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Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern Syria
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Good morning
Peking to send 100,000-strong 'duck army'
to help Pakistan fight its worst locust plague in 20 years
Thursday February 27th, 2020

louise_cromwell_1911_mrs_douglas_macarthur
Representative of Khamenei
in Qom urges Iranians to visit
Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern SyriaUS Navy resumes training Saudis after base terror attack
As PA seethes at Trump plan, top
officials say all of Israel is Palestine
Israel to reopen Gaza border crossings,
fishing zone as fragile calm returns
France dissolves group run by rapper for defending terrorismSyria-Bound Swiss Man Jailed in Bulgaria on Terror Charges
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 12:01 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bloid-a-palooza!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Still working on it. Comments welcome.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  SWEET!
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#4  furry!
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Doug, himself cut a fine figure in the same time range of 1911. Was that before or after, Pancho Villa?
Posted by: Vespasian Grundy8115 || 02/27/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||

#6  The first Mrs. MacArthur. (The second was not an upgrade if this pic is any indication)
Posted by: Spot || 02/27/2020 16:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Is that a Pomeranian on her hat?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#8  From what I remember, it's easier on the eyes - the layout, not the lady - than the previous versions.

I like it, and the lady too.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/27/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  What ever she is wearing appears to still be alive.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/27/2020 17:53 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#11  This was back before PETA and their silly "Don't Wear Anything With A Face" campaign.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#12  When we took our late kelpie, Bessie, from central Australia to manhattan she was very naive about fur coats. Fur coat= fair game in her mind.
The weather came in cold and I was walking her across Lexington Ave at 86 st when she found herself following behind a lady in a full length mink coat. She gave a little growl, lunged forward and shoved her nose into the moving parts, the buttocks.
New Yorkers are made of stern stuff, and the only reaction was to accelerate out of there, without a backwards glance.
Posted by: Grunter || 02/27/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#13  Thanks Fred!

Dinner's up - red bean and rice with creole seasoned pan fried smoked sausage, iced tea, cold lager. Hot sauce for those who like that, celery sticks for those who think I already did too much.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 20:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
China to send 100,000-strong 'duck army' to help Pakistan fight its worst locust plague in 20 years
The teams of birds are of a native breed called 'No. 1 Guoshao', which is billed as the 'locust-killing genius', also delicious in garlic fried rice
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:24 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You're going to need a lot more ducks.
Hey, maybe send some North Koreans. I hear they'll eat anything.

Dateline 2030
Texas to send 100,000 strong "coyote army" to help Pakistain fight its Chinese duck plague.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Well the ducks, and the nasty little parasites and diseases they carry.

Not a particularly clean animal.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Prediction: Within a month there won’t be a single duck still walking on two legs, the locusts will be as bad as ever, and the government of Pakistan will have to borrow more from the IMF or some other institution in order to pay back the Chinese loan to acquire the things.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 19:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Prediction: Within a month...

Don't forget the avian flu the ducks will bring. Something that occasionally jumps from birds to humans. Why does that sound familiar?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 19:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, SNAP!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dunkin' Donuts launches the ultimate snack for meat lovers - a $2.79 bag of BACON - but some people complain it's 'gross'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A little something for the Keto segment. Smart marketing.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/27/2020 19:54 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Japanese tour bus worker who recovered from coronavirus tests positive for it AGAIN
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:



#3  That’s part of the design with multiple protein markers and spikes that attack enzymes controlling heart and kidney function

Expect the death rate to be a steep cure with reinfection
Which isn’t reinfection at all just a short dormant period as it learns how to circumvent the immune system.

This is a weapon
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/27/2020 13:19 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ The "short dormant period." What a ingenious method of infiltrating infected host carriers into a target area. And the Chinese were absolutely butt hurt that we closed our borders to them.

Asymmetric warfare at it's finest.


Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  SPOD relax, if it was as bad as you imagine, more than 14% of the recovered would be "reinfected".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  ^All it says is that the medicines are "too effective" in the sense of preventing a proper immune response due to effective virus suppression.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  False negative rate on the tests=14%, maybe?
Posted by: James || 02/27/2020 18:30 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Coronavirus confirmed in Israeli who returned from Italy, traveled El Al
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 10:50 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:



Home Front: Politix
AOC Has Warning For Migrants Caravans: Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 10:47 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What does AOC know about science? Could she tell a test tube from a telescope?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Another leader unburdened by the constraints of religious morality.

A test tube is for shots; a telescope is for boiler makers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  She gives hard working waitresses a bad name.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/27/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4  This alcoholic applauds your imagery!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny that her warning is to Migrant Caravans. If she's the big scientists she should tell them to stay home.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Frankly, I'm amazed she hasn't gargled bleach or drunk draino. I'm not sure how people that reality challenged survive.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#7  ...her kind support my theory that earth is an intersection of two different universes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Silentbrick, she's just a kid. Tide pods are the fashion these days.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Okay, so I got 5 bucks she can't eat a whole tide pod.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe “ mixology” and craft beer brewing are considered hard sciences in her circles.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 02/27/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
All schools in Japan told to close until April over virus outbreak
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 10:44 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Coronavirus: El Al cancelling all flights to Italy and Thailand
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 09:43 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Woman who recovered from coronavirus tests positive for it again in Japan

3 weeks later
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Now, that's really bad news.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Next wave.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Boston Mulls Parking Fines Based On Income
How fast will this crap be shot down? I bet it makes it to a stage where it passes but Mayor Mahhty Walsh won't sign it. This almost sounds like a poll-tax.
[ABC] - A new proposal on the docket in Boston on Wednesday could determine how much residents pay for parking tickets.

The Boston City Council was to meet at noon Wednesday to discuss new legislation which will include a hearing order for potential income-adjusted fines on parking violations.

Recently elected city councilor at-large Julia Mejia filed the hearing order on Monday and has been vocal about the idea on Twitter.

"I am introducing legislation on income-adjusting parking tickets so low-income families don’t have to decide between paying a parking ticket or putting food on their table," she wrote.
Ms. Mejia looks like an aspiring member of The Squad - she's never had a private sector job in her life.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2020 09:41 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From each according to his ability...
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#2  If this is fair, what about voting rights proportional to income? The more you pay the more your vote counts? If punishment is proportional to income, why not privilege? Duh...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/27/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  "I am introducing legislation on income-adjusting parking tickets so low-income families don’t have to decide between paying a parking ticket or putting food on their table," she wrote.

In Boston, the fine for an expired meter is $40. I got a parking ticket in town awhile back. It was $5.

Permit me to suggest the City of Boston has decided to use the lax habits of its citizenry as a money machine. Now it finds itself painted into a corner of its own making. The solution, as always, is an ever-more complicated rule set.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 19:11 Comments || Top||

#4  "If your wipers are present and both headlights, tail lights, and rims, your fine is doubled"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 19:29 Comments || Top||

#5  More votes for the Decent Folk!
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 20:10 Comments || Top||

#6  [Meterperson O'Malley waddles up, swinging nightstick dildo, nonchalantly whistling and studiously ignoring broken tail light]
Posted by: Ho Chi Obama8050 || 02/27/2020 20:34 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern Syria
A man was killed in an alleged Israeli dronezap as he was driving his car near the village of Hadar in the southern Syrian province of Quneitra on Thursday.

According to initial unconfirmed reports, the man was identified as Emad al-Tawil, a Hezbollah operative active in establishing and entrenching a covert force in the Syrian Golan Heights that is designed to act against Israel when given the order.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 09:41 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Home Front: Politix
Embarrassing Festival Of Never Trump Losers Occurs For Some Reason
It's Kurt
Ahoy, suckers! Conservative, Inc., is back at it again, trading in its classic cruise ship motif for a figurative dinghy in its never-ending quest to separate you from your money and themselves from the shredded tatters of their ruined dignity.

Woke Rule No. 1 is that anything with "Principles" in its name is a grift. Now, something called "Principles First" ‐ ugh ‐ is trying to shoehorn into CPAC’s spotlight with its "National Summit on Principled Conservatism" to be held in D.C. on February 29th, and for the low, low, almost certainly lib tech tycoon-subsidized price of $10, you can attend this sexless Never Trump Freaknik.

...From political consultants who are no longer consulted to writers who are no longer read, this is the Woodstock for conservatives who never actually conserved anything.

...Who’s coming to this soiree? Well, just imagine the universe’s worst county fair dino-rock concert line-up, and this is its political equivalent. Mona Charen! Bill Kristol! David Frum! It’s basically the Swamp’s version of Bachman Turner Overdrive, Blue Öyster Cult, and Average White Band ‐ except this band of totally white people are well below-average,

...Sadly, Ana Navarro isn’t on the bill, but she probably has important work to do completing Dr. Stephen Hawking’s string theory research. And there’s no sign of Jennifer Rubin, probably because the event occurs during the hours of daylight.
OK, I LOL'd
...So, what’s on the agenda? The magic begins at 9:00 a.m. sharp, with "Registration, Networking Breakfast, Meet & Greet." Get there early before the ex-Weekly Standard staffers make off with all the donuts. And be sure to snag a photo with super-plausible 2016 candidate Evan McMullin, but if he asks to borrow a couple bucks because he "left his wallet at home," don’t count on getting paid back.

...In the era of Bernie Sanders being the alternative to Trump, the Never Trump rump faction has managed to do what we all thought was impossible ‐ become even less relevant to the debate. There’s no point to them anymore. You’re either for Trump, or for the communist, and for 99.9999% of Republicans, even those who still sniff at Trump, Bernie is a Bolshevik too far.

...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 09:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Didn't Kristol actually come out as a Dem?

Great vetting, CPAC.

Maybe the Bernie Bros can rent a table next year.

After all, a key Troo Conservative principle is "Get the money".
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 15:06 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
De Klerk finally comes to his senses, then aplogizes for.....coming to his senses
[National Interest] FW De Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, and his foundation, have learnt the hard way the dangers of the comparative politics of sin. He recently gave an interview to mark his historic speech to parliament on 2 February 1990 when he announced the freeing of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of political organisations. During the interview on the national TV broadcaster he was asked for his thoughts on the declaration by the United Nations that apartheid was a crime against humanity, he replied:

I don’t fully agree with that.

He went on to assert that he was not justifying apartheid in any way whatsoever, saying:

But there is a difference between calling something a crime. Like genocide is a crime. Apartheid cannot be, for instance, compared with genocide. There was never a genocide.

He added that more black people were killed by other black people than by the National Party government. But in making this statement he conveniently chose to forget that a great deal of violence was fomented by the government’s security forces.

De Klerk was immediately engulfed in controversy. Condemnation of his statement came in thick and fast. Big names entered the fray, including former president Thabo Mbeki and Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The South African Council of Churches issued a statement as did the governing African National Congress (ANC). And the opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters called for his ejection from parliament when President Cyril Ramaphosa was waiting to deliver his State of Nation speech.

De Klerk’s foundation responded by dismissing the UN’s statement as a product of Soviet-style "agit-prop". This aroused yet more popular fury.

Such was the outcry that De Klerk opted for an immediate and humiliating retreat, issuing an abject apology, and insisting that he remained firmly committed to the politics of national reconciliation. His foundation also backtracked. It issued an apology for any anger and hurt caused. In its statement it said it agreed with the International Criminal Court’s definition of a crime against humanity as acts
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 08:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A number of nations, including western democracies, have neither signed nor ratified the ICSPCA, including Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

In explanation of the US vote against the convention, Ambassador Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr. said: "[W]e cannot...accept that apartheid can in this manner be made a crime against humanity. Crimes against humanity are so grave in nature that they must be meticulously elaborated and strictly construed under existing international law..."
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/27/2020 20:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Mitholz: Swiss town faces 10-year evacuation over arms dump
[BBC] A Swiss village may have to evacuate for over a decade while authorities clear a huge World War Two arms dump.

The defence ministry concluded last year that the cache posed an "unacceptable" risk to the nearby people of Mitholz.

Now, authorities say residents may have to leave while they clear the site.

"Depending on how the work develops, residents should expect the evacuation to last up to more than 10 years," the ministry said.

Residents would have to approve the plan to leave the area. A public consultation is under way to see how best to proceed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 07:50 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "up to more than ten years". So, 11? 20? 50? 1000? Forever?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/27/2020 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Birthing forceps removal? Got to be more to this story.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Why not evacuate for one day and try and set the cache off?
Then return later.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Cracking down on speech, now removing weapons caches; something going on in Switzerland we should know about?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Unexploded ordnance. The exploded shrapnel will make the UEX impossible to distinguish with metal detectors.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illegal immigrant from El Salvador, 20, and 19-year-old man, both enrolled in Maryland high schools, charged with raping 11-year-old girls
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 06:07 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  county executive in Montgomery County is a Bernie Bro
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Nancy's children
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ...just sharing their "spark of divinity" with the locals, that's all.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Diversity Makes Us StrongerDead
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:08 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Peter Nygard insists FBI sex trafficking probe is a 'set-up' launched by his arch-nemesis, 'buttoned-up' billionaire neighbor Louis Bacon who has spent $6million trying to bring him down since they started feuding over their Bahamas mansions
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 05:59 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given the crowd who arrested him, I'd say that's prima facie he's innocent.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/27/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Have to hand it to the guy: that's one helluva creative conspiracy theory.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama steps into the presidential race for the first time to demand South Carolina TV stations pull 'despicable' Republican ad using his voice that attacks Biden because it 'takes my words out of context'
[MAIL] Former President Barack Obama is sending a cease and desist letter to television stations in South Carolina demanding that a Republican-backed, anti-Joe Biden attack commercial be taken down.

The super PAC, Committee to Defend the President,' began airing the ad earlier this week as South Carolina prepares for its Democratic presidential primary on Saturday.

Obama, however, wants it pulled down because it relies on audio and quotes from his 1995 book, 'Dreams from My Father,' in a 'misleading way,' says a spokeswoman for the former president.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 05:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You can keep your doctor..." Mr. Mislead Himself
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I never took anything he said 'in context'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  There have been lingering questions about the actual author of 'Dreams from My Father.'

Something for attorney Sidney Powell to possibly have a look into? Legal standing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  You didn't write this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Sit and spin, buckey.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  "The voter requires care and feeding:
He can't be entrusted with reading
My book all alone
But must always be shown
That his own lying eyes are misleading.
Yes, indeed. Securely root him in context osmunda fiber, protect him from facts overfeeding and outside agitation chills, and he'll do fine, just fine."
Posted by: Ho Chi Fillmore8050 || 02/27/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  What Obama said was meant to distract the idiots and true believers from his true policies. This is very similar to Trumps' tweeting strategy in which everyone was up in arms about tweets and ignored the fact that McConnell got so many judges into position that the 9th circuit is now leaning right.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#8  "Who ya gonna believe, me or my lying voice?"
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Get back to work, Zero. You took your book advance and haven't even produced a single chapter. Quit grifting.

Or at least get Ayres on the job again
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Hiya, Lex. Been real busy with, uh, business. Lots of business. To tell ya the truth, I was kinda hopin' you might be available to work with me after, uh, the election and all that. Looks like you're workin' pretty cheap here! Say, have you ever noticed how nicely "please, please, don't go!" meshes with "In the Heat of the Night?" Alexa, uh, play Ray Charles...
Posted by: Ho Chi Obama8050 || 02/27/2020 19:07 Comments || Top||

#11  F you and your pagan pig moon goddess.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2020 20:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Ho-ho, Ho Chi O!
$150 per sound bite sound good?
I'll have my girl call your (big-Mike) guy tomorrow
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hillary Clinton took more cash from Harvey Weinstein than any other Democrat
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 05:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When Bill was away with Mr. Epstein?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Just from Harvey, or from everybody?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Rogues Gallery of Billary's best buds:
- Weinstein
- Epstein
- Weiner
- Giustra
- Marc Rich

How much $$$$$ did those obscene characters funnel in total into the Clinton Global Grift Initiative?

Can their victims claw some of it back?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Thousands Of US Troops Return to PSAB After 17-Year Absence To 'Deter Iran'
[Zero] After a nearly 17 year absence, US troops have returned Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Air Base. The last time the base, which lies about 60 miles outside of Riyadh, saw an American presence was in 2003, after which the troops moved to Qatar.

The American troop surge into the gulf region to curtail Iran continues even as the world is focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which appears to be spreading in the Middle East.

While the Pentagon focuses on "deterring Iran," the Islamic Republic is busy dealing with a very different and more immediately devastating threat. Coronavirus has killed 19 Iranians among 139 confirmed to be infected, as we reported earlier, and one lawmaker has claimed that the true death toll is actually much higher.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:57 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The USAF folks at PSAB enforced the Southern No-Fly Zone in Iraq during our unpleasantness with Saddam.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  We don't need Saudi oil. We're self-sufficient now.

If Europeans need the oil, let them send their militaries. The US is not a mercenary force. Hell, that implies being paid - we're doing this for free. Because we're idiots, apparently.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/27/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Who's we kemosabe?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Love to agree with you. But it's about more than our oil independence. Except for the oil ticks, everybody else has to drink from the world oil market. If that gets messed up, we're going to have a lot of trouble and we'll get pulled in anyway. The historical record of the Yurps running their own affairs is poor and gets us into trouble anyway.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/27/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#5  What Richard Aubrey said.

Sing along, 'Erb:
The Mideast Oil bone's connected to the ... Asian economic bone
Asia bone connected to the ... US economic bone
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Have we evacuated Incirlik ...yet?
Posted by: magpie || 02/27/2020 17:01 Comments || Top||

#7  "Get pulled in"? No we won't. We'll be fine.

The more we disconnect from slave labor in Asia, the better. Let them deal with their own problems. We're not World Police. You want to be World Police, you grab a rifle and get out there and get a leg blown off by an IED.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/27/2020 17:15 Comments || Top||

#8  ...Was there with OSW Jan-Jul 95 - "If It Flies, It Dies."

And PSAB is best described as nothing in the middle of empty.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/27/2020 17:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Except for the oil ticks, everybody else has to drink from the world oil market.

Precisely. How'd you like to be running for re-election while consumers are dealing with $6 gasoline?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 02/27/2020 21:21 Comments || Top||

#10  On the map, it looks like quite the location - Gulf of Rumsfield, Red Sea, Yemen.

Article talks of having to re-build what was the US section, so this isn't something happening overnight.

Article also says F-15s. I'm not so sure about that. I'd go F-15s and ....? but not just F-15s. Seems a person would want some sort of surveillance platform with loiter and range, and some QRF platform(s) which could go thump a ballistic missile launcher.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 21:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Herb. The family has paid its dues all over the world. I was Infantry. The problems we were dealing with were started by Yurp incompetence and arrogance. See an explanation of the origin of WW I, for example. I don't know whether it takes a hit of LSD to understand it better, or trying to understand it is better than a hit of LSD.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/27/2020 23:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ninth Circuit Upholds Trump Admin Rule Stripping Funding for Abortions
[LI] The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a court known for its liberal leanings, ruled today that President Donald Trump’s administration can withdraw Title X funding from clinics associated with abortions.

President Richard Nixon enacted Title X in 1970, which "is a federal program that funds family planning services for low-income and uninsured people."

In 1988, Title X received regulations that stopped funding "programs that merely provided counseling or referrals for abortions for family-planning purposes." The Supreme Court upheld that rule in 1991.

The regulations on Title X relaxed by 2000 until 2019 when "the Department of Health and Human Services adopted regulations similar to the 1988 rule ‐ withdrawing funding from any medical facility that provides abortions, abortion counseling or abortion referrals."
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#1  Hillary was supposed to win and these were to be her appointments. Flipping the 9th circuit is one Trumps biggest wins.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't this all possible because that turd Harry Reid changing rules? When the implications really start to sink in for liberal zealots, well I hope he has a lot of security.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mike Bloomberg did more than tell women a few unfunny jokes
[American Thinker] Now that Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg look to be the last two standing in the Democrat primaries ‐ the communist and the plutocrat ‐ each side is spending overtime digging up dirt on the other. One of Bernie's supporters found some of the allegations a woman made in a lawsuit she filed in 1998 directly against Michael Bloomberg (as opposed to a lawsuit more generally against his company).

The lawsuit described a workplace environment in which Bloomberg generally degraded women; demanded that they have sex appeal to work with him; and engaged in repeated, and unwanted, sexual gestures and touching.

(Language warning!)
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?"

"Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 3:41 Comments || Top||

#2  demanded that they have sex appeal to work with him; and engaged in repeated, and unwanted, sexual gestures and touching

Poor old guy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as he doesn't have an (R) next to his name they'll forgive and forget if he wins the primary. Ideals only go so far when confronted by power.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||


#5  Joe Biden stopped just short of claiming he invented penicillin. "A man has to know his limitations."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 9:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Just add Clinton to the end of his name and all will be forgiven. He might even get a blow job from Nina Burleigh.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Bloomberg takes credit for leading NYC through 9/11 — when Giuliani was mayor

Yeah. How many people will get wise to that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Daughter caught it immediately, "What does he have to do with 9/11?!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah. How many people will get wise to that?

If they have any first hand knowledge/memory of 9/11, they'll remember Giuliani.
Posted by: BA || 02/27/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#10  What a vile little creep. Can you imagine your wife or daughter working for this repulsive troll?

Maybe we will finally get over our worship of these creepy, Little Big Man Oligarchs?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:10 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm guessing this is Sekiko Sakai Garrison. She's easy on the eyes, but I really don't see these allegations anywhere else. Not a Bloomberg fan except relative to the other Dems. I suspect, however, that she kitchen-sinked it in her lawsuit. She threw everything at the wall and hoped something would stick. It worked - sort of - she got her pound of flesh via a confidential settlement and an NDA.

As it turns out, ever since she left Bloomberg LP, she's been a glorified temp. You can see her profile at LinkedIn. You don't know what you have until you've lost it. Bloomberg LP is probably the best gig most of these women will ever have. It's got a rep for being a great place to work, with good salaries and benefits. I don't know why her SJW impulses won out over the sensible part that would have pushed her to stick around, but somehow that's what happened.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 02/27/2020 21:48 Comments || Top||


Tulsi Gabbard on Dem Debate: ‘I Couldn't Watch Much of It, to Be Honest'
[Breitbart] Wednesday on Fox News, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) gave Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate low marks, adding that it did not focus on issues in need of immediate attention, such as coronavirus.

"I couldn’t watch much of it, to be honest," she said. "And I believe that voters probably walked away not getting much value and feeling pretty frustrated, given the serious, serious challenges that we’re facing right now, with things like ‐ like the coronavirus, something that is threatening the safety, health, and well-being, and lives of the American people, and something that requires all of us, as Americans, coming together, standing together, and standing together just as we would in wartime, except now, in this case, the enemy is a virus. And we have got to make sure that we prevent its spread.

Host Neil Cavuto asked the Hawaii congresswoman to react to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the presidential field’s frontrunner who many in the Democratic Party establishment reject as a viable nominee.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Neither could anyone else.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  There was a Democrat debate?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 02/27/2020 5:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Only dem debate #10, Seeking.
Posted by: BA || 02/27/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Americans, coming together, standing together,

Yep, that will spread coronovirus in the US faster than anything. Sounds like something the Feds would recommend.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  “This is really about putting the interests of the American people first and really working to address those challenges and bringing the different ideas that we all have as Americans to the forefront, whether they are Democrat or Republican or Independent ideas, saying, we have got to put country first, because people are suffering and struggling and being left behind, so long as politicians in Washington are playing games with their lives,” Gabbard continued.

American first, Rep. Gabbard? I could get behind that.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/27/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes. What isn't said is that Americans first have to be disarmed. Then the "suffering and struggling," as defined by government, must expropriate the wealth generated by others. For starters. St. Tulsi. Spare me, please...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Federal Ruling on Sanctuary Cities a Victory for Criminal Justice
[The Hill via Townhall] A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) could withhold funding from cities and states that refuse to cooperate with the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

A three-judge panel on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned a district court judge's ruling that the department lacked the authority to impose immigration-related conditions on certain funding.

The panel’s opinion, written by Judge Reena Raggi, found that Congress had delegated authority to the attorney general to set conditions on the federal grant program it had created, called the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.

"Repeatedly and throughout its pronouncement of Byrne Program statutory requirements, Congress makes clear that a grant applicant demonstrates qualification by satisfying statutory requirements in such form and according to such rules as the Attorney General establishes," wrote Raggi, who was appointed to the court by George W. Bush. "This confers considerable authority on the Attorney General."

A group of seven states and New York City sued the DOJ in 2017 after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the agency would start withholding funding from local governments that refused to share information about undocumented immigrants or provide jail access to federal authorities investigating inmates' immigration status.

The states challenging the policy are New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington, Massachusetts and Virginia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:17 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats are yet again forcing States into Confederacies.

Fine, be that way.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2020 3:59 Comments || Top||

#2  The court should never put itself in the position of supporting sedition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "undocumented immigrants"

I'm sure the Federal ruling did not refer to them using that term, and neither would a proper journalist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Progress. Hope.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Carter Page at CPAC: Congress Should Pass Reparations for Victims of Deep State Wiretapping
[PJ] NATIONAL HARBOR, MD ‐ Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign, who was wiretapped by the FBI, spoke on Wednesday at CPAC. After Page had been accused by Democrats of being a traitor to his country for two years, the Mueller investigation "did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election." Page was also exonerated by the Horowitz report, which also found the allegations in the Steele dossier to be false. Even so, Page's life was turned upside down and he has not recovered his reputation or been compensated for being spied on illegally.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Page is referring to US taxpayer dollars.
"That was one of the hardest days for me and my family in March of 2017," he said, "the day [Adam Schiff] was on television reading from this fake dossier." Page described having his phone tapped while he was working with the Trump transition team: "Director Comey was asked about the wiretapping of Trump Tower and my office was right next to Trump Tower and I was in communications with so many of [the Trump team] my phone was being monitored. All of our communications, emails, and my phone."
He's run the numbers. Needs extra dough for baby shoes upcoming legal defense.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI services contract terminated once you departed the Trump campaign? Losing access really sucks. Get out of the beltway you crooked, deep state bastid! Go somewhere and get a real job.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 3:25 Comments || Top||


Ex-FBI unit chief blows whistle on Comey, McCabe over warrantless spying
[Just The News] The FBI agent who ran the bureau’s warrantless spying program said Wednesday he warned ex-Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe that the program was a useless waste of taxpayer money that needlessly infringed Americans’ civil liberties but his bosses refused to take action.

Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef ran the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit from late 2004 until his retirement in late 2014. He told Just the News he fears the deeply flawed program, which was started in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, was allowed to keep going to give Americans a false sense of security in the war on terror and possibly to enable inappropriate spying, such as that which targeted President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

"I have no doubt, or very little doubt, that it was used for political spying or political espionage," Youssef said during a lengthy interview for the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Youssef confirmed that the FBI performed an audit of the highly classified program (also known as the NSA program because it searched call records captured by the National Security Agency) after Edward Snowden leaked its existence.

The audit showed that while the program had generated two moderate leads for counterterrorism cases, it had not helped thwart dozens of terrorism attacks as officials had claimed, despite costing tens of millions of dollars per year.

In fact, the program was generating large numbers of "false negatives and positives," Youssef said.

The audit, he added, also showed "there was collateral damage in terms of civil liberties" of Americans whose phone records were unnecessarily searched or who were falsely identified as connected to terrorism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:09 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this whistleblower going to end up 187ed?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/27/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||


Five six people killed in Molson Coors shooting in Milwaukee
[The Hill] Five people were killed during a shooting on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors on Wednesday, police told reporters during a press conference.

The five victims were all employees of Molson Coors. The 51-year-old suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales told reporters.

"No other individuals were injured," Morales said. "It's a terrible day for Milwaukeeans."
Gonna be a long, hot summer in Milwaukee...
The chief said there is no additional threat at this time. More than 1,000 people were working on location at the time of the shooting, he said.

Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters that there were "multiple fatalities" in a "horrific shooting."

"It is a horrible, horrible day for the employees here," he said. "It is a very rough day for anyone who is close to this situation."

Milwaukee police tweeted around 4 p.m. that it was investigating a "critical incident" and asked residents to stay clear of the area. The department later updated to say there was "no active threat" but "this scene is still active."

Police also warned that "various sources" are "citing various numbers of casualties," saying "that information has not been confirmed."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 03:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Going postal?
or
One Sandernista for five Trumpies?

The 'authorities' will never admit to the latter
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Another site said this am that the shooter had been fired earlier in the day.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Lost his health insurance?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Had to go to the Daily Mail to get some info on the perp.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/27/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Another White Suprem...nevermind
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 20:00 Comments || Top||


Government
Administration Insiders: Pentagon House Cleaning of Never Trumpers Looms
[Breitbart] President Trump’s firing of John Rood, the top policy official at the Pentagon, is a sign the agency is not immune from an effort to purge from influential positions across the administration "snakes" who do not support the president, according to four current and former officials.

Rood had been on the chopping block for months, but his firing just last week amid a spate of other personnel changes shows that the president is finally ready to clean house at a department that has tried to distance itself from politics, they said.

"All of them are getting tossed," a senior administration official told Breitbart News. "You’re either on the team or you’re out, everywhere."

Political appointees like Rood serve the administration and at the president’s prerogative. However, it was well-known at the Pentagon and beyond that Rood was not a supporter of the president.
remember, though: "a department that has tried to distance itself from politics"
"Plenty of people from the transition and at the National Security Council knew Rood was not playing on the same team as the president when it came to policy or personnel," a defense official told Breitbart News after his firing. "Complaints have made it to the highest levels at the White House for awhile now."

At at least two meetings he held for staff, Rood spoke profusely and glowingly about the late Sen. John McCain, but did not once mention the president, according to the defense official.
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#1  Better late than never.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 5:01 Comments || Top||


#3  URL fixed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Should have happened in the 1st 90 days..
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Thank you.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Let me know when it actually happens.

And are advance warnings actually a great idea?
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CDC confirms first coronavirus case in US resident who's not recently been abroad or exposed to another patient
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The first case of coronavirus where the origin of the disease is unknown has been confirmed in the United States, officials revealed Wednesday

  • The CDC said that the person, in Northern California, had not recently traveled from a foreign country, and had not been in contact with another confirmed case

  • The origin of the patient's infection is not known

  • News suggests the disease may be spreading locally in the US

  • President Trump continued to insist that the risk to Americans is 'low'

  • Trump announced Vice-President Mike Pence will be in charge of the nation's response to the disease in a press conference Wednesday

  • He said the US would 'spend whatever's appropriate' to deal with the outbreak

  • Confirmed cases of coronavirus has reached 60 - with 15 on US soil

A statement from CDC confirmed the first possible instance of 'community spread' in the US Wednesday evening.

'At this time, the patient's exposure is unknown. It's possible this could be an instance of community spread of COVID-19, which would be the first time this has happened in the United States. Community spread means spread of an illness for which the source of infection is unknown,' the statement said.

The CDC did not rule out that the patient may have been in contact with an infected individual who is yet to be diagnosed or linked to the individual.

'It's also possible, however, that the patient may have been exposed to a returned traveler who was infected,' the statement said.

'This case was detected through the US public health system ‐ picked up by astute clinicians. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States to 15.'

Officials are now tracing the infected individual's contacts to see how they may have been infected and if any other individuals may be at risk.

'It is a confirmed case. There is one in Northern California,' CDC spokesman Scott Pauley told The Sacramento Bee just before 4pm Wednesday.

Pauley declined to elaborate on the details.

The CDC did not confirm the identity of the sufferer or where in Northern California the case was discovered.

However, according to KRON 4, state health officials said the patient is a resident from Solano County and is receiving care in Sacramento County.

According to an internal memo from UC Davis Medical Center obtained by CBS13, the patient is being treated at the center in Sacramento.

The memo states that the patient was transferred from another hospital Wednesday February 19 and was already intubated and on a ventilator.

Despite requests from medical center officials for the CDC to test the unknown individual, the patient was only tested for coronavirus on Sunday.

An email said to be from the David Lubarsky, vice-chancellor of human health services, and Brad Simmons, interim CEO of UC Davis Medical Center Officials confirmed that the test had come back positive Wednesday, reported Davis Enterprise.

'Today the CDC confirmed the patient's test was positive,' said the email.

'This is not the first COVID-19 patient we have treated, and because of the precautions we have had in place since this patient's arrival, we believe there has been minimal potential for exposure here at UC Davis Medical Center,' the email said.

The email said staff members had been warned to go into isolation and to stay vigilant to any developing symptoms.

'A small number of medical center employees have been asked to stay home and monitor their temperatures,' the email said.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 01:52 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Been eating bats, have you?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Recently stepped in it in SF?
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Of Asian extraction?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  there were several people on the west coast who were infected

I think all were in confinement after testing positive but before they were tested who knows
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Who handles the food in the local market?

Or hardware?

Or clothes?

Or the OTR fuel truck driver using the local restroom?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US Navy resumes training Saudis after base terror attack
[IsraelTimes] The Pentagon says Wednesday it has resumed training Saudi military pilots two months after a trainee rubbed out three Americans at a Florida naval base in what was called an act of terrorism.

The US Navy says it restarted the program at the US Naval Air Station in Pensacola on Tuesday under tighter controls, including an absolute ban on the cadet pilots owning guns.

Royal Saudi Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani used a pistol obtained under a legal loophole to kill three sailors and wound eight other people on December 6 in a classroom building. He was rubbed out at the scene by law enforcement officers.

Alshamrani had been taking part in a training course that the US offers to hundreds of foreign military officials every year. The Pentagon froze the training of about 850 Saudis, putting into question a decades-old program crucial to the US-Saudi relationship, which involves billions of dollars of military sales to the kingdom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 01:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Until the next attack?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:30 Comments || Top||

#2  We just don't learn, do we?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Why? This is nuts.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Whiskey Tango...?

Money's changing hands?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
As PA seethes at Trump plan, top officials say all of Israel is Palestine
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian diplomat says his people will resist US proposal until ’last drop of Paleostinian child’s blood’; Fatah member says state along ’67 lines would just be temporary measure.

Rejecting the US peace plan, top Paleostinian officials have in recent days said Paleostine should encompass all Israeli territory, and that even a potential state along the 1967 borders would only be a temporary measure.

And the Paleostinian ambassador to Iraq said his people would violently resist the US peace plan "until the last drop of a Paleostinian child’s blood," while also praising attacks on Israeli soldiers.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 01:40 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, idiots
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Eventually, we'll make peace the Roman way.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||

#3  good idea grom. After all the Roman peace plan with Carthage worked for a long time.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, PA. You didn't build that.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 I meant more ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. But, it does apply to Carthage - except the salt. Not going to salt our own land.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Just rebrand Israel as palestine and dump the black september lot back.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7  top officials say all of Israel is Palestine

What kind of officials?
Top. Officials.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#8  The Paleostinians are just trying to optimize their bargaining position.
Posted by: gorb || 02/27/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||


Israel to reopen Gaza border crossings, fishing zone as fragile calm returns
[IsraelTimes] Military liaison to the Paleostinians says move dependent on ceasefire holding after region erupted in two days of fighting this week.

Israel on Wednesday announced it would reopen its border crossings with the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, as well as the coastal enclave’s fishing zone, as a ceasefire with Paleostinian terror groups continued to hold days after a violent flareup.

Over the course of Sunday and Monday, the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group fired roughly 100 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel. In response, the Israel Defense Forces launched several waves of retaliatory strikes against the organization in Gaza and ‐ in a highly irregular move ‐ inside Syria.

Fighting ended late Monday night with Islamic Jihad announcing it would stop firing rockets if Israel also halted Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.
In light of the relative calm along the border, Israel decided to fully reopen the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings and to again allow Paleostinian fisherman to operate off the Gaza coast, up to 15 nautical miles from the shore.
I notice there is no mention of permits for Gazans to enter Israel to work. Perhaps this hudna will last long enough for that to be added later, though I’d not put money on it.
Israel closed the crossings and fishing zone on Monday as rockets and mortar shells pummeled Israeli cities and towns around the Gaza Strip and left the closure in place Tuesday and Wednesday.

"Following a new situation assessment ‐ and assuming the security stability remains ‐ it was decided to return to service the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings beginning tomorrow (Thursday) morning. In addition, the fishing zone will return to 15 nautical miles," Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians said in a statement.

The Kerem Shalom Crossing functions as the Gaza Strip’s main terminus for commercial goods, as well as fuel, while Erez is a pedestrian crossing used by Paleostinian businessmen and workers, as well as people receiving medical treatment.

Israel has routinely used the opening and closing of these crossings and the shortening and extending of the fishing zone over the years as alternately penalty and reward for the Gaza Strip, which many human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group decry as a form of collective punishment.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
The decision to reopen the crossings was taken after a meeting between Israel and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, aided by Egyptian officials and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
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Europe
France dissolves group run by rapper for defending terrorism
[IsraelTimes] Interior Ministry says ’Killuminateam ‐ soldiers on the path of Allah’ spread its message under cover of helping needy, using public actions to call for violence.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered a small, little known organization run by a rapper dissolved for alleged hate speech and defending terrorism.

A statement from the Interior Ministry said the association called "Killuminateam ‐ soldiers on the path of Allah" spread its message under the cover of helping the needy.

Its "main activity was organizing actions in public to make calls to hate and violence," the ministry statement said. It added that the association used the internet and videos laden with content reflecting "a conspiratorial, anti-Semitic (and), anti-Christian nature" and "defending terrorism." Macron ordered via a decree that the association be dissolved.

The group, based in the Val d’Oise region, north of Gay Paree, had just 15 members, according to the ministry statement. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
its dissolution is a sign of the government’s intention to fight what Macron calls "Islamist separatism."

The president announced last week his determination to counter Islamic extremism through diverse means, from giving the government more authority in the training of imams to beefing up police numbers in vulnerable neighborhoods.

The rapper who heads the group calls himself Killuminaty Masta Ex. He was convicted in November and given a six-month suspended sentence for defending terrorism, the French press wrote at the time. The conviction was linked to his song on YouTube called "Terrorist" in which he evokes the 2015 Gay Paree terror attacks that killed 130 people.

A woman describing herself as his wife said in a recent post on YouTube that her husband was tossed in the slammer
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
Jan. 5 on fraud charges. Castigating authorities and police, the woman who did not give her name said her husband "never called for armed jihad," and instead devoted himself to helping youth "in the name of Islam."
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#1  "Dissolved"....as in Jamal Khashoggi ?
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Syria-Bound Swiss Man Jailed in Bulgaria on Terror Charges
[AnNahar] A Bulgarian court handed a Swiss man a five-year jail term for terrorism and arms smuggling after he was caught, heavily armed, on his way to Syria in 2018.

The man was detained at Bulgaria's main southeastern border checkpoint with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
after his father alerted the Swiss authorities that his son had left Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
in a car packed with arms.

Bulgarian border guards found two automatic rifles, a smoothbore hunting rifle, a SIG Sauer pistol and ammunition in the car as well as 24 knives and a map tracing the route to the Syrian city of Idlib.

The man told Bulgaria's specialized court that he did not remember how he left Switzerland and found himself in detention in Bulgaria.
"I wazza hypnotized!"
But the court found him fit for trial and guilty on two counts -- for terrorism and for arms smuggling.

He was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for five years but the sentence can still be appealed.

Bulgaria has been a major crossing point on the route for Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
ans heading to join the jihadist Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
organization in Syria and Iraq but border arrests have dwindled since peaking in 2015.

Three Syrians residing in Germany were already placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for six years each in Bulgaria in 2017 for trying to join fighting in Syria.

Between 2015 and 2017, Bulgaria extradited three French, three Dutch and five German nationals over "terrorist activities" to their home countries.

In 2016, it also returned back to La Belle France a brother-in-law of one of the men who attacked French magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
after he was caught on his way to join IS forces fighting in Syria.
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#1  Seems to be missing a name or other details.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  "a smoothbore hunting rifle"? This seems odd. Not that almost everyone else has access to "automatic rifles" to throw into the trunk of the car, but the smoothbore grabbed me. A darter?

If everyone else DOES have auto-rifles on hand, I'm doing something wrong.
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#3  "a smoothbore hunting rifle"? This seems odd. Not that almost everyone else (except me) has access to "automatic rifles" to throw into the trunk of the car whenever, but the smoothbore rifle grabbed me. A darter? Lost in translation?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/27/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Ugh. Mods?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/27/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Shotgun
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Most likely, thanks Grom
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/27/2020 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  ^De nada.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Afghanistan: 1 Case of Coronavirus, 14 Others Test Negative
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday that of the 15 suspected cases of coronavirus from 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...
, Ghor and Kabul provinces, only one was positive, in Herat, and the 14 other cases came back negative after tests in Kabul.
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#1  One is enough to start.
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Home Front: Politix
SANDERS IN 2011: Promoted editorial arguing that "the American dream is more apt to be realized" in Venezuela than in the U.S.
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#1  Bernie's American Dream for sure.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  You would think that the true believers would have realized that Venezuela wasn't 'real' or 'true' socialism a lot sooner. Someone should ask Bernie about that. Personally I think he's still betting they'll pull it out somehow if they just eat enough zoo animals and put enough people up against the wall.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Che wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt

http://i0.wp.com/www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Che-wearing-a-Bernie-t-shirt.jpg?resize=480%2C480
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Bernie's dream is to become Maduro of America.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||

#6  "You've gotta break a few eggs and slaughter the entire disloyal flock of chickens as a message to others...to make an omelette "
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Send this shithead to Caracas for a year. Force him to scrounge through garbage for his meals and find a hospital that will maintain or replace his heart stent.

Then see if he's completely deranged and still a Marxist. Smart $ predicts yes / lost cause.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Now Lex, you know perfectly well that one can only be a real socialist in capitalist society.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#9  A real bourgeoisieshevik, anyway.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/27/2020 19:55 Comments || Top||


Iraq
#Iraq bans public gatherings and travel to 9 countries including #Kuwait and #Bahrain due to increasing fears of the spread of #coronavirus
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#1  But not Iran, if you believe the article above about planes landing at Najaf.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  planes landing at Najaf

Gotta get the gold there somehow.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Winter Park Florida woman zipped up boyfriend in suitcase, left him to die: detectives
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are a lot of short Hispanic guys here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  #HimToo
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  The importance of a safe words is often overlooked.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  And a cell phone to call 911.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Whatever happened to sewing him up in the bedsheets? Getting lazy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  ..those gals no longer sew or cook.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Iraq bans public gatherings and travel to 9 countries over coronavirus concerns
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Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So no more stoning and flogging?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  No more public gatherings means the protests are over and the new prime minister can finally get on with putting together a government.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 19:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
House candidate in Arizona suspends campaign after drug overdose
Good idea.
[CNN] A combat veteran running for US Congress in Arizona suspended his campaign on Monday after a relapse and drug overdose.

"Today, I have suspended my campaign for the US House of Representatives and am seeking treatment for substance abuse disorder. I will fully cooperate with local authorities on any matters arising from my recent relapse and overdose," Chris Taylor, a Safford, Arizona, city council member, told CNN in a statement. The Arizona Republic reported Monday that Taylor was suspending his campaign after a heroin overdose last week.

"I'm not going to hide from this. I'm not ashamed of what happened. I wish to sincerely apologize to the amazing people who have supported me," Taylor said.

He added, "I don't know what went wrong. I recently relapsed after having so many solid years in sobriety. I have to figure out where I went wrong."
Poor man. I hope he figures it out.
Taylor, a father of two, said, "The only thing I can do is face this head on in complete humility and put one foot in front of the other so that I can get the help needed to be the father and husband that my family deserves. I'm human and I have never pretended to be anything but."

Taylor, who enlisted in the US Army in 2007 and served two combat tours in Afghanistan, has been open about his past addiction to drugs.

"The horrors I witnessed on the battlefield came home with me and like many veterans, I didn't know how to cope. I sought help at the VA but fell victim to a government that forgot its promises. I began misusing prescriptions and developed an opioid addiction. It was a long road to recovery," he said in a congressional campaign video.

Taylor also founded a nonprofit, Desert Eagle Addiction Recovery, to help individuals, including combat veterans, with drug addiction, according to his campaign website's biography.

Taylor was seeking the Republican nomination for Arizona's 1st Congressional District, which is currently held by Democratic Rep. Tom O'Halleran. O'Halleran won reelection in 2018 with about 54% of the vote.
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#1  God, grant him serenity, wisdom, and courage
Posted by: Texhooey || 02/27/2020 20:32 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Famed novelist Clive Cussler whose book Sahara was turned into a blockbuster film starring Matthew McConaughey dies, aged 88
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#1  Cussler's books sure made my departure lounge downtime fly right by...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  MM, that's a big ditto. Flight times too. However as much as he wrote I needed more. Thanks to Tom Clancy also, and Frank Herbert and Aaron Elkins and ..........
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Good Lord, he found the Hunley and wrote dozens of fun books, and all they can eulogize him with is a bad movie?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/27/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Who reads books nowadays?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Prolific writer. I grabbed one of his books because I needed a book, forget its name.
*looks it up*
Pharaoh's Secret - read it in one sitting.

Most people have only heard of the movie. I think it gets a bum rap - how do you capture the over the top action and passion Cussler put into his stories with a movie? The title screen montage is a total tribute to the Cussler style.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  The 1st movie from one of his books "Raise the Titanic" was much better. Richard Jordan as Dirk Pitt. Recently he has been using co-authors. I've read most of them. Always a good read. RIP
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Favorite scene was the land sailer.

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  I haven't been to a movie in a long time. If they make an Isaac Bell movie, I'm in...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#9  I once read "Raise the Titanic". Entertaining.
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/27/2020 15:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Real life explorer. RIP sir.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2020 20:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU asylum applications rise for first year since 2015
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Asylum applications rose in the EU in 2019, official figures showed on Wednesday, driven by a dramatic increase in the number of Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
ns seeking sanctuary from political and economic crises.

More than 714,000 applications were submitted, the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Asylum Support Office (EASO) said, an increase of 13 percent on the year before and the first annual rise since 2015.

EASO said the growth was largely due to applications from countries with visa-free access to the EU’s Schengen common travel area rather than irregular entries such as the boat crossings over the Mediterranean and Aegean seas seen during the height of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015-16.

The top three countries of origin for migrants colonists were Syria with 72,000, Afghanistan with 60,000 and Venezuela with 45,000.

"Most of the increase is accounted for by the large number of applications lodged by applicants who are exempt of visa requirements when entering the Schengen Area," EASO said.

The office said this explained why applications had increased but detections of "illegal entry" had fallen.

The figure for Venezuela is more than double the total of 22,000 seen in 2018, as the oil-rich but unstable Latin American state continues its plunge into economic ruin and political chaos.

But EASO said just five percent of Venezuelan applicants were granted asylum - in contrast to Syrians, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
is and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
ns, all of whom had recognition rates above 80 percent.

Overall around one in three applicants were granted some form of protection in 2019, EASO said.
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Afghanistan
'We Are Seeing Downward Trend in Violence': Miller
[ToloNews] Gen. Scott Miller, commander of Resolute Support MIssion and US forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday and said that so far violence is decreasing, suggesting that the reduction in violence plan is being upheld.

"We’re seeing what we would call a downward trend in violence, which is great for the Afghan people. It's great for the country of Afghanistan," according to Miller.

"There's still some incidents and we're working through those incidents. We remain committed in our support to the Afghan cops," Miller said, adding that "The minister and I are talking about it every single day to make sure we're seeing what's happening on the ground together."

Khalid, who visited a special unit in Kabul, said: "Today, we are here with our Ktah-Khas (special forces unit), and they have always been ready. Now, they have been conducting training and observing the (reduction in violence) situation."

"We assure our people that our brave forces will arrive at any location, at any time, to resolve any issues or problems," he said.

"This is a success for us. The sacrifices of our hard-working Afghan forces and patience of our great nation caused this reduction in violence," he added.

He also said that in several locations the Afghans have celebrated the reduction in violence.

"In some provinces, the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
groups came into the cities and took photos with our soldiers. This is a big success for us," according to Khalid.

On February 21, a reduction in violence plan kicked off that is intended to last for seven days. Upon its successful completion, according to statements by the US and Taliban, a peace deal negotiated between the two sides over the past 18 months in Doha, will be signed.

If the agreement signed, it will lead to intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban on one side, and a delegation representing the Afghan republic's government and political and civil establishment, on the other.
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#1  Image result for the three monkeys pix
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:40 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia suspends entry for Umrah pilgrimage over coronavirus fears
[ArabNews] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
has placed a temporary ban on Umrah pilgrims in an attempt to ensure public safety by preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

Most foreign pilgrims often visit the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah before or after the completion of their religious duties in Makkah, this has also been halted.

It is one of a number of precautionary restrictions announced early on Thursday as health authorities in the Kingdom closely monitor the spread of the virus. Tourist-visa holders from countries judged to pose a particularly high risk of spreading the virus will also be denied entry.

In addition, Saudi nationals and citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council nations will not be able to use a national identity card to travel to and from the Kingdom for the time being. Exceptions to this shall be granted to Saudis returning home, and citizens of GCC countries who are in the Kingdom and want to return to their home countries, provided that they left or entered the Kingdom using a national identity card.

Health authorities at entry points will verify which countries travelers visited before arriving in Saudi Arabia and apply all necessary precautionary measures.

Saudi officials stressed that the restrictions are temporary and will be continuously reviewed by the health authorities. They reiterated the Kingdom’s support for and implementation of international efforts to limit the spread of the virus, and the Foreign Ministry urged citizens not to travel to the countries worst affected by the coronavirus.

Nearly 7 million Umrah pilgrims visit the Kingdom each year, the majority of whom arrive at airports in Jeddah and Madinah.

Earlier, it emerged that seven Saudis are among the latest coronavirus cases in Bahrain and Kuwait. The Bahraini Ministry of Health on Wednesday said six Saudi women has tested positive for the virus.

They had arrived at Bahrain International Airport on a flight from Iran. The total number of confirmed cases in the country stands at 26. Studies at schools and universities have been suspended for two weeks in an effort to limit the spread of the virus.

Kuwait announced the first case of a Saudi citizen infected by the virus. The man, who had arrived in the country from the Iranian city of Mashhad, has been placed in quarantine for 14 days. There have been 26 confirmed cases of the virus to date in Kuwait.

The Saudi Ministry of Health has been providing neighboring Arab countries with advice and guidelines for controlling infectious diseases such as the coronavirus and dealing with health emergencies.

Dr. Hani bin Abdul Aziz Jokhdar, the deputy minister of public health, said that the guidelines were based on Saudi Arabia’s experience of protecting the health and well-being of pilgrims during Hajj season.

He led the Kingdom’s delegation at a meeting of the Executive Office of the Council of Arab Ministers for Health on Wednesday at the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
headquarters in Cairo.
The Haj this year will be approximately July 28 - August 2, contingent on the actual moon sighting. Will they cancel that, too?
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#1  You talk about this virus hurting the economy...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ...The Saudis ain't stupid - they know that if this thing gets loose in the Muslim world, especially in the hajj, that's it. Allan will be doing our work for us.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/27/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  What with Muzzies being the epitome of fecal hygiene?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes
Twitter
Posted by: 3dc || 02/27/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
4 Civilians Killed in Taliban Attacks on 5th Day of RIV: MoI
[ToloNews] At least four civilians and one security force member was killed in separate Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
attacks in five provinces on the fifth day of the reduction in violence plan (RIV), the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Wednesday, amid hopes that the RIV will lead to a nationwide ceasefire in the war-ravaged country.

According to the Afghan government, 19 security force members and four civilians have been killed in the Taliban attacks since the implementation of the reduction in violence (RIV) plan on February 21. 35 security force members were maimed in these attacks by the Taliban.

"The Taliban today launched some attacks in Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Zabul, Kandahar and Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
provinces. The attacks resulted in the killing of at least four civilians and one security force member. Four others were maimed in the attacks," said Nasrat Rahimi, a front man for the Ministry of Interior.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
in Kabul at least nine civilians, including a woman, were maimed when an IED placed in a cycle of violence went off in PD6, Interior Ministry front man Nasrat Rahimi said.

The Taliban denied involvement, saying"intelligence networks are trying to create distrust."

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
in the southern province of Maidan Wardak, a bridge that connected Nirkh district to Maidan Shahr was blown up.

"Individuals behind the earth-shattering kaboom of this bridge have been identified, but we do not want to conduct operations against them because of the reduction in violence," said Muzaffaruddin Yameen, the governor of Maidan Wardak, without giving details about what group was suspected.

It appears that both the Taliban and the Afghan government are satisfied with the RIV up to this point.

The US has already said that it will sign a peace deal with the Taliban on February 29 if the RIV process is concluded successfully.

"As was expected, the two sides have been committed to their promise about the reduction in violence. It is hoped that the peace deal between the US and the Taliban is signed," said Hassan Haqyar, a political activist in Kabul.

On Tuesday, the Afghan Ministry of Interior said that at least four security incidents by the Taliban were recorded in Zabul, Ghazni, Farah and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces, which was on the fourth day since the implementation of the reduction in violence (RIV).

According to the group, no significant incident so far has been reported against the Taliban by the US and Afghan forces.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army commander is injured in the heavy Turkish bombardment on the village of Evdeko
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Lebanon has paid $71 million in coupons due on Eurobonds maturing in 2025 and 2030
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Number of #coronavirus cases on mainland #China reaches 78,497 and total death toll stands at 2,744
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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#1  3.5%
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:56 Comments || Top||

#2  US Annual Death Metrics circa 2000:

14K aspirin
14K automobile accidents
13K falls
12K accidental poisoning
5K pedestrian
3K drownings
3K respiratory obstructions
3K fire
3k complications from surgery
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  How are the re-infected survivors counted?

Had it, survived, got it again, died.
Is that two, or the first was never cured, or two infections and one death?

Numbers confuse me.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Also, what is the death rate of secondary infections?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Does it seem like, to anyone else, that the Chinese numbers have plateaued?

So it's either being controlled or the Chinese are lying (even) more.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/27/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||


Trump says the #US is ‘very, very ready’ for whatever the #coronavirus threat brings
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#4  Well, the US less those literally BINASH places.

SJW enclaves about to meet 2,000 year of human experience with public sanitation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  We are more ready than Italy was, but no one will be "Very, Very" ready.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  ..more.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  if the virus gets embedded in the various homeless camps in SF or LA it will be a major killer as the population includes many (maybe mostly) drug addicts with all kinds of other problems
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#8  ...but they'll still vote in November.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Only in Illinois
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/27/2020 15:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Treasury Department to announce sanctions on three Lebanese persons and 12 Lebanese entities who are linked with the #Hezbollah Martyrs Foundation
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New US Sanctions on #Hezbollah target 15 #Lebanon Pharmaceutical and Gasoline entities/businessmen
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Home Front: Politix
ABC suspends reporter for telling the truth about ABC
[CNN] ABC News said on Wednesday that it had suspended a veteran correspondent after the journalist was secretly recorded on video by a right-wing activist group leveling criticism against the network and making disparaging comments about President Donald Trump.

"Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News
[and reduces our ability to deceive the public]
and the individuals involved," an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday.

Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He also admitted to being a socialist and even went out of his way to omit the qualifier "democratic" when doing so.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News

Isn't this your reporters' and producers' M.O.?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
US government is developing a nuclear thermal rocket to send satellites into the vast 'cislunar' space between Earth and the Moon in a renewed space race with China
"Cislunar?" It was born that way? That's different from ci devant, right?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is the 21st century, and Tramp is POTUS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2  If they're using Zubrin's nuclear salt rocket, we need to launch it from someplace like Somalia, cause it's umm...hard on the environment.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like the thermal indicates the tea-kettle designs. You heat water and it expands and provides thrust. Slow but safe which would be good for maintaining position on one of the Lagrange spots or trucking back and forth between Earth and Moon.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 16:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Article says hydrogen gas but that seems odd to me. Why pick an explosive gas when you don't intend to explode it?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  To the moon Alice!!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 19:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Hydrogen, being less massive than other atoms you might use for fuel, gives you a higher effective exhaust velocity. It isn't explosive unless you mix it with an oxidant, but it does require cryogenics to manage it, which can outweigh the advantage. I wonder if they've made any progress on the erosion problems.
Posted by: James || 02/27/2020 21:57 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish Atilgan surface-to-air missile systems with 8 km flight ceiling entered Idlib
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  ATILGAN Pedestal Mounted Stinger System
Pedestal Mounted Stinger System, ATILGAN, is a fully automated firing unit using 8 ready to fire FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS (Man-Portable Air-Defense System) missiles and 12.7 mm. automatic machine gun for very short range air defense. ATILGAN is based on an armored/tracked personnel carrier M113A2 and it is operated with a three-man crew the driver, the gunner and the commander.


8 km flight ceiling is a bit of a mistranslation. Maybe 8km range for some models.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  How is it against incoming artillery?
Uh huh....I thought so.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 4:21 Comments || Top||

#3  It's an anti-aircraft* system not a anti-missile** system. Next up stand-off missile with a range greater the 8km, or if you have a really really good pilot, a lob bomb.

* with aircraft you just have to ding up the body enough to degrade its flight specs. Close is often good enough.

** with an incoming missile you have to literal shoot a bullet with a bullet. There is no margin.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  *** All of which is very interesting to watch, unless of course, you happen to be on-board the aircraft.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||


Representative of Khamenei in Qom urges Iranians to visit
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] More Islam will surely save the nation from the plague.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I support this message. In particular, IMO, Iranian nuclear scientists need to pray at the shrine for inspiration.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:43 Comments || Top||


#3  will they be squirting Purell on the kaaba stone?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 02/27/2020 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  big jump in new reported infections and deaths in Iran this morning

Non Chinese rankings

infected
SKor 1766
Diamond Princess 705
Italy 453
Iran 245

deaths
Iran 26
SKor 13
Italy 12
Diamond Princess 4
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#5  big jump in new reported infections and deaths in Iran this morning

They stopped lying?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, it's hard to see how we lose on this one. How did Trump pull this off? Did he get some Infinity stones? They are really on a roll over there ...
Posted by: Beau || 02/27/2020 8:41 Comments || Top||

#7  More Islam will surely save the nation from the plague

Well, that and the cash the visitors leave in the gift shop.

Oh wait, that's for the kleptocracy.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#8  will they be squirting Purell on the kaaba stone?

I think that's Snark O' the Day unless someone beats it.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2020 9:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Mohammad Saeedi ... is urging Iranians to visit the city’s main religious site, calling it a “place of healing” despite the #coronavirus outbreak in the city.

Sweartogod, I laughed out loud reading that. But hey, if the Purell thing doesn't work, we can always irradiate the place.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Perhaps Iran has a retirement funding problem islam + virus can solve?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#11  In that case they need to import (only) a few Kenyan/Nigerian home health care workers.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#12  will they be squirting Purell on the kaaba stone?

Only if the pilgrims drink it first.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#13  grom

I don't think Iran is lying or at least the lying is actually a relatively minor problem.

I'm pretty sure they have a major problem understanding how to do diagnosis (which is not as simple as it seems), how to sequester people who have been diagnosed as positive, how to categorize a death that is related to the virus but seems not directly caused, etc.
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Can't vote for more than half of candidates in student union election because of my race/gender etc.
[Reddit] "You are unable to vote for the position of German-heritage officer because you have identified as 'Jewish.'"

Does that sound bad? Cause that's what you're doing, whatever school this is.

Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Very low res, link does not go to Reddit thread. This is not kosher way to put news.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 02/27/2020 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  He's not up to what he demands of others...isn't there a word for that?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 4:10 Comments || Top||

#3  ^It starts with a "t" and ends with an "l"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Uh, reddit is just the image host. There's no way to "enhance" the image. This isn't CSI. Maybe try a reverse image search for another source image if it's really that unreadable.

I remain encouraged that juvenile name-calling is still the order of the day, though.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 02/27/2020 5:25 Comments || Top||

#5  No one said you were a juvenile, erb.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 5:53 Comments || Top||

#6  I want to know why Trannies are on 2 lines.

They get a slot on the LGBT line AND their own Trans line seems very lacking in fairness to me.

Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2020 7:30 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 Not chronologically.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Who in hell votes for student union nitwits anyway? That was the furthest thing from my mind because, well, I was busy doing minor stuff like going to class, hanging out at the library studying and working my ass off with two jobs.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Who in hell votes for student union nitwits anyway?

Appears it is a topic of critical importance to erb.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 16:27 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran will sentence anyone who spreads false information about #coronavirus to flogging and up to three years in prison
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Wouldn't that include Khamenei? (Qom is a place of healing, not Coronavirus-infested)
Posted by: Bobby || 02/27/2020 17:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Turn Out the Lights....The Party's Over
[American Thinker via Lucianne]
Where is Don Meredith when you really need him?
There is something deeply satisfying about watching the ironically named Democratic Party consume itself at every turn. I have tried to summon up some human pity for the carnage -- but frankly I just can’t.

If Joe Biden weren’t a corrupt, crude, shallow, self-righteous fondler of people’s children I could probably muster some sympathy for him. There he stands behind the bright blue podium, almost dizzy under the lights, recounting past accomplishments no one ever heard of.
Channeling Kurt Schlicter there a little bit...
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as human nature exists, nothing that it births and nurtures is ever truly "over".

Specific institutions/mechanisms perhaps, but not the general principle.

The Free Shit Army will always be with us.

The haters of the good and beautiful will always be with us.

If the Democrat party ceases to be an effective vehicle for them gaining the power to enslave, loot, rape and slaughter, they will find another.

The author of this article ain't as smart as he thinks he is.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||


Europe
1 in 5 Europeans says secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds
[JPOST] Here's a helpful suggestion: See a mohel. Get the snip. Now you too can be a part of the cabal.
Posted by: || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The other 4 being discreet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  If I believed a secret cabal was running the world, I certainly wouldn’t tell random surveyors I thought so, nor make a peep about the subject on the internet, lest I catch their attention.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#3  And how many Democrats?
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/27/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#4  EC,
Probably not more than 1 in 10.

This is per the AntiDefamation League's very detailed and precise survey that they've been conducting since 1964, when they found that about 29% of the US was anti-semitic defined as agreeing with at least 6 of 11 anti-Jewish statements surveyed.

ADL's global survey results here - you can compare countries, demographics, etc
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||

#5  If I believed a secret cabal was running the world, I certainly wouldn’t tell random surveyors I thought so

Yeah, seriously. You know those people can control the weather, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 16:21 Comments || Top||

#6  TIL 1 in 5 Europeans must hang out on the Chans too.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 16:22 Comments || Top||

#7  If 20% of people know a secret is it a secret?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 21:28 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two of the Iranian protesters who were sentenced to death last week had fled to Turkey in December in order to apply for political asylum
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Now coronavirus reaches BRAZIL: 61-year-old tests positive for the deadly infection after returning from Italy in South America's first case
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrain AD units in south #Idlib downed unidentified target over Al Zawyeh mountain
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Al Nusra Front/Syrian Brotherhood/Muslim Brotherhood + hiding ISIS and wives are holed up in Idlib.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Pope to Catholics: For Lent, give up trolling
[NEWS.TRUST.ORG] During Lent, Catholics are called on to give up something, like sweets. On Wednesday, Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
added a modern twist to the list of things to quit during the season and beyond: insulting people on social media.

The pope made his appeal to tone things down while speaking to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square for his general audience on Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40-day season that leads up to Easter.

Lent, he said in partially improvised remarks, "is a time to give up useless words, gossip, rumours, tittle-tattle and speak to God on a first name basis," he said.

"We live in an atmosphere polluted by too much verbal violence, too many offensive and harmful words, which are amplified by the internet," he said. "Today, people insult each other as if they were saying 'Good Day.'"

In recent years, Francis himself has been the butt of insults from ultra-conservative Catholic websites and mostly anonymous anti-pope Twitter feeds.

Twitter has also become a platform for sometimes pitched verbal battles between his supporters and detractors.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He must be talking to me.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Dang. I had the Bee for sure!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Leave the trolling of the masses to the pope.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/27/2020 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  PopeFrancis sick a day after supporting coronavirus sufferers

Unlikely corona since it's only a day later, but....
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Francito - the leader who does not let religion interfere with his position.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I had Bee.

Truly a Pope for this modern age. Which is probably why whenever I see his name, I hear this Beavis & Butthead voice saying "I am Bergoglio!"
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Thou shall not Pwned the Pope on Twitter.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:28 Comments || Top||

#8  ...well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||


#10  He should give up his anti-Papacy.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Hey Bergoglio: better to tell your own Church's pedos to give up cruising and grooming.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:16 Comments || Top||

#12  I thought Bee until the last paragraph. Then noticed the Orwellian named source "NEWS.TRUST.ORG" and realized it was an article from Minitrue instead...
Posted by: magpie || 02/27/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Heh Poop. Give up trolling for little boys.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2020 20:03 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
#Bahrain suspends all flights to and from #Iraq and #Lebanon as part of its latest efforts to combat the spread of the #coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Qatar's Emir orders the evacuation of Qatari and #Kuwait-i citizens from #Iran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Omar's Accuser Takes Out Suicide Insurance
[AlphaNewMN] ] My name is Abdihakin Osman Nur and I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. I am an American citizen. I am the person who spoke to the media and said that Ilhan Omar married her brother and made legal papers for him to stay in America.
.
.
.
I would like to inform the public and the government of the USA. If anything were to happen to me and my safety that Ilhan Omar and her team will be responsible. I also ask for the support of the American people in case I’m set up or something happens to me because I have talked.

Thanks for your help and understanding.

Abdihakin Osman Nur
Posted by: Mercutio & Lord Garth || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  fyi

on his facebook page, Nur closes this with

"God Bless America"
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  America Has A Con-woman In Congress, But Where’s The Law?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Again, not the Bee!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Omar has other things to worry about.
Trump administration launches new unit to strip US citizenship from foreign-born terrorists, criminals
The Trump administration is establishing a new section within the Justice Department to deal with the process of removing citizenship from foreign-born individuals who fraudulently obtained citizenship by failing to disclose past convictions for serious crimes -- including terrorism and war crimes.

The section, which will be within the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, will be dedicated to denaturalizing those who had failed to disclose they had been involved in criminal activity on their N-400 form for naturalization. It requires the government to show that citizenship was obtained illegally or "procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation."
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Not Bee? *Wow*
Posted by: magpie || 02/27/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Very wise.

Although it says much about the state of the republic that we can witness this with barely an eye blink.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow. This + Bergoglio's Lent guidance means I've lost twice today.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:21 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi authorities still allow #Iranian planes to land in #Najaf, despite the outbreak of #coronavirus
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  Well, somebody has to shoot all these protesters.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:38 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Scientists warn AI super-intelligence on verge of 'destroying civilisation'
[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] Humans must be ready for signs of robotic super-intelligence but should have enough time to address them, a top computer scientist has warned.

Oren Etzioni, CEO of Allen Institute for AI, penned a recent paper titled: "How to know if artificial intelligence is about to destroy civilisation."

He wrote: "Could we wake up one morning dumbstruck that a super-powerful AI has emerged, with disastrous consequences?

"Books like Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, as well as more recent articles, argue that malevolent super-intelligence is an existential risk for humanity.

"But one can speculate endlessly. It’s better to ask a more concrete, empirical question: What would alert us that super-intelligence is indeed around the corner?"

He likened warning signs to canaries in coal mines, which were used to detect carbon monoxide because they would collapse.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And here I was worried about the Western "Elites" lack of intelligence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Napoleon is quoted as said 'Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself.'

Go off and do some other computing. No need to bother yourself.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Read "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James P. Hogan. Does a better job of thinking about it, and is a good story to boot.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/27/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Great movie from the Seventies called "Colossus: The Forbin Project" is oddly prescient. I kept thinking Google when I watched it.
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  So the Wuhan corona virus was created by AI?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Show me some algorithms that can reliably detect irony or humor in a human voice or statement, and then maybe I'll start being afraid.

AI can't even make the correct snap judgments that any five year-old can do. Not even close.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 17:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Show me some algorithms that can reliably detect irony or humor in a human voice or statement, and then maybe I'll start being afraid.

Keep it out of the Window ME review data set.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 21:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey’s Defense Ministry says two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an airstrike
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Europe
Riot police on the #Greek island of Lesbos fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing protesters
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Horrifying moment crowd mocks and racially-abuses elderly Asian man for picking up recyclables in San Francisco street
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is the only one I see cleaning up your third world shithole neighborhood.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2020 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Savages be savages.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  So, it's not just some blacks accusing others of "acting white," it's now entire diverse swathes of homo regressis accusing others of acting civilized...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  California has really turned into a s#it hole in all ways possible.

Was working at PGE about 10 years ago and the downward trajectory was becoming evident.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||


#6  ...add Harvard and Yale attacks on Asians. It's as though these bastions of progressivism are centers of bigotry and intolerance.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Obviously a re-boot of the Rush Hour movies will heal this divide.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Lucky he constrained his Drunken Master Kung Fu skills.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Asians overwhelmingly vote for Dems, especially in Cali.

Not saying the subject of this article does so, but it's always wise to check who we're defending before putting on our white armor.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 14:48 Comments || Top||

#10  BINASH
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 20:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon’s search for offshore oil and gas will begin on Thursday, announces President #MichelAoun
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Have they petitioned the Caliph of Istanbul for permission to drill in the Eastern Mediterranean Turkish Gulf?
Posted by: magpie || 02/27/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Check for loose change beneath your sofa cushions first?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Shocking moment transgender woman is shot dead in Puerto Rico hours after McDonald's customer called the police to complain about her using a women's restroom
[Daily Mail, whee America gets its news]
  • Neulisa Luciano Ruiz was found dead Monday at a park in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

  • Ruiz, a transgender woman known as Alexa, was killed hours after a McDonald's customer called 911 to complain she was using a women's restroom

  • A woman told police Sunday that the 28-year-old placed a mirror under the stall to look at her private parts

  • Alexa was approached by at least two males in car, who mocked her before several shots were fired from inside the vehicle on the side of a road

  • An 18-year-old suspect was arrested trying to board a flight with his mother at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan on Tuesday night

  • Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero reported that the FBI interviewed the suspect Wednesday morning

  • Authorities are searching for three more suspects, including a 17-year-old who reportedly carried out the shooting
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Women s restrooms do tend to be cleaner than men’s restrooms.
Posted by: Clailet Hupinesing9972 || 02/27/2020 9:57 Comments || Top||

#2  ....how do y'all keep missing the urinals?

Looks left, looks right, keep your weapon up and down range at all times.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  S(he) thought it was Burger King.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Or, fuggin perv gets what's deserved.

Women s restrooms do tend to be cleaner than men’s restrooms.

First job was dish dog at a restaurant with a happening cocktail bar. I did Saturday and Sunday mornings, one obligation was getting the restrooms tidy. Guy's restroom, yeah, there was some which urinal should I aim at. The Gal's was fuggin trashed, toilet paper nests just tossed everywhere, no flushing, sink and mirror just garbaged.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I've had to clean the women's restroom at Wal-Mart. You women know what I'm talking about. All I know is the poop that's splattered on the ceiling, I didn't put there and I've never seen it in the Men's room ANYWHERE.

Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Earth has a new mini-moon: Asteroid the size of a washing machine has been orbiting Earth for the past three years
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Catalina Sky Survey May Tag 2020 CD3 as Harmless, Non-life Threatening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm not saying it's aliens - because they monitor the internet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Other local neighbors.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, I was wondering where I left that.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  So is a tiny chip off of an asteroid called a bloomberg?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ We'd better put into a booster orbit
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Put it into a geosynmikros pattern.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  At last! a moon we can nuke.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||

#9  I say we mine it for science and profit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2020 15:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Size of a washing machine.
Something of an eccentric orbit.
Be cool to land some instrumentation and watch it wobble off on it's merry way.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Joe Biden finally admits he WASN'T arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela: Campaign says he was only separated from a congressional delegation meeting the ANC leader
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They left the hotel without him.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Plugz was diverted: found some interesting sniff-targets among the locals
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Prolly confusing Mandela with Ghandi. To be fair, they're both short brown guys.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ "Yeah, it was Gandhi, my bad. The Muslim guy"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Isis and al-Qaeda join forces in West Africa
[Independent] Groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, at war with each other in the Middle East, are working together to take control of territory across a vast stretch of West Africa, US and local officials say, sparking fears the regional threat could grow into a global crisis.

Fighters appear to be coordinating attacks and carving out mutually agreed-upon areas of influence in the Sahel, a strip of land south of the Sahara desert. The rural territory at risk is so large it could "fit multiple Afghanistans and Iraqs," said brigade general Dagvin Anderson, head of the US military’s Special Operations arm in Africa.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mystery smell overwhelms Pennsylvania county again, investigators baffled
[FoxNews] A mysterious stench once again struck parts of Delaware County, Penn., this week, overwhelming residents with its pungent odor and baffling investigators.

The smell has recently been reported in towns across the county, including in Glenolden, Tinicum and Upper Darby, just outside of Philadelphia. While no one knows what the elusive smell is or where it is coming from, residents have described it as fuel-like.

Delaware County residents have reported the smell wafting in and out of neighborhoods over the last several months. Last October, the smell shut down several businesses and a school in Chester before striking Brookhaven in December, FOX29 Philadelphia reported at the time.

The most recent stench is consistent with past reports, according to officials, but investigators still can’t find the source.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Usually Methane gas that resides over the great fuels under that land. I seem to recall that it was natural.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Ramapo Fault venting?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Teutonic, sulfuric flatulence caused by Gaia, Fracking, Water Flooding? Haliburton? Does your property deed include mineral rights ?

Have you walked the ravines and creek beds of your property lately? I recommend a Personal Oxygen Safety Monitor and filing a flight plan with family or a neighbor. If breathing becomes labored or difficult, return to the house immediately. No smoking please.

Further questions should be directed to your County Extension Office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Got breathlessness, coughing, angina?
Unwrapped a new geegaw from China?
Or maybe it's fracking --
Sue someone, get cracking! --
Or just Gwynneth Paltrow's refiner...y.
Posted by: Ho Chi Fillmore8050 || 02/27/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Proven one of the smelliest smells are military latrines. Next perhaps worse " Liquid ASS pranks are repeatable. Since it is stealthy, you won't get caught. Since Liquid ASS is a smell that causes people to suspect sewer gas, dog poop, dead animal, etc., the idea that it might be a prank never crosses their mind". Have fun.
Posted by: Dale || 02/27/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember the little glass Stink Bombs? I have two of them I'm saving for a special occasion, like maybe the next candlelight vigil at the State House in Boston.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#7  They finally found Jimmy Hoffa?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Has anyone seen AlGore? Is he eating bean burritos again? And did it snow? Snow does seem to follow him around.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Wasn't me!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||


Iraq
39 ISIS killed in Salahuddin province
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Iraqi workers wearing protective suits and spraying disinfectant as a precaution in #Najaf's Imam Ali Holy Shrine
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sacrilege!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Next step, stop wiping your ass with your bare hand.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 02/27/2020 12:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mike Bloomberg's OTHER cash gusher: How he has donated billions to politicians, campaigns and charities - and is now raking in endorsements in return
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Democratic candidate worth $61 billion has spent billions through Bloomberg Philanthropies and other donations

  • Series of people and organizations he has helped have endorsed his presidential candidacy

  • They include actors Ted Danson and Sam Waterson , who are both on board of ocean conservation charity which Bloomberg donated to

  • John Cougar Mellencamp backed him after recording a song for a 2017 anti-coal documentary

  • Rhode Island's Gina Raimondo was first governor to endorse him; her 2014 election was helped by $1 million from Bloomberg-backed groups

  • Virgin Islands congresswoman Stacey Plaskett endorsed him after donations to help the island recover from tropical storm damage

  • In Pennsylvania, he is hoping to win the state primary with series of endorsements and has given to anti-gun efforts and other campaigns

Maybe that explains the smell?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sausage, that's how it is made.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Getting crowded down in the fourth circle.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Most corrupt era since the Robber Barons.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Since when has donated been a synonym of bought?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||


Cyber
SpaceX and the Air Force team up for live fire...
[TheDrive] As space continues to play an increasingly important role for the United States armed forces, the Department of Defense has been also increasingly engaging with the private aerospace and communications sector to develop and implement solutions that better help it confront emerging warfighting challenges. Just last week, Air Force acquisition chief William Roper told reporters at the Pentagon that the Air Force and SpaceX will conduct an event on April 8, together with other branches of the U.S. military, that will see SpaceX Starlink satellites link up with multiple armed forces systems in a "massive" live fire exercise.

"SpaceX has been a great industry partner for us," Roper said. "They are very excited and we are excited to learn more about their satellites through the demonstration."

The demonstration will reportedly involve shooting down a drone and a cruise missile and will take place at several different sites including Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The massive tests will also include ground forces, submarines, ships, and a variety of space-based assets.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kind of figured starlink and DoD would work out something. High-speed anywhere worldwide data is too good a capability to pass up on.
Posted by: Nguard || 02/27/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Starlink will be awesome in jumping over national firewalls like China's and Iran's. "You can't stop the signal, Mal."
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||


Iraq
US targets Iranian-backed militia active in Iraq
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States on Wednesday blacklisted a senior member of Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia, punishing it for its attacks targeting US forces, most recently for killing an American contractor in an Iraqi military base near the northern city of Kirkuk.

The US State Department said it has designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Secretary General of Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), an Iran-backed terrorist group active in Iraq and Syria, which Washington designated as terrorist organization in 2009.

"The Kata’ib Hezbollah group continues to present a threat to US forces in Iraq," Nathan Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, said at a news briefing. "We’re adding to the pressure that has existed on this group for a decade."

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  The other guy we killed in the Solsalami hit was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis leader of Kata'ib.





Posted by: mossomo || 02/27/2020 16:44 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police backtrack on Obama-era DHS whistleblower's initial 'suicide' reports after his body was found by a California highway - as they reveal the FBI is examining documents and a laptop found near the scene
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Philip Haney, who spoke out against his own agency during the Obama administration, was found dead in Plymouth, California last Friday

  • His body was found in a park and ride area near Highway 16 and Highway 124

  • The Amador County Sheriff's Office initially said the 66-year-old was found with what appeared to be a 'self-inflicted gunshot wound'

  • The sheriff's office have since described those initial reports as 'misinformation' and said they have asked the FBI for assistance in investigating Haney's death

  • They are conducting an autopsy and examining documents, a laptop and phone records found at the scene

  • Haney gained national attention in 2016 when he criticized the agency for its handling of radical Jihadists and Islamic extremists

  • Source have said that Haney had been in contact with officials about possibly making a return to the the DHS
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FBI examining laptop and phone found at scene. Looks like we can rule out robbery/crime of opportunity.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/27/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  FBI on scene suggests they will be certain to rule out anything that is connected to his DHS whistleblower role being involved.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/27/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#3  He used to wear a thumb drive on a necklace - wonder if he still was, and if it was there?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||

#4  So what did he know about Hillary?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 18:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism urges Merkel to ban Hezbollah's entire organization in Germany
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  And Merkel will listen?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 4:41 Comments || Top||

#2  ..old dog, new tricks?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 7:38 Comments || Top||




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Thu 2020-02-27
  Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern Syria
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  Ashraf Ghani declared winner of Afghan presidential poll, Abdullah rejects results
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  24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted
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