Call and raise on that stupid steak story from earlier today.
[Salon] - In a recent press release on its website, Greenpeace (a renowned health food organization! - ed.) called for a reduction in meat, dairy, and egg consumption. A new report by the organization states that "global meat and dairy production and consumption must be cut in half by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change." The report also confirms what many health professionals have said for years: Eating meat and dairy raises various health risks, including risk of cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Indeed, calling for such a reduction is vital to the fight against global warming, as animal agriculture is the number-one driver of climate change.
Climate is controlled by penguin droppings and whale tears. Science settled by consensus. Ifs ya don't agree with me, you'll kill all the baby whatevers, Deniarist.
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They're best contribution to the future of humanity would be to 'off' themselves. Less pressure on the environment and human rate of consumption. Somehow, they never volunteer to do that.
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...Steaks, cold dead hands, you know the drill.
Mike
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I usually have a salad and baked potato with my steak, which once ate grass to grow so large and tasty, so I'm a Vegan too
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A cow is basically a machine to turn grass into meat and milk. You can cut out the middleman (middlecow?) and eat the grass yourself, but be warned - it's a lot of grass.
[LATimes] Just more than a week after tiny Los Alamitos voted to defy California's law protecting immigrants in the country illegally, Orange County is poised to become a counterpoint against the state's resistance to the Trump administration's policies.
On Tuesday, Orange County supervisors may consider whether to take up a resolution to condemn and possibly take legal action against the state's "sanctuary" laws.
"These state laws are preempted by federal law," Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson said. "Our officers actually face penalties under state law if they so much as talk to federal agents for the wrong thing. That's just unacceptable and it's contrary to federal law."
Nelson said he'll broach in closed session whether to join a federal lawsuit against the state or launch its own litigation. When your own sheriffs tell you that the plan is stupid... they aren't racist. Just logical.
Other cities in the county, including Yorba Linda, Buena Park, Huntington Beach and Mission Viejo are also starting to take action to voice their grievances against the state's sanctuary laws aimed at protecting immigrants from President Trump's immigration crackdown.
On Monday, Texas and more than a dozen other states led by Republican governors got behind the Trump administration and filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against California's sanctuary laws.
Nelson jumped onboard of a resolution initially brought on by Orange County Supervisor Michelle Steel that would condemn the state's sanctuary laws. She later added wording that would direct the county's public counsel to take legal action.
"We cannot allow this to happen in Orange County and we need to protect our families and our homes here in Orange County," she said. "And that means bolstering our cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and stopping our county from becoming a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants."
Once a conservative and Republican stronghold, Orange County has undergone stark demographic shifts. In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Trump in the county, which a Democrat hadn't won in a presidential election since the Great Depression.
The issue of illegal immigration and sanctuary laws has been highly divisive in Orange County.
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, along with other California sheriffs, spoke out in opposition to the law, SB 54. On Monday, Hutchens made inmate release dates ‐ including for those in the country illegally ‐ public in response to the state law.
"We have an obligation to safeguard our community and we will use every tool available to help hold criminals accountable," said Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes. "Our inability to relinquish these individuals to the custody of ICE causes them to be returned to the communities which they prey upon."
From Jan. 1 to March 19, the agency released 172 inmates in the country illegally into the community because state law prohibited authorities from notifying ICE, said Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department. It's unclear if any of those people ‐ whose convictions include domestic violence, theft, driving under the influence and criminal threats ‐ have recidivated.
Orange County gave birth to Proposition 187, a ballot initiative approved by voters that sought to deny public services such as public schooling and healthcare to people in the country illegally; the measure was eventually struck down in the courts. And Costa Mesa passed anti-day laborer ordinances and became the epicenter of the anti-illegal immigration movement during the mid-2000s.
Since then, however, much of the county's anti-illegal immigration fervor has eased after many of its cities experienced an influx of Latino and Asian immigrants.
But the anti-sanctuary momentum gaining ground in Orange County shows that it remains a place with a very conservative core.
SB 54, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed after the Legislature passed it last year, prohibits state and local police agencies from notifying federal officials in many cases when immigrants potentially subject to deportation are about to be released from custody.
The Trump administration went to federal court to invalidate the state laws, contending they blatantly obstruct federal immigration law and thus violate the Constitution's supremacy clause, which gives federal law precedence over state measures. That case is pending.
Legal costs is one of the reasons Yorba Linda Mayor Gene Hernandez said the city has not done what Los Alamitos did.
Instead, the city voted to send a supporting amicus brief to the federal lawsuit. The city's decision was prompted by a request from the national field director of Federation for American Immigration Reform, an anti-illegal immigration and immigration restrictionist group in Washington, D.C., known as FAIR. Also from Orange County the Sheriff makes the release date of prisoners public
The Orange County Sheriff's Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday that it is now providing public information on when inmates are released from custody.
As of Monday, March 26, an existing "Who's in Jail" online database includes the date and time of inmates' release – a move agency officials say will enhance communication with its law enforcement partners.
The release date information applies to all inmates, not just those who are suspected of being in the country illegally. But the goal is to assist agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
"This is in response to SB-54 limiting our ability to communicate with federal authorities and our concern that criminals are being released to the street when there's another avenue to safeguard the community by handing them over (to ICE for potential deportation)," Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes said. The thing that gets me is that the illegals in prison aren't nice. They are criminals and will criminal again on release. Why not deport them and keep the good working ones in the community if you are for open borders?!?! It makes no sense unless your goal is to completely destabilize the community so that the government has to step in and take complete control of things. Right?
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Orange County used to be synonymous with conservative. It's nice to hear there are a few of them still left. Yorba Linda was the birthplace and early childhood home of Richard Nixon. His family moved to Whittier, not too far away in Los Angeles County but even so it's light years from Hollywood. I don't know if stark is a strong enough word for the demographic shift. Biblical might be more like it, all orchestrated by crooked politicians like Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton, Barak Obama and George W. Bush. Orange County is one of the many reasons why I keep saying you can't just blame all Californians for the lunatics in San Francisco, Hollywood, Berkeley and Sacramento.
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If the State can ignore Federal laws it doesn't like why can't the cities and counties ignore State laws they don't like? This is the argument South Carolina used to ignore Federal laws before secession.
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It's nice to hear there are a few of them still left.
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It makes no sense unless your goal is to completely destabilize the community so that the government has to step in and take complete control of things. Right?
Of course those plans never seems to involve a Franco or Pinochet doing the controlling when its all over.
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John Wayne lived in Newport Beach which is in Orange County. Even then I guess Hollywood was a bit much for him.
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Not all Californians fit your stereotype. I'm even a Gubbamint Lackey. Yet, I belong to the NRA, donate to Conservative Republicans and causes, and *cough* might 0wn guns *cough*. Lifetime San Diego resident, and I support LEGAL Immigration, not ILLEGAL ALIENS
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I grew up got older living 6 miles north of Tijuana, where mass groups would dash across, overwhelming BP. The San Diego Sector fence has been a brilliant success
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Frank G. Over the years you have become one of my outposts of hope in California.
[Guardian] A French waiter fired for being "aggressive, rude and disrespectful" says his behaviour wasn’t out of line ‐ he’s just French.
Guillaume Rey, who worked at a Vancouver restaurant on Canada’s Pacific coast, filed a complaint with British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal against his former employer, claiming "discrimination against my culture".
The restaurant, operated by Cara Operations, accused Rey of violating its code of conduct and said he persisted in his behavior despite verbal and written performance reviews.
In alleging discrimination Rey said French culture just "tends to be more direct and expressive".
He owes his sacking to his "direct, honest and professional personality", which he acquired while training in France’s hospitality industry.
Both parties agree Rey performed well at his job despite his allegedly disagreeable demeanour.
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There is a restaurant at Disney World that has a theme of being bossy to the patrons. I think it's called mom's or something. Perhaps the guy should get a job there, he might be a manager in no time.
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Sure, I walked into the dining room in my farm boots, jeans and brush popper shirt and the hostess suggested the atmosphere and seating in the bar was 'more casual'.
I asked for a dining table for six then ordered two entrees with sides and two beers. Drank the beers and when the plates arrived I asked for 2 'go' boxes.
[The Federalist] If you believe what you read, the Cambridge Analytica story is a blockbuster. It is a tale of intrigue and data breaches and manipulation on a mass scale, the sort of thing ripped from the type of paperback spy thriller you discard without a thought after a plane trip ‐ except real. But if you ask anyone from the world Cambridge Analytica tried to inhabit ‐ the highly competitive world of data consulting ‐ about what Cambridge was offering campaigns, the story that emerges is very different. It is transformed into a story about our increasingly credulous media ‐ apparently incapable of understanding how Facebook, the very entity that drives so much of their traffic, actually works ‐ and how journalists are eager to believe the worst about anything, even humdrum data mining, in the age of Donald Trump.
"This is the real world, not a spy novel. And in the real world, what Cambridge Analytica was promising simply doesn’t work," said Republican data consultant Patrick Ruffini. "Their role was downgraded on every major campaign they’ve worked on, including the Trump campaign and the Cruz campaign, when it was clear they couldn’t deliver on what they were selling. These concerns were well known in Republican circles prior to 2016."
"At the end of the day, Cambridge offered nothing more and nothing less than a standard data science program with a brilliant marketing campaign wrapped around it," Ruffini said. "That hype has now caught up to them."
After an initial commercial success, SCL expanded into military and political arenas. It became known for alleged involvement "in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting".[7] According to its website, SCL has participated in over 25 international political and electoral campaigns since 1994.[4] Moving on to evil foreign gov't regime changes:
SCL’s involvement in the political world has been primarily in the developing world where it has been used by the military and politicians to study and manipulate public opinion and political will. It uses what have been called "psy ops" to provide insight into the thinking of the target audience.[6] SCL claimed to be able to help foment coups.[8] According to its website, SCL has influenced elections in Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, Albania, Romania, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Colombia, Antigua, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Trinidad & Tobago.[4] While the company initially got involved in elections in the United Kingdom, it ceased to do so after 1997 because staff members did not exhibit the same "aloof sensibility" as with projects abroad. Hence the Cambridge Analytics 'spin off.'
SCL claims that its methodology has been approved or endorsed by agencies of the Government of the United Kingdom and the Federal government of the United States, among others.[9]
[AJC] LONDON - British prime minister Theresa May says former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter may never recover from a nerve-agent attack that has left them in critical condition.
May says "their condition is unlikely to change in the near future, and they may never recover fully."
May told lawmakers that more than 130 people in the English city of Salisbury may have been exposed to the nerve agent used to poison the Skripals. More than 50 people have been assessed in hospitals.
A police officer left seriously ill after the March 4 attack was released from hospital last week.
The U.K. blames Russia for the attack, but Moscow denies responsibility. On Monday about 20 countries, including the United States, joined Britain in expelling Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning.
[Rogue Health & Fitness] Viagra and Cialis, and a third, lesser known drug, Levitra, are used to treat erectile dysfunction. Use of these drugs is associated with a lower risk of heart attacks, and can be used as therapeutics against other disease. Will Viagra and Cialis extend lifespan?
Erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra inhibit an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 5, or PDE5. Phosphodiesterase enzymes have varying subtypes, and are found in all tissues. They catalyze the breakdown of two molecules, cGMP and cAMP, into inactive compounds.
PDE5 is upregulated from 2- to 5-fold in human heart disease. Inhibition of PDE5 with sildenafil (Viagra) protects against ischemia/reperfusion injury, which means it increases cellular antioxidant protection mechanisms.
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I was hoping they would pass new agricultural laws so they could spray it on celery so it would not go limp and chewy a day after purchase at the grocey store! Nothing worse than limp celery and chicken wings!
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V* in original form just became available for generic production.
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Man goes in chemist. Asks, does V... work? Clerk sez yep 1 will do it. Then he asks can i get it over the counter? Clerk sez that would probably take 2.
[Guardian] The desire to conserve cash is seen not just as a question of personal morality but a way to support the country’s interests. The gathering of downfall twigs and branches for the kitchen.
The German habit of saving money is so entrenched it has come to define the national character, according to the curators of an exhibition who say they hope to spark a much-needed debate about whether the obsession is healthy.
Saving ‐ History of a German Virtue at the German Historical Museum in Berlin seeks to uncover why saving money is central to most Germans’ lives ‐ even in times of historically low interest rates.
"In Germany everyone takes it for granted that they should save, both privately and on a state level," said Robert Muschalla, an economic historian and the main curator. "The idea of making sure you stay in the black, is seen as a goal that is worth striving for at all costs, and is fetishistically stuck to."
Saving boxes, money socks and piggy banks from every era since the foundation of the German nation in 1871 are on display in the exhibition. They illustrate the everyday acceptance of saving in Germany, as well as the extent to which it has been linked not just with personal morality but with serving a national purpose.
"The fate of the nation rests solely in our own strength," reads the epithet on one box from the Nazi era. Another from 1900 reads: "Without saving your chest will be empty. If you have nothing, you’ll be a burden."
[Townhall] New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Thursday with the title "The Democrats Abandon Catholics." The archbishop of New York made the case that due to the Democratic party’s position on issues like abortion and education for low-income communities, "the party that once embraced Catholics now slams the door on us."
Cardinal Dolan reflected that the "dignity and sanctity of human life, the importance of Catholic schools, the defense of a baby’s civil rights‐were, and still are, widely embraced by Catholics. This often led Catholics to become loyal Democrats. I remember my own grandmother whispering to me, "We Catholics don’t trust those Republicans."
He says this is "no longer the case," and that is "a cause of sadness to many Catholics, me included."
"The needs of poor and middle-class children in Catholic schools, and the right to life of the baby in the womb‐largely have been rejected by the party of our youth," he said.
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As one who was not liberal in my youth and now conservative, but rather conservative all along, I'm always happy to see anyone come over from the other side, but that doesn't change the fact that the converts got us all to where we are right now with their previous allegiances.
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Preaching Revolution Theology means that the Revolution becomes your religion ... and Revolution is a very jealous mistress.
[Reno Gazette] Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House.
Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that's around Capitol Hill.
"The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker," Amodei said.
[Townhall] It may have been a bitter pill to swallow, but CNN shared its latest poll on President Trump. It seems that the president now has the highest approval rating in 11 months. He is now at a 42 percent approval, up 7 points from February.
He gained some particular ground with Republicans and independents.
Voters are especially pleased with Trump's handling of the economy. Forty-eight percent approve and 45 percent disapprove. However, that seems to be all they're pleased with. Approval for the president's leadership on every other issue is in the red, including guns (54 percent disapprove, 36 percent approve), and foreign policy (53 percent disapprove, 39 percent approve).
That 42 percent number is nothing to brag about either. But, as CNN notes, it is only 4 points behind Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan when compared to this point in their respective presidencies.
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Scott Adams predicted that over time, perception of Trump would shift from "we really really hate him" to "we still hate him, but like what he is doing".
[Townhall] Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Monday introduced a bicameral piece of legislation, known as the Ammunition Background Check Act of 2018, that would require background checks for anyone wanting to purchase ammunition.
According to Wasserman-Schultz's office, the legislation would "close a loophole" that allows "criminals, domestic abusers, and dangerously mentally ill individuals" from purchasing ammo.
If passed, the legislation would require ammo purchases to undergo a background check through the National Instant Background Check System (NICS), the same system that is used to conduct background checks for firearms purchases.
Every retailer who sells ammo would be required to conduct a background check system through the NICS system, which isn't a problem for most gun stores who are federal firearms licensees (FFLs). The potential issue would be from stores who sell ammunition but not firearms and do not possess an FFL. They would either have to partner with an FFL to conduct the background checks or they would have to go through the process to become an FFL.
After he escaped from Al Qaeda in Syria, American photojournalist Matt Schrier investigated his own kidnapping and uncovered what he describes as a pattern of "betrayal" by FBI agents handling his case.
In an exclusive cable interview that first aired Monday on "The Story" with Martha MacCallum, Schrier went in depth, sharing emails, financial records and formal letters of complaint, which backed up allegations that after he was taken hostage in 2012, the FBI monitored his accounts as Al Qaeda terrorists used his money to buy at least a dozen computers and tablets.
While he was tortured and held by al Nusra, the brutal Al Qaeda franchise in Syria, Schrier claimed the FBI put intelligence gathering ahead of his personal security, hoping to track the computers and tablets to learn more about Al Qaeda recruits and future plots. After his harrowing escape, Schrier started demanding answers from the FBI, which at the time of his kidnapping was led by Mueller.
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the FBI put intelligence gathering ahead of his personal security, hoping to track the computers and tablets to learn more about Al Qaeda recruits and future plots
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Big harpoon seems a stupid idea to me. You puncture space debris and you're likely to send a lot of little debris everywhere and at orbital velocities that can be dangerous.
Also debris is likely to be tumbling so the odds of the harpoon deflecting off the target is pretty high and might make the thing spin off more junk.
What they need are drones that can attach and fire enough propellant to send the bigger debris into a burn-up orbit, then detach and move along to the next big chunk (or to refuel from some kind of mother ship/spaceplan).
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Small micro-sats with solar sails that loft the bigger satellites into an orbital junkyard -- think of them as resources. For smaller debris put up some solar-powered lasers that will de-orbit the pieces. It just takes time and an in initial investment.
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I've yet to see how solar sails could work properly in LEO (where the junk is). You orbit in 90 minutes and half that time you are facing into the solar wind and half the time you are facing away. You can't tack like a boat. How does it work? Do you only get speed half the time and unfurl the sails and coast the other half?
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Solar sails are best used when you can use weeks, or months for the delta-V to change orbits. Low thrust also means low mechanical strength needed for the tether and the micro-sat pulling the junked satellite. As for tacking... change the geometry of the sail for steering.
[IsraelTimes] After Mireille Knoll found stabbed to death and burned in her Gay Paree apartment, FM Le Drian says La Belle France must continue to fight anti-Semitism.
French authorities said Monday that two men enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for the brutal killing in Gay Paree of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, would be charged with an anti-Semitic murder.
The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office said the two suspects have been put in jug. It said it was asking investigating judges to charge the pair with premeditated murder of a vulnerable person for anti-Semitic motives.
They will face possible charges of "murder related to the victim’s religion, real or imagined" as well as aggravated robbery and destruction of property, judicial sources said.
The prosecutor’s office asked that the two be placed in preventive custody.
Two men have been arrested over the killing of Knoll, whose stabbed body was found after her Gay Paree apartment was set ablaze, police sources said.
One suspect was identified as a 29-year-old man. No details were given on the second suspect.
One of the men was a regular visitor of Knoll whom she treated "like a son" and who had visited her that day, her son Daniel said.
"We are really in shock. I don’t understand how someone could kill a woman who has no money and who lives in a social housing complex," her son added.
Israel’s Hadashot news reported that this suspect was a former neighbor of Knoll’s who was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for sexually assaulting the daughter of a woman who helped look after her. After his release from jail, Knoll complained that he had been threatening her, the TV report said.
A granddaughter of Knoll, Noa Goldfarb, wrote on Facebook that her grandmother was murdered by a neighbor who is a Moslem.
"Twenty years ago, I left Gay Paree knowing that neither my future nor that of the Jewish People is to be found there," wrote Goldfarb, who lives in Herzliya, Israel. "But who would’ve thought that I was leaving my relatives where terrorism and cruelty would lead to such a tragedy. Grandmother was stabbed to death 11 times by a Moslem neighbor she knew well, who made sure to set fire to her home and left us not even one object, a letter, a photograph, to remember her by. All we have are our tears and each other."
The most recent figures available show that anti-Semitic violence increased by 26 percent last year in France and that criminal damage to Jewish places of worship and burials increased by 22 percent.
One of the suspects is a Muslim neighbor in his twenties whom she knew well and who had visited her that day, Knoll’s son, who did not wish to be named, told AFP. A police source said the suspect had convictions for rape and sexual assault.
The second suspect, aged 21, has a history of violent robbery. He was in the apartment building on the day of Knoll’s death and his name was given to police by the first suspect, a police source said.
Family members of Mireille Knoll told Israeli media on Tuesday she had known one of her assailants, a Muslim neighbor, since he was seven years old.
“My mother accepted everyone. Even the neighbor who murdered her, she has known since he was seven years old. When he was a boy, he helped her,” Knoll’s son Daniel told Army Radio.
Daniel Knoll said he was told that the neighbor was identified by police because his mother’s phone was missing from the apartment and was later found in the suspect’s possession.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Special Forces have killed two key commanders of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group during a special operation conducted in eastern Laghman ...It has 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. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Afghan Special Conducted air and ground operations on a hideout of the Taliban in Alingar district late on Saturday night.
The statement further added that two key local Taliban leaders Baryalai and Dawood were killed along with four other Lions of Islam while three suspects have been placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... According to the governor’s office, Baryalai and Dawood were involved in major terrorist related activities for a long period of time and were still conducting insurgency in Alingar.
The two big shots of the group were being chased by the Afghan forces and were finally rubbed out on Saturday night, the statement added.
A civilian was also killed during the operation but the provincial government blames Taliban for the death of the civilian.
The provincial government in its statement also added that the Afghan Special Forces have not suffered any casualties during the operation.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] Perhaps as early as this week we should anticipate hearing about completion a significant trade agreement with South Korea. The deal is known as "KORUS" (KOR+U.S.), and has been in negotiations for over a year.
Part of the recent agreement within the auto-sector of the deal, between Moon Jae-in and President Donald Trump, via Lighthizer and Ross, is an exemption of U.S. steel tariffs for South Korea in exchange for a doubling of U.S. auto exports; from 25,000 to 50,000 American made cars, per U.S. automaker, per year. Continues.
Headline may be a touch dramatic. Actually, according to the article:
The study, of more than 100,000 U.S. adults, found the odds of high blood pressure were a bit higher among people who liked their meat grilled, broiled or roasted, versus those who favored more temperate cooking methods.
The same was true of people who were partial to well-done meat. Compared with fans of rarer meat, they were 15 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure over 12 to 16 years. Still, anyone who gets a steak well done deserves whatever happens to them.
Don’t tell the Special Forces guys who developed different habits in the field.
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From the makers of Unscented Pilchard...
Unborn and undead, but sepultured
In pure stainless cloisters:
Oy, vey! Oinkin' oysters!
A Pearl of a Pork Chop! It's Cultured!™
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Hey ZF! On a parallel note, read yesterday that one of the rabbi's on the european committee that certifies food as kosher stated that in his opinion, pork grown in a laboratory would be kosher. As it didn't come from an unclean animal, etc.
I do know that Israel is second in the world in consumption of turkey ham, right ahead of Saudi Arabia.
The end times are upon us.
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Not what I'd call crystal clear -
People who grilled, broiled or roasted their meat more than 15 times a month had a 17 percent greater risk of high blood pressure, versus people who used those cooking methods fewer than four times a month. "Meat" included beef, poultry and fish.
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A stupid project to confirm that eating meat (i.e., Bambi, moo cows, chickies, duckies, Porky Pig) are bad for your health. This has some vegan/PETA agenda stamped all over it.
Consider that man ate meat as a primary source of nutrition until about 7000 years ago. Agriculture began on the premise that the alcohol from fermenting wet bread was an effective water purifier.
This don't eat meat shit is getting old.
I like my steak medium rare, I like eating protein from animals and my blood pressure only goes up in the presence of idiot vegetarians trying to tell me that their diet is more "natural" for man than broiled Mammoth or sauted water buffalo.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – The Iraqi army, backed by pro-government troops, killed on Monday six Islamic State (IS) militants at a village in southern Mosul, a military source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, “Iraqi servicemen, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), stormed Hawija al-Marir village in southern Mosul after receiving reports on the presence of IS insurgents there.”
“Six IS militants and two troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi were killed in the clashes that erupted between the two sides at the village,” the source said, adding that the village is now under the control of Iraqi troops.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Fourteen Islamic State members were arrested in operations carried out in south and west of Mosul, the Nineveh Police Command said on Monday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Hamad Namis al-Jabouri, the commander, said, “Nineveh police arrested, today, eleven Islamic State members in al-Haramat region, west of Mosul.”
Earlier today, Jabouri said “Police arrested three members in Hammam al-Alil region, south of Mosul.”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Eighteen Islamic State members, including foreign leaders, were killed in a security operation, south of Mosul, an Iraqi military source said on Monday.
“Iraqi troops killed, today, 18 IS members, including two Russian nationals and a Turkish members, during an operation against Kan’ous village in Hammam al-Alil region, south of Mosul,” Brig. Gen. Mohamed al-Jabouri, official spokesperson for the Nineveh Operations Command, said.
Moreover, Jabouri said troops confiscated missiles at the rest houses of IS in Owainat village on borders with Syria.
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[Townhall] In Austin, Texas, a string of bombings kept a city on edge. Two people were killed, with five people injured. The perpetrator, Mark Anthony Conditt, killed himself by exploding a device in his car after pulling into a ditch; police had identified him as a suspect and closed in on him. We don’t know his motives or planted more bombs that have yet to explode. The whole ordeal lasted three weeks. Yet, now, we have reports of several explosive devices being mailed to multiple military installations in the Washington D.C. area. The FBI is conducting an investigation. It’s not known if these devices could have actually exploded. This incident began this morning around 8:30am (via NBC Washington):
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Here's another interesting bit of news that went down the memory hole of the MSM about 4 weeks ago; "Marines Hospitalized at Joint Base Myer After Opening Letter With Unknown Substance"
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Because some Trunks got their hands on it, it is now cursed. Give it free to the Donks and no one says anything. Sort of like that other business, you know, the one where if its free its legal, but try charging for it and they'll arrest you, even if all the adults involved consent.
[TheLocal.fr] The latest attack in La Belle France by a gunman who was known to be a potential threat has led to renewed focus on how the country keeps track of thousands of suspected Islamist myrmidons.
La Belle France's interior ministry compiles something known as the "S file" (the "S" stands for security) which contains anyone suspected of being a radical, including potentially dangerous leftist and far-right activists.
There is also a separate list, the File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), for people judged to be terror threats.
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[AnNahar] At least five non-combatants were killed and several others maimed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bandidosforces of Evil in southeast Niger, near the border with Nigeria, according to local sources.
"The BH (Boko Haram) came to the market place early Friday evening, they shot the crowd and took food," said a resident of Toummour, in the southwest Diffa region, which was targeted by the attack.
A local official on Sunday confirmed the toll of "five dead, all civilians", adding that several were also maimed in the attack.
[DAWN] Police and politicians backed by the country’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa joined anti-Moslem riots that rocked Sri Lanka’s Kandy district this month, according to witnesses, officials and CCTV footage reviewed by Rooters.
Scores of Moslem mosques, homes and businesses were destroyed as mobs ran amok for three days in Kandy, the central highlands district previously known for its diversity and tolerance. The government declared a state of emergency and blocked social media platforms for a week to control the unrest.
The role of police and some local Buddhist politicians suggests the Sri Lankan government lost control of elements of its security forces, and that the violence was more than a spontaneous outbreak fuelled by fringe Buddhist forces of Evil and hate-speech spread on social media.
Rajapaksa has denied that he or other leaders of his party were involved. Police said the allegations against officers and politicians were being investigated.
Victims and witnesses, whose accounts were partly backed by CCTV footage seen by Rooters, described members of an elite paramilitary police unit, the Special Task Force (STF), assaulting Moslemholy man and leaders. Local STF commanders declined to comment.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... condemned the kaboom that targeted a sit-in camp of the supporters of Pashtun Protection Movement in Kabul.
The office of the former President in a statement said Hamid Karzai strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the sit-in camp in solidarity with Pashtun Protection Movement across the Durand Line.
The former President said "this was another attempt by the enemies of peace to stifle the voice of our long suffering people."
The incident took place late on Saturday evening in the vicinity of Chaman Hozori area of the city, leaving at least one person dead.
A front man for Kabul Police Department Basir Mujahid said at six others were also maimed in the kaboom but the Public Health Ministry officials are saying that 13 people have been maimed.
The Public Health Ministry front man Wahid Majroh confirmed that one person was killed and thirteen others were shifted to hospital for the treatment of the wounds they sustained in the blast.
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[SABANEWS.NET] Dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and injured when the army and popular forces attacked military gatherings of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Jizan,Asir and Najran provinces, a military official told Saba on Monday.
In Asir, the army attacked the military site of al-Raih mountain, killing and injuring many.
The missile forces fired Katyusha rockets towards groups of Saudi soldiers in al-Rabu'ah compound, while the artillery units shelled other soldiers and military vehicles in al-Hadhira camp.
In Jizan, tens of Saudi army and its mercenaries were killed and maimed when the army hit their groups in sites of al-Mousam and al-Ramadha.
In Najran, the artillery targeted Saudi military gatherings in military sites of Mostahdaq al-Sudis,Nahuqa,al-Makhrawq al-Kabir, Jamarak al-Khsdra crossing point,Abasih and al-Buqa desert, leaving large losses.
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[CBSNews] Excerpt: "DAVID HOGG: On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and road as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting." Hasn't the drill been that he was there for the carnage?
Categorized under "Politics" as that is what this is.
Yes, it is, though Home Front: Culture War would have been equally valid.
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Many more die from drugs. No comparison. Marlboro is making big push with marijuana cigarettes for some time now in Europe. Huge investments here now. No media attacks. No negative news. Politically connected are in on this game just as they did with solar power with Tip O'Neil with his son. Wind power I'd bet also. They know where the money goes.
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Remember, to the Left, "authentic" means exactly the opposite of what it actually means.
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David Hogg is as much a "survivor" of the Parkland shootings as the Coward County deputy who hid outside during the shootings. Hogg was in a different building.
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When I was young we didn't have all these laws and regulations. The results seem to be everything has gotten worse. The core of it seems that the family is being destroyed. The village can't raise a child.
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On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and road as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting."
Let me get this straight. Assuming his recording of crawling around and hush asking questions in a classroom under lockdown was not pre-recorded...
He was home either playing hooky or school punishment because a sick person could not make the odyssey of:
Receiving notice of a school shooting. Making a snap decision to go get footage. Riding a bike 3 miles through traffic, incoming EMTs, outgoing Sheriff Deputies, through out-of-county LEOs moving toward shooting, and into a classroom, and getting footage while still under lockdown; as in classroom door is locked and do not open at all for any reason.
All in 15 minutes or so.
I don't think straw boy could make that trip in time with a Boward County Sports Patrol Vehicle, but a bicycle? Looks like he would cramp up using chop stick.
And all this, because it could not be a mass shooting?
This is why I wanted Moar Hogg. Between this and his horrible, wonderful, golden Olde People rant, all these childrens come off as not crises actors, but unabashed failed child actors unqualified to be extras in the remake of E.T. the Emigrant Terrestrial.
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Steve King just opined that if you don't think guns are appropriate for 18 year olds, maybe voting isn't either. The response from our wet-behind-the-ears betters is deliciously predictable.
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swks - Completely share your general skepticism, but I gotta disagree re feasibility of the Midday Ride. Wouldn't be crazy about doing it amidst responder traffic, especially on a fixie (just guessing), but it's totally doable, speedwise. I used to trundle crosstown in tropical weather on a POS gaspipe bike with 20-30 lb in a basket up front. Could've dumped half my stuff, set Hoggie in there, and made the 3 miles with minutes to spare.
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I got into trouble on Facebook the other day. Somebody posted a picture of Hogg doing the Nazi salute, and commented "Sieg Heil!". Apparently that violate Facebook's community standards or something.
So apparently you can use all kinds of profanity, say you support Louis Farrakhan, anything. But not the German words for Hail, Victory
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I think if you typed "whoremonger" under a picture of Trump, farcebook would be just fine with that. I'm reading now that some of the little darlings are not happy about being commented upon negatively, and some reporters are shocked, shocked that such a thing is happening.
I mean, nothing like that has ever happened to a public figure ever before...
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SP7469, totally agree and do-able, had my time urban biking. I'm just saying the only thing Hogg has in common with Lance Armstrong is the lack of balls.
I remember his shtick was he was in a classroom interviewing students using video. To get into a classroom before evac would be some likity split thinking and moving. Likely he meant something like 'after I got home, I got my camera...'
In which case he could move at the leisurely pace of a vulture so he could carpe corpses.
Camera, what teenager today says camera? Sounds like something his old ass parents would say.
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Re "camera," these are some media-savvy little monsters. I'm just now catching up with the March, working back toward the shooting, and YT "recommended" this clip of Garth's girlfriend at her day job:
I'm guessing the rest are wall to wall Glee types, temperamentally and politically, too?
[San Diego Union-Tribune] Ground squirrels seem to be everywhere along the North County coast, despite the best efforts of city and state parks officials to reduce their numbers.
"I almost tripped over a few, and one tried to join me here at the picnic table," said Kevin Braasch, a visitor from Chicago who had just sat down near Tamarack Avenue in Carlsbad after a two-mile jog from his hotel. "They sure are friendly creatures."
A little too friendly, most people would say. The squirrel population is booming down by the beach, so much so that the animals have lost their fear of humans. They scamper right up to people, usually looking for a hand-out.
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Plus, I hear that they have a rising nutria population there now (giant South American swamp rat).
So, it's parasitical feral rodents all around.
(And then there's the squirrels and nutria...)
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Pellet guns in the hands of a few good shots would go a long way toward solving this problem.
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A pack of rat terriers would help too.
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[SABANEWS.NET] The missile forces hit large ballistic strikes on Saudi targets in fulfillment of the commander’s promise.
The rocketry force also announced that the large ballistic operation launched in beginning moments of the fourth year of Yemeni steadfastness.
The rocketry force targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with Burkan 2-H missile and targeted Abha regional airport in Asir with Gaher-2 M, a military official told Saba on Monday.
The rocketry force also hit Jizan airport and other targets in Jizan with a boost of Badr ballistic missiles.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... many of Badr ballistic missiles hit Najran airport and other targets in Najran city.
[AlAhram] Egypt's ambassador to 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... , Nasser Hamdy, visited the Shomiasy hospital in the city to check on the state of three Egyptians who were maimed after a number of ballistic missiles were fired at Riyadh by Houthis in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on Sunday.
On Sunday Saudi air defence forces shot down seven ballistic missiles fired at the capital of Riyadh, as well as other southern cities of Saudi Arabia; however, the debris of the missiles killed an Egyptian national and injured three others, two of whom are his relatives.
The ambassador was accompanied by a number of Egyptian officials in Riyadh, including the consul and the defence attaché, a foreign ministry statement added.
Egyptian authorities are paying to transfer the body of Abdel Motaleb Ahmed Hussein, the man who was killed, to Egypt, the ministry added.
The three men injured, Mohammed Ahmed Hussein, Shehab Mahmoud Hussein and Tareq Abo Taleb Mohammed, are stable and one will be released from hospital soon, the statement said.
Hussein is the first person to be killed on Saudi soil by military action since the Saudi-led coalition started their military operations in Yemen in 2015, Rooters reported.
The Saudi military says the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... turbans have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi Arabia since last year, all of which were intercepted.
Ten thousand people have been killed during the war in Yemen, two million people have been displaced, and one million people have had cholera, Rooters reported.
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[PowderedWigSociety] Asheville, North Carolina is beautiful southern town in the mountains of western North Carolina. It is also a bastian of liberal idealogy, maybe not quite as extreme as Berkeley, California, but not far behind either.
So, how does one get elected to office in Asheville? By being a flaming liberal, that’s how.
Listen to this brain-dead Democrat, Daryl Fisher, who is running for sheriff of Buncombe County, the seat and heart of which is liberal-dominated Asheville, as he suggests killing law-abiding citizens to take their guns from their "cold, dead hands."
"You’ve heard people say ’you’ll have to pry my gun from my cold, dead hands,'" Fisher told his adoring liberal audience.
He then shrugged, and said, "OK!" declaring that in his opinion it is fine for law enforcement to kill citizens to confiscate their firearms.
So pleased with himself at his audience’s applause, Fisher continued, "Uh, whenever you pass away we’ll come get it, I don’t know. I’m saying. Joking just a little bit there."
"Joking just a little bit?" The twitterstorm his outrageous comment inspired made it clear that very few real Americans appreciate his joke, and the fact that he admitted that he was "joking just a little bit" proves that he was serious A LOT!
I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that this moron made the statement or the fact that so many people applauded it.
The shame is this guy, running as a Democrat, has a very good chance of being the next Sheriff of Buncombe County. You may want to consider that and be sure to steer clear of that area if it happens to be along your route to a travel destination.
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Pure bunkum from the source of that word. Wiktionary: From buncombe, from “speaking to (or for) Buncombe County, North Carolina”, a county in North Carolina named for Edward Buncombe. In 1820, Felix Walker, who represented the county in the U.S. House of Representatives, rose to address the question of admitting Missouri as a free or slave state, his first attempt to speak on the subject after nearly a month of solid debate, right before the vote was to be called. To the exasperation of colleagues, he began a long and wearisome speech, explaining that he was speaking not to Congress but "to Buncombe."[1] He was ultimately shouted down by his colleagues,[2] though his speech was published in a Washington paper[3] and his persistence made "buncombe" (later respelled "bunkum") a synonym for meaningless political claptrap and later for any kind of nonsense,[1] at first only in the jargon of Washington and then in common usage
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Being a good liberal, he won't be out doing the confiscation. He'll send willing dupes (deputies) to do the all that icky, dangerous stuff. Leading from the rear, ya know.
[IsraelTimes] A French judicial official says the partner of the Islamist Death Eater who carried out a terror attack last week in southern La Belle France was, like him, known to police as radicalized.
The 18-year-old woman was still being detained by police for questioning in the case, as well as a 17-year-old friend of gunman Radouane Lakdim,
...the Moroccan-French petty criminal who shot up a grocery store in the name of ISIS. He is also in our archive as Redouane Lakdim...
the official says. He was speaking anonymously to discuss the ongoing investigation.
[IsraelTimes] Stephane Poussier held 'for justifying acts of terrorism' after welcoming death of Arnaud Beltrame, killed in terror rampage on Friday. He could face up to seven years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros ($124,000).
“Whenever a policeman is shot… I think of my friend Remi Fraisse,” Poussier said on Twitter, referring to an environmental activist killed by a stun grenade fired by police during a 2014 protest over a dam.
“And this time it was a colonel, great! Additionally, it means one less Macron voter,” he added.
Poussier stood unsuccessfully in elections last year as a candidate for the La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party of radical leftwinger Jean-Luc Melenchon.
[DAWN] Malaysia’s government proposed new legislation on Monday to outlaw fake news with a 10-year jail term for offenders, a move slammed by critics as a draconian bid to crack down on dissent ahead of a general election.
Prime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal involving an indebted state fund, and rights activists fear the new law could be used to criminalize news reports and critical opinions on government misconduct. A general election must be held by August but is widely expected in the next few weeks.
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[DW] Dreams of living in an Islamic caliphate or dying as martyrs dashed, many former jihadi fighters from Europe now face the death penalty. Will the EU campaign to save citizens who reject its values?
"Kill lists" didn't eradicate them on the battlefield and local judicial systems won't resolve the dilemma created for the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... by citizens who joined Islamic State
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A strongly worded protest letter condemning the Zionist Entity?
[ARABNEWS] The seven ballistic missiles launched at four Saudi cities by the Houthis underscore the correctness of waging the war against them and the soundness of the warnings about Iran’s role in the region. It is Iran that smuggles the missiles and orchestrates their launching into 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... On Sunday night we witnessed the first major attack on Saudi Arabia since the start of Iran’s efforts to control 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... three years ago. But despite the large number of missiles launched and the distance they crossed, the operation remains a mere show, and the four missiles in the skies over Riyadh were no more than fireworks. It is no coincidence that they were launched on the third anniversary of the war against the coup staged by the Houthi
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I used to laugh with the staff at the recycling center when dropping off "e-waste" that it was just going to be shipped to China or Africa and dumped in a hole, same as it otherwise would have been here.
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I wonder if we buy waste disposal from them,
then they do the ocean dumping.
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"Where should I put my pants?"
"Over there on the chair, by mine"
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If the Asian giant closes off its waste management market, recycling centers across the US will be faced with a hard choice. They can either hire a much more expensive workforce which would raise prices for their services, require households to sort their own waste or be forced to use more landfills across all fifty US states.
Sort? We can't even get people to separate!
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In a corporate HR suite somewhere in downtown Chicago, a hiring officer snarls "damnit!" and chucks Isaiah's application for employment in the wastebasket...
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[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Retired Gen. David Petraeus, who was under consideration as President Trump’s secretary of State after the 2016 election, applauded Trump’s trade actions toward China as "long overdue" as well as his choice of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to lead the State Department.
"He’s a very bright individual ‐ No. 1 in his class at West Point ‐ that’s a special breed of an individual, Harvard Law School, successful businessman, obviously a successful political figure and has been a strong director of the CIA," Petraeus said during a Veterans in Global Leadership reception on Thursday evening.
"So what I would look for there, in particular, would be how quickly can they get qualified individuals nominated and confirmed, because a State Department without confirmed assistant secretaries of State is a State Department that doesn’t have one of its most important elements," he added.
Petraeus, who served CIA director under President Obama, said many people are wondering why it’s taking so long for the Senate to confirm assistant secretaries of State and why there has been "such an exodus" of senior ranking officials at the State Department.
"It’s hard to understand what is the dynamic here, what was all that about, but my hope would certainly be that Mike Pompeo, recognizing the issues that exist, will be able to work effectively with the White House and with the president, with whom he’s developed, obviously, a very strong relationship and mutual respect," he said. "He’s a strong leader and I would hope that we would see quick results on that front, in particular."
[Bus Insider] A man who believes the Earth is flat launched himself almost 2,000 feet into the air in a homemade rocket over the weekend.
"Mad" Mike Hughes, 61, ascended 1,875 feet in his crowdfunded rocket on Saturday before crashing back to Earth in the Mojave Desert outside Amboy, California.
"I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket ‐ I'm tired of that stuff," Hughes told The Associated Press after landing. "I manned up and did it."
Apart from a sore back and dinged-up rocket, Hughes told the AP he was fine. Hughes has generated controversy over his scientifically unsupported belief that the Earth is flat and shaped "like a Frisbee," as he describes it.
In a video posted on his Facebook page, he said his goal for the launch was to see the Earth's shape.
"Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is," Hughes said. "Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space."
Hughes' rocket hit estimated speeds of 350 mph before he pulled his parachute. He had to deploy a second parachute to keep from hitting the ground too hard.
"This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways," Hughes told the AP of his rocket.
[DAWN] The United States joined Britannia's allies in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and around the world on Monday in expelling scores of suspected Russian spies in an unprecedented response to a nerve agent attack.
At least 113 alleged agents working under diplomatic cover were ordered out by 21 governments, dwarfing similar measures in even the most notorious Cold War spying disputes, and marking a British diplomatic victory.
Washington led the way, ordering out 60 Russians, in a new blow to US-Russia ties less than a week after President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... congratulated Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... on his re-election.
Canada, Ukraine, Albania and most European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... states matched the move with smaller-scale expulsions, after Britannia urged allies to respond to the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal.
Russia has denied it was behind the attempted liquidation, which left Skripal and his daughter gravely ill in perhaps the first nerve agent attack in Europe since World War II.
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[LIBYANEXPRESS] The commander of the self-styled army in eastern Libya, Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , has reportedly rejected an offer by the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez al-Siarraj to share control of Libya and end the current political stalemate in the country, al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, al-Sirraj sent a delegate to meet with Haftar in al-Rajma, in the town of Marij in eastern Libya.
Al-Sirraj offered splitting power between him and Haftar, forming a new presidential council, giving Haftar a top military position and ministerial portfolios.
According to the newspaper, Haftar rejected the offer as he still thinks that al-Sirraj and his government are illegitimate.
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[IsraelTimes] 7 years ago, mobs from Leb and Syria broke through the northern security fence. Now, fears are growing that Gazoo march planned for Friday could end in mass border rush.
Israel’s security forces are gearing up for huge "Land Day" protests, expected to take place along the Gazoo Strip’s security fence on Friday, putting additional units on alert out of concerns thon the lam numbers of Paleostinians might try to break through the barrier and rush into Israel.
Earlier this month, Paleostinian groups announced plans for a six-week-long "March of Return," including the construction of a tent city across from the Gazoo security fence, and called on tens of thousands of Gazoo residents to participate in what they described as a "peaceful protest."
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"legs in order to avoid fatal wounds" as if even the best marksman could control the path of a slug after it contacts living flesh, or whether or not he could prevent the severing of a major leg artery followed by exsanguination/death in a few minutes.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members were killed in an ambush set by the pro-government paramilitary troops, northeast of Diyala, the media service reported on Monday.
"Joint forces of the 23rd and 110th brigades of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) set up an ambush for Islamic State members in the mountains and valleys near al-Saadiya region, northeast of Diyala," Hussein al-Husseini, media official of the 23rd brigade, told Alghad Press.
"PMFs managed to kill four IS members who were on cycle of violences," he added.
Troops, according to Husseini, "are still following IS members there to eliminate their presence totally."
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[KCNAWATCH.CO] The injustice of the U.S. "human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... " racket against the DPRK finds a manifestation in its abuse of the UN as a means for encroaching upon the illusory sovereignty of independent states and for establishing the world domination order.
The UN is a stage for facilitating cooperation and exchanges among its member nations over human rights. It can never be a stage for justifying interference in the internal affairs of other countries and the racket for putting pressure on them.
But the U.S. is using the UN Human Rights Council entrusted with the mission and duty to contribute to guaranteeing human rights in the world as a means for interference in the internal affairs of those countries incurring its displeasure and subversion of their social systems.
Question is why the U.S. is getting keen on kicking up the groundless "human rights" racket.
By nature, the U.S. has left no means untried to stifle the DPRK out of its inveterate bitter repugnancy against the latter.
Its practice never works on the DPRK.
The U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK has faced the fate of bankruptcy. Just as a drowning man catching at a straw, the U.S. is resorting to the false "human rights" racket against the DPRK in the face of successive bitter defeats. Its aim is to internationalize "human rights" issue in the DPRK and kick off a worldwide campaign for putting the "maximum pressure" on the DPRK. In the end, it seeks to bring down the social system in the DPRK.
The situation makes one bear in mind the immutable truth that human rights precisely mean the state right and the illusory sovereignty of the country and the nation, and that the military capabilities for self-defence have to be strengthened to defend them.
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[ARABNEWS] Yet again, the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias aimed their missiles at Riyadh; and yet again, their cowardly attack, aimed deliberately at seven million civilians, was successfully intercepted by Saudi air defense forces.
This is not the first time these barbaric religious fanatics have targeted Saudi cities. In fact, we should all remember that these holy warriors ‐ whose official slogans are "Death to America" and "Death to the Jews" ‐ had previously launched missile attacks that were intercepted near Makkah, the Saudi city that is home to the holiest site for two billion Moslems throughout the world.
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It's hard to see how their self-victimization as qat using backwards murderous tribal idiots can be blamed on anyone else in the first place.
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self-victimization as qat crack using backwards murderous tribal idiots
[RT] Scorpions gotta sting, and anyway Russia Today’s journalist is just parroting what the American press and that Hogg boy have been claiming. Compare to the following:
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Well, if Michigan supervisor of Larry Nassar arrested is a 'legitimate' legal tactic to preserve the sanctity of the union then benign neglect civil suits for passive parenting will soon follow.
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Vice raids consisted of busting up gambling dens and hot pillow joints arresting bookies, pimps and prostitutes. I never remember hearing of the vice squad going out to get the dice and bed linens. If they want to stop school shootings it will require reform or removal of the players and the forum. Good luck with that
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FTA: No other countries arm their pilots, as far as Sarandrea knows, and some countries don't accept armed pilots on their territory.
And which are the countries who refuse to accept armed pilots? Let us all know so we can refuse to ever fly there.
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FTA: Travellers who worry about an armed pilot with mental health problems, or worse?
As if an unarmed pilot with mental health problems isn't just as dangerous to the passengers!
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I had a pilot friend apply and went through all the hassles that homeland security threw up at him. Then if he changed airlines he would have to start over. Must have been a Panetta thing.
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[Jonathan Turley] Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe penned an op-ed for The Washington Post to contest the allegation of his "lack of candor" with federal investigators. I have been writing (here and here and here) on the contrast between the treatment of McCabe and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. McCabe has been erroneously portrayed as "losing his pension" but has not been charged. Flynn was charged and accepted a plea deal under 18 U.S.C. 1001 for making a false statement to investigators. Now McCabe is raising virtually the same defense that did not work for Flynn: that there was a lot going on and he was "confused and distracted."
Given his willingness to hold forth publicly on his actions, McCabe does not appear to expect to be charged even though the Inspector General could refer a criminal allegation to prosecutors.
He lashes about at President Donald Trump and critics to assert ’I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators." He then added this familiar defense: "At worst, I was not clear in my responses, and because of what was going on around me may well have been confused and distracted ‐ and for that I take full responsibility."
That is reportedly the same defense raised by Flynn who admitted to meeting with Russian diplomats during the busy transition period but did not disclose or confirm that they spoke about sanctions. He reportedly also did not make such a disclosure to Vice President Pence. There was nothing unlawful in the meeting with the Russians or even unprecedented for an incoming national security adviser to discuss such points of tension between the countries. Flynn did not seek legal assistance before the interview and was reportedly not told that the investigators were there as part of a possible criminal inquiry.
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"...did not seek legal assistance before the interview and was reportedly not told that the investigators were there as part of a possible criminal inquiry"
For better or for worse, this happens everyday. People are routinely interviewed in non-criminal matters. There's usually a warning that says the only way this interview goes criminal is if you lie. Neither Flynn nor McCabe would be in a pickle if they told the truth. Both of them know that. Both of these cats played this game long enough and rose to top spots. One does not get to breathe that rarified air w/out knowing the deal. They both thought they'd get away w/it.
Pro tip for the day. If someone shows you a badge, the only words you need to say are "I'm calling my lawyer".
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Did the FBI informants kid who shot up the PULSE HARPOON night club fail the Kenyan rectal exam? Did the father who raised money for terrorist attacks get to use the postal meter and enevolpes for his mailings at the FBI field office and get special routing numbers for wire transfers from the CLINTON IRS MACHINE you know TEXAS?!
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[Ynet] IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police forces have tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 43 people in the West Bank overnight suspected of terrorism and violent festivities.
They were taken in for questioning by security forces.
During the scans, several weapons and ammo cartridges were found.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven people including armed bandidosholy warriors and ordinary non-combatants were killed or maimed in separate kabooms triggered by the Improvised Explosive Devices in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The provincial government media office in a statement said at least one civilian was killed and four others were maimed in an kaboom in Khogyani district.
The statement further added that the incident took place at around 9 am local time after explosives planted a cart went off in Chamtal Township.
According to the provincial government, the maimed individuals have been shifted to hospital and their health condition has been reported as satisfactory.
In the meantime, the 201st Silab Corps in the East said at least one Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bad boy was killed and another one was maimed in a premature bomb kaboom in Shirzad district.
The source further added that the bandidosholy warriors were busy planting roadside mine in Dando area when the incident took place, leaving a myrmidon dead and one more maimed.
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[DAWN] THE local currency market witnessed volatile trade last week after the State Bank of Pakistain allowed market forces to determine the dollar exchange rate.
The week was reduced to four trading sessions on account of Pakistain Day Holiday on March 23.
On the interbank market, the rupee lost one paisa on Monday.
The dollar drifted slightly higher at Rs110.57 and Rs110.58 against the prior weekend’s level of Rs110.56 and Rs110.57.
On Tuesday, the rupee plunged over four per cent against the dollar, initially hitting an all-time low above Rs116, due to the central bank’s sudden move to allow rupee devaluation amid economic strains.
Later in the session, the rupee recovered losses and settled at Rs114.80 and Rs115.20, still losing Rs4.23 on the buying counter and Rs4.62 on the selling counter.
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[DAWN] Weeping Syrians boarded buses to leave a ravaged pocket of eastern Ghouta on Sunday, in a new wave of evacuations to clear another part of the former rebel bastion.
Five weeks since the Syrian government launched an all-out assault on Ghouta, it holds more than 90 percent of the onetime opposition stronghold on the edge of Damascus.
To help it capture the rest, key government backer Russia has mediated talks with various rebel groups to negotiate withdrawals from the three remaining pockets.
One area was emptied under such a deal in recent days and evacuations began late on Saturday for a second part, held by the Islamist Faylaq al Rahman rebel faction.
That agreement is set to see some 7,000 rebels and civilians bussed from the towns of Arbin and Zamalka and the district of Jobar to the rebel-dominated province of Idlib in northwestern Syria.
After hours of delay, around 980 of them quit Ghouta on Saturday night aboard 17 buses and several ambulances.
They arrived in part of Hama province near the border with Idlib on Sunday morning.
Devastated Syrian civilians and rebel fighters dressed in black gathered in the early morning in the main streets of Arbin.
They carried duffel bags and dragged suitcases stuffed to the brim as they shuffled past ruined buildings.
By mid-morning, around 20 empty buses and ambulances had entered the town, parking at a large roundabout.
Fighters and civilians began to board, bidding tearful goodbyes to their home towns before they headed to opposition territory further north.
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[AlAhram] Egypt has deployed tens of thousands of coppers and soldiers to protect polling centers across the country as Egyptians vote to elect their president for the next four years.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s victory is a foregone conclusion. His only challenger is Moussa Mustafa Moussa, a little known politician who joined the race in the last minute to spare the government the embarrassment of a one-candidate election after several hopefuls were forced out or jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Authorities hope enough people ‐ there are nearly 60 million eligible voters ‐ will vote in the three-day balloting that started on Monday to give the election legitimacy.
Sissi cast his ballot as soon as the polls opened at 9 a.m. at a girls’ school in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Local TV stations showed festive scenes outside polling centers, with women and school children singing.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were maimed as a mortar missile was shot in southwest of Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted saying on Monday.
"A mortar missile fell on one of the main streets in Hawija town, west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... leaving two civilians maimed," the source said.
"Security troops cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the maimed to nearby hospital for treatment," the source added, indicating that troops carried out a campaign to search for those who fired the missile.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group says new checkpoint at Erez crossing only 'temporary,' part of manhunt for suspects behind attack on Paleostinian Authority PM
Possibly true. However, it is definitely true that this will increase pressure on Gaza residents just before the big protests planned for Friday that will include rushing the border fence.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... expressed concern Monday over new Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, checks at the border between Gazoo and Israel, after the terror group began what it said were temporary security measures.
Hamas handed over the border to the internationally recognized Paleostinian Authority government in November as part of a reconciliation agreement that was meant to end a decade-long split between the two largest Paleostinian factions.
But the deal has collapsed and last week Hamas implemented new checks on Paleostinians seeking to leave the enclave, saying it was searching for a runaway.
"Reports have emerged today indicating that Hamas has set up a checkpoint outside the Erez crossing, controlling the entrance of national and international personnel into Gazoo and the exit of all Gazoo ID holders," UN official Nikolay Mladenov said in an address to the Security Council.
Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that he noted the reports "with concern."
A front man for the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gazoo said its border measures were "temporary" and had been imposed as part of a manhunt for suspects in an attack on Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s convoy.
Hamdallah was unhurt when a roadside kaboom hit his convoy during a rare visit to Gazoo on March 13, in which he was in part due to discuss the stalled reconciliation process.
Last week the main suspect announced by Hamas was killed by security forces during an arrest raid in Gazoo.
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , who oversees Hamdallah’s government, has directly accused Hamas of the bombing, a claim rejected by the terrorist organization.
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I did read the article. Mostly ginned up internet outrage and deliberate misunderstanding from the usual suspects. The gentleman's actual statement pretty much coincides with the comments here.
[ARABNEWS] Sophisticated improvised bombs camouflaged as rocks are Iran’s latest contribution to Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces in Yemen, according to a report by a weapons-tracking group.
Based on six missions to 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... over the last year, and comparisons with similar devices documented elsewhere in the Middle East, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) said the radio-controlled bombs were evidence of a "recent influx of technology."
"Improvised weapons used by Yemen’s Houthi forces have been manufactured using the same, identically configured components as those recovered from Iranian-backed groups in Bahrain," said James Bevan, executive director of the group. "CAR’s latest findings confirm consistencies in Iran’s military support, not only to Houthi forces but also to its proxies across the wider region."
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[DAWN] Saudi forces intercepted seven Yemeni rebel missiles on Sunday, including over the capital Riyadh, in a deadly escalation on the eve of the third anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen.
One Egyptian was killed and two of his countrymen were maimed by falling shrapnel in Riyadh, authorities said, with residents reporting loud kabooms and bright flashes in the sky shortly before midnight.
The Houthis fired three missiles at Riyadh and four others at the southern cities of Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran, with the coalition saying they all targeted populated areas.
"This aggressive and hostile action by the Iran-backed Huthi group proves that the Iranian regime continues to support the gang with military capabilities," coalition front man Turki al-Malki said.
"The firing of multiple ballistic missiles towards cities is a serious development."
The Huthi-run al-Masira television channel claimed the rebels had targeted Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport as well as other airstrips in the south of the kingdom.
Pakistain strongly condemned the ballistic missile attacks and commended 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... 's government "for destroying the missiles and limiting the casualties".
The strikes come after the US defence secretary last week urged Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... during his visit to Washington to pursue "urgent efforts" to end Yemen's wrenching conflict.
The Houthis have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi Arabia since last year, all of which Saudi forces claim to have intercepted, underscoring their capacity to strike deep within the kingdom amid a stalemated war in Yemen.
The latest attack could further escalate the coalition's military campaign.
A major attack targeting Riyadh international airport on November 4 triggered the tightening of a longstanding Saudi-led blockade of 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... ‐ already on the verge of famine.
Another strike on December 19 targeted Riyadh's Yamamah palace, the official residence of King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... .
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Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Three civilians were maimed Monday in a bomb kaboom in Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, "An explosive charge went off near a popular market in Arab Jibor neighborhood in southern Baghdad, leaving three civilians maimed."
"A security force immediately rushed to the blast site and carried the injured to a nearby hospital for treatment," according to the source.
A different take on the subject than we had two weeks ago.
[Algemeiner] Less than a month ago ‐ in advance of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul ‐ the Turkish daily Yeni Safak, which is considered one of the mouthpieces of Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), published an article entitled "A Call for Urgent Action."
The same article was also published on the newspaper’s website with the more explicit title: "What if an Army of Islam was Formed Against Israel?" The article openly called on the 57 member states of the OIC to form a joint "Army of Islam" to simultaneously attack Israel from the east, west, north and south.
According to Israel’s Shin Bet, the source of the article appears to be the Turkish company SADAT, which among other sinister plots, is aiding Hamas with funds and military gear to create a "Palestinian" army to join in the fight against Israel.
The idea of creating an "Army of Islam" to destroy Israel was accompanied by an interactive map providing formation of military forces for a joint Muslim attack on Israel. It also provides details on military forces based in various locations.
Yeni Safak further explained, "If the member states of the OIC unite militarily, they will form the world’s largest and most comprehensive army. The number of active soldiers would be at least 5,206,100, while the defense budget would reach approximately $175 billion."
This article provided additional details of the scandalous plan, stating that, "It is expected that 250,000 soldiers will participate in the first of a possible operation. Land, air and naval bases of member states located in the most critical regions will be used. Joint bases will be constructed in a short period of time. ... It is possible for 500 tanks and armored vehicles, 100 planes and 500 attack helicopters and 50 ships to mobilize quickly."
Regardless of how absurd and troubling this suicidal plan may seem, Erdogan did not disavow the report. In fact, he has reiterated on several occasions his ambition to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, in which context he wants to create the "Army of Islam."
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MP Alparslan Kavaklioglu, a member of the ruling AKP and the head of the parliament’s Security and Intelligence Commission, recently stated: "The Muslim population will outnumber the Christian population in Europe. This... has increased the nationalistic, xenophobic and anti-Islam rhetoric there. Hence, marginal, small parties have started to get large numbers of votes... But there is no remedy for it. Europe will be Muslim. We will be effective there, Allah willing. I am sure of that."
To promote the revival of the Ottoman Empire and his ambition to become the leader of the Muslim world, Erdogan exploits Islam as the common cause around which all Muslim states can rally. He uses religion to prevent questioning either his motive or the nature of his mission, and acts as if it were all ordained by God. No one should be surprised if Erdogan soon announces that Sharia law is the law of the land. He exploits Islam for personal and political gain, uses Islamic symbols and precepts to indoctrinate the public, and promotes Islamic studies in schools to cultivate a new generation of devout Muslims loyal to him. Continues.
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"If the member states of the OIC unite militarily, they will form the world’s largest and most comprehensive army. The number of active soldiers would be at least 5,206,100, while the defense budget would reach approximately $175 billion."
The guy has quite an imagination.
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If the member states of the OIC unite militarily, they will form the world’s largest and most comprehensive army.
... and immediately begin fighting amongst themselves. They can't help it.
[ARABNEWS] North Korea leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has visited China, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing three unnamed sources, in what would be his first known overseas trip since taking power in 2011 and ahead of a potential summit with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Details of his visit including its purpose and itinerary were not yet known, Bloomberg said. Japanese media reported earlier on Monday that a high-ranking Pyongyang official appeared to have arrived by train in Beijing.
Kyodo, citing sources close to the matter, said the visit of the official was intended to improve ties between Beijing and Pyongyang that have been frayed by North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and China’s backing of tough sanctions against North Korea at the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council.
The visit could not immediately be confirmed by Rooters.
Footage from Nippon News Network, owned by Nippon TV, showed what an announcer described as a green train carriage with yellow horizontal lines, part of a 21-car train, similar to the kind that Kim’s late father, Kim Jong Il, rode when he visited Beijing in 2011.
Beijing has traditionally been the closest ally of secretive and isolated North Korea. But Kim is due to hold summit meetings separately with China’s rivals, South Korea and the United States.
"Such a visit would reflect China’s effort to get back in the game," said Scott Snyder, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank. "Xi would not tolerate being third in line to meet Kim."
Asked earlier at a daily news briefing about reports of an important North Korean visitor arriving at the Chinese border city of Dandong, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she was unaware of the situation.
Nobody answered the telephone at the North Korean embassy in Beijing on Monday evening.
"The government is closely communicating with relevant countries and monitoring the situation," South Korea’s presidential Blue House said in a statement via a messaging app earlier on Monday.
Asked about the report that Kim was in China, White House front man Raj Shah told news hounds on Monday: "We can’t confirm those reports. We don’t know if they’re necessarily true."
A lot of the military want NKor to fire rockets as much as possible and even hit Japan just to make a point. The civilian side (Xi) wants to avoid anything that interferes with economic development. Since Xi decided to expand his power, the civilian side is probably in command on this particular visit by KimJU.
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Betting a quarter that the key question was :"So, you got my back, right?"
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Betting a quarter that the key question was :"So, you got my back, right?"
[DAWN] A young man stated to be a ‘friend’ of Naqeeb Ullah Mehsud was shot dead over some ‘personal monetary’ dispute in Quaidabad early on Sunday morning, police said.
They added that Manal Khan Mehsud was travelling in a car when armed men attacked him in Gulshan-i-Buner. He sustained critical bullet wounds and died on the spot.
The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
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[ARABNEWS] Police in Spain have captured a cybercrime gang made up of Ukrainians and Russians that allegedly stole more than 1 billion euros ($1.24 billion) from financial institutions worldwide in a five-year spree, authorities said Monday.
The gang’s alleged criminal mastermind, identified as a Ukrainian and named only as "Denis K.," was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in the coastal city of Alicante, 350 kilometers (220 miles) southeast of Madrid, according to statements issued by Spanish police and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... law enforcement agency Europol.
Three suspected accomplices, said to be Russian and Ukrainian, were also arrested, Spanish authorities said. In Ukraine, police said that an unidentified 30-year-old man linked to the gang was cooperating with authorities.
The hackers ‐ whose activities have long been tracked by security researchers ‐ used malware to target more than 100 financial institutions worldwide, sometimes stealing up to 10 million euros in each heist. Almost all of Russia’s banks were targeted, and about 50 of them lost money in the electronic robberies, authorities said.
The gang used well-worn techniques such as booby trapped emails to break into banks and compromise the networks controlling ATMs, effectively turning the machines into free cash dispensers.
Ross Rustici, a senior director at Boston-based digital security firm Cybereason, said the gang stood out from others because of the amount of care and planning it put into operations.
"They’re unusual in how slow and methodical they are and how organized they are," Rustici said. Other groups use similar techniques in isolation, "but nobody before them had strung all those things together on such a scale," he said.
Authorities said that the gang converted its illicit gains into bitcoins and used the cryptocurrency to purchase big ticket items, including houses and vehicles, in Spain.
Rustici said it seemed likely the gang members botched their effort to launder their ill-gotten gains.
"That’s usually what happens with these who are very good on the network side, they make mistakes on the money side," he said. "You can’t buy a nice villa on the Mediterranean with cryptocurrency. Or at least not yet."
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[AlAhram] President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK bully boyz would withdraw from the area.
"We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have begun there. The fight is internal and external," Erdogan told a crowd in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, without elaborating on what operations he was referring to.
Iraq's Joint Operations Command denied that any foreign forces had crossed the border into Iraq.
"The operations command confirmed that the situation in Nineveh, Sinjar and the border areas was under the control of Iraqi security forces and there is no reason for troops to cross the Iraqi border into those areas," it said in a statement.
Sources in Sinjar said there was no unusual military activity in the area on Sunday.
President Tayyip Erdogan said last week the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were creating a new base in Sinjar, and that Ottoman Turkish forces would attack if necessary.
Sources in northern Iraq said on Friday the PKK would withdraw from Sinjar, where it gained a foothold in 2014 after coming to the aid of the Yazidi minority community, who were under attack by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ A 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... i newspaper has claimed that the Ottoman Turkish army set up 19 military barracks and deployed tanks inside Iraqi territories to face the threat of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters.
The London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed paper quoted a local source as saying on Monday that the Ottoman Turkish army established the barracks inside Kurdish and Assyrian villages and built a fence around them.
"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... also deployed tanks and medium-range artillery systems that are capable of reaching the depth of the Kurdistan region," according to the source.
He pointed out the Ottoman Turkish move came as part of Ankara efforts to secure borders between Iraq and Turkey against the PKK threat.
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[The Federalist] Over the weekend there was a massive march in Washington and other cities to demand new laws, ostensibly on behalf of innocent lives being endangered. That sounds like another giant protest march that takes place once a year in Washington, except this one is being reported coast-to-coast, buoyed by celebrity endorsements, and hailed as the dawn of a revolution, rather than being studiously ignored or downplayed.
It should be obvious that I’m speaking of the March for Our Lives and the March for Life, two ostensibly similar marches advocating ostensibly similar views. Yet comparing the two positions reveals illuminating fundamental differences.
Of course the most obvious distinction is in the subject matter: one favors limiting or ending gun owners, the other limiting or ending abortion. Let’s consider the two subjects, for here the crux of the matter rests.
Gun rights deal with a person’s right to own a particular tool for a particular purpose. Put briefly, a gun is a weapon; weapons are used in fighting. People want to own guns so if they ever need to fight to defend themselves, their families, or their rights, they can do so effectively. There are obvious and legitimate reasons why they would want this, ranging from violent attackers to civil unrest.
But, although they have legitimate uses, guns by nature are open to abuse. They allow a person with evil intent to inflict more damage than he would otherwise. Gun-control advocates argue the potential for abuse is greater than the legitimate need for private firearms, at least with regards to certain weapons. In other words, gun control advocates wish to limit access to guns in order to limit their potential for abuse.
Abortion rights deal with a person’s right to do or have done a particular procedure. This procedure, by definition, destroys a human life: specifically the human life the people in question created by having intercourse, whether consensually or violently. They desire this because, to one degree or another, the life to be destroyed is unwanted or inconvenient and was not intended to be created.
Although the reasons for wishing to destroy this life may be understandable, abortion still destroys an innocent human life. Moreover, in most cases that innocent human life was created by other people voluntarily engaging in an act they knew could lead to this outcome. Pro-life advocates argue that deliberately killing an innocent human being simply cannot be justified, save in cases of direst need such as when the life of the mother is at stake.
In other words, pro-life advocates wish to forbid a particular action that, by definition, destroys a human life.
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The March for Life has been held every year since 1974. People come from all over the country - at their own expense. Since I live in the area, I've attended two of them. Every year, the crowd gets larger. Yet, the MSM refuses to cover it.
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[ARABNEWS] The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement said on Monday that ballistic missile attacks on 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... were a serious escalation and threat to regional and international security.
Coalition front man Col. Turki al-Malki told a news conference in Riyadh that Sunday’s missile attacks on the Saudi capital were a clear violation of international law and accused the Houthis of smuggling weapons from Iran.
The coalition threatened retaliation against Tehran, accusing it of being behind the multiple attacks on the Kingdom.
We "reserve the right to respond against Iran at the right time and right place," coalition front man Turki al-Malki told a news conference, calling the development a "dangerous escalation."
Saudi forces said they intercepted seven missiles on Sunday, including over the capital Riyadh, in a deadly escalation that coincided with the third anniversary of the coalition’s intervention in Yemen.
Displaying wreckage at a news conference in Riyadh of what it said were fragments of those ballistic missiles, the coalition claimed forensic analysis showed they were supplied to Houthi rebels by their ally Iran.
"The missiles launched against Saudi territory were smuggled from Iran," coalition front man Turki al-Malki told news hounds.
"Iran has become like an appendix in the body of the international community. Either they correct their evil path or the international community will correct it for them," he said.
Al-Maliki added Houthi rebels have fired 104 ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia and Iran exploits the al-Hudaydah Port in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to smuggle ballistic weapons to the Houthis.
He also stated that Houthis are using Sanaa airport as a platform to train their militias and as a base to launch their Iranian-made "Sayyad" ballistic missiles.
Presenting the remnants of alleged Iranian-made missiles, al-Maliki described the possession of ballistic missiles by Houthi bully boyz as a "serious developmnet".
"Yemen has suffered from Iranian intervention and support for Houthi bully boyz to force a coup," he added.
The missile strikes resulted in the first reported fatality from Houthi fire in the Saudi capital.
Egyptian national Abdul-Moteleb Ahmed, 38, died instantly in his bed when what appeared to be burning shrapnel struck his ramshackle room in Riyadh’s Um al-Hammam district, leaving a gaping hole in the roof, witnesses said.
Three other Egyptian laborers in the same room were maimed and hospitalized, they said.
The Iran-aligned Houthis said on their al-Masirah television that Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport was among the targets.
Al-Maliki alleged the rebels in Sanaa were using the airport there to launch missiles on Saudi territory, adding the coalition had seized a number of smuggled weapons.
Iran has repeatedly denied arming the Houthis in Yemen, despite claims by the United States and Saudi Arabia that the evidence of an arms connection is irrefutable.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LATimes] Just more than a week after tiny Los Alamitos voted to defy California's law protecting immigrants in the country illegally, Orange County is poised to become a counterpoint against the state's resistance to the Trump administration's policies.
[Reno Gazette] Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House.
[Townhall] It may have been a bitter pill to swallow, but CNN shared its latest poll on President Trump. It seems that the president now has the highest approval rating in 11 months. He is now at a 42 percent approval, up 7 points from February.
After he escaped from Al Qaeda in Syria, American photojournalist Matt Schrier investigated his own kidnapping and uncovered what he describes as a pattern of "betrayal" by FBI agents handling his case.
...It has 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 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[SABANEWS.NET] Dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and injured when the army and popular forces attacked military gatherings of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in Jizan,Asir and Najran provinces, a military official told Saba on Monday.
[SABANEWS.NET] The missile forces hit large ballistic strikes on Saudi targets in fulfillment of the commander’s promise. 
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[Bus Insider] A man who believes the Earth is flat launched himself almost 2,000 feet into the air in a homemade rocket over the weekend.
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The injustice of the U.S. "
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, 
North Korea
[DAWN] A young man stated to be a ‘friend’ of Naqeeb Ullah Mehsud was shot dead over some ‘personal monetary’ dispute in Quaidabad early on Sunday morning, police said.
[AlAhram] President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that 
...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...
[ARABNEWS] The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s 
