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[NYP] "So it shouldn't be any surprise the Justice Department said there's nothing wrong here. But the American people know that there is."
Wondering what the FBI probe will conclude about Hillary Clinton's use of a private account and server for all her State Department e-mails? Well, Obama already told CBS's Steve Kroft that it didn't make for a "national security problem. . . I can tell you that this is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered."
If the Lois Lerner case is any precedent, the FBI might as well wrap up its Clinton probe right now. And all of that talk a few months back about Attorney General Lynch 'being her own person' was yes, bullshit as well.
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Even if Comey is a straight shooter, Justice will define what is the final charge. The question is how small or diffuse the perp pool can be made, and if a payoff large enough can be promised to someone who will take the rap for stripping markings.
Conversely, the WH could let her slide until just before the convention, then drop the turd in her punchbowl and Uncle Joe is a savior at a brokered convention. Less time for gaffs and a flood of money to save the party.
Bishops launched a global appeal Monday for a break-through at upcoming Paris climate talks, including a "complete decarbonisation" of the world's economy and more help for poor countries battling the effects of climate change.
The bishops said any agreement "should limit global temperature increases to avoid catastrophic climatic impacts, especially on the most vulnerable communities".
Sure. You can start by selling some of the treasures in the Vatican...
From across five continents they called "not only for 'drastic reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide and other toxic gasses', but also for ending the fossil fuel era".
The goal should be "complete decarbonisation by mid-century, in order to protect frontline communities suffering from the impacts of climate change, such as those in the Pacific Islands and in coastal regions".
Might as well pledge to do it -- few of us will be around to be held accountable when it doesn't happen...
The November 30-December 11 conference in Paris will be the culmination of six years of work since the ill-fated 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, which failed to lock down significant agreements.
The bishops urged those taking part to "keep in mind not only the technical but particularly the ethical and moral dimensions of climate change" as laid out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
"Those responsible for climate change have responsibilities to assist the most vulnerable in adapting and managing loss and damage and to share the necessary technology and knowhow," they said in a statement.
Among the 10 key points climate negotiators were asked to address was the need "to ensure people's access to water and to land for climate resilient and sustainable food systems" -- a nod to fears of a dark future of dwindling resources.
Which hasn't happened yet, but the Malthusians live in hope...
The aim of the Paris conference is to ink an agreement to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
But five days of negotiations in Bonn last week underscored deep divisions, including disagreements over who should pay for renewable energy sources and who should be tasked with making sure countries uphold green pledges.
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Are these the same Bishops who declared the earth was flat, and threatened ex-communication to any who dis-agreed with them?
Following a pattern are they.
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Religious leaders shouldn't opine on science; that isn't their strong suit.
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Seriously, dudes, the only way mankind will be safe is if we completely rid our atmosphere of the deadly poison, CO2. Sure, the plants will hate us but what have those chlorophyll-laden sumbitches ever done for us?
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Now, nobody knows atmospherics
Like incense-combusting old clerics.
"Anathema! Bargain
Not, brothers, with carbon,
For derricks will give us hysterics!"
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Just become an anaerobic life form like gallionella bacteria. They oxidize iron for energy. Or just STFU if you can't stop being stupid
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At first glance, this appears to be the usual enviro-weenie green nonsense. A more sinister reading of 'decarbonization' is that Red Francis has sent forth his minions to prepare for the coming RoboApocalypse and the Word Made Silicon.
But if you read between the lines, the Popester is actually calling for a massive buildout of nuclear power plants. Consider:
Poor countries need cheap energy to stop being poor. Right now, cheap energy means burning coal which means lots and lots of pollution. See China, for example.
Solar and wind power rely on rare earths which are dirty to mine and refine, and huge amounts of electricity for manufacture. You can't run an aluminum smelter or Bessemer converter on solar cells which means you can't bootstrap your way to Holy Greenness.
The US uses on the order of 4,686,400,000 Megawatt hours annually. (thanks, Wikipedia!) Ignoring the intermittency (which you really can't!), I'd guestimate you'd need to cover most of the Southwest with solar arrays to come anywhere near this figure.
Bottom line: nuclear is the only way to go. Three cheers for the Pope and His vision of the future!
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Decent comments there so far. Droneslayer says 100ft and hovering. Tom says 200ft and moving. Drone landed by way of shotgun. 200ft and moving would be a remarkable shot.
A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range where the quake was centred.
In one of the worst incidents, at least 12 girls were killed in a stampede to flee their school building in Taloqan, just west of Badakhshan province where the tremor's epicentre was located.
"They fell under the feet of other students," said Abdul Razaq Zinda, provincial head of the Afghan National Disaster Management Agency, who reported heavy damage in Takhar.
Shockwaves were felt in New Delhi in northern India and across northern Pakistan, where hundreds of people ran out of buildings as the ground rolled beneath them. No deaths were reported in India.
"We were very scared ... We saw people leaving buildings, and we were remembering our God," Pakistani journalist Zubair Khan said by telephone from the Swat Valley northwest of the capital Islamabad. "I was in my car and, when I stopped my car, the car itself was shaking as if someone was pushing it back and forth."
The United States and Iran were among countries that offered to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, which already depends heavily on foreign aid after decades of war that have wrecked its economy and infrastructure.
The quake was 213km deep and centred 254km northeast of Kabul in Badakhshan province. The US Geological Survey initially measured the magnitude at 7.7, then revised it down to 7.5.
Just over a decade ago, a 7.6 magnitude quake in another part of northern Pakistan killed about 75,000 people.
In Afghanistan, where rescue and relief work is likely to be complicated by security threats created by an escalating Taleban insurgency, more than 50 people were reported dead in several provinces including Badakhshan, where hundreds were killed in mudslides last year. Hundreds of houses were destroyed, creating additional hardship with wintry temperatures setting in.
In Pakistan, the head of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Agency, Amer Afaq said the death toll had reached 167, while military spokesman General Asim Bajwa said nearly 1,000 were injured.
Officials said most of the casualties had occurred in northern and northwestern regions bordering Afghanistan and the death toll was likely to rise. But he said landslides on the unstable slopes of the mountainous region could pose a major problem to rescuers in the coming days.
"Obviously if a landslide comes in to a village, it will take out buildings, but landslides can also take out roads and communications and power systems, so you lose the ability to access remote areas," he said.
In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was ready to provide emergency shelter and relief supply kits to alleviate immediate hardship.
In Pakistan, the northern area of Chitral, where 20 people were killed, was particularly hard hit.
Journalist Gul Hammad Farooqi, 47, said his house had collapsed. "I was thrown from one side of the road to the other by the strength of the earthquake. I've never experienced anything like it," he said. "There is a great deal of destruction here, and my house has collapsed, but thankfully my children and I escaped."
Further south, the city of Peshawar reported two deaths and at least 150 injured people were being treated at the city's main hospital, the provincial health chief said.
In Afghanistan, international aid agencies working in northern areas reported that cell phone coverage in the affected areas remained down in the hours after the initial quake.
"The problem is we just don't know. A lot of the phone lines are still down," said Scott Anderson, deputy head of office for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Kabul.
Badakhshan provincial governor Shah Waliullah Adib said about 1,450 houses had been destroyed.
The earthquake struck almost exactly six months after Nepal suffered its worst quake on record on April 25. Including the toll from a major aftershock in May, 9,000 people lost their lives there and 900,000 homes were damaged or destroyed there.
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CNN AM was repor 229 killed, a figure which may had changed since this morning???
[AlAhram] Heavy rain and storms hit both the north and south of the country leading to street flooding, power cuts and deaths
Daily life was paralysed in parts of Egypt on Sunday and Monday as stormy weather and heavy rain, as well as poor infrastructure, caused power cuts, accidents and street flooding.
In Alexandria, five people were killed on Sunday in incidents caused by the weather, and on Monday a four-storey building in the eastern district of Raml collapsed completely, although there were no recorded casualties.
Further south on the Red Sea, a fire broke out among trees in front of Hurghada International Airport on Monday after an electric cable that served lampposts in the area went kaboom! due to rain. The fire was subsequently put out and power restored.
Flights at the airport nonetheless had to be redirected from the new terminal to the old terminal, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported, after rain water began leaking through the departure hall in the old terminal.
On the highway connecting Hurghada with Gouna, another major resort town on the Red Sea, a bus overturned on Sunday night due to the rain, injuring five passengers.
On the other side of the Red Sea, the emergency level was raised to the maximum in South Sinai governorate due to bad weather. All of towns in the govenorate were hit by heavy rain, especially Saint Catherine and Ras Sudr. In some places, sand and rocks fell on highways, while a dust storm hit the city of Taba on the western border, hindering vision for drivers on the international highway, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.
Three highways in South Sinai were closed to prevent accidents.
In Nuweiba and Taba, the level of rainfall reached 50cm, and the Nuweiba-Taba road was sealed off. Sharm El-Sheikh port was also closed on Sunday due to the heavy rains, fast winds, and low visibility, before being reopened after the weather improved. Many of the city's roads were also waterlogged.
In Daqahliya in the Nile Delta water accumulated outside the governorate administration building in the city of Mansoura on Sunday night, prompting anger from residents. The town of Ras El-Bar, once a popular vacation destination, witnessed street flooding, as water reached a level of 30 centimetres on Sunday, the city's local authority told Al-Ahram Ahram website.
The city of Damietta also saw flooding in its main streets.
The south of Egypt was not spared the impact of the bad weather. In Luxor governorate, internet connections, power and water were cut off on Sunday due to heavy rains.
In the neighbouring governorate of Aswan, a state of emergency was declared on Sunday after heavy rainfall; six people were maimed after a clay wall collapsed due to the rain.
Medical manager Ihab Hanafy also told Al-Ahram Arabic that a dust storm on Sunday in the city of Aswan led to 32 scorpion bites. The injured were treated in hospital.
The head of Egypt's Meteorological Authority, Ahmed Abdel-Aal, told Ahram Online that the damage seen around the country, especially in Alexandria, was due to poor infrastructure rather than unusual levels of rainfall.
Abdel-Aal said it is too early to predict whether the coming winter - which starts 21 December - will see unusual amounts of rainfall.
The unstable, rainy weather is expected to continue through Tuesday.
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Flights at the airport nonetheless had to be redirected from the new terminal to the old terminal, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported, after rain water began leaking through the departure hall in the old terminal.
huh?
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A Saudi prince has been detained at Beirut airport in Lebanon after two tons of an amphetamine drug popular with Syrian rebels was found on a private jet.
Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four other men were held after what was described as the biggest ever drugs bust at the city's main Rafik Hariri International Airport, according to local media and security sources.
They were allegedly "attempting to smuggle about two tons of Captagon pills and some cocaine", a security source was quoted as saying.
Captagon is a brand name for the widely used amphetamine phenethylline.
Although this type of amphetamine has been prescribed in the past to treat childhood and other behavioural disorders, it is now used overwhelmingly as a stimulant in the Middle East.
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I think this is a great idea: supply the pills to the ISIS guys. Just move the numbers on the dosage over one decimal point...
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There have been reports of use by Islamic State fighters. However, as BP alluded, most of the media-reported use of Captagon is by non-IS Syrian rebels.
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An alternative non-WOT explanation is they need the amphetamines to stay awake and study for final exams. With two tons of speed, you can stay up a *really* long time.
The U.S. Navy plans to send a guided-missile destroyer within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea, in the start of a series of challenges to China's territorial claims in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.
A U.S. defense official said the patrol by the USS Lassen would occur early on Tuesday local time near Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly archipelago, features that were formerly submerged at high tide before China began a massive dredging project to turn them into islands in 2014.
The patrols would mark the most serious U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims around the islands and are certain to anger Beijing, which said last month it would "never allow any country" to violate its territorial waters and airspace in the Spratlys.
The ship would likely be accompanied by a U.S. Navy P-8A surveillance plane and possibly P-3 surveillance plane, which have been conducting regular surveillance missions in the region, according to the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Additional patrols would follow in coming weeks and could also be conducted around features that Vietnam and the Philippines have built up in the Spratlys, the official said. “This is something that will be a regular occurrence, not a one-off event,” said the official. “It’s not something that’s unique to China.”
The unctuous White House spokesman Josh Earnest referred questions on any specific operations to the Pentagon but said the United States had made clear to China the importance of free flow of commerce in the South China Sea.
"There are billions of dollars of commerce that float through that region of the world," Earnest told a news briefing. "Ensuring that free flow of commerce ... is critical to the global economy," he said.
The patrols would be the first within 12 miles of the features since China began building the reefs up in 2014. The United States last went within 12 miles of Chinese-claimed territory in the Spratlys in 2012.
The decision to go ahead with the patrols follows months of deliberation and risks of significantly upsetting already strained ties with China, the world's second-biggest economy, with which U.S. business and economic interests are deeply intertwined.
U.S. Congressman Randy Forbes, chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and Co-Chairman of the Congressional China Caucus, praised the plan.
“The passage of U.S. vessels within 12 nautical miles of China’s man-made features in the South China Sea is a necessary and overdue response to China’s destabilizing behavior in the region," Forbes said.
China claims most of the South China Sea China, one of the world's busiest sea lanes, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan have rival claims.
Maybe we should build an island or two in the South China Sea...
Champ will no doubt order it to turn away soon. Debt ceiling borrowing and Walmart Christmas buying hang in the balance. Too much to lose from a petulant China.
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Like a number of US Politicos working or calling for the closure of Gitmo, Cuba by keeping it open, Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama keeping a USN Destroyer + follow-on Warships just outside China's proclaimed 12-NM limit will have the effect of indirectly recognizing China's sovereignty over the islands + SCS, NOT TO THE CONTRARY.
The key for a successful Bammer FP is China de facto ceasing its currrent + future contruction activities, + removing or not deploying any PLA military assets there - ANYTHING LESS WOULD BE INTERPRETED AS A MAJOR DIPLOMATIC AND PROPAGANDA VICTORY FOR CHINA, NOT THE US-ALLIES.
POTUS OBAMA = CHINA PLAN + CG VEE THE JAPANESE-CONTROLLED SENKAKUS [China = Diaoyus] = OBAMA MUST ORDER THE USN SHIPS TO SAIL INSIDE THE 12-NM LIMIT, as the US-led FONOP will mean nothing iff China continues to buildup these + other disputed islands, all in full view of the USN sailing over 12-NMS away.
US Regional Allies + US, West-leaning Neutral Nations are NOT going to be fooled by the Bammer's Super-PCorrect Legalism. IFF THE INTENT OF ANTI-US US POTUS OBAMA + GLOBALISTS IS TO INDUCE US REGIONAL ALLIES TO TURN TO CHINA + CHINA-LED OWG "UNION(S)" INSTEAD OF THE US, THEY CAN SUCCEED.
Lest we fergit, there is still the other dangerous strategic access issue of CHINA-VS-JAPAN ala the East China Sea, of which both Nations see themselves as Asia's or East Asia's #1.
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* FYI BIGNEWSNETWORK > [VOA News] RUSSIA'S "ASIA PIVOT" SEEN IN KURILS MILITARY EXPANSION.
Again, Putin = Russia doesn't fear Japanese designs on Sakhalin + Russia's Far East as much as he fears CSTO-SCO BFF CHINA'S.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BLOGGER CHINA LEE: FIVE THINGS YOU [= USA] SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHINA'S FORTRESS ISLANDS, CHINA IS IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-LAYERED DEFENSE ON SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS | HQ-9 SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSLES STRIKE TARGETS AT LONG-RANGE - PEOPLE'S DAILY ONLINE.
* WORLD NEWS > [Asopa People] COULD CHINA [SCS Actions] BE A CATALYST FOR AN INDEPENDENT BOUGAINVILLE?
Upcoming popular referendum/vote on independence.
Bougainville wid its Deep Harbors + Airfields = Guam [+ CNMI + Pacific Islands]. ANY INDEPENDENT BOUGAINVILLE IS LIKELY TO BE INITIALLY ECON STRUGGLING + IN SEARCH FOR INTERNATIONAL PATRONS FOR ITS RESOURCES ANDOR ENDOWMENTS.
GOOD THING FOR GUAM THAT GOVGUAM IS - SURPISE, SURPRISE - NOT MAKING ANY SERIOUS MOVE(S) TO CHANGE GUAM'S POLITICAL STATUS VEE THE US???
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FYI II, as per 1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas + USN Pearl Harbor BB USS "Oklahoma" = "Guam will Capsize" thingys, NET NEWS = FRACKING-LED EARTHQUAKES IN THE US STATE OF OKLAHOMA IS NOW A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE FOR THE US, AS "OKIE" HASS THE LARGEST PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL, NON-FED OIL-STORAGE HUB IN THE US.
Why yes, images of Guam's former Fuel Farm were involved or shown back in the day.
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Tell them diplomatically to GTFO, then begin turning their Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes junk ships around and heading them back to China.
If that doesn't work, default on loan payments and call it the Spratly payment option.
If that doesn't work, terminate their immigration, education visa, and H1B privileges.
If that doesn't work, give the Japs and Formosa a few tactical nukes.
All of that region was paid for in AMERICAN BLOOD 70 years ago. Fok these expansionist, communist bastids !
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What if the Chinese decide to ram the destroyer as they did the spyplane when they were testing George W Bush. We'd lose face as Obama pulled out of the region to avoid further provoking them.
If you're not willing to fight don't hop in the ring and make looking like a fool inevitable.
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Update: Looks like the Navy *did* go through with this. Color me surprised. And wrong.
Makes me wonder if the Pentagon is taking advantage of Obama's phone-it-in indifference to do what needs to be done.
One irony to the whole South China Sea affair is that without the USN ensuring freedom of navigation, there would be no globalization and China would not have it's rising economy.
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I love this place, and have read and posted here for years. And the moment I read of this story elsewhere my first thought was "I wonder how this went over at Rantburg?".
But has it ever been explained why Joseph M can't post in simple English like everyone else? It gets annoying having to scroll past his nonsensical crap in every thread he enters.
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I am unsure if his first language is English. A number of times, JoeM is cliff noting various news sources, other times I think he is putting into words various sources and thoughts, other times there are some clever and/or running jokes.
Took me a little bit but, like those 3D pictures a person stares at, once a picture is seen they all can be seen.
Trying to figure out why Obama is suddenly so froggy on this, and throws Bougainville in.
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Now THIS is authentic frontier gibberish
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Oracle or bard, you pick. Joe is an institution who shares some rather accurate insights. He also keeps us updated on "tip over and capsize" issues. The council has spoken.
Non-WoT unless subsequent information says otherwise.
[AnNahar] A man rammed his car into the gates of a military barracks near the Belgian city of Namur on Monday and was later locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! , but there was no indication of a terror motive, a prosecutor said.
The suspect, born in the French-speaking city of Namur in 1983, "did not figure on terror watch lists" and was "practically unknown" to law-enforcement authorities, prosecutor Vincent Macq told a news briefing.
No casualties were reported in the attack, which immediately rang alarm bells in a country on high alert after a wave of violence by 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.... -affiliated jihadists, including a deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014.
"The likelihood that this was an isolated incident, even the act of an mentally impaired individual, cannot be excluded," prosecutor Macq said.
The suspect was arrested hours after fleeing on foot from the Flawinne military barracks where guards fired warning shots at his dark colored Ford Focus, which he abandoned in a muddy field nearby.
Terrorism "is not the main line of inquiry," Macq said, adding that in 2010 the man had been a candidate to join the military.
There were no explosives in the car, contrary to earlier reports, said Macq.
His only weapon "was his car," he added.
The Flawinne military base, eight kilometers (five miles) from downtown Namur, is home to Belgium's Second Commando Battalion of 650 soldiers, most of whom are currently taking part in a 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... exercise in Spain.
Only about fifty soldiers were in the facility at the time of the incident, prosecutors said.
The prosecutor said the perpetrator was "partly masked" in the attack, and was faced with "a dozen warning shots" by entry guards as he sped towards them.
Once abandoned, a military bomb squad arrived to inspect the car, which they then moved inside the base perimeter. Hours after the incident, the sound of a muffled kaboom was heard from the barracks.
An AFP photographer at the scene said the area had been sealed off by authorities, with a helicopter flying overhead.
During the three-hour manhunt, residents said police combed the neighborhood looking for the driver.
Nearby military facilities and a police academy were locked down.
A local TV station said that pupils at a nearby school were told to remain indoors, but the city mayor later said it was not necessary for parents to collect their children early.
Belgium's Defense Minister Stephen Vandeput was expected to visit the scene.
The incident stirred memories of recent deadly attacks, including the killing of four people at the Jewish museum in central Brussels in 2014 by a jihadist gunman.
In January, the security forces killed two suspected jihadist fighters in Verviers, eastern Belgium, who they claimed were planning imminent attacks on police.
[PJmedia] They are coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 more. And yet western Europe just sits there in deep trouble, wondering how to deal with them. This happened on Thursday:
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban faced down German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a key migration conference this weekend, using his most explosive arguments yet to rally his center-right political allies behind a tougher response to Europe's refugee crisis.
"We are in deep trouble," Orban said in remarks to the European People's Party annual congress here, building on comments he had made Wednesday night on Hungarian television. "This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process," one that threatens democracy because governments did not "get authorization from (citizens) for millions to walk into our continent." To loud applause from conservative politicians from across Europe, Orban slammed politicians on both the left and right. He accused left-wing political parties of "importing future leftist voters to Europe" while trying to "hide it behind humanism."
Orban, who's become the favorite whipping boy of culturally suicidal western European Leftists, is absolutely right. "Compassion" for the "migrants" is little more than a smokescreen designed -- as always with the Left -- to mask its real goals. Having seen the chaos unleashed in Britain by the previous Labour government's deliberate attempt at population replacement, the Germans under Angela Merkel have basically decided on the same thing.
[IsraelTimes] Outages persist almost 2 days after severe rain and thunder; energy minister, local mayors call to investigate electric company
An early autumn storm lashed the country with strong winds and heavy rain, some 33,000 households remained without electricity Monday evening amid mounting allegations that Israel Electric Corporation linemen were dragging their feet over an ongoing labor dispute.
Most of the power outages were in the Sharon region north of Tel Aviv, and customers in the towns of Kfar Saba, Netanya, Ra'anana and Ramat Hasharon prepared to spend a second night without power.
As of Monday evening, the IEC said that some 300 high-voltage power lines and electrical wires had yet to be fixed, according to the Walla news website.
Earlier in the day, the company published an official apology saying its teams were "in all places and have worked overnight in full emergency capacity in order to minimize harm to the hundreds of lines hit in during the storm."
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... a number of reports in recent days indicated that disgruntled IEC employees were taking their time repairing broken power lines to signal their discontent with the management's moves to streamline the state-owned corporation.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz faulted the IEC for failing to promptly fix the downed power lines in an interview with Channel 2 Monday evening, and called the situation "a very grave incident that must not be repeated."
"This saddens me greatly, and I think the union made a huge mistake," he said. "This is a grave mistake, from an ethical standpoint as well."
Steinitz added that once the power grids were repaired, an investigation should be opened into the IEC's handling of the situation.
The IEC, Israel's sole electricity utility, has been mired in a workers dispute for months and critics charged it was not prepared for the ramifications of severe weather conditions.
On Sunday, management petitioned the National Labor Court to instruct employees to work in emergency mode after some managers said employees were purposely working usual hours despite the storm, apparently at the union's instructions.
The court ruled that for 72 hours, or as long as the weather conditions dictate work in emergency mode, the employees and the company's management set aside their differences and refrain from pursuing their dispute at the expense of the Israeli public.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... mayors of Kfar Saba and Ra'anana on Monday demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set up a committee to investigate IEC's management.
"It comes down to the interruption of basic and essential services for tens of thousands of people," the mayors wrote. "The trust of the public in state institutions has been undermined, and we are among them."
Later Monday evening, dozens gathered outside the IEC headquarters in Kfar Saba to protest the company's "inability to supply electricity or repair problems." According to a report in Ynet, a number of demonstrators broke into the office building.
On Sunday, one person was killed and 20 more injured as high winds and heavy rain battered the country, knocking down trees and a crane in central Israel, and flooding roads in the south. The rain is expected to continue throughout the week.
[Cleveland 19 News] DETROIT (AP) - For the third time in eight years, General Motors is recalling cars that can leak oil and catch fire, sometimes damaging garages and houses.
The recall, which covers 1.4 million vehicles dating to the 1997 model year, is needed because repairs from the first two didn't work. More than 1,300 cars caught fire after they were fixed by dealers, the company said.
In the previous recalls in 2008 and 2009, GM told owners to park the cars outside until repairs can be made since most of the fires happened shortly after drivers turned off the engines. A spokesman was checking to see if the same recommendation applies this time.
GM reports at least 19 minor injuries from the blazes, which have persisted since U.S. safety regulators first noticed them early in 2007. In 2008, a GM spokeswoman said the cars were responsible for 267 fires over the years, including at least 17 that burned structures. Cars leaking motor oil for nearly ten years, nothing yet from the EPA.
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Sources of petroleum in American waters:
Natural seeps - 63%
Cars, boats and other motor vehicles - 32%
Petroleum transporation - 4%
Drilling and extraction - less than 1%
(National Academy of Science)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Unhappy with the number of potential black jurors called to his court last week, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens halted a drug trial and dismissed the entire jury panel, asking for a new group to be sent up.
"The concern is that the panel is not representative of the community," said Stevens, who brought in a new group of jurors despite objections from both the defense and prosecutor.
And this wasn't the first time Stevens, who is black, has dismissed a jury because he felt it was lacking enough minorities. Now the state Supreme Court is going to determine whether the judge is abusing his power.
On Nov. 18, after a 13-member jury chosen for a theft trial ended up with no black jurors, Stevens found it "troublesome" and dismissed the panel at the request of a defense attorney.
"There is not a single African-American on this jury and (the defendant) is an African-American man," Stevens said, according to a video of the trial. "I cannot in good conscious go forward with this jury."
A new jury panel was called up the next day. Anyone besides me see a dangerous legal precedent which could impact case law ?
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Another alternative set of laws like Sharia. The whole racist thing is largely the Freudian Projection of the Left to rationalize their fraudulent attainment of power.
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"it's gonna be bad news living in poor black communities in the near future.". Nope..not at all. HUD has a new plan where they'll have new housing built in predominately red zone suburbs, all at taxpayer expense, and even pay for their relocation.
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Republican enclaves in Georgia have long been targeted for demographic transition.
...till it's found out HUD used a crony capitalist Donk campaign contributor who installed formaldehyde insulation and in a flood zone. Remember for them it's about diversity, not competency.
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