensed with Hamas due to the tunnel's encroachments into the Sinai Peninsula.
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at that depth, it would have been vulnerable to water seepage so in addition to the expense of excavation and structural support the cost of construction would have included waterproofing
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Perhaps the Juice need to frack for Paleos
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I always liked Ariel Sharon's idea of building a trench filled with sea water along the border.
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[AnNahar] 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.... group all but vanquished from its self-proclaimed "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led coalition that has been fighting the jihadists for more than three years is transforming its mission.
Eager to avoid a repeat of 2011, when America completed its troop withdrawal from Iraq only to watch in horror as IS later overran swathes of the country, the coalition is focusing on what it must do to stop a jihadi re-emergence.
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[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says 26-year-old Taibe resident tried ‐ and failed ‐ to recruit others to join him during summer's Temple Mount crisis
The kid had big dreams... and no follow-through.
A young Arab Israeli man was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! earlier this month on the suspicion that he had pledged allegiance to 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.... terror group and planned to carry out an attack in Israel on its behalf, the Shin Bet security service announced on Sunday.
Hassan Sheikh Youssef, 26, from the Arab Israeli city of Taibe, was charged in the Central District Court in Lod on Sunday. With the filing of the indictment, a gag order on the case was removed.
According to the Shin Bet, Sheikh Youssef began supporting the organization approximately three years ago, watching the videos put out by the Islamic State on the internet.
"The investigation also found that Youssef watched video guides on how to prepare explosives and even tried to get someone else to buy an M-16 assault rifle with him," the security service said in a statement.
He was arrested earlier this month in a joint operation by the Shin Bet and Israel Police.
The Shin Bet said he tried to recruit others to join the Islamic State group this past summer, during the controversy surrounding Israel’s decision to place metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount following a terror attack there.
According to the security service, he planned to convince them to work with him to commit "different types of terror attacks, including a shooting in Jerusalem, setting off a boom-mobile next to the cop shoppe in Taibe and a stabbing."
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... Sheikh Youssef was rebuffed by everyone he contacted, the Shin Bet said.
Israel has seen comparatively few citizens join the Islamic State terror group, though it remains a significant concern to security forces.
[GEO.TV] Police have incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a man resembling the suspect seen in the CCTV footage with Zainab, the seven-year-old girl who was brutally raped and murdered in Kasur last week, sources told Geo News on Monday.
Sources, however, told Geo News that the DNA of the arrested man does not match with samples found from the victim's body.
According to sources, police have cast doubts over the statement recorded by the arrested man and will now carry out a polygraph test to ascertain veracity of his statement.
11 cases of child sex abuse reported in Pakistain every day: report
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... authorities have decided to carry out a search operation in the vicinity of the victim's house. Sources said authorities have acquired census data of 1,200 houses around Zainab's home to carry out the operation.
Zainab was brutally raped, murdered and dumped in a garbage pile, in a chilling tragedy that sparked nationwide protest and grief.
Earlier on Monday, a new CCTV video emerged showing a suspicious person beckoning her to come with him, after which the little girl, donned in a frock and leggings, walks towards him.
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[FDD's Long War Journal] The Tunisian government deployed over 2,000 troops this week as protests over increased taxes spread. Government officials indicated the army will be protecting government installations, following an incident in which protesters burned a security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting police to flee.
Over the weekend, several opposition activists were arrested in the capital of Tunis after protesting a new government taxation on basic goods. The wave of protests comes on the heels of the seven-year anniversary of the death of Mohammad Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire in protest of the government’s policies. Bouazizi’s death on Jan. 4, 2011 – which helped spark protests that spread across the Middle East – is a highly emotive date for Tunisians.
The government’s response has been heavy-handed. The arrests sparked widespread condemnation and rallies across Tunisia. In response, the government deployed the military to several major towns and arrested hundreds of activists. Tunisian leaders insist the new taxes are necessary to satisfy international lenders and stabilize the economy; Tunisians have pointed to the new taxes as emblematic of a failed and oppressive government.
The army has deployed to at least four towns: Thala, Sousse, Bizerte, and Kebili. Protests are ongoing in the capital, as well as Sfax, Ettadhamen, Béja, Siliana, Mahdia, and Nabeul.
Protests are concentrated on the coast, but have also worryingly spread to Tunisia’s western border with Algeria, where the Islamic State has strong support. The Islamic State group has been known to recruit heavily in Kasserine, one of the western towns where protests have erupted. Tunisia, particularly areas near Kasserine, produced more Islamic State fighters than any other country, according to UN data cited by the Washington Post. Many could return home as other fronts quiet.
Protests in areas near Kasserine have already turned violent. In nearby Thala, security forces withdrew after protesters set a headquarters on fire.
Protests may intensify in the coming days, as Jan. 14 marks the anniversary of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s 2011 ouster.
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[AlAhram] Militant Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... released a video on Monday purportedly showing some of the remaining girls who were kidnapped from the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n town of Chibok in 2014.
A group of around 12 girls are seen in the 21-minute video. "We are the Chibok girls. We are the ones you are crying about for us to come back. By the grace of Allah, we are never coming back," said one of the girls.
Around 270 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school in April 2014.
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Security forces arrested on Monday a terrorist cell of Islamic State in Fallujah city, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alsumaria News TV channel, the source said, “The three-strong terrorist cell of Islamic State was arrested at al-Shohadaa district in southern Fallujah.”
“They have extorted thousands of dollars from local residents in Fallujah,” the source said, adding that the terrorist cell was taken to a detention center for interrogation.
Earlier in the day, a military source said two Islamic State militants were arrested in Anna city, 210 km west of Anbar.
“The two terrorists were residing at al-Rayhanna village in Anna before joining Islamic State,” the source told Alsumaria News.
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[IsraelTimes] Egyptian security officials say button men have rubbed out a Christian man in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, the latest attack to target members of the country’s Christian minority.
The officials say three masked button men carried out the attack and identified the victim as 35-year-old Bassem Attallah.
No group grabbed credit for the Saturday attack, which bore the hallmarks 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.... , which is spearheading a years-long insurgency in northern Sinai. IS has repeatedly targeted Egypt’s Christians, killing more than 100 in a series of deadly bombings and shootings since December 2016. The latest attack was last month, when a gunman opened fire outside a church in Cairo, killing nine people.
[IsraelTtimes] The Jerusalem Police arrest 10 Paleostinians on Sunday suspected of activities linked to a terror organization. One of them was a prisoner released earlier in the day.
The 10 "were jugged You have the right to remain silent... after planning on holding an event affiliated with the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terrorist organization," a police spokesperson says.
"The suspects are scheduled to appear later before the courts based on the developing investigation," the statement adds.
ten Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and a-Shabaab al-Aqsa Death Eaters in east Jerusalem.
The convict himself, the son of terrorist Mossabah Abu Sbieh who carried out an attack in the capital a year ago that claimed the lives of a civilian and a Border Policeman, was one of those jugged Please don't kill me! .
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Three police personnel were killed in an attack by Islamic State members in south of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh police said on Monday.
“IS members set up an ambush and killed three police personnel using their guns,” Cap. Lutfi Shehab told BasNews. The attack was carried out in Ain al-Jahsh village, south of Mosul.
Shehab also added that a citizen was kidnapped by gunmen from al-Jazayer region, east of Mosul, on Monday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared in July victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25,000 Islamic State militants were killed throughout the campaign. Earlier this month, Abadi announced full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war against IS members.
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[IsraelTimes] Police enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! three Paleostinians Monday outside the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim after finding an automatic weapon and ammunition in their possession.
Officers stopped the suspects’ vehicle, which had no license plates, near the settlement on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The driver and two passengers were questioned and the vehicle was searched, whereupon police found an automatic weapon, magazines for an anti-tank Carl Gustav rifle and other ammunition.
The three suspects, from the village of Ubeidiya, were arrested and being questioned by security officials.
Last week an Israeli father of six was bumped off on a West Bank highway outside Nablus.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers arrest a Paleostinian man suspected of throwing rocks and firing gunshots at a road in the northern West Bank near Qalqilya, using a homemade firearm, the army says.
"After the arrest, the weapon and ammunition were found found on the suspect," the military says in a statement.
Both the suspect and the firearm have been handed over to the Shin Bet security service.
And this, possibly the same arrest described differently. Geography is not one of my strengths, I’m afraid:
[Ynet] The IDF has locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a Paleostinian suspected of shooting a homemade weapon at a road near the village of Nabi Ilyas. He is also suspected of throwing rocks at the road.
[IsraelTimes] Group will have hard time explaining how it allowed -- or worse, ordered -- the construction of a passage giving Gazooturbans access to Sinai
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders find themselves in a worrisome situation. Another of their tunnels penetrating into Israeli territory has been exposed and destroyed. In total, two of their tunnels have been destroyed in about two and a half months (another one, possibly two, belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... has also been demolished), and it seems like Hamas is quickly losing its most significant strategic weapon ahead of the next possible military confrontation with Israel.
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[GEO.TV] Over 1,800 Ulema from different schools of thoughts have issued a Fatwa (Islamic ruling) declaring suicide kabooms in Pakistain to be Haram (forbidden).
Details of the Fatwa signed by 1829 holy mans in Pakistain emerged on Monday. The ruling states that those who commit suicide attacks, those who order such attacks, those who train such people are all considered rebels against the true spirit of Islam.
The ruling further states that the State of Pakistain is in the right to act against such people.
It outlined clearly that the act of waging war and bloodshed in the name of Jihad can only be initiated by the State. Those who impose their viewpoints on by force are responsible for spreading mischief on earth (Fasad fil Arz).
The ruling also states that in Pakistain, armed conflict in the name of Islamic Law (Shariyat) is forbidden (Haram).
Speaking to Geo News, senior analyst Saleem Safi said that after the Constitution of Pakistain the Fatwa a sacrosanct document that provides answers to the questions faced by Pakistain and the Islamic world in light of the Holdy Koran and the Sunaat.
The document, signed by the holy mans from all schools of thought, will be presented under the title Peghaam-e-Pakistain at a ceremony which will be held at the Presidency on Tuesday.
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[GEO.TV] Anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Monday sentenced two men to 21 years in prison each, after they were convicted of possessing illegal arms and explosives.
The ATC-II sentenced accused, Afroze alias Nakaam Guddu, for 21 years and imposed a fine worth Rs50,000 on him, a front man for the Pakistain Rangers Sindh said in a statement.
Guddu, who was apprehended in November 2015, was affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... -London (MQM-L), it said.
The other accused, Shahabuddin, was also sentenced for 21 years along with a fine imposed on him worth Rs100,000 by ATC-XIII.
The statement added that Shahabuddin was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in March 2017.
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[Al Jazeera] The Philippine government has sought to shut down an independent news website, which has published critical stories about President Rodrigo Duterte, a move observers and journalists say is an attack on press freedom and democracy.
The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Monday that it has revoked the registration of Rappler, citing violations of foreign ownership and control of the Manila-based news organization.
The SEC, an agency under the president, is responsible for enforcing securities and investment laws in the country, as well as maintaining company registry.
It is the first time the SEC has invoked the closure of a Philippine media company.
The agency said Rappler used a "deceptive scheme" in running the company, and decided to revoke a 2015 legal document that allows foreign investment.
The so-called "depositary receipt", which allows investors to hold "unissued shares", is also being used by other Philippine media companies to attract investments.
In the case of Rappler, the document allowed the Omidyar Network to invest in it.
The company was set up by eBay founder and billionaire Pierre Omidyar, who also has an interest in the news site, The Intercept.
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If the President really wanted to shut down Rappler, he would have 'sent the Armed Forces to their offices and padlocked them,' says Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque
[Al Jazeera] Four Pak soldiers were killed in a mortar attack by Indian forces along the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmire region as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours continue to rise.
The Pak troops were conducting maintenance on communication lines in the border village of Kotli when they came under attack on Monday, the military said.
After the mortar round went kaboom!, Pak forces responded and killed three Indian soldiers while wounding several others, it said.
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At least seven police force members were killed in a Taliban ambush in Farah province on Sunday evening, local officials said Monday.
Farah Governor Mohammad Arif Shahjahan confirmed the incident and said a group of Taliban militants on Sunday night attacked security check posts in Raigi area in the outskirts of Farah City when the police forces members went to the area to help their comrades who were attacked by Taliban insurgents.
The governor said three police force members were wounded in the clash.
He said Taliban also suffered casualties in the clash but he did not provide details in this respect.
[TheLocal.fr] French prison officers blocked access to several jails around the country on Monday to demand tighter security after three officers were maimed in a blade attack by a German terror convict last week.
...the German small time thief who converted to Islam at age twenty, took Abu Ibrahim as his nom de Islam, and rose to the inner circle of Al Qaeda, becoming their top recruiter in Germany. He was arrested and released in both Germany and Saudi Arabia before France made it stick, and had some very interesting names in his cellphone...
who is serving an 18-year sentence over the 2002 bombing of a Tunisian synagogue, illustrated the lax approach of prison authorities to violent convicts.
Prison guards used washing machines and a pile of burning tyres to block access to the high-security prison in Vendin-le-Vieil on the border with Belgium where he is being held.
Around 100 officers took part in the protest, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
In an apparent attempt to defuse the situation the prisons service announced that the director of the facility had asked to be "relieved of his command" following calls by wardens for him to be shown the door.
Officers also demonstrated outside Fresnes prison south of Gay Paree, one of La Belle France's largest where riot police were deployed, as well as in Marseille and Lyon.
A former top al-Qaeda member, Ganczarski is accused of criminal masterminding the 2002 suicide kaboom at an historic synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, in which 21 people were killed. He was sent to jail in 2009.
He lunged at guards on Thursday after learning he might face extradition to the US in connection with investigations into the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to union sources. The prison service said he was armed only with scissors and a razor blade.
Prison guards' unions said his detention conditions had recently been eased despite surveillance indicating he was planning an attack.
Clever. Though to be fair, all the security staff in Europe are severely overworked, given their ratio to real and potential jihadis.
The outgoing head of the prison said he showed no signs of aggression.
On Saturday, trade unions walked out of talks with the justice ministry saying they had failed to receive a "concrete answer" to their demands to
tighten security around dangerous inmates.
The prison where Ganczarski is held will soon be housing Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks which left 130 people dead.
Abdeslam will be moved to Vendin-le-Vieil from a prison south of Gay Paree in February during his trial in Belgium over a shootout with police in that country.
[IsraelTimes] Muhammad Ahmed Saleem, 24, died of gunshot wound to the head during protest near Qalqiliya, PA health ministry says
A 24-year-old Paleostinian was shot and killed in festivities on Monday with Israeli security forces in the West Bank, the Paleostinian Authority health ministry said.
The ministry said Muhammad Ahmed Saleem, 24, was shot while taking part in a violent protest in the village of Jayyous, near the city of Qalqilya.
The Israel Defense Forces said that soldiers opened fired at demonstrators, but could not yet confirm the reports of Saleem’s death.
The army said that dozens of Paleostinians took part in the protest, throwing rocks at IDF soldiers.
"Soldiers responded with riot dispersal means and live rounds, after which the riot was dispersed," the IDF said in a statement. "Reports claiming a Paleostinian was killed in the riot are being looked into."
A report from the official PA news site Wafa said Saleem died after being shot in the head during the festivities. An eyewitness told the Paleostinian news site Ma’an that "light" festivities had broken out at the time of Saleem’s death.
The witness told Ma’an that security forces opened fire from a distance of less than 20 meters.
Saleem, according to the report, had spent three years in an Israeli prison and was released in 2016. The report did not say what he was imprisoned for. Saleem, the report added, was the secretary 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... (DFLP) at Al Quds Open University in Qalqilya.
Saleem was the 17th Paleostinian killed since 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 controversial declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6, most of them in festivities with Israeli forces. Two of these 17 were Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, members killed in Israeli Arclight airstrikes on the Gazoo Strip, while another was killed after stabbing an Israeli border guard while wearing what appeared to be an boom belt. One Israeli has also been killed since December in a West Bank shooting attack.
One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
[IsraelTimes] Saving his harshest rhetoric for Trump, 82-year-old PA president tells PLO Central Council, 'This may be the last time you see me here'
Sunday’s address by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s Central Council sounded like the farewell of a leader at the end of his political path, and he admitted as much.
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[Trajectory Magazine] The application of location intelligence and the incorporation of 2D maps and positioning have become ubiquitous since the advent of smartphones. Now, we are entering a new era in which we can harness the power of 3D data to improve consumer experiences, as well as applications for enterprise, public safety, homeland security, and urban planning. 3D will play a more significant role in these experiences as we overcome the technical barriers that have made it previously difficult and cost-prohibitive to acquire, visualize, simulate, and apply to real-world applications.
After yesterday's discussion of the UAV attack on Russians and the controlling UAV with a CAM to aid guidance of other UAVs this topic seems appropriate.
Outdoor Data: Our World Is 3D
In a geo-enabled community in which we strive for more precise answers to complex spatial intelligence questions, traditional 2D correlation is a limiting factor. When you think about 3D data and maps, modeling buildings in an urban environment seems obvious. However, 3D is incredibly important when trying to understand the exact height of sea level or the uniformity of roads and runways. For example, one can imagine the vast differences in 2D versus 3D data and its application during the 2017 hurricane season. By including the Z-dimension in analysis, we can achieve true, precise geospatial context for all datasets and enable the next generation of data analytics and applications.
Access to 3D data for most geospatial analysts has been limited. Legacy 3D data from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and synthetic aperture radar sensors has traditionally required specialized exploitation software, and point-by-point stereo-extraction techniques for generating 3D data are time-consuming, often making legacy 3D data cost-prohibitive. Both products cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per square kilometer and involve weeks of production time. Fortunately, new solutions provide a scalable and affordable 3D environment that can be accessed online as a web service or offline for disconnected users. Users can stream, visualize, and exploit 3D information from any desktop and many mobile devices. Models of Earth’s terrain—digital elevation models (DEMs)—are increasingly used to improve the accuracy of satellite imagery. Although viewed on a 2D monitor, DEMs deliver the magic through a true 3D likeness for bare-earth terrain, objects like buildings and trees, contours, or floor models, and unlimited contextual information can be applied to each measurement. This provides a true 3D capability, replacing current “2.5D” applications that aim to create 3D models out of 2D information, at a cost point closer to $10 to $20 per square kilometer and only hours of production time.
3D Accessibility for Success
As it becomes easier to quickly and cost-effectively create and integrate indoor and outdoor 3D data, managing how that information is stored and accessed will be the next opportunity for the geospatial community. In order for 3D to be truly valuable, it must be easily—if not immediately—accessible for today’s devices. Ensuring 3D can be captured in real time will drive the need to deliver it quickly and across a wider variety of applications. A smart compression and standardization strategy is critical to the portability of the information. As the use of 3D by consumers increases, there will be more natural demand for ready access from user devices, which will help streamline and optimize applications (as it has for 2D mapping over the last decade).
Applying 3D to the real world, in real time, provides:
Improved situational awareness to users from their own devices.
Seamless wayfinding from outdoors to indoors.
Exceptionally detailed and portable data for military/emergency planners and operators.
Readily available data and web access for first responders and non-governmental organizations.
Global GPS-denied navigation capability for mission critical systems (e.g., commercial flight avionics).
A globally accurate positioning grid immediately available for analysis.
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3D w/Geo is less interesting than than coordinating 6 degrees of freedom from a swarm travel vector to possibly preprogrammed unit points of attack.
[GEO.TV] The girl who was allegedly accompanying 19-year-old Intezar Ahmed when coppers gunned him down in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... says she did not see the shooters, source told Geo News.
The teenage boy was killed after Anti Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) officers opened fire on his car on Khayaban-e-Ittehad road of the upscale Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area late Saturday.
The girl, a friend of the dear departed whose identity has not yet been disclosed, was accompanying Intezar when the incident happened but police officials say she left shortly afterwards. Police have now approached her but say they have not yet recorded an official statement.
"The CCTV footage of the incident is with the police and eight of the nine police personnel named in the case have been tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! ," DIG Police South Azad Khan told news hounds at a presser.
He said that the girl "appears to have no link" to the incident.
"She is a witness to the incident and her privacy must be protected," Khan said.
According to sources, the girl has told police that she did not see the assailants due to the intensity of the sudden firing. Police are making efforts to record a formal statement of the girl to make it a part of the investigation, they said.
Sources said the girl confirmed she was in the car with Intezar when the police opened fire. She used a rickshaw to leave the scene, they said.
A case was registered at the Darakshan Police Station against unidentified persons on Sunday, despite the fact that four coppers were taken into custody due to their alleged involvement in the case.
The dear departed’s father, Ishtiaq Ahmed, had informed the media that Intezar, who had recently come back from Malaysia, had a fight with two men two days back ‐ Fahad and Haider, sons of a lawyer and policeman, respectively.
SSP South Javed Akbar had earlier said that 15 bullet cases of 9mm were recovered from the scene of the crime, adding that a girl was also with the dear departed, who fled after the incident.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Security forces have run into a mass grave containing relics of more than fifty persons, north of Mosul, a security source said on Monday.
“Troops found the grave at the outskirts of Badush town,” the source told Baghdad Today website.
The relics were for 52 of the security personnel working in Badush prison. “The bodies were shot in the heads and chests,” the source added.
“The relics were transferred to forensic medicine department in Mosul,” the source said.
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.
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[Al Jazeera] A 15-year-old Dalit girl who went missing last week in the Indian state of Haryana has been found dead near a canal in Jind district, nearly 100km west of the capital New Delhi.
Doctors say she was gang-raped and her body was mutilated, bringing the memory of the 2012 brutal gang rape of a medical student in New Delhi whose death had triggered nation-wide protests.
"On the afternoon of January 9, she had left for tuition classes, as usual. When I went to pick her up at 8pm (2:30 GMT), the teacher informed me that she had not arrived that day. She was nowhere to be found. Around 10pm that night we filed a police complaint," the father of the victim told Al Jazeera.
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[DailyMail] RAF crews took out ISIS forces of Evil using drones in Syria for the first time - as Gavin Williamson warned the jihadis will be 'totally destroyed'. British pilots 'eliminated' several bandidosgunnies using the remote-controlled gadgets, which have been used to carry out reconnaissance and bombing raids on innocent Syrians. In a direct warning to terrorists, the Defence Secretary said they have ’nowhere to hide’ and the UK would fight until their ’poisonous’ global network is destroyed. His comments came as the Ministry of Defence declared approximately 130 UK-linked nationals have now been killed in the fighting in the region.
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Sulaymaniyah (Iraqinews.com) – Clashes erupted on Monday between militants and counter-terrorism forces near the Chamchamal federal prison in Sulaymaniyah, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Baghdad Today on Monday, the source said, “The clashes between the two sides near the Baghdad-run prison in Chamchamal left a militant dead and another injured.”
Meanwhile, Ramik Ramazan, the mayor of Chamchamal, said the Iraqi government has agreed with its Kurdish counterpart to “transfer the central prison from Chamchamal to Susey in Sulaymaniyah.”
Kirkuk officials previously urged reinforcing military troops in the south and west of the province, as the region still has Islamic State members who escaped during liberation of Hawija to remote areas.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Paramilitary troops repelled on Monday an attack by Islamic State militants on a border area between Iraq and Syria, Alforat News quoted the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as saying in a statement.
“The PMF’s 1st brigade repelled a fierce attack launched by Islamic State militants on Tall Safuk area on the Iraqi-Syrian border, killing two of the attackers,” the statement read.
“The troops also destroyed a vehicle that was used by the terrorist group in the area,” the statement read. “Many of IS militants fled the scene after the attack.”
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[ATimes] The Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis have captured a US Navy underwater drone. The navy says the drone was part of a “meteorological study,”. So what was really going on?
The drone is a Remus Model 600. The Remus Model 600 is used primarily for mine countermeasures and for littoral battle-space sensing.
The Remus 600 operates autonomously, meaning that it is programmed for a mission before it is released. The mission can be changed or modified, if desired, through an acoustic communications link provided the mother vessel (a ship or submarine) is reasonably close by, since acoustic signals are limited in range. Should the Remus 600 get into trouble, for example experience a technical fault or run into some kind of barrier, it will surface and communicate through a wifi signal. The Remus has a link to the Global Positioning System (GPS) and can transmit its coordinates if it surfaces.
The Houthis were prepared to ferret out the Remus or vehicles like it. You don’t have on hand swimmers and wetsuits and other SEAL-type paraphernalia unless they are pre-positioned. This means that the Houthis were expecting some kind of seaborne military operation, and they were on hot standby to interdict an underwater spy device.
It is unlikely that the Houthis’ swimmers were just lucky in grabbing the Remus 600. They clearly captured it in shallow water, probably in a harbor. Either they were watching Remus operations over time or they had help from outside (for example, from Iran or Russia or both), or they had sensors planted in their harbor capable of picking up the Remus (not an easy task if it can actually be done) or they had intelligence.
The best guess: The US vessels dropping the Remus into the water were observed, enabling the Houthis to figure out where the Remus was heading. The alternative possibility, that the Remus had a technical fault and it surfaced, cannot be ruled out either. We just don’t know the answer.
Capturing the Remus will give the Iranians some ability to clone the device, although they still won’t have the software needed to program it. But that should not be much of a barrier for them. And the Russians, if they are interested, also will have a chance to evaluate the Remus for the same purposes.
In Dec 2016 Rantburg reported on the Chinese blatant theft of a lessor model of the same brand of underwater drone from a US Navy ship attempting to retrieve it from the ocean. Thinking about it a little more this is an Asia Times article so maybe Iran or Russia should be replaced in this story with China to be closer to the truth? link
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Also, I don't like the feature where if the drone AI gets confused it automatically surfaces and attempts to contact it's handlers by WiFi. That is just a plain idiotic feature just waiting for exploitation like this Houthi mission.
[AlAhram] A jacket wallah killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , the epicentre of the conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , two military officials, a resident and an aid worker said.
The bomber hit the mosque in the town of Gamboru in Borno state, near Nigeria's border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , during dawn prayers, said Ali Mustapha, an aid worker, and Lawan Abba, a resident.
The attack bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a jihadist group which frequently uses suicide bombers, often women and girls, to attack crowded public spaces such as mosques and markets.
[FoxNews] An alleged scissor attack targeting a hijab-wearing Toronto schoolgirl that drew condemnation from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau never happened, police revealed Monday.
Khawlah Noman, 11, reported to police on Friday that she was heading to the Pauline Johnson Junior Public School when she was approached from behind by a man who pulled off the hood of her jacket and then cut her hijab with a pair of scissors before fleeing.
“After a detailed investigation, police have determined that the events described in the original news release did not happen,” Toronto Police said in a statement. “The investigation is concluded.”
Authorities had described the imaginary suspect as an Asian male wearing a black hooded sweater, black pants and brown gloves, and asked business owners to review security footage in the area of the alleged incident.
“My heart goes out to Khawlah Noman following this morning’s cowardly attack on her in Toronto,” Trudeau posted on Twitter on Friday, before police announced the attack was fake. “Canada is an open and welcoming country, and incidents like this cannot be tolerated.”
Police told CBC News that Noman won’t be charged.
"These allegations were extremely serious and not surprisingly, they received national and international attention," said police spokesman Mark Pugash, who added he hoped the false tale doesn’t discourage others from coming forward to report alleged hate crimes.
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The effect, the scare that goes out throughout the community is the same if the crime is real or not so the hoaxer should be prosecuted as if they committed the crime.
[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... has said that the US is working to form a "terror army" on his country's southern border by training a new force in Syria that includes Kurdish fighters.
"What we are supposed to do is to drown this terror army before in comes into being," he said in an address in the capital, Ankara, on Monday, calling the Kurdish fighters "back-stabbers" who will point their weapons to the US in the future.
His comments came after reports revealed Washington's plan to establish a 30,000-strong new border security force with the involvement of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
According to media reports quoting US officials, the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) gang will recruit around half of the new force from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group of fighters dominated by the People's Protection Units (YPG).
YPG is considered by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... to be a "terrorist group" with ties to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long fight inside the country.
PKK is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. More than 40,000 people in Turkey have been killed since the 1980s after the PKK launched its rebellion.
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I wonder when someone in turkey will arrange a meeting between this assclown and a high-velocity piece of metal? Thats something that will eventually happen.
Although Obama coddled him, you Turks created this monster, you Turks need to fix it, before that idiot starts the US on attacking you and your country as it descends into a third world Islamic shithole.
[The Jamestown Foundation]
Party for Free Life in Kurdistan: The PKK’s Iranian Wing Bides Its Time
In response to Iraqi Kurdistan’s referendum on independence in early October, members of Iran’s Kurdish minority—an estimated population of six to eight million people—held widespread public celebrations, including in the mainly Kurdish Iranian cities of Baneh, Mahabad and Sanandaj (Kurdistan24, September 25). The Iranian government largely avoided a direct crackdown on this uncommon public demonstration of pan-Kurdish feeling, likely for fear of aggravating the situation. However, in a rare display of unity between President Hassan Rouhani and hardliners, Iran backed the Iraqi government’s diplomatic and military move against Iraqi Kurdistan. This led to the Iraq army and IRGC-backed Shia militias rapidly recapturing most territories gained by Iraq’s Kurds since 2003. Iraqi Kurdish leaders subsequently agreed to significant and humiliating curbs on their autonomy, dealing a dramatic blow to Kurdish separatist aspirations across the region, including in Iran. This action by Tehran —as intended—rapidly deflated Iranian Kurds, and pro-Kurdish demonstrations in Iran quickly tailed off.
These developments—in early January, the Kurdish demonstrations have since been followed by economically triggered protests in Persian areas of Iran that spread into Kurdish districts—reflect Tehran’s enduring concern that Iranian Kurds, who make up around 10 percent of the country’s population, could demand greater autonomy for themselves. Kurdish nationalism in Iran has in recent decades been subdued in comparison to Iraq, Syria and Turkey. This is partially due to demographics. Kurds in Iran represent a relatively smaller part of the total population, which mitigates against a successful insurgency.
However, some indicators suggest that, despite Tehran’s recent success in containing Kurdish separatist feeling to date, Iran’s Kurdish community may become more restive in the coming years. Key potential accelerants include rising Kurdish national feeling across the region, especially given the high-profile success of People’s Protection Units (YPG) in carving out a self-governing region in northeastern Syria. Wider developments, such as the rise of social media activism—in Iranian Kurdistan, as elsewhere, this has allowed isolated activists to transcend national boundaries and evade the state’s attempts to control information—has given life to the formerly abstract idea of a transnational Kurdish identity. In this context, the recent trajectory of the largest and most capable Kurdish militant group in Iran, the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), requires a detailed examination.
The article at the link addresses: Structure, Militant Wing, Political Wing, Future Strategy
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If we had a CIA worth a damn, they would have been working a long time to already turn these folks away from Red Star to Red White and Blue like their cousins over in Iraq. And fund/arm the hell out of them after they commit.
[Ynet] Customs agents at the Ashdod port uncovered a container destined for Gazoo, which was filled with military gear including thousands of military vests, boots and camouflaged thermal coats.
The shipment from China was ordered by a Gazoo importer who was to receive the container at the Kerem Shalom crossing.
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"It seems like it had to have been one or the other," Roberts told the Washington Examiner. "Just a complete botched operation where they [the FBI] don't want the attack to actually take place, or, it's something where they need the attack to take place in order for this guy [the agent] to advance in the world of ISIS."
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The FBI is notorious for prolonging undercover operations long after their original intent had been met.
Clearly, this is another example of the FBI putting the public at risk for an operation that ultimately may not gather enough intel to justify it OR wind up just being another blood stained feather in the cap of some FBI assistant director somewhere.
Way, way too young...
[BBC] The Irish musician, originally from Limerick, led the band to international success in the 90s with singles including Linger and Zombie.
A statement from her publicist said: "The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session.
"No further details are available at this time."
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said the police were called to a hotel in Park Lane at 09:05 GMT on Monday, where "a woman in her mid-40s" was pronounced dead at the scene.
The death is, at this stage, unexplained.
Her current band mates in The Cranberries - Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler, and Mike Hogan - paid tribute to the lead singer on social media.
The message said: "She was an extraordinary talent and we feel very privileged to been part of her life from 1989."
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Extraordinary talent indeed - loved her singing. I don't think she had any drug problems (booze? Irish? Naah!), but since this is rock & roll, that's probably the default reason.
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Never kept up as a fan (couldn't name another member of her bands, say), but yeah... that voice! Seen enough references over the lastn coupl of years to mental illness (bipolar, M-D, whatever) and back pain to have me hoping we wouldn't have to see her Sinead crazy with Shane teeth. Couple of kids, I think.
[GEO.TV] The spokesperson of banned terrorist outfit Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), Asad Mansoor, has surrendered to security forces, sources informed on Monday.
Sources said Mansoor surrendered voluntarily along with two associates in DI Khan and surrendered his weapons and documents.
The JuA, based in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, has been involved in a series of terrorist attacks inside Pakistain.
Since 2014, when the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar first surfaced, it proved itself to be a lethal terrorist group, perpetrating some of the most brutal attacks in Pakistain.
Pakistain had proscribed the organization in 2016. The group has been involved in more than 100 terrorist attacks on Pak soil.
In July, Pakistain welcomed the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council decision to include JuA in the list of entities subject to travel bans, arms embargos and freezing of assets.
JuA chief Omar Khalid Khorasani was reported killed in a drone attack in Afghanistan in October last year.
The strike was conducted close to the Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... in Paktia.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
One item from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) publication of Fusion GPS CEO Glenn Simpson’s Aug. 2017 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that has not gotten too much attention is the part where the spy responsible for producing the Trump-Russia collusion dossier, Christopher Steele, tipped off the FBI in early July 2016.
Says it all. 
[BBC] A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, has been shot dead outside his party offices in the Serb-run north of Mitrovica.
[The Hill] An executive representing Swiss bank UBS said Monday that President Trump's economic achievements warrant "high marks."
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ The next phase in data collection is right under your feet.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed and 64 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the deadliest attack so far this year in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.
[FDD's Long War Journal] The Tunisian government deployed over 2,000 troops this week as protests over increased taxes spread. Government officials indicated the army will be protecting government installations, following an incident in which protesters burned a security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting police to flee.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
The application of location intelligence and the incorporation of 2D maps and positioning have become ubiquitous since the advent of smartphones. Now, we are entering a new era in which we can harness the power of 3D data to improve consumer experiences, as well as applications for enterprise, public safety, homeland security, and urban planning. 3D will play a more significant role in these experiences as we overcome the technical barriers that have made it previously difficult and cost-prohibitive to acquire, visualize, simulate, and apply to real-world applications.
[ATimes] The Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis have captured a US Navy underwater drone. The navy says the drone was part of a “meteorological study,”. So what was really going on?
... 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...
[The Jamestown Foundation]
The project is terminated when we say it is terminated. 
[GEO.TV] The spokesperson of banned terrorist outfit Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), 
