Just checking in to see which stage of Kabuki has been reached.
[ToloNews] Sources said the US and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not reached an agreement on key issues.
Sources close to the Doha talks said the United States and the Taliban negotiators‐on their third day of negotiations--have yet to agree on the terms of a reduction of violence, ceasefire and intra-Afghan negotiations.
Sources said the Taliban consider agreement on a ceasefire a premature decision and that they have only agreed on signing the agreement with the US. Also, the sources said that based on this agreement, if signed, the Taliban will agree not to attack US bases within a distance of 10 kilometers.
The talks began on December 7 and are being carried out behind closed doors.
"The Taliban is insisting on an Islamic government and they are not negotiating with the government of Afghanistan--as a government--and they are not ready to announce a ceasefire at this stage," freelance journalist Sami Yousufzai said.
A government official said the two sides will discuss a reduction of violence, a ceasefire and an intra-Afghan negotiation in order to reach agreement on a peace deal.
Sources close to the Taliban said they hope the talks will yield a result.
"The agreement is almost final. Only a few issues remain that the two sides are discussing and ceasefire is one of them," said Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander. "Let’s see if there will be an agreement on the reduction of violence, ceasefire and intra-Afghan negotiations," he said.
A front man for Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... ’s Office Mujib Rahman Rahimi said Kabul and Washington have coordinated on the peace talks.
"The reduction of violence, agreeing to a ceasefire, forming an inclusive delegation for negotiations and starting intra-Afghan negotiations are the common demands of us and our allies," Rahimi said.
The times, they are a-changing. Thank you, President Trump. And also Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, who so eagerly plays his part.
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar concludes a rare visit to Bahrain, where he met the Arab kingdom’s king, as well as religious leaders from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , Kuwait, Jordan, Leb, Egypt, Russia, the United States, Italia, India, and Thailand.
"Middle East nations want peace with Israel, the leadership should promote that without fear," Amar, the former chief rabbi of Israel, said during his stay, expressing hope that in the future, such visits would not require special preparation.
He was invited by the king to attend an interfaith event. Diplomatic officials and the Foreign Ministry were involved in organizing the visit and the schedule.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has sent five BNP activists to jail in two case filed over sabotage and their alleged attack on the police between Kotowali and Chawk Bazar in Chittagong.
Metropolitan Magistrate passed the order when police produced them to the court on Monday.
Police claim, the attack took place during a procession demanding the release of BNP chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia ...Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, Pak foil, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... on Sunday.
Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Lalbagh Division, confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
The arrestees are ‐ Liton, Md Ashif, Muhin, Rafiqul Islam, and Nurul Afsar Limon.
Muntasirul Islam said: "Two case was filed against 32 men for sabotage and their alleged attack on the police between Kotowali and Chawk Bazar area on Sunday. Police arrested five people at the scene. They are involved with BNP."
In the two cases, the accused were sent to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) in Dhaka on Monday. After hearing both sides, the court allowed the five accused to be interrogated at Jail gate.
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Filmmaker @Cernovich, The Post Millennial editor-at-large @MrAndyNgo, and Fox host @PeteHegseth are among those who have been suspended from Twitter.https://www.thepostmillennial.com/journalists-suspended-from-twitter-for-reporting-on-pensacola-shooters-motivation/ …
Same guy attacked by Antifa in Portland
I was suspended (again). Twitter determined I had violated its rules by sharing screenshots of the Saudi jihadist’s last tweet before his rampage in Pensacola. https://t.co/iUFPPurupY
[Al Jazeera] The uncle of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... avoided court on Monday with the 82-year-old's lawyers saying he was too ill to attend his trial.
Rifaat al-Assad is facing charges of illegally using Syrian state resources to build a French property empire.
Erdogan says If Libya asks Turkey to deploy troops to Libyan territory, he would consider doing so.
“The arms embargo doesn’t ban UN-backed govt to ask other countries to deploy troops to Libyan territory. If that happens we will make a decision. “ pic.twitter.com/5VmQSASIl4
The poor, deserted lad still has nothing better to do than file motions while he waits to die.
[Jpost] This city's deepest wound - the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured hundreds more - will be re-examined Thursday when lawyers for bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
...the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with the older brother he subsequently ran over while fleeing police, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. His divorced parents now live in Russia, having given up on the American dream. Oddly enough, the mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, was founded by Friend of the Clintons and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi in 1981, and is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connctions to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles....
seek to have his death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... lifted because the jury pool was too traumatized to render a fair verdict.
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The bloody 'fondue process'. I've never understood the rationale for allowing people caught in the act and sworn to fight to the death a fair trial.
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There is a legal prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishment.
Thought #1 - making him suffer thru all these (denied) appeals is cruel and unusual. Execute him now.
Thought #2. My legal quibblese dictionary indicates that the language allows punishments that are cruel but not unusual and those that are unusual but not cruel. Drawing and quartering has been in use for hundreds of years, if not recently - so it's not unusual.
The prohibition says nothing about how recent its use has to be to be considered unusual.
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Some punishments are cruel but not unusual.
Some punishments are not cruel but unusual.
Some punishments, like Goldilocks' porridge, are just right. Like Tsarnev's punishment.
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KBK, that's about it
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Off with his head.
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The Founders who wrote that 'cruel and unusual' had no problem executing miscreants. Once again our judiciary aristocracy has taken it upon themselves to ignore Article V and amend the Constitution by fiat.
What they have done by their actions is to absolve themselves of the contract between the people and the state in which the state said it would render justice rather than the traditional vendetta used to render justice.
[Jpost] In a speech to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s 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... slammed Israel and called for Islamic unity among the "brothers and sisters" to confront the West and conspiracies against Islamic countries. Turkey’s ruler insinuated that Turkey was a victim of "terrorist attacks" because of its "principled stance" against "oppression in Jerusalem."
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How about the CIA goes back to foreign regime change instead of trying to overthrow the US.
[Rudaw] In a speech marking 100 days since the current Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinet took office, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Masrour Barzani made a lengthy televised speech detailing its achievements and goals in fighting corruption, improving Erbil-Baghdad relations, and increasing domestic revenue.
"We have made great developments and our works are moving forward on the right track and that considerable achievements have been made," Barzani said. "We reiterate our commitment to work towards a stronger Kurdistan and have a government to serve the people, not the contrary; that has been the basis of our work since day one."
The KRG has made good progress in "improving our relations with the federal government of Baghdad, fighting corruption, restoring transparency to the domestic and public revenues, and ending bureaucracies across government apparatuses," Barzani added.
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[IsraelTimes] Sources within the Israel Defense Forces are quoted by Channel 12 as saying a story reported earlier today by Russian blog Avia alleging that Russian jets had thwarted an Israeli strike in Syria is untrue.
According to the report, which appeared in a blog that is considered unreliable, the Russian jets were scrambled in southern Syria toward Israeli warplanes planning to attack an Iranian shipment at the T-4 base.
[Al Jazeera] August 2017
On August 25, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), later declared a 'terrorist' group by the government, attacks more than 30 police posts, reportedly killing 12 members of security forces.
As the clashes worsen, thousands of Rohingya begin to flee across the border into Bangladesh.
September 2017
The Rohingya join some 200,000 who had fled to Bangladesh during earlier waves of violence.
Many speak of abuses by the army and members of the mostly Buddhist ethnic Rakhine.
The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights calls the military operation in the state a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", citing satellite imagery and accounts of extrajudicial killings.
In her first statement on the crisis on September 19, Aung San Suu Kyi promises to hold those who have committed rights abuses to account, but refuses to blame the army.
She adds that she is open to bringing some of the Rohingya home pending a "verification process".
They go on with more dates and commentary, but do you need to read more?
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November 11, 2012:
The Rakhine violence is also a test for Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, now opposition leader in parliament, whose studied neutrality has failed to defuse tensions and risks undermining her image as a unifying moral force. Suu Kyi, a devout Buddhist, says she refuses to take sides.
At stake is the stability of one of Myanmar's most commercially strategic regions and the gold-rush of foreign investment that has come with an easing of Western economic sanctions. The United States and the European Union have suspended, not lifted, sanctions, and have made resolving ethnic conflicts a precondition for further rewards.
In Rakhine State, however, the conflict has spread, most recently to areas where Muslims have long lived peacefully with Buddhists, according to a reconstruction of the violence from October 21 through October 25.
In Paik Thay, the Buddhist Rakhine mobs hurled Molotov cocktails at wooden huts, while Tun Naing and his neighbors fled. Muhammad Amin, 62, said he was beaten with a metal pipe until his skull cracked. The initial violence ended after soldiers fired their guns into the air and police arrested a Rakhine.
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As a backgrounder, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army staged a series of concerted attacks on the Burmese army. Unwilling to tolerate another Moslem jihad, the Rohinyas have been expelled to Bangladesh, where live some of those funding and leading ARSA. Saudi Arabia is too far away to dump them.
The number of corpses hasn't been that overwhelming. The Karens, Kachins, and Shans have been similarly suppressed by the ethnic Burmans occasionally. I realize that being dead is overwhelming to the person departing this Vale of Tears. I also realize that jihad has a habit of sprouting where local Moslem majorities (or near so) coexist next to non-Moslems. We can probably take the Philippines as a case study. You can also chart the decline of the Christian population in Paleostine, and then ask the Yazdis and the Zoroastrians of Iraq for details.
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[NPASYRIA] The human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist and member of the "Human Rights Organization ‐ Afrin", Heyhan Ali said that their organization visited the base of the Russian Military Police in the village of al-Wahshiya, in northern Aleppo countryside, and discussed Tal Rifaat massacre.
Activist Heyhan Ali told North-Press that they have discussed with the Russian military generals and officials the issue of the deliberate and repeated shelling by the Ottoman Turkish military and the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition groups on areas of northern Aleppo countryside, particularly on the town of Tal Rifaat. Heyhan Ali said: "We have handed over files that document the victims of Tal Rifaat massacre, which took place on the second of this month."
Regarding the Russian side's response, Ms. Ali stressed that the Russian officials expressed their concern and regret over Tal Rifaat massacre, visited the hospital, documented the victims and listened to witnesses from the maimed civilians, in addition, they visited the location of the bombing, documented the massacre and submitted a report to the Russian Command at Hmeimim base, in Latakia’s countryside.
Ali added that they have called on the Russian state to fulfill its duties to protect the local people, as it is the main guarantor of stopping the military operations in the region; however, the Russian side has reservations about the response, and it merely stated that the solution lies through diplomatic means between the Ottoman Turkish and Syrian sides.
She added that they are documenting all violations against civilians in the region, and providing contacts with the fact-finding committees in Geneva to document them, and communicate with the families of the victims. She also stressed that violations should not be turned into numbers and statistics in reports, but that the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... should activate its decisions and open international courts to hold war crimes perpetrators accountable, and not just issue statements of condemnation.
The Ottoman Turkish military and its affiliated armed opposition groups on the 2nd of December bombed one of the main streets in the town of Tal Rifaat, killing 10 civilians, including 8 children, and wounding 13 other civilians.
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[Jpost] "After getting our hostage back this week, fully ready for comprehensive prisoner exchange," Zarif said.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday the Islamic republic is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, tweeting: "The ball is in the US' court."
"After getting our hostage back this week, fully ready for comprehensive prisoner exchange," Zarif said.
The United States and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Saturday swapped prisoners - American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained for three years on spying charges, and imprisoned Iranian stem-cell researcher Massoud Soleimani, accused of sanction violations - in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes.
Separately, Iranian government front man Ali Rabiei said Iran had always sought an "all for all release" with the United States.
"We are ready to cooperate to return all Iranians who are being held unjustly in America," Rabiei was quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying.
Rabiei said efforts to swap prisoners were not linked to any other U.S.-Iranian talks, which would only be possible if Washington lifted sanctions and returned to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Tensions have heightened between Iran and the United States since U.S. President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... last year pulled Washington out of the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Tehran's economy. Iran has responded by gradually scaling back its commitments under the agreement.
Washington has demanded that Iran release the Americans it is holding, including father and son Siamak and Baquer Namazi; Michael R. White, a Navy veteran imprisoned last year; and Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent missing since 2007.Several dozen Iranians are being held in U.S. prisons, many of them for breaking sanctions.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, Pak foil, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...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 
