[FoxNews] Authorities in San Francisco released body camera videos on Tuesday of a dramatic shootout in which police officers fired their weapons at least 65 times in 15 seconds at a murder suspect.
The San Francisco Police Department said the shooting happened on Feb. 17 in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood when officers confronted 31-year-old homicide suspect Joel Armstrong inside an RV at a homeless encampment.
Armstrong allegedly shot two men the day before during a carjacking in the city's Panhandle neighborhood, killing one of them.
Body camera footage released by police shows how officers tracked Armstrong to the neighborhood then the moment when he shot at officers, who then returned fire.
"Nobody was struck by gunfire during this incident. The evidence in the case so far indicates Armstrong fired two rounds from a weapon, and that seven officers fired 65 rounds from their department-issued weapons," SFPD Commander Greg McEachern told KTVU.
Armstrong eventually turned himself into police, and has been charged with murder, carjacking, and eight counts of attempted murder.
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Shades of the A team show on TV decades ago. Lots of ordinance exchanged but no hits.
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But only cops should have guns....
They got their training from the Stormtroopers in Star Wars.
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I guess the SFO cops spent their normal range time in diversity training or homeless assistance programs.
65 shots and didn't hit anything???
I had a sergeant that could put that many shots in the black just on the sound...you know of course, a good pistol shot doesn't need to aim, you can point and shoot and hit the target, once you know your weapon well enough.
What a bunch of buffoons...err...maroons.
No wonder SFO is a homeless, illegal alien/criminal mecca, they know the police can't hit the broad side of a barn.
[Townhall] Speaking during a luncheon hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List in Nashville Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence said he believes abortion will come to an end in America during our lifetime.
"I truly do believe, if all of us do all that we can, we will once again in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law," he said.
Throughout his political career, Pence has been a supporter of the pro-life agenda. He also referenced the election of President Trump as a major step forward in the fight to end abortion.
"I urge you on, and I do so with confidence, with confidence that good news is around the corner in America," he stated, "I have boundless confidence in that President you elected and the pro-life majorities in the Congress of the United States, and in states all across this country."
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Abortion will end as ultrasounds get better and cheaper.
If Congress passed a law tying Planned Parenthood to a requirement to do an ultrasound 24 hours prior (to allow/force thinking on the matter) to an abortion the industry would die a quick death.
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Abortion will end as ultrasounds get better and cheaper.
I disagree. Somewhat reduced, yes, but not ended. But if the government is not paying for them, and the abortionists are forced to maintain proper surgical standards, that would be an improvement over the current situation.
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My belief is the bulk of the women having abortions are not the SJW screaming to save Planned Parenthood's Government funding and thus they will be affected by clearer and clearer ultrasounds.
The SJW screaming will continue as a way to keep women on the Democrat plantation because the Dems have nothing else to offer (beyond the false picture they've built up of the GOP).
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The folks in Washington cannot build a simple wall or cancel Obamacare or balance a budget or even limit late-term abortion. The left and right enjoy open issues that do not resolve as it makes fundraising easy and clear distinction between opponents.
Regardless of who is in charge one thing has been constant the last 50 years: GIVERnment grows and freedoms slip away
[Daily Caller] In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress, and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal amount of cash.
The FBI allowed Hina Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, to board the plane anyway ‐ then filed paperwork saying agents believed she had no intention of returning to the U.S.
For nearly a year since, the case has lingered despite the House Office of Inspector General (OIG) determining that the family of Pakistanis made "unauthorized access" to Congress’s data shortly before the election.
Following revelations about the FBI’s actions in the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server and Department of Justice officials’ handling of the Trump dossier, attention has turned to the agencies’ apparently lax attitude toward the congressional cyber breach case as perhaps the most jarring failure to enforce laws in cases that overlap politics.
The OIG alleged Imran Awan and his family members logged into servers of congressmen for whom they did not work, logged in using members’ personal usernames, covered their tracks, and continued to access data after they’d been fired.
Skipping down to.....explicit instructions from other gov't agencies "lack of desire to pursue the case."
Hosko said six months in, DOJ has all the tools it needs and cannot blame the House, and inaction can only indicate a lack of desire to pursue the case.
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I propose the Awans did a lot of cyber dirty work for the Democrats and it got out of hand...the Awans were very greedy and took out an insurance policy of stolen emails and other documents to protect themselves.
The FBI, under the direction of the Obamites in senior leadership, did not want to touch the Awans with a ten foot pole because of what a real investigation would expose...because they knew what the Awans were doing.
Me thinks a lot of this phony Russian hacking can be tracked back to the Awans. Afterall, the Klingons could have fed them some of those neat little false flag hacking tools.
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A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigmaa turd.
There, Besoeker, fixed it for ya, heh.
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....the Klingons could have fed them some of those neat little false flag hacking tools.
...or anything else they wanted leaked to Paki intelligence. The cost? Oh, we'll let you continue to monitor traffic (as you have done for ten years), as long as you give us the password(s) to your storage servers. Do we understand one another ?
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If you were working the Paki desk in any named US intelligence agency, wouldn't you do your very best to recruit sources like the Awan's living in Woodbridge, VA and operating a car lot in Falls Church named..........CIA ?
[Right Scoop] After saying he’s not going to run for re-election, it appears that Trey Gowdy entered the IDGAF stage of his career as he opens an investigation into Ben Carson.
The press has been relishing reports that Carson might have overspent in his position as HUD secretary, and now Gowdy is going to look into it:
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Wednesday sent a request to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for information related to his purchase of a $31,000 dining set for his office.
Gowdy’s request, which featured three categories of documents related to Carson’s expensive taxpayer-funded redesign, was issued "to help the [Oversight] Committee determine whether HUD adhered to the applicable spending limitations while redecorating your office."
In addition to the revelation of the dining set, which was purchased last December while HUD cut their homeless assistance budget, The Guardian reported that Carson intends to spend an additional $165,000 on a "lounge set" for his office.
You can read the five page letter to Carson from Gowdy here.
Well there you go. Apparently HUD secretary work isn’t brain surgery ‐ it’s much harder!
[Wash Times] Russia is either unwilling or unable to halt the violence in Syria’s bloody civil war, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday, warning that Moscow’s support of the Syrian military’s recent bombardment of rebel-held areas has pushed a peace deal further beyond reach.
Gen. Joseph Votel, who heads U.S. Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that Moscow is trying to be both "arsonist and fireman" in Syria as part of an apparent strategy to extend its influence over the nation’s future.
A five-hour truce called by Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow civilians to flee a besieged, opposition-held enclave near Damascus failed to result in aid deliveries or medical evacuations Tuesday, while fighting in the region continued unabated, The Associated Press reported.
The United Nations and aid agencies criticized the unilateral arrangement for a daily "humanitarian pause" announced by Mr. Putin, saying it gave no guarantees of safety for tens of thousands of residents of eastern Ghouta, where they have been trapped for weeks under intense attack by the Syrian government.
Gen. Votel said Moscow had only halfheartedly promoted the truce while the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad called the Ghouta campaign a "counterterrorism operation" that was carried out with Moscow’s blessing.
[Wash Times] Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill was booted off an American Airlines flight in Nashville Sunday for allegedly being too drunk.
TMZ reported that Mr. O’Neill was kicked off an American Airlines jet bound for Dallas after flight attendants noticed he was intoxicated. Eyewitnesses told the website that he called an airline employee a "vile name" and passed out in his seat, and when he eventually woke up, a flight attendant told him he had to leave. Witnesses said Mr. O’Neill became belligerent and loud and the police had to be called to escort him off the plane, though he was not arrested.
When asked to comment on the report, Kris Kelly, Mr. O’Neill’s assistant, told The Montana Standard that "the truth has been stretched a bit, which sometimes happens," and that Mr. O’Neill was never combative.
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Sadly being a war hero doesn't mean one can relate well to life afterwards. Pappy Boyington of Black Sheep Squadron (aka Baa, Baa, Blacksheep) was an ace in the pacific and become a raging alcoholic after the war. I suspect there are a number of examples.
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Report I read today said he was polite and didn't put up a fuss. He also had a statement saying that he's fond of American Airlines and has no issues with them.
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rjschwarz, was it the Daily Caller link Skidmark shared above, which contains the following update:
UPDATE: Rob O’Neill released the following statement after finding out about the witness supporting him up:
My wife and I were celebrating her best friend’s birthday In Nashville. We had a party on Sunday and then I boarded my Flight later. They did tell me to depart the flight and re book for the next morning, which I did. I flew American the next day… twice… and am flying American right now. I truly appreciate their professionalism and patience!! I look forward to flying American for a very long time
The entire link is worth reading to see the exercise of character assassination. The truth has been stretched a bit, indeed — Mr. O’Neill is a true gentleman.
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#3 Sadly being a war hero doesn't mean one can relate well to life afterwards. Pappy Boyington of Black Sheep Squadron (aka Baa, Baa, Blacksheep) was an ace in the pacific and become a raging alcoholic after the war. I suspect there are a number of examples.
Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-01 10:45
...Sadly, Greg Boyington was probably a functioning alcoholic long before that. And at least he admitted it - he wrote in his autobiography, "Show me a hero, and I'll show you a bum."
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Consider Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln knew the score "“Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
With that said, I have no problem at all with AA asking a drunk former SEAL to get off the plane, sober up, and then continue his travels.
[Townhall] Over the weekend, I expressed my disappointment with my longtime airline -- United -- for succumbing to the left-wing outrage machine and publicly severing corporate ties with the National Rifle Association. As I noted in my tweet thread (below), I'm neither an NRA member nor a gun owner or enthusiast.
Nevertheless, I've found it profoundly grating so see corporate America cowering before a loud, organized mob that browbeats corporations into taking sides in the culture war. It's exactly the sort of endless and boundless politicization of everything that we decried in our book. I resent it, just as I resent the feeling that a company to whom I give many thousands of dollars each year is actively alienating me through partisan signaling. Related: Hot Air - Rubio’s Approval Rating In Florida Tanks After CNN Anti-Gun Town Hall, Now Lower Than Trump’s
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[Daily Caller] In a stroke of genius, they realized that the only problem criminals have is that people keep lists of their criminal activities. It’s the list that prevents them from getting into M.I.T. and designing space stations on Mars. Where they will cure cancer.
This primitive, stone-age thinking was made official Broward County policy in a Nov. 5, 2013, agreement titled "Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline."
The first "whereas" clause of the agreement states that "the use of arrests and referrals to the criminal justice system may decrease a student’s chance of graduation, entering higher education, joining the military and getting a job."
Get it? It’s the arrest ‐ not the behavior that led to the arrest ‐ that reduces a student’s chance at a successful life. (For example, just look at how much the district’s refusal to arrest Nikolas Cruz helped him!)
The agreement’s third "whereas" clause specifically cites "students of color" as victims of the old, racist policy of treating criminal behavior criminally.
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Violence and criminal activity are the result of not having a good paying job and institutionalized racism. Stronger enforcement of 'social justice' and opportunities for the 'disadvantaged' along with heavy 'white privilege fines' (aka 'needs based taxing')will fix all of that. Hopefully, land and property confiscation will not be necessary.
[LI] During a recent talk at Portland State University, a small group of students staged a walkout when a scientist on the panel pointed out that there are biological differences between men and women.
James Damore, formerly of Google, was also on the panel and was expected to be the target of anger.
Katie Shepherd writes at Willamette Week:
No Violence, Brief Disruption as Fired Google Engineer Speaks at Portland State University
A panel featuring several controversial figures at Portland State University unfolded with just one interruption on Saturday evening despite organizers voicing fears of violence and protests intended to silent conservative dissent.
A student group called Freethinkers of PSU invited James Damore, an engineer who was fired from Google for writing a memo on gender and diversity that the company deemed sexually harassing and discriminatory. He spoke on a panel, moderated by a philosophy professor, that also included two women known for their conservative views on gender dynamics...
When the doors of Hoffman Hall opened to the ticket-holding attendees, the only protesters in sight were a group of six students holding signs displaying photos of prominent women scientists: Dana Ulery, Gladys West, Lynn Conway, Radia Perlman, Adele Goldberg, and Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, the Eniac Team, Karen Spark-Jones and Sophie Wilson...
Some other protesters waiting in line for the walk-out protest wore purple, a color chosen to distinguish themselves from the rest of the small crowd waiting to listen to Damore speak.
"I’m bummed my tuition money is going toward James Damore," said Chloe Kendal, a senior graphic design major, as she waited in line. "Most people I know are really bummed. People in my department are really unhappy he’s speaking on campus."
In the end, however, it was scientific facts that triggered the social justice warriors. One of them even sabotaged the room’s audio system on her way out. Twitchy reports:
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These turds should try thinking and acting like this in Iran. They'll learn real quick their is a difference between men and women when the Iranian prison guards put them through orientation.
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Bummed is like, so totally 90's. So is Barney purple.
Couldn't find their Oasis, so the moved Three Doors Down to find their Ace of Base? Should have just turned on the Radiohead and announced there is no such thing as Spice Girls.
[Townhall] A great deal of ink has been spilled over the years about the Republican Party's trend to the right and the various fissures -- both tactical and substantive -- within the conservative coalition. What tends to attract less coverage is the Democratic Party's crack-up and significant lurches toward the far left. Those tensions are playing out in real time across the country. Take the DCCC, the arm of the party tasked with re-electing House Democratic incumbents and unseating Republicans. They're under fire for a pair of decisions, including dropping an oppo bomb on a left-wing candidate vying for the party's nomination in a Texas district. Chuck Todd covered the story on his MSNBC show:
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The hard Left's lust for power will over come any rational Donk survival mechanism. Their behavior is a like a desperate addict seeking that next hit. Everything else is expendable.
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Yes indeedy do, according to Drudge this morning, the dems are going to use dismantling of the Trump tax cuts as a major issue in the midterms this fall...that is going to work out well. Especially after people start getting those refund checks and bonuses in the mail.
The left is completely blind and their echo chamber with the media and the phony polls is going to be their undoing.
[News Tribune] An Alaska congressman has argued that Jews could have averted the Holocaust if they’d been armed.
"How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia," says Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska on a recording made by a Democrat running for Young’s seat. "How many Jews were put in the ovens because they were unarmed?"
Dmitri Shein, a Democrat seeking Young’s seat, recorded the comments at a conference last week in Juneau, reported Alaska Public Media. Shein asked Young about school safety, prompting the exchange.
The argument that gun control eased Adolf Hitler’s rise in Germany before World War II has circulated among gun-rights advocates for years, even appearing in a National Review article.
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there is a book which lays out the timeline, the various laws and regulations and orders regarding this
Halbrook, Stephen P. Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "enemies of the State" Oakland: Independent Institute, 2014
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Yep, every totalitarian regime that engaged in genocide, mass deportations and imprisonment of ethnic minorities started the process by disarming the minority.
The Turks disarmed the Armenians, Hitler disarmed the Jews. Stalin disarmed the Cossacks and took away their horses and most recently Venezuela disarmed their citizenry to "combat" Shining Path.
This mass hysteria over guns in this country, coming from the left, is an attempt to repeat history. Who are they disarming and why? What group are they going to isolate and murder?
We all know the end game on any gun control agenda is a defenseless citizenry at the mercy of the left.
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Parallel, the current gun grab hashtag is the same as the holocaust remembrance tag. Design, on purpose, doesn't matter to me, tells me all I need to know.
Conservative journalist and commentator Mike Cernovich is reporting that the former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe altered official FBI 302 notes after they interviewed Michael Flynn.
A "302" form is what FBI officials file after an interview with an individual. Altering or deleting such a file is a felony.
The only reason for altering the 302 was to make it appear as though Flynn lied when he did not. Flynn ultimately gave his resignation to President Trump because it appeared he had lied to Vice President Pence about conversations with a Russian diplomat.
Cernovich explained in a series of tweets why altering this form is not only illegal but more than enough reason for Judge Emmett Sullivan to order Special Council to disclose exculpatory evidence, which would include the revisions to agent’s notes.
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This is old news, there were rumors that Strzok's 302 record of his "interview" with Flynn was hinky and did not match the actual course of events, making Flynn's lying to the FBI case null and void.
Perchance the public disclosure of this in January is why Flynn began thinking about pulling his plea.
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"The FBI is really dirty on this." Fixed it. I presently have zero trust in the FBI as an institution. That is not what I ever expected, and am saddened.
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It's the sort of thing keen observers have come to expect.
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"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
When the praetorian guard start manufacturing crimes to please some political faction it is worrying indeed.
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I think he has agreed to plead guilty but has not formally done so yet. Plea agreement, if you will. Of course the LIE reports that as guilty, Guilty GUILTY!!! (spittle flying)
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Correct IIRC. He agreed. But if they didn't present all exculpatory evidence, or faked anything...agreement over.
A plea is a cost/benefit analysis
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Flynn pled guilty. How can he back up and say he lied when he did so? He may be innocent but he's screwed himself.
People plead guilty because they don't have the money to go 15 rounds with the government's persecutors. Good lawyers are expensive. A guy who spent most of his career in government isn't going to have much in the way of savings.
The typical criminal investigation is laser-like in its focus. Mueller is looking at anything within the statute of limitations with which he can charge Flynn. Manafort may be holding out because he has plenty of money from a career spent mostly in the private sector. There's also the possibility that some of his clients are funding his defense. I suspect he will kick the charges to the curb. Less well-financed victims can make a plea deal or go bankrupt.
[Al Jazeera] Four UN peacekeepers have been killed and four more were maimed after their vehicle hit an bomb in Mali's central Mopti region.
The UN's mission in Mali, MUNISMA, said the vehicle transporting the blue helmets struck an improvised bomb on Wednesday. The medical evacuation of the four "seriously injured" peacekeepers was under way, a statement said.
The incident happened a day after six Malian soldiers were killed in another blast.
"MINUSMA is currently upgrading its security presence in central Mali," mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif said. "Cornered, the bully boyz are multiplying their attacks of unspeakable vileness."
The UN mission in Mali, which has more than 11,000 troops and was established in 2013, is one of the most dangerous peacekeeping operations in the world, with troops and convoys regularly coming under attack from gangs.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrian government forces have clashed with rebels on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta, despite a Russian-sponsored truce that is now in its second day, a war monitor reported.
Since Wednesday morning, during a second attempt at implementing a ceasefire in the besieged enclave, Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's forces have been locked in "fierce" fighting with rebels who have been in control of the area since 2013, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The confrontation is part of a ground offensive launched by the government on Sunday. It has been fighting on multiple fronts in an attempt to penetrate the enclave.
The daily, five-hour "humanitarian pause" is meant to evacuate the injured out of the Damascus suburb and allow humanitarian convoys to deliver food and medicine to some 400,000 people trapped inside.
The first attempt to implement the truce on Tuesday was unsuccessful, as aerial bombardment and artillery fire killed at least four people and injured dozens more.
Residents of the enclave said government warplanes launched several attacks in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and stressed that the most intense attacks have been centres in three towns - including Douma, Misraba and Harasta ‐ near the front lines.
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[The Verge] According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, Palantir first approached New Orleans in 2012 through a well-known intermediary: James Carville, the Democratic Party power broker and architect of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. Carville is a paid adviser of Palantir whose involvement with the data-mining company dates back at least to 2011.
“I AM THE SOLE DRIVER OF THAT PROJECT.”
In an interview, Carville told The Verge that he was the impetus for the collaboration between Palantir and New Orleans. “I am the sole driver of that project. It was entirely my idea,” said Carville, adding that he and Palantir CEO Alex Karp flew down to New Orleans to meet with Mayor Landrieu. “To me, it was a case of morality. Young people were shooting each other, and the public wasn’t as involved as they should have been.”
The documents outlining Palantir’s relationship with New Orleans describe the company’s role as “pro bono” and philanthropic. In 2015, Palantir mentioned its work in New Orleans in its annual philanthropic report, characterizing the effort as collaborative “network analysis” for law enforcement and other city stakeholders.
Carville’s remarks on a Bay Area public radio station four years ago elucidate how Palantir’s relationship with the city came about. In a January 2014 appearance on KQED’s Forum talk show, Carville and his wife Mary Matalin touted Palantir’s work in New Orleans as a major driver in the city’s two-year decline in the murder rate.
“The CEO of a company called Palantir – the CEO, a guy named Alex Karp — said that they wanted to do some charitable work, and what’d I think? I said, we have a really horrific crime rate in New Orleans,” Carville told KQED Forum’s host Michael Krasny, without mentioning his professional relationship to Palantir. “And so he came down and met with our mayor… they both had the same reaction as to the utter immorality of young people killing other young people and society not doing anything about it. And we were able to, at no cost to the city, start integrating data and predict and intervene as to where these conflicts were going to be arising. We’ve seen probably a third of a reduction in our murder rate since this project started.”
Matalin, who is also a political consultant, made it clear to Krasny that the prediction work being done with NOPD by the Palo Alto firm was both a prototype and potentially could sweep up innocent people.
Co-founded in 2004 by Alexander Karp and Peter Thiel (the company’s single largest shareholder), Palantir Technologies’ rapid ascent to becoming one of the highest-valued private Silicon Valley companies has been driven by lucrative contracts with the Pentagon and United States intelligence services, as well as foreign security services. In recent years, Palantir has sought to expand its data fusion and analysis business to the private sector, with mixed success.
Prediction is not new territory for Palantir. Since at least 2009, Palantir was used by the Pentagon to predict the location of improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan and Iraq — a wartime risk-assessment program absent the civil liberties concerns that come with individualized predictive policing. Its commercial software platform, Metropolis, also reportedly uses predictive analytics to help businesses develop consumer markets and streamline investments. But before 2012 with the New Orleans program, there is no publicly available record that Palantir had ventured into predictive policing.
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Regarding the uptick of bee activity in on your farm. We have noticed periodic swarming near the small woods on the other side of your hay field. One corner of the woods has a number of old-growth hardwood containing knotty, rotting limb scars. Your dog will not go near the woods.
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Yes it is. It's the SW analytic tool our soldiers and Marines asked for repeatedly, but our DoD refused to purchase or integrate. The attached graphic might tell you why.
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Reads like a movie review for that old Tom Cruise movie, "Minority Report."
An action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054 where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime.
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One of the technologies being used in the 7th District is HunchLab, a predictive policing program made by Philadelphia-based company Azavea. It combines crime data with factors including the location of local businesses, the weather.....
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Why in the world is Palantir giving that dumbazz Carville a single dollar for advice?
Predictive analysis is a bunch of nonsense in policing...not a dang thing is actionable.
How about this? I predict that if New Orleans would get off their azz and arrest all the criminals with active arrest warrants running around in their community...than wasting time talking to Carville about something he knows absolutely nothing about...there would be a lot less crime in NO. I am 100% positive of my analysis.
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I'm not sure what the headline is here. "Predictive policing" has been making advances for at least a decade and there are many companies and products vying for budget for predictive analytics. The inside Chicago story is they sent out multiple RFQ's to all the major vendors, and finally decided to "build it themselves" in house because...well you know its easier to just build a new Facebook than simply buy software as a service. Public servants are smarter than Silicon Valley geeks in most all matters.
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#15 - like many *ahem, FBI* they assumed The Beast would win
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Maybe. But Peter Thiel - a Trump supporter - was one of Palantir's original founders and still IIUC is the largest shareholder, individually and via his investment fund.
More likely they are looking for a big city win and .... those cities tend to be dominated by Democrats.
And, as usual, the ChiComs are not helping (understatement of the week).
[GCaptain] As Washington and Seoul try to maintain a unified front against North Korea, the case of two cargo ships shows how Kim Jong Un's regime keeps finding ways to evade increasingly tough international sanctions aimed at halting its nuclear weapons program.
Both vessels have gone through repeated changes of names and owners, part of an international shell game that has undercut the escalating sanctions led by the U.S. and backed by the United Nations. President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to maintain its "maximum pressure" campaign on North Korea even as America’s ally, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, pursues a fragile detente sparked by the Olympics.
[Ynet] German authorities have tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a Syrian man on allegations he supported the hard boy Nusra Front in his homeland.
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday the 33-year-old, identified only as Abdul Sattar A. I., was fighting for a paramilitary group associated with the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... when in April 2014, he organized the capture of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighter Saleh A.
They allege he handed the man over to the Nusra Front, with the goal of arranging a prisoner exchange to get Nusra captives released by the Islamic State. The prisoner swap failed because Saleh A. escaped.
Prosecutors say A.I. was arrested Tuesday and his home in the Karlsruhe area was searched.
Saleh A. was arrested in Germany in September 2016, and is currently on trial for Islamic State membership.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members, who were killed by other members, was found in northwest of Mosul, while the murderous Moslem group was in control of the city, an officer from the Iraqi army said on Wednesday.
"Troops of the Iraqi army ran into a mass grave in al-Zarka region in Baaj town including 100 human corpses of local and Arab Islamic State members," Col. Ali al-Taan told BasNews.
"The corpses were shot in the heads and chests," Taan said without giving further details.
Thousands of IS Death Eaters as well as Iraqi non-combatants were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition, was launched in October 2016 to fight the murderous Moslem group.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared in July victory over IS Death Eaters who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25,000 Islamic State Death Eaters were killed throughout the campaign. Abadi announced, in December, full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war against IS members.
Security troops ran into tens of mass graves at regions recaptured from IS. More than 70 graves, including Yazidis killed by IS, were also found.
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BTW, the German special forces turned in a credible job in Afghanistan, and the Germans do not have a Posse Comitatus Act to restrain themselves with. Just saying.
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South of Kandahar and along the Pak border, the Albanian SF did as well. Strange isn't it, the TB never wanted to fok with them. Strange, very strange.
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"the Germans do not have a Posse Comitatus Act to restrain themselves with"
We have. The Basic Law severely restricts operations of the Bundeswehr inside the country.
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Not in Bavaria
It’s true that Bavaria is a special place, European Conservative. I treasure the memories of our visit there, though I found the local accent challenging in a way that Hesse’s was not. But in an Austrian village I had to ask the local post office clerk to write down the price for a stamp, so that establishes my brackets.
The Basic Law severely restricts operations of the Bundeswehr inside the country.
[JudicialWatch] Illustrating how government hides information from the American public, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the nation's chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama's second attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to "protect her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business efficiently via email."
This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Besides Lynch, we have only discovered the use of such aliases among government operatives to conduct official business at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Obama's EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, famously used the alias Richard Windsor in a government email account to conduct official business and communicate with staff. Jackson even took required EPA computer training under the fake identity with the handle Windsor.Richard@epa.gov. She eventually resigned over the scandal, which brought to light the agency's violations of federal open-records laws.
In Lynch's case, Judicial Watch requested the records as part of an investigation into the Obama administration's involvement in a United Nation's international law enforcement coalition called Strong Cities Network (SCN). The purported mission of the global coalition was to build social cohesion and community resilience to counter violent extremism. The DOJ masterminded the agreement and Americans found out about the U.S.'s participation when Lynch announced it during a U.N. speech on September 29, 2015. Lynch referred to SCN as a "truly groundbreaking endeavor" and assured the notoriously corrupt world body that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the new initiative. "The government of the United States is fully invested in this collaborative approach and we have seen the value of empowering local communities by promoting initiatives they design and lead themselves," Lynch said.
Following the Attorney General's fiery U.N. delivery, a New York newspaper reported that the city was joining a new global, terror-busting network to combat homegrown extremism. Civil rights groups quickly denounced the U.S. participation, expressing concerns about law enforcement abuses against Muslims. In a letter to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio 22 civil rights groups warned that other programs created to counter violent extremism stigmatized "Muslim communities as suspicious and in need of special monitoring." The anti-terror initiatives have also made "the relationship between Muslims and schools and social service providers into security-based engagements," the letter states. SCN assures however, that "violent extremism and prevention efforts should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality or ethnic group." In a statement the DOJ also guaranteed that the SCN will safeguard the rights of local citizens and communities. The State Department also put its weight behind SCN.
In its mission to educate the public about the operations and activities of government, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request with the DOJ on October 15, 2015 for documents related to SCN. Specifically, Judicial Watch asked for legal opinions and analysis prepared by the DOJ relating to the U.S. involvement in the program, documents that form the foundation for the decision for the country to participate in SCN, all international agreements and related records involving the commitment of U.S. resources or personnel to SCN and records of communication between officials in the Office of the Attorney General relating to the initiative. The DOJ claimed to have no records related to the SCN and billed Judicial Watch a startling $50,000 to conduct the search that didn't produce a single file.
Though the DOJ recently furnished the documents with Lynch's fake name, the records were part of Judicial Watch's original 2015 FOIA request. The records also show that then Assistant Attorney General John Carlin touted SCN at an event sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extremist leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization. A year later Carlin would launch the Michael Flynn counterintelligence investigation and seek the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant now in question.
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This begs the question of how many other government officials use fake names and whether those aliases are searched when agencies process Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Probably a good many. I suspect this is one of the reason the Clinton investigation stalled and went nowhere. Digging further might have revealed Obama's previously unknown aliases.
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Congress should pass a law making it a crime to knowingly conduct official business using a non-government email address. At a minimum the penalty should be termination without pension or any other benefits.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian sources have reported the disappearance of General Vahid Haghanian, the commander of Iran's Supreme Leader guards nearly about a month ago, amid speculations that he might have been detained or sent to his room. Ooh! Ooh!
We seen dis movie!
The disappearance of Haghanian, who also serves as a political assistant in the private inspection office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has since Jan. 31 raised questions and speculations that there are confusions in the house of the Supreme leader. See, da Fearless Leader's kidnapped dis babe, see? And she got dese really big bazongas and wears half a ton of makeup, an' da good guy really fell for her, see?
The news was reported on Tuesday on "Saham News" of the "National Trust party (Etemad Melli)," led by Mehdi Karroubi, the leader of the Green Movement who is under house arrest. So he infiltrates da Imperial Guard and he gets promoted really quick because he got dese big muscles an' everything...
Haghanian is described as "the supreme leader’s right hand," and there is a possibility that he was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! , but no confirmation so far. An' he gets arrested cuz da babe give 'im the eyeball an' Fearless Leader got jealous, an' they throw 'im in this dungeon, an' dere's dis guy, he's been dere for the past thirty years, an' another guy, he's been there even longer, but he's dead and just a skeleton hangin' by his hands...
General Haghanian last appeared in a video spread on social media sites and Iranian websites, in which he insulted Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri during his visit to the earthquake-affected areas in Sarpol-e Zahab and the Qasr-e Shirin in the Kermanshah Province. An' den the old guy, he's about to peg out, so he tells the hero where da treasure is...
Jahangiri said that the former President Ahmadinejad was responsible for the houses that were destroyed as they were constructed during his reign. An' da hero hollers "Guard! Guard! Help! Help!," an' da guard comes an' the old man pegs out, an' da hero knocks out da guard an' takes his scimitar an' his shirt gets ripped up an' he's showin' all dem muscles... The Supreme Leader’s shadow figure On various occasions, Haghanian, a leader in the Revolutionary Guard, appears behind the Supreme Leader and accompanies him in the most important meetings. An' den he makes his way to da Fearless Leader's apartment an' he kills da guards an' he busts in just as da Fearless Leader's ripped off most of da girl's shirt an' her groodies are hangin' out mostly...
He was also called the Supreme Leader’s shadow figure. An' da hero sez "So, Khamenei! We meet again!" an' den dey have this sword fight up an' down da stairs an' Fearless Leader plays all dese dirty tricks an' da good guy stabs da Fearless Leader through da brisket...
Haghanian served for long time as an assistant to Khamenei's chief of staff and as a personal secretary who had strong influence and impact on Iran, especially after the Green uprising in 2009. An' he grabs da babe an' dey jump out da window onto a horse an' get away...
Some Iranian activists suspected that Haghanian was arrested for being involved in corruption cases, while others believed that he was arrested because of his differences with Ali Asghar Hejazi, the director of the private security office of the Supreme Leader Khamenei’ office. An' den dey got this scene where dey're on da beach in Tahiti drinkin' stuff outta coconuts an' makin' kissy face an' you see her butt. It was really good. I forget what it's called though.
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[DAWN] Ending the nearly week-long confusion over Pakistain's placement on a ’grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Foreign Office confirmed on Wednesday that in June the country is set to be added to the watchlist of countries where banned Lion of Islam outfits have allegedly been raising funds.
Speaking at a weekly news briefing, FO front man Dr Muhammad Faisal revealed that a decision to place Pakistain on the watchlist was taken at the FATF plenary held in Gay Paree last week. He, however, ruled out the possibility that Pakistain could even be placed on the international watchdog's blacklist over a lack of compliance.
An action plan to eradicate terrorist financing is being prepared and will accordingly be shared with the international body, he said.
"Pakistain will be assigned to the ’grey list’ in June, once an action plan has been mutually negotiated," the front man said, adding that Pakistain will cooperate with FATF in every possible way.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Mr. John Onyeukwu, the Programme Director and Deputy Chief of Party of North East Region Initiative (NERI) has revealed to SaharaReporters that some parts of Northeastern Nigeria are still not accessible.According to him, holy warriors are still in control of those areas, despite claims of the Nigerian government and the military that all territories under the control of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... have been liberated.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A bridegroom in New Delhi has been killed by a stray bullet after a member of his wedding party opened fire to celebrate the occasion, police said Wednesday.
Deepak Kumar, 21, was shot while leading the party to his bride’s home in the Indian capital on Tuesday evening.
Police said a guest dancing with the wedding party opened fire but a stray round struck the husband-to-be.
"He collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead after midnight," Nupur Prasad, deputy commissioner of Delhi police, told AFP.
Firing weapons in the air at weddings and other festivities is a common celebration across South Asia.
The practice is illegal in India but remains rife, though fatalities are relatively few.
Prasad said the groom’s family had identified the man who fired the bullet.
"It is an ongoing investigation and we are trying to ascertain the source of his weapon," he said.
Amit, one of the wedding guests, told the Times of India newspaper there "were a couple of people carrying guns for celebratory firing, which is considered a tradition in the family".
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Shot in the crown of the head , was he?
Was the "member of the wedding party" offered a glass of Champagne or shown the door and his gun confiscated ?
Or was the "member" a relative, perhaps ?
A lot more to this story than what is in the article, it seems.
Perhaps we shall never know.
[DAWN] A mother of six was allegedly rubbed out by her husband reportedly in the name of 'honour' in Sindh's Shikarpur district on Wednesday, police said.
The accused man bumped off his wife, 36-year-old Aooraan, after suspecting her of having illicit relations with a neighbour in Dilawar Marfani village of Garhi Yasin tehsil, SHO Shahzado Dasti said.
The suspect managed to flee after committing the crime, the SHO added.
After being alerted about the incident, police reached the scene of the crime and shifted the victim's body to Garhi Yasin taluka hospital. The body was handed over to the woman's relatives after postmortem examination.
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[DAWN] THE mantle of the PML-N leadership has apparently been passed on to the younger Sharif, the ubiquitous chief minister of the country’s most powerful province, but the real power continues to lie with the elder Sharif endorsed by the party as its ’Quaid for life’. Notwithstanding the recent court ruling, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... stays at the helm of the ruling party.
Indeed, the nominal change became unavoidable after the apex court struck yet again, barring the former prime minister from leading the party. The elevation of Shahbaz Sharif
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[Reuters] Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency on Wednesday held a controversial meeting of 124 former Islamist militants and 51 survivors of a series of attacks in the country, including the Bali bombings. The gathering was part of a wider deradicalization push by authorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.
Chusnul Kotimah, who was badly burned in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, said he was prepared to forgive those behind the attacks. He said, "I can accept the situation. I can forgive them," adding that he had told former militants that as a fellow Muslims there was no justification for such terror.
Nonetheless, the head of a survivors’ group who did not attend criticized holding a mass meeting under the glare of the media. Other survivors said they needed more support and medical help from authorities.
But Indonesia’s chief security minister, Wiranto, said he wanted such events to be held regularly. Also attending were the country’s social, higher education and manpower ministers, who pledged to help survivors with health care and employment.
“I think this is the most effective way of deradicalization, because in the past there were some terrorists who (until they met the victims) were not aware that their deeds were wrong,” said Sofyan Tsauri, who was convicted of supplying weapons to a militant training camp in the province of Aceh.
It is only human to still hold on to anger, said Deny Mahieu, a police officer injured during 2016 bomb and gun attacks in central Jakarta, after meeting one of the suspects in his case.
“But... if we still feel vengeful it will not solve the problem,” he said.
[PRNIGERIA] Troops of Operation Lafiya Dole have continued to maintain the momentum in the ongoing Operation Deep Punch II to seek out and clear Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... snuffies from enclaves in the northern fringes of the Lake Chad Islands and the Sambisa region.
Yesterday Monday 26 February 2018, combined troops of Operation Lafiya Dole and the Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian Defence Forces, in a clearance operation, took the battle to the snuffies in their enclaves at Kusha-Kucha, Surdewala, Alkanerik, Magdewerne and Mayen villages, all situated along the Nigerian ‐ Cameroonian border.
In the fierce offensives, the gallant troops killed 33 Boko Haram snuffies and destroyed 15 locally fabricated rifles captured from them. The troops also destroyed 4 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), several cycle of violences and bicycles belonging to the turbans. 603 civilians held hostage by the snuffies were also rescued and conveyed to Bäma and Pulka towns, where they are currently being profiled before subsequent handover to IDP camp officials.
Relatedly, as the clearance operations progressed, the combined troops tracked the snuffies to Bokko, Daushe and Gava villages, where they unleashed another attack on the fleeing turbans, killing 2 of them in the fire fight and recovering one AK 47 rifle, a magazine, a trolley and unspecified quantity of premium motor spirit in Jerry cans. The troops also extricated 194 civilians held captive by the snuffies and destroyed makeshift accommodations erected by the turbans.
Additionally, the combined troops successfully cleared Miyanti and Wudila villages, where they rescued 3 men, 121 women and 209 children. The rescued persons are undergoing profiling, preparatory to their handover to appropriate IDP camps.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... troops carrying out clearance operations from the Sabil Huda axis of the Sambisa forest have recovered a cache of arms and tools from Boko Haram turbans’ enclave in the Sabil Huda area of the Sambisa.
The munitions recovered include 3 Browny Machine Guns, two 81mm Mortar tubes, one 81mm Mortar tripod, one 60 mm Commando Mortar tube, twelve 40mm AGL cartridge , 5 AK 47 rifles ,1 sniper rifle, 3 Pistols with one magazine loaded with four 9mm rounds, one damaged pump action rifle, 2 damaged G3 rifles, 1 Tear gas riflel, 2 Sub Machine Guns, 5 xG3 Magazines, 4 locally made rockets, 28 working parts of various weapons, 28 barrels of various weapons, 3 Browny Machine Gun bipods , 2 Anti Aircraft Gun Barrels, 12 Anti Aircraft Gun tripods, 8 Tool boxes, one welding machine, one Hayab crane, Assorted ammunition links, one packet of electrode and one power generator.
Troops remain highly motivated in continuing with the operations to locate and clear Boko Haram snuffies from their hideouts.
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Hope was a graduate of SMU in Dallas. You almost have to be a Valedictorian or top of your class to get into that school. Not some leftist activist loser who claims to be part Cherokee.
Bringing in really smart young people into a business to mentor prevents older, set in their ways people from ignoring your wisdom and instead applying theirs.
Hope the Donald finds a smart young achiever to replace her and others, stay away from congress critters and establishment, activist, political swamp creatures.
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SMU is one of the last bastions of excellence in higher education that is not polluted by the critical theory/let's give communism another go crowd.
[DW] Rights groups have condemned the alleged torture and sexual abuse of two Christian youths by investigating officials. The latest blasphemy controversy highlights the plight and vulnerability of Pak Christians.
On Friday, Sajid Masih, a 24-year-old blasphemy suspect, leapt from the fourth floor of the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
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[IsraelTimes] Eighty-eight Egyptian battalions with 42,000 soldiers fighting Islamic State, up from 41 battalions and 25,000 men a year ago
The Egyptian army has doubled its forces in the Sinai Peninsula over the past year, with Israel’s blessing, to battle 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.... jihadist cells in the area, Israel’s Kan television news reported Wednesday.
According to the Egyptian military’s chief of staff, 88 battalions with 42,000 soldiers are currently stationed in the peninsula, up from 41 battalions and 25,000 men a year ago.
The 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty places strict limits on the numbers of Egyptian and Israeli troops that can be stationed on either side of the Sinai desert border, but it does allow troop increases by one country if the other agrees.
An IDF front man said that the Israeli army constantly monitors Egyptian military operations in the peninsula.
"The Egyptian army has increased its forces in Sinai over the past year in the face of the threat of Islamic State. This increase has been carried out in coordination with the IDF," the front man said.
The IDF has in the past protested the rare occasions in which Egypt deployed additional troops to the peninsula without consulting Israel, the front man added.
He outdid Evita on her world tour! Head to the link with photos, kulak! Remember his dad might have been his dad (3%?) but was PM of Canada. His mom turned into a groupy at Studio 54 before his conception. For clicks and grins do an image google of his mom: Studio 54 Margaret Trudeau
[KhaamaPress] The US military has carried out more Arclight airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army in the East said the latest airstrikes were carried in Nazian district.
The source further added that the raids were carried out in Sah-e-Bar area and as a result one member of the terror group was killed.
The anti-government armed holy warrior groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... regime but the anti-government armed holy warrior groups have been attempting to expand their insurgency activities in some of the remote parts of the province during the recent years.
Both the Taliban and faceless myrmidons 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.... terror group have presence in some districts of Nangarhar
In the meantime, the Silab Corps said the Afghan cops discovered eight Improvised Explosive Devices from Nangarhar, Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
and Kapisa provinces.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Over 2.6 million Iraqis have returned to their homes in the areas recently liberated from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, a ministry front man was quoted as saying Wednesday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today news website, Sattar Nawroz, a spokesperson for the Migration and Displacement Ministry, said his ministry will "send a list of displaced and repatriated families to the Independent High Electoral Commission in order to be able to vote in the upcoming elections."
Nawroz revealed that Iraqi families still in displacement will return to their home regions once basic accommodate needs are met there.
Nawroz further uncovered that his ministry has provided the "electoral commission with 1,000 caravans to help displaced people cast their ballots in the upcoming parliamentary elections, slated for May 12."
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi fighter jets launched, on Tuesday evening, airstrikes against Islamic State locations in north of Kirkuk city, an official said.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, Al-Muttaleb Najmuddin, head of Altun Kupri town in Kirkuk, said “Iraqi fighter jets launched airstrikes in the evening against locations near Shani Sheen village in Altun Kupri over doubts of presence of IS havens there.”
The strikes, according to Najmuddin, “targeted other location on borders at a mountainous area between Altun Kupri and al-Dibs towns, northern Kirkuk, where IS militants are noticed there.”
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Eight Islamic State (IS) militants, including a suicide attacker, were killed in a face-off with paramilitary forces in southern Kirkuk, a military spokesman was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press news website, Ali al-Husseini, a spokesman for al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) northern axis, said “During a military operation to hunt for Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi found a hideout that was used by the militant group at al-Aziziyah village in southern Kirkuk.”
“The troops immediately stormed the hideout and killed eight Islamic State militants, including a suicide bomber,” Husseini said, adding that one of al-Hashd al-Shaabi fighters was killed in the clashes as well.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... prisoners said the movement members were trained by Hezbollah experts before they were dispatched to the different fighting fronts.
In a video published by the Yemeni army’s media center on Tuesday night, a Houthi prisoner identified as Zakaria Mohammed Awda said he and dozens others were trained in Shawaba in Sanaa by Hezbollah experts around two months ago before they were sent to fight.
Another prisoner said the Houthis deceived them using national slogans and he called on others not to believe them. In the past two months, Houthi militias recruited plenty of young men and trained them before sending them to fighting fronts.
The Yemeni army’s media center noted that this is all evidence to Iran’s involvement in supporting the Houthis and supplying them with arms and providing them with experts to implement its destructive agenda in the region.
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[LEADERPOST] Nigeria’s military says it has rescued more than 1,100 people, including women and kiddies, who had been held by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... murderous Moslems in different parts of the Lake Chad region near Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... Tuesday’s announcement comes more than a week after Boko Haram kidnapped 110 girls from their school in Dapchi in Yobe state. The bully boy group has kidnapped thousands of people over the years.
Operation front man Col. Onyema Nwachukwu says soldiers killed at least 35 Boko Haram fighters during the raids on Monday in the northern fringes of the Lake Chad islands and the Sambisa region.
He says troops also seized a large arms cache.
Nigeria’s government’s is under growing public pressure to respond to the Dapchi mass abduction and prove its repeated claims that Boko Haram has been defeated.
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Four civilians were maimed Wednesday in a bomb kaboom in southern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Baghdad Today news website, the source said, "A bomb went kaboom! today near a sheep market at Hor Rajab area in southern Baghdad."
"The kaboom left four civilians maimed," the source said, adding that ambulances rushed to the scene and carried the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment.
[ToloNews] A front man for the commando unit confirmed a German national was locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! during an operation in Gereshk district this week.
A foreign fighter was arrested in a night raid by commandos in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province this week, local officials confirmed.
The operation was launched in Gereshk district of Helmand, which also involved air support of foreign troops to target an krazed killer save haven, a front man for the commandos, Jawid Saleem said.
"Five turbans were killed during the operation and three others including a German national were arrested," he said, adding that "the forces have also discovered some weapons and explosives."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he did not provide further details about the operation.
This comes after Masoom Stanekzai, head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), addressed delegates at the second Kabul Process meeting and said hundreds of foreign forces of Evil have been arrested in the past few months and that there is the possibility of hundreds more having been killed on the battlefields.
"Militants are being recruited from around the world through the use of social media," Stanekzai said.
[Al Jazeera] Dozens of relatives of Tunisians who fought with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant caught in diplomatic limbo By this point, I've run out of tuts. I can't even manage a pair of them. I'm sure it was a great Islamic adventure for the wimmin, and I really do feel like I should be feeling sorry for the kiddies, but I don't, not really. No doubt it felt great, being a part of the Herrenvolk, strutting around and snapping out orders, but when your good thing comes to an end you gotta pay the price. No one thought to ask the ghost of Ilse Koch what happens when les bon temps rouler right out the camp gates.
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[WashingtonPost] The "Beast from the East" continues to pummel Britain with heavy snow and brutal wind chills, prompting the U.K. Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service, to issue a red snow warning for the first time since 2013 [I would be more worried about yellow snow but that's just me].
The red warning was in effect on Wednesday for parts of Scotland, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, until 10 a.m. Thursday. An additional 16 inches of snow is possible there. nice images at the link
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Hope the Queen and the Scotts survive. Everyone else can succumb to frost bite.
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16" of snow would be quite problematic if you have little in the way of snow removal equipment.
Plus it's very windy and that means drifting. Dangerous for the smaller, lighter, vehicles typically driven in the UK.
F-150 and a couple of sand bags in the bed over the rear wheels works for that around here. Still not fun.
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Drink up!
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Reminds me of a funny Dale story, Frank.
My last weekend in the Colorado mountains it snowed 63" in 3 days. The Dodge would push thru it but we had to climb in and out of the windows because we couldn't get the doors open.
[DAWN] THE FATF embarrassment, utterly isolating and shameful as it is, has become the norm for Pakistain. Along with so much else that has isolated and humiliated us this too was so obviously coming and was so stupidly and irresponsibly ignored. The debt riddled ’development’ taking place in Pakistain has been made even more fragile.
Critical commentators are often accused of being unnecessarily bitter about the state of the country. But when the state of governance is so criminal and damaging how else can one accurately depict the truth about our rulers who day in and day out unhesitatingly make a mockery and laughing stock of the country?
Putting on a polite mask while gently admonishing the perpetrators of such betrayal is itself a form of betrayal given the wretched depths to which our incorrigible rulers regularly sink.
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But when the state of governance is so criminal and damaging how else can one accurately depict the truth about our rulers who day in and day out unhesitatingly make a mockery and laughing stock of the country?
You'd never get a beltway journalist to be this honest.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States warned judicial and law enforcement officials from around the world of the dangers posed by an increasingly de-centralized ISIS group spreading to new regions.
At a two-day conference in Washington that concluded Wednesday, the US State Department designated seven ISIS-linked groups as terrorist threats -- underlining the reach of the network.
The ISIS group’s former stronghold in its so-called "caliphate" in eastern Syria and northern Iraq has been all but destroyed by US-backed military operations, but the turbans are adapting.
And, with overt military targets harder to find, the next stage in the fight against the Lions of Islam will lean more heavily on law enforcement and civilian prosecution of suspected murderous Moslems.
"I think what we’re seeing is ISIS becoming increasingly decentralized," said the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, Nathan Sales, who addressed the meeting.
"ISIS is evolving and adapting," he said, explaining the decision to blacklist the ISIS regional groups under separate designations.
Motivated by same ideology
"You’re seeing groups from all corners of the world motivated by the same bloody and deadly ISIS ideology, using the same sort of techniques targeting innocent men, women and kiddies."
In Nigeria and the Lake Chad region a group that split from the local Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gang and led by Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf’s son Abu Musab al-Barnawi is now designed as ISIS-West Africa.
In the Philippines, the list now includes ISIS-Philippines and its ally the Maute Group, which triggered the siege of the city of Marawi in May 2017 and has attempted to bomb the US embassy in Manila.
The ISIS-Somalia group began as a small 20-strong splinter from the al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... movement under Abdiqadr Mumin and his deputy Mahad Moalim, but has grown in strength and imported arms from Yemen.
Washington is also concerned about the group’s growing foothold in the Indian subcontinent, where the now designated ISIS-Bangladesh launched its campaign by killing an Italian aid worker in 2015.
In Egypt, the US terror designations now list ISIS-Egypt as a separate group from ISIS-Sinai province, with both having carried out attacks and the former claiming responsibility for a deadly 2016 church bombing.
The new designations also include Jund al-Khilafa, a Tunisian gang that has pledged allegiance to IS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... The conference was hosted jointly by the State Department, INTERPOL and the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law.
Washington is also urging reluctant partners such as Britannia and La Belle France to take custody of their citizens who joined the ISIS group and were captured in Iraq or Syria and bring them up for prosecution.
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[DW] German security services have admitted they uncovered a Russian cyberattack on the foreign and defense ministries in December. Sources say the malware had been planted up to a year earlier.
The German government admitted on Wednesday that the foreign and defense ministries had been infiltrated by Russian hacking group APT28.
Citing anonymous sources, the German news agency dpa reported the group likely placed a piece of malware in a key government network. The malware could have remained in the government's networks for as long as a year, security officials said.
The German Interior Ministry confirmed the breach. "We can confirm that the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and intelligence services are investigating a cybersecurity incident concerning the federal government's information technology and networks," an Interior Ministry front man said.
Hackers attack German government: DW's Fabian von der Mark
The targeted ministries had since taken necessary measures to investigate the attack and protect their data, the front man added.
How much data was intercepted in that time remains unclear.
"Secure" network jeopardized
The hackers reportedly infiltrated the government's "Informationsverbund Berlin-Bonn" (IVBB) network, a specially designed communications platform that sits separate from other public networks for supposed added security. It's used exclusively by the Chancellery, the German parliament, federal ministries, the Federal Audit Office and several security institutions in Berlin and Bonn, the former German capital where some ministries still have offices.
The government said it receives roughly 20 attempted hacking attacks per day, while German intelligence services also carry out penetration tests once per week.
APT28's alleged Kremlin ties
APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has been linked to Russian military intelligence. The group was identified as the likely source of an attack on the German parliament in 2015, as well as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and governments in eastern Europe.
The group's 2015 attack on the Bundestag was so far-reaching that the German government was forced to replace its entire IT infrastructure.
German officials had feared that a trove of private documents could be released ahead of last September's federal elections, as happened just before the final round of the French election in May. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... those fears proved unfounded.
[Al Jazeera] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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 offered to recognise the Taliban ...Arabic for students... as a legitimate political group, as part of a proposed process he said could lead to talks aimed at ending more than 16 years of war.
Ghani's offer on Wednesday, made at the start of an international conference aimed at creating a platform for peace talks, adds to a series of signals from both the Western-backed government and the Taliban suggesting a greater willingness to consider dialogue.
Ghani proposed a ceasefire and prisoner release as part of a range of options, including new elections involving the gang, and a constitutional review as part of a pact with the Taliban.
"We are making this offer without preconditions in order to lead to a peace agreement," Ghani said in opening remarks at the conference, attended by officials from about 25 countries involved in the so-called Kabul Process.
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Just the "political wing"?
Riiiggghhtt
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SDF Statement: Despite the UN Security Council Resolution 2401, which obligates all parties to stop hostilities, the Turkish state continues to violate international resolutions and targets our people in Afrin with various types of weapons and air raids, which expose our people to systematic annihilation, therefore, our fighters are obliged to defend themselves and repel the Turkish attacks. The following is the outcome of repelling Turkish attacks:
1-Since yesterday, and in a continuation to the previous days, Jinderes town and all of the villages in its axis have been subjected to heavy and indiscriminate artillery shelling and airstrikes, where the intensity of the bombardment did not reduce since yesterday until writing this report. Many shells landed on the downtown of Afrin in addition to the airstrikes.
2-Shiyeh/ Shaikh Hadid: the clashes continue in this axis, accompanied by heavy artillery shelling, where the heavy clashes are going on in the villages of Anqalah and Sinarah. According to these clashes, our forces pushed back the Turkish occupation army and its terrorist factions (ISIS/Al-Nusra), while the heavy shelling is still ongoing on these villages.
It is noteworthy that despite the clashes which erupted three days ago in Shiyeh axis, which were accompanied by heavy shelling, Syria Democratic Forces held their positions and did not allow the enemy to progress.
3-Belbeleh: our forces killed 4 terrorists and wounded other 6 during a failure attempt by the Turkish invasion army and its terrorist allies to make progress in Jerro village.
In Qastal Mukhtar village, the invaders tried to make progress towards the village, accordingly, our forces engaged with the terrorist invaders and pushed them back, additionally, they destroyed a Turkish military vehicle.
4-Mabatah: the Turkish invasion army and its terrorist allies (ISIS/Al-Nusra) tried to advance towards Ba’adina village, as a result, our forces repelled their attacks. It is worth noting that the attacks accompanied by random artillery shelling on the village.
"Turkish soldiers suffer heavy losses in Mabata district and military planes intervene to rescue them!"
5-Raju: the Turkish invasion army and the terrorist factions tried to make advances towards Balilka village. Our forces repelled their attacks and caused heavy losses within the ranks of the invaders. It is also worth noting that the clashes in this axis accompanied by heavy shelling on the area.
SDF Media Center
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Fatwa has been issued by Syrian Islamic Council based in Istanbul, Turkey on fighting SDF; looting, killing and raping female fighters as part of jihad in Efrin, fighting for the rule of Allah against secular & multi ethnics by the Mujahadeen. Thus the false Erdogan press releases that they were helping captured villages is in reality the total sacking and destruction of the villages and the population.
During the this conflict the Kurdish people honor the martyred YPG/YPJ fighters from previous conflicts.
The UN is so corrupt and workers so abusive many people in Syria do not seek civilian aid from the UN. 'If a woman received humanitarian aid everyone assumed she had given sexual favors for it...'
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The Syrian Kurds have a big secret that will keep them in the fight against Turkey for the long haul. The U.S. forces in Manbij are protecting that strategic asset for them.
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The U.S. forces in Manbij are protecting that strategic asset for them.
Three cheers for us doing the right thing.
I’ve read that we are split at the top: some favour Turkey and some the Kurds, which is why our approach to Afrin is so unsupportive.
This is appalling:
Fatwa has been issued by Syrian Islamic Council based in Istanbul, Turkey on fighting SDF; looting, killing and raping female fighters as part of jihad in Efrin,
[SAHARAREPORTERS] 1O herdsmen have been caught red-handed while destroying farmlands in Benue state by troops of the Nigerian Army participating in the ongoing Exercise Cat Race. Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, explained in a statement on Monday said the troops, who were on patrol caught the herdsmen destroying some farms in Tse-Tigir and Tse-Ndugh villages of Benue. He added that the herdsmen fled upon sighting the troops, but the troops went after them, caught up and tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! them.
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[Al Jazeera] Ibrahim Alawad, a "general" in an gang, is a portly man. He walks with a limp and carries a pistol tucked in the back of his trousers.
He has an easy smile and charisma that can easily draw you in. His limp, Alawad tells us, is from a bullet wound during fighting with a rival gang.
Alawad sits here in Bria, a strategic territory in the eastern Central African Republic (CAR) that has the biggest diamond mines in the country.
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[The Hill] The three strongest Democratic challengers to President Trump’s reelection are now all black women. The perfect combination of Hillary and Barak! How could they lose?
They are talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, former first lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has said Oprah and the "Me Too" movement pose an "existential threat" to the Trump presidency. And he oughta know.
April Reign, an activist who founded the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, worried during a recent NBC interview that the clamor for a black female presidential candidate could be a trap.
"Stop begging strong black women to be president: Michelle, Oprah, whatever," Reign said. "It's weird. And Lord knows when black women try to lead, y'all attempt to silence and erase us. So how would that work, exactly?" Hasn't some black woman recently been elected somewhere, April? Zim-bob-we, perhaps. Catch a flight!
[People] There’s only one thing that could make Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020.
Amid calls for her to consider a run for the White House ‐ from fans as well as her closest friends ‐ "I went into prayer," she tells PEOPLE in the magazine’s new cover story. " ’God, if you think I’m supposed to run, you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.’ And I haven’t gotten that." Wondering what Joy[less] Behar has to say about this...
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.....you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.’
It will come in the form of cloud writings what will be reported by thousands of people, followed by a plague of frogs upon the cribs of white infants. You won't be able to miss it.
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Democrats just hope if they can figure out the correct racial/sexual demographic mix they won't have anyone paying attention to their damaging policies.
[Inquirer] A ranking New People's Army leader in Caraga region was arrested in a joint military and police operation in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur. Military spokesman Rodulfo Cordero said Pablito Campos alias Batik or Ponsoy, the political officer of NPA Guerilla Front 21A, was nabbed at his hideout in Barangay El Rio on Friday.
Cordero said Campos was with eight other militants but he was the only one captured during the surprise raid. The other rebels escaped.
Cordero said Campos was responsible for the killing of police officer Sharmaine Cañete, who was gunned down while manning a checkpoint in Sibagat on May 16 last year. He said Campos had eight pending warrants for crimes of rebellion, frustrated murder, murder, multiple attempted murder, kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
Cordero said Campos was the fourth NPA militant arrested in Agusan del Sur since January.
[Jpost] White House Mideast peace planner Jared Kushner's security clearance troubles and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal struggle may be all the rage among the region's watchers this week. But a Ramallah power play, conducted away from the media's prying eye, is brewing ‐ and we ignore it at our peril.
As 83-year-old Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' health deteriorates, his would-be successors jockey for position.
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As 83-year-old Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' health deteriorates, his would-be successors jockey for position.
So sort of like the Donk party here lead by a bunch of very old white people.
[Mindanao Examiner] An Abu Sayyaf insurgent has surrendered to the military in the southern province of Sulu. Military spokesperson Jo-ann Petinglay said Jupakkal Usman, from the village of Lahing-Lahing in Omar town, on surrendered Tuesday. Usman was a follower of slain Abu Sayyaf leader Alhabsy Misaya.
Petinglay said some 182 militants had surrendered since last year in Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi provinces in the Muslim autonomous region. The military provided them livelihood assistance and released them despite their involvements in ransom kidnappings, killings and terrorism.
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[Al Jazeera] A spate of bills in state legislatures across the United States have been decried by civil rights groups as Islamophobic.
Most recently, the Council on American-Islamic Relations
CAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR), a Washington, DC-based Moslem civil rights group, has called on Idaho's Senate to vote against a bill recently passed by the state's House of Representatives that seeks to ban the implementation of "foreign law" in the state.
According to CAIR, the bill, known as HB-419, targets Moslems and fits into a long pattern of "unconstitutional" bills that demonise Moslems by barring Sharia, or Islamic law.
HB-419 was passed by Idaho's House of Representatives at a time when similar bills are being considered in several US states, including Montana, Oregon and Wisconsin.
In an open letter to Idaho State Senator Jeff C Siddoway, Chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, CAIR's Government Affairs Director, Robert McCaw, described HB-419 as "contrary to our nation's values of not elevating or marginalising one faith or community".
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and only one system of laws and enforcement, assholes
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Interesting to note that the text is worded rather specifically to foreign law:
"It shall be the public policy of this state to protect its citizens from the application of foreign laws when the application of foreign law will result in the violation of a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution of the United States or the constitution of the state of Idaho"
But: "foreign law" shall not mean, nor shall it include, any laws of the Indian tribes in this state.
[Al Jazeera] The United States has accused Russia and the Syrian government of violating the Eastern Ghouta ceasefire at a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council meeting.
The 30-day ceasefire, enshrined in Resolution 2401, was voted for unanimously by members of the Security Council on Saturday.
It came on the back of an offensive launched by the Bashir al-Assad's forces, with the support of Russian warplanes, on the enclave that began on February 18 and has resulted in the deaths of more than 550 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.
Speaking on Wednesday, the US representative to the UN Kelley Currie condemned the Syrian government's continued aerial bombardment on Eastern Ghouta, a rural area outside of the capital Damascus that has been under opposition control since 2013.
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[SanDiegoUnionTribune] The California bullet train will take longer to build and cost more than previously estimated under a soon-to-be-released business plan, but plans to begin the project by linking the Bay Area to the Central Valley remain intact, according to the rail authority's new chief executive, Brian Kelly.
Kelly, who took over leadership of the project Feb. 1, said in a wide-ranging interview that he plans to make transparent the challenges facing the project in an effort to bolster confidence that it can still be successfully executed. The rail authority will issue its 2018 business plan with the new cost estimates March 9.
Kelly did not disclose the new price tag for completing the entire Los Angeles to San Francisco system, but he made clear that the $64-billion estimate from the 2016 business plan will change.
Since the earlier estimate was unveiled, the state has confronted extended delays in buying land for a 119-mile segment in the Central Valley, encountered higher costs to build safety barriers where its tracks will run close to freight lines, sustained higher costs to move underground utilities and agreed to pay claims to construction firms whose work was delayed.
The problems led to a disclosure last month that the 119 miles will cost $10.6 billion, up from the original estimate of about $6 billion. When that was unveiled at a rail authority board just days after Kelly took over, the authority did not say whether it would impact the total system price.
"There will be a cost increase," Kelly said. "You cannot have that cost increase in the Central Valley without affecting the overall program cost."
The new estimate will be given in a range of costs, reflecting "too many unknowns to be specific," he added.
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$89 million a mile. Who says California isn’t leading the nation
....in corruption and stupidity! YCMTSU.
Take two hours to get from the central valley to the Bay Area? Have to take shuttle buses from the end of the line into town? Have to pay $200 or $300 one way for a ticket? When you can fly from Ontario, Long Beach, Los Angeles or Burbank for $300 round trip?
The only way this think becomes viable economically is for California to ban commuter flights between LA and SFO...of course given the mind set of these guys, banning plastic straws and grocery bags, they might try it.
Who voted for this damn thing? Oops I forgot about the 5,000,000 illegals and dead that will vote for anything Democratic.
Talk about a scandal. I wonder who is benefiting and what the end game is on this?
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The way to do this properly would have been to build it above the California Aquaduct where they don't have to buy the land and deal with environmental reports.
I suspect the test areas in central california are being built on land owned by Democrat relatives and such.
once the first high speed trains from Bakersfield to Fresno start and ridership is only 30% of what was forecast, it may end the obsession with is essentially a 19th century technology on steroids
of course it will cost $10B to do this but that may save the rest of the country hundreds of billions
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but that may save the rest of the country hundreds of billions
You are of course assuming pols learn from history. Sadly the only thing they may learn is 'My Husband/Wife can make millions on this contract!'.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[FoxNews] Authorities in San Francisco released body camera videos on Tuesday of a dramatic shootout in which police officers fired their weapons at least 65 times in 15 seconds at a murder suspect.
[Townhall] Speaking during a luncheon hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List in Nashville Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence said he believes abortion will come to an end in America during our lifetime.
[Daily Caller] In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress, and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal amount of cash.
[Townhall] Over the weekend, I expressed my disappointment with my longtime airline -- United -- for succumbing to the left-wing outrage machine and publicly severing corporate ties with the National Rifle Association. As I noted in my tweet thread (below), I'm neither an NRA member nor a gun owner or enthusiast. 
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According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, Palantir first approached New Orleans in 2012 through a well-known intermediary: 
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[JudicialWatch] Illustrating how government hides information from the American public, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used a fake name to conduct official Department of Justice (DOJ) business in agency emails obtained by Judicial Watch. As the nation's chief law enforcement officer Lynch, Barack Obama's second attorney general, skirted public-records laws by using the alias Elizabeth Carlisle in emails she sent from her official DOJ account. In the records provided to Judicial Watch, the DOJ explains it as necessary to "protect her security and privacy and enable her to conduct Department business efficiently via email."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranian sources have reported the disappearance of General Vahid Haghanian, the commander of Iran's Supreme Leader guards nearly about a month ago, amid speculations that he might have been detained or 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A bridegroom in New Delhi has been killed by a stray bullet after a member of his wedding party opened fire to celebrate the occasion, police said Wednesday.
[DAWN] A mother of six was allegedly 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[Reuters] Indonesia's anti-terrorism agency on Wednesday held a controversial meeting of 124 former Islamist militants and 51 survivors of a series of attacks in the country, including the Bali bombings. The gathering was part of a wider deradicalization push by authorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.
[DW] Rights groups have condemned the alleged torture and sexual abuse of two Christian youths by investigating officials. The latest blasphemy controversy highlights the plight and vulnerability of Pak Christians.
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
[Al Jazeera] Dozens of relatives of Tunisians who fought with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant caught in diplomatic limbo
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
...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. ..
[Al Jazeera] Ibrahim Alawad, a "general" in an 
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has said Oprah and the "Me Too" movement pose an "existential threat" to the Trump presidency.
.....you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.’
[Inquirer] A ranking New People's Army leader in Caraga region was arrested in a joint military and police operation in Sibagat, Agusan del Sur. Military spokesman Rodulfo Cordero said Pablito Campos alias Batik or Ponsoy, the political officer of NPA Guerilla Front 21A, was nabbed at his hideout in Barangay El Rio on Friday.
[Jpost] White House Mideast peace planner Jared Kushner's security clearance troubles and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal struggle may be all the rage among the region's watchers this week. But a Ramallah power play, conducted away from the media's prying eye, is brewing ‐ and we ignore it at our peril.
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[SanDiegoUnionTribune] The California bullet train will take longer to build and cost more than previously estimated under a soon-to-be-released business plan, but plans to begin the project by linking the Bay Area to the Central Valley remain intact, according to the rail authority's new chief executive, Brian Kelly.
