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Africa North
Acting president of Libya , and Libyan Parliament Speaker #HoR Ageela Saleh arrives in Russia
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Head of Tunisia's Free Destourian Party has called for the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned in the Tunisian Parliament
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  This would mean that the powerful Ennahda Party would be gutted.
Posted by: b || 06/09/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  One assumes that means it won’t happen, b. A pity.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||


Egyptian Army reveals truth about moving forces to Libyan border
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Egyptian Army has been accused of moving its forces to the Libyan border to assist the Libyan National Army (LNA) against the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces.

Citing Egyptian Army sources, RT Arabic revealed that the forces of the northern military zone of the Egyptian army stationed in Alexandria, moved towards the Egyptian-Libyan border to tighten security measures there.

The sources confirmed that the 3rd Army is not responsible for securing this area, as it is located in the Suez region and it is its responsibility to secure the borders there, as some of the forces of the northern region were sent to tighten the procedures there, especially after the Cairo initiative to reach a solution in the Libyan crisis.

The Northern Military Region is one of the four military regions of the Egyptian Armed Forces and its headquarters are located in Alexandria, where it has carried out a number of training activities with the navy and elements of the Special Forces within the framework of the massive "Qader 2020" maneuvers previously launched by Egypt.

On Sunday, social media in Egypt circulated videos said to be of the "3rd Army in Egypt as they were moving west towards the Libyan border."
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Europe
Growing understanding at the European level of the need to take stronger action against Hezbollah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


The Grand Turk
Rioters in US are linked to ‘terrorists’ in Syria: Erdogan
Sure they are.
And Gulenists
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
stated in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
that those behind the riots in the United States are linked to the Kurdish units in northern Syria.

In a statement to the Ottoman Turkish presidency on Monday, Erdogan expressed his "fears that the elements behind the violence and looting in the United States are linked to the terrorist organization, the People’s Protection Units — Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operating in northern Syria."

The statement also indicated that Erdogan and Trump discussed bilateral relations and regional issues, including the crisis in Libya.

It is reported that the PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
and the United States.

Ankara considers the "Kurdish People’s Protection Units" in Syria an arm for Kurdish workers, while those units form the nucleus of the "Syrian Democratic Forces", one of Washington’s most prominent allies in Syria, who enjoys American support.

The United States has been experiencing two weeks of massive protests, accompanied by violence, riots and festivities between police and protesters, following the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police in the state of Minnesota.

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  He should know, since they're on his payroll
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/09/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Appeals court says Trump Muslim travel ban cannot be challenged
[IsraelTimes] A federal appeals court on Monday ordered a lower court to dismiss legal challenges to President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s three-year-old ban on travelers from predominantly Moslem countries, finding that a judge misinterpreted a Supreme Court ruling.
Oh dear. That’s not the kind of remark that makes a personnel file shine when promotions are in the offing.
The ban, put in place just a week after Trump took office in January 2017, sparked an international outcry from Moslem advocates and others who said it was rooted in religious bias.

A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a federal judge in Maryland made a mistake when he refused to dismiss three lawsuits, after the Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2018 in a separate case filed in Hawaii.

"We conclude that the district court misunderstood the import of the Supreme Court’s decision in Hawaii and the legal principles it applied," Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote in the unanimous decision.

The Supreme Court ruling had found that the ban has a "legitimate grounding in national security concerns."

During a hearing in January, Mark Mosier, an attorney representing US citizens and permanent residents whose relatives have been unable to enter the US because of the ban, asked the court to allow the legal challenges to proceed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 02:12 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some black robed tyrants get their wigs set on fire? (yea, I know, I know, but ...)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  First, Trump *is* the President, which gives him the legal right to do President stuff, no matter whose hair is on fire.
Second, it was *not* a Muslim ban, no matter how many times it gets called that. It was a ban on travelers from specific countries.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||

#3  a federal judge in Maryland made a mistake when he refused to dismiss three lawsuits

A very generous interpretation of his actions. Is he still a judge? Will it affect his pay or responsibilities? Will he have to go back to school to learn his job?
Posted by: gorb || 06/09/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
ICC: Abbas ripping up Oslo Accords doesn’t change war crimes probe
[IsraelTimes] The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s statement that the Oslo Accords are no longer valid due to Israeli threats of annexation does not change her view that the "State of Paleostine" can transfer criminal jurisdiction over its territory to The Hague.

In a written statement, Fatou Bensouda says that Abbas’s speech has no bearing "on the status of Paleostine as a State Party to the Rome Statute and on the exercise of the court’s jurisdiction in the situation in Paleostine."

Last month, Abbas said during speech in Ramallah that Paleostine is not bound by any agreements with Israel. After the ICC asked for clarifications regarding the status of the Oslo Accords, the PA said that all agreements will be considered null and void if Israel goes ahead with its annexation plans.

She reiterates her concern over Jerusalem’s stated intention to annex parts of the West Bank, but adds that any such move "has no legal validity and the law of occupation continues to apply."

It is now up to a pre-trial chamber with three judges to rule whether the court has or does not have jurisdiction to proceed with an investigation into war crimes committed in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 02:13 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Here in ME, dear Fatou Bensouda you disgusting Wakandan sow, we have a saying "Kul kalb baji yomo" (every dog will get what's coming to it).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Over 400 Kurdish Syrian refugees returning to northern Syria
[Rudaw] More than 429 Syrian refugees residing in Bardarash refugee camp have begun returning to their hometowns in northern Syria on Monday, according to the head of the camp.

Located in Duhok province, Bardarash camp is home to 6,528 Syrian refugees, mostly Kurds, who entered the Kurdistan Region in October of last year after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
launched Operation Peace Spring against Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria.

The facility is managed by the Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF). Bewar Karim, head of the camp located 55 kilometres northeast of Erbil province, told Rudaw English on Monday that more than 429 refugees began returning on buses to their hometowns in northern Syria.

"Today [Monday] at least 429 people left Bardarash camp and returned to their hometowns in Rojava [northern Syria]," Karim said. "The return process was implemented in coordination with the Kurdistan Regional government (KRG) and officials in northern Syria."

Karim revealed that the initial number of people planning to return on Monday was 442, but 13 refugees refused to go back to their hometown due to security reasons.

"Some of the refugees who are returning to Rojava are students who need to attend their schools, some others are babus government employees and need to go back to their hometown before getting sacked," Karim said, using the Kurdish name for north-east Syria.

According to Karim, this is the second group of returnees to depart from the camp.

"This is the second batch of refugees to return to their hometowns in northern Syria from Bardarash camp, between October 16, 2019 and March 1, 2020 at least 850 refugees returned," Karim added.

Turkey conducted Operation Peace Spring in collaboration with Syrian proxy groups, who have been condemned since October by local and international leaders and institutions for alleged violation of human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
, including the use of banned weapons and mass civilian population displacement.

According to the KRG’s Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC), 20,790 Syrian refugees have entered the Kurdistan Region since October.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2020 02:32 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
No Palestinian state under annexation plan: Netanyahu
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Israel will not approve the establishment of a Paleostinian state as part of its annexation plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Damn. Shoulda taken that deal of the century.
Netanyahu said the annexation plan for the West Bank will be implemented within a few weeks.

"The annexation plan will not include the establishment of a Paleostinian state, and the government will definitely not approve it," Netanyahu said.

He added that the mapping process for the annexation has not been completed yet.

Israel is expected to annex parts of the occupied West Bank under a plan agreed to by Netanyahu and his rival-turned-ally Benny Gantz, the head of the Blue and White party.

Notably, the Paleostinians want an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, territories Israel captured in a 1967 Middle East war.
Nah, that’s not notable at all.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: PLO

#1  Hurry!
Posted by: borgboy || 06/09/2020 1:10 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Anti-govt. protests restart in #Lebanon against worsening economic woes
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
All medical students in #Iran are now required to take a course in ‘Islamic medicine
That’ll fix that little COVID second wave problem they’re just starting, fer shure.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Does this include the knowledge on how to properly administer 'essential oils'?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/09/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this in addition to, or in place of the semester course on Lysenkoism?
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  "Licking Shrines 101"?
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/09/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  IMHO, our rioter, looter, violence promoters/doers need a good dose of "islamic medicine."
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/09/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Or do they just proscribe goat sex?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/09/2020 19:46 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
George Floyd's Family Petitions United Nations to Help Disarm Police in the United States
Yeah... 'cuz that will work soooo well.
[Breitbart] The family of George Floyd, the black man killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, has sent a letter to the globalist United Nations to ask for its help in disarming police officers in the United States of America.

The family’s legal team facilitated the letter, which was sent on Wednesday, according to NBC News:

The group sent a letter on June 3 to one of the international body’s working groups asking for support for the end of the provision of military equipment and military-type training for police, the teaching of deescalation techniques, independent prosecutions and autopsies for "extrajudicial" police killings, and more.

"When a group of people of any nation have been systemically deprived of their universal human right to life by its government for decades, it must appeal to the international community for its support and to the United Nations for its intervention," Floyd’s family attorney Ben Crump said in a press release.

The U.N. issued a statement on May 28, three days after Floyd’s death, and included the names of other black people in the U.S. who died in police custody. Michelle Bachelet, U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights, is quoted in the statement, which says, in part:

"This is the latest in a long line of killings of unarmed African Americans by U.S. police officers and members of the public," Bachelet said. "I am dismayed to have to add George Floyd’s name to that of Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and many other unarmed African Americans who have died over the years at the hands of the police — as well as people such as Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin who were killed by armed members of the public."

"The US authorities must take serious action to stop such killings, and to ensure justice is done when they do occur. Procedures must change, prevention systems must be put in place, and above all police officers who resort to excessive use of force should be charged and convicted for the crimes committed."

"The role that entrenched and pervasive racial discrimination plays in such deaths must also be fully examined, properly recognized and dealt with," she added.

While saying she understood the anger unleashed by Floyd’s killing, Bachelet urged people in Minneapolis and elsewhere to protest peacefully.

NBC did not report on whether or not the Floyd family or its legal counsel have heard back from the U.N.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/09/2020 09:31 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect they'll be disappointed in the empathy level of African Union peacekeepers.
Posted by: Matt || 06/09/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect "white guilt" is running out.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  So long as nobody blames China for C19, Keapernick and Nike get their shoes selling again, and the Floyd George Money Laundering Foundation is established.

Call it a hat-trick.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Pity to see the Floyd family move from righteous indignation to yet another bunch of grifters. Not surprising though.

Hey, Chicago could use some UN Peacekeepers. That place is a war zone lately. Black people being gunned down left and right.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Benjamin "Trayvon" Crump is their lawyer
Posted by: Frank G || 06/09/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  It would be funny for Trump to send UN troops into Chicago with blue helmets on.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/09/2020 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Blue helmets on their heads. Targets on their backs.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/09/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Who didn’t see this coming as the phalanx of entourage immediately grew around the lawyer and brother? Danegeld as an modern ghetto version is still just Danegeld.
For those who forgot or never knew:
The Danegeld (/ˈdeɪnɡɛld/; "Danish tax", literally "Dane yield" or tribute) was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/09/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Disarm? Figured I'd be more like dislegged.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/09/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#10  My bad, although I like the version that came out. I meant:

It would be funny for Trump to send American troops into Chicago with blue helmets on.


Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/09/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||

#11  At least they probably wouldn't foul the water supply, RJ.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/09/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#12  or have sex with the children.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/09/2020 17:21 Comments || Top||

#13  The UN would be greeted by a rifle behind every burned out car.
Posted by: Large Hatrack3141 || 06/09/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2020-06-09
  North Korea says it will sever
inter-Korean hotlines with South Korea
Mon 2020-06-08
  Egyptian M1 Abrams tank column heading to the border with Libya
Sun 2020-06-07
  Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
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  French forces kill Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader Abdelmalik Droukdel
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  US says Alaska man laundered nearly $1B for Iran through UAE
Thu 2020-06-04
  LA mayor cuts $150m from cops' budget and gives it to communities of color instead
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  Turkish ship delivers tanks to Libya amid mass build up: LNA
Tue 2020-06-02
  Small groups now canvassing LEOs' neighborhoods,
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  Son of Minnesota's attorney general: 'I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA'
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  Afghan Nation Calls for Continued
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