The downing of the Israeli F-16 jet in on February 10 by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile was due to an operational mistake on the part of the pilots, the IDF announced Sunday.
"Between the tension of completing the mission while facing enemy missiles there was an operational mistake on the part of the team whose actions did not match the order of priorities required by the threat it was facing," a senior Israel Air Force officer said, explaining that the pilots did not take the proper evasive measures.
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...That one doesn't make a lot of sense. The only thing I can think of that would go along with that was if the PIC got himself behind the curve and didn't fire countermeasures in time.
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Had to be.
Couldn't have been that the rocket hit the aircraft.
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"an operational mistake" is what it's called when you get too far down in the enemy's 'threat fan'.
A tactical mistake is when you don't remember to find out where the threat fan is.
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They got to thinking they were flying a dump truck rather than a fighter bomber over defended air space. Something similar happened with the F-117A shot down over Yugoslavia.
[Sara Carter] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said the Democratic opposition memo did not change the facts or change the outcome of the investigation’s finding his committee released in their own partisan memo several weeks ago.
On Saturday the much anticipated Democratic memo written by ranking minority member of the committee Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, was released and surmised that former British spy "Christopher Steele’s raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI’s decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016" among other assertions. The dossier played a significant role in the investigation into President Trump’s 2016 campaign and alleged that members of the Trump campaign were colluding with the Russian government against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Meanwhile, a couple of (wikipedia) clicks away...
No, Jeff wasn't one of the fellas...
He never fit in with us, bra-less,
But training -- oh, mama! --
At two schools of drama,
He'll pass for a Spooky Old Alice.
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I was thinking more of the economic impact of blockading areas of dense fishing. Also, a reason for the development of China islands as intermediate catch processing stations is apparent.
Via Jihad Watch. It's a mystery
The number of alleged rapes reported to police in London has risen by almost 20 per cent in a disturbing increase police are struggling to explain.
There were 7,613 reported rapes in the year to January, compared to 6,392 over the previous 12 months, according to figures collated by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).
Sir Craig Mackey, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the rise could not be accounted for simply by more victims feeling able to report abuse or better recording practices. "It is not as simple as saying this is increased confidence," he told the London Assembly’s police and come committee.
"Of course that plays a part, and faith in the process, but there is something going on with sexual offending in London that we don’t fully understand.
"We see the end of it but we don’t understand the causes."
Joanne McCartney, the deputy mayor of London, told the meeting on Wednesday that Sir Craig’s statement was "the first time a senior officer has come to this committee and accepted that the increase in sexual violence may not just be about an increase in reporting and confidence".
Susan Hall, a Conservative assembly member, called for police to measure the outcome of plans in place to combat violence against women and girls in the capital.
"Figures are really going in the wrong direction," she added.
Scotland Yard has emphasised that the vast majority of rapes are carried out by attackers known to victims but the statistics emerged following a "stranger rape" in Shoreditch. Sadiq Khan says "Don't you dare mention the elephant in the room, Islamophobe!"
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About better recording practices: are police actually recording — and following up on — the complaints of victims of Muslim grooming gangs now, or do they still know what the daughters of people like that are like, the little sluts? Those rapes were carried out by men known to the victims.
BLUF:
[Hot Air] Nearly three-quarters of young Americans are ineligible to serve in the United States military due to obesity, criminal record, or lack of education, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation.
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Gee, I seem to recall a week or so ago, a public denunciation of those in the military as losers by a Cali pol/educator. If only the upper quarter qualify, what does that make the remaining three quarters?
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"Drank alcohol in High School?", "Yes."
"Smoked pot in the last 7 years?", "Yes."
"Used street drugs, ever?", "Yes."
"Belonged to any Paramilitary Organizations?", "I was in the Boy Scouts."
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When in doubt, consult Stripes quotes: Recruiter: Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor? That's robbery, rape, car theft, that sort of thing. John Winger: Convicted? No. Russell Ziskey: Never convicted.
Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals? John Winger: [John and Russell look at each other] You mean, like, flaming, or... Recruiter: Well, it's a standard question we have to ask. Russell Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*. John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special? Recruiter: I guess that's "no" on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam your autograph...
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...FWIW, when I was a street recruiter 25 years ago, it might not have been 75% ineligible, but it was doggoned close.
Just as a thought experiment, what would happen if we promised qualified applicants who would sign up for a 10 year hitch full free tuition at the college of their choice and exemption from Federal income taxes for ten years afterwards? I betcha a lot of people would find ways to get into shape right quickly...
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It's probably for the best, because you really wouldn't want them in anyway...
I remember about 14 years ago, during the late unpleasantness, that my youngest son joined and went to boot at Ft Sill. Dead of winter, and he turns out to be the only boot in his company that's ever built a campfire.
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ED - mine was about a year behind yours - Same place
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he turns out to be the only boot in his company that's ever built a campfire.
[PJ] Recently, Contently, a marketing firm, put out an article by Tallie Gabriel ("Your Brand Needs a Conscience") that urged companies to take up hot-button political issues in order to be successful. This seems like incredibly stupid advice after what happened to the NFL this season, where the league did just that. Gabriel wrote:
There will always be risk associated with any move that can be construed as political.
But as Contently’s director of strategy Joe Lazauskas wrote after the 2016 presidential election, the benefits outweigh the potential downside: Even if publicizing your beliefs may ostracize some potential customers, it also builds deep loyalty for those who share your values‐particularly values like celebrating equality and inclusion, which many people support, regardless of political affiliation. The same goes for expressing concern and support for the diverse people who work for you. Loyalty isn’t just a marketing metric; it’s also critical for measuring the internal health of your company.
I need another politicized company trying to sell me things like I need a longer flu season. Shut up already and sell me whatever thing it is you have to offer. If I want something you make, just sell it to me without the moralizing, please. It appears we can also blame this on millennials (what can't we blame on them?):
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Peter Drucker said that an organization can succeed at one mission. As soon as it has two missions it will fail at both. So, when a business takes up virtue signalling, they are actually warning the consumer that the product or service they are selling is going to decrease in quality.
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When Tom Brokaw took over the nightly news seat at NBC, the show was in third place among the three major open broadcast evening news. When he left, it was in first place. However, the audience was smaller than when he first took the position. Their appeal just became more selective.
[Townhall] Is American foreign policy so foreign to our values that those who have served at the very pinnacle of the national intelligence agencies have trouble telling the truth?
"Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries’ elections?" Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, asked James Woolsey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1993 to 1995, during President Clinton’s first term.
"Oh, probably," Mr. Woolsey replied. "But, uh, it was for the good of the system, in order to avoid communists from taking over. For example, in Europe in ’47-’48-’49, the Greeks and the Italians, we, the CIA‐"
"We don’t do that now, though?" Ingraham interjected. "We don’t mess around in other people’s elections, Jim?"
"Well . . . urrrrr, yum, yum, yum, um, um, um" the old spymaster mouthed to laughter from both Ingraham and her studio cameramen. A few classic examples follow:
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and against Bibi
One does wonder who is concocting the successive rounds of accusations requiring police investigations of the prime minister, his wife, and all their friends, so much like the Russia file used against President Trump, et al. Caroline Glick has strong opinions about the game being played there, though makes no mention of who has been behind it for over two decades.
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I wonder if the Klingons at the Israeli desk are still operating under orders from that loathsome administration? Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom
Unless they've been moved on to administrative duties in Karachi, one must assume nothing has much changed. Of course there is always that limb you could step out on.
[WashingtonPost] Computer model forecasts are advertising a bout of bitter cold to sweep over Europe over the next several days, very possibly the most extreme of the winter and perhaps in several years.
"The well anticipated most widespread #cold temperatures across northern Eurasia since #winter 2013 is imminent," tweeted Judah Cohen, a meteorologist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a weather risk management firm.
The European media are describing the incoming frigid air as the "beast from the east" since its source region is Siberia.
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Computer model forecasts... - like the ones predicting 'global warming'? I'm wondering if the author said it in that manner on purpose.
[Hot Air] It appears President Donald Trump hopes to do a massive increase in tariffs on steel and aluminum. Bloomberg reports the President is pondering three protectionist plans on his desk, and prefers the one he believes will boost American steel profits.
It isn’t surprising the President is considering this, after all the alleged 5G sort of nationalization plan would require whoever constructs the infrastructure to use American products, instead of foreign materials. Trump sees this as a way to increase national security (somehow) something Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross swore was an issue via Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Ross’ report admitted there is no real definition of "national security" in Section 232, but the government still needed to prop up the steel economy (emphasis mine).
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We can't be reliant on foreign sources of steel, particularly hostile governments. This is basic common sense. It provides jobs and builds our communities, and if it decreases GDP growth by 0.1%, then so be it. It's worth it.
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The steel producers and unions are popping open the bubbly; the average consumer will be on a beer budget. Protectionism is a disaster waiting to happen.
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I'm sure the Germans will reduce their car import tariffs from 10 to 2.5% (ignoring another 15% VAT). They wouldn't want to appear to be massive hypocrites.
So, just cut out the middle man and buy all our military equipment from China? Parts be parts. You better know where they come from and how they are assembled. In the end, you need certain strategic industries and the resources that feed them to be free of potential cut offs.
Second, when they practice 'protectionism' by restricting markets both directly and through regulation (see - GMO and the Euros), you're a fool to talk 'open markets'. Quid pro quo is a phrase used in English to mean an exchange of goods or services, in which one transfer is contingent upon the other; "a favour for a favour". Phrases with similar meanings include: "give and take", "tit for tat", and "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours". They don't play it, then we don't play it.
BTW, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act gets a lot of damning for its supposed effect on the Great Depression. However, if you get beyond the usual cooked books and cooked unemployment numbers of the last 8 years, we were in a depression, without the benefit of blaming good old Smoot-Hawley for our economic ills.
Remember that President Trump is transactional, European Conservative. This is his maximalist opening bid for something, though it may not be about tariffs at all. The question is whether he needs Congress to pass a bill on the subject, and what it is that he really wants — a DACA law, for example, or keeping the unions from supporting the Democratic party in November.
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Buy America clauses are tied to all steel/iron products for projects with Fed/State funds. As noted above, it makes sense to maintain a strategic portion of essential item production domestically, especially when foreign interests are dumping exports at a loss to cut competition
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Recall the infrastructure initiative TW.
Any road or bridge building will require massive amounts of steel and concrete. This can bring a reboot of the US steel industry. Concrete will of course come from Mexico.
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A manufacturing company has three components of costs: 1. Direct material, 2. Labor, and 3. Overhead. To compete, you are going to have to affect these catagories. Usually labor costs in 3rd world countries are lower than in the U.S. Do we want to reduce the standard of living here by reducing what is paid to workers so that wages are on a par with 3rd world countries? I don't think so. Tariffs are a way of leveling the playing field. There are down sides such as product pricing wars.
P2K raises a good point; that is, do you want you want China manufacturing critical materials that go into defense?
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Tariffs aren't pretty, but if we want to win the Rust Belt states, they are necessary. Reagan won the allegiance of the Rust Belt states not by championing unions, but by unveiling protective measures. Tariffs are the price we pay to get the rest of our program enacted.
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Tariffs on steel and aluminum will just move more manufacturing overseas. Saving a few hundred ironworkers jobs will cost several thousand manufacturing jobs.
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I said it before and I'll say it every time the subject comes up: You damn well better do something about computers while you're at it. Computers are every bit as strategic as steel and right now they're all made in China. That is unacceptable.
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AMEN Silence Gweilo!
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hey....what?
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I think g(r)om hit the nail on the head. We're dealing with two separate prisoners' dilemmas now: the one with large rich foreign mercantilist nation states, and the one with the elites on the coasts who pretend to believe in the free market but don't believe anyone who actually builds anything physical should be able to make a living in this country.
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One item in followup: China has a twenty-five hundred year tradition of mercantilism on top of a recent experience of communist rule. They don't believe the western "liberal" sanitized account of communism, they know the state has to make a profit long-term.
[Victory Girls] No, I wasn’t being sarcastic with that title. China ‐ the land that has murdered literally millions of its own citizens since the 1950s, and whose "cultural revolution" alone killed as many as 1.5 million people in rural China ‐ has seen it fit to lecture America on human rights.
Not from the Onion.
China apparently considers itself to be a kinder, gentler regime that has gun control in order to protect human life, which they value oh-so-much!
If the irony was any richer here, it would be Scrooge McDuck diving into a pool of money!
A country that has for decades limited families to only having one child, resulting in the murder of millions of children, and that has "eased" that policy in recent years, graciously allowing families to have two kids (note the sarcasm in that statement), sees it fit to lecture us on human rights.
A country that considers freedom of expression as a "privilege," and not a right, has the temerity to give us "advice"on human rights.
A country that has the death penalty for 46 ‐ FORTY SIX ‐ different crimes, including drug trafficking, public disorder, bribery, endangering national security (which of course involves any criticism of the regime), and robbery (although apparently some reforms now take the death penalty off the table for people 75 years or older, so there’s that); has huge false conviction rates that often involve capital crimes; executed more than 1,600 prisoners in 2016 alone; and until 2014 had trafficked in organs from executed prisoners, has the balls to criticize our human rights record!
In an editorial, titled, "China can offer lessons to US in protecting human rights," China’s state-run birdcage liner wagged a disapproving finger at the United States for "allowing" the citizens the right to keep and bear arms in light of the Parkland massacre, perpetuated by a psychotic murderer, whom the very government that statists and the Chinese (but I repeat myself) want to have a monopoly on force, failed to stop after numerous reports prior to the shooting!
[Hot Air] Well, that’s one solution. A North Texas charter school has voted in favor of putting a police substation on campus because "horrific things can happen anywhere." The plan, please note, was approved one week before the Florida mass shooting. Working in conjunction with the city council, Westlake Academy will put in a substation of the Keller Police department. It probably didn’t hurt that the president of the Westlake Academy school board is also the mayor of Westlake.
[Daily Caller] The Russian government has downplayed the recent strikes on Russian mercenaries in Syria, however, recordings from fighters on the ground reveal just how hard U.S. forces hit them.
"One squadron fucking lost 200 people ... right away, another one lost 10 people ... and I don’t know about the third squadron but it got torn up pretty badly, too ... So three squadrons took a beating," a man believed to be a Russian contract soldier said in the first of three audio recordings obtained from a source close to the Kremlin by Polygraph.info, a fact-checking website affiliated with Voice of America.
"They beat our asses like we were little pieces of shit," the man said, Newsweek introduced.
A U.S.-led strike following a raid on a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) base where U.S. troops were stationed is believed to have killed hundreds of Russian military contractors fighting alongside pro-Syrian irregular forces. The U.S. forces hammered the attackers with heavy artillery and air strikes.
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The video is better.
The C&C was calm and effective. Handed the static line off readily because they planned for every vehicle before it got across the bridge.
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I know this is totally off topic but Germany has a chance to win Olympic gold in ice hockey against Russia. 3-3 right now and going into overtime.
This would be our Lake Placid moment.
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Why the hell are US troops even in Syria in the first place? What's there that's so damn important?
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Well it didn't happen... but anyway
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The US called to ask if the midnight assault by the mercenaries was their people. Of course, the Russians said no. What followed was C130 gun ships, Apaches, Marine Corp artillery, USAF jets attacking the group. As one Russian Wagner widow said after hearing about how her mercenary husband had died, "The US Military shot them like they were dogs."
In WWII a German soldier who had fought on the eastern front and then later was at Normandy beach and survived D-Day said when it came to the Americans assault, he had never seen anything like it on the eastern front.
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#3 Why the hell are US troops even in Syria in the first place? What's there that's so damn important? Posted by Herb McCoy
I agree - if they are not AQ or ISIS our AUMF doesn't support it anyway. The Russians and Syrians are enemies of both AQ and ISIS so WTF why in the hell are we attacking them?
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Why the hell are US troops even in Syria in the first place? What's there that's so damn important?
That's what I don't get. ISIS is effectively done. If we're not there to get the Kurds their own nation-state, what the heck are we doing there? And if we're there to keep ISIS down, how do we do that without having Kurds as our allies within their own nation-state controlling the territory that ISIS wants to establish as the core of its caliphate?
What I hear from Al-Monitor is that Pentagon has sided with the Kurds while the White House has sided with the Turks. Who knows what to believe?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Making things easier is one of the lofty ideals of the religion of Islam. It is the basis for all the rituals that are made obligatory for the faithful. Ease is the opposite of hardship as the Holy Qur’an puts it. "Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship."
The Qur’anic verse related to fasting gives exemption for the sick and those who are traveling from observing fasting on the condition that they have to make it up later. Such concessions are applied to other obligatory rituals as well.
Allah has provided ease with every hardship. The Qur’an says in Surah Inshirah: "For indeed, with hardship (will be) ease." The Prophet (peace be upon him) never had two choices, except that he chose the easier of them. But some people tend to be hardened and narrow in their viewpoints on religious matters, though it has no basis either in the Book of Allah or in the Tradition of the Prophet (Sunnah).
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It's a start, but will it last?
Of should something bigger have to happen to fix it?
[All Africa] Seven suspects believed to have been involved in the Ngcobo police massacre were rubbed out in a shootout with police on Friday evening, after being cornered inside a church they used as a hideout.
Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said more than 10 other suspects were tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , while others managed to escape.
"One police officer was maimed and he is recuperating in hospital," Mulaudzi said.
This follows after a group of unknown attackers entered the Ngcobo cop shoppe on Wednesday and, without warning, randomly opened fire on officers who were on duty. Three officers were killed at the cop shoppe.
The button men then separated the female coppers from their male counterparts, before taking six pistols, two shotguns and two assault rifles. The retired soldier was rubbed out as they fled.
The bodies of two additional officers were later found, shot execution style, along the roadside near Nyanga High School, about 6km from the cop shoppe.
Ngcobo is situated between Mthatha and Queenstown.
Mulaudzi said the task team which comprises of the Hawks, Detectives, Crime Intelligence, the Task Force, National Intervention Unit and the Tactical Response Team followed information on Friday evening of a possible gang that was responsible for the tragic incident.
"The group, which uses a church as a hiding place, was cornered inside the church premises.
"A shootout between suspects and police ensued which left seven suspects dead and a task force member injured in the legs," he said.
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South Africa has one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world. It also has one of the world's highest homocide rate.
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Multicultural bastion of freedom and democracy.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Tunisian parliamentary bloc called for holding Tunisian defense minister accountable for the issue of financial transfers attributed to a retired Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i officer.
The case against Abdel Karim al-Zubaidi also involves opening an account in a bank branch in Tataouine in 2014, and the use of these suspicious funds by several associations and personalities accused of supporting terrorism.
In this regard, Sahbi Ben Faraj, the leader of the Tunisian Project Movement parliamentary bloc, said that accountability will revolve around the identity of the associations benefiting from these funds and the history of remittances, stressing that the bank account contained money that came from an account in the name of the Qatari armed forces, which is part of a bank account in the name of the Embassy of Qatar in Tunisia.
The suspicious funds were estimated at around 4.5 million Tunisian dinars (about 1.8 million dollars). The Financial Analysis Committee has identified a major suspicious transaction that included military personnel who have benefited from these sums.
The case dates back to 2014, when the competent authority at the Ministry of Defense questioned the Qatari general, and the whole file was referred to the military judiciary. The relevant bank accounts were suspended based on an order by the magistrate of the judicial court on July 24, 2015. The frozen amount was estimated at around 3 million Tunisian dinars (about 1.2 million dollars), but in return, the identity of the parties involved with the retired Qatari general has not been disclosed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A surge of rocket fire, shelling and air strikes has killed nearly 500 people since Sunday night, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The dead included more than 120 children.
Air strikes killed 21 civilians in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Saturday as major powers bickered over the terms of a ceasefire, a monitor said.
Devestating bombardment
Twelve were killed in the enclave’s largest town Douma, which has been repeatedly hit in the devastating bombardment the government launched last Sunday, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Damascus government and Russia, its ally, say they only target Death Eaters. They have said they seek to stop rebel mortar attacks on the capital and accused faceless myrmidons in Ghouta of holding people as human shields.
Rescuers in Syria’s eastern Ghouta said the bombing would not let up long enough for them to count the bodies, in one of the bloodiest air assaults of the seven-year war.
Warplanes pounded the rebel enclave on Saturday, the seventh day in a row of a fierce escalation by Damascus and its allies, an emergency service, a witness and a monitoring group said.
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Sad. But on the bright side, its Moslems getting killed for not immigrating to Pennsylvania and California and Ohio.
...or moving to live in Gay Paree. I hear they have some very secluded nice"private" neighborhoods in Paris.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian court has fined one of the leading activists behind the 2011 uprising $565 (10,000 Egyptian pounds) during his re-trial over insulting the judiciary.
Saturday’s ruling on Ahmed Douma, reported by the state-run Al Ahram newspaper, is a response to his appeal against a 2014 ruling in the case sentencing him to three years in prison plus the fine.
In 2015, Douma was sentenced to life in prison in another case dating back to December 2011, when festivities erupted between protesters and security forces outside Egypt’s Cabinet building.
Douma, who was granted a retrial in that case last October, faces accusations of illegal protesting, assaulting security personnel and attacking government buildings.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday ‐ a day after Pakistain avoided ending up on a terror watch list by a global task force ‐ said that the government will expedite steps to curb terror financing and money laundering. If that's so -- and I'm sure we're all certain it is! -- that should mean that the money Khyber-Pakhtunwa was reported about to funnel into Samiul Haq's School for Jihad is going to be stopped. Right?
Pakistain's performance in the war against terrorism was better than others', but it still faced pressure from Washington, the minister said.
Iqbal said the motion put forward against Pakistain by the US was moved on "political basis" with the intention of bringing Pakistain under pressure.
Playing down speculations that the placement on the watch list could have severe economic repercussions for Pakistain, the minister said steps taken by the country against terror financing were not to please FATF or the US but they are "in the interest of our country".
He said being a responsible state, it was Pakistain's duty to ensure implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions as not doing so effectively could give international lobbies the chance to campaign against Pakistain.
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He said being a responsible state, it was Pakistain's duty to ensure implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions as not doing so effectively could give international lobbies the chance to campaign against Pakistain.
Ahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* ahahahahahhaa
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[PRESSTV] The secretary general of the Hezbollah resistance movement has warned the Lebanese nation against voting for pro-US candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, saying such contenders will simply hand over the Arab country to Americans.
Addressing his supporters via a televised speech from the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on Saturday evening, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... called upon people from all walks of life to participate in the elections, which are scheduled to be held on May 6.
"Voters should consider national interests when picking candidates and voting for them. People should approach the upcoming legislative polls from the perspective of fulfilling responsibilities towards the country," he said.
Nasrallah further noted, "Voters should not make their decisions on the basis of candidates’ family connections, religious or party affiliations."
The Hezbollah chief went on to say that the movement’s politicians represented the entire Lebanese nation, and not simply their political bloc.
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such contenders will simply hand over the Arab country to Americans.
"We're Iran's bitch!"
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[PRESSTV] Some 14 people have been killed in a ISIS attack on a police headquarters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden.
According to medical and security sources on Saturday, at least 40 people, including women and kiddies, were maimed in the attack in the Tawahi district in southwest Aden.
The ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... r terrorist group grabbed credit for the attack via its Amaq news agency.
The incident took place as two bombers detonated two vehicles packed with explosives outside the headquarters' main entrance while six button men attempted to enter the facility.
"All the ... Lions of Islam were liquidated immediately before they could reach the outer gate of the anti-terrorism headquarters," said a statement released by the police.
The attack was the first of its kind since festivities broke out in January between southern separatists and former President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government, which controls the city.
The fresh outburst began after the separatists managed to take control of a number of sites and military camps run by forces loyal to Hadi following intense festivities.
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[All Africa] Dozens of people were killed in twin boom-mobile blasts in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, in what appears to have been a foiled attack on the presidential palace. Islamist murderous Moslem group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... grabbed credit.
The number of deaths from Friday's twin boom-mobilekabooms in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, rose to at least 38, according to officials on Saturday.
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab has grabbed credit for the attack, which targeted the presidential palace and subsequently a hotel. The attacks follow months of relative calm.
- A vehicle that was loaded with explosives was used to try to breach a checkpoint on the way into the presidential palace Villa Somalia, according to officials who said security forces thwarted the attack. A blast at the checkpoint was reportedly followed by gunfire.
- A second kaboom later, which destroyed vehicles outside the hotel as well as the compound's perimeter wall, was reported to have claimed a substantial proportion of the casualties.
- The attack was claimed by al-Shabaab in a statement posted online. The group, which claimed to have killed 35 soldiers while having lost five of its fighters, said it was targeting the government and security services.
Security officials claimed they had been successful in thwarting the main thrust of the attack. "The security forces foiled the intent of the terrorists," the AFP news agency reported Abdulahi Ahmed, a security officer, as saying. "They were aiming for key targets, but they could not even go closer, there were five of them killed by the security force."
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I recommend this book, “The Fate of Africa; The History of the Continent Since Independence” Meridith, Martin. It discussed the fact that during a famine, all UN and US aide entered the country at Mogadishu. Food was not sent to the moslem north and millions starved. It discusses all the African countries in individual chapters.
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Kindle sample downloaded for later perusal. Thank you, Sloluth Smith4022 — my book list has expanded in interesting directions since I found this place.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three Lions of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in US dronezaps in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan military in the East said the latest dronezaps were carried out in the vicinity of Manogi district.
The source further added that the hideouts of the terror group were targeted in the air raids and as a result three Lions of Islam were killed.
According to the Silab Corps, a local leader of the group identified as Mohib son of Abdul Nabi was also among those killed.
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Media Matters is David Brock’s vehicle for beating up the right while posturing as an evenhanded and unbiased fact checker.
[Media Matters] PHIL ROBERTSON: I will give you this -- I commend you for standing for the truth when you're dealing with all these people. What I'm here to do -- I'm glad you called me in, because if I'm able to talk to you, that means desperation is setting in.
So, I just want to remind you what you do every night -- Jesus, in John, Chapter 8, said that the devil is the source -- source, and cause of all murder, and he is also, Jesus said, -- John 8, read that when you get off the phone -- he is the source and the father of lies.
So Sean, what you're doing, maybe even not realized it all together -- You go as to say -- it's just -- how come people -- this is just evil, what Hillary Clinton did, and all the stuff with the -- with the -- with her computers, and all this, and [Christopher] Steele and the dossier -- you gotta remember you're dealing with human beings who are controlled by the father, Sean, of lies. That's why --
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You really -- see, I believe --
ROBERTSON: That's why it's so hard -- that's why it's so hard to wade through it, because you're thinking, "How could people lie this well?"
They -- they are getting their instructions from the evil one, according to John, Chapter 8, which is a daunting task you have undertaken, because you're really dealing with the power of the evil one, whether it be the shooters in the schools, or the people that you're dealing with that just -- lies just come forth from him.
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So, the Media Matters headline and the relevant parts of the column are two different things, you say? Nope, David Brock's not trying to misrepresent things!
One unidentified 51 year old man has been imprisoned and four others are being sought in an orphanage sex abuse case in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, according to Russian language news account.
According to the article which appears in the regnum.ru Russian language news outlet, as many as 10 unidentified children were sexually abused in a sex class taught by the 51 year old, identified with the call sign "Uncle Seryozha". The abuse was discovered in January, 2018, but local or Russian federal authorities had not been notified until February 19th.
The report said the abuse took place at an institution called Lazurnaya boarding school. Some guardians with children from the school had notified the school administrators of their suspicions, since the children had all reported the same abuse. Their suspicions were dismissed, saying that the children made it all up.
In the wake of the charges, an unidentified administrator at the school left the post. Four others were dismissed from their positions and are considered to be at large.
Originally, local journalists who had caught wind of the abuse were admonished to keep quiet, it was said, to preserve the childrens' privacy, but the story by then already had spread enough, so even the governor of Chelyabinsk, Boris Dubrovsky has commented on the case.
At the moment the ten children have been placed in other settings with the admonishment from authorities not to talk about the case with the press. The penalty suggested is to remove the children from their guardians. The Chelyabinsk representative for children, Irina Butorina, denied charges she was the one to issue the warnings.
The case has attracted notice from the Russian Federation Duma ombudsman for children, Anna Kuznetsova, who has suggested moving the case to federal investigators because, she said, that local investigators may not be able to handle such a "complex case."
According to the article, another fear of guardians of the children who were placed is that the case simply will be dropped.
Those fears were expressed when a second case last Wednesday, this time without any defendants, was opened for negligence.
[AFP] Months after being routed from Marawi, rebels are making a new and deadly attempt to set up a Southeast Asian caliphate in the same region. The gunmen have mustered a force of about 200 fighters and fought a series of skirmishes with security forces this year after troops retook the city last October.
Colonel Romeo Brawner said, "They have not abandoned their objective to create a caliphate in South-east Asia. Mindanao is the most fertile ground. Our countrymen are more vulnerable (to recruitment)."
Struggling with poverty and armed Muslim insurgencies, Mindanao must improve its supervision of Islamic schools, where most young gunmen are recruited, he added.
Gunmen who escaped during the early days of the operation to recapture Marawi are leading the recruitment effort, flush with cash, guns and jewellery looted from the city's banks and private homes. The recruits are mostly locals, but an unspecified number of Indonesians, some with bomb-making skills, have recently arrived there, Brawner said.
The siege of Marawi forced the Philippine military, more used to low-intensity jungle warfare against guerillas, to reorganize and to rewrite their doctrines, with a new emphasis on urban warfare training, he added.
Mindanao military officials said Maute gunmen murdered three traders in the town of Piagapo, near Marawi, last November. Last month, police arrested three suspects over the Piagapo killings. The military also reported skirmishes with Maute gunmen in the towns of Masiu and Pagayawan, near Marawi last month. On February 8, the military killed three militants in Pantar, another neighboring town.
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Mindanao must improve its supervision elimination of Islamic schools, where most young gunmen are recruited, he added.
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[PRESSTV] The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) says 23 of its staff members have left the relief organization over the past three years due to sexual misconduct.
"Since 2015 we have identified 21 staff members who were either dismissed for paying for sexual services or resigned during an internal enquiry. Another two staff members suspected of sexual misconduct did not have their contracts renewed," ICRC Director General Yves Daccord said in a statement on Friday.
"I am deeply saddened to report these numbers," he added, noting the ICRC was taking action to ensure all sexual abuse cases were reported and handled properly.
The statement noted that the Red Thingy, with over 17,000 staff across the world, prohibited its employees from paying for sexual services.
There have recently been numerous reports of alleged sexual misconduct in different relief organizations.
British charity Oxfam has been battling accusations about involvement of its staff in sexual misconduct in Haiti and South Sudan. The scandals have put Oxfam’s government funding at risk and threatened its global reputation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A foreign bad boy was among at least three faceless myrmidons killed during a clash with the local public uprising forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to the provincial police commandment, the incident took place late on Thursday night in the vicinity of Goshta district of Nangarhar.
The clash broke out in Torkani area of Goshta district, the provincial commandment said, adding that the foreign holy warrior killed during the clash has been identified as Syed Nabi alias Jahanyar who was hailing fro Pakistain.
The provincial police commandment also added that the dead bodies of the faceless myrmidons were left in the area and two Ak-47 rifles, 2 cycle of violences, and some ammunition were also confiscated by the uprising forces.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS holy warriors have not commented regarding the report so far.
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...who has appeared in our archives from time to time over the years ...
's 24-year prison sentence and convictions have been reinstated after the Constitutional Court on Friday set aside the Supreme Court of Appeal's order overturning the Warri bombing convictions, which led to a reduction in his sentence.
Okah was originally sentenced in March 2013 in the South Gauteng High Court after being convicted on 13 counts of terrorism, including engaging in terrorist activities, conspiracy to engage in terrorist activities, and delivering, placing and detonating an bomb, relating to two boom-mobiles detonated in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 1, 2010, the anniversary of the country's independence.
Twelve people were killed and 36 were maimed.
One person was killed and 11 seriously injured in another bombing in Warri on March 15, 2010, at a post-amnesty dialogue meeting.
In both bombings, two boom-mobiles went off minutes apart. The cars were parked in close proximity to each other, News24 reported at the time.
Okah, a Nigerian citizen who has been a permanent resident in South Africa since 2007, was found to be the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta ... a confederation of bands of bandidos portraying itself of a political organization grabbing for Nigeria's oil boodle ... and was convicted for terrorist acts under the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Act.
Their last significant pronouncement was a threat in 2013 to bomb Muslim institutions and kill Muslim clerics, but nothing seems to have come of it.
This article starring:
Henry Okah
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[TheGuardian] Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian war.
Three years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the Syrian town of Kobane, most armed only with Kalashnikovs, hold off a vast army of Islamist militants with tanks, artillery and overwhelming logistical superiority. The defenders insisted they were acting in the name of revolutionary feminist democracy. The Islamist fighters vowed to exterminate them for that very reason. When Kobane’s defenders won, it was widely hailed as the closest one can come, in the contemporary world, to a clear confrontation of good against evil.
Today, exactly same thing is happening again. Except this time, world powers are firmly on the side of the aggressors. In a bizarre twist, those aggressors seem to have convinced key world leaders and public opinion-makers that Kobane’s citizens are “terrorists” because they embrace a radical version of ecology, democracy and women’s rights.
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ISIS destroyed and ransacked the tomb of the prophet of Jonah in 2014
But the historic shrine was retaken by Iraqi army forces in January 2017
Archaeologists sent in to assess the damage found a palace buried underneath
They discovered stone tablets within the palace that describe King Esarhaddon
Inscriptions list the ruler as 'king of the world' and give his family history
How disappointing for ISIS, as for the Taliban before them, that their destruction turned out to reveal long-hidden archeological treasures. You no doubt recall, dear Reader, how only seven years after the Taliban smashed to pieces the two known Bamiyan Buddhas carved into a cliff in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, a huge reclining Buddha was discovered under the turf, as well as numerous painted caves hidden behind the carved niches.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five Afghan national army soldiers bit the dust in a coordinated attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... murderous Moslems in western Farah province of Afghanistan, a provincial source said Saturday.
The incident took place late on Friday night in the vicinity of Bala Bolok district after a large number of Taliban murderous Moslems stormed a military base.
A provincial council source confirmed that 25 Afghan soldiers were martyred in the attack.
Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Younis Rasooly confirmed the icident but did not elaborate further regarding the casualties of the Afghan armed forces.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said at least eighteen Afghan soldiers were martyred and two others were maimed in the attack.
Another member of the provincial council Dadullah Qani said more than 20 Afghan soldiers bit the dust in the attack.
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[Daily Caller] Mike Rowe shared his thoughts on the recent tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School, and it will blow anything the establishment media has to say out of the water.
Rowe wrote on Facebook, "Evil is real. As long as humans have walked the earth, people have chosen to do evil things. This is what happened in Florida. A nineteen-year old man chose to do an evil thing. He planned it. He executed it. He succeeded."
Rowe also said that while it’s important to find out the contributing causes of mass shooters, we shouldn’t absolve the killer of responsibility for his actions.
"Should we endeavor to know why? Absolutely. Should we discuss the impact of video games, accessible firearms, single-parents, no parents, powerful medications, social media, mental illness, bullying, or anything else we think might have encouraged him to choose evil over good? Without question."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A group of 46 Malaysian Islamic associations has jointly denied any establishment of a body to monitor Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s management of the Two Holy Mosques.
In an exclusive statement to Al Arabiya English, the group of associations categorically denied any establishment of a monitoring body based in Malaysia.
This comes following the fake news of establishment of such a body by the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i-owned Al Jazeera Media Network and other news websites that falsely said the body with powers to monitor the administration of the two holy mosques was created recently.
"It is known to us that the administration of the Two Holy Mosques and the service of Holy Places has been without doubt and over time, the honor of Saudi Arabia and we confirm the associations’ denial of establishing any monitoring body," Dr. Fath al-Bari Yahya, president of the Khair al-Uma Foundation in Malaysia, told Al Arabiya English.
In a phone interview with Al Arabiya, Mufti of Malaysia Dr. Zulkifli Mohamad al-Bakri confirmed no such body has been created.
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Hey, I like this. There are a lot more Muzzi-Malaysians than Saudis. Majority should rule.
So they told everyone. In the strictest confidence, of course.
[PRESSTV] The administration of former US President Barrack Obama was "justifiably concerned" about sharing sensitive intelligence with his successor, 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... , says a lawyer for his national security adviser, Susan Rice.
Rice’s lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, made the comment in a letter to US politicians, in response to GOP Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain... of South Carolina.
The former administration was "particularly" worried about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, whom Trump had to dismiss later amid an investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling and possible collusion between the Trump team and the Kremlin to take on Democratic nominee Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... The outgoing administration’s reluctance, Ruemmler said, was memorialized by Rice through an email Rice drafted to herself a January 20, 2017, after she was advised to do so by the White House counsel.
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Osama bin Obama Inc. afraid of being caught in obvious Treason (18 U.S.C. 2381) and Espionage (18 U.S.C. 794).
The last time I read the Constitution and Federal Law, those are named crimes named as capital offenses.
[The Nation] Thai security agencies believe Muslim rebels staged two arson attacks in downtown Narathiwat late on Friday night to "create a situation" before a visit by representatives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The simultaneous fires damaged a low-price goods shop and a department store in Muang district around midnight. Militants also planted a third firebomb that was a dud.
A military source said the insurgents wanted to escalate the situation before ten OIC representatives visit the southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat late this month. The source said security agencies believe the attackers came from Bacho and Yingor districts in Narathiwat and are under the command of Abdulloh Ulae, who is wanted under several arrest warrants.
The first fire engulfed a rough-hewn shop selling such supplies as kitchen utensils, mosquito nets, mattresses and pillows, before spreading to an aquarium shop next to it, causing damage worth Bt1 million and Bt500,000 respectively.
The fire also burned down a department store in Tambon Bang Nak, causing about Bt10 million in damage. The store was previously attacked by militants in 2012. The department store owner also has stores in Pattani and Yala, and all of them have been hit by arson attacks. However, she said she would not give up yet.
In a related development, gunshots were fired at a shop and a house of policemen in Songkhla province’s Thepha district in two separate attacks on the same night.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Seven people were killed and maimed as two kabooms took place in Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, "a bomb went off near stores in al-Rashidiya region, northeast of Baghdad, leaving three people maimed."
Ambulances, according to the source, rushed to the blast spot and transferred the maimed to hospital for treatment.
Earlier on the day, the same source said "a bomb went kaboom! near a store in Jisr Diyala region, southeast of the capital, leaving a civilian killed and three others injured."
The advantage of a long prison sentence is that it gives one time to think, should one be so inclined.
And now the next class of Palestinians is embarking on the same adventure after being picked up by the Israelis for a variety of vicious nonsense.
In a special series of interviews, terrorists who were released in 2013 as part of an Israeli gesture to PA President Abbas tell Ynet about the murders they committed before the Oslo Agreements were signed, the ‘Israelization’ process they went through in jail and the impact of the second intifada; ‘When I heard about the Sbarro attack, I cried,’ one of them says.
In second part of special series of interviews, Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons in 2013 talk about the brutal internal punishment system against prisoners accused of violence against fellow inmates or of tipping off wardens—from denying a prisoner’s right to buy at the canteen to killing collaborators.
In third part of special series of interviews, Palestinian terrorists released from Israeli prisons in 2013 talk about the Fatah-Hamas rivalry after the Gaza takeover, the internal politics that shaped the list of prisoners released in the Shalit deal, and their admiration for the families of kidnapped IDF soldiers.
[DAWN] Three bombs went kaboom! in different locations around Rakhine's state capital Sittwe early Saturday morning, including at the home of a high ranking official, Myanmar police told AFP, adding that no deaths were reported.
It is the latest violence to hit Rakhine, which is festering with ethnic tensions and has been roiled by communal violence in the north against the Rohingya and insurgencies in other parts of the state.
Bombings in the state capital, however, are rare.
"Three bombs went kaboom! and three other unwent kaboom! bombs were found. A police officer was injured but not seriously," a senior officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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peaceful Rohingya muslims
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[PRESSTV] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council unanimously votes in favor of a resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria 'without delay'
...whatever that means...
to allow aid access and medical evacuations.
The resolution was adopted on by 15 votes to none, after several delays and a flurry of last-minute negotiations.
"It would be naïve to think that internal Syrian questions can be solved by a resolution," said Russia’s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia.
He added that Russia had "supported the intentions" behind the document, but stresses that a ceasefire was not possible "without agreement from warring parties."
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[PRESSTV] Hundreds of workers and labor union representatives from across the US rallied at the Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, Saturday, to defend the rights of the working class.
The rally, called "Workers Day of Action," gathered working class families and activists to defend their right to organize and stand up in solidarity ahead of the Supreme Court hearing crucial to workers' union rights.
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Janus v. the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, that is due to decide if public service workers who are non-union members would be forced to pay a union to advocate for them on political questions.
The union activists say this case is politically motivated and designed to benefit the corporations in favor of rich and powerful, undermining the rights of the working class.
They work for the government. Corporate fat cats have nothing to do with it.
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They work for the government people. The people are sovereign. Fundamentally, there can be no 'equal' between the people and the unions. If you choose not to work for the people, you can take your labor elsewhere.
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Hundreds of workers (how Soviet! - ed.) and labor union representatives from across the US ... were bussed in from the four corners of the US after receiving $150 each from a Soros-backed Communist agitation front in order to give the appearance of widespread, popular support, with professionally designed placards shiny new bullhorns.
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It appears SCOTUS will kill required Shop Dues, if only from the caterwauling of the Dems and their Puppetmaster Unions. I have to pay dues for my job, even though I oppose most of their political positions, lobbying, and campaign donations. If they're so good for the worker they should get voluntary membership/dues
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Kind of a bald admission that the court *is* political.
... the connected Muslim convert who was proud of the skills he developed torturing small animals as a child, and friend of convicted Al Shabaab supporter Zachary Chesser, among others. Mr. Chesser was famed for his threats against the cartoonists of South Park...
the disgraced D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer convicted of providing support for 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.... (ISIS) in December, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday.
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia handed down the sentence on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice.
Young was fired in 2016 after coming under surveillance in 2010 for associations with other terrorism suspects. In 2011, he traveled to Libya and allegedly pursued links with the Jihadists fighting dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... . Court documents allege Young traveled with "body armor, a kevlar helmet and several other military-style items" and told the FBI he had been with rebels in Libya.
As a result, he no doubt had a great many more jihadi buddies than the two that have been reported.
Eventually, Young was locked away You have the right to remain silent... in July 2016 when FBI informants, posing as U.S. military reservists of Middle Eastern descent who supported ISIS, got him to send them gift card codes for use to bolster the brutal terror group’s jihad. At trial, prosecutors revealed that, in addition to Islamist ties, the Moslem-convert Young also sought out Nazi materials and links online.
The obstruction charges stem from him advising the informant on how to avoid detection as he went to the Middle East to join ISIS. It was after an informant was supposedly with ISIS overseas that he requested Young send money through the gift cards.
Young was convicted in a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia, in December. At the time, prosecutor Dana J. Boent said, "Nicholas Young swore an oath to protect and defend, and instead violated the public’s trust by attempting to support ISIS."
According to the Justice Department (DOJ) blurb, The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia teamed up with prosecutors from Main DOJ’s National Security Division Counterterrorism Section to pursue the case against Young.
Young faced up to 60 years on the terrorism and obstruction charges. His 15-year sentence means we will serve at least 12 and a half years in federal prison. He is reportedly the first American law enforcement officer convicted for trying to assist ISIS, having joined the Metro Transit Police in 2003.
Are transit cops real police?
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Another depressed Islamic jihadists missing Bin Obama?
Until they start identifying the mosques these turds went to... Right now Pearl Harbor news would never report the attack was from Japan.
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Actually in this MSM environment there would be calls to understand why the Japanese chose to attack and why its all Hoover's fault (can't blame anything on a Democrat).
[LongWarJournal] On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding,” the Defense Department warned. “We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
That last line garnered widespread attention. It signaled that defense planners no longer want the jihadist wars unleashed by the 9/11 attacks to be their primary focus. The rest of the overview explained why. China is now a “strategic competitor,” while Russia seeks to “shatter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and change European and Middle East security and economic structures to its favor.” Both China and Russia “want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model—gaining veto authority over other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions.” Meanwhile, rogue states such as North Korea and Iran increasingly pose threats to American interests. While the Defense Department recognizes that ISIS and other “terrorist groups” will continue “to murder the innocent and threaten peace more broadly,” Washington must shift its focus to “long-term strategic competition.”
In many ways, the Pentagon’s planning document makes sense. China and Russia command resources that far outstrip the jihadists’ capabilities. They have nuclear-tipped missiles; the jihadists do not. The gap between their conventional military prowess and America’s has closed somewhat. Russia and China also use other means, ranging from economic pressure to cyberattacks to espionage and disinformation, to challenge American supremacy. Meanwhile, the 9/11 wars have been costly. But as threatening as they’ve been, the jihadists lack the industrial capacity and military might to be a top-tier competitor. It is only natural, given these facts, that the Defense Department seeks a rebalancing.
It will not be so easy, though, to pivot away from the jihadists. ISIS and al Qaeda have tied up security services throughout the West for years. Thousands of terror suspects across Europe require monitoring. The FBI has been swamped by hundreds of U.S. cases involving potential terrorists. The CIA and allied intelligence agencies continue to hunt down professional terrorists who plot mass destruction in the West. ISIS and al Qaeda operatives still threaten aviation with smartly concealed bombs. And while ISIS has lost its territorial caliphate, the fight is far from over.
This past week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) presented its annual worldwide threat assessment to the Senate. It contains numerous warnings that the Defense Department pivot may be premature: “Over the next year, we expect that ISIS is likely to focus on regrouping in Iraq and Syria, enhancing its global presence, championing its cause, planning international attacks, and encouraging its members and sympathizers to attack in their home countries.” ISIS, the ODNI assessment warns, “has started—and probably will maintain—a robust insurgency in Iraq and Syria as part of a long-term strategy to ultimately enable the reemergence of its so-called caliphate,” and it will continue to “threaten U.S. interests in the region.”
The bottom line: ISIS is far from finished. While most of the territory once under its rule in Iraq and Syria has been “liberated,” the group still retains the resources to wage guerrilla warfare indefinitely.
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Depriving them of theater is one thing. Depriving them of resources is something quite different.
1- Sharra: heavy clashes have broke out in Arab Weran village at 8 am this morning and the clashes are ongoing until writing this report.
At 12 am, the clashes expanded to Omara village and its vicinity, accompanied by indiscriminate artillery bombardment. According to our fighters in the battlefield, many Turkish soldiers and terrorist elements were killed during the battles in Omara village, where the clashes are still ongoing.
2- Jinderes: Kafar Sfara village was randomly bombed by the enemy warplanes yesterday at 10 PM. The airstrikes targeted civilian homes in the downtown of Jinderes.
Today at 8 AM, Hejlara village was exposed to a random artillery bombardment, coincided with the outbreak of heavy clashes in the village which is ongoing until writing this report.
3- Raju: the Turkish jets brutally bombed all of the villages in Raju axis today at 1 pm. The Turkish raids expanded to the downtown of Raju, accompanied by heavy artillery shelling which lasted until writing this report.
4- Mabata: fierce clahses broke out between our forces and the invaders in Damlia village at 8 am today. The clashes continued until writing this report. SDF MEDIA CENTER
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Thank you moderators for taking twitter video embeds and making them work on posts regarding this "Land of the Rivers" modern day life and death struggle between two ancient peoples.
Our pleasure, dear Ulaigum Ebbineng7056. You are doing the heavy lifting here — we’re just applying a bit of Fred’s programming cleverness.
SDF/YPG destroy a military vehicle that carried a which carried a Dotshka 23.5 and also killed 3 turkish soldiers/jihadists.
Erdogan has effectively reduced the flow of the Euphrates River through Syria and Iraq which will have massive negative implications on the lives of the peoples of these two nations.
Hitler Erdogan threatens Greece with an invasion of Greece's Aegean Islands. Link
Hitler Erdogan threatens to sink an Italian drilling vessel off Cyprus. Link
[SpaceNews] Secretary Wilson: “This budget changes the way in which we intend to execute battle management command and control."
In the budget request that was submitted to Congress last week, the U.S. Air Force made investment decisions that just a few years ago would have been jaw-dropping.
A $7 billion surveillance aircraft program is being jettisoned in favor of an information network that connects sensors from across the battlefield and in outer space. And billion-dollar satellites known to be engineering marvels are being replaced by simpler, less costly platforms.
In programs like SBIRS and the Advanced EHF classified communications constellation, the analysis of alternatives each took two or three years. “And we still ended up not making a decision,” said LaPlante. “A lot of people focus on the development cycle. But what we often forget is all the time we spend before we even do a request for proposals.”
“DoD and its contractors are still probably 10 to 15 years behind modern commercial software developers.” If the goal is an advanced battle management system, the “challenge is going to be to execute the software architectures needed to do that. That’s the only caution I would raise.”
If the idea is to not use a prime contractor, the Air Force will have to play the integrator role. “I’ll be honest, the record of the government being an integrator is not great. I certainly endorse the concept of not having a contractor integrator. But the devil is going to be in the details.”
After what they did to the F-35 do you really think the Air Farce needs a multi-billion dollar information system...heaven help us...they've got the flying iPhone, what do they need with another data system? Seems the techies don't seem to understand what the role of the Air Farce is.
I would think they need new surveillance aircraft more than this. After all, the danged E-3's are almost as old as I am. A danged B-707 airframe that was first rolled out in the 50's and they think they can patch that thing up some more?
I bet a little digging will show a multi-billion dollar program to replace wings and engines on the E-3s...or is this information system a red herring for something really black that they want to talk about in eupharysms?
[All Africa] Zim-bob-we's ex-president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... has reportedly demanded his pension and retirement benefits just less than two months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted the list of perks applicable to a retired president.
According the privately owned Zim-bob-we Independent newspaper, Mugabe told visiting African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... 's Moussa Faki Mahamat this week that his benefits were "being denied".
The nonagenarian said the situation in the southern African country was worrying. He said that his security was not guaranteed.
"...For instance, they told you, I was safe, but how can I be in this environment?... "We have constitutional benefits, for example, but these are being denied."
"... It's not like I am crying for those benefits. I joined the struggle to fight to free my people, not to personally benefit anything, but why deny me benefits that I am constitutionally entitled to?," Mugabe reportedly queried.
"... Anyway, just give us our benefits!," he said.
Mugabe was entitled to first class air travel on four foreign trips per year; private houses and a veritable army of aides and domestic staff which also included a $10m pension.
The benefits were laid out in an official government notice published by Mnangagwa in December.
The notice said: "There shall be employed in connection with the residence of the former President (i) three domestic employees, and (ii) two gardeners, and (iii) two cooks and two waiters and (iv) two laundry persons. The ex-president will also get security staff, office workers and aide de camp officers."He said that the country was being ruled by an illegal government that took over late last year.
Mugabe urged Mahamat to assist the country return to "democracy and normality", said the report.
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[The Jamestown Foundation] The Russian Army is planning to recreate the Main Political Directorate that existed in the Soviet Army (GlavPUR), according to the Deputy Chairman of the Public Council at the Russian Ministry of Defense, Alexander Kanshin. “The role of the moral and political unity of the army and society is increasing immensely at the time of global informational and psychological confrontation. Therefore, it is necessary to fundamentally reform and significantly strengthen the armed force’s entire [political] structure, which will organize, conduct and be responsible for the moral and ideological aspect of the Russian Army,” Kanshin said (Interfax, February 5).
[DAWN] Aftab Mehsud, a young man who played an active role in the sit-in held recently in Islamabad to protest against the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, was found rubbed out under mysterious circumstances in a suburban area of the city on Saturday.
According to an official of the city’s Saddar cop shoppe, Attaullah, the well perforated carcass of Aftab was found at an under-construction house in the city’s Naqeshbund Town.
Sources said that a piece of paper was found with the body on which names of the victim and his father and his telephone number were written.
Aftab’s father, Khair Badshah Mehsud, told the police that his son had left his home on Friday night. He said he received a call on Saturday and was informed about the body of his son.
A student of Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... , Aftab hailed from Makeen area of South Wazoo Agency. He moved to 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... where he became friends with Naqeebullah Mehsud.
The sources said that after the killing of Naqeebullah in a fake encounter with a police party led by suspended SSP Rao Anwar in Karachi, Aftab played an active role in the 10-day Islamabad sit-in which was organised by Pakhtun Tahaffuz Movement and some rights groups.
Apart from the arrest of Naqeebullah’s killers, the sit-in participants also demanded recovery of missing persons from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. They also protested against alleged mistreatment with tribal people at security check-posts.
After assurances by some government functionaries for the acceptance of some of their demands, the protesters ended the sit-in.
The police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified people for the murder of Aftab.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has vowed relent war against the terror groups after recent attacks in Kabul, Farah, and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces as he insisted that such attacks would not affect the resolve of the nation for economic development.
Speaking during a gathering for the distribution of the property certificates in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, President Ghani condemned the recent attacks and said the enemies of the country have once again committed crimes in Farah, Kabul, and Helmand provinces as the country is celebrating the inauguration of the TAPI gas pipeline works.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he said the enemies of the country must understand that the Afghan nation will have stronger resolve for economic development and to suppress the terror groups.
This comes as a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in Kabul city earlier today amid reports at least two people were killed although the ministry of interior says at least one person has been killed and six others have been maimed.
The snuffies also launched coordinated attack on an army base in Farah province late last night with the ministry of defense saying at least eighteen soldiers were martyred in the attack.
On the other hand, the local officials in Helmand are saying that two soldiers were martyred and nine others including civilians were maimed in three separate suicide kabooms in Lashkargah city and Nad-e-Ali district.
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[PRESSTV] The author of the explosive top-selling book exposing the inner workings of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s White House insists that the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will be indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into alleged Russia election meddling and will consequently turn on Trump.
Speaking at London event Friday evening to promote his book, Fire and Fury, author Michael Wolff further opined that Kushner’s indictment will come in the "bloodiest time in this administration," suggesting that Mueller’s investigation could prompt Trump’s biggest crisis yet prior to the midterm US elections next November, when it is highly anticipated that the ruling Republican Party will lose its control of both houses of the US Congress.
"There is a pretty good possibility at this point that Jared will be indicted," Wolff said as quoted in a Huffington Post report on Saturday in response to a question at the book-signing event on whether Trump would ultimately "fire his own daughter?"
"So the more direct question is will Trump throw his son-in-law under the bus, and then the corollary to that is, will his son-in-law throw his father-in-law under the bus?" Wolff emphasized. "And I think the answer to both of those questions is ’yes’."
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Muller is a festering boil on the butt of humanity. He has got to go. Low life sewer dweller.
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There is no bus and there is no reason to find a bus. Everything Kushner has done is completely above board. Remember the fake mini-scandal about the Russian ambassador wanting a "back channel" to communicate with Trump? Well, that's perfectly normal, essentially SOP between leaders of major world powers to allow full free and open communication.
They want to neutralize Kushner because he has traction on a number of foreign policy issues in the ME and with Russia that will bear fruit. The left doesn't want Trump to "solve" the ME or improve relations with Russian and China. They want a shit storm in foreign policy so they can criticize Trump and contrast that with the "normalized" policies of Zero.
If anything is going to happen, it is that Trump will give any effort to tar Kushner a full broadside of his own intelligence that is far higher quality than the crap the FBI and CIA are dishing out.
The deep state really does not know the enemy and they are failing because of it.
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MSM is going under. Newsweak is bankrupt. CNN (Clinton News Network) is laying off dozens. Paywalls at Wall Street Journal is a hassel as they try to earn a dime.
Conservative media is stable. Fake news is dieing a disgraceful death.
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The MSM refuses to admit they are not the only game in town and most anyone with a brain cell to produce cognitive thought, to include a few breeds of dogs, knows they are biased to the point of embarrassment against Trump.
[RT] Beijing is forecast to triple its nuclear capacity in the next 20 years, ousting the US as number one nuclear-power producer, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
“China is coming back strong. Today there are about 60 nuclear power plants under construction and more than one-third of them are in China. China is growing and as a result of that we’ll soon see China overtaking the United States as the Number 1 nuclear power in the world,” the IEA CEO Fatih Birol said, as quoted by Marketwatch.
Nuclear power? What does that have to do with power production? China has four times the population of the U.S., and while they are #1 in electrical production and consumption to our #2, on a per capita basis China has a long way to go to catch up. Even in terms of nuclear power plants, we get 9.2% of our electricity from that source (18th in the world), though apparently we have the most plants, while China gets 2% (28th in the world). I only hope they will not apply the same mindset to maintenance as they have thus far to debt or preventing pollution.
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Someone just please ask the FISA judge(s) who signed off on the warrant if he or they were TOLD or were AWARE the dossier was funded by the Hildebeest.
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To me, the fact that the Schiff(less) memo is not front page news on every liberal rag in the US and Europe tells me that it is essentially worthless. If the memo accurately, verifiably, and forcefully repudiated the Nunes memo, CNN would be braying this thing 24/7. The fact that CNN, NBC, PMSNBC, CBS, and ABC, heck, even Pravda are silent on the memo, gives me all the information I need about this waste of paper.
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An attempt to repudiate the Nunes memo is on the front page of the Dallas Morning News.
WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released a redacted version of a Democrat-written memo rebutting GOP allegations that federal law enforcement agencies used politically biased information to conduct surveillance on one of the president's former campaign aides.
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Meaning in History analysis: " The Schiff Memo and the Scandal of FISAGATE
The Schiff memo is out, and as could have been expected it's a complete joke from a strictly legal standpoint."
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And the Dems is seven pages, with two-and-a-quarter pages of footnotes.
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Again, if someone had told me in the early 70s that in 2018 the left would be rapturously in love with the FBI and CIA, I'd have said, "Oh yeah, sure. What are you smoking?"
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"Our jets now."
Calm, comrades! A rosy mañana
Will rise on Obama's Okhrana.
The Don and Ivanka
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New fabulous view of Astana.
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Some people use a chemotherapy to treat any washing of the brain. Usually involving the ingestion of various alcohol products. Like a lot of chemotherapy there are side effects.
#Italy: It's always more fun to watch the Italian police in their work. This afternoon in #Pisa. The left rabble of #Antifa tried to break through to an event by #matteosalvini. What follows is a proper Spanking. No STAND DOWN orders from the local politicians and allowed to do their job, BELLISSIMO!
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Goodness. Another team at the far end of the street would make things even more interesting....
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Shields were the number one most important bit of armour for like 2,000 years because they are very, very effective. Even more so when used in formations such as shield walls, Phalanx, or the Roman Testudo. They only really went out of use when armor became so good in the 14th/15th century that they were unnecessary.
The riot police had a form of armor and they had shields and they had training. The Antifa rabble had no chance. Delightful video.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) Three 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.... members were killed in an attack foiled by the Federal Police in southeast of Mosul, according to Nineveh Police.
"Federal troops repulsed an attack by IS in Makhmur region, southeast of Mosul, killing three of the attackers," Lt. Gen. Salam al-Okeidi, spokesperson for the police command, told BasNews on Saturday.
No further details about the attack or losses of the federal troops were provided.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... Cap. Salah Samir, an officer from Nineveh police, said troops confiscated a tunnel for IS forces of Evil in Hammam al-Alil camp, south of Mosul.
"Police ran into a tunnel for IS in Hammam al-Alil camp, as a part of it collapsed by rain water," Samir said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The employers of a Filipina maid found dead in a freezer in Kuwait were both tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Lebanese judicial official said on Saturday.
Syrian authorities surrendered Nader Essam Assaf to Beirut on Friday because of his Lebanese citizenship but his Syrian wife Mona remains in jug in Damascus, the official said.
Lebanese security and judicial officials say authorities in Beirut are interrogating a man who is suspected in the death of the Filipina maid.
A bigwig with Leb's General Security Directorate refused to provide details other than that the man is being held by the agency and undergoing questioning.
The discovery of Demafelis’s body on Feb. 6 in the apartment in Kuwait City, where it had reportedly been kept for more than a year, sparked outrage and refocused attention on the tragic plight of poor Filipinos toiling mostly as maids abroad. It prompted Duterte to ban the deployment of new Filipino workers to Kuwait, where many abuses have been reported.
The 29-year-old’s body, which allegedly showed signs of torture, was found earlier this month inside a freezer in the abandoned apartment unit of the detained couple.
The couple have been the subject of an Interpol manhunt since Demafelis’s body was found more than a year after her family reported her missing.
Arrested in Damascus
"The couple were arrested in Damascus. They were the subject of an Interpol red notice and the Syrian authorities handed the husband over to Lebanese custody on Friday morning," the official said.
"Syria kept custody of the wife because she is a Syrian national," he added.
"Leb has asked Kuwait to pass on the husband’s police record."
The official said that after leaving Kuwait, the couple had made a very brief stopover in Leb before traveling on to neighboring Syria.
Duterte has vowed to bring justice to Demafelis’s family, lashing out at the Gulf state and alleging employers routinely rape Filipina workers, force them to work 21 hours a day and feed them scraps.
Kuwait has said it is investigating reported deaths and abuses, and insisted there were only a small number considering that there are more than 250,000 Filipinos working in the emirate.
Duterte this week sent a team of labor officials to Kuwait to seek greater protection for migrant workers.
On Friday, the Philippine foreign secretary had announced that the male suspect had been arrested. Alan Peter Cayetano said he has told President Rodrigo Duterte about the arrest in Leb of Nader Essam Assaf but added that Assaf’s Syrian wife, who was also a suspect in the death of Joanna Demafelis, remains on the lam.
With the latest update from Leb, it is clear that both the suspects are now under custody.
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[Breitbart] Mark "Oz" Geist spoke eloquently on a panel about the challenge U.S. military members face transitioning from the battlefield to the workforce.
But he wasn’t prepared for what happened next at the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Geist, who served as a Marine, sheriff, and police officer before working for the federal government as a security consultant, was chosen for CPAC’s annual Defender of the Constitution award.
Geist’s security work led to his being sent to Libya, where he survived the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi in which U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were killed. CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty also were killed in the attack.
Lee said that Geist didn’t accept the "stand down" order given in Benghazi but instead tried to save lives during the terrorist attack.
"Mark is a defender of freedom," Willes Lee, ACU board member, said. "I am proud to call Mark Geist my friend."
"Through his sweat and blood he has defended our Constitution," Lee said.
"When you enlist in the military you enlist to defend our nation," said Lee, a retired Army officer and Airborne Ranger. "When you fight, you fight for the guy on your left; you fight for the guy on your right."
"His arm is smashed; his legs and face is sliced by all that crap that flies through the air in combat," Lee said. "You don’t feel fear when you’re fighting, but after the fight, your body goes through these trembles."
"It’s the adrenaline running out of your muscles," Lee said. "You can describe that in the book; you can show in the movie. What you can never describe is the smell of combat."
"Mark always looks you [directly] in the eye when you speak to him, except when you call him a hero," Lee said. "And then he’ll divert his eyes and he’ll say, ’No, I was just doing my job.’"
Lee said Geist announced when he was in kindergarten that he wanted to be a soldier. In interviews, Geist has explained his family’s military history, including his grandfather, who served under General George S. Patton during World War II.
Millie Hallow, ACU Foundation vice chairman and managing director of executive operations at the National Rifle Association, said Geist was the right pick for this year’s award.
"We thought it was prime time that we give the Defender of the Constitution award to someone who has physically ‐ physically ‐defended the Constitution," Hallow said, noting that past recipients include Attorney General Ed Meese, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Each year the award is made from a historic document signed by Founding Fathers. This year Geist was given a framed shipping transfer document signed by President James Madison and Secretary of State James Monroe in 1811.
"We think this document is perfect for honoring and thanking you for your service for defending our country and our Constitution with grace, modesty, and dignity," Hallow said.
"You know we have a lot of freedoms in this country, and they come with sacrifice," Geist said in accepting the award. "Some of us in our military and working as contractors make that ultimate sacrifice."
"And for us that don’t ‐ are able to continue on ‐ for me, it’s about making that worth it. We live our lives going forward to make it worth the sacrifice that all those guys that didn’t come back home have done," Geist said.
"So every day think of going forward and making sure that you are living your life to the fullest; following your dreams; doing everything to make the sacrifice they’ve made worth it," Geist said.
Such an honor today to receive this award. I humbly except it and commit myself to continue protecting and serving this country and our Consitution. Thank you @NRA @CPAC and the people of this great country. #CPAC18 #CPAC #OZ https://t.co/39gHqWpQsX
‐ Mark Geist (@MarkGeistSWP) February 24, 2018
Lee said even after years of military service and time spent in law enforcement, Geist is still helping other contractors and their families through an organization he founded with his wife Krystal.
The Shadow Warriors Project website states:
Our goal with the Shadow Warriors Project is to create a better everyday life for as many American contractors and their families as possible. We decided to start SWP when Mark returned home from an incredibly dangerous operation. He was hurt both mentally and physically and we wished there was a system that could have helped us repair.
"Stand strong," Geist told the crowd as it rose to its feet. "The Constitution’s there."
"We’ve got to stand behind it because they want to tear it down," Geist said. "Thank you for supporting us that defend it." The night of the attack they ignored Soetero/Hillary regime orders to stand down. Two of them laid down their lives fighting off Al Qaeda that night to protect American lives. Almost 6 years later, they are finally being honored.
Almost six years, and a very, very different president.
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.
[WashingtonPost] Computer model forecasts are advertising a bout of bitter cold to sweep over Europe over the next several days, very possibly the most extreme of the winter and perhaps in several years.
[IRIN]
[All Africa] Seven suspects believed to have been involved in the Ngcobo police massacre were 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday ‐ a day after Pakistain avoided ending up on a terror watch list by a global task force ‐ said that the government will expedite steps to curb terror financing and money laundering.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[AFP] Months after being routed from Marawi, rebels are making a new and deadly attempt to set up a Southeast Asian caliphate in the same region. The gunmen have mustered a force of about 200 fighters and fought a series of skirmishes with security forces this year after troops retook the city last October.
Lindsey Graham
On January 19, the Pentagon released its new National Defense Strategy. The second paragraph of the 14-page declassified summary painted a dire picture. “Today, we are emerging from a period of strategic atrophy, aware that our competitive military advantage has been eroding,” the Defense Department warned. “We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order—creating a security environment more complex and volatile than any we have experienced in recent memory. Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
[The Jamestown Foundation] The Russian Army is planning to recreate the Main Political Directorate that existed in the Soviet Army (GlavPUR), according to the Deputy Chairman of the Public Council at the Russian Ministry of Defense, Alexander Kanshin. “The role of the moral and political unity of the army and society is increasing immensely at the time of global informational and psychological confrontation. Therefore, it is necessary to fundamentally reform and significantly strengthen the armed force’s entire [political] structure, which will organize, conduct and be responsible for the moral and ideological aspect of the Russian Army,” Kanshin said (Interfax, February 5).
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[PRESSTV] The author of the explosive top-selling book exposing the inner workings of US President 
