[LA Times] The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts.
The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court's decision ordering the administration to release funding to New York City and seven states ‐ New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Virginia and Rhode Island.
The states and city sued the U.S. government after the Justice Department announced in 2017 that it would withhold grant money from cities and states until they gave federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when someone in the country illegally is about to be released.
Before the change, cities and states seeking grant money were required only to show they were not preventing local law enforcement from communicating with federal authorities about the immigration status of people who were detained.
At the time, then-Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions said: "So-called ‘sanctuary' policies make all of us less safe because they intentionally undermine our laws and protect illegal aliens who have committed crimes."
The 2nd Circuit said the plain language of relevant laws make clear that the U.S. attorney general can impose conditions on states and municipalities receiving money.
And it noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly observed that the federal government maintains broad power over states when it comes to immigration policies.
In the past two years, federal appeals courts in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco have ruled against the federal government by upholding lower-court injunctions placed on the enforcement of some or all of the challenged conditions.
The appeals rulings pertain to the issuance of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.
Created in 2006, it is the vehicle through which Congress annually dispenses over $250 million in federal funding for state and local criminal justice efforts.
The Byrne Program was named for New York City Police Officer Edward Byrne, who at age 22 was shot to death while guarding the home of a Guyanese immigrant cooperating with authorities investigating drug trafficking.
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Frank, here's a little nugget from an opinion the Fifth Circuit just issued:
"Democratic elections necessarily result in winners and losers. The frustration of losing, however, does not violate the Constitution." Judicial Snark O' The Day
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Nice. Judicial Snark O' The Day?
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Keep flipping those courts, Trump!
And arrest the mayors, counsel and law enforcement leaders for sedition and aiding and abetting felons.
Thanks Besoeker: To be accurate, "Je ne regrette rien" is Indeed part of the Para-Legion Heritage.
However singing it is absolutely not welcome on official parades and cérémonies (although not officially banned). This is more like other old Legion songs (the ones of German origin).... you will hear them in more restricted circles, such as the Officers and NCOs mess, or ex-Legion clubs.
However, it is still a favourite one for the Band of the Foreign Legion.
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Le Boudin (which I first ran into reading Bernard Fall's Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu(1966). or was his Street Without Joy(1961)? Both very interesting books.)
French Refrain:
Tiens, voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin
Pour les Alsaciens, les Suisses et les Lorrains.
Pour les Belges y'en a plus.
Pour les Belges y'en a plus.
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
Pour les Belges y'en a plus.
Pour les Belges y'en a plus.
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
English:
Hey, here's a meal o' wurst, here's a meal o' wurst, here's a meal o' wurst
For the Alsatian, Swiss, and Lorraine troops,
For the Belgians, ain't no more,
For the Belgians, ain't no more,
They're a bunch of line drawers.
For the Belgians, ain't no more,
For the Belgians, ain't no more,
They're a bunch of line drawers*. (Note:'shirkers' in the other version I saw, IIRC)
[Babylon Bee] MOSCOW‐The Russians were excited once again for a U.S. presidential election in which they could interfere to sow division and discord, but their excitement soon turned to dismay when they found an election already too chaotic for them to follow.
"Everyone is ready to tear each other apart in the Democratic primary," commented Aleksei Teplov, a Russian hacker. "It seems like if we tried to add any more chaos, it would just be a drop in the ocean."
Teplov described how anytime they tried to get people to turn against each other, it was always overshadowed by a grassroots campaign to do the same thing. "And then there’s Trump," Teplov added. "I mean, the guy is already so unpredictable. I feel like I’m trying to smash things with a sledgehammer while a tornado is around me ripping up buildings."
Evil leader of Russia and interferer of elections, Vladamir Putin, agreed. "In our wildest ambitions, we never would have tried to get a straight out Communist to win the nomination in a major U.S. party," Putin said. "I don’t know how we’re supposed to interfere and add to that." Putin hung his head sadly. "It’s like people don’t even need a Russia anymore."
[BBC] US agents have raided fashion executive Peter Nygard's Manhattan offices as part of a sex-trafficking investigation.
The FBI and New York police executed a search warrant on Tuesday, a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office said.
The raid comes as Mr Nygard, 77, is facing a sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit, filed by 10 women and girls earlier this month.
He has denied allegations of wrongdoing.
The Finnish-Canadian multimillionaire, who has been linked to Prince Andrew, has been the subject of an investigation by the child exploitation FBI task force and New York police for the last five months.
He was reportedly the subject of a previous FBI investigation for sex trafficking in 2015 and 2017.
A spokesman for Mr Nygard said the fashion executive, who owns Nygard International brands, "welcomes the federal investigation and expects his name to be cleared. He has not been charged, is not in custody and is cooperating with the investigation."
Mr Nygard is estimated to be worth upwards of $700m (£538m). Brands owned by his company include Bianca Nygard, Tan Jay, ALIA and SLIMS.
[Rooters] Clashes broke out on two Greek islands early on Tuesday between police and residents protesting the construction of migrant detention centres as the government vowed to press ahead with the project.
Incidents were reported on Lesbos and Chios, outlying Greek islands on the front line of a migratory flow of refugees and asylum seekers. Authorities announced this month they would expedite the creation of centres on five Greek islands, angering locals who say they are bearing the primary burden of the refugee crisis.
Witnesses said about 500 people attempted to block the unloading of heavy machinery overnight to break ground at a construction site on Lesbos.
Clashes on the streets followed, with residents attempting to block access to the construction site, and police used teargas. Similar tensions were reported on Chios.
Greece's conservative government has taken a markedly tougher stance towards migration compared to the previous leftist government, issuing a tender for the construction of a floating fence to deter asylum seekers arriving by sea and introducing faster processing procedures that could increase deportations.
Actual deportations? Be still, my heart!
Locals are worried that construction of the centres, which would replace camps with open access, will leave the islands permanently overcrowded. Authorities say closed centres will offer greater public safety and limit potential health risks.
That concern was particularly pertinent because of the spread of coronavirus, said Greek government front man Stelios Petsas.
"It is clearly evident that matters such as the coronavirus can be dealt with swiftly and effectively in a closed facility and not an anarchic, open facility which is a health time bomb," Petsas said.
The Moria camp on Lesbos accommodates more than 18,000 people in conditions aid organizations say are appalling.
As of midday on Tuesday, Greece had no confirmed cases of coronavirus.
In addition to Lesbos and Chios, Greek authorities plan to construct closed detention facilities on Samos, Kos and Leros islands. The islands are close to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , from where thousands of asylum seekers head to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... each year.
Hundreds of thousands of people crossed into Europe from Turkey via Greece in 2015 and 2016 before a deal brokered by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... limited the flow.
There has, however, been a resurgence in arrivals since September 2019.
[JPost] - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is beginning tests of an antiviral drug on a passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and preparing a new coronavirus vaccine for human testing, according to Time magazine.
The antiviral drug remdesivir, developed for Ebola, is being tested on a patient who was brought to the US from the cruise ship after being infected with the virus. Others diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, will also take part in the study. Remdesivir showed encouraging results among animals infected with two related coronaviruses ‐ those causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), according to Time.
...Moderna Therapeutics, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH, which will prepare the vaccine for human testing as early as April, according to Time.
A regulatory structure has developed over several decades concerning the procedure for approving drugs for diagnosis, therapy and prevention of disease. The structure does lean heavily toward caution and, as you infer, ends up adding millions to the cost of development and months and years to the large scale use of drugs.
The Coronovirus situation has required a number of 'compassionate use' exceptions to the regulations but each one of these exceptions required debate, analysis, etc. Maybe the silver lining in the coronovirus situation will be that a more expeditious regulatory regime will emerge.
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[Red State] - Coronavirus isn’t moving as one might historically think, one country rippling out to neighboring countries.
But given the ability to travel everywhere and the potentially long incubation period before people would necessarily know they have it, that’s a recipe for disaster.
We’re seeing an example of that now in Iran, where it appears to have developed in a concentrated outbreak and they can’t trace it back directly back to China.
Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi, the head of country’s counter-coronavirus task force, has been briefing ministers and journalists on efforts to fight the virus. He had suggested that they had it under control, according to Forbes.
But he just tested positive for it, and is now quarantining himself. Now tell me one of the ministers was a minister for peaceful nuclear development who went and briefed Iranian nuke scientists, and my day will be complete.
[Free Beacon] Hunter Biden is asking a judge to delay his child support deposition scheduled for next week in Arkansas until April 1‐a date when the key early primaries for his father Joe Biden's presidential campaign will be finished‐according to a court motion filed by his attorney on Tuesday.
Brent M. Langdon, Hunter Biden's attorney, argued in the court filing that his client was unable to appear in Little Rock, Arkansas for the looming deposition next week, calling it "unduly burdensome and oppressive."
Lawyers for Lunden Alexis Roberts, who is the mother of Biden's 18-month-old baby and who is fighting him for child support, had offered Biden the option of doing the court-ordered deposition on March 3‐which is Super Tuesday‐or on March 5.
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Hunter Biden is asking a judge to delay his child support deposition scheduled for next week in Arkansas until April 1‐a date when the key early primaries for his father Joe Biden's presidential campaign will be finished
Someone should tell Hunter his father's campaign is already finished.
[Summit] Even as the coronavirus begins to spread around the continent, EU officials have steadfastly refuse to implement border controls, insisting that the sanctity of open borders is more important.
The number of confirmed cases in Italy has soared from 3 to 322 in the space of just five days, with 10 deaths, but authorities insist that the Schengen Area, which abolishes passport checks and border controls between 26 European states, must not be compromised.
Despite 50,000 citizens in Lombardy and Veneto being under internal lockdown, no such measures have been proposed for national borders.
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has refused to implement border controls, claiming it wouldn’t help stop the containment of the virus. This prompted former interior minister Matteo Salvini to demand Conte’s resignation "if he isn’t able to defend Italy and Italians."
"We agreed to keep borders open, closing borders would be a disproportionate and ineffective measure at this time," Health Minister Roberto Speranza also told reporters in Rome on Tuesday.
As RT highlights, borders will remain open despite Italy now being a major source of coronavirus spreading into neighboring European countries.
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We had this discussion yesterday - about how dumb deep staters (who brought coronavirus+ people from Diamond princess on a regular flight). Well, guess whom American deep staters use as role models?
[NYP] The secretive South Korean church linked to the coronavirus outbreak in the country has a branch in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epidemic’s center, according to a report.
Followers of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus gathered at the Wuhan church despite becoming aware of a potential health threat, the South China Morning Post reported.
"Rumours about a virus began to circulate in November but no one took them seriously," one member, who wasn’t identified, told the outlet.
It’s unclear whether there was any interaction between the Wuhan followers and those at the Daegu congregation in South Korea, where hundreds of members have fallen ill with the virus.
Around half of South Korea’s 977 cases were traced to the church, which was shut down in an effort to stop the spread of the virus.
The Shincheonji Church, which mainstream South Korean congregations consider a cult, centers around the personality of its chairman, Lee Man-hee, who followers believe is immortal, the BBC reported.
Members sit on the floor tightly together during services, which one official said could have fueled the spread of the virus.
"There is a possibility that the characteristics of many people sitting close together in a very confined space and holding service for more than an hour [would have led to] a few who were exposed infecting many other infectees," Jung Eun-kyeong, director of the South Korean Centre for Disease Control, said, according to the BBC.
South Korea’s death toll from the virus climbed Tuesday to 10, while there were more than 213 new confirmed cases.
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"There is a possibility that the characteristics of many people sitting close together in a very confined space and holding service for more than an hour [would have led to] a few who were exposed infecting many other infectees,"
England’s bureaucrats invented the resisting Deep State, while the s3x jihad proceeds apace.
[Free Market] After it was found that nearly 19,000 suspected victims of child sex exploitation transpired in just one year, survivors blamed the government for making "empty promises" on ending, or even addressing, the epidemic.
In 2018, Javid claimed there would be "no no-go areas of inquiry" in regards to the rampant sex grooming of children in England.
Yes, but Javid has been let go, while the bureaucrats who spent their careers ignoring this kind of things remain.
After Javid’s statement, no further statements on the review have been made. According to The Independent, the outlet was told that the work had been finished but it would only be used for internal policy-making and would not be released publicly.
Even after a freedom of information request inquiring on the research and reports, the British Home Office said they held the information but it would not be released.
In a statement, the Home Office claimed:
"Disclosure would risk pre-empting decisions still to be made by ministers. In addition, the information could be misleading if made public and used out of context. We recognize that this topic in general and any insight and learning are matters of strong public interest, although it does not necessarily follow that it is in the public interest to disclose any specific information relating to it.
The Home Office has explained that it will soon publish a national strategy that will create a "whole system response to all forms of child sexual abuse".
However, until the new system is made and utilized as promised, it seems that the U.K. Home Office is content on allowing the sexual abuse and grooming of children to continue unabashed.
Seeing as how the epidemic of different sex grooming gangs around the United Kingdom has been reported since 2018, it seems that the matter is not a pressing issue to British authorities. As sad as this is, it is likely a trend that will only continue, as the U.K. continues to allow itself to aid and abet criminal behavior among its refugee population.
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The Home Office has explained that it will soon publish a national strategy that will create a "whole system response to all forms of child sexual abuse".
In the mean time, we'll just hide everything under a basket.
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Cover up a crime you should be tried as an accomplice.
That would end this sort of thing. Being considered a pedophile enabler would be worse than being unfairly a racist.
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I think the police and bureaucrats were more than into it, I think they were active participates in the child abuse, which is why t they're actively covering this up.
[Townhall] If Mayor Pete Buttigieg had his way your local Christian school would be forced to make a choice: hire transgender teachers, gender-fluid principals and pansexual coaches or lose federal funding.
During a CNN town hall meeting the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, stated emphatically that any religious institution or charity that refuses to hire or serve LGBTQ individuals should be stripped of federal tax dollars.
"Mayor, just to be clear, do you believe that other religious and non-profit institutions, like colleges and homeless charities, should lose their federal funding if they refuse to hire or serve LGBTQ people," CNN host Don Lemon asked.
"Yes, if they are discriminating, then they should not be doing it with federal dollars," the openly gay presidential candidate replied.
Lemon should have asked a series of very important follow-up questions:
Does that mean that women's shelters run by Christian charities would be forced to admit men who identify as women? Does that mean the Catholic Church would be required to serve the LGBTQ community by performing same-sex weddings? Does that mean Baptist schools would be under a government mandate to hire staff with beliefs contrary to their doctrine? Would Christian daycare centers be forced to open their doors to Drag Queen Story Time?
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Get ready for travesties (literally, with tranny/travesties) of the faith. There's a precedent -- look at the Bolsheviks' anti-religious carnivals, their travesties of the Mass and their obscene public demonstrations against all faiths.
The Komsomol Carnival in Moscow during Christmas 1923 is a taste of what Bernie Bros and Buttfug Boys would like to install in the Woke precincts:
'Marxist and Nazi totalitarian governments cannot abide a faith that challenges their ideological supremacy, so religion must be destroyed or controlled. In the young Soviet Union, the task of ridiculing religion was first put into the hands of the Communist youth league, the Komsomol.
'On Orthodox Christmas Eve[1], January 6, 1923, activists launched the “Komsomol Christmas”. In the new capital city, Moscow, and across the Soviet Union, demonstrators held a series of parades with provocative and often obscene floats designed to denigrate religion. Clowns capered and sang the “Internationale”, a figure of God embraced a naked woman, Christmas trees were topped with red stars, staged trials judged Christianity, and mock priests and rabbis intoned lewd parodies of religious services.
'In a “Carnival of the Gods”, Christianity was linked to paganism and the Moscow parade ended with images of Buddha, Christ, Mohammed and Osiris all being burned on the bonfire. Komsomol youth went from house to house singing an parodic version of the Christmas Troparion hymn of the Orthodox Church.
'[Bolshevik] activists confronted believers emerging from church services, taunting them. In Odessa demonstrators burnt effigies of Moses and Jehovah in the main square. In Pskov, an orchestra was enlisted to entertain while militants buried “Counter-Revolution” and immolated the old gods. Anti-religious plays such as “The Liberation of Truth” were staged as were parodies of Orthodox rites where readings from scientific literature replaces the scriptures. ...'
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I'm a registered 'Pub but I'm trying to figure out if it's possible for me to write in Bernie next Tuesday and have that vote count in the tally. Any of you know for sure?
[Arutz 7] - MK Yair Lapid, one of the senior members of the Blue and White party, explained in a post published on Tuesday and entitled "Yes! Anyone but Bibi!!!" the reasons for his party vetoing a government led by Binyamin Netanyahu.
"Over the rudeness, the lies, the unscrupulousness. Over the fact that he’s badmouthing good and decent people and not thinking that there is something wrong with it.
For having surrounded himself with corrupt people who milk the country.
For understanding that if Israel remains a democracy, he will go to prison. So he decided to destroy democracy. He will destroy the court, enact immunity and an Overrule Clause, pass the French law. He no longer even denies that he wants to be Erdogan.
For abuse of security, of health, of poverty. Everything for the sake of politics.
For the burnout. What appeared shocking and unimaginable yesterday - indictments, submarines - became a reality today.
[Reuters] Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought a 21-month prison term for Michelle Janavs, 49, after she admitted she was among the wealthy parents who took part in the largest college admissions scam ever uncovered in the United States.
But while U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton imposed a lower sentence than prosecutors wanted, her rejected Janavs’ request for probation, saying she deserved prison for "deliberately corrupting the college admissions system."
Gorton also ordered Janavs to pay a $250,000 fine. In court, Janavs said she was "so very sorry that I tried to create an unfair advantage for my children."
Janavs is among 53 people charged with participating in a scheme in which parents conspired with a California college admissions consultant to use bribery and other forms of fraud to secure the admission of their children to top schools.
William "Rick" Singer, the consultant, pleaded guilty in March 2019 to charges he facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and helped bribe university sports coaches to present his clients’ children as fake athletic recruits.
The 36 parents charged since March 2019 include "Desperate Housewives" actress Felicity Huffman, who was sentenced in September to 14 days in prison, and "Full House" star Lori Loughlin, who is fighting the charges.
Janavs is a former executive at Chef America Inc, a closely-held food manufacturer her father co-founded that created the microwave snack line Hot Pockets before being sold to Nestle SA for $2.6 billion in 2002.
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For what these people spent on forging qualifications for the kids, they could have opened their own college and awarded them any degrees they wanted.
[Arutz 7] - ..."Settlement construction in these highly sensitive areas undermines the viability of a future Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. The UK’s position on Israeli settlements is clear: they are illegal under international law and damaging to renewed efforts to launch peace negotiations. We urge Israel to reverse this decision immediately," he added. Perfidious AND perceptive?
The English government bureaucracy is just bursting out all over today. Prime Minister Johnson would be wise to crack down immediately on such nonsense, or he will end up reigning rather than ruling.
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Britain: Jerusalem construction 'undermines future Palestinian state'
And...? As JFM says...maybe actions have consequences and the Paleos should've taken the old offered deals? Consider it a hard lesson of life
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O England, your greenswards and woods,
Bright meadows and dark, concrete hoods,
Were all very well
Till your heads went to hell
And you builded an Anglican Quds.
But since you've gone and done it... what's absorbing a few million Pals compared to absolution for the B.D. and all that, wot?
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1) International law is a myth, just agreements and treaties.
2)There is no East Jerusalem.
3)There is no British Empire.
4) Britain can't re-draw map boundaries any more.
5) Britain can't enforce its will.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE.N), said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened to $73 million from a year-ago loss of $46 million as it reported its first results as a publicly traded company.
The quarterly results, which include one-time transaction and other related costs, come as the company is aiming for a first commercial flight later this year with Branson on board.
"It will be a transformative moment for the company," Chief Executive George Whitesides told analysts on a conference call, adding that revenue and cash flow will ramp up in 2021.
Shares of Virgin Galactic were volatile in after-hours trading and were last down 6.4%. Shares had rallied in recent days, driven by investor interest in the first space tourism company to hit public markets.
Virgin Galactic competes with billionaire-backed ventures such as Blue Origin, founded by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) CEO Jeff Bezos, to be the first to offer suborbital flights to fare-paying thrill seekers, presaging a new era of civilian space travel that could kick off as soon as this year.
[YNet] - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said at a party debate Tuesday that he would consider moving the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv if elected president.
When asked at the South Carolina event to address U.S.-Israeli relations and whether he would move the American Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv, Sanders said, "The answer is it’s something we would take into consideration."
The Vermont senator took pride in his Jewish heritage and then went on to attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labeling him a "reactionary racist."
"I am very proud of being Jewish," Sanders said. "I actually lived in Israel for some months, but what I happen to believe is that right now, sadly, tragically, in Israel, through... Netanyahu, you have a reactionary racist who is now running that country."
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I suspect that you and tw have already explained this using one-syllable words, but tell me again why any American Jew in his right mind would think about voting for Sanders?
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Israel is a foreign country just like Mexico, Hungary, or Japan. Ally or not, imagine a US president putting their interests before our own. Just because he's the same religion as them? Insanity.
And since when do countries have state religions anyway? Isn't that something that went out centuries ago, for very well-founded reasons? Separation of church and state is a sound principle.
AMERICA FIRST. I don't get what's so hard to understand about this concept.
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We get it. You don't like Jooos or Israel. They are, however, a pretty-dependable ally and security cooperator, national and international. Keep up the self-defeating agitprop
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NO foreign country comes before America, ever. I don't care if you share their religion or not. Every country looks to its own interests and putting our interests last in favor of foreigners is what led us to the huge problems we have today.
Somehow I think more of the same isn't the solution. A change is needed, a clean break.
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Why should someone's religion determine what they think about a foreign country?
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I think what Herb is saying is that George W. should have just nuked everything from Saudi to Pakistain, but let his Christian beliefs put foreign civilian lives ahead of US policy, the world would be peaceful, especially considering all those countries' governments operate according to their state religion of Islam.
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Just started Raymond Ibrahim’s’s book Sword and Scimitar. It makes it pretty clear why religion is a key concern in foreign policy opinions. And as for America First, absolutely, and America’s good friends a close second. After all the decades of trying to find a solution, why are we still talking about this.
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You're feeding the troll. Didn't you even notice how he changed the subject from Bernie "anti-Zionism" to "NO foreign country comes before America, ever."?
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Since when does shutting down argument ever result in more wisdom?
I look forward to having my views challenged! I enjoy argument!
What I don't enjoy is whataboutism and name-calling. People who do this know their arguments can't win in an open marketplace of ideas. They have to have complete control over the conversation to stay afloat. They always have to push for a situation that makes it harder for any voice but theirs be heard.
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after all, National Socialism worked out so well for them
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Ref #16: Let us know if it gets too tough in here. None recently, but we have approved dozens of blogospheric transfers in the past. Please keep us posted. We are here for you.
[Victory Girls] At this point, the American public should be getting combat pay for watching any of these Democratic debates. While there weren’t any massive unanswered attacks at this debate in South Carolina, it’s become clear that Elizabeth Warren is shifting her goals.
Warren, who was once the front-runner before there was actual voting, has come to the realization that she’s got no shot of winning the nomination for herself. But she could definitely position herself as a vice presidential candidate for Bernie Sanders. So Warren continued her chosen role as "attack dog sicced on Mike Bloomberg" tonight while deliberately walking around the red meat that Bernie has been leaving out all over the place.
Warren is the figurative bulldog on the stage who won’t let go of the chew toy that she likes best, and that chew toy is Mike Bloomberg.
But if she really wanted to be president, wouldn’t she be going after Bernie? Bernie Sanders has made himself an easy mark ‐ as proved by some of the questions that were asked at the debate ‐ and Elizabeth Warren has taken aim at Bernie in debates in the past. Remember how she claimed that Bernie said that a woman could never be president? So why is Warren burying the hatchet with Bernie (wink-wink), and only whining about how he won’t eliminate the filibuster in the Senate?
The truth is that Warren has peaked and is now in a downward spiral. She has blamed the press for not covering her enough, even though the New York Times could not have kissed up harder to her.
[Victory Girls] The city of Miami is not a fan of Castro, Communism, Cuba, nor Bernie Sanders. Now they are making their disdain for all things Communist very clear by planning an anti-Communist concert on April 11.
Mayor Francis Suarez and the entire city commission unanimously voted to promote the concert and waive nearly $22,000 in fees.
"Our city represents the stories of countless individuals who have risked their lives to flee communism," Suarez said, mentioning Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. "Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced."
The timing of this concert, in my opinion, is no coincidence. Bernie Sanders is currently the presumptive Democrat nominee for President. He has blatantly stated, as recently as Sunday on 60 Minutes, that Cuba was a paradise for all; especially on the literary front. Then, as Jodi writes here, Sanders doubled down on his claims and essentially told those who are calling him on the carpet to Shut Up.
With Bernie’s win in Nevada, suddenly Democrats are super concerned that the Pandora box they opened years ago let loose Bernie and his many vicious followers. The back pedaling has been immense.
That said, we along with many other blogs and a few media publications have been discussing Bernie’s love for all things Communist and Socialist for years now. His love for both is a FEATURE with him, not a bug.
So to see the Democrat establishment and media types suddenly wake up to the reality that is Commie Bernie is both amusing and sad. Don’t get me wrong, they are still trying to fence straddle and "explain" that Bernie’s brand is benign compared to the failures we’ve watched happen in Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and more.
The sheer number of people who are trying to explain that Bernie’s brand of authoritarian socialism is not that troubling while stepping on their own rakes (Hi Jen ’not a conservative’ Rubin!) is quite something. It is also something that should concern us all given their abject failure to recognize how evil both types of ’isms are, and that the Castro regime was a poster child for that evil.
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As a refugee from "Cuber" (JFK speak)class of 1961 (at 11 yrs old), all this crap about socialism/communism is getting me out of sorts..when I try to explain to my Anglo friends here in southern Cuomo land about what happened in Cuba, they either say well, these are different times or they just don't want to talk about it...and btw, I wouldn't trust any cuban coming after say, 1980..maybe a few but most of them still got that socialist dogma in their heads.
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The man is a shithead who hasn't the faintest idea about the madness he's proposing. He should be forced to go live in Venezuela for two years and then tell us whether he's still a Marxist.
[American Thinker] Like many people, I’ve been watching House Hunters and its cousin House Hunters International on HGTV with considerable interest, though perhaps not for the usual reasons. I understand the charm the program has for its viewers: the pleasure of visiting houses and their locales, the ideas one may get for redecorating one’s own dwelling, the information about places one may wish to visit or move to, the guessing game regarding which of the inevitable three houses the purchasers will settle for, or simply abundant material for one’s fantasy life.
But I do wonder how many viewers realize that the whole business is largely a scripted hallucination which may even be hazardous to one’s future decisions if taken seriously. And as we will see in the ensuing, it partakes as well of a progressivist rage for leftist queer and gender politics.
To begin with, House Hunters et al. paint a scrubbed and prettified picture of the subject. I recall several episodes dealing with the lovely Greek island of Paros, featuring gorgeous, well-appointed villas replete with lavish amenities including ample showers and impressive fireplaces. I lived in Greece for several years and know the island well -- well enough to know that, like most Aegean islands, it suffers from critical water shortages and an equally critical lack of firewood owing to centuries of forest denudation. Showers will be few and winters will be rheumatoid. And unwary buyers will be sucking lemons.
This is only one instance of the HGTV lie. Cabo San Lucas is another popular HGTV fable, focusing on gleaming condominiums and stunning views. The hagglers, cheats, swarms of importunate vendors, heavy traffic, sewage treatment problems and evidence of extortionate prices are left on the cutting-room floor. Caveat emptor.
Moreover, dialogue and character must rank the program at the lowest end of the entertainment industry scale. The dialogue is cloyingly banal with its ceaseless empty chatter, and the prospective buyers/renovators are generally among the most vapid and unattractive cast of characters one could ever hope to avoid.
These are people whose major interest in life seems to consist of countertops, backsplashes and double vanities; whose speech garbles with wow, awesome, omigod, beachy feel, open concept, price point, lots of natural light, I love it, I’m not a big fan of, we like to entertain, it’s a little tight, I like to grill, and so on, a shrunken lexicon tirelessly repeated.
Participants are obviously coached to behave like puppets, but one wonders what self-respecting person would agree to so demeaning a charade. And practically every one of these people apparently possesses a degree of personal taste one would associate with a connoisseur of the fine arts. Couples are expert in architectural distinctions, whether Ranch, Craftsman, Colonial, Cape Cod, Cottage, Farmhouse, Contemporary, Georgian, Art Deco or what have you. This, too, is part of the HGTV lie.
HGTV may once have appealed to family viewing but that is rapidly changing. The participants remain no less fatuous and predictable but now they are gradually becoming same-sex couples as the producers try to "get with" the progressivist trends of the day. These couples are no more intellectually interesting than their normative predecessors and, indeed, are often given to a frisson of theatrical posturing, which seems to go with the territory.
But HGTV has clearly decided to break even newer ground, featuring its first throuple searching for a home in Colorado Springs. The word "throuple" is hammered in to practically every conversational passage as the woke threesome prances around considering furniture and appliances.
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I like the ones who buy property in Mexico along the coast oblivious to the country's Constitution which says foreigners can't own that property. It's just one step away from appropriation by the locals. I'm sure they'll get the papers stamped and filed before showing up to install new locks.
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I understand there is a legal arrangement in Mexico where they set up someone to be co-owner (realtor presumably) or something along those lines. it satisfies mexican law and allows the co-owner to skim off the purchase price.
It's 3rd world, there is always a way if you grease the right palms.
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..just as greasing the hands of the local judges who approve the seizure of the property as well. The problem with Danegeld is you have to keep paying the Dane.
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#1, 2: A Mexican purchases the property, then issues a 99-year lease to the Gringo. The Gringo builds a nice property. Then an Ejido comes from nowhere to claim land ownership. Mexican lawyers battle it out forever, everybody gets the Gringo's money and he eventually is evicted.
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[Aljazeera] The death toll in Delhi's worst religious violence in decades has risen to 20 as Indian police have been accused of looking the other way while Muslims and their properties were targeted.
A mosque was set on fire in the Indian capital on Tuesday by Hindu mobs, as several Muslim-populated areas in the city were attacked during three days of violence, which were triggered after attacks on sit-ins against a new citizenship law.
Indian website The Wire reported that a mob shouting "Jai Shri Ram", translated to "hail Lord Ram", paraded around the burning mosque in the Ashok Nagar area of the capital.
Video footage shared on social media showed a mob climbing to the top of the mosque's minaret where they attempted to plant a saffron flag.
Local media reported that shops in the area were also being targeted by the mob.
Police imposed a restriction on large gatherings in northeast Delhi as reports emerged of stone-pelting and more structures being set ablaze.
[Politico] The Pentagon, famed as the world’s largest office building, sits on 24 acres of land across the Potomac River from Washington. Home to 3.7 million square feet of offices, it was constructed during the Second World War. In anticipation of the military shrinking once peace returned, the building was designed to be easily converted into a records storage center. Instead, if the Trump administration’s budget is approved, in 2021 it will oversee the largest defense expenditure since 1945.
This history makes the Pentagon a potent symbol of America’s foreign-policy infrastructure in general, which is dominated by a massive, increasingly inefficient military machine better suited to the challenges of the mid-20th century than the early 21st. It is a machine that carries considerable direct economic costs but, more important, overshadows other foreign-policy tools more effective in confronting the global problems that the United States faces today. And just as the Pentagon is no longer fit for its backup purpose of records storage center in an age of cloud computing, nor is the Department of Defense well-placed to readjust to new roles, such as anti-terror or cybersecurity, let alone responding to climate change, pandemic threats or global financial crises.
So, as the 2020 race heats up, presidential contenders should talk big and be specific. While some candidates, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have said they’d cut defense and shift U.S. foreign policy away from military engagement, they have been light on specifics. But the United States needs a dramatic overhaul to adapt to the global threats of the 21st century, which should include moving away from military engagement and toward international cooperation on issues from peacekeeping to greenhouse gas reduction to global health to banking reform. Such an overhaul should also include cutting the defense budget in half by 2035, and perhaps even getting rid of the Pentagon itself. (Maybe Amazon could move in.)
The Department of Defense was created to win wars against nations that threatened the United States. That is still its major role: Of the Pentagon budget, 71 percent goes to research, development, testing, procurement, operation and maintenance, mostly of large weapons systems designed to defeat other countries’ military forces.
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Taking military advice from a global welfare redistribution think tank will work out well.
How about returning the Department of Defense to the Department of War? Remind them and Death to America screamers of their function to destroy America's enemies, not be the global Meals on Wheels.
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My father worked out of OCAMA, 'Plans & Programs' office at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma, and when he came back from visiting the Pentagon always said the place left a bad taste in his mouth. That was back in the early 70's so doubtless it has only gotten worse with the lack of Global Thermonuclear War™ with the Soviets to keep the bureaucrats focused on something other than empire building.
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And just as the Pentagon is no longer fit for its backup purpose of records storage center in an age of cloud computing,
Just trust the SJW codebros with all our military data. It'll be fine.
nor is the Department of Defense well-placed to readjust to new roles, such as anti-terror or cybersecurity, let alone responding to climate change, pandemic threats or global financial crises.
Prime the pump with scrip?
I see no specifics from this person to back up his bald assertions.
Of course, none of this is to say that the military is ready to deal with all possible scenarios--but what does shutting down the Pentagon have to do with it?
If there's a problem, it's personnel, not architecture.
[Politico] The Trump administration confronted a new threat Tuesday in the mounting coronavirus crisis: a fierce bipartisan backlash amid contradictory statements from the federal government about the severity of the outbreak.
Administration officials sought to swat away concerns their emergency request for $2.5 billion to address the outbreak was inadequate, even as some Republicans joined Democrats in criticizing the amount ‐ and slamming a lack of transparency around efforts to contain the disease on U.S. soil.
The furor came amid new fears of an outbreak in the United States, with a top official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning that spread of the respiratory illness in the country is now inevitable. Officials said a burst of new cases in countries like South Korea and Italy prompted the new, urgent warning.
Adding to fears that the virus could continue to spread unabated, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday floated the possibility that the summer games in Tokyo could be canceled if the outbreak isn’t under control by then.
The grim news and the angst on Capitol Hill is threatening to overwhelm the messaging from President Donald Trump and some of his aides, who have been trying to downplay the situation in hopes they can put a lid on the stock market tumble and cable news coverage of mounting deaths around the world. Trump's advisers and political allies are increasingly concerned that a botched response could hurt the U.S. economy and put his reelection prospects at risk.
Tuesday’s events showed the White House may need to come up with a new way to limit the damage.
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with a top official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning that spread of the respiratory illness in the country is now inevitable.
That would be Rod Rosenstein's sister. Spidey Senses are tingling.
To start, how about cutting off non-essential air travel from infected countries?
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He should announce that he's taking it seriously, setting up quarantine areas etc, then have the entire MSM declared possibly infected and ship them all off to Oliktok Long Range Radar Site til they are cleared of potentially infecting others. 2030 sounds about right.
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Interesting the head of the CDC is scaremongering with talk of school closures and major disruptions while Trump and others are saying it has mostly been stopped. Where does the truth lie? Kind of leaning towards Trump as scientists have shown to be political animals lately.
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^The head of CDC is not a scientist, he's a bureaucrat, and - like all bureaucrats - covers his ass first and foremost. Trump, being chief executive, has the weight the risks of epidemic vs. the risks of panic.
[Breitbart] CNN political commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones during his network’s post-Democratic presidential debate wrap-up acknowledged he was disappointed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) did not reject "authoritarian" socialism during the debate.
Jones said, "I was disappointed with Bernie’s answer on the socialism question. He had to know it was coming. There’s no reason to do a big retrospective, nostalgia, scream fest about authoritarian regimes from the 70s. It was an opportunity for Bernie to clarify to the people when he says Democratic Socialism that’s the point. It’s not that stuff from Cuba. It’s not that stuff from the Soviet Union. It’s the stuff in Northern Europe that’s working for normal people."
He added, "He failed to do it. It’s unbelievable he failed to do that. It is what a big chunk of our party needed to hear from him. He didn’t do it tonight. "
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Once again Van Jones is one of the voices of reason in the Democratic Party. That's been happening a lot lately. And he's not exactly what you would call a moderate, either.
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Gee Van, those places happen to be 98% white and with a Lutheran imbued culture. You know Martin Luther who rebel against the corruption of the church. So, yeah, get back to 98% white with an utter intolerance of social-political corruption and we can talk. Not going to happen.
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There’s no reason to do a big retrospective, nostalgia, scream fest about authoritarian regimes from the 70s.
Of course there is a reason, if you're Bernie Sanders: this nonsense is what the guy lives for.
He's a bum. He postures and gestures, he talks and waves his arms around-- and actually does nothing. He's been doing nothing for nearly fifty years. He didn't have a job before he barely win a mayors race in a northern redneck-hippie village.
Sanders is like one of those shitty little lefty street characters hanging around a college campus, ranting and shucking and jiving for handouts from amused college kids year after year after year.
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#4 those [Dem-Soc] places happen to be 98% white and with a Lutheran imbued cultureYou know Martin Luther who rebel against the corruption of the church. So, yeah, get back to 98% white with an utter intolerance of social-political corruption and we can talk.
Not to mention a Northern Protestant ethos of saving, frugality and pay-as-you-go. Countries like Holland and Sweden fully fund their pensions, by law, and tax themselves accordingly.
We're so far from that ethos it's absurd. This country can't even halt the complete looting of the public purse by its policemen and public officials. Most US states are 20%, 30% or even 40% underwater.
Socialism can only work when everyone shares the ethos of hard work, frugality and common provision that defines a tiny handful of small communities at odd points in history. The Puritans had it, and so did the Pioneers, but other than them we haven't seen that ethos in this country in the last 200+ years.
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Statistically speaking-
If the rich and powerful kill or chase off 1/4 of the population:
Life expectancy increases.
Fewer people live in poverty.
But let's talk Chinese prisons; or communist prisons in general:
There may not be very many people in prison at any one time, but that does not mean that people are not going to prison. It means people do not get out of prison alive.
[Washington Examiner] China’s coronavirus outbreak is spreading through Europe, posing a challenge to European Union health officials and the thousands of U.S. troops deployed on the continent.
"The coronavirus has reached Europe for the first time in a situation where we don’t understand every chain of infection and they can’t be connected directly to China," German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Tuesday. "This means we have a new situation to deal with. I have said it could get worse before it gets better, and this assessment still stands."
That sober outlook comes as health officials have concluded that the coronavirus is likely to spread in the United States, where "disruption to everyday life might be severe." U.S. troops at a base in Italy are living under restrictions, as Army officials have closed on-base schools and other facilities in response to a spike in coronavirus cases in two Italian regions.
"Those facilities remain closed, and the travel to the two states are still prohibited in Italy," Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, the NATO supreme allied commander and commander of European Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier Tuesday.
There are more than 6,000 members of the U.S. military at the base in Vicenza, roughly 70% of whom are accompanied by spouses and children, "and over 35,000 U.S. military members in Italy," Wolters said.
"And they're all mostly just sitting at home right now trying to avoid the coronavirus?" Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, asked Wolters during the hearing.
"Not mostly, but there's a fair amount, yes, sir," the general replied.
Italian authorities have confirmed 212 coronavirus cases in Lombardy, 11 of which proved fatal, and another 110 cases elsewhere in the country.
"I cannot say that I am not worried. I don't want anyone to think that we are underestimating this emergency," Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday, "but I can say that, with the measures we have enforced, I am faithful that we will have a containment effect in the coming days."
The virus has spread from Italy to Austria, Croatia, and Spain, according to authorities from the respective governments, and multiple cases have been detected in Germany, which is home to the European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, raising the possibility that the restrictions in Vicenza may soon be adopted in the country.
"We’re anticipating an increase in the number of cases reported in Germany," Wolters said, "and we're prepared to execute."
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The virus is not harmless, it might be more lethal than the common flu, but we'll cope with it.
It really sounds trivial. Wash your hands, don't touch your face with unwashed hands, keep some distance, and chances you are going to be infected are pretty low.
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Because of a possible panic, we always keep enough food in the house to keep us going for at least a month. We might still stock up a bit more.
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You’ll want laundry detergent and shampoo as well, of course. And bleach and alcohol for sanitizing. But being as you and your wife are German, I’m sure you are fully stocked with cleaning products. ;-)
[Jpost] The northwestern Chinese regions of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang and the southwestern province of Sichuan have downgraded their emergency response level after assessing that health risks from the coronavirus outbreak have receded, state media reported.
China has a four-tier response system for public health emergencies that determines what measures a region will implement, with level I the most serious.
Sichuan announced it would adjust its measures from level I to level II, while Inner Mongolia will change from level I to level III, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.
Sichuan said every locality will be required to return to work and develop targeted prevention and control programs for areas still deemed "high-risk."
The region of Xinjiang, home to China's Moslem Uighur population, also reduced its emergency response level from I to II after reporting no new cases for seven consecutive days, the official local news portal Tianshan.com said on Wednesday.
The provinces of Gansu, Yunnan, Guangdong, Shanxi, Guizhou and Anhui have also cut their emergency response levels in the last few days.
Some regions, including Fujian in the southeast, are also starting to dismantle emergency roadblocks designed to screen incoming vehicles and curb the contagion.
[FoxNews] A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of a Border Patrol agent who faced a lawsuit from parents of a Mexican child he killed in a June 2010 cross-border shooting.
Jesus Mesa Jr. and the parents of 15-year-old Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca gave different accounts of what happened, with the parents claiming the teen and his friends were playing a game where they ran back and forth across the border, and Mesa claiming they threw rocks at him during an illegal border-crossing attempt. The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling said that regardless of the circumstances, precedent regarding lawsuits against officers, known as "Bivens claims," does not apply to cross-border shootings.
"As we have made clear in many prior cases," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion, "the Constitution’s separation of powers requires us to exercise caution before extending Bivens to a new 'context,' and a claim based on a cross-border shooting arises in a context that is markedly new."
In the 1971 opinion Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, the Supreme Court held that a person claiming they were unlawfully arrested and searched could bring a lawsuit under the Fourth Amendment, even if there was no statutory basis for it. In Tuesday's opinion, Alito noted the high standard of extending Bivens to a "new context" and gave several reasons why it was inappropriate in this case.
The first factor was the impact a lawsuit in such a case could have on foreign relations.
"A cross-border shooting is by definition an international incident; it involves an event that occurs simultaneously in two countries and affects both countries’ interests," Alito wrote. "Such an incident may lead to a disagreement between those countries, as happened in this case." The U.S. had determined that Mesa should not face criminal charges or be extradited to Mexico.
“To avoid upsetting the delicate web of international relations, we typically presume that even congressionally crafted causes of action do not apply outside our borders," the opinion said. “These concerns are only heightened when judges are asked to fashion constitutional remedies. Congress, which has authority in the field of foreign affairs, has chosen not to create liability in similar statutes, leaving the resolution of extraterritorial claims brought by foreign nationals to executive officials and the diplomatic process.”
Alito also pointed to concerns with the court getting involved with matters of national security.
"Since regulating the conduct of agents at the border unquestionably has national security implications, the risk of undermining border security provides reason to hesitate before extending Bivens into this field," he said.
The court also pointed to Congress' history of not awarding damages in cases against federal officials where the injuries took place outside the U.S. While Mesa was on American soil at the time, Hernández was on the Mexican side of the border when Mesa shot him.
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playing a game where they ran back and forth across the border throwing rocks and concrete chunks at border agents while running interference for smuggling cartels. Saw that show and the sequel.
[DAWN] Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi and a member of parliament tested positive for the coronavirus as the corpse count inside the country rose to 16 on Tuesday as Iranians worry that authorities could be underestimating the scale of outbreak.
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... has the highest number of coronavirus deaths outside China, where the virus emerged in December and more than 2,600 have died.
"My corona test is positive [...] I don't have a lot of hope of continuing life in this world," Mahmoud Sadeghi, the parliamentarian from Tehran, wrote on Twitter.
Also among the infected was the deputy health minister, who posted a video online announcing his infection which was shown on state media.
"Among those who had been suspected of the virus, 35 (new cases) have been confirmed and two died of the coronavirus infection," said Health Ministry front man Kianush Jahanpur. He said 95 people had been infected across Iran.
Jahanpur put the corpse count at 15, but the state news agency later said one person infected by the virus had died in the city of Saveh. Some unconfirmed reports gave a higher corpse count.
[OREGONLIVE] A woman faces hate crime charges after authorities say she pummeled a mother in front of her young daughter at a North Portland bus stop.
Nimo Jire Kalinle, 42, had just exited a No. 4 bus at North Fremont Street and Gantenbein Avenue on Jan. 19 when she started slugging Janae Jordan in the face repeatedly, court records allege.
During the attack, Jordan, who was with her husband and child, asked why the woman was targeting her.
"It’s because you’re white and I hate white people," Kalinle, who is black, told Jordan, a probable cause affidavit alleges.
Kalinle was arrested and later indicted on multiple criminal counts, including a first-degree bias crime, fourth-degree assault and interfering with public transportation, court documents show.
She did not show up for a Feb. 5 arraignment, and authorities issued a bench warrant, according to court records.
Police on Sunday arrested Kalinle on suspicion of criminal mischief and disorderly conduct in a separate incident and booked her into the Multnomah County jail.
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150 thousand, 150 million, whatever. It's not about the numbers. Facts don't matter any more. It's all about The Feelz. Lots of people are getting killed by guns. That's bad and the way we can stop it is by taking guns away from people who aren't shooting anybody. Any questions?
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Cars kill more people than guns! That's bad and the way we can stop it is by taking cars away from people. Yet we don't hear people complaining about this.
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Biden isn't even close to being the most innumerate
a few years ago the gov of VA said 93 million Americans per day are being killed by guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJt3QqP5jA
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Cars kill more people than guns! That's bad and the way we can stop it is by taking cars away from people. Yet we don't hear people complaining about this.
California politicians are working hard to do just that.
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Spoken by a politician who named his son Hunter.
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Hunters and hunters? Had a "Hunter" at my HS. Seemed an odd name for a Jewish kid, even down south. Or maybe he was Polish Polish... been a while, and we weren't close. Perpetually indebted to the clever nickname crowd, was poor Hunter.
[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday said that at least four security incidents by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... were recorded in Zabul, Ghazni, Farah and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces in the fourth day since the implementation of the Reduction in Violence (RIV) plan on February 21.
According to the Ministry of Interior, at least five members of the Afghan cops were killed and ten others were maimed during these incidents.
Based on the Afghan government’s statistics, at least 18 security force members have been killed since the start of the RIV by the Taliban, and 31 others were maimed.
Saydabad district in Maidan Wardak province in southern Afghanistan was one of the restive regions before the RIV. But these days residents in the district breath easier in a peaceful environment.
"I am a shopkeeper in Saydabad district, the reduction in violence plan has had a positive impact on our businesses here," said Abdullah, a resident of Saydabad district.
"The Taliban launched three attacks in Ghazni, Farah and Zabul provinces. In one attack, the Taliban targeted a supply caravan, and two other attacks came as a result of mine explosions that resulted in the martyrdom of 5 security force members and the injury of ten others," said Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for the Ministry of Interior.
Abdul Manan served in the ranks of the Afghan National Police in Saydabad for nine years. Abdul Manan says that he has lost dozens of his colleagues during battles with the krazed killers.
"We are very happy now, because, in other times, we were thinking that perhaps we will be killed a moment later, but now there are no worries," said Abdul Manan, referring to the relative peace which has emerged after the RIV.
"If tensions are deepened from what they are now, if tensions are not tackled properly, there is a chance that the achievements in the grinding of the peace processor will be jeopardized," said Sayed Hamed Gailani, the leader of Mahaz-e- Milli party.
The Taliban have said that they are also monitoring the RIV process.
According to the group, no significant incident so far has been reported against the Taliban by the US and Afghan forces.
[KhaamaPress] The Police Chief of Kandahar warned of retaliation while strongly reacting to repeated violations by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... amid commitments to reduce violence over a period of one week.
Gen. Tadin Khan in a statement said the security forces fully adhered to Reduction in Violence agreement in southern Kandahar.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he said the Talibs have repeatedly violated the agreement during the past two days and attacked the convoys of the security forces in three districts.
He also added that the security forces were returning from Shorabak, Shawali Kot adn Maruf districts, respecting the Reduction of Violence agreement but the Talibs repeatedly attacked their convoy.
Emphasizing that the security forces would welcome all peace efforts, Gen. Tadin Khan said the security forces are determined to fully retaliate if the forces of Evil continued to violate the agreement of reducing violence.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A French court on Tuesday handed a 12-year jail term to a computer technician who traveled to Syria and trained under the suspected ringleader of the 2015 Gay Paree attacks.
Reda Hame, 34, who was convicted of participating in a criminal conspiracy aimed at harming people, received weapons training and a mission from Abdelhamid Abaaoud during his eight-day stay in Syria in the summer of 2015.
Abaaoud, who is believed to have coordinated the November 2015 attacks that left 130 people dead in Gay Paree, taught him how to fire an assault rifle and handle a grenade.
He then dropped him off at the Ottoman Turkish border with orders to return home and carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS.
Hame told Sherlocks that Abaaoud, who was killed in a shootout with French police after the Gay Paree attacks, asked him if he would be prepared to shoot into a crowd, giving as an example a rock concert.
But the Gay Paree native, who was arrested on his return to La Belle France, insisted that he never had any intention of following ISIS’s orders.
Styling himself an ISIS deserter, he told the court he only pretended to accept his mission to escape the horrors of the Syrian war and regretted ever enlisting with ISIS.
The prosecution had challenged his account of his change of heart, portraying him as a dutiful ISIS "soldier" who had traveled to Syria to join ISIS "at a time when the most hardline, those who will go on to attack Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and La Belle France, are leaving (La Belle France for Syria)."
In sentencing Hame to 12 years in jail - the prosecution had sought a 20-year term - the court "showed clemency," the defendant’s lawyer Archibald Celeyron said.
Hundreds of young French snuffies traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS before US-led coalition forces dislodged the turbans from the last holdouts last year.
Dozens have returned home and been tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in La Belle France but some scores more remain in camps in Syria.
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Cold morning outside of Toulon.
Two galleys. A call, en passant,
"Mon Dieu, the salt fish
Is a tedious dish...
Avez-vous, s'il vous plais, Grey Poupon?"
A USFK soldier stationed at Camp Carroll tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time a U.S. service member has tested positive for the virus. We’re implementing all appropriate control measures to protect the force. https://t.co/kkfEIuW7Jb
Commander of Alzawia military region Major General Abdullah Nour Al-Din Al-Hamali ( Gharyan - Zawia - Zouara - Ras Jdir ), completely surrounded areas And the line of fire is now in the Abu Issa area in Al-Zawia and the outskirts of its visitors. pic.twitter.com/s6GmYhIoP4
Syria: 10 schools hit by airstrikes & ground attack in Idlib, 21 civilians killed: At least 21 civilians, incl. 9 kids & 3 teachers, were killed when 10 schools & a hospital were hit by “airstrikes and ground attacks” in Idlib,the Union of Medical Care & Relief Organizations said
[BREITBART] Critics of former Mayor Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... argue he plagiarized former President Barack Obama in a recent speech that sounds remarkably similar.
After losing the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, Buttigieg shared a story about how “one light” from a supporter’s iPhone after the power went off at a campaign event, sparked a movement that would light up the entire country.
He said:
It just took one person, one person who started it and then a bunch of others began to do the same. And if we can light up a high school gym like that we can light the neighborhood. If we can light up a neighborhood we can light up a city. If we can light up the city, we can light up this whole country, and if we light up this country then everyone can make sure this country we love shines as a beacon around the world once more.
Buttigieg’s speech was compared to former President Barack Obama’s speech in 2008 highlighting a story of a lone supporter that shouted “fired up ready to go” in a gym at an event as he was personally struggling to build his presidential campaign.
Obama said:
It shows you what one voice can do. One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world.
The similarities between the two speeches were cut into a video by The Recount after people on social media accused the Buttigieg campaign of plagiarism.
Arlo Guthrie should sue.
f you're in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do, and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink: You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant."
And walk out.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick, and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them and three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends, they may thinks it's a movement!
And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar, with feeling.
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My only takeaway to the part of the debate I could watch (like 10 minutes) - Pete is the most sane and reasonable sounding of the bunch. I know - not exactly clearing a high bar...
He didn't arm wave like the others, true, in fact made it a point not to, because he was handed a script, memorized it, and presented it in his best Obama impersonation possible so he could come off clean and gaffe free.
This is a person who does exactly what he is told to do. He is a face, and a crib, and totally unashamed about it.
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Look at that article about him wanting for force Christian orgs to hire LGM&MBLT people. If that is allowed to stand, then forcing companies to compose themselves of a certain % of the scrabble sex group.
Imagine having a set of employees you are forced to employ, and they know it. They can do what they want without punishment and at a higher wage. Furthermore, if you look at them crossways, or they don't like you, or have an agenda, they could threaten to quit en-masse, bringing both discrimination cases and federal employment law violations against your company and individual employers, maybe even board members and stock holders.
The ambitious could work their way up the ladder quickly under the cover of law, and on the way eject the classic capitalists, those who just want to do business, and the modern capitalists, those who think a broad product sells better by concentrating on a particular market slice (getting 80% of 1/4 of the pie rather than 20% of the whole pie through focused branding aka get woke).
In this way, the capitalists are ejected and replaced by party agents; the party controls the business.
If you are like but Disney etc is already like this, no. At the end of the day, those employers still consider that business as theirs and that money must be made. The revolution eats its own, and controllers must be put in place who regard the entity as an extension of the party.
Conquered businesses actively support party politics with money and reflective advertising and company policies.
Resistant businesses can get the screws put on them until they break.
Now, say the entity decides it is time to do away with firearms. Foreign builds are easy, can't be imported. Domestically, the LITBBQ agents forced to be employed in the company are activated, the tried and true method of ruining the business with endless lawsuits and purposefully harmful interior business decisions bankrupt all firearm and ammo manufacturers large enough to be caught in the forced to hire dragnet. Smaller companies would not be able to keep up with demand without incredible price increases (demand) and long waits as to increase production, more employees would qualify them for the LBGTT quota.
A US airstrike over the weekend in #Somalia kills an extremist militant who helped plan last month’s attack on a military base in #Kenya in which three Americans died, says the #US military.https://t.co/DRmi6MUgHN
[NYPOST] Gaffe-prone former veep Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... put his foot in it again on Monday — claiming to have worked on the 2016 Paris Climate Accord with a Chinese leader who died 19 years earlier.
During a campaign stop in South Carolina ahead of the state’s primary on Saturday, Biden told a crowd his experience on the world stage as vice president under Barack Obama made him the right person to defeat President Trump.
“One of the things I’m proudest of is getting passed, getting moved, getting in control of the Paris Climate Accord,” Biden told the crowd in a video circulating on Twitter.
“I’m the guy who came back after meeting with Deng Xiaoping and making the case that I believe China will join if we put pressure on them. We got almost 200 nations to join,” he said. Joe also ensured peace in Kashmir when he and Benjamin Disreali met with Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinni in secret talks at Camp David.
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Biden is just proof that the Mandela Effect is real, you see. He remembers events that happened in some other universe. Where it was the "Berenstein Bears".
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Iraqi media: A joint U.S.-Iraqi military team carried out an airdrop 90 km west of Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar Province--arresting Shaykh Muadi al-Obaidi (leader of the Al-Obaid tribe) and "transferring [him] to Ain al-Assad Air Base, without indicating the reason for his arrest."
Relief and donor agencies are preparing to suspend aid to #Houthi controlled areas in #Yemen says a senior #US State Department official.https://t.co/zmdTIkepXj
[FoxNews] The Army Research Laboratory is now engineering new rocket, missile and artillery rounds able to destroy groups of mobile enemy fighters, incinerate armored vehicles and eliminate structures with a single munition -- all at much longer ranges than currently deployed weapons can fire.
Experts are currently immersed in cutting edge research, using 3D printing, to develop new metal alloys, weapons casings and design geometries to increase range and lethality for the Army’s emerging Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) program.
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I get the impression this is far more likely to be used against the interests of the American people, or against the American people themselves, than any actual threat to America. :/
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People are endangering the planet. We must find new and innovative methods of eliminating them.
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New Pentagon green technology investment:
"Anti carbon emitter missiles".
Downs any enemy aircraft emitting green house carbon gasses.
Hoping AOC will give her green stamp of approval to the project.
Syrian regime forces recapture Kafranbel in #Idlib province, according to a war monitor, a symbolic victory in a town that was among the first to rise against Damascus.https://t.co/HUF8kRzKsw
[Breitbart] The Swedish government has announced that it will be contributing cash to a WHO fund to tackle the coronavirus but will not be monitoring or screening incoming airline passengers for the virus.
The government will be contributing 40 million Swedish krona (£3,182,080/$4,110,472) to the World Health Organisation’s crisis fund, which is designed to allow the international agency to act against the spread of the coronavirus.
Sweden has also classified the coronavirus as a “dangerous and socially hazardous disease,” which allows the government to enact certain control measures to combat the spread of the virus.
However, the Public Health Authority has so far determined that the threat to Sweden from the virus is very low and stated that it did not consider it necessary to screen airports and airline passengers for the virus at present time.
While Sweden has chosen not to screen for cases of the virus, Hungary announced Monday that it would be screening flights from Northern Italy using heat cameras to detect any travellers with higher than normal body temperatures.
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The government will be contributing 40 million Swedish krona (£3,182,080/$4,110,472) to the World Health Organisation’s crisis fund, which is designed to allow the international agency to act against the spread of the coronavirus.
[ToloNews] Local health officials on Tuesday reported three more suspected cases of coronavirus in Afghanistan, one in the north-western province of Ghor and two in the western province of Farah.
Two men suspected to have coronavirus infection were quarantined at a health facility in Farah, a local health official, Abdul Jabar Shayiq, said, adding that "the men newly arrived in the province from Iran."
Juma Gul Yaqubi, head of Ghor Public Health Directorate, a 35-year-old man who recently arrived in the province from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has been registered as a suspected case.
The public health minister Ferozuddin Feroz on Tuesday said seven suspected cases of coronavirus were reported in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... which shares borders with Iran.
[10NEWS] A new Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bill would require some retailers to have gender neutral floor space inside their stores, Politico reports.
The bill, called Assembly Bill 2826, was introduced by Assemblymember Evan Low, a Democrat from Campbell.
According to Politico, retailers would be able to sell the same products, as long as they dedicate space where customers can find clothes and toys regardless of whether the items have been marketed to boys or girls.
"Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate," the bill states.
The bill stipulates that the rules would only apply to retail department stores with 500 or more employees.
If passed, retailers who fail to follow the new rules would be liable for a civil penalty beginning on January 1 of 2023.
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Why don't these lawmakers in Kalifornia do something useful?
They believe that hastening the decline of our society is useful to the revolution. When everybody is poor, drug addicted, ignorant and sexually confused so they are no longer making babies then society will be ripe for the communists to solidify their grip on power.
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..its hard to 'grip' something that is one big septic pond.
[Rudaw] Free movement between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region and between provinces will now face restrictions, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced Tuesday afternoon, following an outbreak of coronavirus in Kirkuk. Educational institutions have also been ordered to close.
Four cases of the coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, were confirmed in the disputed province of Kirkuk, Iraq’s health ministry said earlier on Tuesday. Officials said the four individuals, Iraqi nationals of the same family, had recently returned from neighbouring Iran, where at least 95 people have contracted the virus and 15 have died, according to Iranian health officials.
[Rudaw] Rumors of fuel shortages caused traffic chaos across the Kurdistan Region on Monday night as motorists queued for hours outside petrol stations. Authorities insist fuel supplies have not been impacted by the closure of the Kurdistan Region’s border crossings with Iran – a measure taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group spokesperson blames Israel for violence as shaky truce appears to hold and south returns to routine, claims its rocket barrages were coordinated with Hamas.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad vowed to continue fighting against Israel, shortly after a ceasefire went into effect Tuesday ending two days of clashes between Israel and the Gaza-based terror group.
“This isn’t the final round with the occupation,” said Abu Hamza, spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades, the terror group’s armed wing.
“The fire of the struggle over the land of Palestine will burn despite all the conspiracies,” Abu Hamza said in a statement.
Over the course of Sunday and Monday, terrorists in the Strip fired over 90 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel. Some 90 percent of the projectiles heading toward populated areas were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, according to the Israel Defense Forces, though one managed to slam into a playground in Sderot, and falling shrapnel caused damage elsewhere. There were no serious injuries on the Israeli side.
The IDF retaliated to the attacks with several rounds of airstrikes against the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, as well as a rare publicly acknowledged attack against the group’s facilities near the Syrian capital Damascus late Sunday night, in which two members of the terrorist organization were killed.
In his Tuesday statement, Abu Hamza said the group had acted with Hamas’s approval and cooperation.
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“The fire of the struggle over the land of Palestine will burn despite all the conspiracies,” Abu Hamza said in a statement.
Dude, that's lame. Who writes your stuff, high school students?
[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace] With ballots already cast in the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, this year’s U.S. presidential election is attracting an unusual level of interest from European observers (and even some trepidation). These Europeans recognize that no matter who wins in November, they need to be well-prepared to handle the consequences. The lesson they learned from 2016 is still fresh.
Back then, U.S. President Donald Trump’s win took many in Europe by surprise. For European diplomats in Washington, DC, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her team were known commodities, whereas the personalities and policy positions of Trump and his team were mostly unknown. This forced many Europeans to scramble to develop contacts with members of the incoming administration and to understand its priorities. They are determined not to repeat this mistake and are striving to do more strategic planning about the election’s possible implications. So how do European ambassadors and deputy ambassadors in Washington privately view the current state of transatlantic relations? And what do they think will be the consequences for Europe and transatlantic ties if Trump is reelected or, conversely, if a Democrat wins?
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The US should do all the work, expect none of the rewards and then apologize for being so overbearing.
Also, if there are nationalist governments being elected, and which are supported by Trump, then it follows there may be more support for "Trumpism" than these ambassadors are willing to acknowledge.
Who are these ambassadors, anyway?
Political hacks, as some are in the US?
Or overcredentialed technocrats who actually think that their sort should be ones to make all the decisions, never mind all this silly "democracy" nonsense?
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Per the above analysis, look at where we clash:
1. tariffs and trade deficits (for us)
2. defense spending
3. U.S. withdrawal from the climate deal
4. U.S. withdrawal from the Iran deal
Also:
- sanctions against Cuba and Iran
- relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
- Israel and the Palestinians
- the president’s preference for linking trade and national security issues, as he has done by threatening to hit the EU with tariffs on cars unless it shifts its policy on Iran.
IOW, nearly all of the concern is that Trump ended the asinine (but immensely lucrative for corrupt firms and individuals) Iran deal, is pro-Israel, and demands fair dealing in trade and defense spending. Boo hoo.
[BREITBART] More than 20 individuals, including innocent bystanders, were killed in the span of a week between the cities of Reynosa and Rio Bravo as factions of the Gulf Cartel wage an internal pie fight.
The Reynosa faction known as "Los Metros" is fighting the Matamoros group "Escorpiones" or "Ciclones" to hold lucrative drug and human smuggling territories near the Texas border.
Currently, the Matamoros faction managed to take Rio Bravo and is using the area to stage incursions into nearby Reynosa, where they usually target lookouts and button men. In a similar fashion, button men from Reynosa are retaliating on rivals stationed in Rio Bravo.
[PULSE.NG] Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State, has condemned the recent killings in Tsanwa and Dankar Villages of Batsari Local Government Area of the state as "ignorance, barbaric and animalistic".
Masari stated this during a two- day seminar/training exercise organised for Islamic holy mans by the Katsina State chapter of the Jama’atul Nasril Islam, on Tuesday in Katsina.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise is organised for holy mans and Chief Imams of Juma’at Mosques in the state.
Masari charged the holy mans to intensify efforts in their sermons to preach against the ungodly acts by the perpetrators, pointing out that the killings bowed down to ignorance.
He noted that the importance of Friday sermons for Moslems Community cannot be over-emphasised, stressing that it is aimed to educate and enlighten the faithfuls in their relationship with Almighty God and their fellow being.
"It is really unfortunate, all these killings is because of ignorance, no sensible person who is educated and enlighten would indulge in this barbaric and animalistic act.
"Imagine how a normal person can attack a village, lock up children and women in a room set fire on them to burn to ashes," Masari said.
The governor pledged that all hands are on deck to fight the evil acts including rape, prostitution, drug abuse and alcoholism, among others in the state.
He reiterated state government commitment to partner with religious and traditional institutions to fight immorality.
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[PULSE.NG] The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday said it was battle ready to collaborate with other security forces to end banditry and other forms of criminality in Niger.
Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff (CAS), made this known during an inspection of the air force facilities in Minna, Niger.
The CAS also paid a courtesy visit on Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger at Government House, Minna.
"I have inspected our equipment and personnel on ground, I must tell you that we are combat ready to tackle the security challenges in parts of Niger state.
"The NAF will give air support to the army, police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps and others to ensure that we end the activities of suspected bandidos in the state,’’ he said.
Abubakar who was satisfied with the equipment and personnel deployed for the operation "Gama-Aiki" said "we are ready."
He said that the air force would collaborate with other security agencies to tackle the menace.
"We will continue to do our best to make sure that these criminal elements terrorising parts of the state are flushed out from their hideouts," he said.
The CAS assured the governor that NAF would deploy its medical personnel for free medical care to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps across the state, as a result of incessant bandidos attacks on their communities.
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South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms 169 new #coronavirus cases raising the total to over 1,100 and reports an 11th death.https://t.co/kNNPUh1eRD
[TimesOfIsrael] A Korean Air flight attendant who recently visited Israel and the United States has tested positive for COVID-19, South Korean media reports.
The cabin crew member flew to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv aboard the flight that brought some 200 Korean pilgrims to Israel, many of whom were later confirmed to have the virus.
After leaving Israel on February 16, the flight attendant then flew to Los Angeles and back to Seoul’s Incheon Airport on February 21, before being diagnosed with coronavirus and entering quarantine, according to the wow.co.kr news website.
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[AlAhram] The United States announced on Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... for supporting Iran's missile program.
The State Department said the action included new sanctions against five firms or individuals in China and Turkey.
It named a Chinese individual sanctioned as Luo Dingwen and three Chinese entities as Baoding Shimaotong Enterprises Services Co. Ltd., Gaobeidian Kaituo Precise Instrument Co. Ltd., and Wuhan Sanjiang Import and Export Co. Ltd.
It named the Ottoman Turkish firm as Eren Carbon Graphite Industrial Trading Co. Ltd.
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.
[Babylon Bee] MOSCOW‐The Russians were excited once again for a U.S. presidential election in which they could interfere to sow division and discord, but their excitement soon turned to dismay when they found an election already too chaotic for them to follow.
[BBC] US agents have raided fashion executive Peter Nygard's Manhattan offices as part of a sex-trafficking investigation.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[Free Beacon] Hunter Biden is asking a judge to delay his child support deposition scheduled for next week in Arkansas until April 1‐a date when the key early primaries for his father Joe Biden's presidential campaign will be finished‐according to a court motion filed by his attorney on Tuesday.
[Free Market] After it was found that nearly 19,000 suspected victims of child sex exploitation transpired in just one year, survivors blamed the government for making "empty promises" on ending, or even addressing, the epidemic.
[Townhall] If Mayor Pete Buttigieg had his way your local Christian school would be forced to make a choice: hire transgender teachers, gender-fluid principals and pansexual coaches or lose federal funding.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE.N), said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened to $73 million from a year-ago loss of $46 million as it reported its first results as a publicly traded company.
Ref #16: Let us know if it gets too tough in here. None recently, but we have approved dozens of blogospheric transfers in the past. Please keep us posted. We are here for you. 
[Victory Girls] At this point, the American public should be getting combat pay for watching any of these Democratic debates. While there weren’t any massive unanswered attacks at this debate in South Carolina, it’s become clear that Elizabeth Warren is shifting her goals.
[Victory Girls] The city of Miami is not a fan of Castro, Communism, Cuba, nor Bernie Sanders. Now they are making their disdain for all things Communist very clear by planning an anti-Communist concert on April 11.
[American Thinker] Like many people, I’ve been watching House Hunters and its cousin House Hunters International on HGTV with considerable interest, though perhaps not for the usual reasons. I understand the charm the program has for its viewers: the pleasure of visiting houses and their locales, the ideas one may get for redecorating one’s own dwelling, the information about places one may wish to visit or move to, the guessing game regarding which of the inevitable three houses the purchasers will settle for, or simply abundant material for one’s fantasy life.
[Aljazeera] The death toll in Delhi's worst religious violence in decades has risen to 20 as Indian police have been accused of looking the other way while Muslims and their properties were targeted.
[Politico] The Pentagon, famed as the world’s largest office building, sits on 24 acres of land across the Potomac River from Washington. Home to 3.7 million square feet of offices, it was constructed during the Second World War. In anticipation of the military shrinking once peace returned, the building was designed to be easily converted into a records storage center. Instead, if the Trump administration’s budget is approved, in 2021 it will oversee the largest defense expenditure since 1945.
[Politico] The Trump administration confronted a new threat Tuesday in the mounting coronavirus crisis: a fierce bipartisan backlash amid contradictory statements from the federal government about the severity of the outbreak.
[Washington Examiner] China’s coronavirus outbreak is spreading through Europe, posing a challenge to European Union health officials and the thousands of U.S. troops deployed on the continent.
[OREGONLIVE] A woman faces hate crime charges after authorities say she pummeled a mother in front of her young daughter at a North Portland bus stop.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...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 
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[PULSE.NG] Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State, has condemned the recent killings in Tsanwa and Dankar Villages of Batsari Local Government Area of the state as "ignorance, barbaric and animalistic".
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
