How are those universal background checks working out for ya?
[DailyMail] A gunman opened fire in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night following an argument and wounded five people, one man critically, not far from protests over the surprise victory of Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.
The shooting did not appear to be related to the anti-Trump demonstrations but instead stemmed from 'some type of personal argument', Robert Merner, assistant chief of the Seattle Police Department, told reporters.
'It appears that some type of argument took place. This individual began to walk away from the crowd, then turned and fired into the crowd,' Merner said.
He said the suspect then fled from the area on foot and remained at large. More at the link
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Ignore, if you please, criminality,
Though biblical, in the locality
Of recent upwellings
Of rage at police killings,
Or unexplained infant mortality.
h/t Instapundit
As someone who had, just 24 hours earlier, asserted that Latino voters would turn out in droves for Hillary Clinton and help save the republic from Donald Trump, I spent Election Night with huevos rancheros on my face.
I was wrong. Actually, I was right but I was wrong.
...Latinos did throw most of their support to Clinton--about 71 percent, according to CNN.
...Given the bad blood between Trump and Latinos, one of the biggest surprises on Election Night was that so many Latinos ended up voting for their tormentor. According to CNN’s exit polls, about 27 percent of Latinos voted for Trump. Exit polls from The New York Times put the figure at 29 percent.
...To understand the concept of "Latinos for Trump," the first thing you have to do is to accept that Latino voters aren’t monolithic, one-dimensional, or single-issue oriented. Like the Boston Irish of the 20th century, some of us may define ourselves first by our ethnicity while others just see ourselves as Americans. Don't know about you, but I'm shocked.
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because too many Latinos see themselves as future members of the middle class instead of victims/dependents/communist vanguard. Also because they figured out there'd be no middle class to join if the progressives win.
Al
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Completely anecdotal, but based on living in Houston:
When Jesus the guy running the leaf blower first arrives, he wants free stuff which means the Democrats.
When he has been here a little longer and has become Jesus the guy running his own landscaping business, he has some skin in the game and pays taxes. Now he leans towards the Republicans.
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In my part of the country are a lot of Spanish families who were here before the United States existed. They don't identify with illegal 'Hispanics' the DNC and Obama have been importing. They resent taxes being diverted to cover the dumping.
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Can't help but ponder how fast the Clintons will go through the money they have. They always use other peoples money, without that how fast do they go broke living their lifestyle?
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One thing they won't do is give refunds.
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Can't help but ponder how fast the Clintons will go through the money they have.
A 48-year-old man has been placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on suspicion of terrorism offences.
The man has been detained at a cop shoppe in the West Midlands while a search is carried out by officers at a home in Wrexham.
A joint statement was released by the Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit, North Wales Police and West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.
In it, authorities confirmed that the arrest was 'pre-planned and intelligence-led', with no threat to public safety.
It read: 'An address in Wrexham is subject of an ongoing search.
'The man was arrested under terrorism legislation, meaning officers have an initial 48 hours to question the suspect before charging, releasing or applying for a warrant of further detention.'
Officers have 48 hours to question the man before charging or releasing him or applying for a warrant of further detention.
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Aw, don't worry about it snowflakes. Just show up at their doorstep. They'll take you in, no questions.
Just for practice, give it a shot at, say, a Central American country of your choice. Drop in at a hospital with no papers - claim you are a Citizen of the World (TM) - they'll understand.
It could be anybody - a bigshot partner from a Big Six firm, one of Trump's guys, some career hack, but we're all certain John Koskinen's days remaining are in the low double digits.
I've been kicking this thought around for about a week, and I finally acted on it last night - why not me?
I drafted a letter to Trump last night asking to be the next IRS commissioner. I'm well aware that this is a longshot and I doubt it will be taken seriously. That does not mean the letter will be written in that fashion. I will simply lay out my qualifications and stress the one thing I know he's looking for - I am willing and more than able to fight. My primary goal with this letter is to have the letter reader read to the end of the letter. If that happens, we'll take it from there.
Opinions on this quixotic quest, good, bad or otherwise, are welcome.
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The next IRS commissioner should be someone well acquainted with reducing staff and size of an organization. Grab up Gil Amelio who slashed Apple to the bone and kept them alive long enough for Jobs to pull of his sparkly miracles.
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The IRS commissioner is appointed by the Prez to a 5-yr term. Koskinen took over Dec. 2013, so his term has a couple years to go. Of course, since was appointed, he can be asked to resign. Door knob, meet ass.
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If he refuses to resign, start the actual contempt of court process and press charges for lying to Congress. Lock Smeagol up
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Raj, as is pointed out up–thread the commissioner should have management experience. I don't know if you have that. If yes, then commissioner! :-D. If no, then I think you would be a brilliant inspector general of the IRS, charged to root out all forms of misbehavior.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets several major urban centers in America Wednesday night to protest the results of the presidential election.
Chants of "Not My President" echoed off skyscrapers in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington DC – all cities easily carried by Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.
CNN cameras caught one protester named Lily in Los Angeles who proclaimed:
"If we don't fight, who is going to fight for us? People had to die for your freedom where we're at today. We can't just do rallies, we have to fight back. There will be casualties on both sides. There will be, because people have to die to make a change in this world. Trump, enough with your racism. Stop splitting families. Don't split my family."
These kind of vitriolic and violent protests in the streets over the result of a presidential election are rather unprecedented in America, but given the over-the-top rhetoric drummed up y Hillary Clinton and her allies over the past several months, it's somewhat understandable, isn't it?
Think about it for a minute. The Clinton campaign had an assembly of this country's elites from every possible institution lined up on her side. We have been inundated with out political elites, financial elites, academic elites, entertainment elites and media elites telling us that Donald Trump is basically Hitler. And millions of people believed them.
If you woke up Wednesday morning and you learned that a "basket of deplorables" just elected a racist, fascist dictator to lead your country, you'd probably be pretty upset about it.
For all of the commentary over the past several months about the Trump campaign's "violent, dangerous and un-American" rhetoric, there was barely any thought given to the dangerous outcome related to the Democrats' dire warnings about a Trump victory.
Yet another failure of the mainstream media during this historic campaign season.
Predictions I made after the primaries were, "If Hillary wins, we'll have civil war. If Trump wins, we will have massive domestic disturbances and violence."
The left and the MSM have created these brownshirts and have shown that laws are not to be followed. These folks WILL strike out in their little 3yo rages and unfortunately, innocent people will be hurt and killed.
Just one warning to these snowflakes. Just remember the rest of the US is sick of your shit. We have the guns, we have the combat vets and we have the organization. Don't fuck with us. A heated debate is welcome. Violence will be met with violence. And you will lose.
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Dont get too excited. The grant money /scholarship /parental patience dries up, most of these special snowflakes will have to leave school and get a life. Sic transit gloria mundi.
If there is reform of the student loan programs, this will be sped up considerably.
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Adults In Name Only - what a bunch of soft, crybaby sore losers. Like Procopius2k said yesterday, to them it's only 'consent of the governed' if they get their way. Our side had to deal wit it twice in recent years; now it's your turn (to grow the fuck up).
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Many of the protestors are college students. Universities are no longer about higher education, they are now socialist indoctrination centers that turn kids into socialist brown shirts.
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rj, Democrats also use that trick. See Joe "Whiz kid" Biden.
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RJschwarz: I think you're right, I've seen some fear-mongering about how Pence supports "Reprogramming" LGBQT to "Fix them". Don't really know validity of claims, never heard them before the election. But I already know somebody took his words out of context.
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I keep reading how LGB community is afraid and I think "Gay Billionaire gave a speach at the convention to introduce Trump, what are they talking about". Of course I ignored the VP and that is the only thing that makes sense, that at simple paranoia of the big bad conservatives.
[Front Page] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the "unaccompanied minors" flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
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No, you bought time. The Empire will strike back. They don't comprehend the price in lives and blood they will force everyone to pay. Like any addict, they're only in it for the high, aka power.
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No, you bought time. The Empire will strike back. They don't comprehend the price in lives and blood they will force everyone to pay. Like any addict, they're only in it for the high, aka power.
Posted by Procopius2k
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We dodged a bullet in this revolution.
Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-10 08:07 I don't think we dodged a bullet...I think we gained fire superiority and imposed our will for our future. Now that we have the high ground we have to maintain the offensive and stampede them. We have the executive branch, the legislative, and maybe we will run the libs outta the Supreme Court.
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We bought time with Reagan and as soon as he was out of office they struck back. We've just bought some more with Trump but of course they will strike back again after he's gone. They always do.
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#9 Tennessee, it's the Federal bureaucracy what runs the country. Posted by g(r)omgoru Yes sir, the liberal version. I hope Trump eliminates the Federal Agencies and Bureaucracies that have no authority under our Constitution - any function/power not specifically granted to the Feds within that document should be returned to the States. Stampeding = decentralization.
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Good luck, and I'm not being facetious, Tennessee. I'm just not very optimistic. I mean, short of bringing back the spoils system (h/t Jerry Pournelle), what can you do?
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#12 Good luck, and I'm not being facetious, Tennessee. I'm just not very optimistic. I mean, short of bringing back the spoils system (h/t Jerry Pournelle), what can you do? Posted by g(r)omgoru We propose a reverse of the "patronage" system. We are hoping that this businessman will come in and have the guts to eliminate what he can on the Executive side and lead Congress to defund and eliminate others (our Department of Education is a good example). Trump's patronage should be to "the people" not a person or group. We know better at the state and local side what we need...not big government.
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Grom - like you said earlier - a businessman brave enough to come in and declare bankruptcy on a few of these Agencies...admit that we go it wrong - eliminate their drain on the debt and return these functions to the states.
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Since you can't fire public employees we should create a new department of Antarctica study and transfer folks there. If they don't like it they can quit.
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NOTE: December 19 the electoral college meets to formally cast the votes representative of the election. The DNC is now working overtime to get the reps to change their votes and MSM is pushing it as well.
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I like this. Expand the Dept of the Interior, but only in climate studies, posts only servable in the Antarctic (it is warming, right? Then the problem will solve itself.)
Move 95% of the EPA, Dept of Ed, Dept of Ag, HS, HUD, etc, to this new sub-department.
And wait.
Make sure all the burrowers who skipped the required reviews participate.
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Incidentally, apparently a disproportionate number of federal employees are overdue to pay their income tax. In these troibled times, with so many calls on the public purse, that really won't do. Setting a good example and all that, donchaknow.
Threats made against synagogues. Via Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Facebook page
Synagogues are accustomed to hiring off duty police for security -- it's been standard for Friday and Saturday services and during Hebrew school since 9/11.
[CharlestonCityPaper] As many as eight anonymous letters have been reported to the Charleston Police Department over the past week threatening violent attacks, with one letter specifically referencing Dylann Roof and the mass shooting that occurred at Emanuel AME Church last year.
“Every one of the 9 lives sacrificed by his greatness, Mr. Dylann S. Roof, is one less I will need to sacrifice,” read one handwritten note delivered to a downtown hotel last week, according to a report filed by the Charleston Police Department. Below the message, a pistol was drawn.
With jury selection for Roof’s federal trial set to begin Monday, occurring just across the street from the trial of former North Charleston officer Michael Slager, local law enforcement agencies have maintained an obvious police presence in the area surrounding the two downtown courthouses. While no specific threats have been announced to the public, law enforcement officials have asked citizens to remain vigilant and report any suspicious or threatening activity they might see during the two high-profile trials.
Last week, one anonymous letter received by another downtown hotel read, “Now here’s my plan: Travel to Charleston. Stay in a hotel. Order weapon to send to hotel. Do what needs to be done.”
A majority of the letters reported were received by hotels in downtown Charleston, and several specifically mention threats toward Muslim and Jewish people. According to reports filed by Charleston police, the messages are all handwritten and some appear to have been sent from outside the country, sharing similar postage stamps bearing an image of Queen Elizabeth and a blue background.
From abroad about African Methodists, Muslims and Jews? Curious.
“Just a quick note to self,” begins one message. “Get Milk and bread. Drop off Kids. Break into synagogue, slaughter all Filth. Have a whisky. Enjoy a good movie.”
Another letter addressed to a downtown hotel threatened that “Bloodshed is coming,” and added that “Hitler never went far enough. When I kill Jews, there are no exceptions.”
Hitler allied with Muslims in Europe and the Middle East. The writer seems interestingly ignorant.
The author of the threatening messages cites the belief that he or she is doing “God’s work” in a separate letter reported within days of the others. Below that message, there was an image of an upside down cross.
While almost all of the letters sent to hotels within Charleston, James Island County Park also received a threatening handwritten letter, stating, “Who will I pay a large sum of money to carry out a massacre this time? Certainly a great investment if only for the entertainment purpose.”
[Dhaka Tribune] The left should’ve listened to America’s heartbeat. It only listened to each other
If you’re surprised that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States of America, then that is part of the problem.
This American election wasn’t a battle between Trump and Clinton, so to speak, nor between Republicans and Democrats; this was, to state the obvious, a battle between ideologies, a cultural battle of identities.
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Interesting, this guy could figure it out from Dhaka, Bangladesh, but so many in the US still can't understand.
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The left should’ve listened to America’s heartbeat. It only listened to each other..
IMO the left only wanted to rip out the heart of America.
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And still the whiny losers think it's because they didn't sell the narrative hard enough. They can only think in terms of "messaging" not one of them ever stops to think, "Gee maybe what we're trying to sell is wrong"
[Daily Excelsior] An Army personnel was killed in Pak sniping in Macchil sector of North Kashmire district of Kupwara today while security forces killed two Lions of Islam of 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... (LeT) including its commander in Sopore area of Baramulla district.
A soldier of Army’s 17 Sikh Regiment, Satnam Singh, was killed in Macchil sector of LoC in Pak sniping today. A senior officer said that the Army personnel was targeted by Pak sniper from a Pak post. He said that the jawan airlifted to Srinagar’s Base hospital for treatment but he succumbed. He said that Army retaliated heavily by targeting Pak posts in Macchil and Keran sectors inflicting heavy losses on them.
Sources said that heavy firing is going on between Pak and Indian troops in Macchil and Keran sectors. Both the sides are firing mortars at each other’s posts. The two sectors are active for last few weeks after the beheading of a soldier in Macchil sector.
A defence front man said here that one soldier was killed in sniping by Pak troops in Macchil sector today. He said that Indian Army targeted Pak posts with heavy fire in retaliation of killing of the soldier. "One soldier martyred in Pak sniping at Macchil Sector. In retaliation fire assault with heavy weapons was being directed on many Pak posts", he said.
In the meantime, a myrmidon commander of LeT and his associate were killed in a fierce shootout in North Kashmire’s Rafiabad area today.
Superintendent of Police Sopore, Harmeet Singh, told Excelsior that security forces cordoned off Drusu village after a tip off about the presence of two Lions of Islam hiding in the village.
Singh said that Police and Army launched a joint operation against the two Lions of Islam during which both of them were killed in the shootout. He said that they have been identified as Abu Maaz and Abu Raafi. He said that Abu Maaz was an LeT commander.
The SP said that they were active in Rafiabad area of Baramulla for last 3 months and security forces were tracking them. He said that their killing is a big success for the security forces. He said that two AK-47 rifles and ammunition were recovered from their possession.
Sources said that both these Lions of Islam had infiltrated into Kashmire early this year. They said that their role in the attack on Langate Army camp is being investigated.
In the meantime, security forces averted a major tragedy today as they detected and defused a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by myrmidons, on Srinagar-Kupwara road in north Kashmire.
Police said that an IED was found planted by Lions of Islam on the roadside near Wadhpora in Handwara, which was later destroyed by the Bomb Disposal Squad.
Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started a manhunt to nab the Lions of Islam who planted the IED on the roadside.
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[Daily Excelsior] Separatists today issued fresh week-long protests giving no relief to the people from strikes which have paralysed life in Kashmire since July 8.
The separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yaseen Malik today issued fresh call for week long protests and strikes. The fresh protests were issued after a meeting of stakeholders held yesterday in which traders, transporters and businessmen had sought relief from continued strikes.
In the meantime, shutdown was observed across Kashmire for 124th day today during which situation largely remained peaceful.
Shops, commercial establishments, educational institutes and other offices were closed across Srinagar. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... heavy movement of private vehicles, auto-rickshaws and passenger cabs’ as well pedestrians was seen in Civil Line and uptown areas of the city.
Hundreds of vendors had set up their stalls in Lal Chowk area and large numbers of shoppers were also seen buying winter garments. In Old City, hundreds of security forces personnel were deployed in five cop shoppe areas of Srinagar’s Old City ‐ MR Gunj, Nowhatta, Safa Kadal, Rainawari and Khanyar ‐ since early morning.
Stone-throwing festivities erupted at Nowhatta area of Old City in the evening. Police resorted to teargas shelling and chased away the protesters. The situation in the area later returned to normality.
Clashes erupted at Harmain area of south Kashmire’s Shopian district and at Ajas area of Bandipora district.
A police front man said: "situation across the Valley remained normal till filing of this report. During the day people were seen busy in their daily activities of life with vehicular traffic plying normally on roads. Shops and other business establishes were open.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse... police in order to prevent any untoward incident hampering normal life and flow of traffic continued with adequate deployment on some vulnerable points.
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[DAWN] THERE is madness, then there’s Trump. Since a lot of lyrical indignation has already been expressed about the horrors of a Trump presidency, let me dwell on a comparison here that others have not tried to undertake yet.
Remember George Bush Jr? The insanity that was his presidency may seem like a memory, but the fires he lit are still raging in the Middle East. That’s the kind of damage a madman can do from within the White House. But there are some crucial differences between Bush and Trump which make the latter far more dangerous.
Start with this. Bush was an ideologue whereas Trump is nakedly an egotist. Bush lived the swashbuckling life till 40, boozing to his heart’s content, then became a born-again Christian and switched to a rigorous and disciplined lifestyle.
Trump, on the other hand, is driven by little more than his own urges, rather primal ones at that. He recognises no power greater than himself, and does not consider himself accountable to any moral standard, whether in the conduct of his day-to-day life, or in his larger agenda for the country.
All his life he has championed liberal causes like a woman’s right to choose, but then suddenly somewhere around 2012 he began to gravitate towards a pro-life stance, first by saying that late-term abortions should be outlawed, but slowly drifting further and further towards the hardest of anti-choice stances, ultimately getting trapped into saying that a woman deserves punishment for having an abortion.
On issues like guns and race, Trump only began to court the holy warrior right when he felt its power, and the ease with which the words that sought to get their attention came out of his mouth showed he felt no compunction whatsoever in embracing such hard and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... stances on issues so central to American political life. It wasn’t boldness, it was audacious opportunism. Someone of this makeup can change his mind in a moment and start saying things that are completely contrary, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
This is an important contrast to Bush, whose mind was firmly made up, whose thinking was anchored in his religious beliefs, and who was closely wedded to a conservative social agenda for decades and even campaigned on it.
Second, Bush was very much a creature of the Republican Party whereas Trump has burned the party down to get power. Bush was the compromise candidate in 2000, the safe bet because they couldn’t agree on any of the other nominees.
Once in power, he built his Camelot by bowing individually to each of the factions that the party had fragmented into. So the Christian right got the attorney general (John Ashcroft), the isolationists got the UN representative (John Bolton), the old guard got the secretary of state (Colin Powell), the military contractors got defence (Donald Rumsfeld who sought to privatise large chunks of the armed forces), and Wall Street got treasury (Henry Paulson, after O’Neill and Snow didn’t quite work out) and the neocon faction got the vice president.
Trump, on the other hand, has spoken of Republican Party leaders with staggering disdain when they failed to endorse him. He didn’t seek their confidence, he demanded it and punished them terribly when they wavered. He stands above the party and will not behave as if he owes it anything.
Bush’s idea of dealing with criticism was to ignore it. He read no newspapers, preferring to rely on the counsel of those around him rather than making up his own mind. He surrounded himself by likeminded advisers and his court became profoundly a victim of groupthink.
Trump, on the other hand, bristles at criticism, is keenly tuned to what people are saying about him and actively seeks affirmation in the eyes of others. He cannot deal with it when he does not get this affirmation and responds reflexively to criticism.
Moreover, Bush was largely empty in the upstairs quarter and actively outsourced his thinking and decision-making to others, even as he tried to present himself as "decider-in-chief". The decision to invade Iraq, for example, was not his but that of his brand of neocon advisers, led by Dick Cheney, who did much of the thinking on foreign affairs, along with Karl Rove who did the thinking on domestic matters.
Trump, on the other hand, outsources nothing, preferring to retain the prerogative for himself. He demands to know what people think of a particular issue, then persecutes those who think differently from him. When he changes his mind, those around him are expected to follow suit. They will never have a say in any decision-making, while his own decisions are rooted in an opportunistic miasma of whim, greed, ambition and other animal instincts.
In short, a Trump presidency is likely to be of an order of magnitude more dangerous than the Bush presidency. It took Bush almost four years to begin to realise that the invasion of Iraq may not have been the best idea, even if he never publicly acknowledged the mistake. He toyed with idea of bombing Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons according to reporting by Seymour Hersh, but never crossed that red line.
He walked out of the Kyoto Protocol and showed disdain for global regimes that served as constraints on American power. But he bowed before the power of the establishment, and oversaw the implementation of the WTO and the strengthening of 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... How will Trump, with his erratic mind, whimsical instincts, centralised decision-making around himself, and total disregard for anything -- whether facts, reality, consequences, or the opinions of others -- that runs against his whims, approach the same issues?
Bush showed us what can happen when the powers of the White House fall in the wrong hands. With Trump though, we have something of an order of magnitude that is far more deadly.
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This article is pure speculation starting from an extremely biased base of knowledge about Bush mixed with propaganda based emotional reaction to Trump. iMHO
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So I'm all, like, "Whoa, this sucks! What's wrong with Fred? Where the hell is Nadeem?" So I go have a look... and jeez, I wish I hadn't. When will I learn to trust my elders and betters? Story of my life.
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Well Khaleed, Bush believed that you people can be reformed. Trump, in part due to Bush's experience, believes you people should be contained --- while he solves USA's problems.
If I was you Khaleed, I'd pray he succeeds in both. Because, the next step --- if containment fails, is pest control. And, if USA is weak and preoccupied with internal problems, the decision of what to do with Islam will be made in Moscow and Beijing.
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I imagine a scene where ole Khurram here is sitting in his favorite coffee bar in Karachi "why they say up in Islamabad that Fatima Curie has invented a cure for the Pakistani foot in mouth disease...imagine that gentlemen"...when Khaleed picks up a Dawn newspaper and sees a picture of President Elect Trump...and says "Forget that alqaraf, here comes Mongo!"
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Trump will be an excellent president. He is driven by ego and that same ego will lead him to want to improve the country's economy and standing in the world
Thus the motivations of Trump and the interests of the country are in alignment.
Unlike Bush he can think and act decisively and toughly and independently
Instead of invading Afghanistan on 9/11, Trump would have immediately frozen all Saudi assets, and those princes in the USA would not have been hustled out, they'd have been in the dock.
All arms trading to saudi would have ceased.
And then Pakistan.
And then he would have demanded they surrender Bin Laden within 20 days or he would nuke Mecca.
and they would have surrendered Bin Laden or they would have lost Mecca.
And if they lost Mecca and did not provide Bin Laden he would say: you have 5 days to produce Bin Laden or we nuke Riyadh.
And Bin Laden would have been produced and we would not be in the mess we are now in.
Then he would have ordered them to dismantle Islamism.
Back to the well
While new clashes between the national army in Yemen and Houthi – Saleh militias have erupted on the rural Al-Silew front in the governorate of Taiz, Houthi militias continue to commit violations there and have kidnapped 6 teachers in the Al-Waziyya district. The teachers are accused of supporting the national army and the Popular Resistance.
The national army’s forces, specifically the 35th Armoured Brigade, that are backed by the Popular Resistance managed to resist militia attacks on army positions in Asseeratayn and elsewhere. Violent clashes took place in Hijat Al-Sharaj which is located between the village of Assiyar and Asseeratayn.
The violent clashes were accompanied by constant bombardment of national army positions in Asseeratayn and neighbouring villages. The bombardment was carried out by the militia and this has led to civilians dying and financial losses.
The national army’s troops announced that they had seized Tabbat Al-Aryal in the district of Al-Silew after they launched attacks on militia positions. At least 20 militia fighters were killed or injured.
Although the army has achieved swift victories on the rural Al-Silew front, there were violent clashes on the Al-Ahkoum front in the rural district of Hifan. There were also exchanges of fire between army units and militia forces that suffered losses in Tabbat Al-Dabi.
This comes at a time when clashes continue on various fronts in the city and coalition aircraft are flying over the city. Coalition aircraft are carrying out direct and concentrated raids on separate locations in the governorate and this has caused huge losses.
Sources on the ground that belong to the ranks of the national army told Asharq Al-Awsat that “National Army troops, backed by the Popular Resistance, continue to advance on the Al-Silew and Hifan fronts, south of the city, and on the eastern, western and northern fronts in Taiz. The 35th Armoured Brigade and the Popular Resistance were able to seize Hijat Al-Sharaj and Tabbat Al-Aryal”.
The sources added that the militias continue to violently bomb residential villages in Al-Silew and that the village of Assaeed was targeted by three Katyusha rockets that were launched from the Wirzan area. In addition to this, other villages and positions belonging to the army and the Popular Resistance in the district of Hifan were bombed.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Aircraft from the US-led international coalition forces destroyed on Tuesday a strategic bridge used by Islamic State extremist militants for conveying supplies, Al sumaria News reported.
The group used the bridge to convey ammunition from the restive city of Mosul to al-Hadar, 75 kilometers south of Nineveh, Alsumaria said, quoting a security source.
The strike relied on “Iraqi intelligence information,” the source added, noting it comes as part of efforts to isolate ISIS and deprive it of supply lines.
Iraqi joint forces, supported by a US air cover, continue operations to liberate the city of Mosul from ISIS militants. He group has been sustaining huge losses in lives, ground and supply since operation “We Are Coming Nineveh”, was launched in mid October. News reports have talked about militants running their families out of the city and others escaping the battlefield.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Anti-Terrorism forces killed ten suicide bombers riding booby-trapped vehicles while trying to attack security forces in the western coast of the city of Mosul, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
Alsumaria News stated, “Anti-Terrorism troops are still advancing in the western coast of the city of Mosul and reached Adan neighborhood.”
“The ISIS sent 10 booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers to attack the Anti-Terrorism forces in Adan neighborhood, but the security forces managed to destroy the vehicles and kill the suicide bombers before reaching the troops,” Alsumaria added.
Security forces continue battles to liberate the province of Nineveh from the ISIS grip, backed by international coalition and Iraqi aviation.
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If you enjoyed The Political Insider's picture mashup of liberals in a complete and utter tear-filled mess over Hillary Clinton losing was a blast, then we've got a treat for you.
The best of both worlds, so to speak.
Another video of a liberal crying ‐ except this time it's obnoxious celebrity, Miley Cyrus.
Cyrus, of Hannah Montana fame, previously said she would "move out da country" if Trump, whom she called a "f*cking nightmare," were to win the election.
The combined thoughts of Hillary losing her bid, Trump serving as President, and having to pack and drive all the way to Canada proved to be too much for the sensitive Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus took to Twitter on Wednesday, November 9, to share an emotional video of herself breaking down in tears as she addressed Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.
"So, probably like most people -- well, maybe not, because given the result -- maybe I really am different and maybe a lot of people that I'm surrounded by think with open minds and open hearts like I do," Cyrus -- a proponent of both Clinton, 70, and Bernie Sanders -- shared with her followers, as seen in the clip below. "And I do want to say that I've been very vocal for my support for everyone besides Donald Trump. Heavily supported Bernie. Heavily supported Hillary. And I still think that in her lifetime she deserves to be the first female president, and that's what makes me so sad."
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She's an interesting case. Technically beautiful by most standards but she actively tries to make herself unappealing with clothes/hair/tongue/and what she says.
Aden-Somalia was the first country on Tuesday to relocate its embassy from Sana’a to the temporary capital of Aden. Yemen welcomed the decision and called on other states to follow suit.
A high-ranking source at the Yemeni foreign ministry said the Somali move is considered a support to the legitimate government headed by President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the brotherly relations that link both countries, according to Yemen’s official news agency.
The source called on other brotherly states to quickly take similar steps at a time when Sana’a remains invaded by rebels.
Despite the fact that all Arab and foreign embassies are still located in the Yemeni capital, most ambassadors to Yemen are performing duties in their country’s embassies located outside Yemen, particularly in Saudi Arabia.
After Houthis invaded the capital Sana’a in September 2014, rebels attacked a number of embassies and vandalized them. Some missions were even transformed into centers from where the war was managed.
The Somali step also came weeks following the arrival of the Yemeni government to Aden from where most ministers resumed their missions.
Separately, other informed Yemeni sources said that due to mounting disputes between Houthis and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, particularly the rebels’ attempt to completely control the Presidential Guard forces, the former head of state was able to move his family members including his children, his nephews and their wives and grandchildren, from Sana’a to Oman’s capital, Muscat, using a U.N. airplane.
According to the sources, the list of names who took the U.N. plane included: Khaled Abdullah Saleh, Lojayn Ali Abdullah Saleh, Shumoukh Tareq Mohammed Abdullah, Ruwayda Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, Bushra al-Iriyani, Raad Sanan Duweid, Majd Sanan Duweid and Ali Saleh Abdullah Saleh.
Asharq Al-Awsat repeatedly contacted the office of U.N. Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad for comments. But, there was no response.
Yemeni political activist Ahmad Yahya Ayed told Asharq Al-Awsat that the decision of Saleh to move members of his family outside Yemen could have been taken for three reasons: Mounting disputes between him and Houthi rebels, fears the National Army and Popular Resistance could reach Sana’a, or plans to strike a deal with the alliance behind the back of Houthis.
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At least seven PKK gunmen were “neutralized” during security operations in the southeastern province of Tunceli, Turkish regional governor’s office said late Tuesday.
Seven bodies, including one female, were found in a field, following the operation, and sent to Tunceli State Hospital for preliminary autopsies.
Security forces seized infantry rifles, other heavy weapons and mines. Two shelters used by the gunmen were also destroyed.
The operation in the region remains ongoing, the statement said.
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[AA.TR] Kenya started withdrawing its soldiers from a South Sudan UN-backed peacekeeping mission on Wednesday.
The first batch of 100 troops attached to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) touched down at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Earlier this month Kenya revealed it would withdraw its forces from UNMISS following the unceremonial dismissal of its Kenyan commander, Lt. Gen. Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki.
The move by UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon came after an independent report found UNMISS had failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops in the capital Juba in July.
Speaking to news hounds at the airport, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Biwott said the withdrawal process would continue until all soldiers returned to Kenya.
"Today we are very lucky to have our soldiers back, and the total number of soldiers who have come today is 100, and we are going to continue implementing the directive given by the commander-in-chief until all our soldiers have been withdrawn from South Sudan," Biwott said.
"We are pulling out the whole contingent in South Sudan; that is over 1,000 soldiers," he added.
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Ben Carson said he would help President-elect Donald Trump construct a replacement to Obamacare.
"I think the replacement must obviously come first and it must be something that is very appealing and easy to understand," he told Politico Wednesday. "And then, only then, would you dismantle what's in place."
Carson declined to say whether he was being considered for a Cabinet position, but Politico reports that his name is being floated as a possible candidate for positions such as secretary of health and human services or secretary of education.
Trump campaigned on replacing Obamacare with a simpler, cheaper alternative that has less government regulation.
A GOP-led Congress means that a Trump administration would have the best chance of coming up with an alternative to Obamacare since 2010 passage of the law.
Carson entered the spotlight at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast when he criticized President Obama over his signature healthcare law.
Carson ran against Trump in the primary only to drop out and endorse him in March.
Carson said Wednesday that Trump would win over his critics with his leadership on issues like Obamacare.
"I think actually a lot of people who have tried to demonize him will be quite shocked when they see who he really is," he said. "He'll be a very easy person to work with as long as you're reasonable, as long as you're fair."
In 2015, Ben Carson announced his support for health savings accounts as a possible replacement for Obamacare.
I seem to recall Donald Trump speaking about HSAs as part of the replacement for Obamacare, too, oddly enough.
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I don't like this talk of 'replace', as if another government law or program will succeed when the previous one failed in predictable, spectacular fashion. Just repeal this monstrosity, implement some market-based reforms, and completely lock the fucking Democrats out of the process while you're doing it. See how they like it.
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Pretty sure we won't be getting rid of Obamacare - too many people are 'addicted' to the concept. The best we can hope for is an actual, economic health care system, with 'methadone' for the addicts.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s prime minister has called on Donald Trump on Wednesday to extradite a US-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... - blamed by Ankara for the failed coup in July - as soon as he is sworn in.
American authorities are studying the evidence against Gulen provided by Turkey before deciding on whether or not to extradite the former Erdogan ally.
US-Turkish relations have worsened since the July 15 coup and the former's refusal to bow to Turkey's demands regarding Gulen. He is accused of coordinating "terrorist" activity in Turkey from the US state of Pennsylvania through what Erdogan's government describes as the Fethullah Terror Organisation (FETO).
Gulen, who has lived in the US since 1999, claims to run a peaceful religious and educational network called the Gulen Movement.
Binali Yildirim also said Wednesday that he hoped that the new leadership in the United States would take into consideration Turkey’s "sensitivities concerning the fight against terrorism," give priority to policies that would bring peace and stability to the region and advance traditional friendship between the two countries.
Ties between the two allies have been strained over perceptions in Turkey that the United States is reluctant to arrest and extradite Gulen. Turkey’s is also frustrated by Washington’s backing to Syrian Kurdish militia that are fighting the ISIS group in Syria and which Ankara considers to be a terrorist group.
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Just a guess - Trump's not gonna bite. Obama, on the other hand, might include this in his Blaze of Glory stage, which will begin any moment now.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ilhan Omar, a Democrat and former refugee, made history after winning a state House race in Minneapolis and becoming the first Somali-American Moslem woman in the US to be a politician, US media reported.
Omar faced little Republican opposition, local daily the Star Tribune reported, yet some believe that the 34-year-old’s win is "huge."
"I am excited for our progressive values and to be able to be on the ground at the Capitol representing the diverse people of my district and being a champion with them and for them." Omar told the daily Star Tribune.
Omar came to the United States after escaping the Somali civil war with her family and spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp.
The newly elected senate is also the director of policy at Women Organizing Women Network, an organization dedicated to pushing East African women in to positions of civic leadership.
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Ilhan has probably committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother so he could get a visa and doing this while already married. However, her district is heavily Somalian and Minnesotans are under a form of Sharia that forbids looking into immigration and family law crimes by muslims.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] MSNBC’s news anchor Rachel Maddow had a meltdown live on air late Tuesday, bemoaning now US President-elect Donald Trump winning Ohio and North Carolina in the heated elections.
After giving a long sigh, Maddow said "you are awake by the way, you are not having a terrible, terrible dream."
"Also, you are not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now. This is the election now. This is us, this is our country," she continued.
Americans on Twitter reacted to her meltdown with some people criticizing her as unprofessional while others warmed up to her act as "hilarious" and "absolutely glorious" to watch.
While polls pitted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ... as the would-be winner, Trump won a landslide early on Wednesday to become the 45th US president-elect after winning more than the 270 electoral votes.
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That's sorta how I felt when I found out that 0bean had won in 2012. I figured for sure the voters would have figured it out by then. Instead, it turns out I was surrounded by pod-people. So I couldn't even scream. I just kept my mouth shut.
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#4 - that's awesome, but we know she didn't kill herself. She's a failure at that as well as everything else in her life.
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I've been saying that about MSNBC for a long time - I'm not as bothered by their leftist leanings as I am about them being thoroughly unprofessional.
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I'm not sure I want her Conway to get recognized. Not because she doesn't deserve it, she does, but out of fear for her safety. We're already seeing violence, someone turns on her as "Traitor to all women"...
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[RUDAW.NET] Iraqi Special Forces have gained control of large parts of the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... district of Intisar, south of the city, Tuesday after little resistance from ISIS bad boys, Rudaw embedded correspondent Nabard Hussein reports.
Counter sniper teams from Iraq's elite security forces have tried to locate attackers in the neighborhood on Tuesday after a series of deadly sniper attacks targeted army convoys that are now pushing to retake the remaining parts of the district.
"No-one is really safe including civilians as far as sniper attacks continue in this neighborhood," Hussein said.
"Gunshots are heard with frequency inside the district which are believed to be snipers deterring army units from pushing north," he added.
The human conditions also remain dire in most parts of the liberated neighborhoods of the city with acute shortage of food and daily needs, residents told Hussein.
"What are we supposed to eat, there are no stores and no food to buy," said a resident in Intisar as the city has been virtually shut down since the operation started over three weeks ago.
"When the sporadic gunfire dampens, people get out of their houses and ask the army for food and necessities," said Hussein.
Aid agencies have rushed to several liberated areas in south outskirts of Mosul delivering food and basic medical supplies but the relief effort has been relatively slow due to the booby trapped roads and sniper attacks, he added.
In Hammam Alil neighborhood, Iraqi forces have worked hectically to deactivate or blow the planted landmines. Army officers told Rudaw that many areas have been cleared but still caution residents of possible explosives.
"ISIS didn't really put up any considerable resistance here, but the explosives that they planted throughout the neighborhood have been our major concern," said an army commander.
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This is a very flawed operation. Attacking from 3 sides but leaving the 4th side wide open. It is reported that around 500 vehicles a day flow in and out of Mosul through the fourth side providing ISIS with the resources needed to sustain resistance to this operation.
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Early October Russia Media reported that the Saudis, Turks, and Obama will allow a corridor for Daesh to escape back to Syria (Aleppo).
Around the same time it was reported that Kurdish commander said a corridor would be left open for escaping civilians.
Again, same week - an Iraqi general stated the corridor was open for escaping ISIS.
Same week - an Western media outlet said Syria and Russia had established an corridor so ISIS can escape to help fortify Mosul.
But any way you hash it, the corridors are very flawed - it sucks for the civilians. However - the faster you kill all the islamists, the faster you end this.
ADEN: An elite Yemeni force killed 30 suspected Al-Qaeda fighters in the southeast of the country in a 24-hour operation that ended Wednesday, the army said.
The force raided an Al-Qaeda hideout west of the port city of Mukalla in a “very successful” operation that lasted 24 hours, it said in a statement.
It said that 30 suspected militants were killed and several others were captured, increasing a Tuesday death toll of six alleged militants.
Four Yemeni troops were also killed and 12 were wounded in the fighting, it added.
The militants were “planning to carry out terrorist attacks” in the country, already torn apart by a 19-month-long conflict between Iran-backed rebels and loyalist forces supported by the coalition, the army said.
Mukalla was the most populous Yemeni city under Al-Qaeda control until government troops and coalition special forces recaptured it in April, ending a year of militant rule.
But the rebels regrouped in the surrounding mountains from where they have carried out a series of deadly attacks.
A security official told AFP on Tuesday that troops launched a “preemptive operation” against the extremists, who continued to pose a threat to Mukalla.
In July, suicide bombings claimed by Al-Qaeda killed 11 people at two army checkpoints in the city. The previous month, Al-Qaeda’s rival, Daesh, claimed a wave of suicide bombings that killed at least 42 people in Mukalla.
The militants have exploited the conflict to consolidate their grip on parts of the south.
Washington regards Al-Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch as its most dangerous and has kept up a long-running drone war against its commanders.
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Saudi navy and army "special forces" appeared in Yemen in Spring 2015 in operations against Huthi units on Myun Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. They are known to have trained with both French and Chinese. Their relationship, if any, with the US Special Forces is not publicized. hrough which much of the world's maritime trade passes.
Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Wednesday night claimed to have killed three suspected militants in an alleged encounter in the outskirts of Karachi, it has been learnt.
“The paramilitary force had conducted an intelligence driven action on suspected hideouts of banned outfit’s hardcore criminals at Mangopir area who were allegedly involved in terrorist activities,” said Rangers spokesperson.
"During the raid the suspects, in an attempt to escape, opened fire on law enforcement agencies. In an ensuing exchange of fire between Rangers and the gunmen, three suspects got killed," the spokesperson added.
Furthermore, Rangers official claimed that one soldier got injured in the alleged encounter and weapons were also seized from suspects' custody.
Sindh Rangers on October 14 had claimed to have killed four suspected militants in a shootout.
Officials had said that Rangers conducted a raid in Gadap, in an isolated area near the Northern Bypass, on intelligence reports about the presence of some militants and criminals there. The raid also turned into an exchange of fire.
[RUDAW.NET] A veteran Kurdish Peshmerga commander was killed on Tuesday in a close range confrontation with two ISIS holy warriors in Bashiqa town, northeast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Peshmerga officials declared Bashiqa cleared of ISIS holy warriors on Monday. But the next day, two holy warriors were discovered hiding in a house in the town.
"We had information on Tuesday that there were two ISIS holy warriors left behind at a house inside Bashiqa. Martyred Rahman Faraj broke into the house and confronted the murderous Moslems, initially killing one murderous Moslem and wounding the other," recalled Brig. Fayeq Hassam Sharif, who was a fried of Major General. Faraj killed by the ISIS murderous Moslems.
Minutes later "the maimed murderous Moslem detonated his payload, martyring [Faraj]."
Faraj was retired by the government in 2014. But when ISIS swept through the region in mid-2014, he once again picked up arms and returned to the battlefield, participating in many fights against ISIS over the past two years on the Bashiqa and Khazir fronts.
Faraj was born in 1961 and became a Peshmerga in 1977. He was originally from Penjwen town in Sulaimani province.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces took complete control of Bashiqa town, 13 kilometres northeast of Mosul’s outskirts, on Monday.
A Rudaw correspondent on the ground reported Tuesday that there were a few ISIS snipers still left in the town and sporadic festivities were ongoing between the holy warriors and the Peshmerga.
Rudaw’s Shadiya Rasul said the holy warriors were using tunnels and described the festivities as not alley-to-alley but tunnel-to-tunnel.
Bashiqa had a diverse population, with a majority of Yezidis and Shabaks and a minority of Assyrians and Arabs, leading it to be often described as ’the little Iraq.’
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[IsraelTimes] Eric Greitens, a Republican, defeats Democrat Chris Koster with 51% of the vote.
Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL whose military awards include the Bronze Star, has become the first Jewish governor of Missouri.
Greitens, a Republican, defeated Democrat Chris Koster with 51 percent of the vote on Tuesday to 45% for the state’s attorney general.
"Tonight, we did more than win an election; we restored power to the people and we took our state back!" Greitens told supporters at a hotel in Chesterfield, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Greitens, 42, grew up in the Maryland Heights suburb of St. Louis and attended the town’s Reform synagogue. He attended Duke University, where he become a Rhodes scholar.
After earning a degree at the University of Oxford, he joined the Navy SEALS and won seven military awards, including the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He later launched The Mission Continues, a nonprofit that offers veterans volunteer opportunities.
The Post-Dispatch reported that Greitens is likely to make Missouri a "right-to-work" state by decreasing the power of its unions. A key tenet of his campaign was promising to "clean up" corruption and "bad ethics" in Jefferson City, the state’s capital.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run police say they’re investigating killing of Mithqal al-Salmi, 35, near his home.
Hamas-run police in Gazoo said gunnies killed a Paleostinian activist known for supporting Shiite Islamism.
They said Mithqal al-Salmi, 35, was killed Wednesday near his home, and that they are investigating.
The Sunni Islamic terror group Hamas, which rules Gazoo, has tense relations with Shiite Iran and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah stemming from the conflict in Syria.
Hamas broke with Iran, a longtime patron, when the group sided with the rebellion against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... in 2012. Iran and Hezbollah are key allies of Assad.
In February, Hamas placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! al-Salmi after a series of Facebook posts glorifying Iran and Hezbollah, and casting doubt on some Sunni scholars.
Hamas has ruled Gazoo since 2007, but more extreme Sunni krazed killer groups also have a presence there.
Britain has secretly deployed its most advanced warship off the coast of Yemen to guard a crucial shipping lane from Iranian-backed missile attacks threat, according to The Times. The warship has been sent to protect the Bab al-Mandeb route following attacks on three U.S. warships and a United Arab Emirates vessel there.
The vast majority of Britain’s oil and gas supplies take this route as their main passage which leads to the Suez Canal; any obstacle would mean the electricity could be cut off across Britain, said Peter Roberts, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, who stressed the importance of keeping the strait open.
The threat of attacks against vessels using the shipping lane is an expansion from the conflict in Yemen where Iran-backed Houthi rebels are attacking Yemeni government forces; supported by a Saudi-led coalition and armed with British weapons.
A suspected Houthi missile strike destroyed the UAE vessel that was providing support to the coalition at the start of last month in an attack that was filmed and posted on YouTube. There were three subsequent suspected Houthi missile launches over the next fortnight against the warships USS Mason, USS Nitze and USS Ponce; none hit their targets.
“This is about Iranians and their proxy war against the Saudis,” said Gerry Northwood, chief operating officer of MAST, a British maritime security firm.
Britain has abstained from announcing the deployment of Daring off Yemen because of the sensitivity of such a powerful UK warship appearing to be linked to the conflict, stated The Times.
“The destroyer, which can shoot down missiles, had been heading to the Gulf with HMS Ocean, the UK’s flagship which is due to take charge of coalition naval operations against ISIS later this month.”
[NYPOST] The White House isn’t ruling out the possibility of Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by normal people as a crook... receiving a last-minute pardon from President B.O. -- even though she hasn’t been charged with a crime. Because corruption clings to corruption.
Asked at Wednesday’s press briefing whether Obama had considered utilizing his unique executive power, press secretary Josh Earnest was cryptic.
"The president has offered clemency to a substantial number of Americans who were previously serving time in federal prisons," Earnest said.
"And we didn’t talk in advance about the president’s plans to offer clemency to any of those individuals and that’s because we don’t talk about the president’s thinking, particularly with respect to any specific cases that may apply to pardons or commutations," he added.
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Obama will pardon her, because once a conviction looms, she will drag down anyone she can, and I doubt Obama is completely clean.
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At this point in time, there is nothing to pardon her for. Maybe once things settle down Obama can consider such a thing (after Jan. 20th) in his quiet solitude in obscurity while he is contemplating his lost legacy.
Me, I'm going to celebrate our second Independence Day for a short while, it's the day the globalists were forced to lift their boot from our necks. Wish that evil old bastard Soros would follow the name of his cancerous organization and "Move On."
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Dear Obean, you can pardon federal crimes, but not state and local. There's plenty of dirt to go around. Your and her best bet is in 60 days, is to bring her in on charges, plea no contest, take the penalty (for a long list of abuses), then pardon her, protecting her under the double jeopardy exclusion. Then, of course, while she won't do any time, the record will show all the criminal convictions.
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I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.
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Giuliana should have a discreet word (face to face) with Obumbles or one of his key horse handlers about the possibility of additional Wikileaks emails surfacing, with Obumbles clandestine SN attached. Perhaps handing him one or two as examples, along with a knowing smile would keep the monkey pawed bugger at bay.
Disestablish the Foundation and let 'Father Time' and the Mayo clinic have their way with the Beest. Putting her behind bars has a certain appeal, but establishing a leftest martyr has no appeal at all.
Yes, she is the personification of evil and corruption, but unfortunately she has a rather large following. It is the following that I am now concerned about.
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#8 I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.
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#8 I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president.
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"for any past or future crimes against the nation, the law, and humanity"
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make the Clintons and their criminal enterprise disgorge any ill-gotten gains from their vast pay-for-play scam. Openly embarrass the Goldman Sachs of the world for buying influence. Put a newly reformed IRS on their Foundation
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I'm hoping IRS Director John Koskinen will soon be assigned to a newly created IRS liaison position on Johnson Island.
If Obama doesn't pardon her Trump should have a special prosecuter (or whatever they are called) look into things. To be super-overly fair put some super-lefty on it like Elizabeth Warren in charge. If Warren wants to bury the evidence its on her and the Democrats for all to see. If Warren wants to be honest about it than Trump looks good for staying out and giving Hillary the most unbiased prosecutor possible.
[AA.TR] President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... will try to convince President-elect Donald Trump about his key policies, the White House said Wednesday.
Following the stuffing defeat of former Secretary Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ... by Trump, the hot topic in Washington is now the fate of Obama’s legacy. Trump has vowed to undo many of the achievements of the B.O. regime.
"There is a tradition, particularly with regard to executive agreements of successive presidents preserving some element of continuity. I don't know whether or not that will apply in this case," White House front man Josh Earnest said.
"President B.O. will have an opportunity to talk to President-elect Trump about some of these policies about some of the benefits of these policies," he added.
He said the B.O. regime will live up to its commitments under foreign deals up until Jan. 20 when Trump takes office.
Trump has said he would renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal a as well as the free trade Trans-pacific Trade Partnership, or TPP, which was inked with 12 Pacific rim countries, because he believes they were "badly negotiated".
Earnest tried to defend Obama’s criticism of Trump when he referred to him as being unfit for president and even a threat to country’s national security.
"The president had used forceful language in helping people understand exactly why he was so passionate in his support for Secretary Clinton," Earnest said. "Now the responsibility that President B.O. has is to turn his attention to prioritizing a smooth transition with his successor and ensuring a peaceful transition of power."
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I suspect most the conversation today will be about obama's golf game and trump's golf courses.
"Behave, and you'll have lifetime membership at all my courses, with complimentary stays at my hotels for your golf buddies. Make things hard for me, and you won't play anywhere -- you know how many friends a president can have when he looks for them."
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I expect Obama at this point will sign a bunch of executive orders that make him a hero to the left and which can be held against Trump when he reverses them. A minefield of sorts. I think Bill Clinton did something like that with top loading washers and lead in water daring W. to reverse them and look bad.
Central Benghazi is calm again after clashes yesterday between Libyan National Army (LNA) forces and militants in the central districts of Sabri and Suq Al-Hout. Clashes also continued in Ganfouda.
The LNA used both air and ground attacks to pound the militants’ positions. According to an LNA source, one of the opposition’s commanders was killed in Sabri. He named him As Belgasem Al-Shagabi.
There has been no independent confirmation of this.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An opinion poll by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Washington and that included nine Arab countries revealed that 68 percent of the Saudis prefer that Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... wins the presidential elections while 46 percent thought Donald Trump was bad.
The nine countries included Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Jordan, Paleostine (the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip), 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... and Tunisia and an average of 400 people from each country participated in the questionnaire.
Asked which of the candidates will positively influence the US policy towards the Arab region, 65 percent of the Saudis said Clinton’s victory will positively impact the Arab region.
The Arab public opinion prefers Clinton’s win by 66 percent while 11 percent prefer Trump’s victory. The highest percentage in support of Clinton winning the presidency was in Morocco and Tunisia while the least percentage in favor of Clinton’s victory was in Paleostine and Iraq. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the highest percentage in favor of Trump winning was in Iraq and Egypt.
Asked about the issues which the upcoming American president must focus on, those interviewed by the poll said the first priority was not intervening in Arab countries’ affairs. Other priorities included combating ISIS, resolving the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict, resolving the Syrian crisis and resolving the crisis in Yemen.
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I don't know if Saudis are the Mafiosi type, but I threw this question up on a few Facebook buddies - do they whack her, Goodfellas style?
It was unanimous, 4-0.
(This is Vinny - we had a problem...)
(It was among the Italians; it was all greaseball shit....)
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Everybody believed what the New York Times "reported". So of course they preferred Hillary Clinton, who also is a known quantity. The wonder is that 32% knew her well enough to prefer someone else -- they were probably thinking of her impact on Libya and Syria.
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That blubber was practically stinking!
Resist it? He gulped it, unblinking.
Resuming his hunting,
The polar bear, grunting,
Began to learn critical thinking.
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"The polls show Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead, and a business decision was made to print the Clinton issue first while continuing to work on the Trump issue," said the company’s CEO, Tony Romando. Yesterday, Mr. Romando said the printing and distribution of this latest "Dewey Beats Truman" thingie was a "business decision." It will be interesting to see if Mr. Romando receives any blow-back for this decision.
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One thing Trump should do is stop all government advertising in print and TV. That will help accelerate their demise.
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Perhaps Trump should "out" the MSM by requiring them to register as a Dem Super PAC (sarc). Or require them to show a WARNING on all MSM channels that identify them as a propaganda arm of the Donk Party and that they may be harmful to your health and well-being.
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Newsweak, didn't that entity sell for like a dollar to anyone 'progressive' enough to absorb its loses? Trashing a whole run is not a way back to financial health.
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It probably was due to logistics similar to the prep and printing of Wheaties boxes. Events such as Superbowl or World Series always nessicitate production of two separate packaging with graphics representing each team. Then again, this is Newsweek so all bets are off.
[Dhaka Tribune] The person who lodged a complaint against the fisheries minister withdrew his case after he was assaulted by pro-Awami League lawyers.
A defamation lawsuit was filed against Fisheries and Livestock Minister Sayedul Hoque for uttering derogatory remarks about Hindus on Tuesday morning.
The plaintiff Bidhan Ghosh had gone to Khulna Court on Wednesday morning for the case. He was set upon by a mob on the courtyard. Bidhan had to be admitted to Khulna General Hospital for treatment.
Touhidur Rahman Tushar, advocate for Bidhan, claimed the pro-Awami League lawyers beat up his client before the lawsuit could reach the court. Terrified, his client withdrew the complaint.
"The plaintiff withdrew the complaint himself," Tapan Kumar Saha, acting administrative officer of Khulna CMM Court told the Dhaka Tribune.
Anisur Rahman Poplu, spokesperson for the Awami League-affiliated lawyers claimed the allegations to be false, rumours spread by his opponents.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAYF) carried out a special operation on Wednesday that targeted a Belgian base for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Using information gathered from their intelligence agents, the Syrian Air Force was able to pinpoint the location of the ISIS base and destroy it.
According to a military source in Deir Ezzor, the ISIS base was located inside the Old Airport District, near the Mohammad Salem Darwish Driving School.
The entire Islamic State base was reportedly destroyed and several Lions of Islam were killed after this special operation that was conducted by the Syrian Air Force on Wednesday.
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Was this an old Belgian military base or did Brussels actually build it for ISIS?
I'd believe either option.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led "Syrian Democratic Forces" (SDF) continued their large-scale offensive to liberate Raqqa City on Wednesday, targeting the road between 'Ayn 'Issa and the placid provincial capital.
According to the Raqqa campaign's official Twitter, the Syrian Democratic Forces liberated the village of al-Majd from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) Lions of Islam near the key border-town of 'Ayn 'Issa.
Backing the Syrian Democratic Forces from above was the U.S. Anti-ISIS Coalition, who carried out several Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State Lions of Islam around the northern countryside of the al-Raqqa Governorate.
Local activists accused the U.S. Anti-ISIS Coalition of carrying out several Arclight airstrikes over the village of Haysha on Wednesday that killed a total of 23 civilians..
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent gang leader involved in major crimes including murders and robberies was killed during an operation in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... city on Tuesday.
Kabul police officials said the gang leader was identified as Zubair and was killed during an armed clash with the security forces this morning.
The officials further added that Zubair was involved in major armed robberies in the city.
This comes as criminal incidents including kidnapping, murders and armed robberies have been on the rise during the recent months.
The growth in criminal incidents have particularly been noted amid a sharp reduction in job opportunities which resulted in an unprecedented rise in poverty.
Kidnap for ransom cases still continue in parts of the country despite the Afghan intelligence nabbed two MAFIA bosses involved in major kidnappings who were later executed by the government.
The two top MAFIA leaders, Habib Istalif and Raees Khudaidad, were executed late in 2014 and early in 2015 after they were tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by intelligence operatives.
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[AA.TR] Iraq’s anti-terrorism agency has temporarily suspended military operations in the eastern part of the ISIS-held city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... while stressing that Iraqi forces were not being withdrawn from the area, according to an Iraqi military source.
"Anti-terrorism forces remain concentrated in parts of the city’s al-Intisar and al-Samah al-Thaniya districts and in the state radio and television complex in eastern Mosul," an Iraqi army captain told Anadolu Agency anonymously due to restrictions on communicating with media.
He attributed the move to the widespread practice by ISISholy warriors of using civilians as "human shields" and the bad boys’ continued use of a complex network of tunnels dug under the city.
The source went on to note that Iraqi anti-terrorism forces had suffered significant human and material losses -- he did not provide exact numbers -- as a result of "ambushes, roadside explosives and suicide kabooms" by ISIS.
"ISIS has also sustained large human and material losses," he added, "but this hasn’t affected the group’s morale due to its heavy reliance on mercenaries."
The same source also voiced dissatisfaction with air cover being provided to Iraqi forces in and around Mosul by a 60-nation U.S.-led air coalition.
"A request was sent to the army’s general command to discuss the inadequacy of air cover with U.S.-led coalition commanders," he said.
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also voiced dissatisfaction with air cover being provided to Iraqi forces
Looking for BUFFs, are they.
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Still waitng for all of them to run away and leave the ammo and such as ordered !
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday he was ready to work with Donald Trump but the country’s foreign minister reiterated the government’s refusal to pay for his planned border wall.
Trump’s victory shocked Mexicans, who were angered by the Republican billionaire’s description of migrants colonists as rapists and drug pushers.
His defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... in Tuesday’s election caused the peso and the Mexican stock market to plunge due to fears that Trump would upend economic ties with the country.
"I congratulate the US on its electoral process and reiterate to @realDonaldTrump my willingness to work together in favor of bilateral relations," Pena Nieto said on Twitter.
"Mexico and the US are friends, partners and allies who must continue collaborating for the competitiveness and development of North America," he said.
Pena Nieto had angered Mexicans by inviting Trump to his official residence in Mexico City in August and not forcefully condemning the Republican candidate’s comments against migrants colonists.
Trump has vowed to make Mexico pay for a massive border wall -- which is estimated to cost several billions of dollars -- and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
He also pledged to deport millions of undocumented immigrants colonists and threatened to freeze billions in remittances that migrants colonists send to their families back home.
"Paying for a wall is not part of our vision," Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu of Mexico told the Televisa network.
But she said the government has had a "daily fluid dialogue" with the Trump campaign and that the two countries were "not starting from zero."
Golly -- like he was a serious contender all along. Smart!
"It’s an opportunity. The terms of the relationship change," she said.
The national currency fell 7.81 percent to 20.22 pesos per dollar before day trade opened, while the Mexican stock market plunged 3.18 percent at the opening bell.
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I wonder if the payment might not arrive as increased import tariffs. I'm planting avocados and agave cactus.
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...not a tax, but a 'regulatory fee'. The Executive doesn't have to ask Congress for such fees as demonstrated by Mr. Gore and phone charges to fund his little 'wire the schools' program back in the 90s.
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I think their stated "refusal to pay for his planned border wall" is their opening position. A way will be found. No real need to rub their noses in this, we just want to modify their behavior. That means hitting them in their pocketbook whenever necessary. It will result in nice revenue streams and a reduced stream of illegals, especially if they are 'taxed' by the head for all the illegals in the country. And taxed again, and again, say every 4 months. Their behavior will change. At the moment, the Mex govt. is using the US as their population dump and views the US govt. with contempt. This will change.
Major upside: the UN will have a cow.
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Major upside: the UN will have a cow.
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I believe our Southern neighbor will soon recognize the fallacy of this challenge to one of Mr. Trumps central positions. Or DJT will sell out (doubtful).
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#13 Such a charge would lead Latinos to use Somali Hawaldars to move their money through un-jofficial means. This is how the Somalis, Paks, and India muslims in the USA move money to their homeland. An "impuesto" of ten bucks each time someone enters the USA would be faster and easier to collect. If you want an education, some day go to a border crossing into the USA and see the hundreds of people lined up waiting to cross.
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Trump is an experienced real estate developer, so he knows how to handle this: contract Mexico to build the wall, and when they finish, we declare bankruptcy, and stiff them. Easy peasy.
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Trump should institute a Work Visa program.
(1) So we can keep track of who is in the US
(2) So we can ensure that these aren't somehow forced to do things that our own environmental and safety laws have deemed to be unsafe
(3) To ensure these workers are paid minimum wage which we have determined is the minimum required in the each state.
(4) Harsh penalties for anyone hiring undocumented workers without a visa because we can only assume their intentions are to abuse labor in a way that we all find unacceptable.
(5) Give the the work visas out like candy but insist the people contact an agency every month or so to verify employment and arrest for x weeks, deportation, and refusal to ever get a work visa again for anyone caught without one. Anyone who commits a crime while on a work visa will (a) suffer in jail for that crime, then be deported, and if they return it will be considered a felony.
This would be hard for the left to argue against since it exploits the safety laws and minimum wage laws they are always pushing for.
Don't even discuss citizenship except perhaps as phase 2 of the plan depending upon how phase 1 works out.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Islamic State militants have forced nearly 25,000 civilians from the western part of Salahuddin’s Sharqat precinct to Hawija, Kirkuk to use them as future human shields, according to a municipal official.
Ali Al-Dawdah said Tuesday the militant group confiscated the civilians’ ID and food rations cards before herding them to Hawija. “The terrorist group brought huge buses and trucks, forcing nearly 25.000 civilians to move to Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.”
“ISIS called upon the people through mosques loudspeakers to evacuate the western area,” Dawdah added, explaining that the militants would presumably use the confiscated IDs to conceal their identities from security apparatuses.”
Iraqi joint forces said in September they had totally liberated Sharqat from ISIS. Government forces, assisted by popular militias and US aircraft continue campaigns across Iraq to liberate areas held by ISIS since the group emerged to the conflict’s scene in Iraq in 2014.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh– Islamic State militants have evacuated more than 80 families from Faisaliya, west of Mosul, to other districts in the east, Alsumaria News reported.
“The move is aimed at booby-trapping the emptied houses or turn them into ambushes for the security forces advancing on several axes from the western coast of Mosul,” said a local source, on conditions of anonymity.
ISIS had used the houses of migrating families as shelters for its fighters and mini-factories for explosives.
Joint Iraqi forces and US aircrafts continue a weeks-old campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS and strip the extremist group of its last bastion in Iraq.
The Iraqi Red Crescent said on Monday it had received more than 26000 refugees from Nineveh. The United Nations predicted September that battles in Mosul would drive out one million people.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh–The Islamic State’s supreme leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is apparently mulling the appointment of his first deputy, Alsumaria News reported.
The unprecedented move seeks to ensure the existence of a leader in case Baghdadi is killed, the network added. “ISIS media have started to circulate Baghdadi’s decision,” according to a source who spoke on conditions of anonymity. “Promoting the notion of ‘the Caliph’s successor’ is unprecedented in Mosul, and had always been a sensitive issue that no one could bring up, even ISIS senior leaders,” said the source.
The identity of the upcoming deputy leader will not be announced at present for fear of possible divisions within the group’s ranks over the selection, according to the source.
The first-of-kind announcement is possibly denoting Baghdadi’s feeling of danger as Iraqi joint forces, assisted by US aircrafts and Shia militias, continue to advance to Mosul, making wide-scale victories over ISIS at many parts of the city.
Baghdadi came to the picture when ISIS gained vast grounds in Iraq and Syria starting in 2014, with the proclaimed mission of establishing an Islamic Caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Islamic State militants have deployed armed kids in Mosul’s Old City as means to give impression of control over its last bastion in Iraq in face of security campaigns seeking to liberate the city, Alsumaria News reported.
The kids, infamously known as “Cubs of the Caliphate”, have suddenly reappeared in the alleys, armed with light weapons and explosive belts, in an attempt to show that the group was still in control of the city despite consecutive victories by the security forces and allied militias advancing to the city, a local source told the network, on condition of anonymity.
ISIS is known to have opened training camps for minors since it took over Mosul in June 2014 to train them on using weapons and carrying out suicide attacks, in some cases forcing a number of them to change their faiths.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Ministry of Defense media channel released a video on Tuesday showing the damage left by the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the district of Hamdaniyah, before being defeated by the army’s 9th Armored Brigade.
The video revealed that the ISIS set civilians’ houses, government’s buildings, oil and vehicles tires ablaze to block the vision of Iraqi Army Aviation that targets the group’s headquarters and hideouts.
Hamdaniyah district, which is located to the south of the city of Mosul, is one of the districts inhabited by Christian majority, in addition to villages inhabited by Yazidis and Shabak, who suffered several brutal acts by the ISIS terrorist gangs.
The video also declared that the Islamic state members robbed the contents of the civilians’ houses and destroyed infrastructure in the district, before setting the buildings ablaze.
Despite the damage left by the ISIS in the district, Hamdaniyah residents celebrated the liberation, and formed Hashd Masehi (Christian militia) to control and protect the area, as well as providing support to the security forces and allowing them to advance and chase the remaining ISIS members. Video report at the link
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Leader at al-Hashd al-Shaabi, Odai al-Khedran, announced on Wednesday, that the Islamic State extremist group executed three suicide bombers, including a Saudi, in the district of Hawija, after escaping from a detention center.
Khedran said in a press statement, “The ISIS executed three of his suicide bombers holding Arab nationalities, including a 20-year-old Saudi member, after escaping from a detention center in Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk.”
“The executed suicide bombers were informed to be prepared to launch a suicide attack using booby-trapped vehicles,” Khedran added. “The ISIS detains its suicide bombers inside prison-like centers to isolate them from any outer effects,” Khedran explained.
ISIS captured the district of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk since June 2014, and it is considered one of its key strongholds in Iraq.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The self-proclaimed Islamic State extremist group executed 30 civilians in central Mosul by electrocution for collaborating with security forces, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
Alsumaria News stated, “The members of the Islamic State, today, electrocuted 30 civilians to death in one of its headquarters in the eastern coast of Mosul on charges of collaboration with security forces.”
“The terrorist group filmed the execution of the civilians, after being sentenced to death by the so-called ISIS Sharia Court in Wilayet Ninewa,” Alsumaria explained. “The ISIS was detaining the executed civilians inside one of its prisons in the western coast of the city,” Alsumaria added.
Security forces continue battles to liberate the province of Nineveh from the ISIS grip, backed by international coalition and Iraqi aviation.
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The death toll from terrorist attacks with shells and explosive rounds on the residential neighborhoods in Aleppo rose to 6 martyrs and 24 injured persons, including children and women.
A source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA’s correspondent that terrorist organizations fired rocket shells on the Aleppo university campus, claiming the lives of 6 persons and injuring 20 others, all of whom are students and families who live in the place, in addition to people who were displaced from their homes as a result of terrorist attacks.
The reporter pointed out that terrorist organizations also targeted with rocket shells the faculties of Biology and Economy, causing material damage.
Earlier, the source said that 4 people, 3 of them women, were injured by rocket shells and explosive rounds fired by terrorists on al-Hamadaniyeh and New Aleppo neighborhoods in Aleppo city.
The reporter added that the attack also caused significant material damage to citizens’ houses and properties.
One person was killed and another was injured on Wednesday by sniping and heavy machinegun fire by terrorist organizations on the village of Hadar in the countryside of Quneitra province.
SANA reporter said that terrorists of al-Nusra positioned in Tuloul al-Humr targeted the citizens’ houses in Hadar village in the northern countryside of the province with sniper and heavy machinegun fire, killing one person and injuring another.
The terrorist attack also caused material damage to the citizens’ houses.
Meanwhile in Idleb province, one man was killed when Jaish al-Fateh terrorists targeted with sniper fire on Wednesday the terrorist-besieged al-Fou’a town in the northern countryside of the province.
Local sources in the town told SANA that terrorists located in Bennish town opened fire with sniper rifles on the residential neighborhoods of al-Fou’a, claiming the life of one person.
In the afternoon, one person was killed and three others were injured by a mortar shell fired by terrorists from Jaish al-Islam at Harasta area in Damascus Countryside.
A source at the Police Command told SANA that terrorists fired a mortar shell at the surroundings of the Panorama in Harasta, killing one person and inflicting wounds of varying severity on 3 others.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke to Donald Trump on the telephone on Wednesday [9 Nov], congratulating him on his victory in the U.S. presidential election and seeking to foster closer diplomatic ties, an Egyptian presidency statement said.
"The U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressed his utmost appreciation to the president, pointing out that his was the first international call he had received to congratulate him on winning the election," the statement said.
"President Trump said he looked forward to meeting the president (again) soon." Tell your MSNBC friends about this ASAP
The Egyptians are quite proud of this.
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Been a long time since we had one with extensive business experience, particularly bankruptcy (hey can you say 18 trillion dollars in debt?) and understands the process that employs 'Americans' versus Marxist economic theory.
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extensive business experience, particularly bankruptcy
Grom Jr. Asked me about that - somebody told him in school that bankruptcies prove that Trump is failure (I do wish he and his pals start talking about girls). I told him bankruptcy means a man willing to admit he was wrong - unlike O or H who are never wrong no matter what.
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Does this mean I have to 'take responsibility' for Trump, g(r)om (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean? It's probably the only time, but that had to be the most nonsensical thing I've ever seen you post.
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Blockchain is our key to removing power from people. If it can be done properly, it could become a very effective, truthful, and reliable way to government by the people.
It is an interesting study to say the least.
[Iran Press TV] Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... , who lost the 2016 presidential election in a dramatic shift of events on Tuesday, says the fact that more people have voted for her than her opponent GOP nominee Donald Trump, means that the American people "counted" on her.
Addressing her supporters at New Yorker Hotel on Wednesday, the Democratic flag-bearer said she was not trying to "sugarcoat" her loss, urging Democrats to remain "focused on what each of us in our own ways can do to really keep standing up for those values, and doing all that we can do together to represent them."
Clinton fell short of 47 electoral votes with 228, compared to Trump who got 279 to become the US president, however, more people narrowly voted for the Democrat to win the popular vote (48 percent to 47 percent).
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The people were counting on us?
It could mean there was a lot of "rigging" too Madame.
What happened to the other 31 electoral votes (or is it 28? 535, I thought, 538 I read recently).
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The Dem media is still in denial over Michigan and Arizona and won't add their numbers to the total (even with 100% of the polls reporting in those states) - a number over 300 looks too much like a landslide in Trump's favor...that is why they report the lower number. Just stating the obvious I guess.
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There were too many reports of machines switching votes to Hillary (not one to Trump) to believe the most people voted for Hildabeast.
Trump and Bannion KNEW this was going to happen therefore campaigned in a manner that would flood the system with as many legitimate votes as possible. This shows the Trump team was resilient.
The rest was taken cared of by the brilliant electoral college concept established by the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Little did they realize they were establishing a process that would defeat vote rigging in isolated areas of the country.
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A popular vote victory and electoral loss means you ran up the score in places that you didn't need. That's a sign of brainwashed masses and bad campaign strategy (perhaps believing nonsense polls).
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Now RJ, in your system (winner take all) the losers (both parties) always claim they had the popular vote. In proportional representation the losers claim other things.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia is ready to do its part to fully restore ties with Washington following the election of businessman Donald Trump as the next US President, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... said on Wednesday.
Trump stunned the world by defeating heavily favored rival Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Jeremiah S. Black ... in Tuesday’s presidential election, ending eight years of Democratic rule and sending the United States on a new, uncertain path.
Among those uncertainties will be the Trump administration’s future relations with Russia. Ties between Washington and Moscow have become increasingly strained over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and allegations of Russian cyber-attacks featured in the US election campaign.
"We heard the campaign statements of the future US presidential candidate about the restoration of relations between Russia and the United States," Putin said on Wednesday at a ceremony to receive credentials from new foreign ambassadors.
"It is not an easy path, but we are ready to do our part and do everything to return Russian and American relations to a stable path of development," he added.
"This would be good for both the Russian and American people and have a positive impact on the climate of world affairs."
Trump is widely viewed as friendly to the Kremlin and Putin has said previously his future counterpart is a talented and colorful character.
The Kremlin said earlier on Wednesday Russia hoped coordination with the United States over the war in Syria, where the two countries back opposing sides, would improve under the new US president.
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I voted for Trump! During the Primaries Cruz was my choice, and I voted for him. Say what you will about the Donald, his administration and Presidency is probably going to be very interesting. Indeed.
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Trump was not my choice in the primaries but as the good ones dropped out and the others revealed their true RINO selves I was glad he won. Voted for Cruz way back then cause Walker had already folded.
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Dennis Miller once said he would do it. I don't know how things stand now, but I miss listening to him in the morning almost as much as I miss my morning run. He is awesome!
[Iran Press TV] Syrian army soldiers and allied fighters have shot down 14 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operated by foreign-backed forces of Evil in the southwestern province of Dara’a.
An unidentified military source said on Wednesday that the drones intended to carry out reconnaissance missions and target a number of Syrian army positions.
The development came amid latest gains made by the Syrian forces against Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... elements operating in the Arab country.
Also on Wednesday, the Syrian army units and allies wrested control of al-Hikma school on the western outskirts of Aleppo.
An unnamed military source said that the advance came after festivities with terrorists, mostly from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , formerly known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front. The fighting inflicted dozens of casualties on the forces of Evil and destroyed their equipment.
Elsewhere, the Syrian troops foiled an attack on a number of military posts to the east of Hadir on the northern outskirts of Quneitra province. The fighting killed scores of the forces of Evil and destroyed their vehicles, some of which were equipped with heavy machine guns.
A number of other forces of Evil further bit the dust after another Syrian army unit targeted gatherings of forces of Evil and their supply routes in the countryside of Quneitra.
Clashes were also reported with Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in Mashara in eastern Quneitra.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... another military source said the Syrian forces had destroyed a ISIS vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun, a mortar launcher and a bulldozer in al-Tharda Mountain and along the eastern barricade of Dayr al-Zawr Airport.
The airport’s garrison targeted ISIS hideouts with artillery fire in Dayr al-Zawr’s al-Orfi neighborhood, killing nine forces of Evil and obliterating their arms and munitions.
Since March 2011, Syria has been hit by militancy it blames on some Western states and their regional allies. Backed by Russian air cover, the Syrian military is engaged in an operation to rid the country of ISIS and other terrorist groups.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura have put the corpse count from the conflict at more than 300,000 and 400,000, respectively. This is while the UN has stopped its official casualty count in the Arab country, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.
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"Pull!"
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I'm expecting more 'unfortunate' incidents like this in the weeks/months to come.
Somebody around here had an actual link to the body count running total, but can't seem to find anything other than WND or InfoWar related crap. on google
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Fake but accurate, Tennessee?
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Mullah - an aspiring "Lurid Crime Stories" fiction writer is on the loose I guess.
#13
Rantburg is a team project. This is one of the things this team is very good at, dear Blossom Unains5562. You aren't the first to get caught this way, and you assuredly won't be the last, to include those of the moderators who didn't catch it before publishing. You'll be more careful next time.
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Rantburg is a team project. This is one of the things this team is very good at, dear Blossom Unains5562. You aren't the first to get caught this way, and you assuredly won't be the last, to include those of the moderators who didn't catch it before publishing. You'll be more careful next time.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Kirkuk Police Command announced on Wednesday thwarting a new terrorist plan to attack governmental institutions in the province and arresting the perpetrators.
Brigadier General Omar Aref, Kirkuk Police Chief, said in a statement during a press conference at the Command’s headquarters, “Security forces managed to foil a terrorist plan of a group of six people to attack the state’s institutions in the province.”
“The perpetrators were arrested and transferred to a detention center for interrogation,” Aref added.
Earlier this week, security forces in the province of Kirkuk arrested seven members of the Islamic State, and killed seven others by a coalition air strike, in southern Kirkuk.
ISIS attacked Kirkuk on the 21st of October 2016, and managed to capture several areas, before security forces foil the attack and retake the captured areas.
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Even the black and brown ones? Mr. Trump did better with those demographics than Mr. Romney did.
[Iran Press TV] US Republican president-elect Donald Trump won the race against her Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... by causing "white America" to panic and stirring "white fear" among people who do not want minorities to grow, says an American political analyst.
Speaking to Press TV on Wednesday, Alan Bean, an executive director at the Friends of Justice, said there was a significant reason why the Democratic Party lost the race to the White House despite having the elite and the mass media on their side.
"The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.
"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted.
The election result indicated that America is reaching a "tipping point" where minorities are "growing very rapidly" while the younger generations are increasingly developing liberal mindsets.
David French of the National Review digs into the statistics:
Last night, CNN analyst Van Jones — after offering his congratulations to Trump supporters — got quite emotional, claiming Trump’s win represented something he called a “whitelash.” Here’s the footage:
Video at the link.
If the data supports his assertion, we shouldn’t shrink from it. Indeed, the notion that identity politics from the Left is being met with identity politics from the Right is nearly received conventional wisdom, as is the notion that our nation is more racially polarized than any time in recent memory.
Or maybe not. The exit polls are remarkable. Would you believe that Mitt Romney won a greater percentage of the white vote than Donald Trump? Mitt took 59 percent while Trump won 58 percent. Would you believe that Trump improved the GOP’s position with black and Hispanic voters? Obama won 93 percent of the black vote. Hillary won 88 percent. Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote. Hillary won 65 percent. Critically, millions of minority voters apparently stayed home. Trump’s total vote is likely to land somewhere between John McCain’s and Romney’s (and well short of George W. Bush’s 2004 total), while the Democrats have lost almost 10 million voters since 2008.
And all this happened even as Democrats doubled-down on their own identity politics. Black Lives Matter went from a fringe movement to the Democratic mainstream in the blink of an eye. Radical sexual politics were mainstreamed even faster. White voters responded mainly by voting in the same or lesser numbers as the last three presidential elections. That’s not a “whitelash,” it’s consistency.
As I know all too well, a portion of Trump’s online support is viciously racist. Conservative and liberal Americans can and must exercise extreme vigilance to insure that not one alt-right “thinker” has a place in the Trump administration, but it’s simply wrong to attribute Trump’s win to some form of great white wave. Trump won because minority voters let him win. The numbers don’t lie. The “coalition of the ascendant” stayed home.
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"The really amazing things about this election is that all of the elites in America, whether we are talking about the universities, the academy, the financial people on Wall Street, the captains of industry, certainly the mass media... almost all newspapers in the United States endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said.
"Even Fox News which usually is the voice of the very conservative white America was somewhat divided on Trump... and yet he won," the analyst noted
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They've sure confused me plenty over the years.
Re fear...
Most triggering thing about whiteness
For students of Whitey's uptightness?
Bombarded by rudeness
And crudeness and lewdness,
His hatred's still masked by politeness.
#7
The day after they voted for the black Marxists the whites in America were called racists. Perhaps the word has been more than a little overused and no longer has any sting left.
#1
Venezuela is rioting FOR the ability to vote and these clowns are protesting and trying to overthrow it in the US.
Not your president? I had to put up with 8 years of Obama and you telling me "You Lost". Get the F out. Trump won, if you don't like it, then LEAVE. There are borders to the North and South.
Anything else is massively disrespectful of our government system and the Constitution.
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Didn't take MoveOn.org but one day to get cranked up...
...Given the Politico article from yesterday (which tries to suggest that Malificent knew from the beginning that she was going to get b!tchslapped on Election Day) you might even think that the nice folks at MoveOn never really believed in a Democratic victory at all and planned accordingly...
Mike
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Same riots would have happened if he'd lost. It's their culture. We need to learn to respect it and marvel at it's beauty.
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Million dollar sources of MoveOn founding include financier George Soros and his wife, Susan Weber Soros, Peter B. Lewis, chief executive of the Progressive Corp., and Linda Pritzker, of the Hyatt hotel family, and her Sustainable World Corp.
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Protesters, For Crying-Out-Loud, Get over yourselves. Trump will soon be creating an opportunity for you to get out of your parents basement and get a job. But maybe that doesn't pay as well as being a Soros-funded protester. In the meantime, you might do a little research and find out who the puppeteers are who are pulling your strings.
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Yeah, I remember all the protests and riots I participated in after obooboo was elected - twice. Good times, good times... /sarc
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From Besoeker's Bloomberg link, this bit of amusement:
Chicago resident Michael Burke said he believes the president-elect will "divide the country and stir up hatred." He added there was a constitutional duty not to accept that outcome.
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WTF happened in Idaho and Utah? look at vote change
I don't know about Idaho (I don't know anything about Idaho except potatoes, sorry), but in Utah that might have been offended Mormon anti-Trump votes choosing Hillary Clinton instead of that Mormon CIA man, Evan McMullin, who had stepped up at the last minute because he couldn't abide Trump and wanted to provide a nucleus for the Republican party to form around after he lost.
#12
These snowflakes (and their "professors") need to be taught the importance of and how they can contribute to the general well-being of the nation. Enough of this "It didn't go my way, so my voice must otherwise be heard" bull-hockey.
Anarchy is more dramatic than persuasion, but, sans social media, it can be a quick fizzler. OTOT, it does help you pick up chicks.
Punishment for damage or assault?: 2 months on the US/Mexican border learning wall assembly.
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Agree with BrerRabbit except it was supposed to be a mandate victory parade. Guess they only printed victory signs.
Read a quick today. Guy convinced me he is no Trump fan, but these protests:
-Are you not doing exactly what you accused Trump supporters of maybe doing?
-Why not protest the DNC for selecting such an awful candidate?
-Are you protesting the election process; protesting elections?
-Blocking traffic and acting the crybaby fool is exactly why Trump won.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon to react on Donald Trump’s election as the new US president.
The group in its statement said "Thee US election appears to show the victory of the Republican presidential runner Donald Trump."
The Taliban statement further added "Our message to him is that the US government policies should be made in a way that do not compromise with the freedom of the other nations and do not seek its interests in the killing and conviction of the others."
The statement further added that the adoption of such a policy will lead to universal peace and will put an end to the ongoing violence.
Taliban urged the newly elected US President to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan as it claimed victory in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, claiming that the US should not further harm its prestige, economy, forces and generals in the country.
The statement by Taliban comes as the US Ambassador to Afghanistan Michael McKinley earlier said the presidential election in United States will not affect the policies of Washington in Afghanistan and the bilateral pacts available between the two countries.
"Today I was asked many times what the impacts of these elections would be on US-Afghanistan relations and my answer is always the same, America’s long term commitment to our partnership with Afghanistan was renewed this year in Warsaw and Brussels. The US Afghan relationship will remain strong and and close because it is based not anyone election, leader or party on our common interests, our people to people ties, our shared values that so deeply rooted," Ambassador McKinely said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. met with the iconic Afghan woman Sharbat Gula and her family members after they returned to Afghanistan after more than 30 years.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani handed over the key of an apartment to Gula as he called her a symbol of pain, oppression, and the hopes of Afghanistan and portraying the war-torn Afghanistan and refugees as she spent many years in refuge during the war times.
President Ghani further added that the presence of the Afghan nation is incomplete since some of the Afghans are still residing in refuge outside the country and the government is committed to pave the way for return of the Afghan refugees to fill the gap.
An individual representing Sharbat Gula and her family urged the government to assist her with providing education opportunities to the children of Gula.
In his turn, President Ghani promised that the government will take care of the living conditions of Gula’s family, including education and healthcare.
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Mr Trump is half Scottish - his mother Mary MacLeod being from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. She grew up in a simple croft until she landed in Manhattan at the age of 20 and her first language was Gaelic.
Hmm. We gott'm MacLeods in the extended fablee. Wouldn't it be funny...
JEDDAH: Houthi militias have held up 34 humanitarian aid ships carrying medical and urgent assistance for more than 186 days, said Maj. Gen. Ahmed Al-Asiri, spokesman of the Arab Coalition Forces.
Houthis, who are controlling the ports, are denying entry to these ships to deliver aid, he added.
“There are currently no UN representatives in Al-Hudaida Port — which is the largest and under the control of the Houthis — to ensure the delivery of aid and medical products, and to monitor their distribution,” said Al-Asiri, adding that the aid has been held in the port for the past six months, unable to reach those in need.
Riyadh- Official Spokesman of the Directorate of Civil Defense in Najran Captain Abdulkhaleq al-Qahtani explained that civil defense men rushed to the scene of the attack after receiving information on the fall of military projectiles over Najran’s al-Khadra’a border.
The projectiles, which were shelled by Houthi militias from Yemen, targeted a clinic, causing the injury of an Indian worker, who was taken to a hospital to be treated.
Al-Qahtani said that concerned parties have started implementing the adopted measures in such cases.
“What should I say to my students after the election if Trump wins?” a principal asked me recently. Good question. What should we tell our children? Mommy's a kommie. Plan to start drinking heavily when you get into high skool...
Tell them, first, that we will protect them. Tell them that we have democratic processes in the U.S. that make it impossible for one mean person to do too much damage. Tell them that we will protect those democratic processes ― and we will use them ― so that Trump is unable to act on many of the false promises he made during his campaign.
Tell them, second, that you will honor the outcome of the election, but that you will fight bigotry. Tell them bigotry is not a democratic value, and that it will not be tolerated at your school. Tell them you stand by your Muslim families. Your same-sex parent families. Your gay students. Your Black families. Your female students. Your Mexican families. Your disabled students. Your immigrant families. Your trans students. Your Native students. Tell them you won’t let anyone hurt them or deport them or threaten them without having to contend with you first. Say that you will stand united as a school community, and that you will protect one another. Say that silence is dangerous, and teach them how to speak up when something is wrong. Then teach them how to speak up, how to love one another, how to understand each other, how to solve conflicts, how to live with diverse and sometimes conflicting ideologies, and give them the skills to enter a world that doesn’t know how to do this. Bigotry is free speech and therefore is very much a "democratic value."
Teach them, third, how to be responsible members of a civic society. Teach them how to engage in discussion—not for the sake of winning, but for the sake of understanding and being understood. Students need to learn how to check facts, to weigh news sources, to question taken-for-granted assumptions, to see their own biases, to take feedback, to challenge one another. We need to teach students how to disagree—with love and respect. These skills will be priceless in the coming months and years as we work to build a democratic society that protects the rights of all people ― regardless of the cooperation or resistance those efforts face from the executive branch.
Finally, remind them ― to ease their minds ― that not everyone who voted for Donald Trump did so because they believe the bigoted things that he has said this year. Many of them voted for him because they feel are frustrated with the economy, they feel socially have been left behind, and they are exercising the one power they have. We need to challenge Trump and his supporters to differentiate between their fears and the bigotry catalyzed by those fears.
In the aftermath of this traumatic election, Heh
I hesitate to even exercise my voice in this way. In the past year, I received hate mail and a death threat from white supremacists for blog posts like this ― blog posts that are, let’s be honest, fairly insignificant expressions of personal opinion from a person with very little power. I am not a threat. And yet people have threatened me ― and my family ― for expressing my view that we should build a world in which all human beings can live freely in the wholeness of their identities. I fear that this kind of intimidation will only increase in the event of a Trump victory. I fear that it will worsen tomorrow ― as soon as I hit send ― if Trump supporters are emboldened in their aggression towards people with whom they disagree. And yet the only thing that makes me feel safe in this moment ― as I stare into the face of a possible of a Trump victory ― is to speak up and speak out, and to invite others to do the same. Not justifying death threats, but I suspect you voiced your opinion about attacking people for their views under the color of law and using allies in the government. If you did, death threats are an entirely reasonable response. BREAKING: Trump evicts black family and aging granny from Government housing and occupies the building himself! Eviction to take place 20 January 2017.
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Dont TELL them a damned thing other than election happen and to congratulate the winner and move on. Besides, "telling the children" is their parent's job.
#5
As an aside speaking of children. Part of Trump's message while campaigning was "We are going to get rid of Common Core (or maybe it should be called Commie Core)." I was surprised at how people not only knew about Common Core but were resoundingly against it.
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A terrified lady of Dayton
Gets letters from Hell, full of hatin'!
Block printed in crayon...
A thread of red rayon...
And every last one is signed, "Satan."
#7
Maybe you should tell the kiddies to get out more, move among more members of the real world communities out there, empathize don't demonize while they're out there. Oh, and check the privilege your mommy installed in you about how superior in thought and deed you are.
#9
How about zipping up with brain washing and teaching them the staff you drones are supposed to teach: how to write in English, sciences, math etc...?
#12
Some broad from the Boston Globe wrote something of a similar strain. I sent her an e-mail asking what the phrase 'consent of the governed' meant to her (thanks for the reminder, Procopious 2k!).
I just checked my e-mail, and to no one's surprise, she hasn't responded yet. She won't respond at all, because she'll only believe in 'consent of the governed' when it goes her way.
#13
Pretty much every contest has a winner and a loser. They should understand that by the time they are in school.
We also have a system of government in which the results are not for life, Trump will be out of office in 4 or 8 years so they can chill.
We also have a media that lies through their teeth to promote one party over the other. Perhaps the principle should teach the children about that so they can get some critical thinking started.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets several major urban centers in America Wednesday night to protest the results of the presidential election.
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[Daily Excelsior] Separatists today issued fresh week-long protests giving no relief to the people from strikes which have paralysed life in 
[DAWN] THERE is madness, then there’s Trump. Since a lot of lyrical indignation has already been expressed about the horrors of a Trump presidency, let me dwell on a comparison here that others have not tried to undertake yet.
If you enjoyed The Political Insider's picture mashup of liberals in a complete and utter tear-filled mess over Hillary Clinton losing was a blast, then we've got a treat for you.
Miley Cyrus took to Twitter on Wednesday, November 9, to share an emotional video of herself breaking down in tears as she addressed Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump in this year's presidential election.
Aden-Somalia was the first country on Tuesday to relocate its embassy from Sana’a to the temporary capital of Aden. Yemen welcomed the decision and called on other states to follow suit.
[AA.TR] Kenya started withdrawing its soldiers from a South Sudan UN-backed peacekeeping mission on Wednesday.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Ben Carson said he would help President-elect Donald Trump construct a replacement to Obamacare. 
Hillary Clinton
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hillary Clinton
#8 I just heard on the television news that the Congressional commmittees intend to continue their investigations of the lady who will not be president. 
Hillary Clinton
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent gang leader involved in major crimes including murders and robberies was killed during an operation in 
Hillary Clinton
Smallish fee los transferenado ? 
Hillary Clinton
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hillary Clinton
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
When you decolonise ballet...you end up with this. 
