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Turkish military seizes strategic summit in Iraqi-Kurdistan
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-War on Police-
Five Guys Employees Fired After Refusing Service to Police Officers
[BREITBART] Multiple Five Guys employees have been fired or suspended from the Daphne, Alabama, location after they refused to serve members of the Daphne Police Department, according to a statement from the company.Earlier this week, Alabama-based Yellowhammer News reported that three Daphne coppers were refused service when they entered the Five Guys restaurant in Alabama.

The statement read:

Five Guys and the Daphne, AL franchise want to thank the Daphne Police Department for their support in working together toward a resolution. The actions the Daphne, AL franchise have taken include termination and suspension of the employees involved. The store has temporarily closed for further education and customer service training with a representative from the Daphne Police Department and will reopen at 4PM today, July 10th.

"Please know that the actions and sentiments of a few employees in Daphne, AL do not represent Five Guys or the local franchisee," Five Guys wrote in response to a concerned Twitter user. "The actions the Daphne, AL franchise have taken include termination and suspension of the employees involved."
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The store has temporarily closed for further education and customer service training with a representative from the Daphne Police Department

Use their own methods against them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/12/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  When I was in grade school, Office Friendly™ visited once a year to give the safety (stay away from strangers, go tell mom) lecture to the lower grades and the stay off dope lecture to the middle grades. The most violent thing that ever happened was a dust-up on the playground. Now, schools have "resource officers" and we saw how well that worked out at Parkland. Next, the Edu-stablishment wants coppers out of the schools altogether. Anyone want to wager on the direction of the trend line.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Officer Friendly™
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Once metal detectors were employed at schools, that said it all.
Posted by: Clem || 07/12/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Over 500 Taliban-Requested Detainees May Not Be Released: Sediqqi
[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Saturday said that there are serious reservations about the release of over 500 Taliban
...Arabic for students...
prisoners within the country’s legal and judicial institutions, and most likely these detainees will not be released.

"Our system (Afghanistan’s legal and judicial system) may not allow a number of the Taliban, who may not be the Taliban--or the individuals who were listed and are accused with other issues--to be released," said Sediq Sediqqi, a front man to President 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...
On June 6, the Afghan government revealed one of the main reasons behind the delay in the intra-Afghan negotiations, saying it is not releasing 597 prisoners of the 5,000 inmates that were to be freed as part of the confidence-building measures established in the US-Taliban agreement signed in late February.

These individuals are accused of "crimes and moral issues" and are on a list that was given to the government by the Taliban, said Ahmad Rashid Totakhil, head of the prisoners’ release affairs.

Later on July 9, The Taliban handed over a replacement list for the 592 prisoners which were originally rejected as release candidates by Afghan govt, a source said on Thursday.

But, the Presidential Palace has said that the list so far has not been shared.

The government so far released 4,019 prisoners and the Taliban has released 737 prisoners.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that in recent days, the international community has reaffirmed their commitments to the democratic system and the grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.

"Participants at the meetings described the continued violence as unacceptable and called on the Taliban to reduce violence and get ready to engage in peace talks," said Geran Hewad, a front man for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, referring to the recent virtual meetings on Afghan grinding of the peace processor.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, the reconciled leader of Hizb-e-Islami, has said that the intra-Afghan talks should be held in a country which is not under the influence of the US.

He called on the Taliban to stop violence and avoid making barriers in the way of peace.

"Peace with invaders and war with the Afghan rivals do not have Sharia (Islamic) and logical justification," said Hekmatyar.

The Taliban has said that the group will not endorse the intra-Afghan talks unless the Afghan government releases its 5,000 prisoners from the jails.

The release of the Taliban prisoners is part of the US-Taliban deal signed in Doha in late February.

According to the Afghan government, so far, 4,019 Taliban prisoners have been released.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2020 03:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Hopefully 'released' into the dead of night at 14,000 AGL strapped securely to 463L pallets.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Why waste the pallets? Just make sure the release occurs over open water. At night. During a storm.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/12/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||


Africa North
New Tunisia protests over unemployment
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Britain
North Korea warns Britain will be 'made to pay the price' for putting two of its state ministries on sanctions list
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A North Korean official said they 'strongly condemn and reject the UK’s daring to impose sanctions'

  • Dominic Raab announced sanctions against those accused of human rights abuses

  • Sanctions are on four nations: Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Myanmar
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2020 10:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Nice try NORKS. Learning from the big brother next door?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/12/2020 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Has Kimmie made a public appearance lately? I'm getting concerned
Posted by: jpal || 07/12/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Only if you count that budget body double
Posted by: Frank G || 07/12/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
Iran sought illegal goods for nuke program - German federal intel
[Jpost] Officials claim no violation of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
deal • Questions abound


Iran’s regime made efforts to secure illicit goods for its nuclear program, adding new urgency to the crisis surrounding Tehran’s alleged atomic weapons activity, the domestic intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany disclosed in a new report.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2020 01:45 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran sought illegal goods for nuke program - German federal intel


Keine Scheiße, Sherlock ...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/12/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Germans may be slow but they eventually arrive at their intended destination.
Posted by: jpal || 07/12/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, they never arrived in Moscow.
Posted by: Canunckistan sniper || 07/12/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||

#4  *Oh SNAP*
Posted by: Frank G || 07/12/2020 20:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Give them a little bit of a break. I think the Germans warned the US that "Curve Ball" was F6.
Posted by: Clem || 07/12/2020 22:15 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Erdogan calls on world to respect Turkey's decision to transform Hagia Sophia into mosque
No. No respect for you, stupid boy.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I believe all it would take to stop this is a call from President Trump. Cmon Pres, take the lead, stop this Islamist freak in his tracks.
Posted by: b || 07/12/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ^And be accused of Russian collision again?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/12/2020 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Was Hagia Sophia ever a mosque?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Constantinople fell in 1453. In the first few hours the Moslem onquerors immediately trashed the cathedral and its Christian symbols and did hideous and cruel things on the altars and to the iconography. Read the original sources from the period referenced in Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar on the fall of Byzantium.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/12/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#5  And from that baptism in blood the day NoMoreBS describes until Kamal Ataturk introduced secularism in 1935(?) it was a mosque. Until this week it was a museum — they even uncovered some of the glorious Christian mosaics in recent years, confident that the situation was permanent. At least there are now photos of them — who knows what destruction Sultan Erdogan I’s neo-Ottomans will glory in.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2020 23:08 Comments || Top||


Iraq
The factions of IMIS militias who kill people for identity. religion. doctrine and opinion
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  But, mostly, for fun.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/12/2020 3:36 Comments || Top||

#2  MSM militias?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/12/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Qassem Soleimani was on 'mission of peace' when he was assassinated: Iran. Really.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Mission of pieces, you mean. And charred pieces, at that!
Posted by: SteveS || 07/12/2020 3:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Yea right, Soleimani was killed due to past behaviors, i.e. he killed American Troops.

Mission accomplished, peace reign again!

Something about "past behaviors is a good indication of future behaviors."

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2020 3:35 Comments || Top||

#3  At this point, what difference does it make?
Posted by: Cesare || 07/12/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  The point is a warning to Iran not to attack American forces or the same thing will happen to the leaders of the attacks.

Killing Soleimani was a good thing as it apparently really hurt Iran if they are still howling and smarting from that!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/12/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
--To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Posted by: magpie || 07/12/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
This Week In Campus Insanity Vol. 1
[FREEBEACON] 6. Memphis Tigers Football Players to Wear Black Lives Matter Stickers on Helmets During 2020 Season | Fox News
The University of Memphis football team is looking to rebound from its embarrassing 2019 Cotton Bowl loss by adorning its helmets with Black Lives Matter stickers this season.

5. Student Invokes Satan to Drive Conservative Group From Campus | Washington Free Beacon
Student activists are demanding that a Texas university remove a conservative group from campus and have even invoked satanic witch rituals to aid the campaign.

4. Penn State Deletes ‘Disgusting’ Tweet Affirming Conservative Students | Campus Reform
The university’s liberal arts department tweeted a graphic supporting conservative as well as black, Latino, LGBT, and other students. It was quickly removed.

3. Cornell Improperly Sends Student Fees to BLM Activists | Washington Free Beacon
Cornell’s student government sent $10,000 in student fees reserved for campus clubs and organizations to Black Lives Matter activists.

2. Marquette University Threatens to Rescind a Student’s Acceptance Over Pro-Trump TikTok Video | The Post Millennial
University administrators grilled a Marquette student after receiving reports that she voiced support for President Donald Trump on TikTok. They have urged her to "improve her image."

1. ‘Feminist Geography’ Professor Argues Tall Buildings are Sexist | The College Fix
Feminist geography professor Leslie Kern wrote an essay in The Guardian arguing that statues, street names, and phallic-shaped buildings—which "ejaculate" into the sky—are symbols of a society steeped in toxic masculinity.

Posted by: Fred || 07/12/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Squat structures that cling to the Earth
Impress us at times by their girth.
If they meet Mr. Right on a tight enough night,
They might even aspire to give birth!
Posted by: Thramble Sleaper7881 || 07/12/2020 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  About what I was expecting from Ms. Kern - not much.
Posted by: Raj || 07/12/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2020-07-12
  Turkish military seizes strategic summit in Iraqi-Kurdistan
Sat 2020-07-11
  Turkey issues presidential decree to convert Hagia Sophia back into mosque
Fri 2020-07-10
  Latest explosions in Tehran reportedly hit warehouses of rockets that belong to the IRGC
Thu 2020-07-09
  Yemen's Ansarallah forces threaten to target Saudi palaces
Wed 2020-07-08
  22 Taliban militants killed, wounded on Kabul-Jalalabad highway
Tue 2020-07-07
  Iraqi security analyst Husham Al Hashimi assassinated outside his Baghdad home
Mon 2020-07-06
  Sen Tammy Duckworth in favor of tearing down George Washington Statues!
Sun 2020-07-05
  Officer draws gun on two men who beat him in the Bronx— de Blasio calls for his resignation
Sat 2020-07-04
  Happy Fourth!
Fri 2020-07-03
  MSNBC Dubs Mount Rushmore as a 'Racist' 'Symbol of White Supremacy'
Thu 2020-07-02
  Massacre reported in Irapuato, Mexico — 24 people dead
Wed 2020-07-01
  Lebanon’s army has scrapped meat from all meals it offers to soldiers on duty as food prices skyrocket
Tue 2020-06-30
  Denmark Jails Man over Iran-Backed Assassination Plot
Mon 2020-06-29
  Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claiming responsibility for Karachi Stock Exchange attack. Majeed sucide Brigade
Sun 2020-06-28
  Leb officials apologize to US ambassador after judge issued order banning her from speaking to media

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