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Can we question their patriotism yet? Wanting to kill millions of Americans... Just starting at a Maga rally wouldn't keep the infection to Trump fans, this is vile and stupid and her voters should toss her out as quickly as possible.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential aspirant for the 2020 Elections, has condemned 'anti-Muslim violence'' in India and committed herself to "fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir". The Senator from Massachusetts hasn't been performing very well in the Democratic Primaries thus far and going into Super Tuesday, the momentum is decisively against her. "As a American Indian Muslim man, I feel very deeply about this issue"
The comments against India were made in a new plan Elizabeth Warren released on Tuesday for Muslim Communities in the USA. The abrogation of Article 370 and Kashmir figure into the political equations of the USA because Radical Islamists in the country consider Kashmir to be a matter that concerns the Ummah. After Vermont Senator and Warren's rival in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie Sanders, made a pro-Jihad stance regarding Kashmir at an event organized by the ISNA which has links to terrorism, it appears Warren has decided to tread a similar trajectory.
Elizabeth Warren said in her plan, "Elizabeth knows we must stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves. That includes speaking out against China's cruel, bigoted treatment of its Uighur minority and to hold China accountable for its abuses; fighting for reconciliation and accountability for the atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Burma; condemning anti-Muslim violence in India and fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir; and holding allies like Saudi Arabia to account for abuses of human rights." As anyone aware of the nature of Kashmiri separatism knows fully well, it is Jihad that is being waged against India and any support for it is equivalent to supporting Radical Islamic Terrorism.
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Several years ago, I read a short article about a 30-something guy with early-onset Alzheimer's symptoms. Vegetarian, and didn't take any vitamin supplements, particularly B-12. His brain was fried.
Looks like meat's back on the table, boys!
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News/AP) - Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, killing at least seven people.
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency confirmed the preliminary death toll as first responders search the wreckage.
One twister hit downtown Nashville, collapsing about 40 buildings around the city. One was a concert venue that had just held an event for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ahead of Super Tuesday voting.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper and the sheriffs of Putnam and Benton counties reported the fatalities across a landscape littered with blown-down buildings, snapped power lines and huge broken trees.
Authorities are pleading with the able-bodied to stay indoors, at least until daybreak can reveal the dangers of a landscape littered with blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines and huge broken trees.
Some schools already closed for Super Tuesday voting will be kept closed this week and beyond to handle repairs.
I'm going to guess that basements are a rarity in that area. Also, lots of brick buildings.
I sheltered in a brick building once. Had an epiphany; decided I would take the risk to get anywhere else than do that again. Cracked a beer and tried not to hum, "something, something, down like a ton of bricks."
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February is springtime severe weather preparedness month. It may seem a bit early, but in tornado land if you are having springtime weather, be ready for springtime weather.
Test out your emergency kit. Stuff goes bad, and lifestyle changes may be subtle until you grab your boogy bag. Had a lifestyle change myself I didn't even consider: kids are growing up, able to stay home without supervision. As a result, in the event of an emergency I may not be home to grab the bag. Because I didn't want to herd children and grab multiple bags, everything is in one bag. That bag is too heavy for the kids to comfortably lift - time to repack for a everyone gets their own. Also, one is old enough to be a hand, so medical gloves and such.
And to re-emphasize, take a look at those photos. It is difficult to describe the utter mess you don't see. There is so much broken glass, nails in wood, sharp metal edges that getting around is nearly impossible without good gloves and boots. I don't mean those neat-o goat skin gloves, I mean fencing gloves or sheet metal gloves.
[Mil.com] The White House has nominated Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown to be the next top general to lead the U.S. Air Force. The nomination, announced by the Defense Department Monday afternoon, would make him the first African American officer to serve as the top uniformed officer for any of the military branches.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday that Brown, currently the head of Pacific Air Forces, would be tapped for 22nd Air Force chief of staff, following Gen. David Goldfein, who is set to retire this summer after four years in the position. Brown would also be the first black officer to sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff since then-Army Gen. Colin Powell served as chairman between 1989 and 1993.
"The [Air Force] will be well served by the formidable talents of CQ Brown," Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said in a tweet following the announcement. "He has unmatched strategic vision and operational expertise. His leadership will be instrumental as the service continues to focus on the capabilities and talent we need to implement the [National Defense Strategy]."
Before his post at PACAF, Brown was the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He also served as the head of Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) between 2015 and 2016, during the height of the air campaign against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.
The highly decorated commander, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot by training, commissioned in 1984 and has accumulated more than 2,900 flight hours, including 130 combat hours in various aircraft.
With posts that have taken him across Europe, the Pacific and the Middle East, Brown has also "commanded a fighter squadron, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School, and two fighter wings" throughout his career, his bio states.
[MPN News] After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections.
Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen Bloomberg’s chances at the nomination, one clear weakness of Bloomberg’s has thus far evaded meaningful media coverage: his ties to key players in the Epstein scandal, including Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and even Jeffrey Epstein himself.
Silence among outlets that largely oppose Bloomberg’s candidacy regarding his connections to Epstein and those in his close social orbit is odd, especially when reporting on an individual’s connections to the intelligence-linked pedophile are a sure-fire way to generate considerable negative attention and fodder for rival campaigns. This is particularly striking given that the numerous accusations that Bloomberg has long stoked a toxic culture of sexual harassment at his company, resulting in no small number of non-disclosure agreements over the years, have received some media attention. Yet, the fact that many of Bloomberg’s close friends have been accused of far, far worse has received hardly any coverage by comparison.
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Epstein was the central knowledge key to all of the sordid events and personalities surrounding Little Saint James Island. Take him out, reassign Maxwell and the case goes cold and becomes un-newsworthy rather rapidly.
[RedState] Last week was a week of prayer at the White House. Both the President and VP Mike Pence participated in communion with a Higher Power, and some folks in the media don’t seem to be fans.
On February 27th, Trump hosted the Black History Month roundtable discussion, amid which former NFL player Jack Brewer ‐ as covered by RedState’s Nick Arama ‐ called the Commander-in-Chief "the first black president."
[Babylon Bee] Senator Ted Cruz had challenged Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, telling her, "You're a dummy! I bet you don't even know anything about science!"
Ocasio-Cortez didn't take it lying down. "I'll show you!" she said as she started shaping some clay. "I interned for Ted Kennedy, and I'm going to make a real working volcano using science!"
Cruz looked at the clay volcano Ocasio-Cortez made but wasn't impressed. "Sure, it looks like a volcano, but you can't make it erupt like one. That's impossible."
"Just you watch!" Ocasio-Cortez said as she poured baking soda into the clay volcano.
"Common household baking soda?" Cruz questioned. "How can you make a volcano with that? You've gone mad."
"No, I just know science!" Ocasio-Cortez said and then poured vinegar into the clay volcano. It then erupted with a white foam.
Cruz was terrified. "Aiee! She's a witch! She's made a real volcano, and she's going to kill us all!"
"It's not witchcraft," Ocasio-Cortez explained. "It's science. Baking soda is dehydrated bubbles, and vinegar reinflates them. Water doesn't work as water kills bubbles since they're closely related to the aliens from Signs."
"I'm no match for her science knowledge!" Cruz screamed as he fled from the Capitol in terror.
Ocasio-Cortez stood triumphantly, but that was soon ruined by a janitor demanding, "Who made this mess?" causing Ocasio-Cortez to flee as well.
[ To Bee or not to Bee?]
[DailyWire] Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden embraced far-left anti-gun extremist Robert Francis O’Rourke during a rally on Monday night in Texas, declaring that the failed Senate and presidential candidate was going to lead Biden’s anti-Second Amendment efforts and Hillary for Head of Cybersecurity; Stallwell for Head of EPA, Noxious Gasses Division - any others?
A Turkish fighter jet has shot down a Syrian government warplane over western Syria, the country's defence ministry has said.
An F-16 jet from the Turkish air force shot down an L-39 plane belonging to Assad's forces over Idlib province on Tuesday.
Turkey is attempting to stop a Syrian government attack on Idlib amid fears it will spark a fresh refugee crisis on its eastern border. f-16 vs L-39 doesn't seem like much of a fight
[MAIL] A white supremacist has been jailed for 56 years after stabbing a student to death outside a bar - just three months after he was released from prison after killing another man.
Craig Matthew Tanber, 40, stabbed Shayan Mazroei, 22, twice outside The Original Patsy’s Irish Pub in Laguna Niguel, California, in September 2015.
Tanber's girlfriend, Elizabeth Thornburg, had got into an argument with Mazroei when the two went outside to smoke.
Witnesses said Thornburg hurled racial insults at the Iranian-American, and security camera footage showed her spitting on him, before chasing him back into the bar.
A bouncer then told Tanber and Thornburg to leave the bar.
But Tanber returned later and stabbed Mazroei twice - in the heart and shoulder - before fleeing the scene.
Mazroei stumbled back into the bar and collapsed, and died later at Mission Hospital.
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If you want to find a real concentration of 'white supremacists' just look in the prison system. Usually a refuge for newbies trying the survive the disproportional number of black and latin gangs in the same joint. Tribalism writ large. Seems to be a pattern in there.
Aircrew of the AC-130U gunship 'Spooky 41' with Hurlburt Field's 4th Special Operations Squadron were honored at the military facility in Fort Walton Beach
The 14-man crew received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 12 Air Medals for for providing nine hours of fire support
Crew helped U.S. and coalition forces during April 2019 mission in Afghanistan
While allied forces battled ISIS on the ground, the crew of Spooky 41 helped to ensure the safe evacuation by helicopter of 15 injured ground personnel
DFCs are awarded for 'Heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight'
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Different medals for different ranks. Just like the PCS awards (remember the little gold stars from elementary school?).
- for the civie types - PCS, permanent change of station, basically good attendance record given at the end of an assignment. Heaven forbid you try to give a troop an impact award no matter how critical he was in making something happen.
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When you go to the DFC’s Wikipedia page and review recipients and their actions the pilots and the enlisted men were probably awarded the correct medal.
[FoxNews] Federal prosecutors said Monday that a software engineer on trial for the largest leak of classified information in CIA history was “prepared to do anything” to betray the agency.
Joshua Schulte is a former CIA coder accused of sending the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks a large portion of the agency’s computer hacking arsenal — tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas.
His defense attorney argued the man had been scapegoated for a breach that exposed secret cyberweapons and spying techniques.
Prosecutors have said the leak was devastating to national security, as it exposed CIA operatives, brought intelligence gathering to a halt and left allies wondering whether the U.S. could be trusted with sensitive information.
Schulte left a trail of evidence despite learned attempts to erase his digital fingerprints, Laroche said in closing arguments. Schulte became disgruntled at the CIA, he said, and took meticulous steps to plan — and cover up — the 2016 theft.
Schulte, 31, worked for a CIA group in Langley, Va., that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries. The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA would hack Apple and Android cellphones in overseas spying operations.
The government settled too hastily on Schulte as the leaker, Shroff said, ignoring suspicious activity by one of his colleagues who was ultimately suspended. The prosecution's theory has “giant holes,” she said, including the unresolved question of why WikiLeaks waited nearly a year to publish the archive.
Yeah, they always use that one. It means he saw what they were doing from the inside and became righteously angry.
The Vault 7 leaks exposed the CIA as being able to plant an electronic signature on hacks to create a false flag. Remember when the CIA claimed Russian hacking due to finding "Russian" malware on infected systems? From Vault 7: CIA can customize the "fingerprints" hacks leave behind and make it look like someone else did it.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques stolen from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
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Prosecutors have said the leak was devastating to national security, as it exposed CIA operatives, brought intelligence gathering to a halt and left allies wondering whether the U.S. could be trusted with sensitive information.
The events of 9/11 were "devastating." The frustration discussed herein point to a lack of a 'plan B' or contingency. Risk of compromise is inevitable and must be taken into account with any intelligence operation or project.
[WSJ] The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded from seven-session streak of declines with its best day in more than a decade, lifted by investors’ bets that central banks can stabilize markets and shield economic growth from the impact of the coronavirus epidemic.
Monday’s moves helped reverse some of the declines suffered last week‐the worst for major U.S. indexes since the financial crisis. Gains were broad-based, with all 11 sectors of the S&P 500 rising more than 2%. Apple and Microsoft surged, adding a combined $193 billion in market value for the day, according to FactSet data. U.S. oil prices posted their largest one-session advance since mid-September.
The blue-chip index of 30 stocks surged 1293.96 points, or 5.1%, to 26703.32 in its biggest one-day percentage gain since March 2009 and its biggest point advance on record. Other major indexes posted their biggest one-day percentage gains since December 2018, with the S&P 500 rising 136.01 points, or 4.6% to 3090.23 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gaining 384.80 points, or 4.5%, to 8952.16.
Investors piled into wagers that the Federal Reserve and other major central banks may lower interest rates, possibly in tandem to boost the firepower of stimulus efforts. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note plumbed new record lows, settling at 1.085%.
[Reuters] Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey delivered an emotional apology on behalf of her husband on Monday, hours after he pointed a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the couple’s home and threatened to shoot them.
The confrontation, captured on videotape by the activists, came a day before Lacey, the county’s first African-American top prosecutor, faces off against two challengers in the Democratic primary. Black Lives Matter believes she has been too lenient on police officers in excessive-force cases.
"My husband, I spoke to him just before I came here. His response was in fear and now that he realizes what happened, he wanted me to say to the protesters, the person that he showed the gun to, that he was sorry," Lacey, 63, told a morning news conference.
"He’s profoundly sorry. He meant no one any harm. It was just him and I in that house and we really didn’t know what was about to happen," Lacey said of her husband, David.
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If Black Lives Matter, they have a damn big job in their own community. Quit blaming others for the massive amount of black on black violence and death.
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It was bigger than a G42, but not a Desert Eagle.
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I think the state law is that you cannot shoot an intruder unless he (or she) is inside your home. So homeboy might have overreacted and this incident took place the day before an election so BLM timed it well. You could say he played right into their hand but I wouldn't let it keep me from voting for his wife.
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And, yes, it is a big frickin' gun. I'm no weapons expert but if he pointed that thing at me I'd raise both hands and slowly back away.
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BLM were up at 5:30? Something doesn't smell right with that.
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Now see, if they'd been in Texas and standing in his yard, not on sidewalk, welp, that's all she wrote. He didn't know them, it was dark, they were on his property. Requirements for lethal force met.
US President Donald Trump recognizes the right of #Greece to enforce the law on its border, according to the Greek premier's office, amid a migration crisis evolving on the country's borders with #Turkey.https://t.co/bBygy2btku
President Erdogan speaking at party congress, these minutes: "We are just getting started to show strength. Regime's losses in the last few days is just the beginnition."
[FoxNews] Gross gaming revenue in Macao plunged 87.8% in February. beating the over/under!
Gross gaming revenue in Macao fell 87.8 percent year-over-year in February to 3.1 billion patacas ($386.5 million), according to the Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau. The sharp drop came after the government on Feb. 4 ordered casino operators to shut down for 15 days to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
February marked the second consecutive month that Macao was affected by the outbreak. Gross gaming revenue fell 11.3 percent year-over-year in January — to 22.1 billion patacas — after Macao was forced to close its borders to mainland China during the Jan. 24-30 Lunar New Year holiday, a particularly busy time for traveling in China.
Macao, the only place where gambling is legal in China, receives about 76 percent of its revenue from the industry. Gross gaming revenue for 2019 was 292.5 billion patacas ($36.6 billion), more than three times the size of Clark County, Nevada, home of Las Vegas ($10.36 billion).
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I've been to Macau 7 or 8 times in the last 30 months. Place is amazing in that is so not Vegas. I walked through the high roller room at a very well known property and watched guys play with $500k chips. No fun - all business.
Being down 88% is devastating.
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[SUMMIT.NEWS] Greek border police have rubbed out a Syrian migrant attempting to reach Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as festivities grow following The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... ’s announcement that the border was "open."
The Greek border is being besieged by thousands of migrants colonists convinced they can reach EU welfare havens following Ankara’s decision to stand down.
Following festivities that saw migrants colonists pelt police with rocks and other objects, one victim was shot through the mouth and died at the scene.
"This is the first reported death among immigrants colonists trying to cross the border from Turkey to Greece," tweeted journalist Jenan Moussa. "A Syrian man is rubbed out by Greek border guards. Here is the video."
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#Lebanon can no longer protect its people or ensure a decent life for them after months of anti-government protests and an economic meltdown, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab says in a speech to the country’s honorary consular corps.#LebanonProtestshttps://t.co/89PEA2dv6Rpic.twitter.com/5shsTMH9vI
#Iran has arrested two individuals who were filmed licking religious shrines in the Shia holy cities of Qom and Mashhad amid the #coronavirus outbreak in the country, according to state media.https://t.co/CPQejqGCFG
[Business Insider] Turkish forces decimated the Syrian army in a series of drone, artillery and bomber attacks this weekend, leaving Syria's top ally Russia weighing how much it should intervene to stop the offensive.
Turkey turned its total air superiority ‐ via a fleet of cheap drones and high-tech F-16s ‐ into an operation that claimed at least two Syrian jet fighters, eight helicopters, 135 tanks, and 77 other armored vehicles, with as many as 2,500 Syrian troops killed, according to the Turkish defense ministry.
It's left the Syrian military unable to protect its frontline armor and artillery units, which have been methodically targeted by cheap but highly accurate missiles.
And with Russia thus far unwilling to directly confront the Turkish military, Bashar al-Assad's army could continue to suffer, paving the way for Turkey to achieve its goal of pushing regime forces out of Idlib.
Turkey's defense ministry has been tweeting footage from the attacks:
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The goal is to continue occupying former Ottoman Province of Aleppo.
Major General Al-Mabrouk Al-Ghazwi, Commander of the Western Operations room: We assure the citizens that the sounds of violent explosions in Mitiga are the explosion of the Turkish air defense platforms. #LNA#Tripolipic.twitter.com/ihKkcOq4zS
The university newspaper has a photo of the miscreant here.
[Jpost] A University of Maryland student was arrested last week for sending antisemitic messages to a Jewish student on campus, the University of Maryland Police Department (UMPD) announced in a statement.
According to the Police, a female university student reported that she received antisemitic text messages from a person she did not know, while she was at McKeldin Library, on December 10, 2019.
Following investigation, UMPD was able to identify Muqarrab Ahmed Abdullah, a 24 year-old student from La Plata, Maryland, who "sent multiple message to the victim because of her religious beliefs," UMPD's statement reads.
Abdullah has been charged with electronic communication harassment, telephone misuse and a race/religion crime.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a strike in Syria near the border with Israel in the Quneitra region, citing an attempt to carry out a sniping attack.
"A short time ago an IDF force identified an attempt at a sniping attack in the northern Golan Heights," the military says. "The force attacked the vehicle involved in the attempted attack."
#UPDATE: Unconfirmed local media reports suggest a possible Israeli airstrike in the Golan Heights west of the Syrian town of Hadar near the Israeli border. Waiting for more.
[IsraelNationalNews] Iranian FM Zarif and his entourage were likely COVID-19 carriers at the Munich Security Conference. The Democrat party senator who met with him for over an hour in Zarif's hotel room must be watched for signs of disease.
[Judicial Watch] The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) each refused to either confirm or deny the existence of records related to Obama White House Ukrainian intelligence holdover Eric Ciaramella who is also charged with being the whistleblower at the heart of the Democrats’ recent impeachment proceedings kicked off last fall.
Judicial Watch received two letters from the top government agencies that were sent in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits filed in December. Judicial Watch reports that both the CIA and DOJ failed to provide communications between Ciaramella and former deep-state FBI operatives Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, or former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. The group also requested communications records between Ciaramella and the Special Counsel’s Office.
"The CIA can neither confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to the requests," the CIA wrote in a letter to Judicial Watch.
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One man can declassify any and all of it. Would be interesting to see what happens in both Deep State offices. Should be hand walked through. Me, I'd send armed Marines (who are not subject to Posse Comitatus as it is specifically directed at the Army not the Navy, which has something to do about using the Army during Reconstruction to enforce the law.)
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Of course the records exist, otherwise they'd say they didn't exist.
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Did Ciaramella have one of those fake jobs like George Constanza from Seinfeld? He just showed up with a briefcase and everyone thought he was an employee.
[AlAhram] Five Malian soldiers were killed when bandidosgunnies armed with rocket launchers attacked a checkpoint in a central region of the conflict-torn nation, a military source and local official said Monday.
"At least five soldiers were killed on Sunday in Mondoro during a jihadist attack," said a source from the Mali army base in Mopti, the largest town in the region, adding that the assailants had also "suffered losses".
A local official said the bandidosgunnies had launched the assault "using rocket launchers fired at parked military vehicles".
Coronavirus in Washington state: 6 dead, 12 others infected
[KOMONEWS] SEATTLE - Six people have now died from the coronavirus in the Puget Sound area and at least 12 others have been infected, health officials said Monday, as King County's top executive issued an emergency declaration in response to the outbreak.
The newest victims in King County announced Monday include:
- A man in his 70s, a resident of LifeCare who was hospitalized at EvergreenHealth. The man had underlying health conditions and died Sunday.
- A woman in her 70s, a resident of LifeCare, was hospitalized at EvergreenHealth. She had underlying health conditions and died Sunday.
- A woman in her 80s, who was hospitalized at EvergreenHealth and was one of the earlier reported infected and died Sunday.
And a Snohomish County man in his 40s at EvergreenHealth has also died. He had been a previously-announced infection.
Overall, five deaths are King County residents and one death is a Snohomish County resident. Of the 12 other reported, confirmed infections, nine are King County residents and three are from Snohomish County.
Gov. Jay Inslee earlier issued a statewide emergency declaration Saturday after a man in Kirkland died of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States.
Kuwait’s Health Ministry announced 10 new cases of coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number to 56, a ministry official was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Iranian council member close to supreme leader dies from coronavirus [DAWN] A member of a council that advises Iran's supreme leader died after falling sick from the new coronavirus, state radio reported, becoming the first top official to succumb to the illness that is affecting members of the Islamic Republic's leadership. Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died at a Tehran hospital of the virus, state radio said according to AP. He was 71.
MAINLAND CHINA REPORTS 125 NEW CONFIRMED CASES OF CORONAVIRUS ON MARCH 2 VS 202 ON MARCH 1
[Ynet] The potential treatment was developed in record-breaking 42 days; The first phase of clinical trials in humans is set to begin in April.
American biotech company Moderna Inc., which announced it has completed development of world's first version of a coronavirus vaccine, has shipped on Monday the first batch of its rapidly developed vaccine to U.S. government researchers, who will launch the first human tests, checking whether the experimental shot could help suppress the epidemic originating in China.
The new vaccine, going by the name mRNA-1273, is an mRNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus encoding for a prefusion stabilized form of the Spike (S) protein. The S protein complex is necessary for membrane fusion and host cell infection and has been the target of vaccines against the coronaviruses responsible for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Additionally, Pharmaceutical company GSK announced on Monday it was working in concert with Chinese biotech company Clover Biopharmaceuticals on a coronavirus vaccine. The collaboration will revolve around the development of a potential protein-based vaccine known as COVID-19 S-Trimer, manufactured by the Chengdu-based pharma company.
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) are today announcing that a fourth Illinois patient has tested positive for COVID-19. Read more: https://t.co/TZGbyLe9Bv
#US government military laboratories are working to develop a vaccine for the fast-spreading #coronavirus, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Mark Milley.https://t.co/mLL8ho3FnF
I'm presuming that for Iran (and maybe for the US eventually), the number of people infected but showing no symptoms is going to prevent us from knowing the real extent of this disease.
If this is also true for Hubai province, the fatality percentages only apply to people with symptoms. Given Hubai's population of 60 million and the probably spread of the virus in its early stages, a significant percentage, say 5%, of its population actually were infected. If so the actual fatality rate is about the same as the seasonal flu. Of course I've made a number of assumptions here and each of them could be wrong.
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No party supporters detained. Oh ! It's Dawn.
The inhumanity with which muslims went to town on hindus they lived with for years is something that will horrify the weak hearted. Intestines ripped out by hands, hearts removed, men burnt alive, tortured for hours, children drowned in sewage...
This is why it's essential to keep the muslim helpless, poor and miserable in Asia. The Asian sunni is the most despicable sample of the human race, a demon in human form.
The central govt mostly turned a blind eye to it all, because a) the hindus in these regions had voted for the majorly muslim Leftist Delhi gummint and they 'brought it upon themselves' and b) those who died were all poor people. Clerks, constables, drivers, shopowners and rickshaw pullers. No one in this society cares about the poor - a typically Indian conceit.
[Medforth] While politics, the state and mainstream media were still busy trying to lie about the rampage of an obviously crazy man in Hanau on all channels into a “right-wing motivated terrorist attack” in order to blame it on the AfD, the Cologne carnival brought back memories of New Year’s Eve 2015/16.
Police NRW Cologne notices a new phenomenon: people deliberately provoke celebrating members of the carnival party to start fights.
Usually the thugs are not dressed up, they have no interest in celebrating. They are deliberately on the lookout for Carnival revellers who have drunk a lot of alcohol. They provoke their victims and then beat them up.
Some of it I have seen with my very own eyes, other reliable eyewitnesses known to me describe it as ” civil war-like conditions”, a police officer called it “hell”, and a friend who works in one of the nearby clubs said: “My main job the last few days has been to treat head wounds and the like”.
Much more happened, however, because not only were “fights” provoked, but simply started immediately, head-on or from behind, and brutally kicked at victims who were already on the ground. This is what is missing from the reporting.
Another striking but decisive detail is missing: The perpetrators have one thing in common, they come from the Islamic migrant milieu. Turks, Arabs, North Africans; some of them are German-speaking (i.e. have been living here for a longer period of time), others are not (i.e. Merkel’s guests).
The victims also have one thing in common: they are so-called ” ethnic Germans”. While the Catholic Church cries for Hanau on Shrove Monday, a Muslim mob in Cologne’s carnival has organized four days of targeted hunts for German kids. That would have been the whole truth.
But we can’t be expected to tell the truth, because that could push Hanau into the background and play into the hands of the right wing. Therefore they are just ”younger people”. Now, some may still consider it politically correct not to explicitly emphasise the origin of the perpetrators and victims in such acts. The Press Code suggests this in cases where the origin does not play a significant role in the evaluation of the crime.
But it does here, because it is the motive: Muslims’ hatred of the Western way of life.
[Time] link is to a 'maybe yes, maybe no' article a few days ago
However, I noticed today that the confirmed new cases reported today in Hubai Province was only 196 compared to 398 a week ago and 1933 the week before that (using the WHO situation reports).
This is in a population of about 60 million.
Of course the Hubai numbers might be way wrong but if the numbers are accurate or even close to accurate it does lend some support to the 'spring will tame' theory.
Also, SKor, Italy and Iran all have an acceleration of new cases but given the non symptomatic period for this virus that might be reasonable.
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They keep telling me no.
Or it would be 80 degrees right now.
[ToloNews] Just two days after the US-Taliban ...Arabic for students... peace agreement was signed in Doha, a letter was seen by TOLOnews allegedly from the Taliban leadership to its members saying that the "RIV has ended" and that attacks on government forces should resume. The letter also said that US forces should not be attacked.
The seven-day reduction in violence (RIV), which concluded with the signing of a peace agreement with the US and Taliban in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Saturday, February 29, was widely considered successful, by both soldiers on the ground as well as military and government officials. Although it was not a complete ceasefire, major attacks were not implemented by all sides in the conflict.
Taliban spokesmen have neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the letter to TOLOnews.
There are reports of Taliban attacks today in Balk, Faryab, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Zabul and Kapisa.
On Monday night a front man for US Forces in Afghanistan quoted Gen. Scott Miller, the commander of the Resolute Support Mission and US forces in Afghanistan: "The reduction in violence was a confidence builder. We're very serious about our obligations and we expect the Taliban will be serious about their obligations. The United States has been very clear about our expectations‐the violence must remain low."
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I told you they won't let you leave. It'd be best if the American forces simply denied that peace has been broken and... err, continue to leave. Leave them to their fate and kill them from afar if they dare venture in your domain again.
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Because the Afghan Gov never agreed to it. The Taliban can demand ice cream cones for every member but until agreement, have only doorknobs to lick.
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You cannot expect them to honor an agreement when they have no honor. It's time to walk away.
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Because the Afghan Gov never agreed to it.
Pliny Black9343 nails it. The Taliban are the only ones who loudly claimed it had been agreed to. In fact, the Taliban are imprisoned by the Afghans, not the Americans. And the Afghans were not included in the negotiations. They are just gearing up to send their negotiators to Doha now, I believe, and no doubt an exchange of prisoners is one of the items on the agenda.
[Rudaw] A Kurdish journalist has been sentenced to over two years in prison by a Ottoman Turkish court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Monday for terror-related charges.
For several years, Aziz Oruc worked for Dicle News Agency (DIHA), a channel shut down for its affiliation to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by the Ottoman Turkish government in 2016.
A case was launched against him back in 2009 for alleged ties to the PKK, which the Ottoman Turkish state considers to be a terrorist organization. Ottoman Turkish authorities pressed terrorism charges against Oruc in 2017, forcing him to flee arrest with his wife and children to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where he continued to work in media.
Diyarbakir’s 9th heavy penal court handed him a two year and a month sentence on Monday for "propagandizing for a terrorist organization," in reference to the PKK, an gang that has fought the Ottoman Turkish state for greater Kurdish rights in the country for close to four decades.
Living in continued fear of Ottoman Turkish prosecution while living in the Kurdistan Region, Oruc attempted to reach Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to claim asylum. Unable to take the conventional asylum route to Europe through The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , he crossed into 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 headed north to Armenia.
But without the necessary paperwork to enter Armenia, border authorities detained him and deported him back to Iran, from where he was forced to return to Turkey.
Abdullah Ekelek, head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in Dogubayazit, Agri province, traveled to the nearby Iranian border to meet Oruc and facilitate his escape to Europe.
Before Oruc could leave Dogubayazit, Ottoman Turkish forces swooped in to detain him and Ekelek on December 11. Oruc was formally arrested on December 18, and has since been held in detention at Patnos Prison in Agri.
Attending his Monday court hearing at via videophone, Oruc dismissed the accusations he faced as unfounded.
"I am a journalist. The posts shared are news content. 10 of my posts stated in the indictment are news, [they have] no propaganda content," he told the judge in his defense, reported independent Ottoman Turkish news outlet Bianet.
Turkey ranked 157 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index for 2019. According to the same index, the country is the world’s most prolific jailer of journalists.
Ottoman Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of journalists for their coverage of its operations against the PKK and cross-border military operations against Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria. Many other pro-opposition journalists have been arrested for their opposition to Ottoman Turkish domestic policy.
A Rudaw news hound and his cameraman, as well as two other journalists working for the pro-Kurdish Mesopotamian News Agency (Mezopotamya Ajansi), were detained by Ottoman Turkish authorities on Saturday while covering the migrant crisis unfolding near Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria.
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[BabylonBee] HOUSTON, TX‐Fresh off his afternoon nap, presidential candidate Joe Biden gave a fiery, high-energy speech in Houston today, claiming to be the only candidate who could beat incumbent Ronald Reagan.
"I am the only candidate who can unite the party to defeat Reagan," he said to scattered applause. "When Super Thursday hits here in a few weeks, we can rally the 150 million Democrats here in the great country of Texas to vote for me so we can get Reagan and his crony Dick Cheney off the Iron Throne there in the Imperial Senate. Go Hoosiers!"
Aides scrambled to turn off Biden's mic but he beat them away with his walker.
"The time has come for the reign of Tippecanoe and Tyler too to end!" he shouted, though by this point he had wandered into a nearby field and no one could hear him.
[Libya Observer] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ' envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame, who is also the Head of the UNSMIL, has announced on Twitter that he is stepping down from his position for health reasons.
Salame said on Twitter on Monday that he tried to unite Libyans and restrain foreign interference, but for health reasons, he can no longer continue with this level of stress and therefore he asked the UN Secretary General to relieve him of his duties.
Salame, a former Lebanese culture minister, was appointed as a UN envoy in Libya in June 2017 and has struggled to bring the two sides together for talks to end Libya's conflict, especially after the latest wave of escalation started in April 2019.
This resignation comes after many Libyan politicians and social media activists have called on Salame to leave, saying he is biased to one party of the conflict over the other.
[Washington Business Journal] The Army, Romania and South Korea awarded Lockheed Martin with a $1.14 billion contract modification for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GLMRS) and support equipment Thursday.
“If our 5,000 prisoners — 100 or 200 more or less does not matter — do not get released there will be no intra-Afghan talks,” says Taliban spokesman https://t.co/w8wYc25Xaw
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Afghanistan had only 1 reported infection as of this morning's report.
However, if the 'there are dozens or hundreds of asymptomatic for every infected showing symptoms' theory is correct, Afghanistan govt, Taliban, isis or al q will get hit just like everyone else.
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There is plenty of smuggling and just plain visiting relatives across the Iranian border, lord garth. Given the dearth of communications and the even worse dearth of modern medicine far from the modernities of Kabul, it’s likely the real statistics will never be known locally, let alone collected for international use.
[ToloNews] Any reservations Afghanistan has with Islamabad should be resolved bilaterally rather than involving the United States, Pakistain’s foreign minister said on Sunday, in reference to part of a joint US-Afghan declaration on peace efforts.
The declaration was announced on Saturday by Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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... , US Defence Secretary Mark Esper and NATO
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[AlAhram] The court had already referred the preliminary death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s to the grand mufti
A Cairo criminal court has sentenced terrorist leader Hisham Ashmawy
...also in our archives as Hesham El-Ashmawy and Hisham el-Ashmawi, he was also known as Abu Omar El-Mohager (the immigrant). El-Ashmawy was thrown out of Egyptian special forces in 2011 for extremism. He went on to help found Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, then the local branch of Al Qaeda, with whom he shared the results of his military training. When they became ISIS in the Sinai, he left for the Western Desert to form the Al Qaeda linked al-Mourabitoun. At some point they wandered off to Libya, where in 2018 the LNA caught him and sent him back. Egypt had convicted Mr. Ashmawy in absentia in 2014, leaving very little for the courts to do now — though they are nonetheless doing it all over again ...
to death, as well as 36 defendants, in the case known in local media as the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis case.
The court convicted the 37 defendants of carrying out 54 liquidations of police and citizens, most notably coppers Mohammed Mabrouk, Mohammed Abu Shakra and Mohammed Said.
The defendants were also convicted of bombing three security directorates, including Cairo Security Directorate in 2014, and vandalising 25 public and private institutions, including police headquarters, churches and mosques.
The court also gave life sentences to 61 defendants, sentencing 21 to ten years in prison and 15 others to 15 years.
The sentences comes a few weeks after the same court referred the preliminary death sentences to the grand mufti for his recommendation, which is a necessary, albeit non-binding, procedure before issuing a death sentence in the Egyptian penal code.
The defendants can still challenge the sentences at Egypt's Court of Cassation.
The process is also a punishment. No doubt by the time he is actually hanged or shot (though given it’s Egyptians, hanging is considerably surer) he will be grateful it’s finally over...
This is the second death sentence given to Ashmawy, a former Egyptian military officer turned krazed killer, in recent months.
One of the most-wanted Egyptian krazed killers, he was apprehended in Libya in October 2018 and handed over to Egypt by forces loyal to Libya’s Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... in May 2019.
In November 2019, an Egyptian military court sentenced Ashmawy to death for his involvement in a number of terrorist attacks, most notably a 2014 ambush that killed 22 Egyptian military border guards near Libya.
Ashmawy led the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the military has said. He broke away from the group after they swore allegiance to the Islamist State krazed killer group in late 2014.
The men are among more than 200 defendants accused of carrying out more than 50 attacks that included killing high-ranking police officers and bombings that targeted the Egyptian capital’s police headquarters. The charges include a 2013 assassination attempt on the Egyptian interior minister.
The court also sentenced 61 defendants to life in prison, and 85 others got sentences ranging from 15 to 5 years in prison.
Monday’s verdict can be appealed before a higher court.
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An Egyptian court sentences Hesham Ashmawy, a former army officer turned extremist militant leader, to death along with 37 others following their conviction on terrorism-related charges.https://t.co/txL9YGC5Tf
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building on#12:
these self centered POS then come to a potluck and bitch cuz stuff has meat in it. how about you bring your own, or better yet, stay home?
Mrs.Ret makes neat little signs for her stuff alerting those with gluten, nuts or other issues. And still they bitch.
phuque ‘en, let em starve.
[JPost] The final voter turnout was 71% - up from 69.8% in the previous election.
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 first 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.
When Channel 13 updated its numbers at around 1 a.m. Israel time, Gantz gained one seat to 34 and the blocs shifted slightly, leaving the right-wing with only 59 seats.
Channel 12 also updated its numbers, giving Likud 37 seats, Blue and White 32, Arab Joint List 15, Shas 9, Yisrael Beytenu 7, UTJ 7, Labor-Gesher-Meretz 7 and Yamina 6.
The numbers are expected to change overnight. The votes of soldiers, who tend to lean to the right, have not yet been counted and the Joint List tends to go down a seat when the soldiers' votes are added. But, if the Right does not obtain its 61st seat, it could end up being because the far-right Otzma Yehudit refused Netanyahu's repeated requests to quit the race.
If this is true, it's the Likud's *best ever* result under Netanyahu. September 2019: 32. April 2019: 35. 2015: 30. 2013: 31 (with Beitenu). 2009: 27. The magician has done it again. #IsraElex2020https://t.co/nf9Hx06z0Q
[NYPOST] An undocumented Democrat was released under reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... ’s "sanctuary city" policy ‐ only to sexually assault a 3-year-old girl and leave her sobbing for her father in a McDonald’s bathroom, according to authorities.
Mexican national Christopher Puente, 34, was only in Chicago because cops refused to hold him for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after he was arrested last year, ICE charged in a statement.
He was then arrested last month for allegedly assaulting the 3-year-old after luring her to his bathroom stall while her dad helped her brother in the restaurant restroom, the Chicago Sun-Times has reported.
"The victim called out ’Daddy, Daddy,’" Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy told a bond hearing last month, according to the Sun-Times.
Puente confessed, telling cops he was "f‐ked up and thinking dirty," Leighton Criminal Courthouse heard ‐ but seemed stunned when he was held without bail for predatory criminal sexual assault, the paper said.
"You don’t understand. This is my first time," the hearing-impaired defendant signed rapidly in court, the Sun-Times said.
Puente ‐ who already had a long rap sheet ‐ was deported in 2014, but sneaked back over the Texas border just five days later, ICE said last week.
Agents filed a formal request for him to be detained and ultimately deported when he was arrested for theft last June ‐ but the agency says the "detainer was not honored," leaving him free for his latest attack.
"How many more victims must there be before politicians realize that sanctuary policies do not protect the innocent?" asked Robert Guadian, field office director of Chicago enforcement and removal operations. "Puente should have been in ICE custody last year and removed to his home country. Instead, irresponsible lawmaking allowed him to walk free and prey on our most vulnerable."
Chicago police defended their decision not to cooperate with ICE on immigration-related business, ABC News said.
"The Chicago Police Department remains committed to protecting all Chicago residents regardless of their immigration status," Chicago police said in a statement. "Our pledge to restrict ICE access to our information systems and our refusal to cooperate with ICE immigration enforcement measures has not changed."
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said ICE should "do their job better," ABC said.
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"The Chicago Police Department remains committed to protecting all Chicago residents regardless of their immigration status,"
Except for innocent three year old girls of course.
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Mayor Lightfoot's full response to this was painful to listen to.
The inherent stupidity burns.
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Every victim of illegal alien crimes in sanctuary cities and states need to sue their local government officials for damages. Until those officials feel the pain in their pockets books, the thefts, rapes, murders, manslaughters and mayhem won't stop.
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^ Sadly, no. He's incarcerated in Corcoran in California. But maybe we could push for him to have a "tour" of the nation's prisons. We could hold a GoFundMe campaign to pay the government for the expense, buy him a new cane, and keep his commissary account full. (You know, in case he gets hungry after exerting himself or something.)
[FOXNEWS] A federal judge Monday granted a request from conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to have former Secretary of State 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... sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about her use of a private email server to conduct government business.
Clinton has argued that she has already answered questions about this and should not have to do so again -- the matter did not result in any charges for the then-presidential candidate in 2016 after a high-profile investigation -- but D.C. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said in his ruling that her past responses left much to be desired.
"As extensive as the existing record is, it does not sufficiently explain Secretary Clinton’s state of mind when she decided it would be an acceptable practice to set up and use a private server to conduct State Department business," Lamberth said.
The judge went on to recognize that while Clinton responded to written questions in a separate case, "those responses were either incomplete, unhelpful, or cursory at best. Simply put her responses left many more questions than answers." Lamberth said that using written questions this time "will only muddle any understanding of Secretary Clinton’s state of mind and fail to capture the full picture, thus delaying the final disposition of this case even further."
Lamberth even gave some examples of lingering questions about Clinton's emails, such as how did she come to believe that her private emails would be preserved under normal State Department processes, who told her this and when, at what point did she learn department records management officials did not know about the server, "[a]nd why did she think that using a private server to conduct State Department business was permissible under the law in the first place?"
Make a great VP for Biden, neither can recall a life experience. When did they know and when did they forget? Alzheimers is a painful thing to watch in public. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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Hillary will probably have memory problems, take the 5th, say she was busy planning Chelsea's wedding or doing yogo.
Maybe Cheryl Mills, Paul Combetta (who was involved in deleting Clinton's emails), as well as Brett Gittleson and Yvette Jacks will know something. Maybe one of them will roll over on Hildo. The options are not good: tell the truth and get a break vs. Epstein solution or Ft. Marcy Park. Strong incentive to lie and survive. Prisoner's dilemma?
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Theater, I fear, but at least it's not Trump on the center stage - or in the center ring (of the circus).
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It doesn't matter if they remember, cause ignorance of the law is no excuse. They had an illegal server, they go to jail. Anyone who impedes or obfuscated this attempting to bury it should also go to jail.
Especially for Mr. McCoy, a sample of the kinds of discussions he missed by joining us later. Put in Short Attention Span and Page 4: Opinion because it is the discussion thread that is of interest, not the article itself — click on the headline to go to the archived post.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Buddhist teacher who was beaten into a coma by a mob demanding the release of Islamic insurgents has only a slim chance of survival, her doctor said Saturday. Juling Kamphongmoon sustained severe injuries, including blood clots in her brain, when she was beaten by Muslim villagers Friday who were holding two other women teachers hostage at a government school in southern Thailand. "There is slim chance that she will survive. I would like to urge Thais throughout the country to pray for a miracle to happen to Juling," Dr. Sumet Phirawut told a news conference.
More than 200 villagers surrounded the school in Narathiwat province to demand the release of two suspected Muslim rebels arrested earlier the same day in connection with the killing of two marines. The hostages were held about three hours before being released. Another teacher was slightly injured in the protest.
Last September, villagers in the same district held hostage two marines who were stabbed to death. The villagers believed that they had been involved in the killing of two of their fellow residents at a village teashop. Police have arrested dozens people in connection with the killings.
More than 1,300 people have been killed in violence in the south since a separatist movement flared in January 2004. The country's three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani are the only Muslim-majority areas in Thailand, which is predominantly Buddhist. Southerners have long complained of mistreatment by authorities and discrimination, especially in jobs and education.
Not that I'd advocate knuckling under to thugs, but has anyone in Thailand considering lopping off these three provinces and building a big fence?
Supplement 7:40 pm CDT: I've set the flag to save this thread as a classic.
I appreciate Dave D.'s list of options. I'm also pretty much in lotp's corner. I'd prefer not to commit gruesome acts, but as Old Spook notes, the Islamicists started this, not me: however gruesome it gets, they're not going to get me, my country and (especially) my daughter. The liberals who find this distasteful had better find a way to shut the Islamicists down; if they can't, I'll ratchet my way up Dave's list til I find something that does the job.
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Don't cede an inch, in fact instead of any 'lopping off' why not a reclamation project in the name of civilization. Grab a company of Thai Rangers and give the FEDEX order, it absolutely HAS to get done.
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So this means we should continue to meddle in affairs that don't concern us? And kill innocents? I don't follow.
There are sane people saying, "You know, maybe mass murder isn't the answer" only to be viciously shouted down by Internet Tough Guys[tm]. Another person says "You've just handed the presidency to Democrats" which correctly predicts Obama just two short years later.
You are aware that the thread you linked contains several calls for genocide? You know who else called for genocide? Adolf Hitler.
Fighting monsters by becoming a monster is wrong. When you solve your problems with mass murder, you'll just turn on us sooner or later. You know, because you became a monster. That's what monsters do.
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Fighting monsters by becoming a monster is wrong... turn on us...
This is just the sort of loser philosophy that has led to the fucking mess we are all in. Contrary to peoples' appreciation of it as elevated thinking, it arises from the guilt-ridden yoke of past misadventures and hegemonic endeavours of predecessors which people hang around their own necks. These humanist dogmas were created to control rather than to sanctify the human spirit of its base nature. In the absence of real faith, that is seen only by God; they appear to be shiny baubles you can pin on and appear saints to your own kind. But even an animal a family takes in and loves, when it senses evil approach the family will promptly rip its fucking throat out or die trying. It's pretentious of man to try and attain to higher nobleness.
In an age when the enemy populates harems with hundreds of unwilling humans for horrendous exploitation; when babies are slaughtered before mothers who once nursed them through their fevers; when thousands are wiped out without fault for just being your countrymen... you dare to speak for some donkey grazing arsehole and his fucking scavenger family that willfully chooses the poison it's gonna die by ?
I'm not a monster after 24 years of offing muzz. I signed up to just pitch in out of naivety as a kid who never pulled the limbs off insects. Fuck I've never shot at an animal in my life ! It's circumstances that need dirty motherfuckers worse than the other guy. If king Saul, of towering moral stature will keep sparing Agag, some Samuel shall still have to kill him ! Of course Samuel and his 'mass murdering' God is also anathema to today's closet atheists.
It's not appetite that makes the soldier do what he does, it's the condition of the world shaped by stiff necked, pompous, self-righteous, hypocrite academics who will not stop a dogmatist right when he/she is beginning a crazy cult. The arsehole politician and journalists who will fan a flame to shine in its light until the fucking thing becomes a conflagration. The smug bastard judge that will not hang a summbitch when his list of crimes is just beginning. Lilly livered faggots afraid of 'becoming monsters' !
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When you get a chance, Dron66046, click on the headline and read the thread, especially Dave D’s comment #38, reproduced below. The gentleman is an engineer’s engineer, who I understand spent his career designing highly technical parts for NASA’s various toys. I’ve seen none better than he at following logic to its inexorable conclusion, no matter his feelings on the subject — feelings he makes very clear, despite Mr. McCoy’s blanket condemnations.
We don't have many choices in dealing with Islamic aggression. Whenever I try to take inventory of our options in this struggle, the list I come up with is pretty short.
In all, I come up with fewer than a dozen distinct possibilities. All of them are bad. Most are VERY bad. A few are just plain horrific.
We could always just surrender, of course: Islam's stated mission is to convert the entire world to Islam, and many Muslims (apparently a growing number) fervently believe that is their manifest destiny. We could dispense with this entire struggle by becoming Muslims and being done with it.
We could try appeasement: buy them off by giving them what they want-- whether money, or license to slaughter all the Jews in Israel or elsewhere, whatever.
We could just ignore Islamic terrorism: shrug off atrocities like the Islamic attacks on 9/11 and those in Madrid, London, Bali, Israel and Beslan.
We could withdraw from the rest of the world and its troubles, keep our heads down and maintain a low profile. We've let our isolationist impulses reign before, maybe we can again.
We could go back to treating Islamic terrorism as a purely criminal matter. Hunt down the terrorists who attack us and prosecute them for their crimes-- but only after they've committed them. Judging by what I've been hearing a lot of liberals saying lately, this seems to be their preferred approach.
We could try to liberate and reform Islamic culture, on the theory that their violent impulses toward non-Muslims arise mainly from their abuse at the hand of despots. This is what we're doing now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maybe it will work; maybe it won't. Maybe it will only work half-assed, at far too high a price. We'll see. So far the results don't look very promising IMO.
We could try relying on intrusive domestic security measures, preventing future terrorist attacks by turning America into a police state-- complete with intrusive government monitoring of all aspects of our lives and suspension of habeus corpus. Anyone even suspected of terrorist activity or sympathies, simply disappears in the middle of the night.
We could respond to future terrorist attacks (or threat of attack) by brute conquest and subjugation: invade their countries, assassinate their political and religious leaders, outlaw Islam and bulldoze their mosques, and rule them with an iron fist.
We could resort to collective punishment, responding to terrorist attacks on American soil with extravagently disproportionate retaliation against their cities and their infrastructure. Repeated often enough, this will eventually lead to deterrence.
We could resort to expulsion and quarantine-- outlaw Islam within the U.S. and expel all Muslims, citizens or not. Forbid entry into the U.S., even for brief visits, to all Muslims regardless of country of origin, and all nationals of whatever religion from countries that are predominantly Muslim. Seal the Canadian and Mexican borders tight with orders to shoot to kill, and NOT ask questions later.
And finally, we could end this once and for all with a 30-minute war of utter annihilation: just nuke the entire Islamic world and let our descendents deal with a thousand years of collective guilt.
And that's it. You can combine some of the above in varying degrees, and there is some interpolation possible between some of the above; but I think this list pretty much outlines the range of possible responses to Islamic terrorism.
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I read them all. Thank you, TW. The gentleman is so right. I agree one cannot take racial vendetta to it's bloody conclusion, but the jihad has been waged on us. Of course I believe there's a spiritual aspect to the very nature of the muslim ravager too, stemming from the christian world's own shameful apostasy, but I'd best not dwell on that.
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It wasn't a downie, it was a meme mocking Internet Tough Guys[tm]. I guess lèse-majesté is a crime around here. Too easy for members of the 101st Chairborne Division to say "kill em all!" from behind a keyboard. Oh, the irony of defending the dignity of an alleged downie while simultaneously advocating for mass murder and genocide. How does something like that not trigger feelings of cognitive dissonance?
I still don't follow how this post means that we should continue to create problems and murder innocents in countries that don't concern us.
you dare to speak for some donkey grazing arsehole and his fucking scavenger family that willfully chooses the poison it's gonna die by ?
This is why I say arguing on Rantburg is just like arguing with the Left. Both deliberately misinterpret what you say, speak it back to you in a distorted form, and then attack the straw man they just created. But hey, credit to Dron66046 for at least attempting an argument of some kind, even a bad one, instead of the schoolyard name-calling that usually passes for argument around here.
When did I argue in favor of these people? I didn't. Read #3 again. Sheesh.
When you become a monster, it's just a matter of time before you turn on what you claimed to defend. In Afghanistan our government and military have been lying to us for a decade about what's been going on there. Becoming monsters turned them into monsters, and now they're predictably screwing us over.
The biggest threat to us is not Islam, it is our own governments that have claimed new, frightening powers for themselves in the name of fighting Islam. Where are today's young men more likely to die or be horribly maimed, physically or mentally? In a terrorist attack in our countries, or on the battlefield fighting a war with no defined end condition and no victory in sight?
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I keep assuming people are meaning what they're saying.
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Again, if you really want to face the truth, modern jihad was born out of America's misadventures, yes. Nobody can deny it. The UK helped propagate the power of the sasquatch in Asia too. Anybody at the Burg will tell you I've always maintained America must pull out of Afghanistan, and this meddling and nation-building is only hurting you and profiting some selfish people. Here we are solidly agreed.
But if you think a realization of past errors and an apology for opening Pandora's rape basement is enough to avoid the jihad, you're mistaken. Islamic jihad is here to stay until it's eradicated. The enemy is not the sort of people who will be appeased by a degree in a trumped up 'Afghan studies' course, or front seats in buses. You haven't wronged them that way. They have decided you are an affront to their god. Let that sink in.
Jihad is truly a monster, HM. You have just not seen it up close. God forbid that you or anyone you know should ever have to.
Your basic premise stems from a smug personal disaffect with your military, the 'ohh our boys are dying' refrain notwithstanding. You seem to believe they are just not worth your trust. If your boys say they are perceiving an imminent threat from these countries, the solution is not to tell the boys to shut up and turn off the lights. Yes, the solution has not been found yet, as TW has reminded above. It's a bloody, hit-and-miss ongoing process. I think it would be the overt opinion of mostly everybody here except you, that to choose the bloodier, 'inhumane' options would be wiser. Rantburgers are saints for what's really required. I know the lifeblood of the jihad, the clerics and pashas of doctrine that fester in mofussil towns and streets. I know how they become the Bin Ladens and Salauddins. The extent to which rage and sexual hedonism are seeped into the Umma, the level of their humanity and your humanity. Believe me. You live in an evolved society, while this has regressed into beyond animal.
The islamist ceases to remain human when he/she's gone beyond a certain level of commitment to Allah. And what is such a belief anyway ? An audacious expectation that the creator of humanity, the All in all will rush up to them and shake their hand for 'services rendered' ? It is a level of cheek for which God himself must hate them.
The biggest threat to us is not Islam, it is our own governments that have claimed new, frightening powers for themselves in the name of fighting Islam.
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Yeah, I'm an Internet tough guy, never fired a weapon in anger, don't even own one, and too old to start now. But I can still think and I think my survival instincts have served me well so far, the evidence being that after all these years I'm still alive.
My survival instinct, and all the evidence that I've seen and heard, tell me that if you give them an inch they'll take a mile. Like in Thailand where the trouble seems to be in the three southernmost provinces, some might be tempted to let the jihadis have those provinces. But then the Muslims will start to spill over into other provinces. They don't want peace, they want conquest and they won't stop with three provinces.
So, yeah, I'm a lot more comfortable in front of a computer than I would be with a rifle. But I voted for Ronald Reagan to get tough with the Soviets and I vote for Donald Trump to get tough with the muslims.
Collective punishment, expulsion and quarantine seem reasonable to me. I'm not quite ready for nuclear annihilation but, if the Mad Mullahs look like they might actually get their hands on a nuke, I might be. I think it would be better to confront them with conventional methods before it gets to that point instead of appeasing them until it does.
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Modern jihad born out of America‘s misadventures?? Modern jihad was born out of the Muslim reaction to the fall of the Ottoman caliphate, championed by Hassan al-Banna, founder of the the Islamo-fascist Muslim Brotherhood, who told Muslims to take up the sword in 1924. Everything claimed subsequently is just facile justification for actions they were going to take anyway.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish security forces launched an operation to hunt attackers near the Iranian frontier on Monday after one Ottoman Turkish customs agent was killed when a rocket hit an armored bus carrying customs staff.
The rocket struck the vehicle’s front wheel around 0550 GMT on Monday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter.
He said "the snuffies were followed and cornered," but did not specify who the attackers were believed to be.
Ottoman Turkish Trade Minister Rushar Pekcan said one of the customs agents was killed and several others maimed, including four at death's door.
The office of the governor of Agri province said the vehicle was hit while in transit from the Dogubayazit area to a border gate at Gurbulak, causing it to skid off the road and flip over. It did not say who had carried out the attack.
The vehicle was near a parking lot for freight trucks some 3km (2 miles) from the border, hospital and security sources said.
Ambulances, security forces and search and rescue teams were sent to the area.
Some Ottoman Turkish media reports said the attack was carried out by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Death Eaters, who have fought an insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984. The PKK are active in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... but less so in Agri.
Television footage showed helicopters flying over the area after the attack, while Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency said two combat helicopters had fired rounds on "areas where snuffies are believed to be."
Anadolu said a soldier was critically maimed when an explosive exploded during reconnaissance operations in the area.
Libyan National Army #LNA Air defense platforms target a Turkish UAV that took off from the military base of Maitiga, and shot it down at the Al-Khala axis #Tripoli. after it attempted to target the positions of our military units in the area.#Libyapic.twitter.com/tWE4mZQHZt
The International Atomic Energy Agency (@iaeaorg) overseeing #Iran's 2015 nuclear deal plans to call out Tehran for its lack of cooperation and failure to provide access to sites of interest to the agency.https://t.co/ipXU6dr7YD
[KOGO.IHEART] Four teenagers were maimed when an 18-year-old driver intentionally ran them over as they were walking on the sidewalk in Burlingame, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. Two of the victims suffered serious injuries and were taken to Stanford Hospital, while the other two teens were taken to a different hospital with less severe injuries.
The SUV driver, identified as Omeed Adibi, struck a fire hydrant after he mowed them down.
"The neighbor, the front room is where he watches TV, he was just house-sitting for his parents, and he heard a loud crash, and he was the first on the scene with the water going crazy," local resident Joe Ram told KBCW-TV.
Abidi expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but was taken into custody a few blocks away. Authorities said that he deliberately targeted the group, but did not provide a motive for the attack. He is facing charges of felony hit-and-run and attempted homicide.
Lt. Laura Terada.said Abidi, of San Mateo, wrongly thought the teenagers had tampered with his SUV, damaging it, but his friends had done it as a prank, The Mercury News reported.
“It was a case of mistaken identity,” Terada said, according to the publication. One of the injured teens is in critical condition while the other two remain hospitalized and the fourth has been released.
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Me thinks their is a strong odor of BULL S#IT here.
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Burlingame police are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to contact the
Burlingame PD Investigations Division at (650) 777-4100.
An 18-year-old driver who allegedly ran over four boys in Burlingame over the weekend was upset because he thought the boys had left dog poop in his SUV, according to police.
Police said Omeed Adibi of San Mateo slammed into the boys — ages 12 and 13 — as they were walking on a sidewalk around 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Adibi sped off, but alert neighbors tracked him down and police eventually arrested him.
[NBCNews] Chris Matthews, one of the longest-tenured voices at MSNBC, announced his retirement during Monday’s night’s airing of his talk show, "Hardball." The thrill up the leg is gone
Matthews, 74, said he and MSNBC had mutually agreed to part ways. The decision followed a series of events that resulted in criticism of the host’s statements about Bernie Sanders, African-American lawmakers, and comments he had made to female journalists and coworkers.
"I’m retiring," Matthews said. "This is the last ’Hardball’ on MSNBC."
Matthews was due to retire in the near future with the events of the past week playing a factor in the timing of the move, an MSNBC spokesperson said.
Matthews, a former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, has hosted "Hardball" on MSNBC since 1999 and remained a centrist voice
...y’all forgot the scare quotes around centrist, O NBC journalist...
on the cable news channel’s prime-time programming, which often features commentary that is further to the left.
NBCUniversal is the parent company of MSNBC and NBC News.
We had three submissions for this story. Charger commented:
The party line is an ever-moving target, comrades.
Guess he'll be spending more time with his pool boy, I mean gerbil.
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BREAKING: Chris Matthews says he's retiring from MSNBC, apologizes for comments he's made about women. https://t.co/43P3LDNpeK
#1
MSM can't pay huge salaries any more for these premadonnas like they used to be able to pay. I suspect they are looking for any excuse to cut costs these days.
#4
RE: #1 - The MSM has money for football. Check out the fight over Tony Romo.
CBS retained high-profile NFL announcer Tony Romo this offseason, holding off advances from ESPN before reportedly signing him to a 10-year, $180 million contract. But the network reportedly was hedging its bets by pursuing another former quarterback, Peyton Manning, to pair with Jim Nantz. Link
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Well Romo's a class act (Manning too) and sports does pay the freight. Unlikely either of those guys will generate bad press for the network.
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Back around 2000 I used to think Mathews was alright. I read his book and he was obviously liberal but not frothingly so. He hid it well. A lot of them did back then.
Then after election 2000 he didn't try to hide it anymore and he showed his colors as a vile petty little man. I'm glad the left eats their own.
[KhaamaPress] A series of U.S. aristrikes killed six turbans of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said the U.S. military’s unmanned aerial vehicles targeted the ISIS turbans in Suki district of Kunar on Sunday.
The statement further added that the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted the ISIS turbans in Dewa Gul Vally of the district, killing at least 6 ISIS bully boys.
The 201st Silab Corps also added that the airstrikes also killed Ghani, the commander in charge of ISIS prisons and Qari Zahir, another local senior commander of the group.
The ISIS sympathizers have not commented have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
The U.S. forces conducted the airstrikes against ISIS turbans days after an agreement was reached with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group to reduce violence across the country.
[Libya Observer] The General Manager of the Field Medicine and Support Centre, Tariq Hamshari, remarked on Sunday that 30 % of those maimed so far are civilians, adding that the Centre has managed to evacuate approximately 90 % of the trapped families in the conflict zones.
Hamshari also said in a press statement, that the centre initially employed 200 staff; however, it now has increased to 1,000 medical staff and administration personnel.
He was further indicated that the center operates 13 field hospitals and 20 ambulance bases covering all areas from Abu Shaybah, south of Gharyan, to the outskirts of Sirte.
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Adil Abdul Mahdi will walk away from his role as #Iraq’s caretaker prime minister and will not conduct most of his official duties, he says in a statement, deepening a political crisis and threatening an unprecedented power vacuum.https://t.co/COQhKsCsaD
While talking to the Saudi minister, PM Imran stressed the importance of the international community playing its role in preventing the ongoing atrocities in occupied Kashmir and promoting a peaceful solution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute https://t.co/wVcGJzuQap
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group restarted its insurgency operations on Monday as the ’Reduction in Violence’ period ended following the signing of a peace deal with the United States in 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... on Saturday.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson to the Taliban told BBC that they will not target the U.S forces in Afghanistan, but their operations against Afghan forces will resume as the RIV week has ended.
Clearly they fail to understand the purpose of trust building.
This comes as a Taliban bombing explosion near a football ground in the eastern Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... killed 3 and maimed 11 on Monday afternoon.
The security officials confirmed the incident took place at 16:20 local time in the Khwaja Rahimi village of Nadir Shah Kot district in the eastern Khost province.
The explosives were placed in a cycle of violence, an official said.
In another separate incident, Talibs have kidnapped 50 civilians in the Chak district of Maidan Wardak province, local authorities confirmed.
"The kidnapped civilians are the residents of Chak district and they have no link with the government", Muzafaruddin Yamin, Maidan Wardak governor said.
According to Yamin, the Taliban have kidnapped civilians to later ask for an exchange with the Taliban prisoners.
[NYPOST] Last month, the US Senate confirmed America’s new ambassador to Leb, Dorothy Shea. She will need all the help she can get. Although the ambassador is well-respected for her regional expertise, she is dealing with a country on the verge of economic "implosion," according to the World Bank, and one mired in formidable humanitarian and security challenges. Leb’s Christian community, the largest in the Middle East (excluding Egypt), is at risk.
She should have the help of a special envoy who can bolster and broaden her outreach.
Ambassador Shea takes up her post just as that small Mediterranean country is poised to hit rock bottom in a downward economic spiral brought on by entrenched governmental mismanagement. For years, the government has failed to meet international goals for reducing deficit spending. It even passed up generous aid by Cedre, a multilateral donors’ conference for Leb, rather than adopt reforms.
March 9 marks the first of several deadlines over the next quarter, when Beirut is obligated to repay billions of dollars in Eurobonds. A sovereign default, which seems likely, could result in the collapse of Leb’s banking system, wiping out depositors’ savings and bankrupting businesses and government services.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... ’ top official in Leb warns that thousands of Lebanese could be driven out by economic despair. Many Christians are not waiting for the state to fail, according to Lebanese sources. The exodus has already begun.
All 18 of the country’s religious communities are feeling economic pain. Forty percent of the population is living in poverty, according to the government’s own statistics, and that number could soon reach 50 to 70 percent.
Leb’s hundreds of Christian charities are depleting their reserves to serve the needy, irrespective of religion. Hunger is now reported in all parts of Leb, as some are no longer able to provide the basic needs for their families. In some places, schoolchildren tell teachers, they haven’t eaten in days. Nationwide, there are critical shortages of medicine, and hospitals are curtailing treatments and have ended nonessential surgeries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... unprecedented protests, drawn from all of Leb’s religious groups, have been going on for four months. While these protests are mostly peaceful, as unemployment increases, violence undoubtedly will too. As we write, there are media reports of protesters’ tents being targeted in drive-by shootings. There is a risk of complete chaos if the state fails.
Christians in the region have been leaving their native countries in strides. Will Leb’s faithful be the next ancient Church to face a mass exodus?
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And all they have to do is offer open arms to their southern neighbors. Hard to do when one is holding weapons.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A senior Iranian politician and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerryand similar exemplars of Merkin values... has reportedly been infected with coronavirus.Hossein Sheikholeslam has been infected with coronavirus and is currently hospitalized in Tehran’s Masih Daneshvari hospital, the editor-in-chief of the state-run news website Entekhab, Mostafa Faghihi, tweeted on Monday.
Sheikholeslam was a senior advisor to Foreign Minister Zarif and had previously served as Tehran's ambassador to Syria.
Several officials have contracted the virus in Iran, which has the highest corpse count in the world outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died from coronavirus, state media reported on Monday.
Iran's Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi was reported as having coronavirus by the semi-official news agency ILNA on February 25.
On Thursday, former Justice Minister and Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi was hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms.
On Saturday, Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi became the latest Iranian member of parliament to announce that she has been infected with coronavirus.
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Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Twenty-three Iranian MPs have so far tested positive for coronavirus, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Abdolreza Mesri said on Tuesday, while state media reported the death of a senior judiciary official due to the virus. Mesri did not name the MPs.
Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi has died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
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.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential aspirant for the 2020 Elections, has condemned 'anti-Muslim violence'' in India and committed herself to "fighting for the rights and freedom of the people of Kashmir". The Senator from Massachusetts hasn't been performing very well in the Democratic Primaries thus far and going into Super Tuesday, the momentum is decisively against her.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Gray News/AP) - Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, killing at least seven people.
[Mil.com] The White House has nominated Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown to be the next top general to lead the U.S. Air Force. The nomination, announced by the Defense Department Monday afternoon, would make him the first African American officer to serve as the top uniformed officer for any of the military branches.
[MPN News] After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections.
[RedState] Last week was a week of prayer at the White House. Both the President and VP Mike Pence participated in communion with a Higher Power, and some folks in the media don’t seem to be fans.
[Babylon Bee] Senator Ted Cruz had challenged Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, telling her, "You're a dummy! I bet you don't even know anything about science!"
(Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[WSJ] The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded from seven-session streak of declines with its best day in more than a decade, lifted by investors’ bets that central banks can stabilize markets and shield economic growth from the impact of the coronavirus epidemic.
[Reuters] Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey delivered an emotional apology on behalf of her husband on Monday, hours after he pointed a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside the couple’s home and threatened to shoot them.
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[Judicial Watch] The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) each refused to either confirm or deny the existence of records related to Obama White House Ukrainian intelligence holdover Eric Ciaramella who is also charged with being the whistleblower at the heart of the Democrats’ recent impeachment proceedings kicked off last fall.
[DAWN] A member of a council that advises Iran's supreme leader died after falling sick from the new coronavirus, state radio reported, becoming the first top official to succumb to the illness that is affecting members of the Islamic Republic's leadership. Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi died at a Tehran hospital of the virus, state radio said according to AP. He was 71.
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[BabylonBee] HOUSTON, TX‐Fresh off his afternoon nap, presidential candidate Joe Biden gave a fiery, high-energy speech in Houston today, claiming to be the only candidate who could beat incumbent Ronald Reagan.
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