[Jpost] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in winning 60 seats for his bloc of right-wing and religious parties in Monday’s election, one less than he needed for a majority in the Knesset, according to exit polls on the three television networks.
The polls indicated that Netanyahu’s Likud won 36-37 seats. Its allies in Shas, UTJ and Yamina won 9, 7-8 and 6-7 respectively. The polls showed Blue and White with 33 seats, its ally Labor-Gesher-Meretz 6-7, the Joint List 14-15 and Yisrael Beytenu 6-8.
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Actually I love the idea of Hillary sputtering at some faceless DoS apparatchik over the phone "What do you mean I'm not worth the trouble anymore? Do you know who I am!"
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Pay to Play email server. Pay the "Clinton Foundation" and the State Department is at your service.
Similar to the Hunter Biden employment requirement for VP Joe to get you a cool billion anyone.
All under the watch of the Empty Suit, aka President Zero.
[CNBC] Todd Baldwin’s net worth crossed $1 million when he was 25.
Today, at 27, he brings in $615,000 annually ($305,000 after business expenses) thanks to a mix of income from rental properties, his day job working in commercial insurance sales and the extra cash he makes as a secret shopper.
The majority of his revenue comes from the six rental properties that he owns with his wife, Angela: They earn $460,000 per year in rent. After expenses, including mortgage payments, taxes, insurance and utilities, they keep about $150,000 of that per year.
"Although our net worth is seven figures, we don’t do a lot of the typical things that most people envision millionaires doing. We are super frugal," says Baldwin, who wears a $12 rubber wedding band and shares a 2009 Ford Focus with his wife. Because he keeps his expenses so low, he’s able to save more than 80% of his take-home pay.
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The wealthiest guy I've ever met (read B$+) started out life as an itinerant cowboy. Understood that land made the man.
Ended up owning property that was to have a future city or three on the SF Peninsula. Bought it in the 1930's. Leased the land out until he retired, then sold for astronomical sums.
Passed away in the late-1960's. A really really good guy.
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Why does anyone in their right mind publicize their details of their wealth and who they are?
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[CNBC] Sen. Amy Klobuchar will drop out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Monday and endorse former Vice President Joe Biden.
The Minnesota senator will join her soon-to-be former rival at a rally in Dallas and support his bid for the nomination, a campaign spokesman confirmed. Klobuchar will leave the race a day before her state holds its presidential primary. Minnesota will award 75 national pledged delegates.
The departure of Klobuchar, and former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg a day earlier, leaves a chunk of the vote up for grabs across the 14 states holding primaries on Tuesday. Klobuchar and Buttigieg’s presence in the race threatened to sap delegates from Biden, who narrowly trails Sen. Bernie Sanders in the national delegate race after four contests.
Klobuchar tried to carve out space in the Democratic primary field by running on a more moderate platform than many of her rivals and touting her ability to appeal to Midwestern voters. But the third-term senator from Minnesota struggled to gain a foothold in a crowded field despite a flash of early success.
Klobuchar focused on issues such as health care and climate change during her presidential bid. As she tried to distance herself from her rivals in recent weeks, she criticized early frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders for his “Medicare for All” plan and Buttigieg for a lack of experience.
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Don't see how Biden can win.
Of all of Trump's negatives (old white man with bad temper) Biden has the same problem in spades, plus the corruption with his son that everyone can see clear as day even if the law wasn't actually broken the assumption of connections and access was there.
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Well, some of the Y2K issues were averted by actually updating the coding. Yeah, there was hype. Expect nothing less than dooms day from the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises. However had they done nothing you probably would not have liked living in interesting times.
[PJMedia] Nothing illustrates the folly of our 18-year-long nation-building mission in Afghanistan better than the partial peace bought by a months-long negotiation breaking down after just 72 hours.
AFP also reports, "three killed, 11 injured in blast in east Afghanistan," so you know the Taliban wasn't kidding around. The "operation," as the Taliban likes to call it, or "savage terror attack," as any honest person would call it, was in response to confusion between the Trump White House and the Afghan central government over the release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
to release the Taliban prisoners," and that doing so "can’t be a precondition" for continued peace talks. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reminded Face the Nation yesterday morning that "There have been prisoner releases from both sides before; we have managed to figure our path forward," but maybe 5,000 was just too big a figure for Ghani to swallow.
The sane U.S. response would be to pack it up and go home.
There's no peace to be found in Afghanistan, at least not with the low level of violence we're willing to commit there. More than 18 years after the attacks of 9/11/2001, the American people don't have the stomach for killing the number of fighting-age males it would take to force peace on the Taliban. And any attempt at a power-sharing arrangement between the Taliban and Kabul -- the administration's current goal -- is doomed to failure. Kabul is corrupt to its core, and will never earn the love or respect of the Afghan people. As for the Taliban, for them, power-sharing is nothing more than a necessary step on the way to toppling the Ghani government. Even then, fighting in the countryside would continue, so it doesn't matter much who ostensibly is in charge in Kabul.
[Twitchy] Earlier this week, a federal appeals court ruled that Congress cannot sue to enforce outstanding subpoenas against the Trump administration and executive branch. The ruling basically means former White House counsel Don McGahn will not have to testify before Congress.
The ruling did not sit well with House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who complains that Trump’s lawyers “convinced” two judges to make an “unprecedented” ruling.
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The problem, Mr. Schiff, is that your reputation precedes you. The colloquial expression is that you are telling tall tales out of school. The crude, more direct expression is that you are a liar and full of sh*t.
Attorney-Client relationship has something to do with that, too. Some subpoenas are quashed. Some are squashed. The President follows the law. Sometimes he wins. Sometimes he loses. Get over it, Narcissus.
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I was hoping Trump's lawyers would convince the two judges to keelhaul slimy Schiff.
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ostensibly, that is why lawyers exist; but this statement was probably just an attempt to get a talking point out to his media allies.
wall-to-wall coverage, 'we're getting more news on the 2 judges who ruled in favor of Trump'
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Implicit in his statement is the assumption that the judiciary is 'suppose' to rule against Trump without having to provide sufficient ground to do so.
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Attorney-Client relationship has something to do with that, too.
Causing an Attorney to testify on a "fishing expedition" was several steps too far. Can the White House have Schiff's staff all be deposed just... because as well?
A Barack Obama-appointed Judge, natch..
[FoxNews] A federal judge ruled Sunday that one of the Trump administration's top immigration officials, Ken Cuccinelli, was unlawfully appointed to his post because of a decades-old law on federal vacancies.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that Cuccinelli's appointment as the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) circumvented a law that said a senior government position could be filled only if the Senate first approved the individual.
It was not immediately clear what impact this would have on Cuccinelli's tenure, if any.
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Seems the judge and I have different definitions of what ‘acting director’ means. I think it means he does the job until approved by powers that be or replaced by someone so approved. As in temporary. The judge seems to think it means trump appointed person full of wrong-think.
If my definition is right, hopefully upon appeal someone will humiliate this partisan judge for the nonsense.
[Fox News] Sen. Doug Jones took a pricey European fundraising trip this winter where he stayed at two fancy hotels in London and Paris and paid for the luxe getaway with his campaign funds, records show.
The Alabama Democrat spent $487 to stay at the K+K Hotel Cayre in Paris, billed as "a beautiful historic building located in heart of Saint Germain Des Prés" that's within walking distance to Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. The hotel boasts "soundproofed" luxury rooms and private black marble bathrooms with underfloor heating.
The red-state politician up for reelection in November also spent $1,296 at the Baglioni Hotel in London, which describes itself as "one of the finest 5-star luxury hotels in London" that's located in "one of the most exclusive, elegant and celebrated parts of the city."
Jones’ getaway included $1,164 spent on Eurostar rail travel and $533.66 for Easy Jet airfare in England, according to campaign reports that Jones filed with the Federal Election Commission on Feb. 20.
In all, his campaign paid for nearly $3,500 in European travel expenses dispersed in January, records Jones' himself disclosed to the federal government. The expenses were related to a fundraising trip Jones took in December to collect checks from well-off Americans living abroad and wanting to support Jones’ tough fight for re-election, Fox News has learned.
[Right Scoop] Jussie Smollet is at it again! Or rather, an African-American couple pulled their best Jussie Smollet impression by attacking their own car and blaming it on the Trumpers!
Here’s how the original story came out:
An African-American Southaven couple said they woke up Tuesday morning to find racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of their vehicles.
Southaven Police confirmed they are investigating the reported vandalism on Marcia Louise Drive, and the FBI is also looking into the matter.
The couple’s pickup truck has two N****** spray-painted on it. A car was painted with the phrase ’Leave N******’ and ’Trump.’
"This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out to their cars and see what they saw there," neighbor Pastor Vincent McCaskil said.
The couple didn’t want to speak with WREG about what happened and neither did most of their neighbors, but McCaskill said he couldn’t stay silent.
"It’s time for us as believers to truly speak up and speak out against it," he said. "We cannot remain silent against this."
Oh no, that is awful, they’re believers, they had to speak out! Oh wait wait wait... the only thing they believe is that it’s worth going to jail in order to smear Trump supporters:
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Just south of Memphis in Mississippi.
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If you can justify hate laws then you must support using the full power of the law against hoaxers as well as the hoax spreads fear throughout the targeted community the same way a real event would have.
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I remember seeing this on the news not too long ago. My first thought was hoax. I’m at the point that absolutely every one of these incidents is a hoax. Even the mythical kkk-nazi knows there is absolutely no benefit whatsoever to spray painting epithets. Can anyone show me one single time that any of these have been proven to be the works of the evil, white, maga hat, kkk, nazi redneck?
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I don’t recall Tim’s act being racially motivated. His enthusiasm for Trump remains unverified. Let’s limit our search to this century with the exception of the very limited backlash against immigrant grocers following 9/11
[PJ] The government lied, "framed," hid favorable evidence, and showed "contempt for the law at every turn" in their treatment of Michael Flynn, the retired three-star Army general and former Trump White House national security adviser.
Those charges were contained in a new filing in the government's case against Flynn. And his attorney, Sidney Powell, was just getting started.
In the 27-page-filing, an add-on to her previous motions, Powell demanded charges be dropped against Flynn based on previously withheld exculpatory documents by the government and the IG report on FISA abuse.
The net result was that federal prosecutors publicly considered, for the first time, that Flynn would get no jail time and instead be put on probation for his previous guilty plea in what we now know was the beginning of the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" operation against the Trump White House.
Powell asserted that Flynn was innocent, claiming the "IG Report is replete with exculpatory information that, had it been know to Mr. Flynn, he never would have pled guilty."
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I dunno. What with one thing and another, a couple involving my family, I'm not sure I'd trust any prosecutor any time about anything.
I think I'd vote to acquit irrespective of the case presented. Hate to send an innocent person to jail.
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I'm talking government personnel who are engaged in nothing less than a coup.
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The deep state cabals at senior levels of State, CIA and the Bureau needed to do him urgently because of what he knew from his time at the helm of DIA. This was a wicked and evil abuse of power and they did everything they could to ruin him and intimidate his family to silence him. He needs restitution and a chance to tell what he knows after declassifying enough so that Brennan. Rice and ValJar are revealed for the evil they did.
[Kurt at Town Hall] - You would have thought that the vibe at CPAC this year would involve stressing about our November election prospects, but even as the market dipped over the coronavirus scare the general consensus was that whether we face Vermont Stalin or that miserable monied midget, we got this.
The common image of conservatives is one of dour pessimism, but that is less due to some inherent doom-mongering on the right than to the decades of failure by Conservative Inc. Under the wise, steady guidance of our establishment betters, all we did was lose, but Donald Trump gave the cons a taste of winning, and they like it. At CPAC, you could feel the excitement. In contrast, just down the road, the Losercon remnants held their "National Summit on Principled Conservatism," oblivious of the fact that if you abuse yourself with too much principled conservativing you will go blind.
...It is not a bad idea to take your opponents seriously, and anyone who gets a major party nomination can theoretically win. But if you look at someone like Bernie Sanders, a crusty anti-American weirdo who wants to take your money and give it to his doofus supporters, and you have to imagine that next year at CPAC, with Trump safely re-elected and the House back in our hands, we will be wondering what the hell the Democrats were thinking nominating Marxist Mondale.
Lots of Dem-leaning voters fashionably despise the president and enjoy their progressive posing, but Sanders actually believes the nonsense he’s spewing. He totally would take their doctors and SUVs, jack up their taxes, and hand them the bill for other people’s kids’ Oppression Studies degrees. Liberalism is all fine and dandy with them until they have to actually live it. Get ready for even more secret Trump voters as folks with fading "I’m With Her" stickers on their Teslas walk into the voting booth with their still-strong 401(k) numbers on their minds and flip the lever for The Donald.
...Those folks probably would have been perfectly happy to submit to the furry shackles of the soft fascism of Soda-Banning Frodo. Bloomberg would keep their status and wealth intact and if the price is their freedom, well, okay. Some people are just pathetic submissives. And they might have the chance to sell out their liberty for a little fake security because the Democrat establishment totally gets that Sanders is not only a loser at the top of the ticket but his gooey commie ichor will trickle down defeat all the way to the bottom of the ballot. So, mark my words - they are going to try to steal the nomination that Sanders is winning fair and square and toss it to the tiny tycoon who will open his massive wallet and make it rain to make that happen. China favored candidate
Yes, they are trying everything they can to derail the Trump Train. We’ve seen RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA 2.0 happen and then quickly unhappen. There’s the ridiculous attempt to blame Trump for the coronavirus, as if he went to China to make the locals slurp bat soup and lick pangolins. The pandemic meme won’t pan out. In a couple of months we will likely have forgotten it and moved on to new hyped-up atrocities. In the meantime, Trump will be getting us out of Afghanistan, a move the Dems will denounce because of Trump’s magical power to make liberals even stupider.
The 2020 vibe is good. We’re winning. We shouldn’t take anything for granted. Instead, we should run up the score and send Nancy Pelosi back to Scat Francisco for good.
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Does anyone else remember the Hillary Care laws that Clinton tried to pass?
The biggest explosion came when people realized that this meant government control of doctors as in how many there could be in each specialty and how many could graduate and how much they would get paid.
You never hear about that with Bernie's plan but I figure that all that s#it is in there and I never see anyone questioning it.
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Just take into account - Trump is not the Stupid Party. He also plays the game from the same playbook the Donks have used for decades and is not 'shamed' to play that game.
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These conditions are probably better for the virus there than they are in China. Even though areas of rural China are rugged, there are not too many large urban populations of homeless/helpless/hapless people. I am not where they go, but they don't stay downtown here. Skid row, the Tenderloin, and other California cesspools could really get hit hard. They are kind of begging for it.
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..and we're blessed with activist lawyers and judges who believe plague has rights. They'll obstruct common sense public hygiene practices learned over hundreds of years of human experience. See - HIV
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I am just wondering that it seems most if not all homeless have substance abuse problems.Drugs cost money, and if the homeless did not spend money on drugs, they might have enough money to afford housing.Would it not make sense to put people in substance abuse centers as opposed to handing out free needles?
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meth has shown to give some protection to the flu.
possibly due to the higher body temp?
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That's what some of the University Researchers are saying around here too, Frank. Apparently the virus in its current form doesn't like temps over 'normal'. That's why kids have been mostly unaffected as their body temperatures can be 'normal' at 99.2F and the elderly (with typical lower body temps than 98.6F) have been hit hardest.
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Meth has the added benefit of making addicts look sketchy so everyone keeps their distance. This ensures they are only at risk of catching the flu from objects and objects tend to have a low tranmission rate compared to people.
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I am going to be a super star! Going on shark tank next week with a no fail start up! Rehab old smelters and coke ovens from steel plants and open up a giant morgue and crematorium and chase government no bid contracts! Going to have to pay off epa people though I imagine those 500,000 thousand resin coffins fema stored a couple of so years back will give off bad has and cause the greenies all sorts of hysteria! Watch for me!
Dubai (AFP) Stock markets in the energy-rich Gulf states rebounded Monday, after huge losses in the previous session driven by fears over the impact of the coronavirus which has sent oil prices below $50 a barrel.
Kuwait Boursa, which suspended trading Sunday after shedding over 10 percent, led the rally with its premier shares index soaring some 7.0 percent and the All-Shares index surging around 5.0 percent.
Saudi Arabia's Tadawul market gained 2.3 percent at the start of trading with energy giant Saudi Aramco rising 1.0 percent from historic lows on Sunday.
Dubai Financial Market Index climbed 2.2 percent and its sister UAE market in Abu Dhabi rose 1.4 percent. The tiny Muscat Securities Market in Oman inched up 0.2 percent while Bahrain bourse rose 2.2 percent.
The recovery came as oil prices gained more than 3.0 percent to above $51 a barrel.
Qatar Stock Exchange, which was closed on Sunday for a holiday, bucked the trend to slide 3.1 percent at the start of trading.
On Sunday, the first trading day of the week in the region, all the Gulf bourses except Qatar posted heavy losses.
The Saudi market, the region's largest, had dropped 3.7 percent to an 18-month low with Saudi Aramco diving to its lowest price since listing about three months ago.
The United Arab Emirates bourses of Dubai and Abu Dhabi fell 4.5 percent and 3.6 percent respectively. Bahrain shares shed 3.4 percent and the Muscat bourse dropped 1.2 percent.
Asian stock markets also made a partial recovery on Monday as the Bank of Japan pledged support following heavy losses last week on concerns over the mounting economic impact of coronavirus.
BANGKOK (AP) ‐ Share prices in Asia bounced back Monday from last week’s retreat, with mainland Chinese indexes gaining more than 3% as data showed progress in restoring factory output after weeks of disruptions from the viral outbreak.
Stocks have been swooning as investors fret the coronavirus outbreak will derail the global economy. But in those declines, some see opportunities to buy.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index recovered from early losses, gaining 1% to 21,345.54 after the Bank of Japan promised to step in to support the economy. The Shanghai Composite index rose 3.1% to 2,969.57. The benchmark for the smaller exchange, in Shenzhen, jumped 3.4%, while South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1% to 2,006.63. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong jumped 0.8% to 26,345.77 and India’s Sensex advanced 1.6% to 38,909.43.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda issued a statement Monday, after an early plunge in share prices, saying the central bank "will closely monitor future developments, and will strive to provide ample liquidity and ensure stability in financial markets through appropriate market operations and asset purchases."
On Friday the BOJ issued plans for purchases of assets for the coming weeks: the central bank already buys tens of billions of dollars’ worth of government bonds and other assets each year as part of its aggressive efforts to maintain cheap credit to help prevent deflation.
Shares fell in Australia, where the S&P ASX/200 lost 0.8% to 6,391.50 and in Taiwan, which fell 1.1%. Stocks were mostly higher in Southeast Asia, and Bangkok’s benchmark surged 0.9%.
[Townhall] While many in the media are becoming more aware of the growing threat of human trafficking, they rarely cover the connection between sexual slavery and abortion. But a new documentary is doing just that.
Blind Eyes Opened: The Truth about Sex Trafficking in America opened with a limited release in theaters on January 23, and is now showing at local locations nationwide. The Christian documentary "dives deep into the sex trafficking industry in the U.S." and features politicians, law enforcement, and experts in an effort to inform the American public.
Corporal Alan Wilkett of Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida begins the documentary with some startling numbers. Citing the United Nations, he stressed that human trafficking enslaves an estimated 27 million people globally.
The United States, he added, is "one of the largest consumers of human trafficking."
Abortion only helps hide the abuse, according to pro-life leaders. In the middle of the film, Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life advocate, examined the link between trafficking and abortion.
"People ask me all the time about, you know, connections between the abortion industry and sex trafficking and, you know, providing a safe haven for these abusers, which I absolutely believe that we did that while I worked in the abortion industry at Planned Parenthood," Johnson revealed.
Arina O. Grossu, the former director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Human Dignity also chimed in.
"These poor women, sometimes they have 10-12 buyers a day. Some have reported up to 50 buyers a day," Grossu stressed. "And so, there’s a higher risk of getting pregnant and then the pimps are not interested in saving their children."
[Independent] The workers in standard-issue blue jackets stitch and glue and press together about eight million pairs of Nikes each year at Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co., a Nike supplier for more than 30 years and one of the US brand’s largest factories.
They churn out pair after pair of Shox, with their springy shock absorbers in the heels, and the signature Air Max, plus seven other lines of sports shoes.
However, hundreds of these workers did not choose to be here: they are ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang region, sent here by local authorities in groups of 50 to toil far from home.
After intense international criticism of the Communist Party’s campaign to forcibly assimilate the mostly Muslim Uighur minority by detaining more than a million people in re-education camps, party officials said last year that most have "graduated" and been released.
But there is new evidence to show that the Chinese authorities are moving Uighurs into government-directed labour around the country as part of the central government’s Xinjiang Aid initiative.
[American Thinker] Once in a while, I visit with Bob Jagers, author and D-Day veteran. I enjoy the war stories and the memories of a 99-year-old man who was present on that fateful day from World War II.
Not long ago, we spoke about Glenn Miller. He said that his three favorite things back then were getting a letter from his girl and eventual wife, baseball news about his favorite Detroit Tigers, and catching Glenn Miller's music on the radio.
We remember that Glenn Miller was born in Iowa on this day in 1904. He tragically disappeared over the English Channel December 1944. His plane was lost en route to Paris, where he was going to play for the troops who had just liberated France.
We don't know much about his disappearance, but there are some reports that his small plane may have been hit by RAF bombers dropping their bombs into the waters of channel, or the "friendly fire theory." In other words, Miller may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Glenn Miller's influence went beyond music, as any veteran from that period will tell you. He was too old to be drafted at 38, but he joined the service anyway.
Miller made a huge difference in the life and times of G.I.s far away and desperately looking for some connection with the homeland.
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Millers plane is the only one of that type unaccounted for. News report last year discussed some fisherman who pulled a single engine wreck ip in their nets, then cut it loose. Evidently there was some identifying characteristics leading some to believe it was Millers. I believe fund raising is in play fora diveteam.
Love his music
Two members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew in World War II believe they can explain one of the unsolved mysteries of the war: the disappearance of the band leader Glenn Miller. The two say they fear the band leader's plane was downed over the English Channel by bombs jettisoned from their own plane as they returned from an aborted mission.
The two - the navigator and pilot - said their four-engine Lancaster bomber was one of some 150 returning from an aborted mission on Dec. 15, l944 - the same day Mr. Miller took off in bad weather from an airfield near Bedford, England, on a flight to Paris, where he was to give a show. The two R.A.F. crewmen said that after the jettisoned bombs exploded, they saw a Norseman aircraft fall into the sea below them, apparently knocked out of the sky by shock waves. The plane carrying Mr. Miller, who was then a Major in the Army and leader of the Army Air Force band, was a Norseman D-64.
[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish official said Saturday that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... destroyed a chemical warfare facility in northwest Syria after dozens of its soldiers were killed by Syrian regime fire.
The Ottoman Turkish army destroyed overnight "a chemical warfare facility, located some 13 kilometres south of Aleppo, along with a large number of other regime targets," the bigwig told news hounds on condition of anonymity.
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Blew up a swimming pool supply store, did they?
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When I was in college some company (Dupont, Monsanto?) was running an ad that said "Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible." We yukked it up saying that while lining up the weekend's recreations.
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Old Saddam stuff?
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Syria has chemical warfare facilities? I'm shocked.
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When Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat (or anyone from Bellingcat for that matter), the NYTimes, and any global circulated mag (say the Economic Times), when they all repeat the same press release, "chemical warfare facility... 13 kilometres south of Aleppo" but none can cite the name of the facility (Bellingcat should be able to open source its name) - when I hear the same narrative repeated over and over in transnationalist rags/orgs, it triggers a confirmational bias and I have to call BS.
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Nope, we found all that stuff and it was US and German engineered stuff leftover from the 1980s. i.e. Reagan and Helmut Kohl were war criminals that would be executed had they been little pissant states at odds with us:
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Ulerert Ebbavith7568, your article describes what was found in Iraq, the New York Times finally admitting in 2014 what they’d adamantly been denying — and we’d been collecting reports on here at Rantburg — since 2004 or thereabouts.
[TAKIMAG] The president’s executive order starts from what seems to me an indisputable premise, that much if not most of the federal building carried out in the past half century has been at best undistinguished and at worst hideous. But in the 1930s and even later, federal buildings that were (and will always be) a great adornment to the city, such as the Supreme Court and the Jefferson Memorial, were built. And it is not possible that what was possible then should not be possible now.
According to the executive order, classical architecture that takes its inspiration from ancient Greece and Rome symbolizes the American founding aspiration toward democracy and the rule of law. Critics point out that both were slave societies, says the professor, and indeed that the slave-owners in the Southern states of America built neoclassical mansions on their plantations. I think both arguments miss the point, though simply to reject the classical world because it was slave-owning is to deny its other and longer-lasting legacy, and would also‐in logic‐be to reject the founding of the American republic because some of the American founding fathers were slave-owners (and not a woman among them). History is, or ought to be, more than the backward projection of our current moral enthusiasms or obsessions.
Moreover, modernism and its successors are much more tainted by fascist
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Naturally, the architects hate it. They suffer no limits or bounds. Add them to the media/Democrats, and there should be quite a storm.
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They suffer no limits or bounds. Add them to the media/Democrats, and there should be quite a storm. I very much disagree. After 5 years in architecture/engineering school and 40 plus years practicing both if limits are placed on design we would wind up like the architecture od the old Soviet Union or the Nazi system. If a design is submitted it doesn't have to be accepted but with limits imposed everything winds up looking alike. There would be no inovation.
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[ARCAMAX] Adult film actress Riley Reyes was preparing for a "particularly physical" scene last week when she received word of a proposed state measure that would impose strict new rules on her industry."I was completely shocked," said Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme. "It was weird to have to go to work and act sexy and normal after finding out."
Reyes shoots hardcore sex scenes on the storied sets of the San Fernando Valley, long dubbed the "porn capital of the world." She also heads the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, one of a small number of organized labor and workers' rights groups that meet regularly with politicians on industry issues.
None of them knew about Assembly Bill 2389 until after it was introduced. The snub has renewed a bitter fight over who speaks for adult performers in a state where politicians have long sought to assert some control over the industry. After a decade of proposed porn czars and failed condom codes, strippers, adult film actors and webcam performers say Sacramento is looking for novel ways to police them.
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You voted the commies in, live with it, or in your case, move to Las Vegas where the industry is already headed. Commies want to control every part of your life. It's about power. BTW, they have no problem calling those who don't agree with them as fascists. Return the favor and don't hold back calling them commies.
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This is my rifle, this is my gun. California wants to register both.
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Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme
[The News (Pak)] The federal government has decided to move the UK authorities to deport former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , a couple of days after the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government decided it will not extend the PML-N chief's bail.
Speaking to media during a news conference, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said that it was now time for Nawaz to be brought back to the country.
"Nawaz Sharif did not provide his medical reports to the Punjab government," she said, describing the PML-N chief's decease as a 'fixed match'.
"The government will write to British authorities for Sharif brothers' deportation," said Awan. In the next week, concerned authorities will take steps in this regard, she added.
She said a section of media created an environment that if Nawaz was not allowed to leave for treatment abroad his life might be in danger.
[RUDAW.NET] An organization affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... to halt its Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Tehran-backed militias based in and around the embattled Syrian province of Idlib, following the killing of over a dozen hard boyz from Iran-backed groups in Ottoman Turkish offensives on regime army targets since Thursday.
In a statement published by the Iran-backed, Hezbollah militia-affiliated al-Mayadeen outlet on Saturday, a group called the Iranian Advisory Center believed to be affiliated with the IRGC’s Quds Force, said Iran-backed militia groups have come under attack while assisting in the defense of areas held by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's forces.
Iranian and Iran-backed groups "have not attacked Ottoman Turkish troops in the area since their arrival in Idlib," the statement reads. "Avoidance of Ottoman Turkish troops in the area is still on."
But in response to "a large-scale attack on Syrian regime army targets" on February 25 by Turkey-backed militia proxies, "Iranian militias supported the Syrian regime units to defend," the statement added.
The Ottoman Turkish-backed Turkestani Islamic Party in Syria and Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... jihadist groups conducted their attacks with airstrike support from Ankara, according to the statement.
The body claims to have since sent a group of mediators to urge Ottoman Turkish troops to "halt their aggression and attacks" and negotiate a peaceful solution, but to no avail.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has militarily supported the Syrian regime in its nine-year war against opposition groups, as well as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS). It also supports various foreign proxy groups and also funds Hezbollah, a Shiite militia that has staunchly supported Assad in Syria.
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[NationalReview] Donald Trump has at least five strong historical arguments for his reelection.
One, he is an incumbent. Incumbent presidents have won 14 of 19 reelection bids since 1900.
The few who lost did not enjoy positive approval ratings. In a Gallup poll from earlier this month, Trump enjoyed his highest approval rating since his inauguration, squeezing out a 49 percent favorable rating vs. 50 percent unfavorable.
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The actual Truth is: The Donks face a Trump Landslide. Get used to it. You can smell it in the air.
We are going to rip your lungs out and spit down the hole.. Obama sure turned out to be the Messiah,the Smartest man in the room, didn't he? Where is his "Legacy" now?
You figure it out. What is the Donk Future worth ? What will the Midterm Elections give Trump? What are Pelosi and Schumer's Job prospects ? Think hard....Spit.
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Don't. Get. Cocky. I've seen the GOP pull defeat out of the jaws of victory too many times. We (the people) expect, nay deserve, 110% commitment to the mission until the polls close.
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does the socialist movement have a plan B in case Bernie has another heart attack or some other disabling (and btw, people near 80 years old with a heart condition are primed to go to room temperature if they contract COVID-19)
I'm pretty sure they do not.
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Suddenly, the Dems have dropped all things Ukraine.
Curious.
Dr. Shawn Smith, PsyD, summarizes his book (The Tactical Guide to Women: How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage) and discusses the powerful idea of a driving mission that men need to have to function well and find fulfillment and the sobering idea of resentment as a roadblock to personal development.
Please share this with young single men you know. Either send it to them or repost it where they'll see it.
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Just don't date. That's the current trend in the industrialized world. Just look at birth rates. Just look at single households. Men have not changed. Women have. Poor women have children. Say three but from three different men. Child support and refunds they are making the bucks. I know several women 13-15 thousand in refunds. On food stamps also.
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book has a Christian perspective on the subject
personally I think a man who is thinking of marriage should date at least one feminist at least once; maybe it will be to his taste, maybe not
and there are all kinds of feminists; some are more into widening opportunities for both genders (e.g., we need more female welders and more male nurses) others are horrible people with little intellectual honesty and no manners
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I've known both types, Garth. The first type is infinitely more preferable than the second.
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The video isn't showing up for some reason.
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When you speak of Feminists, there are 4 waves of feminist. I think most folks on this board would have no issue with those from the first 2 waves.
I'm not sure about the 3rd but the 4th wave is batty, that's the modern one that we're talking about here.
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Videos very often don’t show up in posts when first published — a quirk in Rantburg’s code. All it takes is a passing moderator to open it in an Edit window without changing anything to make the video happy. So that's what I just did.
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and there are all kinds of feminists; some are more into widening opportunities for both genders (e.g., we need more female welders and more male nurses) others are horrible people with little intellectual honesty and no manners
The latter far outnumber the former, and there's no telling how many of the former are telling the truth about what they qant.
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I always wanted to meet a man-hating she wolf like people keep finding. Some renowned ball kickers I did encounter were surprisingly kind to me. Thank Gawd I guess.
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It has long been known that the woman a man marries will make or break him, and vice versa — that is the underlying theme of every novel Jane Austin wrote back at the end of the 18th century. In different generations what exactly that means has changed, but not the need to choose more carefully than, “Ooooooh, she’s hot!”
I downloaded the Kindle sample of Dr. Smith's book. Thus far I approve. If Herb McCoy chooses to be what the author describes as a “high value man” and follows the author’s directions to find a nice, high value woman to marry, he’ll be much too busily happy to want programmable blow up dolls.
For what it’s worth, when I was young I fancied myself a feminist, arguing that I had as much right to be a garbageman or an engineer as any man. Certainly my father expected I would follow the pattern of my mother and both my grandmothers, becoming a leader in my chosen profession — preferably, from his perspective, on the academic/research side. Daddy was as surprised as I that I was happier as a most traditional housewife/soccer mom/trailing spouse. Mr. Wife, who would have been just as happy to adjust had I been a career woman, was only surprised that it took me so long to realize what he recognized in the first weeks of our acquaintance.
"His attitude was fairly simple, as he explained it to me one day when he confessed that the lady I had seen leaving was, indeed, an expensive import from Madam Frances’ establishment.
“Why would you do a thing like that,” I said, “when all you have to do is whistle? Or grin?”
“That’s why,” he said. “I can pay her to go away. The others stay around, want a big romance, movie lovemaking. I do not want to be the world’s great lover and I don’t like being put on that spot.”
[ToloNews] A day after the US and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... signed a peace deal and the Afghan government and Washington announced a joint declaration, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... appeared at a presser ‐ for the second time in his five-year term ‐ and said "there is no commitment on the release of the 5,000 prisoners" of the Taliban.
According to the US-Taliban deal and the joint Afghan-US declaration, up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners should be released by March 10 in order to facilitate the intra-Afghan negotiations with the Taliban.
But Ghani criticized the deal and said, "an agreement that is signed behind closed doors will have basic problems in its implementation tomorrow."
"The release of prisoners is not the United States authority, but it is the authority of the government of Afghanistan," Ghani said, adding that there is no commitment to the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
Ghani said the release of 5,000 prisoners cannot be considered a precondition-- it can be part of the negotiations.
Ghani also spoke about the negotiating team, which, according to the agreements, should attend intra-Afghan negotiations on March 10.
He said the delegation that will go to Doha will represent Afghanistan’s basic values and that the effectiveness of the team should be considered when it comes to the number of its members.
"The authority of the delegation is limited because the ultimate decision-maker, based on the Constitution, is either the parliament of Afghanistan or the Loya Jirga (Grand Council) of Afghanistan or a referendum," Ghani added.
When asked about whether he will be able to announce a negotiating team in the span of nine days, Ghani said the discussions about a negotiating team have already begun and that he is confident that the team will be formed within the next nine days.
During his speech, Ghani stressed the primary importance of sustaining the republic system, saying there is a clear necessity for all to focus on the republic ‐ not the presidency ‐ when it comes to talks with the Taliban.
The president said the "Islamic Emirate" is a term that has been used by the Taliban for themselves, and it has been repeated by the US, but it is not recognized by the United States.
He said that the reduction in violence will continue and he hopes it will become a ceasefire.
Government figures show that in the weeklong reduction in violence ‐ from Feb. 22 to Feb. 28 ‐ at least 21 security force members and nine non-combatants were killed in twelve provinces--and 49 others were maimed.
[IsraelTimes] Terminals to reopen at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, pending ‘situational assessment,’ military says; exceptions to be made for humanitarian cases.
Noticeable destruction at Kuweires Military Airbase in #Aleppo / One hangar destroyed with parking area completely burned out (could mean that TAF claim of 5 or so helicopters destroyed is true) Imagery: @AuroraIntel@planetlabspic.twitter.com/eLzs3cR4ow
The Russians are focusing their airstrikes around Saraqib. While the Turks do the same with their drones. Both aircraft ignore one another despite targeting the other’s side.
#Syria: Rebels launching their forces with significant amount of armor for the ongoing counter-Offensive in Jebal Zawiyah (S. #Idlib). pic.twitter.com/5WXUb9r9it
BREAKING — Turkey downed two Syrian SU-24 jets which tried to attack Turkish planes and destroyed one air defense system that shot down a Turkish drone — Turkish Defense Ministry
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] 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... ’s armed forces, along with Ansarullah fighters, have taken control of the strategic city of al-Hazm, the capital of the northern al-Jawf province, as Saudi-led mercenaries retreated after losing ground in the region.
Sources close to Saudi-allied former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, confirmed Sunday that forces led by Yemen’s popular Ansarullah movement took control of al-Hazm, which is located only 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of the border with 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... This came after fierce fighting with Saudi-led mercenaries who were forced to withdraw to neighboring Ma’rib province.
At least 30 Saudi-led forces, including high-ranking pro-Hadi officers, were killed in the fighting over the past two days.
Maged al-Madhaji, executive director of the Sana’a Center, a Yemeni think-tank, told AFP that the capture of al-Hazm could be a game-changer.
"Control of the capital of al-Jawf could totally change the course of the war. Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s have made an exceptional advance and are changing the balance" in their favor, he noted.
[Jpost] Two Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, delegations are currently visiting Moscow and Cairo. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... is leading the delegation to Moscow. The PIJ leadership is planning on visiting Moscow as well.
A mortar shell was fired from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip towards Israel on Sunday evening, but fell within Gaza, according to an IDF spokesperson. The attack comes just ten hours before polls open for the 23rd Knesset elections.
Locals reported hearing a kaboom in the area. An alert was activated in open areas near the border. No group has grabbed credit for the mortar fire.
Paleostinian media reported on Sunday that the Hamas terrorist groups had sent delegations to Moscow and Cairo. The delegation in Cairo is set to discuss recent festivities and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip with Egyptian officials.
The Hamas delegation to Moscow is headed by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and will discuss US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's "Deal of the Century" Middle East peace plan and Russia's role in supporting Paleostinian rights, among other issues.
They’ll get pretty words instead of deeds or money, and be grateful for that much.
A delegation headed by the head of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) terrorist group is also planning on visiting Moscow, but an exact date has not been announced.
[Jpost] The government of Seoul asked for a murder investigation into leaders of a Christian sect at the center of the country's deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying the church was liable for its refusal to cooperate with efforts to stop the disease.
A large majority of the more than 4,000 confirmed cases of the South Korean outbreak, the largest outside China and still growing, have been linked to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a secretive movement that reveres founder Lee Man-hee.
Park Won-soon, mayor of the capital Seoul, said if Lee and other leaders of the church had cooperated, effective preventive measures could have saved those who later died of the virus.
"The situation is this serious and urgent, but where are the leaders of the Shincheonji, including Lee Man-hee, the chief director of this crisis?" Park said in a post on his Facebook page late on Sunday.
Seoul's city government said in a separate statement that it had filed a criminal complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, asking for an investigation of Lee and 12 others on charges of murder and disease control act violations.
The prosecutors' office said it had received the complaint and was reviewing it.
Health authorities said the vast majority of the 3,000 cases confirmed in Daegu, another Korean city, were linked to a branch of the church there, where a person who had tested positive in February attended services twice.
Many have blamed the church's secretive nature and tightly packed conditions at services for the large number of cases linked to it.
An additional 600 cases were detected in the province surrounding Daegu.
South Korea's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 476 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, raising the total to 4,212 with 22 deaths.
The church issued a statement Sunday reiterating calls for an end to "stigmatization, hatred and slander" against its followers, saying it was cooperating with the government.
Health authorities said they have obtained a list of 317,320 Shincheonji members and "trainees," but have been told by some local governments that it was not exhaustive.
[BREITBART] During MSNBC’s coverage of Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, Democratic strategist James Carville predicted that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Amy Klobuchar Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She see this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious... (D-MN) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... "will probably be out by Wednesday."
While discussing the Biden and Sanders campaigns potentially recruiting other candidates who have dropped out of the race, Carville said, "Everything is going to help a little bit to show that you can expand the coalition here. Also, I mean, it’s inevitable that Sen. Klobuchar and Mayor Pete will probably be out by Wednesday. It’s kind of hard to see where there’s a path there. So, there’s a lot of political groundwork that you can do that can help this."
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#10 Fork Comb futures tanking.
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At this point, I don't give a &%#$ about Dem problems of finding a candidate to run against Trump. They can all drop out. They have tried too many underhanded seditious schemes and plots to take down Trump and interfere with the presidency. They care little about the country. They have lied, enlisted foreigners to aid in their tries to take down Trump. They came up with the phony Mueller investigation, lied on FISAs, came up with the phony impeachment, illegal spying, etc. Who know what else?
F*&#* em all; they can go bugger themselves. Karma is a bytch isn’t it.
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I believe someone said he dropped out to form a boy band.
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And now word is in that Chrissy Matthew's is retiring to spend more time with his tingly leg.
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Comrade Matthews has more time with his family. Maybe he can run for state governor or lieutenant governor to get special dispensation. Toss in a college pic in blackface to show his woke credentials.
[THEFEDERALIST] In the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... ’s presidential campaign died. It wasn’t from smallpox-tainted blankets, but from lack of votes. Her lackluster campaign flamed out in the Palmetto State like a wet matchstick.
Did she ever have a chance? No. Warren was always the other Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... without the appeal or popularity. Ultimately, the problem is that nobody likes her.
For the intelligentsia like those at the esteemed New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , she was the perfect candidate, an antidote to Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s toxic masculinity ...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the men are girls transitioning to boys, or boys transitioning to girls, or either transitioning to sheep... . But on Saturday night, the clock ran out. She came in fifth place behind a victorious Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... , a satisfied Bernie Sanders, a lackluster Tom Steyer, and the gay former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
Was there a case for Warren? Some thought so, and she did, but there never truly was. The case for Warren had too much to do with her being a woman ‐ the woman. This was Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... redux, but nobody really liked Hillary Clinton. I’m a competent woman is not a cake that rises to the level of being elected president.
Who is Warren, exactly? A woke scold? A mid-level manager who does trust exercises? Nobody wants that. Presidential candidates need to inspire. Warren couldn’t inspire a cup of coffee to get cold. That was always the problem: for all the noise about the importance of her candidacy, she wasn’t a good candidate. And that is why she lost.
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[APNEWS] A coughing Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold.
It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season. Such retreats are typical Jesuits, an order to which he belongs. "This year, for Lent, I'm giving up good health"
The 83-year-old pontiff, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has canceled several official engagements this week as he battled an apparent cold.
His weekly appearance Sunday to pilgrims from a window high above St. Peter’s Square was the first time he has been seen publicly since Ash Wednesday, when he was seen coughing and blowing his nose during Mass.
Francis paused twice to cough Sunday while addressing the faithful. At the end, he asked for prayers for the spiritual retreat, adding "unfortunately a cold prevents me from participating this year. I will be following the meditation from here."
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The next Pope should be an AI avatar. It would save everyone a lot of time, money and... carbon, all this traveling and shaking of hands. The avatar could remain in a meditative posture all the time, and be called up remotely on smart devices... offering unsolicited, inane profundities to users. The Pope could be downloaded from Google Play™.
I'm serious. It doesn't really have to be an intelligent human being, just a facsimile of one. This one proved it.
[AnNahar] Thousands of mourners thronged the coffins of five Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... fighters whose funeral was held Sunday in Beirut's southern suburbs after they were killed in neighboring Syria's northwestern Idlib region.
The fighters were among at least eight Hizbullah members who died Friday in Ottoman Turkish attacks amid fierce fighting between Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's forces and Ottoman Turkish troops and allied militiamen. The deaths marked the highest for Hizbullah in Syria in years.
Hizbullah sent thousands of its battle-hardened fighters into Syria in 2012, a year after the country's conflict began. They've been helping Assad's forces win major battles against rebels, and along with Russian air power have turned the tide of the war. Over the past two years, as the security situation stabilized in many areas, Hizbullah withdrew much of its forces, leaving only a few hundred fighters in several areas across the war-torn country.
The funeral was held in Beirut's southern district of Ghobeiri. A crowd of a few thousand people -- relatives and supporters -- walked behind five coffins wrapped in yellow Hizbullah flags amid cries of "Allahu Akbar," meaning "God is great."
Heavy gunfire rang out as supporters had gun sex, a traditional sign of mourning. At least five people were seen being taken on stretchers after they fainted, apparently overwhelmed by emotion.
It was not clear exactly how many Hizbullah fighters were killed in Friday's attacks in Idlib.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 Hizbullah fighters were killed Friday afternoon in the village of Talhiyeh when Ottoman Turkish drones attacked their post as well as others of the Syrian army.
The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdul Rahman, said the 14 Hizbullah fighters included 10 Lebanese citizens and four of other nationalities, including at least one Iranian.
Hizbullah later released a statement listing the names and photos of eight of its fighters, including an Iranian holy man identified as Sayyed Ali Zengani. It gave no details other than saying that they "were martyred while performing their jihadi duties."
More than a thousand Hizbullah fighters, including several founding members, have been killed in Syria.
Related: Another An Nahar article has photos labelled with the names in Arabic of the eight acknowledged dead men.
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to me the big deal is that after at least a year of staying out of the fighting in Northern Syria (particularly Idlib), Hezbollah has committed (or been committed) to this conflict
it comes at a time when the Turkish and Turkish proxie side has heavy weapons and.., air force assets
and if Hezbollah is committed there must be some degree of IRGC supervision there
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Thousands of mourners five people were seen being taken on stretchers some degree of IRGC supervision there
true about those militias being Shiite allies of Hezbollah and the IRGC but my understanding it that these are lightly armed and poorly trained troops that end up being cannon fodder in actual combat
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[FoxNews] President Trump on Friday said he is nominating Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), months after the Republican congressman abruptly withdrew his name for the post.
"I am pleased to announce the nomination of @RepRatcliffe (Congressman John Ratcliffe) to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI)," the president tweeted. "Would have completed process earlier, but John wanted to wait until after IG Report was finished. John is an outstanding man of great talent!"
Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor who had been a fierce defender of Trump and his agenda, was one of the most vocal critics of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Ratcliffe will likely face a fierce confirmation battle as Democrats have argued he was selected due to his loyalty rather than experience.
In August, Trump announced that Ratcliffe would be withdrawing as his nominee for director of national intelligence just days after announcing him as his pick, citing his tough treatment at the hands of "the LameStream Media."
In a tweet at the time, Trump said that Ratcliffe, whom he tapped to replace Dan Coats, will stay in Congress. But on Friday, he announced plans -- again -- to nominate Ratcliffe.
Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, was appointed last week by Trump to serve as acting DNI while Trump considered who he would nominate to take over the job more permanently. Grenell is an outspoken Trump loyalist with a large conservative following on Twitter and also the first openly gay person to serve in a cabinet-level position.
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Yes. I continue to be amazed at people who openly defy the President and do all sorts of counterproductive things with no consequences at all. If I had done this in the private sector, I would have been standing in the unemployment line faster than you could say, "Just how stupid are you?"
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From Jim Collins -
"You are a bus driver. The bus, your company, is at a standstill, and it’s your job to get it going. You have to decide where you’re going, how you’re going to get there, and who’s going with you.
Most people assume that great bus drivers (read: business leaders) immediately start the journey by announcing to the people on the bus where they’re going—by setting a new direction or by articulating a fresh corporate vision.
In fact, leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats. And they stick with that discipline—first the people, then the direction—no matter how dire the circumstances."
“First Who, Then What?”
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Remind me why JFK picked RFK for his AG?
Maybe media drones can remember that far back. Congresscritters either.
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"...he was selected due to his loyalty rather than experience."
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... says a so-called peace deal between the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the US is an attempt by Washington to justify its illegal presence in Afghanistan, stressing that only domestic talks can stabilize the war-torn country.
The reaction by Iran’s Foreign Ministry Sunday came a day after US and Taliban representatives signed a pact aimed at gradually withdrawing foreign troops from Afghanistan.
Iran said it "believes a lasting peace agreement in Afghanistan will only be achieved through inter-Afghan dialogue with the participation of the country’s political groups, including the Taliban, and by taking into account the concerns of Afghanistan’s neighbors."
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran welcomes any development that contributes to peace and stability in Afghanistan and supports efforts being made in this regard under the Afghan leadership and illusory sovereignty," it said in a statement.
The agreement was struck in the 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 capital, but while it creates a path for the US to gradually pull out of its longest war, many say it will pose serious challenges as the Afghan government has so far been sidelined.
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"We want in!"
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WATCH: Vice President Mike Pence tells Chuck Todd "there will be more cases" but he has "confidence. #MTP#IfItsSunday@VP Pence: "The risk of infection to people in this country remains low." pic.twitter.com/QqbI14IKhI
Coronavirus: Over 87,000 Infected Globally, Nearly 3,000 Dead
[BREITBART] A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 87,000 people globally and caused nearly 3,000 deaths. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
South Korea wages ‘all-out responses’ to virus with 586 new cases
[BREITBART] South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday the government was waging "all-out responses" to contain the novel coronavirus as the country added 586 more cases, taking the total to 3,736. South Korea has the largest national total in the world outside China, after it saw a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days.
Scores of events have been cancelled or postponed over the contagion, while the country’s central bank has warned of a minus growth in the first quarter for the world’s 12th-largest economy, noting the epidemic will hit both consumption and exports.
"The government is now waging all-out responses after raising the crisis alert to the highest level," Moon said at an Independence Movement Day ceremony, scaled down due to the outbreak.
"We will be able to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak and revive our shrunken economy," he added.
Samsung Electronics suspended operations at its domestic smartphone plant in Gumi ‐ 200 kilometres (210 miles) southeast of Seoul ‐ on Saturday for the second time in a week, after a third employee tested positive for the virus.
#breaking North Korea urges foreign diplomats to leave on Friday. Dozens of foreign diplomats quarantined in Pyongyang, North Korea are planning to take an evacuation flight this Friday, a source inside the country tells me.
The source says North Korea’s state run airline Air Koryo will operate the flight to evacuate foreign diplomats from from Pyongyang to Vladivostok, Russia. “But as far as I understand this is not agreed yet with the Russians,” the source adds. Russian MOFA won’t confirm to CNN.
First cases of coronavirus confirmed in Kurdistan Region
[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Regional Government's Health Ministry has announced the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Region. "In the course of the past 24 hours, tests were conducted for 24 suspects. As a result, four people from Sulaimani tested positive for Covid-19 including a family of three and another woman who have all returnees from Iran," the KRG Health Ministry announced in a statement on Sunday.
Iran has quickly become a hub for the virus, with cases in Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Canada, Georgia, Iraq, Kuwait, Leb, Oman, Pakistain, and the United Arab Emirates tracing back to the country.
Eleven die from coronavirus in Iran in 24 hours [RUDAW.NET] Eleven people have died from coronavirus in Iran in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 54, a health ministry official announced on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain the outbreak.
The total number of confirmed cases in Iran has risen to 978, Ministry of Health spokesperson Kianoush Jahanpour announced at a daily press conference providing updates on the outbreak, with 385 new cases of the virus confirmed since yesterday.
"Three new lab-verified cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 have been recorded," the Health Ministry said in a statement.
"They are individuals who had arrived aboard planes coming from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and had been in home quarantine. They were transferred to the quarantine ward at the Rafik Hariri hospital after showing symptoms of the disease," the Ministry added.
The health ministry said that after PCR tests confirmed their infections, they were moved to quarantined rooms in the hospital.
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some countries have for now gotten this under control
e.g.,
India had several cases diagnosed in early Feb but hasn't had a new case in about 3 weeks
Singapore with over a hundred cases and still no deaths.
Many of the provinces in China (not Hubai obviously) have been having no more than a half a dozen new cases per day even though these provinces have 30 million to 100 million people.
even the Diamond Princess, with 700+ cases and 3000+ people on board has gone most of a week without new cases
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Good news, LG, but could simply be a result of limited test kits.
As I recall though, Singapore has excellent health care.
[SultanKnish] Early Saturday morning, a bearded perpetrator in a hooded jacket, wearing gloves, smashed the glass door and windows of the Humboldt Republican headquarters with rocks. He poured an unknown liquid into the storefront office before escaping on a bike into the streets of Eureka in the pre-dawn hours.
There was one obvious clue. The bike had a giant BERNIE sticker on it.
One would snicker, but the tale continues...
When police caught up to the alleged perpetrator, Michael Valls
Lost Coast Outpost has a photo of the miscreant here.
attempted to escape on his bike, then he tried throwing the bike at the cops, and, when he was finally taken into custody, gave authorities a false name.
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[PULSE.NG] Center-right leader Luis Lacalle Pou was sworn in as president of Uruguay on Sunday, marking a new era for the South American country after 15 years of left-wing rule that brought in social reforms but left a stagnated economy.
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[PULSE.NG] Greece has blocked nearly 10,000 migrants colonists trying to enter from the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... border over the past 24 hours, a Greek government source said Sunday.
A massive influx of migrants colonists swelled along the border over the weekend after Turkey's President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... threatened to open its frontier to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... He is seeking to pressure EU governments over the Syrian conflict after an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Syria's Idlib province on Thursday killed dozens of Ottoman Turkish soldiers.
A Greek government source said Sunday its army and police had stopped thousands from entering its territory.
"From 0600 (0400 GMT) Saturday morning to 0600 Sunday morning, 9,972 illegal entrances have been averted in the Evros area," the government source said, referring to the northeastern region along the Turkey border.
Huge crowds tried to cross into Greece via the Kastanies Forest in the early hours of Sunday, the source said.
Greek authorities said 73 migrants colonists had been arrested, but added that they "weren't from Idlib, but from Afghanistan, Pakistain, Somalia".
Some 13,000 migrants colonists have gathered along the Ottoman Turkish-Greek border, including families with young children, the International Organization for Migration said Saturday.
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[BREITBART] Maurice ’Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock in an Arkansas hospital after his father violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.
Mauricio Alejandro Torres was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2016, but it was overturned due to a technicality. State law dictates that capital murder offences that carry the death penalty must be tried in the same state as where they are being prosecuted. And while Isaiah died in his home state of Arkansas, the assault that killed him happened in Missouri.
The disturbing details of his short life and protracted death were set before the court on Thursday. "This is a story of abuse, torture, and murder of six-year-old Isaiah," Benton County Prosecutor Nathan Smith told jurors. "He suffered chronic child abuse syndrome. The pictures you will see are ugly, grotesque."
Isaiah died of septic shock after his father raped him with a stick for eating a piece of cake without permission during a camping trip on March 28, 2015. The bleeding, badly injured little boy was then forced into strenuous exercise by his parents as further punishment. His mother, Cathy, then pushed him to the ground in the midst of his desperate fight for survival.
As he deteriorated, Isaiah’s parents finally alerted emergency medical services, who then transported him to the Bella Vista medical clinic near his home. Unfortunately, it was already too late. The next day, the bacterial infection Isaiah contracted from the torture finally took his life.
Isaiah did not have to die. A year before his death, the Arkansas Department of Human Services twice investigated his parents on allegations of child abuse. Unfortunately, no one ‐ not even the department that explicitly exists for that purpose ‐ took the action needed to save his life.
In the opening statements of the re-trial, two of Isaiah’s teachers testified that they recorded evidence of his abuse and reported it to authorities through the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services Child Abuse Hotline. They received no response. Arkansas carries the fourth highest rate of rape in the United States, and is within the top 15 states for fatal child abuse.
Defense attorney Bill James told the jurors not to "use emotion as evidence," and urged them to "try your best to keep decision based on evidence/fact." Torres’s defense rests on putting the blame for Isaiah’s death on his wife. Cathy Torres has already received a life sentence on charges of capital murder for her part in the destruction of her child.
Mauricio Torres face charges of battery and capital murder. If re-convicted in Arkansas, he will face life imprisonment or execution. The trial will resume on Friday morning, and is expected to last roughly two weeks.
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May I suggest a transfer to Corcoran? It may be that Jonathan Watson - surprisingly talented man of letters and honorary Rantburg folk hero - could provide Mr. Torres with some much needed counciling.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel lobby AIPAC launched its annual conference on Sunday with an appeal for bipartisanship and potshots aimed at Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... , the Democratic front-runner in the presidential stakes.
The jarring contrast reflected how polarized support for Israel has become in the current political climate.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Footage shows the spaceship explode and as it flies off its stand and crashes
The prototype failed to contain its liquid nitrogen in a setback to Elon Musk
The test at 10pm on Friday was part of his push to put people on Mars
Welds failed in the bottom tank header not handling the cold of liquid nitrogen. There are statements that TIG welding may be inappropriate for extreme cold conditions. If one even looks a storage tanks for any super cold fluid they are usually narrow and long. These tanks are 10 meters wide. SpaceX is investigating a new arena here for metal expansion and contraction. One wonders if there are stamping presses that could do a 10 meter stainless end cap.
Video courtesy of M. Murcek:
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Parts of the agreement signed with the Syrian government are full Intelligence cooperation in the fields of military and counter #Terrorism and transferring all captured Syrian mercenary #terrorists to the Syrian authorities after being questioned in #libya#HoR#LNA#Syriapic.twitter.com/iLb1eWhUjc
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] As tensions run high in Syria’s Idlib amid Thursday’s spike in hostilities, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Sunday that the "Ottoman Turkish regime’s terrorist forces" downed two aircraft ‐ thought to be fighter jets ‐ belonging to the Damascus forces.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that it could no longer guarantee the safety of Ottoman Turkish aircraft flying over northern Syria, after Damascus moved to close the airspace over the embattled province of Idlib. "Did ya hear that Yippy? Gonna let them bully you? Stand up to them. Be A MAN. Escalate!"
Damascus announced earlier on Sunday that it would treat any aircraft that crosses into the airspace of Syria’s northwest as a hostile target.
This comes amid media reports that two Syrian aircraft were shot down in Idlib. Both pilots survived after ejecting, according to reports.
SANA reported that the "Ottoman Turkish regime’s terrorist forces" struck the planes, without specifying whether they were Ottoman Turkish troops or Ankara-backed bully boys.
A source in the Syrian Defense Ministry revealed that Ottoman Turkish F-16s had twice in during the day crossed into Syrian airspace, shooting down government forces’ planes.
Syrian air defenses have destroyed six Ottoman Turkish UAVs attacking government forces on Sunday, the source added.
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's military shot down two Syrian government fighter jets over northwest Idlib, hours after forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... brought down a Ottoman Turkish drone over the region. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Turkey's defence ministry said its forces struck two SU-24 aircraft in response to the downing of the drone.
Syria's SANA news agency confirmed the aircraft were hit over northwestern Idlib province, but said no one was hurt in the attack. The pilots used parachutes and landed safely, it added.
The shootdowns came as Turkey announced a full-scale military operation dubbed "Spring Shield" against Syrian targets.
The Syrian military's al-Nayrab airport, on the outskirts of Aleppo city, was hit by air attacks "making it out of service", Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency cited "local sources" as saying.
Syrian forces used the airbase for "attacks against the Ottoman Turkish armed forces and civilians in Idlib", the news report said.
"The regime's range of action has been further restricted as the al-Nayrab military airport has been made unusable," sources were quoted as saying.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently confirm the report.
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[AlArabiya] Two Katyusha rockets have landed on Monday near the US embassy in Baghdad located in the heavily fortified Green Zone of the Iraqi capital, according to Al Arabiya correspondent.
No casualties have been reported.
The US diplomatic mission has been regularly hit by rockets in recent months.
The Green Zone houses government buildings and foreign missions.
Last Wednesday, the United States blacklisted a senior member of Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia, punishing it for its attacks targeting US forces, most recently for killing an American contractor in an Iraqi military base near the northern city of Kirkuk.
The US State Department said it has designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Secretary General of Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), an Iran-backed terrorist group active in Iraq and Syria, which Washington designated as terrorist organization in 2009.
#LNA forces successfully eliminate #AlQaeda leader "Abdel-Moneim Salem Khalifa Al-Hasnawi Al-Hajj", AKA (( "Abu Talha al-Libi")), was among the photos of the #terrorist organization's dead in the first sign of the organization to confirm him killing in #Libyapic.twitter.com/HTVcchU89e
[XINHUANET] Muhyiddin Yassin, a former deputy prime minister, took the oath of office on Sunday to become Malaysia's new prime minister.
Muhyiddin was appointed following the abrupt resignation of 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, who had been in office since the general elections in 2018.
TV live-broadcast showed that Muhyiddin, wearing traditional Malay clothes, pledged to serve the country and the people well before Malaysia's King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah at the national palace.
The ceremony was attended by Muhyiddin's political allies.
Muhyiddin, 72, had served as deputy prime minister under former Prime Minister Najib Razak from 2009 to 2015. He later co-founded Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) with Mahathir and served as its president, joining the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition to win the general election in 2018.
He served as home minister in Mahathir's cabinet.
On the same day of Mahathir's abrupt resignation on Feb. 24, Muhyiddin announced as party president that PPBM is pulling out of the PH coalition, costing its majority in the lower house of parliament.
Muhyiddin later won support from major opposition including the Barisan Nasional led by the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and became a leading candidate as prime minister.
[Jpost] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... fired two unidentified projectiles off the east coast into the sea on Monday, South Korea's defense ministry said.
The ministry said the projectiles were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, where North Korea has fired a series of short-range missiles.
The ministry did not provide details of the projectiles but said it is watching for any additional launches.North Korean 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... oversaw military drills on Friday, a rare public outing amid efforts to prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus in the isolated country.
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.
[CNBC] Todd Baldwin’s net worth crossed $1 million when he was 25.
[CNBC] Sen. Amy Klobuchar will drop out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Monday and endorse former Vice President Joe Biden.
[PJMedia] Nothing illustrates the folly of our 18-year-long nation-building mission in Afghanistan better than the partial peace bought by a months-long negotiation breaking down after just 72 hours.
[Twitchy] Earlier this week, a federal appeals court ruled that Congress cannot sue to enforce outstanding subpoenas against the Trump administration and executive branch. The ruling basically means former White House counsel Don McGahn will not have to testify before Congress.
[Fox News] Sen. Doug Jones took a pricey European fundraising trip this winter where he stayed at two fancy hotels in London and Paris and paid for the luxe getaway with his campaign funds, records show.
Hey Roberts, come take a look at CAM #4. 
[Townhall] While many in the media are becoming more aware of the growing threat of human trafficking, they rarely cover the connection between sexual slavery and abortion. But a new documentary is doing just that.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[ARCAMAX] Adult film actress Riley Reyes was preparing for a "particularly physical" scene last week when she received word of a proposed state measure that would impose strict new rules on her industry."I was completely shocked," said Reyes, who is among "hundreds of thousands" of performers the bill initially sought to have fingerprinted, background-checked and mandated into education programs under a new licensing scheme. "It was weird to have to go to work and act sexy and normal after finding out."
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
[THEFEDERALIST] In the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Sen. 
...the liberal concept (the science is settled!) that men are knuckle dragging bastards who spend all their time watching football, drinking beer, burping, farting, and thumping their women. This doesn't apply if the 
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Arabic for 
[RUDAW.NET] Eleven people have died from coronavirus in Iran in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll to 54, a health ministry official announced on Sunday, as the country struggles to contain the outbreak.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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[BREITBART] Maurice ’Isaiah’ Torres died of septic shock in an Arkansas hospital after his father violated him with a stick for eating a piece of cake.
As he deteriorated, Isaiah’s parents finally alerted emergency medical services, who then transported him to the Bella Vista medical clinic near his home. Unfortunately, it was already too late. The next day, the bacterial infection Isaiah contracted from the torture finally took his life.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] As tensions run high in Syria’s Idlib amid Thursday’s spike in hostilities, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Sunday that the "
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
