[BBC] Several people are dead following a shooting in the western German city of Hanau, local media report.
Eight people were killed and five others injured when an unknown attacker opened fire on a shisha bar in the centre of the city.
There are also reports of a second shooting at another shisha bar, in a different part of Hanau.
Officials say the suspects fled the scene and are currently at large, Bild newspaper reported I am posting this mainly in the hope that EC can keep us updated.
Since this was a late posting, I’m rolling it over with the BBC updates and Deutsche Welle and Daily Mail below. The BBC updates as of 12:38 a.m. ET on 20 February
The suspect was found dead at his home, along with the body of a second person, according to police.
There appeared to be no other perpetrators, they added, and said the investigation was ongoing.
The motive for the attack is unclear.
Bild newspaper reported that the suspect was a German citizen with a firearms licence, and that ammunition and gun magazines had been found in his car.
The first shooting was at a bar in the city centre, while the second was in Hanau's Kesselstadt neighbourhood.
They sparked a seven-hour manhunt, while officers searched for what they thought could have been multiple gunmen.
The suspect killed three people at the first shisha bar, Midnight, before driving to the Arena Bar & Cafe and shooting dead another five victims, regional broadcaster Hessenschau reported.
The initial death toll was eight, but this was raised to nine in the early hours of the following morning after one of the wounded victims succumbed to their injuries.
NEAR MISS FOR LOCAL RESIDENT
Speaking to DW’s Rebecca Staudenmaier in Hanau, 49-year-old Ali Mengucek recounted the events before the shootings.
Mengucek, who has lived in the area for the last 40 years, said he was walking home with his two children when he saw four men ‐ "all quite tall and fairly young," perhaps 40 or under.
He said they were standing in groups of two, about 30 meters apart . He walked in between them, telling his two girls to pick up the pace.
"I live about 50 meters past where they were standing. When I got home and shut the door, then I heard the six shots. I believe this was six or seven minutes after I had walked past with my two little children. I then opened the window, people were running back and forth and screaming. Within about five minutes, police were on the scene," Mengucek said.
About two hours later he spotted ammunition on the road and reported it to the police.
Hanau is a city of 100,000 inhabitants in the state of Hesse, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Frankfurt.
Related: Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has the usual here, and adds:
Local reports said Turkish or Kurdish people were among the victims at the bars.
Moslem colonists it is — good find, Skidmark!
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Sorry, mods, I hosed the highlighting. Only the last line is me.
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There isn't really much new info. Seems that two different shisha bars were targeted. 8 people are confirmed dead. Reasons still unknown.
Last update 15 minutes ago says that the hunt for the killers is still on. Bild had reported an arrest which doesn't seem to be true.
It may be speculation on my part but I think a conflict between gangs (which may be of oriental origin) is more likely than a Neo Nazi attack.
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Anti-Narrative so MSM to cover this (with a pillow)
"We're not saying it's Nazis... oh, wait, of course we are! IT'S NAZIS! Quick, citizens, bring in your kittens and puppies before they're trampled by the goosestepping hordes... OF NAZIS!"
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They found a manifesto of the shooter... right wing extremist, but of the tin foil wacky conspiracy theory kind.
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And speaking of Kulenists, and baloney, and making sausage... after decades of misguided snobbery, looks like I've found my spirit cold-cut. Thanks, Skidmark.
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The Beeb is now saying the guy is a far-right extremist. Once again, it's amazing how quickly a shooter's motive can be determined if his name is not Mahmoud.
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...but, but mass shootings only happen in America. I was told so by so many media talking heads.
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He also accuses President Donald Trump of stealing his ideas.
“A billionaire in the USA is implementing my policy recommendation (even some slogans I developed like ‘America First, Buy American and Hire American’,)” the manifesto states.
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I'm hearing Nigel Farage on LBC radio on the net and the subject of the talk for the next presenter, Ian Dale, is "Why are Far Right terror attacks on the increase and what can be done to stop them"..hmmm...oh, Merkel said about the same thing..that old sow..raised in East Germany and raised by a Lutheran Vater..and she's from Hambrug originally!!
From Wiki
Religion played a key role in the Kasner family's migration from West Germany to East Germany.[28] Merkel's paternal grandfather was originally Catholic but the entire family converted to Lutheranism during the childhood of her father,[24] who later studied Lutheran theology in Heidelberg and Hamburg. In 1954, when Angela was just three months old, her father received a pastorate at the church in Quitzow [de] (a quarter of Perleberg in Brandenburg), which was then in East Germany. The family moved to Templin and Merkel grew up in the countryside 90 km (56 mi) north of East Berlin.[29]
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I'm hearing Nigel Farage on LBC radio on the net and the subject of the talk for the next presenter, Ian Dale, is "Why are Far Right terror attacks on the increase and what can be done to stop them"..hmmm...oh, Merkel said about the same thing....raised in East Germany and raised by a Lutheran Vater..born in Hamburg and..
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Religion played a key role in the Kasner family's migration from West Germany to East Germany.[28] Merkel's paternal grandfather was originally Catholic but the entire family converted to Lutheranism during the childhood of her father,[24] who later studied Lutheran theology in Heidelberg and Hamburg. In 1954, when Angela was just three months old, her father received a pastorate at the church in Quitzow [de] (a quarter of Perleberg in Brandenburg), which was then in East Germany. The family moved to Templin and Merkel grew up in the countryside 90 km (56 mi) north of East Berlin.[29]
Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm
Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States
It has long been rumored that Omar and Ahmed Elmi are siblings, but because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, proof has never been uncovered
Osman said: 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country'
Omar was married to her second husband Elmi in 2009 by a Christian minister - although she is Muslim
She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi
Osman said: 'When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community'
He added: 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it... No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later'
'Squad' congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm.
And now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.
Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.
But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.
'No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,' Osman, 40, exclusively told DailyMail.com.
Osman's revelations are sure to renew calls for an investigation into the Minnesota freshman representative who has repeatedly refused to answer questions on her marriage to Elmi.
She originally said the idea that the spouses were also siblings were 'baseless, absurd rumors', accusing journalists of Islamophobia, but has since stayed quiet.
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Maybe it doesn't count in the eyes of Allan if she married her brother in a Christian ceremony.
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@IlhanMN Better round up that "Squad" of yours girl, the water's about to get real rough! 🤣😅😂 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-accused-of-marrying-brother-by-old-friend
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She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi
The poor kid is going to be awfully confused. "What do you mean my father is also my uncle?"
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Chief of Police of Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan has said that Afghan intelligence services have evidence Iran is supplying the Taliban with Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS).
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In one of those amusing bits of synchronicity our Universe is famous for, I just watched "Charlie Wilson's War"- the movie version of how we supplied Stingers to the mujahideen to fight Russians.
The situation remains extremely alarming in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread Desert Locust infestations and a new generation of breeding threatens food security and livelihoods in the region. The situation is less worrisome in Uganda and Tanzania.
infestations elsewhere include: the Sudan, the SE coast of Iran and SE Pakistan
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There is also correlating evidence that most career criminals have had sever trauma as children which is also known to effect brain development and growth.
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Forget criminals. I wanna see research on liberals. The results would raise new questions into what amount of regressive mutation can be considered compos mentis.
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Let's not forget the ultimate gateway drug...MILK. Have you ever encountered a criminal who never drank milk? Don't even start on H2O, I think we all know where that leads.
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Funny: my daughter with Down syndrome doesn't steal and isn't violent, though her brain is a bit smaller than average. (She does lie and cheat at card games though.)
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I heard this stuff before on a tech telecast. The promoter waxed about how South Korea had a faster net as well. Skip the fact that South Korea was the size of Kansas with a quarter of its population in one geographical location, Seoul. He also ignored that South Korea was not divided into 50 separate mini-countries each with their own public utility commissions to work through in delivering the service. To put some serious broadband internet through most of the fly country will require a federal effort like the Rural Electrification Act of the '30s.
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As far as I can tell, a meaningless, titular position created to provide oversight to the intelligence community. Grenell will only know what they want him to know. If he had control of their secret budget, perhaps another story entirely.
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This is an issue that has been neglected so far when it comes to information security and data theft.
Data that hasn't been encrypted by the user himself becomes directly accessible to a service provider once it is stored on the service provider's it infrastructure.
At least some, but realistically many employees, often residing in third countries will have legitimate (according to the provider's policy) and untraceable access to this data.
When Huma mailed secret documents to her Yahoo account in order to print them out, she gave the Yahoo corporation access to these documents.
There was no need to 'hack' or steal passwords, Yahoo employees had untraceable access. So had the countries on whose territory the data was physically stored.
I wonder if some of the older patients were exposed to a pathogen somewhat similar to COVID-19 a couple of decades ago.
Some of the severe health complications could then be the result of an allergic overreaction of the immune system triggered by partial immunity acquired decades ago.
This would be an explanation for COVID-19 apparently not causing any serious health issues in the 0-9 y/o age group.
[CNN] "Unknown Gas leak"...Uh huh Authorities have been unable to explain the origin of an apparent gas leak that has killed 14 people and left hundreds more sick in southern Pakistan since Sunday.
Concerns are growing in the port city of Karachi in Sindh province that toxic gas could still be leaking as officials scramble to find the source of the problem.
Dr. Zafar Mehdi of Sindh Province's Health Department said 14 people had died from toxic gas exposure in Karachi and that 500 others were affected by the gas to varying degrees, including some who are in intensive care.
Mehdi said autopsies had been carried out on the dead and that post-mortem reports were expected in 72 hours.
Residents in Karachi demonstrate against the government on Tuesday. Sundus Rasheed, who lives in Karachi's seaside neighborhood of Kemari, told CNN that residents were panicking.
"At around 10 p.m. (12 p.m. ET) on Sunday, we got a call that there had been some sort of gas leak and people are dying. Hordes of people [were] coming with their faces covered, ambulances rushing towards the port. Our car windows were rolled up but eyes were irritated and burning; something is clearly wrong. We've evacuated our home," Rasheed said.
Images from Karachi show small protests against the government, with demonstrators wearing face masks and demanding answers from officials. Karachi officials have said they cannot find any evidence of a leak
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‐ A Tennessee inmate is scheduled Thursday to become the fifth to die in the state’s electric chair in the past 16 months. Each of those inmates chose electrocution over the state’s preferred execution method ‐ lethal injection.
Nicholas Sutton, 58, was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing fellow inmate Carl Estep in a conflict over a drug deal while both were incarcerated in an East Tennessee prison. Sutton had been serving time for three murders he committed in 1979 when he was 18, including that of his grandmother.
In a clemency petition to Gov. Bill Lee, Sutton’s supporters said he is not the same man who went to prison forty years ago. He's older, you see..."
"I can confidently state that Nick Sutton is the most rehabilitated prisoner that I met working in maximum security prisons over the course of 30 years," former Correction Lt. Tony Eden stated in an affidavit included with the clemency petition.
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Tennessee hasn't had a "botched" electric chair execution yet since they returned to using it. I hear they are getting consulting fees from the other 8 states that still use the chair.
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They should do it uber-green. Chain 300 bernie bro's to bike generators and have them electrocute him. It might take a while, but it'll get there eventually.
Or you could always have the condemned spend his time on a bike gen, charging up capacitors for his go in the chair.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian governor says security forces were confronted by rocks and gunfire after arriving in village; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, accuses PA of killing the teen.
A Paleostinian teenager died of wounds he sustained Tuesday night in violent festivities between Paleostinian Authority security forces and Paleostinians, some of them armed with guns, in the Jenin area, the official PA news site Wafa reported on Wednesday.
PA Jenin Governor Akram Rajoub said in a video published on Facebook that members of the PA security forces went to Qabatiya, a village south of Jenin, after information was obtained that a "military-style demonstration" would take place there.
According to several Paleostinian news sites, Paleostinians in Qabatiya had been preparing to celebrate the return of a man who had been recently freed from an Israeli prison.
Paleostinians in the West Bank sometimes fire bullets into the air during celebrations.
Rajoub said that when the PA security forces arrived in the village, button men opened fire on them and others hurled rocks in their direction. He said PA security forces in a nearby security headquarters responded by firing tear gas and that others shot bullets into the air.
Rajoub added that two Paleostinians were maimed by gunfire and 18 security forces were maimed by rock throwing.
The dear departed Paleostinian was identified as 17-year-old Salah Zakarneh of Qabatiya. An unnamed security source told the Ma’an news site that Zakarneh was hit by a bullet in the chest.
The PA Jenin governor did not clearly state whether Zakarneh was maimed by a bullet fired by the security forces or the button men, but said that indications point to the latter being responsible for causing "the chaos."
He also did not elucidate whether Zakarneh was a bystander or actively participating in the festivities.
The security source also told Ma’an that the PA security forces had opened an investigation into the incident. Unnamed eyewitnesses told the news site that the situation remained tense in Qabatiya but was moving toward calm.
Rajoub did not answer several calls to further clarify what transpired.
Video posted on social media showed that later on Tuesday a group of Paleostinians gathered outside a hospital in Jenin where many of those injured in the festivities were being treated.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's civil society swung from hope to despair Tuesday after counter-terror police detained leading rights defender Osman Kavala just hours after a court ordered his release from jail.
Kavala and eight other defendants were acquitted by a court outside Istanbul in the highly controversial "Gezi Park" trial.
But within hours, a new warrant from the Istanbul prosecutor's office called for his arrest as part of an investigation into a failed 2016 coup against President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... 's government, and under the charge of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order.
After his release from the heavily-guarded prison complex in Silivri outside Istanbul, where he has spent more than 800 days in pre-trial detention, the official Anadolu news agency said Kavala was taken by police to an Istanbul hospital for health checks before being formally detained.
The judge had earlier said there was "not enough concrete evidence" that he and the other defendants sought to overthrow the government.
Seven other defendants, who remain on the run, were not formally acquitted.
Kavala, the only defendant kept in jail throughout the trial, faced a life sentence without parole if convicted for his alleged role in orchestrating the "Gezi Park" protests of 2013 that presented the first major challenge to Erdogan, then prime minister.
News of a fresh arrest came as supporters waited for him to be released from the Silivri court and prison complex, and was met with shocked silence, while his wife Ayse Bugra was visibly upset.
Kavala has became a symbol of what critics say is a crackdown on civil society under Erdogan, and received loud cheers as he left the packed courtroom in Silivri.
Kavala's supporters say he was targeted because he worked to build bridges across Turkey's often fractious ethnic and social divides, in contrast to the combative rhetoric favoured by Erdogan's ruling party.
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And we'll keep trying him until we get the correct verdict.
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"Perhaps we might 'find' some Gülenist tracts in his residence...or something."
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And we'll keep trying him until we get the correct verdict.
Rather like the EU and voting. Hey, maybe Turkey should switch sides from NATO to the EU. They might be happier there. But still won't get any air support.
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I sent this to a former French colleague in Austria last evening. He remarked that "the Citroën was a favorite staff car of the Gestapo." That distinctive grill and windscreen, an indicator of the arrival of bad company, had one been seen rumbling about the village.
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At the preserved site of the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane located NW of Limoges in central France, there is a rusted-out Citroen body in the center of the town square, left there exactly where it was along with many other ruined artifacts - bicycles, a sewing machine - as a memorial to the 642 men women and children slaughtered by the Waffen-SS on 10 June 1944
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In Bridgehampton, NY on the main street (Montauk Highway) is a restaurant named Pierre's. The owner is French - Pierre Weber. He has an iconic yellow 2CV that is always parked in front of the restaurant. Better than a neon sign to find the place.
[Hot Air] Can we assume from this commentary that Judge Nap is not in fact biased against TrumpWorld due to some unknown personal grudge and instead was calling ’em as he sees ’em during the Ukraine impeachment saga? I’ve always assumed that. I’m just curious what his detractors think.
Especially one very special detractor, who quoted Napolitano approvingly for the first time in ages in a series of tweets this morning:
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Meh. Once Stone is sentenced, Trump should immediately pardon him. Same thing with General Flynn.
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The judge did not insure the trial integrity because the trial foreman was not vetted. She should never have been on the jury. There is a good chance there was a runaway jury. The judge appears biased in the extreme as well. Stone should appeal. Stone has a right to a fair trial. Trump can pardon him later if necessary.
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saw Napster got a new dye job on the pimp hair today
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I believe I have seen where Stone has already filed a bond for the appeal. He, his lawyers and the so-called Judge know the case will be overturned.
[PJ] 2020 is shaping up to be an epic election year, full of absurdity that even Marianne Williamson couldn't dream up. While the Democrat candidates gear up to yap onstage in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, they should watch where they walk near the venue because some pranksters have unleashed a flock of pigeons wearing MAGA hats (and one in a blonde Trump wig) to perch around the Democrat debate and trigger (or poop on) attendees as a form of protest.
The group that is responsible calls itself Pigeons United To Interfere Now (PUTIN). According to sources, the group members washed some doves and then used eyelash glue to attach the accessories to their heads.
[Stars and Stripes] NEW ORLEANS (Tribune News Service) ‐ The decorated U.S. Marine Corps pilot who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning and claimed seven lives in 1973 died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family.
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles "Chuck" Pitman Sr., whose heroics against Mark Essex that day earned him the eternal gratitude of city leaders and first responders, was 84.
In nearly four decades as a Marine, which included three combat tours in Vietnam, Pitman earned numerous medals: Silver Stars for valor; Distinguished Flying Crosses; and a Purple Heart, among others.
But in an interview with The Times-Picayune in 2013, Pitman said perhaps his proudest achievement was being named an honorary New Orleans Police Department captain for piloting the helicopter that turned the tide as police exchanged gunfire with Essex.
Pitman never sought permission from his superiors to fly that mission, he said, only forgiveness.
"The thing with him was, if you’re going to be a Marine, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do," his son, Charles Pitman Jr., said. "He was always happy he did what he did."
Essex's crime spree began on New Year's Eve 1972, roughly six weeks after a clash between police and protesters at Southern University in Baton Rouge left two students dead. Essex ‐ who sympathized with the Black Panthers radical group ‐ went to New Orleans’ jail armed with a .44-caliber rifle and, hiding in the distance, fatally shot police cadet Alfred Harrell Jr. as he guarded a gate.
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Racist Black separatists. This incident, along with the rest of the radical left-wing terrorism in the 70s, has been completely buried by the media and forgotten.
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Ref #1: Possibly as a political diversion from events in SE Asia or simply a vote getting tool, our 36th President, Lyndon Baines Johnson helped set the stage for the age of entitlement and vote getting, with his “Great Society” give-away programs.
The machinery of entitlement, Woke, 'free this-free that' payoffs, social justice 'victimless crimes' and political pandering lumber on. Concurrently, unchecked urban crime, legalized hallucinogenic drugs, death by overdose, and the urban genocide of 'Row v Wade' act as population relief valves.
'The Days of Rage' will likely not soon return. The free food, beads and blankets, and sweltering urban reservations appear to be working.
Did I mention the most recent 'Woke' narrative? Perhaps I digress.
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The controversy surrounding President Barack Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” has defied the usual election-year pattern.
Bloomberg has signed-on with this saying in an ad that makes a pitch for doing things by committee to achieve something.
Well sometimes it takes a brave man or woman to just do something and they don't need a committee or group to run it through.
[Town Hall] The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the arrest of a Mexican national serving as a Russian agent within the U.S.
Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, who lives in Singapore, was recruited by a Russian official in 2019 and instructed to rent an apartment in Miami-Dade County, Florida, under a different name. The official also tasked Fuentes with locating a U.S. government source's vehicle and taking photographs of its license plate, according to a press release.
[Long Room] Now that Apple has opened the floodgates and made it entirely clear that China's economic collapse will slash revenue guidance on the year and lead to production woes through April, an onslaughter of earnings downgrades from other top technology companies with significant operations in China could be imminent.
Evidence grows by the day of supply chains grinding to a halt as the second-largest economy in the world falters (as described here last week)...
China - Output - Supply - Chains - Companies
We've described how China's economic output remains frozen, and even if supply chains were able to restart, companies don't have enough capital to cover wages, or have delayed or stopped paying workers, suggesting that the Covid-19 outbreak has left businesses on the brink of disaster. Worse, workers can't freely move around the country, and many are subjected to travel restrictions and quarantines, which has forced a massive labor shortage.
This is creating a perfect storm that could lead to an extended period of depressed factory output, triggering future shortages of products destined for Eastern and Western markets, and even more ripples across global supply chains.
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OK. The supply chain is shattered from china. That's the reality. Now start new supply chains in the US and quit whining. Every disaster is a new opportunity. Start with pharmaceuticals. Get out from under the China boot. It's time to man up and make things happen. I hate whiners.
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Don't hold back, AP. Tell us what you think :-)
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I've been curious if the patented Coronavirus outbreak was CIA to break the Chinese supply chain. Or if it was a China Intel Op to break the Hong Kong protesters.
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"Start with pharmaceuticals" - something ridicules like 90% of all our vaccines are made in China.
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Thank goodness the world had a year’s warning to look for and set up non-China possibilities while President Trump and China renegotiated — how much worse this would have been for everybody had the process not already begun.
[MAIL] An 88-year-old school crossing guard has been killed while saving two young boys from a distracted driver in Kansas.
Bob Nill, who was affectionately known as 'Mr Bob, died when a car careened into him around 8am Tuesday morning while he was protecting young children on the crossing in front of Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City.
The black sedan plowed straight into Nill, known fondly among the local children as 'Mr. Bob', as he saved the two boys, aged 11 and 7, pushing them out of its path, officials said.
Nill, a Coast Guard veteran, was taken to the hospital where he died of his injuries.
[MAIL] President Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration's release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists.
John Rood resigned Wednesday, saying he was leaving at Trump's request.
The Trump administration's delay in releasing the aid to Ukraine was central to the president's impeachment by the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
[Mail] Todd Smith was 'an evil monster' who terrorized friends and family in his hometown for more than two decades before being shot dead by the woman he allegedly raped, DailyMail.com can reveal.
In a case that has drawn national attention, Brittany Smith, 32, (no relation) claims that Smith beat, strangled and raped her in her home in Stevenson, Alabama, in January 2018 and that she shot him as he attempted to murder her brother who had come to her aid.
Last week Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Holt rejected the mother-of-four's attempt to have murder charges dismissed under the state's Stand Your Ground law.
That law states that a person no longer has 'a duty to retreat' and is justified in using deadly force if confronted with a similar imminent threat from an aggressor.
Now, as Brittany faces a murder trial and the possibility of life in prison, DailyMail.com has uncovered a disturbing history of violent crime and domestic assault committed by Smith against multiple women spanning decades.
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So the state, once again, abysmally failed to do its job and now seeks to punish someone who did the job they failed to do. She has signaled that the state is no longer legitimate. It's about power.
[Breitbart] LOS ANGELES (AP) ‐ An up-and-coming rapper known as Pop Smoke was fatally shot during a break-in early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement source.
The Associated Press was not immediately able to confirm the identification, which was first reported by TMZ.
"It has also been widely reported that the victim is a music star of some import. We have not confirmed the identity of the victim yet so we are not stating that," Capt. Steve Lurie, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Hollywood Division, told a press conference.
Police officers found the victim shortly before 5 a.m. after responding to a 911 call from someone who reported intruders including one armed with a handgun were breaking in, Lurie said.
The call came from "back East" and reported the break-in was occurring at a friend’s home, Lurie said.
The victim was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and pronounced dead.
Several people who were in the house were detained and then released, Lurie said. Pop Smoke’s legal name was Bashar Barakah Jackson. He was 20.
Chance The Rapper said in a tweet: "Rest Up Pop Smoke, you were too young. God Bless and comfort your family."
#Erdogan: Since I set Turkish feet in #Tripoli, the progress of Hafter has been halted, and #EU has no authority to take a decision on #Libya, not by land or sea. (In reference to EU’s decision to control and stop sending weapons). pic.twitter.com/HRfX7ogYwe
[FOX] San Francisco's newly minted sheriff said his officers won't help federal authorities deport undocumented immigrants despite increasing pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on people living illegally in U.S. sanctuary cities.
Paul Miyamoto, California's first Asian American sheriff, said going after undocumented immigrants seeking solace is not a priority.
"Our department is not involved in immigration enforcement," he told KTVU2. "We feel that it is a federal matter, and our realm of interest is public safety, and you can't really have a safe community if the community members are afraid to come to us to report crimes."
He added that he's not aware of the city ever turning someone in custody over to federal authorities and that he's not starting now.
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Hey, Xi, wanna swap Hong Kong for San Francisco?
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Waiting for the Big One by flashing your middle index finger may not be the best route to take. I'm sure no one will hold up recovery monies with procedural delays in Congress. I'm sure Sacramento can cover you rather than Washington. What's another couple hundred billion in debt to them anyway.
A total of 2,512 new virus infections were reported on average each day during the week before Valentine’s Day, but the figure rose dramatically to 15,148 on the day itself, according to World Health Organization data. https://t.co/ui2GZuNvPa
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It's strange to me so many new cases keep popping up. It has figured out how to transmit itself through video games and soap operas? Okay, liquor bottles and cigarettes maybe ... but there is really no one on the street to give you the virus.
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From Frank's link (#2) Fears over the new potential cause of spread came as Hong Kong recorded its 50th coronavirus case on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
So it may have slowed down the Hong Kong outdoor protests, but not taken out the protesters. So far.
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[LATIMES] Two weeks before Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s primary election, Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... landed in the blue state Tuesday for the fourth time in his presidency to meet with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games before attending a fundraising dinner in Beverly Hills.
He used the occasion to again slam the city’s politicianship for failing to slow the homelessness epidemic.
During a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the president said that if L.A. doesn’t "clean it up fast," he will intervene.
"If they can’t do it themselves, we’re going to do it," Trump said. "The federal government is going to take it over, we’re going to do it."
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I remember the 1984 LA Olympics went pretty good.
Of course that was 36 years ago and a lot has changed since then.
The 1992 LA riots started turning things the wrong direction.
#BREAKING The IRGC-backed Al-Nujaba posted this footage, saying it could easily target this American airplane. According to the militia, the footage was filmed near one of the American military posts in Iraq. pic.twitter.com/yICPBiect6
[CHRONICLET] Oberlin College's president said Tuesday the college is taking steps to save up to $2 million annually by outsourcing more than 100 jobs currently held by unionized workers.
For a union representative who learned of the college's proposal at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, just two hours before his membership would hear the plan, the news came like a punch in the gut, delivered in "bad faith."
In a letter posted Tuesday on the college's website, President Carmen Twillie Ambar said the college is hoping to save $2 million in salary and benefits by "formally considering contracting with outside vendors for dining and custodial services currently provided by college employees."
An estimated 52 full-time dining employees and 56 full-time custodial employees would be affected, she wrote. The timeline for the steps the college is taking is this summer, Ambar wrote.
The affected employees are represented by the United Auto Workers. Ambar said the step the college is taking "is permitted under our UAW contract, and we will begin collective bargaining with the UAW in coming weeks to determine how best to move forward."
The current contract between UAW and Oberlin College expires Sept. 30. Erik Villar, chairman of the UAW employees, said the union has had a contract with the college since 1993 that has been renewed every three years since.
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Correction to #1: Oberlin's scaring up cash to pay the Gibson's judgment.
It's precisely because Oberlin's idiot president and counsel refused to settle with these normal, good people who suffered their unbelievable bullying that Oberlin is in the financial straits they now face.
At the primary level, the method a given political party uses to choose their candidate for president can be anything they please. It certainly looks like whatever the Democrats are currently using is not working well for them. But when it comes to the main event, that pesky U.S. Constitution defines the rules..
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It's part of the lefty journalism style sheet - when they lose elections, bang out a variety of 'It's Time To ...' columns, none of which will happen even in the wettest of their wet dreams, so they can better win the next one. Since they know they're in for a forty+ state ass-whupping this time around, they may as well start getting these columns out in advance.
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I'm old enough to remember the days of smoke filled rooms. JFK only ran in a couple of primaries, party leaders made the choices.
The nominees then were certainly better than today's doofus collection. The hard part of returning to those days would be finding someplace where you could smoke a cigar.
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perhaps the Democrats should examine the way nominations were handled in the old days.
The traditional way was that each state sent delegates to the party convention, some pledged to candidates, some not, as determined by each state's rules. In many states 'a favorite son' was nominated usually with little or no chance of being chosen as candidate, which meant that the delegates could vote, ultimately, however they pleased after the first ballot. Often no candidate had a majority of votes, which required a new vote, and there often were dozens of votes before agreement on a nominee occurred. When two candidates had between them most of the votes, but neither had a majority, the rivalry could be so bitter, that ultimately after many ballots, a third, compromise candidate was chosen.
Though conventions proceded at a snails pace, they were exciting because often nobody could predict the outcome until it happened.
Lately the conventions have been useless shows in which primaries determine everything long before them.
If Bernie gets lots of votes but no majority, swhich is quite possible, this will lead to something like the old system, and if it took many ballots to determine the winner it might be good for the Democrats and not horrible, because the convention would be important and interesting instead of mere nonsense.
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At the primary level, the method a given political party uses to choose their candidate for president can be anything they please.
Certainly.
I just thought it was interesting that the "Let the people decide" party with its attacks on the Electoral College have no qualms about going in the opposite direction when it gives them their preferred outcome.
Which, of course, is what this is all about.
After all, Hillary was an EC enthusiast when she thought she would lose the popular vote, while winning most high population states.
Florida and successful vote fraud gave her the exact opposite of the outcome she was expecting and so she turned on a dime, like all principled lefties.
This associate prof from Marquette is simply Hildebeest writ small.
The captain of a Lebanese-flagged cargo ship has been arrested in northern Italy for investigation of suspected international arms trafficking between Turkey and Libya, according to an Italian prosecutor.https://t.co/PhJMqUAlws
[Federalist] Bill Kristol, once a conservative icon, is now shilling for a leftist agenda. I regret ever having defended him. Penance shall set you free
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I still think that’s true, but in the last three years much has changed, and these changes are something Kristol and his faux-conservative ilk have roundly refused to recognize. It took me about a year to realize the sky wasn’t falling.
Nothing "changed" except for the writer's perceptions , it's just that this columnist was wrong about Trump's intentions all along.
[BREITBART] Representative The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.22100 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.21895 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC that not enough Americans are resisting and speaking out against President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... Waters said, "The American people should be focused on Barr. We should be joining with all of those federal prosecuting attorneys that have decided he should step down, that he should resign. We should be supporting them and backing them up. I’m anxious to see what the federal judges who have decided they can’t wait until the yearly association meeting, that they should pay attention to what is going on now and review what has happened. I’m anxious to see what they’re going to come out with."
She continued, "But the American public should get behind this if they care anything about our democracy. You know, for all of those people who say that they, you know, honor the flag and that they are in support of our democracy being strengthened, for all of those people who say that‐where are you? Can’t they see what is happening? We’re in a constitutional crisis in this country, with a president who is running amok. He is out of control. We have got to make sure that he’s not reelected. We have to speak up, we have to resist. I don’t hear enough voices."
She added, "It is not only the sycophants around him, it’s the average American who gets up every day, who is taking care of their families, who is thinking somebody else will see to it that this president is not re-elected. But, no, it has to be all of us out there working and working very hard. We have a constitutional crisis and we’ve got to deal with it. This is what democracy is all about, when you see a president out of control, when you see those who have been elected to office, who are not acting responsibly and they’re endangering our democracy, you have to speak out against them. You have to work against them. You have got to make sure that they’re not reelected ever again."
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I would guess the average American who reads up on things would be horrified by the idea of 10 years in prison for committing no crime. If the FBI visits anyone, they can, sooner or later, nail you with a process crime if that is their desire. "Oh, your favorite color is red? We have an email showing you told your ex-wife it was blue ...". Two years in jail.
[ToloNews] Presidential candidate and leader of Hizb-e-Islami party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , at a presser in Kabul on Wednesday rejected Tuesday’s announcement by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) declaring incumbent Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... the country’s next president, saying Ghani "chose the path of crisis rather than the path of cooperation."
"We suggested that you (President Ghani) cooperate with us to resolve the crisis, but you (Ghani) chose the path of crisis," said Hekmatyar.
"Let's compete in any province you (Ghani) want, if you (Ghani) get 30 percent of the votes, I will accept you as president," Hekmatyar challenged Ghani.
Hekmatyar opposed the creation of a ’parallel’ government in the country.
"We do not support any parallel government, but we support an inclusive government where all see themselves represented, including the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ," he said.
Hekmatyar said that officials of both electoral commissions should be punished, because they have pushed the election process "into a crisis."
The probability is greater than zero, but not by much.
[ToloNews] US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... has told news hounds on Tuesday that there is a chance of making a deal with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , AP reported.
"So, we are negotiating with the Taliban. We've been negotiating with them for a while. We will see what happens. It's a chance of making a deal. It is a chance," Trump said.
This follows a public announcement by US Defense Secretary Esper last week that an agreement for a seven-day reduction in violence was on the table at the US-Taliban talks, and also an AP report citing high-level officials saying that President Trump had "conditionally" approved a peace agreement being discussed in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... The expectation is that a signed peace deal between the US and the Taliban will lead to intra-Afghan talks.
The Afghan government has begun work on forming a peace-negotiating team with the Taliban, said Waheed Omar, director general of the president's office of public and strategic affairs.
"The government will determine authorities of the negotiating team. The team will have about 15 members," said Omar.
The peace-negotiating team will handle the technical aspects of the talks and the final decision will be taken in Kabul, said Omar, amid reports that the peace deal between the US and Taliban will be "finalized" next week.
"The Taliban are fighting with the Afghan govt. If they don't agree to talk with the Afghan govt, there are no peace negotiations," said Omar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... a number of politicians have said that the Afghan government should make sure an inclusive peace-negotiating team is formed to avoid any possible obstacles in the process.
[NYPOST] A female security guard at a Rockland County library was fatally stabbed when she asked the suspect to turn down the music he was playing on his phone, according to a report.
Blanchard Glaudin, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder after being tackled by patrons at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley, The Journal News/lohud.com reported.
"He was walking just a few feet away," village Police Chief Paul Modica said Wednesday about the "random" confrontation a day earlier.
"She was at the computer terminals and told him he had to turn it down. That was it," he said, referring to Sandra Wilson, 52, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Wilson, who had two grown sons and a grandchild, had worked in holy manal jobs at the library before joining its security team, the news outlet reported.
Rockland DA Thomas Walsh II commended "the brave citizens, who reacted without fear for their safety, by subduing the suspect. We will ensure that justice is served in this horrible crime."
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A man of low intelligence, with nothing to be proud of. He felt like he could swing his dick in public by playing his music loud, and that would make him feel better about his low status. When the guard came over, he felt humiliated and aggrieved. Since he didn't think about the consequences (a hallmark of low intelligence) he lashed out with violence (another hallmark of low intelligence).
He won't learn anything from this. He can get 20 years and will come out just the same as when he went in.
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Spring Valley..a dump..got dropped off at a urine laced NJ transit station there one time..very corrupt town..see Demeza Delhomme, ex Mayor.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent tens of thousands of pounds on a new Sussex Royal website and their hugely popular Instagram feed Couple sought to register Sussex Royal as global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and social-care services
Also looked to set up a new charitable organisation – Sussex Royal, The Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
But the Queen and senior officials are believed to have agreed it is no longer tenable for Harry and Meghan to keep the word 'royal' in their 'branding'
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looked to set up a new charitable organisation
That's the preferred vehicle of our era's Global Grifters. Clinton Global Initiative. Sussex Royal.
Basically a stalking horse that attracts deep-pocketed mercenary characters paying up for all kinds of for-profit side deals out of public view.
[Rudaw] A sinkhole reportedly containing almost 1,000 bodies, including around 30 Yezidis, killed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) from mid-2014 to late 2017 has been uncovered in northern Iraq’s Tal Afar region of Nineveh, a local official confirmed on Wednesday.
"The pit contains at least 1,000 bodies. They [ISIS] had even dumped victims into the mass grave while they were still alive," Tal Afar Mayor Qasim Mohammed told Rudaw.
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They [ISIS] had even dumped victims into the mass grave while they were still alive,"
Evil bastids. Euro countries still thinking about rehabilitating their people who joined up with ISIS back into civil society?
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A civilization that looks upon these bodies, and yet suffers hundreds of ISIS to live on in their captivity, well aware that they will walk soon - such a civilization is cursed from above. Not only the cries of the oppressed, the victims; the wrath of an all-seeing Gawd is imminent on them all. When the rusty machete shall come for their children, Gawd will look the other way.
[TakiMag] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands.
His notification starts the clock running on a six-month deadline. If no new agreement is negotiated, the VFA is dissolved.
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OK, as someone that knows a little about the PI lets end the VFA. But first lets tie the VFA to USAID the pours over $100 million annually into the corrupt political elites. Lets end our economic aid programs that are outside of USAID, another $100 million a year. Lets hold the PI accountable for their failing NAIA airport. There runway is not certifiable by the FAA and has operated on waivers, pressed by the political class for decades. This will shut down all FAA carriers into Manila and will stop all PI carriers from flights into the US. They cant have their cake and eat it too. Go ahead!
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Ref #1: Don't suppose any of those USAID dollars are purchasing weapons and ammunition.....asking for a friend.
#Algeria has issued an order to deport the country head of telecommunications company @ooredoo for the offense of sacking 900 Algerian workers, according to a local news outlet.https://t.co/dKDwABxK7K
Al Shabaab militants kill at least 12 Somali soldiers and briefly captured a military base southwest of the capital, according to officials.https://t.co/URm7UIj8Qu
[AnNahar] Al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Islamists on Wednesday carried out attacks on two Somali military bases, using a suicide vehicle bombing and dozens of heavily armed krazed killers, a military official 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... troops stepped in to help repel the second, larger attack, after a jacket wallah drove a vehicle packed with explosives onto a bridge leading to the Qoryoley army base some 95 kilometres (59 miles) west of Mogadishu and detonated it.
Earlier they had attacked the Ceel-salini military base some 30 kilometres away.
...Al Arabiya calls it El Salini.
"The Death Eaters carried out an ... attack on the military bases at Qoryoley and Ceel-salini but our brave boys repelled them, they (Shabaab) have suffered heavy casualties this morning and the army is in full control in the both areas now," said Mohammed Adan, a Somali military commander in a nearby town.
"They have destroyed part of the bridge across the entrance to Qoryoley where the Somali military base is located using a vehicle loaded with explosives."
He said the AU peacekeeping force AMISOM had helped fight the al-Qaeda linked krazed killers.
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Three years too late. Soetoro would have responded in the affirmative. Close down Incirlik Air Base and get out now before Erdoğan surrounds it and holds everyone for ransom.
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McCain's moderates MB, AQ, ISIS type islamists, and neo-Ottomans still need our Air Force. We should support them in Libya too, NATO allies GNA. Life is rich with irony. Call it Orwellian. We are at war with radical islam except when they are useful proxies in Oceania's War with EastAsia. Tomorrow it is known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.
The #coronavirus has killed two Iranian citizens, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, which reports the victims were located in the city of #Qom.https://t.co/d0m34rWMJm
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What they lack in medical knowledge and disease treatment they plan to make up in pure brutality and it may actually be effective in containing the virus.
I think this is the same type of response that will be used in NKor.
What I am most worried about is a breakout into, say Indonesia or Pakistan where the leaders of the country imagine they have effective responses but where this is not the case.
The virus may have mutated into a less lethal strain, at least in some places. For example, in Xinjiang province in NW China, there are officially, 76 infected and 1 death and on the Diamond Princess, 600+ infected and 2 deaths and these places do not have first rate treatment facilities.
Singapore, which does have first rate treatment facilities has 86 infected and no deaths.
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LG: what makes you think this is Cornonavirus related? Simple regular crushing of dissent is more likely
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What I am most worried about is a breakout into, say Indonesia or Pakistan
Chairman of Lebanon’s Association of Banks Salim Sfeir calls for an orderly rescheduling of a $1.2 billion Eurobond due on March 9. #Lebanon#Eurobondhttps://t.co/gULpFtIT5p
LNA Spox: There is no possibility of peace, and there is no sovereignty while we have foreign terrorists on our soil. Erdogan’s intentions and the crimes he’s committing here are clear through his statement today. pic.twitter.com/lMwZYQKZvQ
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Libya: "foreign terrorists on our soil" = the Turks, McCains Moderates & NATO allies GNA, and Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and the orgs MB birthed like Al Qaeda and ISIS types.
A footage from a CCTV camera has been circulating on social media showing the moment when an #IS militant opens fire at a group of #Kurdish men and kills four.#BaghdadPosthttps://t.co/vYl6DqJhSz
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o Sanders and Warren get the most applause
o Bloomberg gets beaten up repeatedly with significant applause, especially re stop and frisk, and according to Elizabeth possibly many sleazy non-disclosure sexual harassment agreements from his 60-odd years in business
o The moderators are anti-Bloomberg
o Going after Donald Trump began the program, and was seen in some beginnings of longer speeches and at the ends, but pales in relation to dog fight, or cat fight, or some sort of a dog-cat "trans" fight that expired
Not that I would ever vote for a Democrat, let alone the Booty Boy, but I thought that was one of the best lines of the night.
Maybe the party will split. That would be the best possible outcome.
If I had to hold my nose and choose one of them it would probably be Klobuchar. But when I look at her and listen to her I can't help remembering Hubert Humphrey so I can't believe she'll win.
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buttigieg had some great lines that he obviously rehearsed
however his smarmy demeanor and his attack on Klobuchar probably ruined any benefit from them
Apparently the moderators asked no questions about immigration nor about 'catch and release' of criminals nor about the AB5 disaster in California nor about why leftist cities have growing homeless populations. The next debate is scheduled for 25 Feb in SCarolina. The one after that is scheduled for 15 March in Phoenix, AZ.
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Abu, as a Minnesotan, I can tell you that if you vote for the Klob, you'll get Hillary, except without the adorable girlishness.
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Klobuchar was like the leper with the most fingers.
No need to ask any of these candidates about immigration. They all want open borders and they don't give a damn about the Mexican gang bangers or the cartels. They are OK with legalizing all of the drugs just like in LA and San Francisco. They just want more votes, dammit. They want massive apartment blocks all across the country to accommodate the newcomers and they don't give a damn what it does to existing neighborhoods. They want health care for the newcomers and they don't give a damn what it does to our taxes.
It was fun to watch them bicker among each other but chilling to think about any of them anywhere near the White House.
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"Klobuchar was like the leper with the most fingers." ~ Abu Uluque
Iraq's outgoing prime minister urged political leaders to quickly approve his designated successor's cabinet and warned he would walk away from his caretaker post if they do not do so by March 2.#BaghdadPost#Baghdad#Iraq#FreeIraqhttps://t.co/PgrbW1lbgj
A group representing the major Lebanese political parties and Palestinian factions in Lebanon rejects US President Donald Trump’s plan to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict.https://t.co/AHEQDnABLQ
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One of the (many) things that surprised me when I went to India 15 years ago: In America, there are rich sections of town, and poor sections. They are often separated by distance. In India, I stayed in a four star hotel. Two blocks away, there were people living in corrugated metal shacks, next to a stream that was essentially an open sewer.
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If they can build a wall that quickly, we should subcontract the Southern Wall to them.
[NYPOST] Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov
...the Uzbeck lone wolf who rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible, though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer...
threatened to decapitate a federal corrections officer for repeatedly waking him while he’s locked up at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,
...what a crabby little Hero of Islam he is, to be sure...
a new court filing detailing a trove of the government’s evidence against him alleges.
Saipov, who’s accused of killing eight people during his 2017 Halloween terror attack on the West Side Highway, allegedly threatened the officer on Dec. 17 last year for repeatedly slamming a door at night, making it hard for the ISIS follower to sleep, the filing states.
"During the course of this confrontation, the defendant threatened to kill the Officer. Indeed, as the defendant later admitted to the MCC’s disciplinary committee (the ’Committee’), he told the Officer that if the Officer dared to open the defendant’s cell, in two minutes ’other guys will be picking up your dead body,’" the filing states.
The next day, still angry from the prior incident, Saipov obstructed a security camera in his cell and said he wouldn’t remove it until "the Officer’s head was cut off" and then referred to the officer "as an animal," according to the filing.
"Again, the defendant unapologetically admitted this threat to the Committee, telling the Committee that he wanted to ’cut this animal head off,’" prosecutors allege.
The government’s motion, filed late Tuesday, describes all of the evidence it plans to introduce in Saipov’s April trial and all of the items it wants the court to exclude.
It plans to call on some of Saipov’s 11 living victims, some who were permanently disfigured following the attack, and will include the never-before-seen note that Saipov allegedly left at the scene.
The body overseeing Turkish judges and prosecutors has launched an investigation into three judges who acquitted philanthropist businessman Osman Kavala and eight other activists of terrorism charges, according to Turkey’s state media.https://t.co/cv4QzgH9QZ
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We might have a look at a few of our judges, Congress members and prosecutors as well after observing the rigged Mueller investigation and the impeachment.
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Butto target this protein, you need to know what it looks like.
Bull. You don't need the structure. People been doing passive* or active immunizations long before they knew what a protein is let alone their structure.
*You produce a lot of protein. You inject it into rabbits. Isolate the resultant antibodies and give them to sick people.
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So the death by reinfection is not a new infection but a follow on effect
Ladies and Gentlemen this virus was designed from the get go as a killer make no bones about it
#7
Notice how govt and media discussions appear to...fade away from origins? Call me paranoid, but i'm generally attentive to what is NOT being discussed.
BREAKING: Durham has interviewed several of the FBI investigators who worked on Mueller's team during his 2017-2018 inquiry, further suggesting Durham's probe may be expanding into the activities of the Special Counsel's office
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry. Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel in May of 2017 and had 40 FBI agents, intel analysts, and others working for him to investigate the ’Trump-Russia collusion.’ Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani referred to the FBI agents working for Mueller as "stormtroopers." Filed under, not holding my breath
[Rudaw] Four young Kurds were killed and two more injured in an attack on a Kurdish village northwest of Kirkuk on Wednesday, local witnesses have said, in one of a spate of recent attacks in territories disputed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi federal government in Baghdad.
CCTV camera footage seen by Rudaw’s news hound in the area purportedly shows two button men breaking into the Kurdish village of Chakhmakha on Tuesday evening. A gunman can be seen firing through the window of a youth recreation hub, shooting dead four young men and injuring two more.
"We still don’t know who the assailants are, whether they are ISIS [Islamic State
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The Lebanese central bank is investigating transfers abroad, says its investigation unit, as the country's economic situation continues to deteriorate. #Lebanonhttps://t.co/RjSj3G2p4E
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"Hey, brother Muslim!"
"Hiya."
"What say we get together and beat the bushes for the joos again?"
"Sounds good. Let's do!"
Vroom. Vroom. Kaboom! Kaboom!
"OUCH, not like that!"
Two Oxfam aid workers were killed and another volunteer injured in an attack on their vehicle in Syria, says the British-based NGO.https://t.co/DxBqFyjhvs
[KhaamaPress] Ata Mohammad Noor, one of the most prominent leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , who was once considered as the emperor of Balkh province, welcomed the re-election of Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... as the President of Afghanistan.
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Video shows large Turkish army convoy with dozens of tanks on the M4 Highway in Jabal Zawiyah in Southern Idlib today. : World on Alert 🔍 pic.twitter.com/betzrC1uie
[Federalist] Media bias is an old constant. It has never and will never go away. A reporter or host can use all the proper, sanitized words he wants, but behind the scenes lie the decisions that went into which stories to pursue and which to drop; where to pull back and where to push forward; who to interview, who to skip; what is most important versus what can be buried or even cut.
And then, of course, there’s the cool kids’ club. True, it more strongly resembles grown and embittered theater kids who never quite made it, but it’s Washington, so things are not very real.
This club is a place anti-Trump conspiracies are treated with the upmost seriousness and obviously implausible pronouncements are called conventional wisdom; where Jim Acosta gets high-fives for reporting conspiracy theories and heckling Easter egg rolls; where people can be incorrect again and again to the point of irrelevance yet still maintain columns, airtime, and glowing profiles about their bravery in the face of wrong.
Every bit of this ‐ the grinding and gurgling economy of the legacy media and its temporary darlings ‐ relies on this support structure of peer approval. Doubtful? You can most clearly see it play out live on Twitter, like a Discovery Channel exploration of an ecosystem made up entirely of mosquitoes. And the cool kids’ waterboys are the anti-Trump Republicans....
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Ah, so I'm not the only one who sees these guys as the gimp from Pulp Fiction.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... stormed some of the largest hideouts of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group during an operation in South-eastern Ghazni province.
The Special Operations Corps in a statement said the Special Forces stormed the Taliban hideouts in the restive Moqor district of Ghazni.
The statement further added that the Special Forces destroyed one of the important compounds of Taliban, a weapons and arms cache, a mine-making factory, a drug processing lab and empty prison during the raid.
The Special Forces also confiscated a large quantity of explosives, 2 cycle of violences, a 4×4 vehicle and some other military kits during the raid, the statement added.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
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The no-violence agreement is with America, not the Afghans. That will have to be negotiated separately later, for which the Afghan governmenr is pulling together their team.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CNN] 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‐ A Tennessee inmate is scheduled Thursday to become the fifth to die in the state’s electric chair in the past 16 months. Each of those inmates chose electrocution over the state’s preferred execution method ‐ lethal injection.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[Hot Air] Can we assume from this commentary that Judge Nap is not in fact biased against TrumpWorld due to some unknown personal grudge and instead was calling ’em as he sees ’em during the Ukraine impeachment saga? I’ve always assumed that. I’m just curious what his detractors think.
[PJ] 2020 is shaping up to be an epic election year, full of absurdity that even Marianne Williamson couldn't dream up. While the Democrat candidates gear up to yap onstage in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, they should watch where they walk near the venue because some pranksters have unleashed a flock of pigeons wearing MAGA hats (and one in a blonde Trump wig) to perch around the Democrat debate and trigger (or poop on) attendees as a form of protest.
[Stars and Stripes] NEW ORLEANS (Tribune News Service) ‐ The decorated U.S. Marine Corps pilot who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning and claimed seven lives in 1973 died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family.
Ref #1: Possibly as a political diversion from events in SE Asia or simply a vote getting tool, our 36th President, Lyndon Baines Johnson helped set the stage for the age of entitlement and vote getting, with his “Great Society” give-away programs. 
[MAIL] An 88-year-old school crossing guard has been killed while saving two young boys from a distracted driver in Kansas. 
[MAIL] President Trump has ousted the Pentagon's top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify the Trump administration's release of congressionally authorized aid to Kyiv in its conflict against Russian-backed separatists.
[Mail] Todd Smith was 'an evil monster' who terrorized friends and family in his hometown for more than two decades before being shot dead by the woman he allegedly raped, DailyMail.com can reveal.
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
[Federalist] Bill Kristol, once a conservative icon, is now shilling for a leftist agenda. I regret ever having defended him.
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.22100 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.21895 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
[NYPOST] A female security guard at a Rockland County library was fatally stabbed when she asked the suspect to turn down the music he was playing on his phone, according to a report.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
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[NYPOST] Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov 
[Federalist] Media bias is an old constant. It has never and will never go away. A reporter or host can use all the proper, sanitized words he wants, but behind the scenes lie the decisions that went into which stories to pursue and which to drop; where to pull back and where to push forward; who to interview, who to skip; what is most important versus what can be buried or even cut.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
