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Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats tried, failed to seize British oil tanker in Persian Gulf
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sex, Lies, and Epstein/Clinton Flight Logs
[American Thinker] One can almost see Bill Clinton stepping up to the microphone in full dudgeon to say something like, "I did not have sex with any underage sex slaves on that man’s, Mr. Epstein’s, island on the 26 occasions I didn’t fly with him." His spokespeople quickly responded to any suggestions Bill Clinton, poster child for celibacy, partook of any of accused billionaire pedophile, more salacious offerings of in-flight and ground-level entertainment.

Team Clinton insisted that Bill flew only four times in Mr. Epstein’s very friendly skies, stopping short of the suggestion that in any event they only discussed golf and grandchildren as Bill supposedly did when he met with AG Loretta Lynch to not discuss the investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton for playing fast and loose with classified emails on a private server. As Fox News reported, Team Clinton released a statement denying any involvement with Epsteins’ sex-capades:
"In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation," the statement said. "Staff, supporters of the foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg of every trip. He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein’s New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He’s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and he has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."
Not so fast or slick, Willy. Experts that have looked into the records say you are lying and have seen the flight logs that prove it. Again, as Fox News has reported:

Related video: Dave Janda - The 7 Pieces Of Info The Deep State Does Not want you To Know & Jeffrey Epstein
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2019 14:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a 2007 letter sent to federal prosecutors by Epstein's then-attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Gerald Lefcourt, which reads: "Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project ‘bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges."

Fascinating!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/11/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  "Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project ‘bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges." to get booty and booty"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2019 15:14 Comments || Top||

#3  It would be interesting to see if there was any activity between the Clinton Foundation and Chester the Molester.
Posted by: gorb || 07/11/2019 18:39 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Why would the Mossad help Turkey's Erdogan combat terrorism?
[Jpost] How should one react to sensational reports by Channel 12 late Tuesday that the Mossad has not only helped countries around the world to avoid terrorist attacks from 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and ISIS, but has specifically helped The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2019 01:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To steal a meme from the mullahs... sometimes you have to work with the Lesser Satan to fight the Greater Satan...
Posted by: Fluth Ebbomosing9000 || 07/11/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Because it's all Iran?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
What is the Muslim Brotherhood ? (lengthy video)
[PragerU] The Muslim Brotherhood is a dangerous organization, seeking to destroy Western civilization from within and to establish a global Islamic state. Ami Horowitz exposes the organization's plans within America.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2019 14:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Science & Technology
Prepare For Your Cyborg Implants, Puny Humans
[Hot Air] It’s not just science fiction anymore. Like it or not, we’ve already started blending machinery with human beings. Cyborgs are actually becoming a thing, and once you’ve learned how to do a little of something, humanity’s track record indicates that you’ll be doing it a lot. Over at Fox News, one professor from Jerusalem is predicting that the day is coming far sooner than you might think, along with a huge load of ethical and moral questions that accompany the technology.
In a not-so-distant future, humans will merge with machines.
Although that seems like something cooked up by a science fiction writer, according to a prominent historian it’s a reality that’s not very far away ‐ especially given how much Big Tech has disrupted everything from commerce (Amazon) to relationships (Facebook) and media (Google and Facebook).

"It’s increasingly hard to tell where I end and where the computer begins," Yuval Harari, a professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told the audience at the Fast Company European Innovation Festival this week. "In the future, it is likely that the smartphone will not be separated from you at all. It may be embedded in your body or brain, constantly scanning your biometric data and your emotions."

We’re already being told we spend too much time looking at our phones when they’re just in our pockets. (To the point where we may or may not be growing bone spikes on our heads as a result.) So how do you feel about the idea of the phone being embedded in your body? Or even inside your brain and just flashing your text messages directly into your cerebral cortex?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2019 14:28 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When i see drivers on the phone I consider embedding them...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/11/2019 16:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Security will have to get a lot better. The IoT is already crap for security and putting them inside a human can lead to all sorts of malicious bullshit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/11/2019 17:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Nota bene: the bone spikes claim was a hoax.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2019 20:19 Comments || Top||

#4  That robot graphic might be worthy of retention if Fred's library has any shelf space remaining.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2019 20:25 Comments || Top||


Shakespeare At The Pentagon
Anything that starts with a play on the “Friends, Romans, countrymen” speech gets my attention.
[AmericanGreatness] Antony’s speech convinced the Roman populace that Caesar’s actions were more complex than mere personal ambition. So, too, issues around the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and other defense acquisitions are more complex than cost overruns and claims about capability shortfalls.

What’s at stake is a much deeper issue. How can the U.S. maintain military effectiveness at a time of rapid technological change and the disruption it brings?
Thoughtful and thought provoking.

Posted by: Chinemp Shiper1154 || 07/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  they can do that by being strong in "space" and not revealing their hand until necessary
Posted by: 746 || 07/11/2019 0:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually I think "Now is the winter of our discontent" would be more appropriate.
Posted by: Unolunter Jereting2629 || 07/11/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  UJ, you do realize that phrase means "our troubles are over", right?
Posted by: Dopey Protector of the Trolls2513 || 07/11/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war...
Posted by: Warthog || 07/11/2019 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Eisenhower had something to say on this subject
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/11/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  ...but they seem to skip over this part g(r)om -

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present

and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2019 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Hardly, Dopey. Tricky Dicky was whining about the new "sun/son" of York, stealing his thunder and giving him an excuse to be a dh*t. Dunno how you get 'troubles are over' from that. More like, "trouble, you ain't seen trouble yet"
Posted by: UJetc || 07/11/2019 13:30 Comments || Top||

#9  To be fair, Dopey, he IS a liar. He does say "happy days are here again", in that stanza, but later in the speech he really means he's p*ssed because he's not the golden boy... which ties back rather well to the current wars of succession in the DoD.
Posted by: UJ etc || 07/11/2019 13:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Hm, "winter of our discontent" was turned into "summer" by the son/sun of York.

Based on that, I interpret "winter" as a "sucky season of discontent" instead of "end of discontent".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Posted by: charger || 07/11/2019 17:33 Comments || Top||

#11  The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present


Sounds like Climate Change research to me.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/11/2019 17:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Shakespeare?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" - Hamlet
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2019 18:52 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2019-07-11
  Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boats tried, failed to seize British oil tanker in Persian Gulf
Wed 2019-07-10
  Egyptian Court Convicts Al-Azhar Professor, Others For Spying For Iran
Tue 2019-07-09
  Hafiz Multan, Taliban’s deputy Red Unit commander killed in Kandahar
Mon 2019-07-08
  Bouteflika’s ex-party chief detained in Algeria corruption probe
Sun 2019-07-07
  Radioactive material worth $72m seized from car in Turkey
Sat 2019-07-06
  Deal between protest leaders and Sudan’s ruling generals
Fri 2019-07-05
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Thu 2019-07-04
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Wed 2019-07-03
  Airstrike hits migrant detention center in Libya, 40 killed
Tue 2019-07-02
  Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher found not guilty on murder and attempted murder charges
Mon 2019-07-01
  Seven Sudanese protesters killed, 181 wounded in Sunday demonstrations
Sun 2019-06-30
  Journalist Assaulted By Antifa/Portland - Face, Neck, Ear Injuries
Sat 2019-06-29
  Three Soldiers Killed in Philippines' Restive South, ISIS claims attack
Fri 2019-06-28
  57 Taliban militants including 10 Pakistanis killed in Ghazni clashes, airstrikes
Thu 2019-06-27
  Suicide bomber in Tunisia kills at least one, state TV reports


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