[RedState] On Sunday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CBS “Face The Nation” that Attorney General William Barr said he had set up a legal process by which Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani could share information he’s gathered about Ukraine with the Department of Justice.
On Monday, Barr confirmed that information at a Washington press conference, but stipulated federal officials would need to exercise caution with the information they receive, and that the intent was to verify the information.
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Pangolin meat, meanwhile, is served as a sign of wealth and privilege at ostentatious banquets, with the animals often killed at the table to prove they are the genuine article. Some gourmands even claim to enjoy tiny, skinned pangolin foetuses which, when floated in wine or soup, are believed to be an aphrodisiac.
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I forget the name of that theory that why space isn't being colonized by various extra terrestrials is that at some point they run out of resources, couldn't figure out radiation shielding, blow themselves up in a war, whatever.
Could it be that each species has its own pangolin eaters, constantly kicking out the legs of technology and civilization?
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In the matter of making things meet,
A hungry Chinese can't be beat:
If a treat's inauspicious
To Mao, try Confucius;
And if it should run, bind its feet.
[NYP] “The Communist Manifesto” got a shoutout during the 2020 Oscars.
Julia Reichert, the co-director of best documentary winner “American Factory,” which was produced by former President Barack Obama’s new film company, apparently quoted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ infamous book during her acceptance speech on Sunday night.
“Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite,” Reichert said.
The quote appeared to be a riff on the last lines of the 1848 political document, which are frequently translated from German as “Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains!”
Netflix’s “American Factory” comes from Higher Ground, the production company of the former president and his wife Michelle Obama. It tells the story of a Chinese company occupying a shuttered General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio.
“Congrats to Julia and Steven [Bognar], the filmmakers behind American Factory for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of wrenching economic change,” Barack Obama tweeted following the win.
“Glad to see two talented and downright good people take home the Oscar for Higher Ground’s first release.”
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Sorry about the way this post turned out. I accidentally hit the submit button when I meant to hit the preview button, even after my second cup of coffee. My apologies. No apologies necessary.
Repairs made and thanks for your posting.
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True to form, Zero still cannot manage to write the book for which he was paid a yet another sweetheart-style 7-figure advance. Seems Ayers isn't available this time.
Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.
Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.
O'Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.
IT HAS become an unchecked assumption about the Democratic presidential race: The candidates are fighting an ideological war between "left" and "center." This narrative is false, and it is hardly benign. It minimizes the bold policy ambitions of those in the mislabeled "centrist" lane and falsely characterizes those on the left flank as braver or more committed to reform.... practically all Democrats agree on: giving legal safe harbor to the young immigrants known as "dreamers"; reviving and expanding President Barack Obama's climate regulations; reengaging with Iran; raising the minimum wage; keeping abortion legal; cracking down on guns.
In fact, every major Democratic candidate is running on an agenda to the left of Mr. Obama's.
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Athol Idaho (pronounced as if a lisping person said Asshole) is a major neo-Nazi stronghold. That's a decent days drive from Portland but not beyond the realm.
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as is Rathdrum, Hayden, Bayview, and Sandpoint. go north of there and things get really conservative fast, Bonners Ferry, Boundery, Northport...I recommend a summertime visit, its beautiful.
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"Throwing concrete at the police?" I recall a guy here in the South who came at a cop with a cement block. He was warned to drop it or get shot. He got shot.
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KKK rally in Portland? Fails sniff test immediately. So, was it a "punk" or faked provocation?
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In Portland, if there were no K---,
They'd have to invent it. "Good plan,"
Says lefty, "but wait!
We will never make hate
Half as well as the government can."
Hazel Jennings, chief of the Department of Corrections, issued a memo Sunday night urging officers not to wear uniforms or department logos in public to avoid being targeted
The memo came after a career criminal launched two separate attacks on officers in the Bronx in the span of just 12 hours, leaving two officers injured
Robert Williams was taken into custody after he allegedly opened fire on the 41st precinct Sunday morning
He struck a lieutenant in the arm before running out of bullets, lying down and tossing his gun as he was swarmed by officers
Hours earlier, Williams approached a patrol van in the same area late Saturday and fired at two officers inside, wounding one before escaping on foot
Authorities said the 45-year-old suspect was out on parole after a 2002 attempted murder conviction
He was seen handcuffed to a hospital bed on Sunday in photos obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com
Authorities said they brought a woman in for questioning who is believed to be Williams' girlfriend Liza T Valdez, a communications technician for the NYPD
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea labeled both attacks this weekend attempted 'assassinations'
Shea and Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the attacks on an anti-police atmosphere fueled by recent protests
[HindustanTimes] Shops, markets and other businesses mostly remained closed in the capital Srinagar on Sunday and public transport stayed off the roads.
A general strike called by Kashmiri separatists to mark the seventh death anniversary of Mohammad Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament and hanged this day in 2013, hit normal life in the Valley on Sunday.
Shops, markets and other businesses mostly remained closed in the capital Srinagar on Sunday and public transport stayed off the roads. Mobile internet services were suspended early on Sunday amid concerns over possible violence during the shutdown sponsored by separatist groups, and were restored in the evening, officials said.
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[National Interest] The infantry soldier with an M-16 entering a congested urban area won’t have to call in for support and wait precious minutes for it to arrive in the future battlefield. Israeli technology that links fighters on the ground with their battalion commanders will give a full picture to all the boots on the ground, the UAV assets and shooters in the vicinity to find the best angle to take out adversaries who hide among civilians. It will also protect against friendly fire because all the soldiers are on the same network and can see each other through the new technology.
Called ’Fire Weaver’ by its developers at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the Israeli Ministry of Defense is now betting big on its technology as Israel’s army seeks to digitize the modern warrior on the frontline. The ministry announced a contract for the system in early February 2020 that will see the IDF’s ground forces divisions equipped with it in the coming years. The system "enables closing rapid, precise, effective and secure sensor-to-shooter loops." It works in GPS-denied environments and is based on open architecture so it can be flexibly integrated to other western hi-tech armies depending on how they want to use it.
For many years, soldiers on the modern battlefield have faced a variety of challenges, especially in urban areas, such as during the battle for Mosul against ISIS. A modern army has no shortage of different weapon systems, from tanks to artillery, drones and special forces. But harnessing them and having the commander know in real time where everyone is located is essential. It’s also essential to find the best weapon that will bring precision and reduce collateral damage, such as civilian casualties or damaging sensitive buildings. Gone is the era of carpet bombing and the casualty rates of the First World War. Such technology led to high death tolls in the last century, now it may reduce them. Israel's land forces think this digitization revolution is a key to that.
[AP] For the first time in years, a commercial passenger plane has flown across the Atlantic in less than five hours.
A British Airways flight landed early Sunday morning at Heathrow Airport in London after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York just four hours and 56 minutes earlier.
That set a new speed record for subsonic ‐ or slower than the speed of sound ‐ commercial aircraft to fly between the two cities, according to Flightradar24, which tracks global flights.
The previous record was held by a Norwegian Air flight, which flew between the two cities with a flight time of five hours and 13 minutes.
The flight had been expected to take 102 minutes longer. The recent average flight time between New York and London is 6 hours and 13 minutes, according to Flightradar24.
The wind and air currents were ideal for a fast flight, said Ian Petchenik, Flightradar24′s director of communications. "In the winter, the jet stream dips down a bit," he said. "It’s kind of in a perfect spot for flights across the North Atlantic to take advantage of it."
British Airways just narrowly beat out a Virgin Atlantic flight, which arrived in London at around the same time but one minute slower.
British Airways confirmed the flight time for the Boeing 747 plane, saying the company prioritizes safety over speed.
The supersonic Concorde flights used to fly across the Atlantic in just over three hours, but stopped flying in 2003.
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Over the years, there have been two constant themes in my posts: First, that public K-12 schools are awful and, second, that we should withdraw every penny of taxpayer money from colleges and universities (including private schools in the forms of grants and government back student loans) because they too are awful.
At the K-12 level, education is lousy for several reasons.
First, the education model is the worst way to teach children. Few students learn by sitting down, being lectured to, and then going home and struggling with homework. I highly recommend the Montessori approach, for Maria Montessori looked at how children learn, rather than how adults think they ought to be taught.
Second, K-12 education is bedeviled by every stupid leftist trend, from the "whole word" approach to reading that left a generation illiterate to the insistence on bringing transgender sexuality to kindergarteners.
Third ‐ and there are wonderful and notable exceptions to this problem ‐ women’s lib meant that women at the top of their class were no longer limited to teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. They went on to become high-paying professionals. Most teachers are now drawn from the bottom third of any college class. I've seen the same phenomena in Israeli schools when I was migratory labor (sub teacher) in the system. The teachers simply don't understand the stuff they're supposed to teach.
At the college and university level, the problem is that these institutions are leftist indoctrination classes. They have little time to teach reasoning and knowledge. They’re too busy shaping little Marxists to go out into the world and support Bernie Sanders.
Which gets me to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom Don Surber calls the face of the Democrat Party. According to Wikipedia, Ocasio-Cortez attended public school, did well, and then became involved in race-based activities:
...She then attended Boston University College [d’oh!], a private college that once had a reputation for excellence. On paper, Ocasio-Cortez was at the top of her graduating class:
...Clearly, this girl is a brainiac, right? Or maybe not:
"AOC: "It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible."
...Any education system that can produce someone as staggeringly stupid as Ocasio-Cortez is doing something wrong. Taxpayers are paying good money and getting dismal results. I know at least one TAU professor, of theoretical biology no less, who makes AOC look like Albert Einstein
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Currently in my area of industry we have recurring problems. Women are hired for management positions with no background in real world management of subordinate staff. Yes, that question is asked and in most cases not a bit of experience is offered. So things are done as they direct. You suggest a change they will listen but not apply. A seasoned employee of over twenty years comments that her change will not work. The Engineer and the manager both women are correct. You are not. So the employee a male bets $200 dollars it will not work. Response go back to work. Within an hours time the assembly line shuts down. Perhaps a suggestion that the line needs maintenance. No, that is maintenance sourced out. Problem is it is never serviced. Round and round it goes. Entire leed transfers. One company has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to product orders lost or never delivered. New computer programmers-techs from India can't make the system work. CEO is male but all other down line management are female. This is replayed over and over in our local industries.
It is indeed scary that this retarded child was admitted to and graduated from a selective university.
She got good grades because everyone, intelligent or not, gets A's now in liberal arts programs at private colleges: the administrators insist that the profs pander to the college's "consumers."
It's actually the case now that a bright and motivated student is likely to learn more at one of the better flagship state universities than at any of the non-STEM elite private institutions.
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Dale, I can't entirely follow your long comment but think I get the gist of it; cannot disagree in general, though I don't think it is a female thing. My experience is it is a background thing - elite schools vs. tech schools, 'high flyers' vs. experience. Etc.
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I incorporated three different large manufacturers.Condensed as best I could. From what I can see in my area, cell phones companies, loan companies are dominated by women. Then restaurants also and turnover is horrendous.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ A gunman was arrested after he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, authorities said, wounding two in attacks that brought outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police rhetoric.
Robert Williams, 45, of the Bronx, was captured after he walked into a police station in the Bronx and started shooting shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday, police said. His shots struck a lieutenant in the arm and narrowly missed other police personnel before he ran out of bullets, lay down and tossed his pistol, officials said.
That attack came just hours after Williams approached a patrol van in the same part of the Bronx and fired at two officers inside, wounding one before escaping on foot, police said.
All of those shot are expected to recover, authorities said.
"It is only by the grace of God and the heroic actions of those inside the building that took him into custody that we are not talking about police officers murdered inside a New York City police precinct," Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news conference.
Williams is being charged with attempted murder, criminal weapon possession and resisting arrest, police said in an email late Sunday identifying him as the suspect. He was hospitalized Sunday evening, the Bronx prosecutor’s office said. It wasn’t clear whether he had an attorney to speak for him.
Williams' grandmother, 80-year-old Mary Williams, on Sunday told NBC 4 New York her grandson had been looking for a job recently, adding that he “didn’t have no problem with no police lately.”
“I was really shocked,” she said of the allegations. “I would tell him to get his life straight and don’t do things like that. Because I love him, and God loves him.”
Thanks to BLM, Soros, the insurgent Left that's rising up, we're going back to the 1970s. How long before NYC tops the 1,000 murders/yr threshold again?
While I normally cover the tactical and CCW guns, I do have one other group I always snatch up if the opportunity presents itself. I guess you could call them 1866 tactical guns, and be correct. I’m talking about lever actions of course, including this week’s Henry in 45-70.
From a practical standpoint, I find that lever actions still have a place. They are so well balanced and handle so quickly, it would surprise you if you grew up on an AR. I didn’t shoot one more than a handful of times until I was already full-grown, and a soldier to boot. But I still came away impressed. With some practice, they also provide a remarkable rate of fire.
[PennLive] A witness who testified in the investigation that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will be coming to Carlisle. He could be looking over his shoulder for a very long time.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was ousted from his post on the National Security Council Friday, will start classes at the U.S. Army War College this summer, CBS News is reporting.
The decorated combat veteran will return to the Department of the Army for reassignment until he reports to Carlisle in July.
Vindman, who had told Congress in November he didn’t think it was proper for the president to urge the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was escorted from the White House on Friday. His attorney, David Pressman, said Vindman was asked to leave in retaliation "for telling the truth."
Vindman’s twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, also was asked to leave his job as a White House lawyer on Friday, the Army said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, was also released.
According to The Washington Post, the post-impeachment firings released some key figures who complied with congressional subpoenas and testified in a process Trump called a "hoax" and a "witch hunt."
"I’m not happy with him," Trump told reporters Friday when asked about Vindman’s future. "You think I’m supposed to be happy with him? I’m not."
The president’s critics are not surprised at the dismissals.
"These are the actions of a man who believes he is above the law," Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat and lead House impeachment manager, told the New York Times.
The White House would not discuss the Vindman situation, only saying it does not comment on personnel matters.
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So the fellow who never commanded anything above company level and hasn't worn a uniform in decades, was boarded and will soon attend the prestigious Army War College.
LTC Sausage was 'exempted' from normal career selection gates? I see. I take it his upcoming promotion ceremony will be a very private affair. Additional questions? No, I believe I have it now.
....A third brother Leonid Vindman, who reportedly was fined $1.3 billion when he worked for Unicredit for violating trading sanctions by trafficking nuclear energy materials to Libya and Iran, runs Tungsten Capital an investment firm with ties to former Soviet satellite countries.
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It’s not like they can let him actually command anything, and this way they can keep him at an empty desk for half a year without anyone fussing about it. A lot can happen in half a year when the commander-in-chief knows your name.
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/\ Excellent point TW. Too many years behind the 'Green Door.' He's a walking hand grenade. No one wants this fellow going full 'John Bolton' with a tell-all book right now. Get him off 'center stage.' Give him a short sabbatical to do some leisure reading, rest up, and get his PT program re-energized before reporting to Carlisle Barracks.
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Three Rs. Reserve advisor, Recruiting command, ROTC duty. I'll take number 3. North Dakota State University? University of Alaska - Fairbanks? University of Idaho?
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Three Rs. Reserve advisor, Recruiting command, ROTC duty. I'll take number 3. North Dakota State University? University of Alaska - Fairbanks? University of Idaho?
No. There are some good guys to be recruited in those places. Put him in San Francisco.
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Hmm. My son Tom (an Air Force Major - Major Tom!) may be assigned to a joint command at Ft. McNair, the site of the Army War College. If so, I will tell him to keep a lookout for LtCol Sausage. Too bad Tom isn't a LtCol himself yet. At this point he will have to salute the fat POS if he sees him.
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Ref #21: At this point he will have to salute the fat POS if he sees him.
Probably not. The students wear Mufti (civilian attire).
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re #22: I haven't been to Ft McNair since 1979, when I was a Lieutenant (Navy). We wore uniforms.
I wasn't a student; my reserve unit was putting on a seminar for the Navy.
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Civilian clothing is worn extensively both on and off duty. You will need complete summer and winter service uniforms, including a heavy overcoat and a raincoat. There are a few occasions when you will need your Class A or dress uniform.
The U.S. Army War College (USAWC) Chief of Staff, and/or Dean of the School of Strategic Land power, is responsible for designating the proper dress for academic activities on the USAWC Weekly Schedule.
[Breitbart] A former member of al-Qaeda turned MI6 spy said that there "is no such thing as a rehabilitated jihadist" and that efforts by the British authorities to deradicalise convicted terrorists will not work.
Aimen Dean, who joined the Mujahideen at the age of fifteen and was later recruited into al-Qaeda by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who helped mastermind the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York, said that he doesn’t "believe in deradicalisation".
The former terrorist, who went on to work as a spy for the British intelligence service MI6, told The Telegraph that Islamist terrorists are "extremely treacherous" and that if they don’t confess and help to do "damage" to their jihadist cause of their own volition like he did, "you can’t trust them."
"The only way [a jihadist] can demonstrate that they’ve renounced violent extremism is if they have sung like a canary and provided damaging intelligence on the networks that recruited them," said Dean.
Dean is calling for longer prison sentences for convicted terrorists, as well as "harsher" conditions so that terrorists are unable to "congregate" while imprisoned. He says that the attempts by the British government to deradicalise terrorists "are riddled with naivety and a lack of understanding."
"Use the deterrent of much longer sentences and make them serve the minimum in its entirety unless they show remorse and co-operation. If you need another Belmarsh, build one," he suggested.
Kurt at Town Hall
With Democrat dreams of a soft coup now a heap of smoldering wreckage, and no need to play Mr. Nice Guy to please prissy softcons on Capitol Hill, President Trump is finally free to channel his inner Michael Corleone. It’s about time to re-christen Don Jr., and use that opportunity to take out the heads of the five families.
Trump already tossed mealy-mouthed ambassador Gordon Sondland out on his Nadler. Then military Twitter started buzzing with delight ‐ well, not Blue Falcon Twitter but the one with vets who aren’t half-stepping weasels ‐ at the news of That’s Lieutenant Colonel to You Bratwurst and his brother Other That’s Lieutenant Colonel to You Bratwurst being marched out of the West Wing with their all stuff, probably mostly Doritos and Mounds bars, in bankers’ boxes. About time ‐ these doofuses may fool the establishment civilians but not the vets. We all served with their likes, and the fact these guys get celebrated by our feckless elite is not unrelated to the fact that our military has not decisively won a war in 30 years.
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[L'Ombre de l'Olivier] - Will the current Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic be worse than SARS? And if so what does that do to the world and particularly the world economy?
Quick answer is yes, but not a massive pandemic and it’ll be bad but not disastrous for most of the globe. The PRC, however is probably in a world of hurt.
...Working on the assumption that the current spread of cases is accurate (60%+ Hubei, 30% rest of PRC, under 10% everywhere else) and that the mortality rate remains at or below the current 2-4% and going on a WAG infection rate of less than 10% of those exposed I think we could be looking at a worst case global death rate in the low millions (say 2 million or so) of which all but a few tens of thousands will be in the PRC and 60% in Hubei. Quite likely the body count will be in the thousands (or possibly tens of thousands) with just hundreds in the rest of the world and if the various quarantine measures work we could see just thousands in the PRC and only a few dozen outside. All in all I would guess the death rate outside the PRC (and probably within the PRC but outside Hubei) is going to be an infinitesimal blip on the regular mortality figures.
So what does this do to the global economy?
I’m doing this analysis based on the theory that we won’t see a global pandemic and that even within China actual infections and fatalities will be relatively low ‐ albeit higher than currently reported because, as everyone knows, the Chicoms will definitely be lying a bit (so a total of thousands of Chinese deaths, possibly 100 outside the PRC). If we’re in global pandemic mode (millions of deaths worldwide) then the simple answer to "what does this do to the economy?" is simple ‐ it causes a depression to make 2008 seem like a minor blip.
...there’s a big question of what idling Chinese factories for several weeks will do to the general economy. Right now we have Chinese companies reneging on contracts to purchase raw materials, which isn’t good for the exporting nations if this continues, but overall isn’t a huge global economic hit.
...Over at his blog, Peter Grant has a link filled article
(https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2020/02/coronavirus-spiraling-economic-impact.html)
pointing to potential supply chain problems and there are a number of other pieces worrying about the automotive industry in particular as Wuhan is the Detroit of the PRC and home not just to Chinese vehicle factories (both domestic and foreign) but also to component suppliers who export a significant fraction of their production. Undoubtedly other industries will also discover that parts of their supply chain are in the PRC and that they don’t have a non-Chinese second source. However, assuming we’re looking at a month or two of disruptions to the PRC manufacturing sector, this is going to be a quick hit and a major incentive for every manufacturer in the rest of the world to second source components from somewhere else and also to look at storing two or three weeks capacity of components etc. Thanks to Trump and his trade war this was in process to an extent so the virus is likely to accelerate deals that were already under evaluation. Longer term that’s going to be bad for the PRC but it seems to me it can only be a good thing for the global economy as a whole which will become significantly more resilient to future shocks.
[DW] An analysis of text and video messages from jihadis in Idlib reveals over 60 Germans among their ranks, German media has reported. Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... is determined to retake the region.
Over 60 Germans are fighting in Islamist groups in Idlib, the last stronghold of Islamist fighters in northwest Syria, according to reports German broadcaster SWR shared Sunday. Danka, Muti
SWR reviewed transcripts of instant messages sent by the fighters and determined that the individuals are largely members of "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... ," a group with ties to al-Qaeda. At least one person is working with the group "Junud al-Sham."
Using messenger apps like Telegram, the fighters solicited financial aid from supporters back in Germany by way of text, video and voice messages.
"My brothers," said one masked man in a video message, "if you could help, that would be very good. Even if you're in Germany, [by donating,] it's as if you've completed jihad."
Supporters are instructed to send donations to an individual in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... via Western Union bank transfer or to use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
German security agencies are aware of the practice and said they have been monitoring the use of cryptocurrency to finance terrorism for some time.
Idlib is the final holdout of Salafist tough guys in Syria, who are backed by Ottoman Turkish support. Syrian ruler Bashir al-Assad, with help from Russia, has vowed to retake control of the region.
A Talib sheltering in the territory of the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood? An unexpected addition to the collection of Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, the much beloved.
[AlAhram] The confirmation comes days after the former front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) released an audio message claiming he had escaped detention and was now in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... A leading member of the Pakistain Taliban has escaped custody more than two years after surrendering to authorities, a security bigshot said Sunday.
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[IsraelTimes] Faisal al-Qassem’s Arabic tweet garners critical responses, but huge majority responding to poll on his Twitter feed then seem to agree; IDF spokesmen and Netanyahu hail him.
A firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... Arab television host called Israel the most successful project of the 20th and 21st centuries in an Arabic tweet on Saturday, stirring up intense debate about the Jewish state on social media.
"For most Arabs, if they want to curse you, they will describe you as a ’Zionist,’ even though they know that the most successful project in the current and last century is the Zionist project," tweeted Faisal al-Qassem, the host of Al Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction, a well-known debate show.
"All of the Arabs’ projects, especially that of Arab nationalism, failed. So... before you use the term ’Zionist’ as a curse, you must first come somewhat closer to what Zionism has accomplished and then we will talk," he also said.
Qassem has frequently criticized many Arab regimes on his show and Twitter account, which has 5.5 million followers, for their anti-democratic policies. He also courted controversy in 2018 when he hosted Arabic-language IDF front man Avichai Adraee on his program.
Many critical responses poured into Twitter on Saturday and Sunday after Qassem posted the tweet.
Meshaal al-Nami, a Kuwaiti researcher, tweeted that Qassem and Al Jazeera’s "mercenaries are serving Zionism by spreading chaos and failing and frustrating Arabs and Moslems."
But when the television host asked Twitter users later on Sunday to vote in a poll as to whether they consider Israel or Arab regimes to be more "advanced, developed, democratic and successful," an overwhelming majority chose the Jewish state.
Eighty-two percent of 6,168 respondents selected Israel, while the remaining 18.3% chose Arab regimes.
Twitter does not publicly provide data on the identity of poll respondents. However the tweet and the poll were notably in Arabic, as is Qassem’s feed in general.
While a number of Arab states, especially many of those in the Gulf, have expressed greater openness to Israel in recent years, several experts have argued that Arab public opinion has remained largely hostile to the Jewish state.
Israeli officials heaped praise on Qassem for his comment, which they highlighted on their Twitter accounts.
"Dr. Faisal al-Qassem is right. The Zionist movement achieved the Jewish people’s ambition to return to its homeland and build a national state anew on the land of its forefathers," Ofir Gendelman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic-language front man tweeted on Saturday.
"I am a Zionist and proud. In 71 years, we have transformed from a poor state that lacks resources to a state that is at the top of the world’s rankings with regard to modernism, innovation, sciences, medicine and agriculture," he added.
Adraee, the IDF front man, tweeted on Saturday: "Faisal al-Qassem is speaking the word of truth. ’Zionist’ is not a curse word but rather one of admiration."
Al Jazeera is one of a handful of Arabic-language television stations which has hosted Israeli officials.
Many Al Jazeera hosts, however, often express considerable criticism of Israel and its policies vis-a-vis Paleostinians in the West Bank and 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.
[IsraelTimes] IAF strikes come after PM, defense minister promise harsh military response following week-and-a-half of near-daily attacks from 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...
Israeli warplanes attacked several targets in the Gaza Strip after midnight Sunday, the army said, several hours after forces of Evil in the enclave launched a rocket into Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces said warplanes and and other aircraft attacked several targets of the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group in southern Gaza, including "a training camp and military infrastructure."
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Sarhad, also known as Sarhad Hodkhil, a notorious gang leader arrested along with his two accomplices during a special operation carried out by GCPSU in PD#9 of Kabul City. The group was involved in kidnapping, murder & robbery in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/zNRu6obXnW
Two Lebanese soldiers are dead and three others wounded following an ambush in the northeast region of Hermel, according to the army.https://t.co/JPuMLobBd3
And millions of international donations (not one penny from the Iraqi govt.) were spent in Mosul, but what is the result? Nothing, just more money goes to the militias. https://t.co/7wgYogW5BE
[AlAhram] Egypt’s armed forces said on Sunday that they had thwarted a terrorist attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai governorate, killing ten Death Eaters participating in the attack.
According to a statement by the military front man, security forces at the checkpoint were able to resist and engage the terrorist elements, killing ten and destroying a four-wheel drive vehicle they were using.
The front man added that during the shootout, two officers and five other military personnel were killed or maimed.
"The armed forces and police affirm that they will continue their efforts to eliminate and uproot terrorism," the front man said.
Security forces in the region are currently undertaking sweeping operations at the site to apprehend terrorists, according to the statement.
More than 840 suspected militants have been killed in the region since February 2018, according to army figures. Some 67 security personnel have also been killed.
Rail operator Deutsche Bahn says it halted long-distance train services in many parts of northwestern Germany because of disruptions caused by Storm Ciara and will extend the suspension to the rest of the country.https://t.co/IS2fhTz04o
Manchester City’s Premier League game against West Ham is called off due to a storm battering northern Europe, along with matches in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.https://t.co/zwMqeZB2XZ
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The storm is currently battering Munich. Well... a winter storm in February.
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So much for the flood defences! Storm Ciara leaves Yorkshire Dales and Pennines towns under water as £30m barriers finished last year catastrophically FAIL
[KhaamaPress] A premature bomb explosion killed five Talibs including a key sharp-shooter (sniper) of the group in North of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said.
According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off prematurely among Talibs in northern Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province which killed 5 Talibs.
The statement further added that the bomb went kaboom! among Talibs in Sayad district, killing five Talibs including Bismillah alias Farahuddin, one of the sharp-shooters (snipers) of the group.
The Special Operations Corps also added that the earth-shattering kaboom also destroyed a thermal rifle scope.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Talibs and other hard boy groups often use improvised bomb as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.
Meanwhile, police on Saturday summoned two journalists for questioning in Srinagar for reporting about the strike call given by the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front.https://t.co/aW9ohYwxhp
...JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 leader Yasin Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
...then in March 2019 Yasin Malik was jailed again and the JKLF was banned when his “peaceful” march to the India-Pakistan Line of Control (what in the rest of the world would be called an international border) refused to disband. He may be there yet, for all we know...
[NEWS4JAX] Hours after a van plowed through a Republican Party tent where volunteers were registering voters, Jacksonville police arrested a 27-year-year man on two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.
Gregory William Loel Timm was identified as the person behind the wheel of the van that struck the tent set up the parking lot of a Walmart Superstore at the corner of Atlantic and Kernan boulevards about 3:50 p.m. Saturday.
Timm is accused of pulling up, driving through the tent and striking their tables.
"It happened so quickly," said Nina Williams, a volunteer. "I just barely got out of the way."
According to Lt. Larry Gayle said after driving through the tent, the driver, now identified as Timm, stopped, took a video and "flipped off" the people who were inside the tent before driving away. Investigators are monitoring social media to see if the video shows up.
No injuries were reported. One of the volunteers provided photos of the older brown Chevrolet driving away.
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In a world where the best and the brightest
Are fighting the might of the rightists,
One brave cub reporter
Sneaks over the border,
Inflicting concussions
On elderly RUSSIANS.
Convinced that he's nutty,
They hold him for study;
Committed, he is: Timmtimmitis!
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, brushed off calls for his resignation following a debacle at the Iowa caucuses that left no clear winner in the state for three days.
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...Where the hell did they go? This is communist China, you're not supposed to be able to just tootle around without the Party knowing right where you're at...unless, as it may turn out, that the vaunted controls of the CCP were just so much nonsense.
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#WarCrime Criminal Americans carried out a drone strike on Hakim Khelo area of Jalga district #Wardak late Sat. afternoon resulting in 3 innocent villagers (Engineer Muhammad Khalid, Samiullah & Waheedullah) martyred & son of Engineer Saboor wounded. https://t.co/i7QWkZpXWe
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) February 9, 2020
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As a result of overnight search operation, GCPSU discovered & seized 76 packs of illicit drugs, 12 AK-47 rifles & 33 pistols in Dur Baba district of Nangarhar. GCPSU arrested two suspected as well. pic.twitter.com/HdhZ1JgaPa
#AlFath Infiltrators with help from other Mujahidin killed 8 Sangori militiamen inside a CP in Deh Yak area of #Farah capital last night before taking away 15 unit weaponry, 1 NVG & a hatchback type vehicle - Ahmadi https://t.co/I9QWZaY7rS
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) February 9, 2020
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NEW: The Trump administration is considering halting humanitarian assistance to Yemen after Houthi rebels adopted new restrictions on aid including a 2% tax, officials say. Big ramifications for the world's worst humanitarian crisis. By @missy_ryan & me https://t.co/OZFuQDMavM
[Rudaw] The United States’ suspension of a hitherto unreported joint covert intelligence-gathering drone operation with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is yet another indication of strained ties between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... alliance members. It’s unclear, however, whether this will have any adverse effects on the ongoing Ottoman Turkish operations against the group.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] NYPD lieutenant Jose Gautreaux was shot in the arm on Sunday morning, 12 hours after officers Paul Stroffolino, 31, and Brian Hanlon, 33, were shot at in the Bronx on Saturday night
Video shows him laying on the floor after he ran out of bullets around 8am and a cop fights him on the ground
Footage from Sunday shows approximately a dozen cops respond and subdue suspect Robert Williams
Williams has a long rap sheet and was recently released from jail on a weapons possession charge
Williams was paroled in 2017 for an attempted murder shooting conviction in 2002 in the Bronx. He subsequently carjacked a woman, crashed the car and engaged in a gunfight with members of the NYPD
Commissioner Dermot Shea called the suspect a 'coward' Sunday and labeled both attacks this weekend attempted 'assassinations'
'It is only by the grace of God and the heroic actions of those inside the building that took him into custody that we are not talking about police officers murdered inside a New York City police precinct,' Shea said
Officer Stroffolino was shot in a patrol van on Saturday night. He got a hero's welcome from fellow cops as he was released from hospital Sunday
Authorities questioned a woman believed to be Williams' girlfriend Liza T Valdez, a communications technician for the NYPD
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NYC Police jobs are ranking right up with there with cruise ship massage therapists.
#3
I have no pity for the New Yorkers who voted for the sock puppet. I suspect Law enforcement/fire fighters will be reduced to those who have retired in place. Expect Martial Law in a few years.
She's my Corona-sharona,
My Yokohama-mama,
A cruis-in' fer a bruisin'
Twerkin' like a Miley Cyrus-virus
From Osaka Sock-it-to-muh
By the light of the silvery mooooooon...
#4
A raccoon once crooned his kabuki
As spooky as any tanuki.
The Japanese nation
Immediately and unanimously decried this profoundly problematic example of cultural appropriation and coon supremacy!
I'm kidding. They just cooed, "You kooky!"
And of course enriched and honored him, eventually making him a citizen.
[AlAhram] Thousands of people stranded aboard a cruise ship in Hong Kong for five days were allowed to disembark on Sunday after its 1,800 crew tested negative for the deadly new coronavirus.
Health authorities in the semi-autonomous Asian financial hub said the crew and a similar number of passengers had been released from a quarantine imposed because of fears some staff could have contracted the deadly virus on a previous voyage and passed it on.
The World Dream carried three Chinese passengers to Vietnam between January 19 and 24 who were later found to be infected with the SARS-like coronavirus, which has killed more than 800 people in China since it emerged in December.
The government grounded the ship on its arrival in Hong Kong Wednesday while tests were carried out on the crew, but said the passengers need not undergo examination as they had no contact with the three sick holidaymakers on the January trip.
First found in the city of Wuhan in central China last December, the virus has infected more than 37,200 people on the Chinese mainland and at least 36 in Hong Kong.
The passengers and crew isolated on the vessel had been expecting to stay aboard until Tuesday after Hong Kong authorities said testing would take at least four days.
But chief port health officer Leung Yiu-hong said Sunday "all tests have results this afternoon and are all negative".
He added that passenger testing was deemed unnecessary because they were at relatively low risk. All 3,600 onboard will not be required to self-quarantine after leaving.
As he left the ship, passenger Rocky Chan said quarantine conditions had been "okay", though his time on board had caused him a few problems.
"My job was somewhat affected due to the time I had to spend here," he said, but added that a letter he received from the Department of Health should smooth out any issues.
Vice-president of marketing at Dream Cruises, Phoebe Yip Ching-man, said the company arranged for dozens of coaches to take passengers into the city, while free hotel rooms were booked for the more than 100 foreign passport holders on board who needed them.
Hong Kong on Saturday began enforcing a 14-day quarantine period on all people arriving from mainland China in a fresh bid to curb the spread of the virus.
The city's health minister on Sunday morning said 468 people had so far been ordered to stay at home, in hotel rooms or at a government quarantine camp since the policy took effect.
[AmGreatness] The outcome of 2020 is not yet settled, obviously, but these two presidential election contests taken together already tell an amazing story.
The Democrat-Republican establishment had 2016 all planned out. According to the plan, 2016 would be another Clinton-Bush election, this time Jeb(!) versus Hillary. Hillary would win of course, and politics would return to normal. The majority party Democrats would keep pushing for bigger and more unaffordable government, the minority party Republicans would continue their project of steadily losing the fight, and the establishmentarians on both sides would continue feathering their nests.
But back to normal was not to be. Obama changed the game in ways the political establishment did not quite understand. What Obama did was the American political equivalent of walking on water; he had quite openly rejected America, and yet he was rewarded with a two-term presidency! As a result, it was not clear that politics in America was ever going to return to normal‐and in any case, there was no chance 2016 was going to be a return to normal.
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IMO, Obama was just the icing on the cake. His strongest effect on Donks is "If we can elect, and reelect, somebody like this - we can do anything!"
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Agreed. Obama was a nullity, a cipher, a hollow man in a slim-cut suit. Everyone saw what he wanted to see in that empty vessel.
His real legacy wasn't what he did but what, through his laziness neglect and sheer ignorance, this Zero enabled: Grifting on a global scale, not least by his two Secretaries of State and their coteries.
Also by market-manipulating firms on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
No responsible, honest and competent US administration of any political orientation would have allowed Google to acquire Doubleclick, as Zero's GOOG-infested crony administration did. The Zero admin was a fat piñata for Google and Goldman Sachs.
"Fundamentally transform" = swap one group of (petty) thieves for another i.e. Global Grifters: Clintons & Giustra, C. Slim et al; Kerry and his Persian pal & Persian in-laws; the Bidens; ValJar and Big Mike; Shalala at United Health; etc etc etc
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If a party had folks who Washington elites approved of but the voters had to hold their noses because the guys were better than the Democrats... if that party suddenly elected someone they actually liked would it be fair to say the party had transformed? Or that it was perverted for years and finally came back to its roots.
A new historical era began in 2016, or 2920 if you prefer. That marked the end of virtue-signaling Globalism, the bankruptcy its soaring and absurd pretensions and its corrupt underside.
After the 2008 meltdown there was no way that either of our Globalist parties could maintain the fiction any longer - i.e. the fairytale that building up China, shipping our manufacturing base and wealth and jobs over to China, exporting jobs to Mexico and importing unemployment and shit-wage helots in return, and incompetently waging land wars in Asia - no one could pretend any longer that these colossal own goals were somehow in America's national interest.
The Uniparty was finished. Zero's farcical admin was its death rattle.
There is no going back to country-club, free trade, finance-driven Global Grifter GOP capitalism of the sort that enriches the Bush-Romney-Bloomberg GOPpers and nobody else.
[AmericanThinker] President Trump’s acquittal on impeachment charges is welcome, but hardly the best news of the week. For, unnoticed until recently, another court proceeding advances, and win or lose, this matter can shake the globalist, deep state swamp off its here-to-now protected foundation.
The case in question is Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan (Petitioners) v Internal Revenue Service (Respondents), a case where allegedly corrupt actions of the Internal Revenue Service itself may fall under the microscope. It likely involves as yet unprosecuted crimes by "charities" that are still corruptly directed by household names. For history of this case, and some tantalizing details, see here.
The names of Petitioners in the U.S. tax court case are familiar to many -- Doyle and Moynihan are self-described "financial bounty hunters" who are determined to police the waste, fraud and abuse that has grown exponentially of late, especially because the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service seem loath to go after the biggest of fish -- dynastic political families, billionaire donors, and all who enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.
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An old trick. Educational "charities" are commonly used for tax evasion and money laundering in Arab and South Asian circles. Billary simply repurposed an old scam to launder illicit campaign contributions. And then Hillary became Secy-State: overdrive.
Corruption, hidden in plain view.
Most corrupt era since the days of the Robber Barons.
#5
Nice piece. Let's hope this scenario comes to pass:
"...assuming we’re looking at a month or two of disruptions to the PRC manufacturing sector, this is going to be a quick hit and a major incentive for every manufacturer in the rest of the world to second source components from somewhere [other than the PRC]...."
💥💥BROKEN ARROW: How in the world does Buttigieg, who had a father that was the head of the International Gramsci (Marxist) Society, get a TS clearance and work in counter intelligence? 💥💥 https://t.co/oehKenJmh8
#1
Just brainstorming...
1) "Because," not "despite"
2) "Well, he's obviously intelligent, so..."
3) Our CI people are frickin' geniuses who plan generations ahead.
Twenty years ago, I'd have taken 3 seriously, ten years ago, 1. Today? Everything on 2, please.
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Obama’s true character is seen emerging on his post presidential endeavors: from last nights Oscar reviews
By Fox: Even socialist revolutionary Karl Marx was mentioned in a speech by Julia Reichert, the co-director of the Barack and Michelle Obama-produced Best Documentary winner "American Factory."
Reichert concluded her speech with a paraphrase of the "Communist Manifesto," written by Marx and Frederich Engels, stating "[W]e believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite."
“The Communist Manifesto” got a shoutout during the 2020 Oscars.
Julia Reichert, the co-director of best documentary winner “American Factory,” which was produced by former President Barack Obama’s new film company, apparently quoted from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ infamous book during her acceptance speech on Sunday night.
“Working people have it harder and harder these days — and we believe that things will get better when workers of the world unite,” Reichert said.
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So, yeah, anyone who wondered what would be the result of Obama's deal with Netflix, see above for the answer.
I saw bits and pieces of the Oscars last night because Mrs. Uluque just had to watch it. But I spent most of the time in another room watching another TV that was tuned in to another channel. What I did see of it was a bunch of freaks like the bald headed pair above. The denizens of Tinsletown are all off their rockers and ripe for exploitation by communists like Obama.
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So Zero's strange career trajectory ends in total farce. A stoner, a lazy and feckless lawyer, a Chauncey Gardiner president-from-nowhere surrounded by corruption and incompetence, and now a "producer" of shitty Marxist "documentaries."
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A disgrace, yes, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Oscar. So I think that means that Hollywood is also a disgrace, a collection of Communist kooks.
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A stoner, a lazy and feckless lawyer, a Chauncey Gardiner president-from-nowhere surrounded by corruption and incompetence, and now a "producer" of shitty Marxist "documentaries."
This is a great idea for a TV show. Think "Idiocracy" meets "Being There". Pity we can't get Alex Karras to play Michelle Obama.
Have your people call my people!
Iraq’s incoming prime minister will face “hell” and be removed within days if he includes members of the political elite in his cabinet, warns a top aide to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.https://t.co/vrIqVBCq8j
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three medical doctors have been sentenced to flogging in 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 charges of "insulting" a controversial holy man who denounces modern medicine and recently burned the world's leading internal medicine textbook in a viral video.
The doctors have been sentenced to 60 lashes each for "insulting" Abbas Tabrizian, a holy man who burned Harrison’s Manual of Medicine among his followers in a viral video in January. "We don't need medicine and drugs and stuff! We've got ISLAM!"
Tabrizian ‐ considered the "father of Islamic medicine" by his followers ‐ is an advocate for treating patients using "Islamic medicine" rather than modern medicine.
"Islamic medicine" relies on the sayings of the Shia Imams to treat patients.
Tabrizian has written a number of books on Islamic medicine and runs an Islamic medicine center. The center’s website sells medicinal herbs, as well as products such as "Islamic soap" and "Islamic toothbrush."
Powerful holy man Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi ‐ reportedly an advocate for Islamic medicine and once considered to be a possible successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ‐ died in 2018 due to trusting Islamic medicine, according to his son.
"The Islamic doctors told my father to not pay attention to what the modern doctors were saying about his health," Ala Hashemi-Shahroudi said last December.
Iran’s highest authority Supreme Leader Khamenei is also believed to be an advocate for Islamic medicine.
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Sounds like a scam conducted using Islam as a cover.
#5
All this arose when the docs identified the "holy man's" symptoms as consistent with hoof and mouth disease, usually acquired by a too-close association with the livestock.
#6
^ Quick browse suggests that such a number, even administered in one session, would very likely be survived by healthy people. Got it down to a science, apparently (as much as anything else, anyway). Although I do wonder about the frame of mind of "offenders" in SA greeting their umpteenth weekly dose of 50. The two "sodomites" who drew 7000 each, say.
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An almost perfect symbol for the mullahs' misrule. Graft + bestiality + barbarous stupidity + murderous cruelty directed toward Iran's best people...
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I wholly support Muslims relying entirely on Muslim Medicine for all their medical needs because not doing so shows their faith is weak. I also think that doctors who practice Western medicine ought to fully support their choice to practice Muslim Medicine.
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Tabrizian has written a number of books on Islamic medicine and runs an Islamic medicine center. The center’s website sells medicinal herbs, as well as products such as "Islamic soap" and "Islamic toothbrush."
[Rudaw] Thirteen migrants colonists crossing to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... froze to death on Sunday in Van province on the Ottoman Turkish-Iranian border.
The Human Rights Association (IHD) said that they were informed about the deaths of 13 "refugees" at 22:00 Thursday in the area of Caldiran Saricimen.
Various local media outlets reported that three of the dead hailed from Kobane in northeast Syria.
Unconfirmed reports have speculated that the other victims were of Afghan origin.
Syrian Kurds and Afghans — noted.
Van governor Mehmet Elin Bilmez said they have "begun investigations into the matter."
"Unfortunately, tens of people die on our borders. Hopes are disappearing," Murat Melet, head of Van’s IHD branch told local media, calling on people to "take responsibility" to reach the victims.
Heavy snowfall has prevented relevant Ottoman Turkish authorities from visiting the scene.
Global warming has not cancelled winter, it appears. Future colonists, please make note.
Van officials are looking to cooperate with Iranian authorities to uncover the identity of the victims and will visit the scene when the weather improves, Bilmez added.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) described the incident as "the shame of humanity," calling on Ankara and Tehran to "find a solution" to such deaths.
Stay home in winter — that’s the solution.
"An investigation should be initiated without delay to uncover the networks that are responsible for the murder of refugees," it added.
The human traffickers and recruiters, you mean, to whom our dead men and many others have paid millions for the opportunity to die in the cold far from home?
Turkey is the leading route for migrants colonists from the region looking to reach the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union (EU).
Kim Jong Un canceled a big parade with no real explanation just as the South Korean press reports coronavirus has hit North Korea hard and could explode there.https://t.co/JegQhJ9ekf
#3
Did buffalo buffalo Joe?
I feel we can safely say no.
"So rude. Don't abide 'em.
I slide up beside 'em
To sniff 'em and bite 'em,
And, if I can't ride 'em,
At least get a whiff as they go!"
#4
Peeling the Biden onion does not appear to be working out very well. My sorrow for him has now turned to simple anger. Imagine it if you will, Joe Biden was only a breath away from being POTUS for eight very long years.
#5
Look, we all know that Obama kept Biden around as assassination insurance - nobody, no matter how fanatical, would try to assassinate Obama if it meant POTUS Joe. How the hell, Dems would select him as a contender, I'll never know.
The rocket launched fine but failed to put the satellite into orbit. Same issue as the previous launch with Simorgh. They still can't make that upper/kick stage work. https://t.co/rt1qgcoVEr
#AlFath Enemy convoy engaged in Labarjin area of Chahr Bolak district #Balkh on Sat. resulting in 2 APCs destroyed, 9 gunmen killed & 7 others wounded. Mujahid also martyred in clashes.
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) February 9, 2020
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An Algerian military court starts hearing an appeal against the 15-year jail term for the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was brought down amid anti-regime protests last year.https://t.co/qTTVOwF4jG
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There is no military solution to the conflict in Libya, said African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat on Sunday.
Libya has been plagued by conflict since the fall of dictator Muhammar Qadaffy in 2011 and currently has two rival governments.
"With regards to Libya, Africa is constantly reminded that there is no military solution for this problem," said Faki Mahamat at the opening remarks on the third day of the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Abada on Sunday.
The theme of the summit is "silencing the guns," referring to attempts to resolve conflicts in African countries including Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , South Sudan, and Somalia.
The summit is the last with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi as its chairperson. The rotating position as ceremonial head is set to pass to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday.
📕Red= #HoR ( democratically elected parliament ) #LNA Libyan National Army.
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actually there is a solution:
GNA surrenders
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These are the same people who screeched when the Sri Lankan military prepared to defeat the Tamil Tigers. "If you win, how are you going to negotiate with them!" they said in a horrified manner.
The military ignored them and crushed the Tigers. Today there is no further Tamil Tiger problem in Sri Lanka, nor will there ever be.
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I seem to remember reading a history book about how the Romans found a military solution to "Libya". IIRC it involved salting the earth.
Video of around 4 dozen well-equipped Lebanese Hezbollah fighters preparing to go to battle on the front lines around Aleppo, likely filmed during recent clashes https://t.co/II7fAO1Phv
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interesting if true
Hezbollah has been mostly absent from the front lines in the battles in Idlib province for a long time. I was wondering if they were being held in reserve for another purpose. However, I thought Syria (and Russian airpower) could take all of Aleppo without using Hezbollah but I was wrong about that.
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Syrian regime forces are set to retake the strategically important M5 motorway which will connect the capital Damascus to the second city Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.https://t.co/xx9uXeM7ZLpic.twitter.com/HdxUT5voAq
Talks between representatives of Libya’s warring parties in Geneva end without a deal on a ceasefire but the UN has proposed a second round of negotiations for February 18.https://t.co/ySU8OKpN1K
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In all seriousness, though; how much naval power can the Turks project? According to Wikipedia they have "16 frigates, 8 corvettes, 13 submarines, 23 missile boats, 28 patrol boats, 32 mine countermeasures vessels, 29 landing ships, and various auxiliary ships." That sounds like a reasonable amount for a regional power.
And is it a bad thing if they *do* project some naval power? Is it stabilizing or destabilizing? Inquiring, non-Naval minds would like to know.
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Guess that depends on your views concerning the newly mapped gas fields and level of involvement in Libya, in addition to the timeless Control of Bosphorus.
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Turkey wants Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean, all of the Aegean Islands... just mark everything the Ottoman Empire had at its peak down as being on their Bucket List.
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Turkey wants Cyprus, the Eastern Mediterranean, all of the Aegean Islands... just mark everything the Ottoman Empire had at its peak down as being on their Bucket List.
Well, even though I'm not a navy guy, I'm pretty sure 16 frigates, 8 corvettes, 13 submarines, and 23 missile boats won't get them there.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hundreds of Iraqis took to social media on Sunday to ridicule a prominent Shia political leader for his comments calling for gender segregation during protests.Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, though lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics... said that men and women should not mix in sit-in tents during demonstrations in a list of restrictions and rules posted on his Twitter page.
One Twitter user, who drew a mustache on her face, shared a video mocking al-Sadr’s comments with a caption that said, "In solidarity with the wave of ridicule of Moqtada the traitor, I participate in my own way."
"There will be no mixing. Even my brothers, I won’t mix with them...The Sayed [al-Sadr] does not allow mixing [between men and women]. But for the Sayed it is acceptable that we steal, we bomb the world, we filter people out [by killing them] based on their name, do you remember?" she said in the video.
Another Twitter user posted a video of a woman leading a protest in Iraq’s Nasiriyah, with a chant praising the city’s men.
The caption on the video said, "The Sayed: It is not permissible for men and women to mix, and Nasiriyah responds."
Iraqi men also launched their own social media campaign on Facebook, sharing photos of themselves with headscarves, jokingly disguising themselves as women, to poke fun at the leader’s statement that men and women should not mix during protests.
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Opinion: #Lebanon’s leaked policy platform lacks original ideas, simply copying and pasting requests from the World Bank and other international agencies, writes @makramrabah.https://t.co/euVEY8PzEC
1 Spanish, 5 British tourists catch coronavirus in France as officials test hundreds of children and their families in Contamines-Montjoiehttps://t.co/JQ9bkT13Yk
After Fatih and Yavuz, Turkey acquires 3rd drillship for $37.5 million as East Mediterranean tensions rise over gas exploration activitieshttps://t.co/8M0XZk6rgm
[ToloNews] The provincial governor and a Farah MP both claim that an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed five civilians who were businessmen traveling on Saturday from Farah city to Abu Nasar Farahi Port when their vehicle was targeted.
"The governor is in charge here ... the governor must answer about who killed them," said Abdul Ghafar Arman, an MP for Farah.
The Ministry of Defense has not commented on the allegations. Foreign forces, contacted on Sunday night, have also not commented yet.
Farah's governor Massoud Bakhtor said that the incident will be investigated.
"We have set up a commission to investigate the incident and will share its findings with the governor's office and we will take serious action," said Bakhtor.
Human rights organizations denounced the attacks and called for an end to the strikes.
"We call on all parties to the war to respect international humanitarian law and the Afghan constitution. In all cases, the universal declaration of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. emphasizes that civilians must stay away from military objectives," said Zabiullah Farhang, front man for the AIHRC.
"Unfortunately, we do not see any proper action towards civilian victims of the Afghan conflict, and we do not see any accountability for those who caused civilian casualties," said Zaman Sultani, Amnesia Amnesty International's South Asia Researcher.
On the other hand, a delegation of US troops went to Kunduz province on Saturday to meet and apologize to the families of victims of the airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi. Nearly two weeks ago an airstrike allegedly caused the death of five Lions of Islam and five civilians, including two women and one child.
If y’all keep apologizing, the civilians will not learn to stay far away from legitimate targets, and the targets will continue recruiting — often forcibly — civilian shields.
"The foreign forces special operations commander had arrived on a trip with a delegation. They apologized to the family for the martyrdom of the five civilians in Dasht-e-Archi district and assured them that they would seriously investigate the airstrike," said Esmatullah Muradi, a front man for Kunduz governor.
The Independent Human Rights Commission has also expressed concern about civilian casualties in US and Afghan airstrikes, saying numbers have increased compared to the past.
Increased pace and aggression of actions leads to more death and destruction among the targets and those around them. Sensible people who want to win wars would consider this a good thing,
A ministry statement said the bombing took place in the Bordj Baji Mokhtar region. It was not known who carried out the attack, the first suicide bombing in Algeria for several years.
The conflict in neighboring Libya and deteriorating security across another of Algeria's borders, in Mali, have both fed concerns of armed militant groups growing more active in the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa.
Algeria is already wrestling with a major political crisis after a year of mass protests that helped oust the veteran president, but which continue with demonstrators demanding the ruling elite be fully replaced.
It also faces economic problems, with declining energy sales contributing to a fall in state revenue and planned cuts in public spending this year.
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[The Economic Times - Times of India] Lucknow: Amid America-Russia tussle over the supply of arms to India, Russian gun maker Kalashnikov expressed apprehensions over Indian Army's choice to procure US-made Sig Sauer assault rifle as an "unusual decision".
India has bought 72,400 SiGSauer assault rifles for its frontline infantry troops while it is going for a joint venture with Russian Kalashnikov to acquire over 650,000 AK-203 assault rifles for replacing the INSAS rifles.
"I don't know what is the purpose for the Sig Sauer rifles because normally this kind of rifle will be used as a designate marksman rifle, as a semi-automatic sniper rifle and using that as a basic infantry rifle is a very unusual decision. We don't know what the plan is. How they want to use it? What troops they want to give it to," Kalashnikov Group representative Alexander Onokoy told ANI.
Comparing the two rifles, he said: "When we are talking about AK-203, we have to understand that it is a proven system. For basic infantry rifle, we believe it is the best option. As for 716 (Sig Sauer), there is a lot of discussion in the expert community because it is using a 7.62*51 round that has a pretty short recoil, that is generally not necessarily handled very well by every soldier. It is up to the Indian Army to decide what they want to use but we think that in this role as the basic infantry rifle, AK-203 is the best option available."
Highlighting the features of AK-203, he said: "AK-203 is a new generation assault rifle that is going to be produced by a joint venture called Indo-Russia Rifles in Amethi. This is a new generation of the legendary AK-47. An Indian soldier deserves the most reliable weapons available and this weapon is definitely an AK. It has a lot of new features."
Everything is very easy to use. Indian soldiers already know how to use an AK so this weapon will be a welcome addition and we see a lot of soldiers and officers coming here and they are really glad that this weapon is going to replace the INSAS rifle," he added.
In December last year, the Indian Army has started inducting its newly acquired American SiG Sauer assault rifles in operations.
In addition, the Indian Army had also started getting supplies of ammunition for its sniper rifles as more than 210,000 rounds have been ordered from vendors.
The first lot of 10,000 SiG 716 assault rifles have arrived in India and has been sent to the Northern Command," top Indian Army sources had told ANI.
India had signed an over Rs 700 crore contract to equip the Indian Army with 72,400 new assault rifles.
The rifles are being supplied by US arms maker Sig Sauer. They will be manufactured in the US and will be supplied within a year since the contract for the new guns is being made under fast-track procurement (FTP).
A majority of these rifles -- 66,000 -- are for the Indian Army. The remaining will be divided between the Indian Navy (2,000) and the Indian Air Force (4,000).
The Sig Sauer SIG716 7.62x51 mm assault rifles will replace the Indian-made 5.56x45mm Insas rifles.
The Indian Army will also receive a major boost with the induction of more than 750,000 AK-203 assault rifles which are going to be produced in the joint venture between India and Russia.
On March 3 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the plant that will produce 750,000 AK-203 assault rifles at Kauhar in Amethi as part of a joint venture between world-renowned arms manufacturer Kalashnikov and Ordnance Factory Korwa.
The factory will produce around 750,000 of the most advanced rifles, the AK 203. This is a successor of the historic AK 47 which continues to be in service in many militaries across the world.
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"using a 7.62*51 round that has a pretty short recoil, that is generally not necessarily handled very well by every soldier." A short recoil my ass. More like a stiff kick in the shoulder.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NBC] Not a fan of NBC News, but I caught this last eveninng (in lieu of watching the Commie Oscars). Thought it might be of interest.
[NYP] “The Communist Manifesto” got a shoutout during the 2020 Oscars.
[HindustanTimes] Shops, markets and other businesses mostly remained closed in the capital Srinagar on Sunday and public transport stayed off the roads.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[IsraelTimes] IAF strikes come after PM, defense minister promise harsh military response following week-and-a-half of near-daily attacks from 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[NEWS4JAX] Hours after a van plowed through a Republican Party tent where volunteers were registering voters, Jacksonville police arrested a 27-year-year man on two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.
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[AmGreatness] The outcome of 2020 is not yet settled, obviously, but these two presidential election contests taken together already tell an amazing story.
I nearly have the key lines memorized. How many times must we sit through this movie ? 
...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 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, though lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics...
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