[ANI] US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it is "not fair" that India, which is geographically "much closer" to Afghanistan than the United States, is not fighting terrorist groups in the war-ravaged nation.
"Look, India is right there. They are not fighting it. We are fighting it. Pakistan is right next door. They are fighting it very little. Very, very little. It's not fair. The United States is 7,000 miles away," he said in reply to questions by reporters on the lawns of White House.
Trump, who has been repeatedly talking about mediation in the Kashmir problem, also said that countries including India, Iran and Russia would have to fight against the terrorists in Afghanistan at some point of time.
"At a certain point Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey they are going to have to fight their battles too. I did it in record time but at a certain point all of these other countries where ISIS is around they have been decimated, by the way, badly decimated," said Trump.
This comes days after around 80 people lost their lives in a suicide attack launched by the ISIS in Kabul.
"All of these countries are going to have to fight them because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? I don't think so. So, at a certain point, other countries and that includes Russia and it includes Iran and Turkey and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and India," he added.
Trump has repeatedly said he wants American troops out from Afghanistan. The United States is leading the Afghan peace process with the Taliban. The talks with Taliban are centred around US' promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, in exchange for the guarantee by Taliban that the Afghan soil, particularly the areas under their control, would not become a platform for transnational terrorism.
On Tuesday, he indicated that the United States forces will not completely withdraw from Afghanistan.
Early this month, United States special representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad had come to India and held discussion with External affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The two leaders discussed how India and the US could work effectively to ensure lasting peace in Afghanistan that has been engulfed in an 18-year-long war. (ANI)
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We just happened to convince the US that a pullout would doom the entire region. But I see India's insistence as coming more from an attitude that assumes 'the US created this mess in the first place, so it should stay and handle it for as long as it takes'.
While we bicker internally over kickbacks from arms contracts, posture about 'scaring off Pakistain', and rally around our shallow domestic victories, the world around us burns.
It's about time we entered this fray, gave our boys-in-perpetual-training some real action, earned some real xp. For now it's only been cloak-and-dagger and diplomatic one-ups with mediocre neighbours. I know we're good for it, but the Indian leadership has never really wanted a powerful military, or foreign policy to be 'besmirched' by our hands. No, that is to remain the province of pencil necks in Delhi and UN ass kissers trained in Harvard.
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"Pakistan is right next door. They are fighting it very little. Very, very little. It's not fair."
I'd understood Pakistan was making a major effort in the war.... just not on our side.
Also we frequently take the burden from the locals so we can control the war, and to ensure the locals are not caught up in the conflict when it comes time to deal with lasting peace treaties. I'm not saying this is right, but it has been our way since WW2.
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India covertly fights the Pakistain ISI which supports and supplies the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban, and a couple of other splinter factions that collectively form the opium-jihad nexus across the Durand Line. But Indian policy itself is non-committal, non-confrontational and only targets Pak elements when an Indian investment or joint venture is at risk.
The lamentable banality of the Afghan condition is in the fact that it's a terminally muslim condition. You can help that only so much, and that too is a thankless job.
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The lamentable banality of the Afghan condition is in the fact that it's a terminally muslim condition. You can help that only so much, and that too is a thankless job.-- Dron66046
I would argue that it is a case of tribalism. Take away the Baluchis (Baluchistan proto-state) and the Pashtun majority in the center and what do you have left? Answer: a lot of small factions that don't like being lorded over by either of the above. How can you *fix* that?
[TheGuardian] ... on Tuesday [20 August] Maduro confirmed contact with the US, which he painted as proof that he had been seeking ways "for president Donald Trump to truly listen to Venezuela and the truth of the 21st century Bolivarian revolution".
Earlier in the day Trump told reporters: "We're talking to various representatives of Venezuela. I don't want to say who, but we are talking at a very high level."
Geoff Ramsey, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, described reports there had been talks between Cabello [top Intel guy for Maduro] and Trump officials as "a very positive sign".
"It suggests an understanding at the top level of [Maduro's] government that this is unsustainable," he said of Venezuela's ongoing economic, political and humanitarian meltdown.
"I think what these people are looking for is some kind of guarantee [from the US] that they are not going to end up in a jail cell in Miami..."
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Gee, the Leftist pursuit of Pinochet sort of set the standard now didn't they. Guess there's always their fellow Marxist traveler in North Korea.
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OK, so fly his raggety ass out of V'land, then somewhere over the Carribean, the engine quits and since Super Pilot SUlly ain't driving the only option would to land, not at Miami, cuz too close to that Jail mentioned in the article, but GITMO. Once on the ground show them to their new digs. really close to all thr Castro homies as well.
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He won't cause any trouble if the Spanish give him a villa with a well-heated shitter. He and his cronies are just common bandits with zero interest in la revolucion or anything remotely to do with politics.
[WeAreSC.com] VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANT -- Well Done. The difference between legal and illegal. This is something everyone in America should read….It looks like we did some good after all!
On Saturday, July 24th, 2010 the town of Prescott Valley, AZ, hosted a Freedom Rally. Quang Nguyen was asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans. Thought you might enjoy hearing what he had to say:
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35 years ago, if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking to a couple thousand patriots, in English, I'd laugh at you. Man, every morning I wake up thanking God for putting me and my family in the greatest country on earth. I just want you all to know that the American dream does exist and I am living the American dream. I was asked to speak to you about my experience as a first generation Vietnamese-American, but I'd rather speak to you as an American.
If you hadn’t noticed, I am not white and I feel pretty comfortable with my people. I am a proud US citizen and here is my proof. It took me 8 years to get it, waiting in endless lines, but I got it, and I am very proud of it.
I still remember the images of the Tet offensive in 1968, I was six years old. Now you might want to question how a 6-year-old boy could remember anything. Trust me, those images can never be erased. I can't even imagine what it was like for young American soldiers, 10,000 miles away from home, fighting on my behalf.
35 years ago, I left South Vietnam for political asylum. The war had ended At the age of 13, I left with the understanding that I may or may not ever get to see my siblings or parents again. I was one of the first lucky 100,000 Vietnamese allowed to come to the US. Somehow, my family and I were reunited 5 months later, amazingly, in California. It was a miracle from God.
If you haven't heard lately that this is the greatest country on earth, I am telling you that right now. It was the freedom and the opportunities presented to me that put me here with all of you tonight. I also remember the barriers that I had to overcome every step of the way. My high school counselor told me that I cannot make it to college due to my poor communication skills. I proved him wrong. I finished college. You see, all you have to do is to give this little boy an opportunity and encourage him to take and run with it. Well, I took the opportunity and here I am.
This person standing tonight in front of you could not exist under a socialist/communist environment. By the way, if you think socialism is the way to go, I am sure many people here will chip in to get you a one-way ticket out of here. And if you didn't know, the only difference between socialism and communism is an AK-47 aimed at your head. That was my experience.
In 1982, I stood with a thousand new immigrants, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to the National Anthem for the first time as an American. To this day, I can't remember anything sweeter and more patriotic than that moment in my life.
Fast forwarding, somehow I finished high school, finished college, and like any other goofball 21 year old kid, I was having a great time with my life I had a nice job and a nice apartment in Southern California. In some way and somehow, I had forgotten how I got here and why I was here.
One day I was at a gas station, I saw a veteran pumping gas on the other side of the island. I don't know what made me do it, but I walked over and asked if he had served in Vietnam. He smiled and said yes. I shook and held his hand. This grown man's eyes began to well up. I walked away as fast as I could and at that very moment, I was emotionally rocked. This was a profound moment in my life. I knew something had to change in my life. It was time for me to learn how to be a good citizen. It was time for me to give back.
You see, America is not just a place on the map, it isn't just a physical location. It is an ideal, a concept. And if you are an American, you must understand the concept, you must accept this concept, and most importantly, you have to fight and defend this concept. This is about Freedom and not free stuff. And that is why I am standing up here
Brothers and sisters, to be a real American, the very least you must do is to learn English and understand it well. In my humble opinion, you cannot be a faithful patriotic citizen if you can't speak the language of the country you live in. Take this document of 46 pages - last I looked on the Internet, there wasn't a Vietnamese translation of the U.S. Constitution. It took me a long time to get to the point of being able to converse and until this day, I still struggle to come up with the right words. It's not easy, but if it's too easy, it's not worth doing
Before I knew this 46-page document, I learned of the 500,000 Americans who fought for this little boy. I learned of the 58,000 names inscribed on the black wall at the Vietnam Memorial. You are my heroes. You are my founders.
At this time, I would like to ask all the Vietnam veterans to please stand. I thank you for my life. I thank you for your sacrifices, and I thank you for giving me the freedom and liberty I have today. I now ask all veterans, firefighters, and police officers, to please stand On behalf of all first generation immigrants, I thank you for your services and may God bless you all.
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"God Bless America"
“One Flag, One Language, One Nation Under God” This young man gets it. He's the immigrants that make this nation, not the Gimmigrants. More like him! More from Quang Nguyen
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"On May 31, 1987, Hoang Nhu Tran, a former "boat person" of the humblest beginnings, graduated valedictorian of the U.S. Air Force Academy in a class of 960 students. He is also a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Medical School Graduate. Among the last to get out of Saigon in 1975, Hoang Nhu Tran spoke only two words in English when he came to America, yes and no. Determined and talented he excelled to become the embodiment of the American dream."
The true racist are on the Left. Excuses and recrimination are all they have for their failures. That's why they actively discriminate against those with cultural values that reward success not failure.
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In Texas, you sometimes see bumper stickers or fridge magnets that say "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could".
Same thing applies to America. Welcome!
[National Review] Brandishing a weapon without firing it is sometimes the appropriate response to a threat.
Yesterday the Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a highly public and very controversial case that gun owners across the United States should applaud. In short, it demonstrates and validates the value of armed self-defense even when you do not pull the trigger and ‐ crucially ‐ have no cause to pull the trigger. It justifies the brandishing of a gun as pre-emptive measure to block the use of unlawful force.
What do I mean? Hang with me for a moment, because this case is a bit complicated. At its heart is a dispute between Siwatu-Salama Ra, an African-American concealed-carry permit holder from Detroit, and a woman named Channel Harvey. Ra was put on trial for assault with a dangerous weapon and possessing a firearm while committing a felony after she brandished her unloaded pistol at Harvey during a heated confrontation outside Ra’s mother’s house.
The facts are hotly disputed, but Ra claimed that during the course of an argument, Harvey backed her car into into Ra’s vehicle ‐ while Ra’s two-year-old daughter was inside, playing. Ra claims she grabbed her daughter out of the car, then grabbed her unloaded gun, "pointed the gun at Harvey’s car" and then again demanded that Harvey leave. Harvey testified that Ra was the aggressor, and that she hit Ra’s car on accident only after Ra pointed the gun at her. The jury apparently believed Harvey’s version of events, and Ra received a two-year prison sentence.
The case was immediately controversial, with critics of the verdict claiming that the case represented "yet another instance of a black gun owner, with the permits to legally carry, defending themselves against violence ‐ and getting punished for it." The NRA tweeted in support of Ra:
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Pointing a gun at somebody who allegedly rammed into your car, while reversing is and should be an offense. Siwat-u-Salama was not under immediate threat, from the stupid driver.
And giving a Siwat-u-Salama a concealed permit was the real crime. This CAIR darling just gamed the system and came out on top.
What America needs is blatant unfairness, to nip the enemies of state and citizens in the bud. And that is what some courts and cops try for. But everybody's not on the same page. Some have got bright lights in their eyes and the blue bug of idealism in their ass.
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In the great state of Arizona our laws have changed. Brandishing, removing the weapon from the holster, is not a crime and you can walk around holding it out of the holster all day. When you point it at someone the laws change. Shows intent to use.
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I do believe if i was going too pull a gun, it would be loaded.
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Seems to me that if you escalate with an unloaded gun, your adversary is liable to escalate with a loaded gun. That could be embarrassing.
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Abu, I think you misspelled "fatal" as "embarrassing".
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Pretty sure if someone was using their vehicle to ram a vehicle with mine inside it would be Frank Hamer vs. Clyde.
Now, impact already made, child out of vehicle, so long as opponent isn't trying to pull a Christine the threat is over I'd think.
Her CC class should have covered brandishing even an unloaded firearm is bad bad bad. My instructor went on to note what Abu stated, could get really bad.
Sounds like Arizona has it right, casual carry whether a firearm, or hammer, or hands ok - show intent to harm and blop, better have a reason. Now some people are unarmed, and some people are empty-handed, that is your person habitually involved in a sport/activity requiring physical contact, your person trained in a martial art, your person with a history of assault are likely to cause grave harm with a punch or grapple, thus they act the fool they are not unarmed but empty-handed. I'd call any aggressive motion where a hand goes above the shorter person's chest is a potentially grievous strike/grapple.
[National Review] Universities in the U.S. have long been home to studies of other languages and cultures, but it’s becoming clear cultural exchange is not what the Chinese government had in mind by funding so-called "Confucius Institutes" on American campuses.
FBI director Christopher Wray recently testified that they exist "to encourage censorship, to restrict academic freedom, et cetera" as a platform for Chinese propaganda. There is a "fairly significant pattern of espionage" with their host colleges, Wray added.
Two bills have come up to combat Chinese influence at universities. Last year, Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act, aimed at identifying foreign threats to American education and revoking their access.
In June this year, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced the Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act, designed to increase financial disclosure requirements for foreign actors that fund activities on American campuses. It’s already receiving bipartisan support from Senators Diane Feinstein, Jeanne Shaheen, John Cornyn, Todd Young, and Marco Rubio.
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In June this year, Senator Chuck Grassley introduced the Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act, designed to increase financial disclosure requirements for foreign actors that fund activities on American campuses. It’s already receiving bipartisan support from Senators Diane Feinstein, Jeanne Shaheen, John Cornyn, Todd Young, and Marco Rubio.
Well, with these folks behind, you know it'll super effective.
[Babylon Bee] TEL AVIV‐Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were denied entry into Israel, but that wasn’t going to stop these two clever women from visiting the country they hate so much. So they hatched a plan, and it almost worked.
It was late in the day when a very wobbly, eight-foot-tall figure in a trench coat approached Tel Aviv's airport security checkpoint, the person’s face obscured behind sunglasses. "Hello. Am I a very tall Jew and I would like to come into Israel. Oy vey," said the person in a deep voice that sounded a bit off.
"Now we don’t have anything against tall people," explained IDF soldier Dan Edelstein, who was manning the checkpoint at the time, "but we tend to be cautious at our ports of entry -- you know, with everyone always trying to murder us -- so we thought we should check out this person a bit more closely."
Edelstein said they asked the person his name and where he was from, which led to sounds like whispering coming from inside the trenchcoat before getting the answer that his name was "Bob" and he was from "Israel City, Israel." Though there was nothing wrong with those answers, they decided to take "Bob" to a back room for more questioning. At that time, the trenchcoat got caught in a door and came off, revealing that underneath was Ilhan Omar sitting on Rashida Tlaib’s shoulders.
[PJ] It doesn’t matter what season it is, when I’m in bed and trying to sleep I tend to feel hot. Because of that, I almost always need the air conditioning on. And by having the air conditioning on, I mean I like the air in the room to be about 65 or 66 degrees‐at least in the summer, anyways.
Apparently, that’s a big no-no according to the federal government, which wants us to keep our houses feeling like the surface of the sun.
To keep your home cool with central air conditioning while also optimizing energy efficiency (and therefore cost), keep the temperature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The suggestion comes from Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency practices that not only save consumers money, but also improve air quality and protect the environment.
With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, finding ways to beat the heat without busting your budget might seem mystifying, which is why Energy Star provided consumers with a set of energy-saving recommendations on how to best manage central air conditioning in warmer spring and summer months.
It gets worse. According to Energy Star, while you’re not at home your thermostat should be set to 85 degrees or higher. Because who doesn’t enjoy coming in from the summer heat into a stuffy hothouse? What about people who sweat all summer? Apparently, 78 degrees during the day and 85 degrees at night are supposed to be some sort of relief from the outdoor heat.
Really?
As for overnight, they say you can turn the heat down a whopping three degrees and sleep in 82-degree heat. I guess sleeping in a pool of your own sweat is how Energy Star recommends you cool off.
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Again, like the 'scientific research' on sexist air conditioning alterations leading to warmer climes within offices, this a way to make people 'feel the heat'.
Nothing like a mass Pavlovian reinforcement experiment for the daily 'global warming' suggestion. It is well known that repeated suggestion alone may be enough to produce somatoform disorders.
Example: people tend to sweat and feel lethargic if you repeatedly expose them to visual stimuli like pictures and text with themes of heat and fire, even in a cool room.
Add physical discomfort at home and in the office, to the constant innuendo and coverage about a dying planet slowly cooking on capitalist fires and what do you have ? People readier to believe that maybe it is getting hotter than usual. Readier acceptance of 'Green' schemes and industry crippling legislation. And a lot of dissatisfied, sleepless folks. From the democrat deepState perspective... two birds !
"I fear the Greeks, especially when they bring a federal paper." - Cudgel (cousin of Vergil)
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I'm amazed we aren't bombarded with global warming caused this heat wave nonsense on a daily basis this summer. Or is that there and I've become adept at tuning it out now?
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Come live in Ga. where it has been 95 plus for 2 straight weeks then try too sell me that shit.
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All government offices should lead the way at work and home. Any deviation from this new warmist dogma shall be punished by public burning at the stake.
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Amazed the greens haven't been pushing for those geothermal holes with pipes that naturally cool the air using the Earth's own down-deep cooling.
Water in the pipes in the foundation gets really cold which is why you get cold water when you first turn on the shower. You don't have to go much deeper than your slab. If States (california for example) just made a policy/law saying that a loop of venting pipe should be laid through and beneath the foundation and routed around and back up to the furnace area it would have been a game changer in cooling homes at no power usage and at minimal cost to the builders.
But it is about control and not the environment and certainly not comfort.
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[Hot Air] Politico didn’t provide details in its story but it too has heard of recent chumminess between Scaramucci and Trump Jr: "As recently as two weeks ago, one person close to the White House said, Scaramucci was with Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and a few other people and talking about fundraisers he was planning to set up for the reelection campaign." If that’s accurate it makes the timeline even more suspicious. Two weeks ago was August 7; Scaramucci’s apparent final break with Trump came in the days immediately following that, when he criticized his goodwill visits to El Paso and Dayton as a "catastrophe." If you believe Politico, Mooch went from fundraiser mode to essentially off the Trump train in the span of 72 hours or so. "You want a friend in D.C., buy a dog."
~ Harry Truman
What the hell happened? Did he and Don Jr have a falling out? Did Scaramucci sincerely have some crisis of conscience that made him turn a dime? Because, superficially, he doesn’t strike me as a "crisis of conscience" kind of guy.
[American Thinker] Congressional Democrats, even their leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been bullied into silence by the radicals who have grabbed media attention and who appear to have the ability to mobilize their followers to defeat recalcitrant Dems in primaries, the way that Joe Crowley’s long House career was abruptly terminated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
So deep is the fear that virtually the entire presidential field has offered lip service to socialized medicine for all ‐ including anyone who can cross our southern border, while keeping that border wide open.
As serious policy, it is madness, as anyone who can think two chess moves ahead realizes.
Offering free health care to border violators can only attract the world’s sick people, and bankrupt our treasury. Politically, it would drive away voters. But none dare call it insanity for fear of retaliation.
Enter Harry Reid, the former Senate leader of the Democrats, who mysteriously retired from politics shortly after suffering serious bodily injuries ‐ broken bones around his eye and ribs -- that he claimed were the result of exercise equipment. Reid sued the maker of the exercise band that he claimed slipped from his grip and caused his injuries, but a Las Vegas jury rejected the claim of liability,
In a farewell video he explained that after having a time-out to recover from his injuries and undergo multiple surgeries, he realized that there were important things outside the life of politics. He also denied that losing the Senate majority and suffering his injuries had anything to do with his decision. (He didn’t bother denying the speculation that rather than exercise equipment, his injuries were a lesson delivered by goons, old-fashioned Nevada-style.)
[ToloNews] Two US service members were killed Wednesday, August 21, in Afghanistan, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ’s Resolute Support (RS) mission said without giving further details.
According to the US Department of Defense policy, the name of the service member killed in action is being withheld until 24 hours after notification of next of kin is complete.
The service members death brings to 10 the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year, compared to 12 in 2018.
On June 25, Army Master Sergeant Micheal B. Riley and Sgt. James G. Johnston were killed in Uruzgan Province by small arms fire while engaged in combat operations, the Pentagon said. That incident is under investigation.
At least 2,300 American soldiers have died and more than 20,400 have been maimed in the country since a US-led coalition ousted the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in 2001.
[DW] Sea-Watch 3 captain Pia Klemp has rejected Gay Paree' most prestigious civilian award, the Grand Vermeil Medal. She and compatriot Carola Rackete were offered the prize for their efforts in rescuing migrants colonists in the Mediterranean.
Referring to city mayor Anne Hidalgo, she wrote: "You want to award me a medal ... because our crews 'work to rescue migrants colonists from difficult conditions on a daily basis.' At the same time your police steal blankets from people you force to live on the streets while you suppress protests and criminalize people who defend the rights of migrants colonists and asylum seekers."
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"Don't want an award? How about an Interpol Red Notice, bitch?"
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and special operations in various provinces in the past 24 hours killing at least 22 krazed killers.
The military officials said Wednesday the Special Forces killed a Taliban ...Arabic for students... krazed killer during a patrol in Almar district of Faryab.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 5 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache in Nowzad district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The security forces also conducted an airstrike in Kajaki district of Helmand which killed 5 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache.
Furthermore, the Special Forces arrested 4 Talibs during an operation in sepra district of Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... The security officials also added that an airstrike killed a Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... krazed killer in Maidan Shahr district of Wardak and a separate airstrike in Achin district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. destroyed a weapons cache.
The security forces also conducted airstrikes in Sholgarah district of Balkh province which killed 10 Talibs.
[ToloNews] Night raids by special units of Afghan forces in the city of Kabul have faced doubts by military experts and residents of the capital who say the operations have not proved significant. "military experts" who deride night raids? Reeeeaaaallly? Talib-symps like Kaped Krusader Karzai?
Kabul has witnessed at least five-night raids during this month, some of which have ended after five to 10 hours of festivities between Afghan forces and suspects.
"They conducted an operation in Khak-e-Jabbar [in the south of Kabul] where they arrested three or four people and later it was clarified that they were innocent and were released. This is really disappointing," an MP, Tawfiq Wahdat, said.
"Night raids are helpful, but on condition that they are well-coordinated," said Abdul Wahab Wardak, a military affairs analyst.
A Kabul resident, Mohammad Azim, said that he supports these operations but he suggested that they require more caution.
"We are cooperating with the security forces so that peace and stability can prevail in the country," Mr. Azim said.
But, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement described the night raids as effective and said they are aimed at searching, clearance and haunting predetermined targets.
Some members of the NDS Special Operations Unit said they are fully committed to serving the country.
"I will always serve my country, wherever the enemy tries to show itself, we will eliminate them," a member of the NDS Special Unit said.
"We are prepared to do the job whether it is day or night," a member of the NDS Special Unit said.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed six bandidosforces of Evil of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province including two Pak nationals.
The informed military sources said Wednesday that an airstrike in Pacher wa Agam district killed six ISIS turbans.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... the Nangarhar governor’s Office said in a statement that the airstrike was conducted at around 10:40 am local time on Tuesday.
The statement further added that the airstrike also killed two Pak nationals who were fighting in ISIS ranks.
The governor’s office also added that the airstrike destroyed a hideout of the terror group, a Dshk heavy machine gun and an Ak-47 rifle.
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A substantial amount, amd we are grateful. But do German troops have enough bullets?
A cute little map of US bases in Germany can be seen at the link.
[DW] The German government has provided €243 million ($270 million) over the past seven years to support US troops based in the country.
The sum accounts for costs such as benefits for former workers and operating costs associated with maintaining buildings and other properties.
Another €480 million in financial support has gone toward contributing to NATO-related construction costs in Germany, "almost exclusively" on account of the United States.
The numbers were revealed in a parliamentary response from the Finance Ministry to the Left party that was seen by the dpa news agency.
Germany is the European country where most US troops are posted, with 35,000 soldiers deployed there along with 17,000 American civilians. Around 12,000 German civilians also work in jobs connected to the US military.
The United States has suggested it may withdraw some troops stationed in Germany amid differences between Berlin and Washington over NATO contributions. Poland has been mooted as a possible new location for some US troops.
Chancellor Angela Merkel last week downplayed Washington's threats but recognized more needed to be done to improve German military capabilities.
Bullets and spare parts so equipment can be repaired are shortages even I have heard about..
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All of which should have been closed when the Wall came down. Mission accomplished. Everything else is a very expensive and dangerous entangling foreign alliance.
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270 million doesn't sound like alot over 7 years too me.Especially since we are pretty much covering your ass as you let your own military go to shit.
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Pretty good return on investment considering the thousands of German nationals working on US bases, leases, landing fees, money spent by GI's on the economy. No telling what else.
Next time you want to get one over on a German, Austrian, or a Swiss, ring me up. I'd like to closely observe.
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When they had the draw down for desert storm the locals started sweating bullets because the locals were losing customers and they feared base closures.
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If a German complains about America, or American troops in Germany, simply say "а ты говоришь по русски?" (Do you speak Russian?)
Of course if I ever heard about a Frenchman or Englishman say anything bad about America, I would simply say "Sprichst du Deutch?" (Do you speak German?)
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The sum accounts for costs such as benefits for former workers and operating costs associated with maintaining buildings and other properties.
My BS detector is pinging.
Are the benefits for former workers simply government benefits that would be paid no matter where the workers were employed?
Are the building operating costs for maintaining leased buildings?
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Procopius2k, I have wondered what the relationship with Russia would have been like if we'd don't exactly that instead of expanding NATO right up to their border and inflaming the Russian paranoia.
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We're responsible for Russian paranoia? It's congenital and convenient as an excuse for them: "We're crazeeee don't you know?". My response is "we put down rabid dogs and fence in others. Choose your future habitat"
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Japan pays about $2 billion/year. South Korea pays $1 billion/year and the bases are rent free. Each take in more than that from operations cost and the salary spent by the GIs.
[KhaamaPress] The officials have reported a further rise in death toll from a deadly suicide attack inside a wedding hall in Kabul city.
The Ministry of Interior officials have said several people have succumbed to the injuries to sustained during the bombing on Saturday.
According to interior ministry officials, the death toll has now climbed to at least 80 people after several people succumbed to injuries in the hospitals.
The interior ministry had earlier reported that the bombing had killed 63 people and wounded more than 180 others.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing claiming that the attack killed or wounded at least 400 people.
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Business at the Kabul Family Court Registrar has picked up though.
"Fuck those night long, kaawah fueled fiascos ! And hugging seven hundred people !"
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed or maimed 14 Talibs during a clash in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement that the security forces clashed with Talibs in the 3rd district of Kunduz, apparently pointing to 3rd district of Kunduz city.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 7 Talibs during the clash and maimed 7 others.
Furthermore, the interior ministry said the security forces also confiscated a rocket launcher and an M-4 rifle following the clash.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces conducted separate operations in central Pashtun-infested Logar province killing or detaining at least 16 Talibs.
The informed military sources said Wednesday that the Special Forces killed 9 Talibs during a raid in Azrah district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
The sources further added that the Special Forces arrested 5 Talibs during a separate operation in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
Furthermore, the Special Forces destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation.
The Special Forces conducted a raid in Muhammad Agha district of Loar killing two Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters. The Special Forces also destroyed a small weapons cache.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and U.S. forces conducted separate Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Pashtun-infested Logar and Ghazni provinces killing at least 18 Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said Tuesday that the U.S. forces killed 6 Talibs by conducting airstrikes in Ghap area of Aab Band district and Gawmeshak area of Qarabagh district.
The statement further added that the U.S. forces also conducted airstrikes in Zarghoon Shahr of Mohammad Agha and Bidak area of Charkh districts of Pashtun-infested Logar.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the airstrikes killed at least 10 Talibs and desroyed a vehicle.
The Afghan Air Force also conducted an airstrike in Sari Qala area of Khogyani district in Ghazni killing two Talibs.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man tried to strangle an off-duty IDF soldier at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on Wednesday, the army said.
The soldier, who is a guard at the bridge, the main crossing point between the West Bank and Jordan for Paleostinians, was in civilian clothes when the man tried to strangle him with a cellphone charger cable.
He managed to fight off the attacker, who was then arrested by other forces who ran to help.
The army said there were no injuries and the Paleostinian man was taken for questioning.
There have been several attempted attacks at the crossing in the past.
35-year-old Hebron man is arrested after he is subdued by security guards at Israeli-operated Allenby Terminal; footage of the incident appears to show victim with his back to approaching attacker
[Ynet] A Paleostinian teen has been arrested on Wednesday after the security services at the gates of the Karnei Shomron settlement in the West Bank, discovered she was carrying a knife.
[Ynet] A Paleostinian man was arrested by IDF soldiers on Wednesday after he was seen throwing rocks and a knife at a military post Giti junction in the West Bank. The man was taken in for further questioning.
[IsraelTimes] An Iraqi government fact-finding committee set up to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near Baghdad earlier this month concludes the blast was the result of a dronezap.
The report, outlining the findings of the committee, says the August 12 explosion at the al-Saqr military base, which killed one civilian and maimed 28, wasn’t caused by faulty storage or an electricity circuit as had been suggested.
The report instead blames it on a dronezap that caused a huge fire. It didn’t say who the drone belonged to.
The blast was the latest in a series to hit bases for Iran-backed militia groups operating in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi ordered an urgent investigation.
According to intelligence reports, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has been providing Shi’ite militias in Iraq with guided ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel. The Islamic Theocratic Republic is also believed to be trying to build an alternative stronghold following Israel’s ongoing campaign against them in Syria.
Iran has been trying for a number of years to establish a 1,200 km. land bridge from Tehran to the Mediterranean. In May, satellite images taken by ImageSat International showed Iran has been building a new border crossing 2.6 km. west of the official al-Bukamal al-Qaim border crossing, which would expedite weapons transfers from Tehran to groups like Hezbollah.
While it could be that the Israeli jets were ordered to strike targets that posed an immediate threat to Israel, the Jewish state rarely strikes during the day. But it could be that Israel’s military under IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi’s command is not willing to wait.
If the thing were high enough, one can see how an observer on the ground could mistake an F-35 for a drone...
It could be assumed that Israel will now strike during the day to prevent Iran from transferring its missiles to Syria and hit them when they are still in Iraq.
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Anyone running for Congress or President should be required to resign their current office. Now we're stuck with this idiot here in Washington state.
[NYPOST] We already knew he was full of hot air ‐ but helium, too?
Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... ’s livestreamed appearance Wednesday at a campaign event in Iowa turned into an episode of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" thanks to an embarrassing audio snafu.
The screw-up distorted de Blasio’s voice as he appeared at the Iowa Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations’ conference on giant projector screens via a video link from Gracie Mansion.
"Organized labor in Iowa has been fighting a really, really difficult battle but you’ve been doing it in a way that shows so much passion, so much strength," the termed-out mayor tells the packed room, unwittingly in a high-pitched voice.
The 2020 Democratic longshot was supposed to be making his pitch in person, but a bout of bad weather canceled his Tuesday night flight to Iowa.
Members of the audience can be seen cracking up and glancing at audio technicians in the back of the room as Hizzoner ‐ unaware of the technical problems ‐ continues his usual drone about "working people first."
The bizarre incident left the event’s emcee, Charlie Wishman, scratching his head.
"OK, so that was a little bit different. [I] apologize to Mayor de Blasio," said Wishman, the chapter’s secretary-treasurer. "Our video conferencing was working this morning when [AFL-CIO President Richard] Trumka was on, so I’m not entirely sure what happened."
[Politico] n the days since convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell, there has been a growing public outcry asking why his longtime confidante and alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has not yet been charged. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi asked, "Why is she still walking around?" And after a photo (since discredited) emerged purporting to show Maxwell eating outside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant, one prominent legal analyst asked, "Why is the most wanted woman in America just walking around L.A.?" Frank Figliuzzi is a raving nutcase: MSNBC Contributor Frank Figliuzzi Discovers Hidden Nazi Message In White House Statement
Unfortunately, the answer is likely that law enforcement simply does not yet have sufficient evidence to ensure a conviction of Maxwell. If they had enough evidence, they would have charged her already. Getting that evidence will not be anywhere near as easy as some pundits might suggest.
The public outcry for prosecutors to quickly charge Maxwell is understandable. After all, several women, who say they were victims of Epstein, have alleged she procured underage girls for him, bragged about it, and called them "trash." One attorney for victims alleges that Maxwell was an "active participant in the sexual abuse." Maxwell has denied the allegations.
The indictment against Epstein charged him with a sex trafficking conspiracy. That charge allowed prosecutors to include all of Epstein’s abuse of minors in multiple jurisdictions‐in New York, Florida and elsewhere‐regardless of when the acts took place. To charge Maxwell with the same conspiracy, prosecutors would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she agreed with Epstein to engage in sex trafficking.
Given that Epstein is dead and that criminals rarely put agreements to commit crime in writing, proof of an agreement between the two would likely rely on circumstantial evidence. But Maxwell would also be criminally responsible for Epstein’s conspiracy if she "aided and abetted" the conspiracy. That would require prosecutors to prove that she knew about the criminal conspiracy and helped to make it succeed.
Nonetheless, prosecutors would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Maxwell knew that force, threats of force, fraud or coercion would be used to cause victims to engage in a commercial sex act. The bottom line is that prosecutors would need to prove that Maxwell knew Epstein abused the girls and that he used force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion to do so.
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Difficult indeed if she's been granted immunity from prosecution by the government. No mention made of that possibility in the Politico piece. Shocking no ?
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What if the girls willingly offered their services for remuneration, lifestyle, etc. ? That must be the underlying rationale in the pedantic lawyerly minds right now. That would mean Maxwell and Epstein were just a clearing house for underage whores like a modelling agency ?
With all the 'metoo' circus recently seen, the 'victims' now may just be making things up. This is not my view, I mean any prosecutor or judge shall anticipate this argument. It's what was made in the UK grooming and trafficking case, that the girls were simply willing to go along for promise of gain.
The key to this case is the evidence, the videos and pictures themselves.
"The public has a right to see those videos !" - Unknown Voyeur
This is why I liked Ed Snowden's popular services. Zero transparency cannot hurt a ZFG honest govt.
For those wishing to see her arrested, she eventually will be, though not on charges you'd want to see. She will most likely face a minimal term and some curbs for some other infraction. The estate won't ever go to the victims, it shall somehow be appropriated by the remnant of his enterprise, a bit payout handed out to victims.
The girls 'processed' into prostitution must number in the hundreds, for this level of traffick. They have no way of claiming any damages now, until those videos are released to their lawyers for use of litigation.
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With the possible exception of the UK's Prince Andrew, notice how little we're now hearing about the visitors to Epstein's island getaway. No longer even a 'ping' on ME and Soodie visitors.
Maxwell indicted? Very doubtful. Disappeared and never to be seen or heard from again? More likely.
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Could it be that what someone has knowledge of and...may say in the future has the potential to be much more dangerous than what they may have done in the past.
....documents declassified in 2006 show that the capture of Eichmann caused alarm at the CIA and West German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Both organisations had known for at least two years that Eichmann was hiding in Argentina, but they did not act because it did not serve their interests in the Cold War to do so. Both were concerned about what Eichmann might say in his testimony about West German national security advisor Hans Globke, who had coauthored several antisemitic Nazi laws, including the Nuremberg Laws. The documents also revealed that both agencies had used some of Eichmann's former Nazi colleagues to spy on European Communist countries. Link
Both Osama bin Laden and Eichmann were buried at sea.
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#2 What if the girls willingly offered their services for remuneration, lifestyle, etc. ?
The underage girls and thus are considered victims of crimes. I thought these crimes were considered "new" crimes based on new evidence presented to the U.S. Southern District of New York. I dunno, but it doesn't stand to reason that any immunity from the first Florida trial would apply to a different jurisdiction for new crimes.
[Washington Examiner] A federal watchdog agency has joined a group of whistleblowers in alleging Customs and Border Protection failed to collect DNA from detained migrants to be checked against the FBI’s database for violent crimes.
Fox News reported the whistleblowers claim the pilot program to collect DNA was put on hold during President Barack Obama’s administration, and efforts to institute it under President Trump’s administration were derailed.
"U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and illegal aliens in this country are and have been harmed due to our agency not collecting DNA," Mike Taylor, one of the government whistleblowers, said.
"There is no current pilot program. It’s basically dead in the water," another whistleblower, Fred Wynn, noted.
The whistleblowers filed a complaint in 2018 with the Office of Special Counsel, a different entity from Robert Mueller’s former office. The OSC issued a statement of support for the whistleblowers Monday.
"OSC fully supports these whistleblowers. While OSC does not typically comment on open investigations, we do want to point out that in this case, the Special Counsel determined there was a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing by CBP for its failure to collect DNA from undocumented detainees and arrestees," spokesman Zachary Kurz said in a statement.
Kurz said that special counsel Henry Kerner met with former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders and current Deputy Commissioner Bob Perez to urge them to revisit the decision not to collect the DNA.
Records from the whistleblowers indicate that the program stalled under the Obama administration when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano received a waiver from Attorney General Eric Holder that noted "severe organizational, resource and financial challenges."
The Customs and Border Protection pilot program was designed to take samples that would be run against the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was asked about the program in April 2018 while testifying before Congress.
"We’re working on the pilot right now," Nielsen said. "We’re in the planning stages and doing it in batches. Some of it is processing. We want to make sure we have the chain of custody." Jose Ines Garcia Zarate deported how many times ?
Despite that statement, the whistleblowers claim there was a Homeland Security conference call that continued to place the program on hold. At the time of Nielsen’s testimony, now-acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan was the head of Customs and Border Protection.
A DHS official confirmed in a Monday statement to the news organization that the program remains on pause.
"In response to further inquiries specific to the DNA collection for CODIS; CBP in coordination with DHS has explored and evaluated the DNA program in relation to the DNA collection for inclusion into CODIS. Upon review, it’s been determined that the exceptions noted in the 2010 waiver remain unchanged. There are currently no plans to change this waiver but DHS is moving forward on a DNA testing pilot to verify familial relationships," the official said.
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In retrospect, perhaps Bill championed 'Kate's Law' a bit too aggressively.
Chasing after an endless stream of criminal aliens, catch-and-release, flooded court systems, etc, exacerbates the mission of the Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies.
A tactical diversion, perhaps that was actually the goal.
[DAWN] A Kashmiri fighter and a police officer were killed in a gunbattle in occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Indian police said on Wednesday, as tensions simmered in the besieged territory.
The clash in north Kashmir's Baramulla district was the first to be reported by Indian authorities since New Delhi revoked occupied Kashmir's special status on August 5 and imposed a massive security lockdown on the restive region.
A tweet from Kashmir police said that the dead Kashmiri fighter was identified as a local man "affiliated" with Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... .
[Ynet] Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency said on Wednesday the tanker Adrian Darya tanker, which was released after being detained in Gibraltar, is currently leased to the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.
The United States has issued a warrant to seize the tanker on the grounds that it had links to the Revolutionary Guards C (IRGC), which it designates as a terrorist organization.
"It is worth noting that the Grace 1 vessel, renamed Adrian Darya after the seizure, is a Korean-made oil tanker owned by Russia which is currently leased to the Revolutionary Guards," ILNA said, without citing a source.
Astute of him to notice, but then astute is kind of his brand thingy.
[KUER.ORG] Seven years after running for president as the GOP standard bearer, U.S. Sen. Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a senator from Utah, a member of the Never Trump Party... on Monday described himself as a "renegade Republican" and said that he is "not part of the Republican establishment these days." "Courageous, I'm like the pasty Spartacus"
In a wide-ranging speech at the Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank in Salt Lake City, Utah’s junior senator argued against "socialist" proposals being discussed on the Democratic presidential debate stage such as "Medicare for All" and free college tuition. He also lamented that "neither party is interested in talking about the debt and the deficit."
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Odd that he was governor of Massachusetts, then he bought a big, fancy place in La Jolla (wealthy community in San Diego) and now he's the junior senator from Utah. I understand about the Mormon connection but still, I didn't think the people of Utah would cotton to carpet baggers.
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Especially when this particular carpet bagger is a sniveling weasel.
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Squishy Mitt Romney is a RINO as is Paul Ryan. These NeverTrumpers may have moved from RINO to full blown Dem.
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I would like to think that the Republican establishment has changed that much. Romney hasn't. But the truth is that he is very much still one of them, and they are very much still around.
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Speaking of Obama, did anyone think it interesting that the first film he produced for Netflix was about a Chinese company owning and running a US factory in the US?
Granted I haven't seen the thing, just heard synopsis but I thought it was interesting.
[ALMASDARNEWS] China has warned of "terrorist organizations" including remnants of ISIS* rising again in Syria if the international community ignores the "early warning" signs.
Xie Xiaoyan, Beijing’s envoy in Syrian, said: "There is now a danger of terrorist organizations like ISIS (ISIS) being revived. The international community should pay attention."
He was meeting in Geneva with the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen.After the so-called Arab Spring, rebels challenged the government of President Assad in 2011 and three years later ISIS, an murderous Moslem Sunni Moslem militia, overran a huge chunk of eastern Syria and northern Iraq and proclaimed a "caliphate."
Eventually ISIS was forced to retreat and in March this year it relinquished its last stronghold, Baghouz, to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF).
The focus has now turned to Idlib, which since January has been administered by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... alliance, led by jihadists from Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate.The UN has warned President Assad and his Russian allies an assault on Idlib could trigger a humanitarian catastrophe.
Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters who fled the region around Raqqa last year are believed to have infiltrated Idlib and are preparing for a last stand against the Syrian Army.
Mr Xie said the situation in Idlib was "very complicated".
He said: "We all know that this is the last stronghold of some of the terrorist organizations... so this is an issue that needs to be dealt with. The fight against terrorism is not finished yet."
[NYPOST] A man in Florida was reportedly attacked by a kinkajou ‐ a furry mammal that’s native to South and Central America.
The ferocious animal ‐ a relative of the raccoon ‐ attacked Mike Litersky, 37, outside of his girlfriend Gillian Hicks’ second-floor Lake Worth Beach apartment last month, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Litersky and Hicks had noticed the creature the night before the attack and fed it watermelon.
About 5:30 a.m. the next morning when Litersky stepped outside, the kinkajou chomped on his ankle and slashed his calf.
"It was not a nice kinkajou, it was super aggressive," Hicks told the paper.
"It made a beeline for the door. It guess it just hung out there all night long."
An injured Litersky chased the animal with a frying pan into the bathroom, where it remained until authorities arrived.
"We could hear the toilet bowl lid open and shut," Hicks said. "It was so crazy."
A Florida Fish and Wildlife front man told the paper that kinkajous have sharp teeth and are known to be aggressive.
The animal was taken to a Florida Fish and Wildlife facility where it was monitored for signs of rabies, the paper said. It’s unclear if the results were positive.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Litersky had his wounds treated at a nearby urgent-care center.
"I don’t think I will ever give an unknown animal fruit again in my life," Hicks joked.
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Oh... thought it was one o' them Pokémon thingies..
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If only they were kinkapaleos — then it would be a legitimate protest against those awful juicy colonizers imposed on an innocent world by the hateful, Christianist West.
[TimCast] Facebook Audit Proves Bias Against Conservatives, Company Makes Changes. After several years of complains from conservatives about a biases from the platform Facebook has officially announced changes to assuage the concerns from right wing groups and conservatives.
One change seems inconsequential but will allow certain conservatives groups to finally advertise on Facebook. In the end though Facebook is reluctant to admit the bias exists or existed and many in media seem to as well.
But based on the fact that several staff have confirmed the bias, facebook initiated an external audit, and then agreed to make several changes to their staff and policies after complaints we can see there was a bias. Whether it was intentional or not is another issue.
The audit however did upset many on the left and far left who for some reason refuse to believe all the evidence that has existed for the past three years. Strangely the story itself was broken by Gizmodo.
In the story I also discuss the work of Dr. Robert Epstein as he was recently smeared by Hillary Clinton in her row with Donald Trump over google's pro left wing biases.
Not all are Muslim colonists — there are plenty from Eastern Europe, too, as well as Westerners who came for a job or to study, then stayed on.
[Ynet] A quarter of all people living in Germany have a migrant background - the highest figure yet recorded in the country of 83 million.
The German Statistical Office said Wednesday that 25.5% of the population, or about 20.8 million people, have migrant roots according to the latest figures from 2018. That's an increase of 2.5% compared with 2017.
The agency defines a person as having a "migrant background" if they or at least one parent held a foreign passport at birth.
While refugees catch the headlines, most migrants come from other parts of Europe. Only 15% of 20.8 million people with an immigrant background came as asylum-seekers.
In 2018, 52% of those with a migration background were German citizens while 48% had a foreign passport. Of the 10.9 million with German citizenship, about half received it at birth.
The top reasons for immigration were for family (48%), employment (19%) and education (5%). The vast majority of those who came for family or employment reasons were from European countries.
Only 15% of migrants, half of whom are from the Middle East, came as refugees seeking asylum.
[BREITBART] Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) went toe to toe with the Detroit Police Department on Twitter Tuesday over the use of facial recognition technology, calling it “bulls**t.”
“@detroitpolice You should probably rethink this whole facial recognition bulls**t,” Tlaib tweeted Tuesday, linking to a Vice article detailing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) exhaustive criminal justice reform plan, with an emphasis on his call to “ban the use of end facial recognition software for policing”:
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Why is one of our nation's legislators using potty language and citing a gonzo-punk teenybopper tabloid as a reliable source for a national policy debate?
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If Detroit PD have any spine left, they should ask for a public apology now. Cite conduct unbecoming of a rep, and undue interference in law enforcement.
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There is no expectation of visual privacy when out in public. That's a long established legal principle. In many places it's against the law to wear a mask or bandanna when entering a bank or convenience store. Laws vary widely across the land on who can record whom where and when with or without consent of both parties.
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So tired of hearing about this bitch.
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So tired of hearing about this bitch.
The funny thing is - I think she's been the quietest of the AOC / Omar / Tlaib bunch until a few weeks ago and she's been batshit bonkers ever since. She's making up for lost time.
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Facial recognition technology (developed by the Big Tech companies) and the widespread filming of everything that happens in public by police departments is not a good thing. That being said, Tlaib is also a horrible person, and is making an issue out of this because she hates the police, not because she believes in personal privacy.
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But why, Vernal ? That is not surveillance as I see it. It's just a daily record of what happened where, and makes investigations independent of easily compromised witnesses. Technology makes it feasible and the state uses it.
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The interesting issue is no expectation of privacy in public with the expectation that absent cause, every moment of your public life is permanently recorded. Literally every public act can be recalled and examined, demanding a blameless life, not just a legal one. Who can withstand that level of scrutiny and not feel less than free?
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Carry a cellphone and you already have lost that privacy... If there are hidden apps that allow a third party to turn on the microphone (an/or camera) you have also "bugged" yourself.
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Lex, the problem becomes "How long do they keep that data?". Suppose someday in the future liberals make it illegal to go to a Republican rally. I know, I know. The Constitution forbids ex post facto laws. And guarantees freedom of peaceful assembly. But the Constitution is a "living document". So suddenly, police start combing the old tapes from the security cameras and looking for anyone who went to a Republican rally, and then rounding them up.
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What if a Panty-Fa thug crashed that rally and left a backpack with a bomb, killing dozens?
Wouldn't you want video footage and a rich database of facial images so as to accurately identify the perp and connect him to other thugs and break up the next planned mass killing?
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Don't hinder bad laws by hindering law enforcement.
Use our well-designed and very effective political mechanisms - judicial review, elections - to solve your political problem.
[DAWN] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Saudi-backed government said on Wednesday it would not hold talks with southern separatists unless they hand back control of Aden port, after the separatist chief arrived in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to discuss the standoff between the two sides.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that its forces arrested an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city.
"Acting on intelligence information, a Nineveh police force arrested an Islamic State member, who was working as a photographer at the terrorist group’s media network," Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry front man, told the privately-owned IKH News website.
"The arrestee confessed that he was responsible for photographing terrorist acts carried out by IS bandidosforces of Evil in Mosul city and publishing them on the group’s media platforms," the front man said.
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[THEHILL] The anti-American crusaders’ woeful ignorance of the past goes beyond thinking that Abraham Lincoln owned slaves; that ignorance extends to the present world as well. They have a brittle intolerance of human frailty and of the messiness and complexity of social change. America’s founders made compromises with their own ideals that today we may regard as egregious and unacceptable. But humans are never perfect; history is a record of moral failures as well as triumphs. We learn as much from the former as from the latter; erasing history is simply a power play and an act of sullen revenge.
The greatest barriers to racial equality today are not statues and patriotic holidays; they are family breakdown and a street culture that regards academic effort and achievement as “acting white.” The time spent spray-painting statuary could be far better spent in the library acquiring knowledge and mastering skills.
The saddest part of the current rage against the American past is that after the monuments have been removed, the paintings effaced and the nationalistic words banished, nothing will have changed in the status of the self-proclaimed intersectional victims. The academic achievement gap will be intact. The greatest barriers to racial equality today are not statues and patriotic holidays; they are family breakdown and a street culture that regards academic effort and achievement as “acting white.” The time spent spray-painting statuary could be far better spent in the library acquiring knowledge and mastering skills.
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[NYPOST] A Best Buy deliveryman allegedly doused a woman with a liquid chemical and beat her to death after installing her washer and dryer in Florida, cops said.
Jorge Luis Depre Lachazo, 21, arrived at the Boca Raton home with his co-worker to install the appliances on Monday and was eventually left alone with Evelyn Udell to explain how to use the devices, according to the Boca Raton Police Department.
The co-worker suddenly heard screams and ran inside to discover the 75-year-old Udell lying on the floor covered in blood.
Lachazo then hopped into the delivery van and fled, cops said.
Udell was rushed to Delray Medical Center, where she died Tuesday.
When he was apprehended, Lachazo admitted that he struck the woman and set her on fire. "she said she was cold"
The man also told police he had used cocaine and marijuana earlier in the day.
The suspect was charged with murder, arson and armed burglary.
"For more than 20 years, millions of Americans have trusted us to come into their homes and, on days like this, I am fully aware of how precious that trust is and how vital it is that we do everything in our power to earn it. Today, we redouble our efforts to do just that.”
[SANA.SY] Two children were maimed in a landmine blast left behind by ISIS (ISIS) gunnies in al-Swaiaa village in Bokmal area in Deir Ezzor Eastern countryside.
Head of al-Assad Hospital in Deir Ezzor M’amoun Hiza told SANA news hound that two children , aged ten and eleven years old, were maimed by shrapnel as a landmine from terrorists’ remnants went off in a farmland in al-Swaiaa village east of Bokmal city.
The two injured received the necessary treatment, Hiza said.
[DAWN] High drama unfolded in New Delhi late Wednesday as officers from India's equivalent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation scaled the walls of a former finance minister's home to arrest him on corruption charges, local media reported.
Earlier in the day, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had alerted airports to prevent Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister from 2004-2008 and again from 2012-2014, from leaving the country.
Chidambaram, 73, earlier this week failed to secure bail and had not been seen since Tuesday, until he showed up at the headquarters of the opposition Congress party on Wednesday to proclaim his innocence.
At a news conference, he called his accusers "pathological liars".
Driving then to his home in the upscale Jor Bagh neighbourhood, he was tailed by around 30 CBI officers who knocked at the doors before scaling the boundary walls, the Press Trust of India reported.
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While in fiercely liberal societies, jailing a Clinton or a Biden would be impossible, in our banana republic disguised as a democracy it's essentially realpolitik. A party comes to power, first thing it does is put away the ones leaving office for graft and criminality (it's always there).
It's a surprise the authorities took so long to get this giant of the opposition forces. All in all, not a bad guy this one, even his infraction is a passable laundering of just $ 47 million loose change compared to other scams his party has pulled or so.
The investigative agencies, courts, media - all work for the central gummint now. They can raise the dead to testify if they want, and people will have to believe it. Absolute power. One feature of that is, you have to ensure no one takes it from you. This one way of ensuring that.
I'm not complaining though.
Imagine if Trump could arbitrarily jail his detractors. What fun conservative officers and senators would have then, bringing him names of 'partisans' every day. Some sycophant agency heads would even take their own initiative, bring in DNC bigwigs bound and gagged for breaking speed limits ! What's happening is something like that.
[DAWN] The parents of social media star Qandeel Baloch ‐ who was murdered allegedly by her brothers ‐ on Wednesday submitted an affidavit in a Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... court, saying they have forgiven the killers and the case against their sons should be thrown out. Maybe the parents should be considered accessories
Baloch's brother Waseem had strangled her to death in the name of "honour" at their house in 2016. He later confessed to have killed her because she allegedly "brought dishonour to the Baloch name" with her risque videos and statements posted on social media. Her brother Aslam Shaheen was also nominated in the case.
In the affidavit, submitted in a model court in Multan, Baloch's parents stated that they have forgiven her alleged murderers and asked the court to acquit them.
The affidavit said that the Anti-Honour Killing Laws (Criminal Amendment Bill) 2015 ‐ which prevents killers from walking free after being pardoned by the victim's family ‐ was passed months after Baloch was murdered and, therefore, cannot be applied to her case.
The legislation mandates life imprisonment for honour killings, but whether a murder can be defined as a crime of honour is left to the judge's discretion.
The affidavit also said that the allegations that Baloch was killed for "honour" were "contrary to facts" and asked the court to acquit the suspects under Section 345 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The court, in response, summoned the lawyers representing the prosecution in the murder case as well as the counsel for Baloch's parents.
The slain social media star's parents had once before also requested the court to wrap up the murder case, saying they had forgiven both their sons, but their appeal was dismissed with the judge citing the anti-honour killing law.
After the law was passed in October 2016, Baloch's parents had initially vowed not to forgive the alleged murderers.
"There is no pardon from our side," Baloch’s father Mohammad Azeem had told AFP and called for his son and the three co-accused to be punished "at the earliest".
"They should get life imprisonment or death ‐ I will feel happy," he had said at the time.
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The case was basically a message from the courts to lower courts. Make so much trouble for the fucking family, that the next such family quietly buries their murdered daughter and forgets about litigation or even a complaint.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump signed a memorandum effectively canceling federal student debt loans for America’s wounded warriors on Wednesday.
"Veterans who have made such enormous sacrifices for our country should not be asked to pay any more, rather it is America who owes our heroes a supreme debt of gratitude," he said.
The president spoke to the AMVETS Convention in Kentucky on Wednesday, announcing his decision and signing the document.
Trump said the memorandum would effectively cancel the federal student debts of thousands of wounded American veterans.
According to the White House, the memorandum orders Secretaries of Education and Veterans Affairs to expedite totally and permanently that disabled veterans have their Federal student loan debt discharged with minimal burdens.
Trump also touted his administration’s accomplishments for America’s military veterans.
"After years of neglect, we are fixing the heartbreaking failures from the last Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs," he said. "America must never abandon our heroes in their hour of need."
He said that wait times in Veterans Affairs hospitals had been slashed by 33 percent, and touted more VA accountability, allowing bad employees to get fired.
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Listen to the howling and rending of garments from the SJW "Studies" majors who didn't get theirs...
:-)
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Nice idea, but in the name of fairness they'll have to do something for those without loans.
And we don't want to encourage rash actions to get the benefits...
Perhaps we should just pay combat duty military folks a lot more and call it a wash.
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I think this only applies to those who have permanent disability.
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While I think "Nice", there is a but there too.
It does provide a precedent to forgiving all student loans and that makes me a bit wonky on it.
I would like to see some sort of accountability for the collages that pushed worthless degrees and ran up the tab as much as they could without any risk to them.
Borrowing 100k for a gender studies degree isn't exactly the smartest thing in the world and there has to be some sort of consequence for it. Both for the student, parents, schools and administrators that allowed that bullshit.
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I'm not sure if this is really a good idea. Being a vet I'm glad someone is looking out for our disabled. But I'm afraid this will open the student loan tax payer buyout flood gates. If we are going to work some program giving more funding to disabled vet, and I'm OK with it. We should do it through the VA/GI bill programs keeping it in a process and under the radar of all the rats that will use it a lever to get their special interest groups funding.
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from some reading it seems there is less here than meets the eye
people who are totally and permanently disabled are exempt from paying back federal student debt under current law if they have limited financial resources
the application process for this is however a lot of work (multiple doctor statements, accounting statements and many other things. The heavy documentation load is to prevent fraud.
Trump's exec order is supposed to reduce the application burden for vets who are totally and permanently disabled relying on VA records for much of the documentation requirement.
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If you are permanently disabled, you can already discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. So this is a feel good moment, not a real change in policy. Still love the optics.
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you don't need to go thru bankruptcy and it doesn't help you on the Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) issue except that by getting your documentation for bankruptcy, you have it together for the TPD documentation.
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[AAWSAT] The United States will take every action it can to prevent an Iranian tanker sailing in the Mediterranean from delivering oil to Syria in contravention of US sanctions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday.
Greece said earlier in the day that it had not had a request from the Adrian Darya 1, the vessel at the centre of a dispute between Tehran and the Washington, to dock at one of its ports, as US warned Greece against helping the vessel.
The tanker, formerly called Grace 1, left Gibraltar on Sunday, Rooters reported. Changed its name and gender
Ship-tracking data on Tuesday showed the vessel was heading toward the Greek port of Kalamata on the southern coast of the Peloponnese and was scheduled to arrive next Monday.
"We have made clear that anyone who touches it, anyone who supports it, anyone who allows a ship to dock is at risk of receiving sanctions from the United States," Pompeo told news hounds at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... "If that ship again heads to Syria, we will take every action we can consistent with those sanctions to prevent that."
He said that if the tanker's oil was sold, the revenue would be used by elite units of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
[AAWSAT] Disagreement over Hezbollah's weapons reemerged after remarks by Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on changing the "defense strategy standards" related to the party, an issue he had promised to tackle after the parliamentary elections and the approval of the 2019 budget.
The Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... (FPM) said that the call to discuss the strategy was still on the table but it was only a matter of timing.
Aoun answered a question on the call to renew a national dialogue on a defense strategy, saying that the defense strategy standards have changed. He wondered what the strategy would be based on, now that even the regional balances of power have changed.
"The military developments in the region neighboring Leb over the past years require a new approach for the issue of the defense strategy that would take into consideration these developments, especially after world powers and terrorist groups intervened in the wars that several countries that neighbor Leb witnessed, which created changes in the goals and strategies," the Presidency said, explaining Aoun’s remarks.
"The President is committed to the stances he had announced over the issue of the defense strategy and the need to discuss it in a consensual atmosphere," it added in a statement.
The Future parliamentary bloc saw that this topic should be permanent on the national dialogue agenda.
Reliable sources affirmed to Asharq al-Awsat that the call to discuss the defense strategy is still on the table but it was delayed by various developments in Leb.
FPM MP Alain Aoun noted that the president's remarks on the defense strategy mainly stem from the emergence of ISIS in the region, the conflict in Syria and Russia's role as a key regional player.
Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... front man Charles Jabbour stressed hoped Aoun would amend his statements.
Political expert and Hezbollah specialist Qassem Qassir told Asharq al-Awsat that the president did not mean the calling off of discussions on the defense strategy, but it is required to take into consideration the changes in the region.
[Jpost] IDF fighter jets attacked a number of terrorist targets along the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip early Thursday morning according to the IDF spokesperson.
Two different rockets were launched within hours of each other - one late Wednesday night and one early Thursday morning. Both times the rockets landed in open areas and no injuries were reported.
The first round of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s focused on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, naval targets, while the second round of attacks were carried out throughout the northern Gaza strip.
The IDF tweeted, "In response to the rocket fired from #Gaza to #Israel, we just struck a number of military targets in a Hamas naval facility in the northern Gaza Strip."
This was the sixth rocket fired from Gaza in the last seven days according to the IDF twitter account.
The IDF report states the troops will continue to stop attempts to harm Israeli civilians and considers Hamas to be the responsible party for what is happening in and around the Gaza Strip.
[Jpost] The death of a prominent political and social activist who fled from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to Bosnia and Herzegovina has shocked many people in the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-ruled coastal enclave.
Tamer Fathi al-Sultan, 38, was a staunch critic of Hamas. Sources in Gaza said he was affiliated with Fatah. His friends said he was one of tens of thousands of Paleostinians who emigrated from the Gaza Strip in recent years to escape Hamas "oppression."
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believed to have died of cancer five days after he was admitted to a hospital in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a source in Gaza said. Another source, however, claimed that the man may have drowned while trying to enter Europe, or perhaps was bitten by a scorpion.
Or raped to death by Carnies? Pretty wildly divergent guesses causes
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I thought all of Gaza's problems were due to the Juices.
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[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish media reports say police have used water cannons to disperse crowds protesting a government decision to oust three elected mayors in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's mainly Kurdish-populated southeast and replace them with government appointees.
The private DHA news agency said at least 30 people were detained in the city of Diyarbakir Wednesday, on the third day of protests over the mayors' dismissal.
The government removed the mayors of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Van from office over alleged links to turbans of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, citing ongoing investigations or trials against them.
The mayors, members of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, or HDP, were elected into office in local elections in March.
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli analyst Ron Ben Yishai cites Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese reports in recent weeks that say a newly expanded border terminal on the Iraqi-Syrian border at al-Bukamal will enable Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to increase its weapons shipments to Hezbollah and allied forces in Syria and Leb.
The work at al-Bukamal, long controlled by anti-Assad rebels, is being carried out with Iran’s help, Ben Yishai reports (Hebrew link).
The new land corridor expands Iraq’s unwanted new role as a major hub for Iranian military interventions throughout the region ‐ and is likely a key reason that unknown forces, possibly Israel, have targeted weapons warehouses and other installation of pro-Iranian militias on Iraqi soil in recent months.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has no direct land border with Syria or its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, and has relied on secret cargo flights and other undercover methods to ship precise missiles and other armaments meant to be used in a future war against Israel.
[AAWSAT] News has been confirmed on Israel’s bombing of Iranian weapons and missile warehouses in Iraq three times over the past few weeks thanks to a US-Russian understanding.
The understanding stipulates that "Israel’s security is a priority as well as pursuing Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in Iraq and Syria," according to Western diplomatic sources.
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[DAWN] Iran's president sent a bill to parliament Wednesday that would cut four zeroes from the value of the Islamic Theocratic Republic's sanctions-battered currency, the rial, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington.
By sending the bill to politicians, President Hassan Rouhani's government shows it is serious about an idea mulled for some time in Iran, where people discuss monetary transactions in both rials and informally but more commonly in tomans. A toman is worth 10 rials.
If passed by parliament and approved by politicians, Iran's Central Bank would in effect devalue the rial and rename it as toman.
The bank would have two years to create the new toman currency, returning a currency name that has not been officially used since the 1930s.
Authorities have given no estimate for the cost of creating the new currency.
Also, it was unlikely the parliament would take up Rouhani's request anytime soon. The request carried a low-urgency level, meaning parliament has up to two years, or until 2021, to deliberate and possibly approve the bill.
[AAWSAT] After a 12-hour meeting and under increasing popular pressures, leaders of the Forces of the Freedom and Change (FFC) agreed on the six candidates list at the sovereignty council. The council would run the country during the transitional phase of three years and three months.
Muhammad Hassan Taayashi, residing in the UK and candidate of Sudanese Professionals Association, returned to the candidates’ list at the council after he was dismissed earlier – his dismissal sparked a debate over social media.
He was joined by Prof. Siddique Taur, Legal Expert Hassan Mohammed Sheikh Idris, Journalist Mohamed Elfaki Soliman, Dr. Aisha Musa al-Saeed and Legal Counsel Rajaa Nicolas Issa Abdul Masih.
Muhammad Hassan Taayashi
Born in 1973 in Rihed Al Birdi, Darfur, he received his high-school education at Buram then at the University of Khartoum. He joined students of National Umma Party and appeared as an experienced politician. Taayashi left the party in 2009 and moved to the UK, directing his work to the civil sector especially conflicts and wars resolution.
Rajaa Nicolas Issa Abdul Masih
The Transitional Military Council and the FFC agreed on Rajaa Nicolas Issa Abdul Masih as the 11th figure at the council. She is a Christian born in Omdurman, where she received her primary education.
Rajaa received a bachelor in law from Cairo University in 1980, and was appointed at the Ministry of Justice then promoted to become a legal counsel at the ministry.
Dr. Aisha Musa al-Saeed
Born in El-Obeid, north of Kurdufan, Aisha received Education Certificate from Teacher Training Institute in Omdurman and a Masters from the University of Manchester, a higher diploma from Leeds University and Training Teachers to Teach Languages Certificate from the US.
Journalist Mohamed Elfaki Soliman
He politically belongs to the Unionist Alliance, one of the main factions that participated in the popular movement. Elfaki is the youngest at the council, born in 1979. He studied political sciences at the University of Khartoum.
Legal Expert Hassan Mohammed Sheikh Idris
He is from Kassala, east of Sudan, and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Khartoum in 1972. Then he got involved in state institutions.
Prof. Siddique Taur
He was chosen by the FFC as a member at the sovereign council, and is known for belonging to the Arab Socialist Baath Party.
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[NYPOST] Five people were fatally shot in a 24-hour period throughout Brooklyn and Queens ‐ and the button men in each case are still on the lam, police said Wednesday.
The bloodshed began early Tuesday, when 18-year-old Angel Nixon was fatally shot in the head, torso and legs around 12:30 a.m., when a fight broke out near the corner of 176th Street and 145th Avenue in Springfield Gardens, police said.
Later in the evening, Queens cops found Gregory Haskins, 25, lying on the pavement with a gunshot wound to the chest on Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica, according to police sources. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, but could not be saved.
Around 9 p.m., cops in Brooklyn responded to a 911 call about a dispute near Sutter Avenue and Union Street in Brownsville and discovered 28-year-old Arsenio Gravesande on the pavement.
[UK.REUTERS] A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, the second such incident in recent months.
A Houthi military spokesman had earlier said that air defences had brought down a U.S. drone.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the drone was shot down late on Tuesday.
This is not the first time a U.S. drone has been shot down in Yemen. In June, the U.S. military said that Houthi rebels had shot down a U.S. government-operated drone with assistance from Iran.
U.S. forces have occasionally launched drone and air strikes against Yemen’s al Qaeda branch, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The group has taken advantage of a four-year-old war between the Houthi movement and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s Saudi-backed government to try to strengthen its position in the impoverished country.
[EN.ALWASAT.LY] Heavy festivities have been reported and confirmed in the al-Sabiah area south of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , between the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the forces of the General Command (LNA).
The front man for the GNA's 'Volcano of Anger' operation, Mustafa al-Maji, tells Alwasats: " Our forces are making significant progress are working to control the area," explaining that the forces took control of vital facilities such as the local hospital and the Institute of Aviation in downtown. "Volcano of Anger, formerly known as Pustule of Pestilence"
He stressed that his forces are advancing cautiously because there are residential neighborhoods in the region.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... the Media Center for the Karama Operations Room of the LNA, said on its Facebook page that the General Command forces repelled an attack by GNA forces attempting "to advance towards al-Sabiah and causing them losses in equipment and personnel."
Clashes erupted between the LNA and GNA on the fourth of April, south of Tripoli, and resulted in the deaths of 1048, with 5558 maimed.
[IsraelTimes] Family says Ramy Shaath detained for his criticism of Cairo’s ties with Israel, denies charges against him.
The family of prominent Paleostinian politician Nabil Shaath accused Egyptian authorities on Wednesday of arresting Shaath’s son Ramy last month.
He has been charged with allegedly aiding a terrorist group, but the family says Ramy was targeted because he criticized the Egyptian government’s ties with Israel and the US as part of his role in the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
"Ramy was arrested on Friday July 5th at 12:45 AM, from his home in Cairo," the family said in a statement on Facebook.
"At least a dozen heavily armed security agents stormed and searched his residence without presenting any legal document," they added.
The son of a senior Paleostinian politician and Oslo grinding of the peace processor negotiator, Ramy also entered politics and served as an adviser to Paleostinian Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat. The 48-year-old has lived since 1977 in Egypt, where he has had citizenship.
His arrest came 10 days after authorities raided 19 businesses allegedly tied to the banned Moslem Brüderbund, accusing them of funding a plot to overthrow the state. Among those also arrested were several prominent secular activists including former politician Zyad el-Elaimy.
After disappearing for 36 hours, Shaath appeared before prosecutors and was charged with aiding a "terrorist group" connected to the same plot, the family said.
"His arrest is a disaster," said his wife Celine Lebrun-Shaath, a French national, who was deported from Cairo shortly after his arrest. "GTFO"
Speaking to AFP from Gay Paree, where she is working for his release, she said negotiations with Egyptian authorities had not yielded any results, prompting the family to publicize his case.
Shaath has been detained in Tora prison, one of Egypt’s most notorious jails, for around six weeks. His family said they have been able to visit him regularly but are concerned about his health, as he suffers from halitosis high cholesterol.
Shaath is Egypt coordinator of BDS movement against Israel. He has been critical of Egypt’s participation in Washington’s not-yet released Israeli-Paleostinian peace plan. Most recently, he criticized Cairo for sending a mid-level official to a June conference in Bahrain where US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s son-in-law Jared Kushner launched the initiative.
His wife Celine said she felt "powerless... not knowing when I will see him again".
"We want [Egypt] to release Ramy. He has not done anything that he is accused of," she said. "He is being arrested for his peaceful activities."
[DAWN] The Sindh High Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... of two political activists to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... leader Zahra Shahid.
An antiterrorism court had sentenced Mohammad Rashid, alias Master, and Zahid Abbas, alias Zaidi, the workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , to death in August last year for killing the 70-year-old PTI leader inside her home in Defence Housing Authority on the eve of re-polling on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s National Assembly constituency NA-250 in 2013.
Both the convicts through their lawyers challenged the death penalty before the high court and after hearing arguments from both sides and examining the evidence, a two-judge bench of the SHC headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha converted the death sentence of both convicts into life term.
[AAWSAT] If Iran's oil exports are cut to zero, international waterways will not have the same security as before, its "moderate™" president said on Wednesday, cautioning Washington against upping pressure on Tehran in an angry confrontation between the longtime foes. "Give us what we want or we'll do something vicious and stupid."
The comment by President Hassan Rouhani coincided with a remark by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Tehran might act "unpredictably" in response to "unpredictable" US policies under President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "World powers know that in the case that oil is completely sanctioned and Iran's oil exports are brought down to zero, international waterways can't have the same security as before," Rouhani said while meeting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to Khamenei's official website.
"So unilateral pressure against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... can't be to their advantage and won't guarantee their security in the region and the world."
Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since Trump's administration last year quit an international deal to curb Iran´s nuclear ambitions and began to ratchet up sanctions. Iranian officials have denounced the new penalties as "economic warfare".
[NATIONALREVIEW] It was a cold Friday night in January when Sherrie Laurie, director of the Hope Center ‐ a Christian homeless shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska ‐ was called down to the floor to deal with a disruptive "man in a nightgown" who was "very inebriated, with a big gash down his face." Laurie recognized the man, whom she had seen in men’s clothing before, she tells me by phone. Though the individual professes a female gender identity, he was over six feet tall and "very large." And Laurie was in no doubt about his sex.
Laurie explained that it wouldn’t be possible for him to stay the night ‐ he was intoxicated and in clear need of medical attention. She called him a cab to the hospital and paid the fare herself. The individual left on good terms. When he showed up the next day, Laurie explained that check-in wasn’t until 5:45 p.m. (On Saturdays during the day, the Hope Center is staffed by volunteers and therefore is only open only to those who have checked in the night before and have undergone breathalyzers and bag checks.) Again, he left without an issue.
Though the Hope Center serves both men and women during daytime hours, its overnight facilities are reserved for females only. And, then, only women who are sober and who have been determined to be non-threatening. This is owing to the vulnerability of the women the Hope Center serves. They have often come out of "extremely abusive situations," including sex trafficking and domestic violence. Laurie recalls one time assisting a woman who had been "held captive" and whose captors had "set her backpack on fire and she was burned." She explains that the Hope Center staff (at night, all female) are often "first responders." Laurie says that it is "absolutely critical" that this particular service remain single-sex. The women sleep in the same room and may be in various stages of undress. "Somebody may be raped and then come right to our door," she says.
Laurie later learned that, before being turned away from the Hope Center, the male individual was in a fight at another shelter. Surely she made the right call. But not in the eyes of the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (AERC), an administrative agency within the municipality of Anchorage.
A week after the incident, the AERC notified Laurie that they were investigating a complaint against the Hope Center on behalf of the individual she sent to the hospital, Jessica Doe. Doe alleged that the Hope Center’s shelter was a public accommodation and had discriminated against Doe on the basis of sex and gender identity. The Hope Center disputes both claims ‐ the shelter is a non-profit, not a public accommodation, and, besides, it did not discriminate against Doe on the basis of gender identity. Indeed, had Doe been a female identifying as a man, there would have been no issue (provided he was also sober and non-aggressive).
"At first I didn’t even think of legal stuff," Laurie says. "I thought, Oh my, all I have to do is explain this. Because it was so clear." But the AERC would not back down. In fact, when Laurie’s legal counsel spoke to local media about the Hope Center’s policies, the AERC filed a second discrimination complaint, alleging that these comments, too, were discriminatory. This deterred the Hope Center from making further public comments about the case and, as a result, allowed their reputation to be tarnished in the public eye.
[DAWN] Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said, as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pressed an offensive against the jihadist-run Idlib region.
Turkey warned Damascus “not to play with fire” after the advance saw government fighters almost encircle a patch of countryside including an important Turkish monitoring post.
After eight years of civil war, the Idlib region on the border with Turkey is the last major stronghold of opposition to Assad’s Russia-backed government.
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[Breitbart] Even before The New York Times launched its "All Slavery, All the Time" project, no one could accuse that paper of skimping on its race coverage, particularly stories about black males killed by white(ish) police officers.
Here’s one you haven’t heard about. I happened upon it by sheer accident.
Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old boy shot by an East Pittsburgh police officer in June 2018 after he bolted from a jitney car that had been stopped by the officer. The Times published about a half-dozen stories on Antwon Rose ‐ or as the Times calls him, "Antwon, who was unarmed."
After the officer was acquitted on all charges in March of this year, the Times ran an article by Adeel Hassan on the verdict.
Here’s what you would learn from the Times:
‐ Antwon was unarmed.
‐ Antwon "was in his high school’s honors program."
‐ Antwon "played basketball and the saxophone."
‐ Antwon "volunteered for a local charity."
‐ In 2016, Antwon wrote a poem titled, "I Am Not What You Think!" which included these lines:
I see mothers bury their sons
I want my Mom to never feel that pain.
‐ A policeman stopped the gold Chevy Cruze Antwon "was riding in" because it "matched the description" of a car "involved" in a drive-by shooting minutes earlier.
‐ The jury consisted of nine whites and three African Americans.
If you read the Times piece, all you would know is that an honor student who loved his mom... was KILLED for the crime of riding in a car similar to one that had just been used in a crime.
Wow. Just wow.
Here are some of the facts the Times left out:
‐ The gold Chevy Cruze Antwon fled did not merely "match the description of" a car used in a drive-by shooting: It was the car used in the drive-by shooting, as proved by surveillance video posted online days after the shooting and shown to the jury.
‐ The video shows 13 shots being fired from the back seat of that exact car, with ‐ according to the prosecutor ‐ Antwon riding in the front seat.
‐ The backseat passenger, Zaijuan Hester, later pleaded guilty to the drive-by shooting.
‐ One of the victims of the drive-by shooting told police it was Antwon who shot him. "The beef was between me and him," William Ross told a Pennsylvania State Police officer. "That car came by, he shot me, I ran to the store."
‐ The jitney driver told police that, right before the shooting started, he heard the backseat passenger ask, "Is that him?"
‐ The gun used in the drive-by was recovered in the back seat of the car.
‐ A stolen gun was found under Antwon’s seat, an empty magazine in Antwon’s pants pocket, and there was gunpowder residue on Antwon’s hands.
‐ The car stopped by the officer was riddled with bullet holes.
‐ The jury that unanimously acquitted the officer was led by an African-American foreman, who stoutly defended the verdict.
None of that made it into the Times story on the trial’s conclusion. (more at link)
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The "Journolists" at the Slimes should be made to live among their favored downtrodden. Without livery service
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Run the Dissenter browser and comment on the NYT URL in order to help people discover the extent of their narrative more important than truth "reporting".
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Thanks for the Dissenter thingy, BP. There are some really evolved bodies on there. I managed to install the original 2.64 plugin by Gab on Tor Browser. I have to refresh the page on posting to see it reflected but it works,
[EN.ALWASAT.LY] Eighty-three migrants colonists rescued at sea by the Open Arms disembarked early Wednesday from the charity rescue vessel in Italia's Lampedusa island, television images showed, after Italian justice ordered they be brought ashore.
The boat had spent six days anchored off Lampedusa before a local prosecutor ordered their disembarkment amid a probe of far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for forbidding their entry to port.
Many of them had spent 19 days on board the ship after being picked up while in difficulty trying to make the perilous journey from Libya to Europe
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[InMil] WASHINGTON: If war in space erupts, the new US Space Command will have the power to order the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to take "defensive space operations" under a new joint concept of operations. The new chain of command represents a tectonic plate shift in US national security space, which has long been plagued by often testy relationships between the Intelligence Community and DoD.
"For the first time, there will be a unified structure that fully integrates Intelligence Community and Department of Defense space defense plans, authorities and capabilities to ensure seamless execution of space defense systems," Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire told the National Space Council today.
"Furthermore, should conflict extend to space, the NRO will take direction from the Commander of US Space Command and execute defensive space operations based on a jointly developed playbook and informed by a series of exercises and war games," he added.
Maguire admitted that establishing coordination and cooperation between the NRO ‐ which builds and operates US spy satellites ‐ and US military space operations (even in wartime) has been an almost impossible task. As Breaking D readers know, for two years the former NRO Director, Betty Sapp, resisted efforts by the two top civilians in the Defense Department to create what in 2017 became the National Space Defense Center (NSDC) under Strategic Command. And NSDC’s powers to integrate NRO and military space activities was limited.
Pretty pathetic if your well-armed army with paramilitary auxiliaries can’t win a single battle against the exhausted Syrian army that is barely defeating semi-trained jihadis, even with Russian aid and guidance.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has completely cutoff the gunnies from all supply lines in southern Idlib and northern Hama, a source from the military told al-Masdar this evening.
According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army forces at the Khan Sheikhoun front has met up with the troops near the town of al-Ta’manah; thus, completing the encirclement of this region in northwestern Syria.
In addition to besieging the murderous Moslems, the Syrian Arab Army has also cutoff the Ottoman Turkish military at the Morek observation post from all of its supply roads.
The Ottoman Turkish military will have to coordinate with their Russian allies because they are allowed access to the Hama-Idlib Highway, per the September 17th, 2018 Sochi Agreement.
At this time, the Syrian Arab Army is still clearing Khan Sheikhoun after entering the city from all axes.
Furthermore, the Syrian military’s 5th Corps and Elite Republican Guard are advancing through the al-Ta’manah area in a bid to secure the town and the remaining points under murderous Moslem control.
As a result of this week’s gains, the Syrian Arab Army has scored a major victory against the jihadist rebels, who previously vowed to defend this region until the last man.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces launched a large-scale attack inside the Asir region of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... this week, targeting a number of sites under the control of the Saudi-led Coalition.
According to the offical media wing of the Ansarallah forces, their troops stormed the Majazah al-Sharqiyah area, where they later captured a number of points from the Saudi-led Coalition.
[Aljazeera] A South African court has partially banned flying the country's apartheid-era national flag, saying such display amounted to "hate speech" and "harassment".
Wednesday's landmark ruling in South Africa's Equality Court in Johannesburg barred the so-called "apartheid flag" - comprised of three stripes of orange, white and blue with the emblems of Britain, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic at its centre - from being displayed except for academic, artistic or journalistic purposes.
THE PROPAGANDA FILMS OF APARTHEID-ERA SOUTH AFRICA
During the ruling, Judge Phineas Mojapelo said any gratuitous display of the old flag was "racist and discriminatory".
"It demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful, to be harmful and incite harm and it, in fact, promotes and propagates hatred against black people ... it constitutes hate speech," Mojapelo said.
Offenders will not face arrest. However, they will be subject to community service and fines for displaying the flag, which had sometimes been exhibited by far right-wing and conservative groups at political gatherings and at rugby matches.
Supporters of the ban, who have rallied around the #morethanaflag hashtag on social media, likened the ruling to Germany banning the swastika, while opponents said the decision was an infringement on free speech.
The ruling followed a petition to the court by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Trust after the flag was displayed in October 2017 during a protest by white South Africans against the killing of farmers. The foundation, which is the custodian of former president and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela's archives and legacy, argued that flying the flag showed nostalgia for the old days.
Delville Wood South African National Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Delville Wood, near the commune of Longueval, in the Somme department of France. It is opposite the Delville Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, on the other side of the Longueval–Ginchy road.
"Their ideal is our legacy.
Their Sacrifice our Inspiration."
The Afrikaans-equivalent inscription reads: Vir ons is hul ideaal 'n erfenis, hul offer 'n besieling. Above these inscriptions, on the very top part of the archway, is carved the French phrase "AUX MORTS", signifying that this is a monument to the dead.
[NYP] A South African safari lodge owner known as "The Lion Man" was mauled to death by the big cats on his game reserve.
Leon van Biljon, 70, was killed by his own captive lions Tuesday at Mahala View Lion Lodge in Cullinan as he attempted to fix a broken fence, the Times of the UK reported.
The three lions that attacked the lodge owner were reportedly shot dead so medics could attempt to save him.
"The neighbors from the nearby lodges responded and tried to help the victim but unfortunately the victim succumbed to injuries. The animals have been put down," Cullinan Police spokeswoman Connie Moganedi told CNN.
His death was confirmed by the Mahala View Lodge in a Facebook post.
"Great loss for everyone," the lodge said. "R.I.P. Uncle Leon." Ja, rus in vrede oom Leon.
Don’t be ridiculous. Allah had the djinns carry them over — he doesn’t like what Iran’s sock puppets have been doing... In fact, never mind about Israeli drones and djinns: the Father of Lies just metaphorically waved his metaphoric hand, twitched his metaphoric nose, and Hashd munitions started exploding “spontaneously”. Insh’allah, dudes. Suck it up and stop dissing your god.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The commander of Hashd al-Sha’abi (var. Popular Mobilization Units), Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, accused the U.S. of moving Israeli drones to Azerbaijan to target Iraq and Iran.
"Trump is considering various ways to violate Iraq’s illusory sovereignty and target Hashd al-Sha’abi," the Hashd al-Sha’abi commander said.
"We have accurate and confirmed information that this year, the Americans introduced four Israeli drones via Azerbaijan to operate within the U.S. fleet to carry out sorties that target the Iraqi military headquarters," Mohandis continued.
"We also have other information, maps and recordings of all types of American aircraft when they took off, when they landed and the number of hours they flew," the Hashd al-Sha’abi commander stated, adding "In Iraq, I recently surveyed our headquarters instead of following ISIS, and collected information and data concerning the brigades of the Coalition and the warehouses of their equipment and weapons, and we presented this to the brothers in joint operations and air defense."
Mohandis, who has long been a commander in the paramilitary group, is sanctioned by the U.S. and considered a key ally of Iran.
This claim by the Hashd al-Sha’abi commander comes just a month after Israel allegedly targeted the Iraqi paramilitary’s base in the Salaheddine Governorate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[ANI] US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it is "not fair" that India, which is geographically "much closer" to Afghanistan than the United States, is not fighting terrorist groups in the war-ravaged nation.
[WeAreSC.com] VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANT -- Well Done. The difference between legal and illegal. This is something everyone in America should read….It looks like we did some good after all!
[National Review] Universities in the U.S. have long been home to studies of other languages and cultures, but it’s becoming clear cultural exchange is not what the Chinese government had in mind by funding so-called "Confucius Institutes" on American campuses.
[Babylon Bee] TEL AVIV‐Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were denied entry into Israel, but that wasn’t going to stop these two clever women from visiting the country they hate so much. So they hatched a plan, and it almost worked.
[PJ] It doesn’t matter what season it is, when I’m in bed and trying to sleep I tend to feel hot. Because of that, I almost always need the air conditioning on. And by having the air conditioning on, I mean I like the air in the room to be about 65 or 66 degrees‐at least in the summer, anyways.
[American Thinker] Congressional Democrats, even their leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been bullied into silence by the radicals who have grabbed media attention and who appear to have the ability to mobilize their followers to defeat recalcitrant Dems in primaries, the way that Joe Crowley’s long House career was abruptly terminated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 
[ToloNews] Two US service members were killed Wednesday, August 21, in Afghanistan, 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[DW] Sea-Watch 3 captain Pia Klemp has rejected 
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted a series of 
[ToloNews] Night raids by special units of Afghan forces in the city of Kabul have faced doubts by military experts and residents of the capital who say the operations have not proved significant.
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[KhaamaPress] The officials have reported a further rise in death toll from a deadly suicide attack inside a wedding hall in Kabul city.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
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[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian man tried to strangle an off-duty IDF soldier at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on Wednesday, the army said.
[IsraelTimes] An Iraqi government fact-finding committee set up to investigate a massive munitions depot explosion near Baghdad earlier this month concludes the blast was the result of a 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
[Politico] n the days since convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell, there has been a growing public outcry asking why his longtime confidante and alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has not yet been charged. Former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi asked, "Why is she still walking around?" And after a photo (since discredited) emerged purporting to show Maxwell eating outside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant, one prominent legal analyst asked, "Why is the most wanted woman in America just walking around L.A.?"
[Washington Examiner] A federal watchdog agency has joined a group of whistleblowers in alleging Customs and Border Protection failed to collect DNA from detained migrants to be checked against the FBI’s database for violent crimes.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[NYPOST] A man in Florida was reportedly attacked by a kinkajou ‐ a furry mammal that’s native to South and Central America.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
[Jpost] IDF fighter jets attacked a number of terrorist targets along the 
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...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[NYPOST] Five people were fatally shot in a 24-hour period throughout Brooklyn and Queens ‐ and the 
[UK.REUTERS] A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, the second such incident in recent months.
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[NATIONALREVIEW] It was a cold Friday night in January when Sherrie Laurie, director of the Hope Center ‐ a Christian homeless shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska ‐ was called down to the floor to deal with a disruptive "man in a nightgown" who was "very inebriated, with a big gash down his face." Laurie recognized the man, whom she had seen in men’s clothing before, she tells me by phone. Though the individual professes a female gender identity, he was over six feet tall and "very large." And Laurie was in no doubt about his sex.
[Breitbart] Even before The New York Times launched its "All Slavery, All the Time" project, no one could accuse that paper of skimping on its race coverage, particularly stories about black males killed by white(ish) police officers.
[NYP] A South African safari lodge owner known as "The Lion Man" was mauled to death by the big cats on his game reserve.
