Fishing expedition/Leakfest stopped...for now
[WRAL] The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
The court's unsigned order keeps previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election out of the hands of Democratic lawmakers at least until early summer. The court will decide then whether to extend its hold.
The federal appeals court in Washington ruled in March that the documents should be turned over because the House Judiciary Committee's need for the material in its investigation of President Donald Trump outweighed the Justice Department's interests in keeping the testimony secret.
Mueller's 448-page report, issued in April 2019, "stopped short" of reaching conclusions about Trump's conduct, including whether he obstructed justice, to avoid stepping on the House's impeachment power, the appeals court said.
The committee was able to persuasively argue that it needed access to the underlying grand jury material to make its own determinations about the president's actions, the court said.
The materials initially were sought last summer, but by the time the appeals court ruled in March, Trump had been impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate.
The Justice Department said in its Supreme Court filings that the court's action was needed in part because the House hasn't given any indication it "urgently needs these materials for any ongoing impeachment investigation."
The House had opposed the delay on the grounds that its investigation of Trump was continuing, and that time is of the essence because of the approaching election. The current session of the House will end Jan. 3, and lawmakers elected in November will take their seats.
The committee investigation "continues today and has further developed in light of recent events," the House told the justices, citing the "possible exercise of improper political influence" on decisions to seek a shorter prison term for Trump confidant Roger Stone and end the prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, despite his two guilty pleas.
The case is one of several ongoing court disputes between the Trump administration and Congress.
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week over whether Trump's accountants and banks must turn over financial records to House committees. The administration is not a party to the case, but is backing the president.
The appeals court also is weighing whether former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before the committee to answer questions related to the Mueller investigation. And the Justice Department has said it will ask the Supreme Court to step in and kill a lawsuit alleging that Trump is illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel.
Mueller's report detailed multiple interactions between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, and examined several episodes involving the president for potential obstruction of justice. Mueller said his team did not find sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and the Kremlin to tip the election, though pointedly noted that he could not exonerate the president for obstruction.
Portions of the report were blacked out, including grand jury testimony and material that Mueller said could harm ongoing investigations or infringe on the privacy of third parties.
Grand jury testimony is typically treated as secret, in part to protect the privacy of people who are not charged or are considered peripheral to a criminal investigation. But several exceptions allow for the material to be turned over, including if it is in connection with a judicial proceeding.
Lower courts agreed with lawmakers that impeachment is considered a judicial proceeding, rejecting Justice Department arguments to the contrary.
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long piece in New Yorker; Great Mullah is old and sick, power struggle already underway
The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution
For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
...Isolated and dysfunctional, the Islamic Republic had reached a dead end, she said: "The regime has lost all popular support, and yet it is incapable of change. The result is that the Iranian people have lost hope. We are hopeless now."...
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This guy, Trevon Martin and Michael Grey had four things in common. They are black, they had impulse control issues, they tried to take a lawful gun owners weapon away and now they are 6 feet under.
[FOX] May. 20, 2020 - 5:01 - Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, says media opposition to institution's reopening was 'totally political.'
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Over 30 states' flagship universities so far have said they'll open this fall.
Only the Ivy League schools, with the exception of Brown of all places, and two states' schools have said they will NOT open. Care to guess which states?
Yep: Pomade Boy and Gov. Whitless strike again....
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The California Plan for Creating an "Enduring Democratic Majority":
1. Import millions of illegals and give them protection from from law enforcement
2. Destroy all oil and gas exploration & production in the state and ruin light manufacturing, small businesses with extreme regulation
3. Flood the schools with semi-literate or illiterate Mexican spawn and drive down the quality of the University of California so that even those few high-achieving Californians who can gain admittance prefer to leave the state for their college education
4. Watch as 200,000 middle-class Californians permanently leave the state every year for neighboring states
[NBC] Like many people in quarantine, every day I find some time to hide from my children and hop on to my Peloton, the stationary exercise bike with built-in internet-enabled spin classes that has become a must-have for some people during this time away from, well, everything.
I love my Peloton, which (despite the hefty price tag) has more than paid for itself in burned calories and much-needed zen. And I am clearly not alone.
Peloton isn't the problem: What holiday outrage over a stationary bike says about American society
Indeed, despite a very wobbly IPO back in September, Peloton's stock has surged to record highs during the pandemic — almost doubling its price — valuing the company at more than $10 billion. (Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, is a shareholder.) And whereas Peloton was losing luster before the COVID-19 crisis, it now reports both a backlog of bike orders and 2.6 million members logging on to their classes each month. The bike is so coveted, wrote The New York Times this month, that even as millions lose their jobs, thousands of others are "panic buying" Peloton bikes to keep in shape while gyms remain closed.
But the more I use my Peloton bicycle, the more I don’t feel so good about the company behind it. Because just as their now-infamous holiday-season ad last year convinced many people that the company had an unacknowledged gender problem, their video and music programming suggests to me — as an African American — that they also have an unrecognized race problem.
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Since I f'd my knee decades ago, I've use the Nordictrack (much cheaper before inflation). Hook up a small tv and old dvd player and kill a half an hour. In today's PC world, I guess 'Nordic' makes it racist.
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Dear black people -- if using stuff created by whites makes you uncomfortable, then stop using our stuff.
You know, like the ballot box, indoor plumbing, electric power, phones, computers, gas, diesel or electric-powered transportation, streaming, social media, etc.
Instead, simply use the sub-Saharan African equivalents of those things.
We just signed a new trade deal with Wakanda, right?
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I had an indoor trainer a while ago. I used it to rehab my knee for two weeks, and it's been sitting in a corner ever since. Like eighteen years ago. I simply cannot get on a bike and remain indoors.
[The Blaze] In this episode of "The Rubin Report," BlazeTV host Dave Rubin was joined by "Dirty Jobs" star Mike Rowe to talk about the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns and how they might permanently change many aspects of our lives.
Mike explained why he believes the pandemic has revealed college and higher education to be an overpriced luxury, and said he hopes that this will cause us to rethink how we structure education in the US.
"I think when the dust settles, higher education is going to be revealed as the luxury brand that it truly is," he told Dave. "And when you take away all of the stuff that has nothing to do with learning or connecting, you're gonna be left with a breathtakingly overpriced product."
Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:
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As long has HR (private and government) defaults to college credentialing, there will be a demand for paper mills. Guess who is over represented in HR?
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Discussion on the Transterrestrial Musing blog at Loverro.
The comments were split between (1) The Wrath of Boeing, and/or (2) Loverro had some private business dealings (stock transactions, maybe) that looked a little too cute...
I would think (2) in the current political climate.
[Mil.com] An advocacy group is preparing to go to court unless the Department of Veterans Affairs swiftly removes Nazi symbols and references to Adolf Hitler from the headstones of three German prisoners of war from World War II buried in national veterans cemeteries.
The symbols and the inscriptions "must be eradicated and eradicated now," he said Tuesday. "This is completely and totally wrong."
Weinstein, a former Air Force captain and graduate of the Air Force Academy, said MRFF is prepared to go to federal court if the VA refuses to remove the headstones. He also called on Congress to take action.
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WTF does this have to do with religious freedom?
Those men served in the German army under Hitler. If their descendants wanted the tombstones changed, that's one thing -- but the inscriptions were put on there by men who were putting their lives on the line against the Nazis.
Veterans need to treat this guy to a soap party, because once he establishes that an "offensive" tombstone can be rewritten, he's going to be expanding what's "offensive".
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We. called them blanket party back in the day at MCRD. Most effective for a guy with hygiene deficiencies.
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This is just the Left screeching "nazi" at anything it can get its teeth into. Just imagine how much they had to examine to find this tiny bit. But now it's national news.
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As they died prisoners of war, messing with their graves might actually be a war crime. God knows they screamed loud enough about dead jihadi's getting pissed on.
[Science Times] A study conducted by researchers from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, have found that the amygdala in mice's brain can significantly control their sense of pain.
According to Fan Wang, the lead author of the study and the Morris N. Broad Distinguished Professor of neurobiology in the School of Medicine, recent studies have determined parts of the brain that could 'turn on' pain signals, but this was the first time they were able to pinpoint where pain could be 'turned off.'
The researchers also discovered that general anesthesia also stimulates a specific subgroup of inhibitory neurons in the central amygdala called the CeAga neurons. Although mice have a comparably bigger central amygdala than humans, Wang says she doesn't think there would be any difference in the two brain systems from controlling pain.
The mice were initially given a pain stimulus, and the researchers mapped out the brain's pain-activated regions. They then uncovered that about 16 brain centers that could process the sensory or emotional aspects of pain were receiving inhibitory pain input from the CeAga.
When the scientists diminished the activity of these CeAga neurons, the mice responded and displayed behavior indicating intense pain. They also determined that low-dose ketamine activated the CeAga center and wouldn't function without it.
The team's next step is to search for drugs that can activate only these specific cells to suppress pain. According to Wang, they could potentially develop pain killers in the future using their discoveries from the study.
[PJ] In a victory for long-suffering champions of less government interference, President Trump just armed the heads of federal agencies with the freedom to cut onerous regulations as a way to get the nation’s crippled economy back on track.
This president has a been a breath of fresh air when it comes to regulations, gleefully chucking away hundreds of pages of them at a time. It’s really nice to see Republicans learning how to play the "never let a crisis go to waste" game for once, but focusing the effort on something that’s actually good for the country, like a sweeping effort to wipe out business-crushing regulations.
Tyler wrote a great piece about the move yesterday and has more here:
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that gives his cabinet "tremendous power to cut regulation." The order gives America’s flailing economy, still half-shuttered by the coronavirus crisis and government lockdowns, important relief as the effort to reopen picks up steam in different states.
Trump signed the order in a cabinet meeting. Before he signed the order, he explained that it involves "instructing federal agencies to use any and all authority to waive, suspend, and eliminate unnecessary regulations that impede economic recovery."
This provides a stark contrast in the ways that Republicans and Democrats would prefer to "help" businesses and industries during this crisis.
The Democrats would prefer a seemingly endless series of bailouts and loans, all of which would make businesses beholden to the federal government.
By making over-regulation Public Enemy Number One, President Trump’s Republican party wants to remove layers of federal chains that they believe would hinder a recovery that absolutely cannot take too long if people’s lives aren’t going to be permanently ruined. If the government intervenes by getting government out of the way so that people can make more money then I’ve finally found some government interference that I like.
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Implementation requires funds. Cut their budgets until they can barely make payroll and suddenly payroll protection (for themselves) will become their only mission.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Nice thought, though. And the best gesture of them all would be to start at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
BLUF:
[RedState] In other words, we are required to take these tapes at face value, assume they are true, and proceed accordingly.
What would the next step look like?
Well, with an ordinary American, like Donald Trump, we’d unleash the Intelligence Community and the FBI. We’d get FISA warrants on his kid...they could sell the recordings on PornHub and help write down part of the Wuhan stimulus package. We’d run undercover operatives against members of his campaign. We’d set up stings to entrap senior staffers. We’d leak lies to the press to discredit Biden. But Biden isn’t an ordinary American. He’s Democrat royalty. So we can’t really have a Justice Department and FBI controlled by President Trump investigate Biden. It would be gauche and unseemly. But we do have a solution. A special counsel. Department of Justice regulations say this about the appointment of a special counsel:
Even though the tapes must be presumed true, we would be remiss in not giving Biden the benefit of the doubt and there is no better person to do that than a special counsel.
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I told those Democratic Morons that the Ukraine thing would turn around and bite them on the ass. But did they listen? "This time we've finally got him" The wall are closing in" "Orange Man Bad" /eye-roll
I wouldn't trust these mooks to run a day care. Especially if kids were involved.
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Ukraine channeling Chinese money to the Biden network
Skidmark, here is a search of our archives going back to 2016 using the terms BHR Partners,Chris Heinz,Rosemont Seneca to recall to memory while we await new revelations: Link
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I've been guessing money laundering all along. Paying that much money to a junkie has to be money laundering, blackmail, bribery, influence peddling and/or a combination of all four. Who knows where the money came from? China would have to be among the suspects.
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Who knows where the money came from? China would have to be among the suspects.
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Ref #8: I've been guessing money laundering all along.
And you're were probably guessing correctly. Anything be done about it? Hell no! Same as the Clinton Foundation, Epstein, etc. Likely backstopped by you know who.
[Washington Examiner] The Trump administration announced a $354 million drug contract with a generic medicine manufacturing company providing "immediate U.S.-based capacity" to produce pharmaceutical ingredients and expand advanced manufacturing capacity, reducing reliance on overseas supply chains.
Phlow Corporation will lead the effort, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. The Virginia-based company is also planning a new manufacturing facility in-state.
"This is a national security issue," Hastings Center health expert and Phlow board member Rosemary Gibson said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "Medicines are our defensive weapons in biowarfare. We can't rely on foreign sources."
She added: "To not act is to make the U.S. defenseless."
Active pharmaceutical ingredients and precursor chemicals for crucial drugs are typically manufactured overseas, often in India or China, leaving the U.S. supply chain exposed during events that lead to drug shortages.
If Mr. Gates has a stake in the success of the Trump presidency, whereas a Democratic replacement would wipe out this investment, is that likely to impact his behaviour in word and deed?
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^ I have a cousin who lives in Thousand Oaks. They had some serious fires there like five or so years ago. I said - 'What are they calling it now, Hundred Oaks?' She didn't think it was very funny.
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The dams obviously failed due to COVID-19 in the water so any resulting deaths will be attributed to COVID-19. Maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas....
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Gee, what a coincidence, now the dams are going bad...right in the middle of a so-called health crisis. Of course, like much of the infrastructure in the US, it's probably gone to Hades.
BTW, doesn't the President want to do a little something with infrastructure projects?
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Whitless was just on the ABC News saying, "We're investigating all out legal options'. So, the State will sue the pants off somebody! That'll make it right!
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Legal? Options?
Wut, the water violating stay-in-reservoir executive orders?
SPIN, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM via Instapundit
[The Spectator] - he argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now reaching the point where it is surprising that we are not hearing from leading medical officials and politicians that people should consider taking supplements to ensure they have sufficient vitamin D.
This is not the same as arguing that vitamin D is a magic bullet that will cure the disease. Vitamins are not medication, the taking of which will have positive effects on everybody. They are top-ups: things that hurt you when you don’t have enough of them in your system but do no extra good when you have enough. Indeed, with many vitamins, including D, taking too much can be toxic.
However, it is true that many people are deficient in vitamin D, especially at the end of winter. That is because, uniquely, vitamin D is a substance manufactured by ultraviolet light falling on your skin. You can get some from fish and other foods, but not usually enough. So most people’s vitamin D levels fall to a low point in February or March when the sun has been weak and its UV output especially so. Public health bodies have long advised people to supplement vitamin D in winter anyway.
...Vitamin D deficiency has long been known to coincide with a greater frequency or severity of upper-respiratory tract infections, or colds. That this is a causal effect is supported by some studies showing that vitamin D supplements do reduce the risk of such infections. These studies are not without their statistical flaws, so cannot yet be regarded as certain, but they are not quackery like a lot of the stuff coming out of the supplements industry: they come from reputable medical scientists.
...A new article by a long list of medical experts in the BMJ cautiously agrees, confirming that many people in northern latitudes have poor vitamin D status, especially in winter or if confined indoors, and that low vitamin D status 'may be exacerbated during this COVID-19 crisis by indoor living and reduced sun exposure'.
It adds that very high intakes or 'mega supplements' will not help and may cause harm, and it is this that probably explains the reluctance of the authorities to spread the message. Another factor may be the lack of lobbying. Vitamin supplements are cheap and unpatented, so there is no great incentive for big companies to push them. All the more reason for government to do so.
toxicity result in vomiting and excess urination and then dehydration
probably some long term effects but not known
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Poison is always in the dose.
Regarding vitamin D in general, there are lots of studies showing a correlation between normal vitamin D levels and a number of health markers but *no* study showing those same health markers after supplementing vitamin D. Current thinking is that the healthy outcomes are associated with healthy levels of sun exposure which also happens to raise vitamin D. In other words, vitamin D does not improve health, being outside does, and also happens to raise vitamin D.
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Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration, or water toxemia, is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake.
SPIN, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM via instapundit
[Telegraph] - A small number of so-called "superspreading" events appear to be responsible for the great majority of coronavirus cases, raising the prospect of the virus being controlled if those events can be reliably pinned down.
Many infectious diseases follow an "20/80" rule, whereby the majority of cases are caused by a small number of infectious individuals. These include pathogens such as HIV, measles and Ebola, as well as the coronaviruses Mers and Sars.
As the journal Nature noted recently, "population estimates of R0 can obscure considerable individual variation in infectiousness".
This is now thought to be the case with Covid-19.
An analysis by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Alan Turing Institute strongly suggests there is a "high degree of individual-level variation" in the transmission of Covid-19.
By applying a mathematical model to reported outbreaks of the disease outside China, they estimated that 80 per cent of all secondary transmissions were caused by a small fraction of infected individuals - around 10 percent.
"Our finding of a highly-overdispersed offspring distribution highlights a potential benefit to focusing intervention efforts on superspreading", the study concluded.
"As most infected individuals do not contribute to the expansion of an epidemic, the effective reproduction number could be drastically reduced by preventing relatively rare superspreading events".
The race is now on to pinpoint and characterise these "superspreader" events. If we know where the trouble lies we can let the rest of society open up again.
Tempting though it may be, most experts say we should not look for individuals. Superspreading events are determined by a complex mix of behavioural and environmental factors. That's a relief - given the means that some individuals here advocated for ending HIV
Even sexually transmitted viruses like HIV tend to be "superspread" more by things like needle sharing and prostitution than individuals. Funerals were a major problem in the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
With Sars-Cov-2, it seems likely any infected individual could become a superspreader. Who we are is likely to be less important than where we go and what we do when we are there.
Already, many superspreading venues are known. Hospitals, nursing homes, large dormitories, food processing plans and food markets have all been associated with major outbreaks of Covid-19.
Indoor gyms and exercise studios also appear to lend themselves to superspreading events. A new South Korean study found that 112 people were infected over 24 days after attending "dance classes set to Latin rhythms" at 12 indoor sports facilities.
"Intense physical exercise in densely populated sports facilities could increase risk for infection", said the authors. "Vigorous exercise in confined spaces should be minimised during outbreaks". Fitness is bad for you!
...In Washington State on the west coast of America, a church choir went ahead with its weekly rehearsal in early March even as Covid-19 was sweeping through Seattle, an hour to the south. Dozens of its members went on to catch the virus and two died. Just people exercising their constitutional rights
...One of the biggest superspreading events in Europe came in the February half term holidays when thousands of people gathered in alpine ski resorts.
Hundreds of infections in Germany, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Britain have been traced back to the resort of Ischgl in the Tyrolean Alps. Many had visited the Kitzloch, a bar known for its après-ski parties.
The bar is tightly packed and famous for "beer pong" — a drinking game in which revellers take turns to spit the same ping-pong ball into a beer glass.
...In London, cases of coronavirus have dropped dramatically since the lockdown. The superspreading events that were once spreading the virus so widely have now stopped.
h/t HotAir
[Yahoo] ...A video accusing Gates of wanting "to eliminate 15 percent of the population" through vaccination and electronic microchips has racked up nearly two million views on YouTube.
Similar allegations "exploded" between January and April, Smith told AFP.
- EXPLOITING THE CRISIS -
Since the start of the crisis, AFP Fact Check has debunked dozens of anti-Gates rumours circulating on platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram in languages including English, French, Spanish, Polish and Czech.
A number of accusations, including posts claiming that the FBI arrested Gates for biological terrorism or that he supports a Western plot to poison Africans, share a common thread.
They accuse the tycoon of exploiting the crisis, whether it is to "control people" or make money from selling vaccines.
"These conspiracies are powerful enough to drive down institutional trust around health organisations, and as a result, possibly drive down vaccination rates, which is worrying," Smith said.
Gates' vocal criticism of US President Donald Trump and support for vaccine development made him "the perfect scapegoat for a crisis that emerges on the intersection of technology and (medical) science," Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius, a social sciences researcher at Finland's University of Helsinki, wrote in a university blog post.
It is not the first time Gates has found himself at the mercy of conspiracy theorists. When Zika virus broke out in 2015 in Brazil, he was one of several powerful Western figures blamed for the disease.
Gates -- whose eponymous foundation has spent billions of dollars improving healthcare in developing countries over the past 20 years -- has become "a kind of abstract boogeyman", said Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor at New York's Syracuse University, where she teaches digital ethics.
A social science researcher, a professor of digital ethics, and an eponymous blogger log-into a virtual bar....
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Gates -- whose eponymous foundation has spent billions of dollars improving healthcare in developing countries
Dron66046 talked a bit about how the Gates Foundation has been kept on a very tight leash in India after engaging in unacceptable antics.... So abstract boogeyman is should perhaps be corrected to concrete boogeyman...
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A number of accusations, including posts claiming that the FBI arrested Gates for biological terrorism or that he supports a Western plot to poison Africans, share a common thread.
Reckless comments such as the one above do not help honest debate. But just because there are some nut cases out there does not mean Gates is a knight in shining armor. Who made him vaccine king anyway?
[UkraNews] MP Andrii Derkach has made public recordings of conversations with "voices similar to Poroshenko and Biden," which discuss Shokin’s resignation in exchange for $1 billion in US loan guarantees, external management of the Ukrainian government and tariff increase by 100% instead of 75%.
Records of conversations that took place at the end of 2015 and during 2016 by former President of Ukraine Poroshenko with former Vice President of the United States Biden and former United States Secretary of State Kerry were made public at today's press conference held by Derkach at Interfax-Ukraine agency. Former prosecutor Konstantin Kulik, who investigated the crimes of the Yanukovych regime, also took part in the event.
According to Derkach, records confirming the facts of international corruption, treason and external governance at the highest state level were handed to him by the investigative journalists. According to them, the recording of conversations was made by Poroshenko personally.
The member of the Parliament stressed that Biden demanded that Poroshenko resign Shokin, blackmailing him with $1 billion in loan guarantees that the United States was to provide to Ukraine.
"$1 billion of US taxpayers' money. That's the price of saving Biden from prison. For the sake of $1 billion, Petro Oleksiyovych dismissed the Prosecutor General Shokin, who investigated the Burisma case and eventually went after Bidens," Derkach said.
Derkach recalled that at the end of 2019, a major international corruption scandal erupted in the United States. Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden was involved in a massive corruption scheme.
The words of the member of the Parliament were confirmed by the former prosecutor Konstantin Kulik.
The investigation received evidence of the transfer of laundered money by a criminal group in the amount of $3.4 million from the accounts of Burisma Holdings Limited in the period from November 2014 to October 2015 to the account of Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC United States/Citibank, NY. The purpose of the payment – "for advisory services," but according to the testimony of witnesses, the money was paid to the family of former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden for lobbying the interests of Burisma Holdings Limited and Mykola Zlochevsky," Kulik said.
[Bloomberg] Researchers are finding evidence that patients who test positive for the coronavirus after recovering aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, and could have the antibodies that prevent them from falling sick again.
Scientists from the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 285 Covid-19 survivors who had tested positive for the coronavirus after their illness had apparently resolved, as indicated by a previous negative test result. The so-called re-positive patients weren’t found to have spread any lingering infection, and virus samples collected from them couldn’t be grown in culture, indicating the patients were shedding non-infectious or dead virus particles.
The findings, reported late Monday, are a positive sign for regions looking to open up as more patients recover from the pandemic that has sickened at least 4.8 million people. The emerging evidence from South Korea suggests those who have recovered from Covid-19 present no risk of spreading the coronavirus when physical distancing measures are relaxed.
The results mean health authorities in South Korea will no longer consider people infectious after recovering from the illness. Research last month showed that so-called PCR tests for the coronavirus’s nucleic acid can’t distinguish between dead and viable virus particles, potentially giving the wrong impression that someone who tests positive for the virus remains infectious.
The research may also aid in the debate over antibody tests, which look for markers in the blood that indicate exposure to the novel coronavirus. Experts believe antibodies probably convey some level of protection against the virus, but they don’t have any solid proof yet. Nor do they know how long any immunity may last.
A recent study in Singapore showed that recovered patients from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, are found to have “significant levels of neutralizing antibodies” nine to 17 years after initial infection, according to researchers including Danielle E. Anderson of Duke-NUS Medical School.
Other scientists have found higher levels of IgM, an antibody that appears in response to exposure to an antigen, in children, according to an article published on medRxiv. That suggests younger populations have the potential to produce a more potent defense against Covid-19. The study has not been certified by peer review.
REVISED PROTOCOLS
As a result of the findings in the South Korea study, authorities said that under revised protocols, people should no longer be required to test negative for the virus before returning to work or school after they have recovered from their illness and completed their period of isolation.
“Under the new protocols, no additional tests are required for cases that have been discharged from isolation,” the Korean CDC said in a report. The agency said it will now refer to “re-positive” cases as “PCR re-detected after discharge from isolation.”
Some coronavirus patients have tested positive again for the virus up to 82 days after becoming infected. Almost all of the cases for which blood tests were taken had antibodies against the virus.
Sure it is, if schools exist for teachers and not students (h/t Jerry Pournelle). The reason middle class students are doing better is because their parents shell out for private tutors.
...or just personally supervise their homework and provide enriching experiences...
[TownHall] - Black politicians, civil rights leaders and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what's no less than an education crisis among black students. In city after city with large black populations, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., less than 10% of students test proficient in reading and math. For example, in 2016, in 13 Baltimore high schools, not a single student tested proficient in math. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state's English test. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma.
...Examples of academic underachievement can be seen at predominantly black public schools across the nation, but that's only part of the story. The strangest part of this is that poor academic performance is accepted and tolerated by black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals. Poor performance is often blamed on finances; however, the poorest performing schools have the highest per pupil spending. New York, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore rank among the nation's highest in per pupil educational spending.
The underachievement story is compounded by the gross dishonesty of colleges that admit many of these students. I cannot imagine that students who are not proficient in reading and math can do real college work. In a futile attempt to make up for 12 years of rotten education, colleges put these students in remedial courses. They also design courses with little or no true academic content. Colleges have their own agendas. They want the money that comes from admitting these students. Also, they want to make their diversity and multiculturalism administrators happy. If you see higher education as, solely, a way to earn more money - such things are inevitable.
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The underachievement story is compounded by the gross dishonesty of colleges that admit many of these students. "
"Compounded" even further by gummint mandated EEOC hiring and promotion practices. Dumb as a rock and still promoted through the ranks, yes, I've seen many times. Spit, spit!
Yes, I avoided it most of it, and survived. Taking the assignments no one else wants has it's rewards.
[YNet] - A Jordanian national was moderately hurt on Wednesday after trying to breach the border with Israel, security officials said. Must be one of them Moderate Muslims™ we hear about?
The 49-year-old man apparently tried to smuggle weapons just south of the Sea of Galilee and was shot in the leg by Israeli security forces.
He was taken to Baruch Padeh Medical Center in Tiberias for treatment.
A fire broke out in the area, near Naharayim, as a result of flares being fired during the incident.
Security forces, including Border Police, Israel Police and IDF, noticed a man with a large sack approaching the border at around 6am, said the official report. They called on the man to stop but he continued marching toward the border, ignoring the calls.
He was subsequently shot in the leg.The forces found a host of weapons in the man’s bag, including AK-47 rifles.
Police said the incident is not likely to have been nationalistically motivated. Just trying to score some HCQ?
Israeli forces opened fire on two men as they tried to smuggle weapons across the border from Jordan, injuring one of them, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.
The army said that during the night IDF soldiers detected the two men as they crossed the border. Police intercepted the pair and opened fire on them, and one man was hit while the other returned to Jordan. A flare launched during the incident started a brush fire in the area that was brought under control, the statement said.
The incident occurred near Kibbutz Gesher, south of Tiberias, and near what was until recently the so-called “Island of Peace,” where Jordanians and Israelis both had nearly free access. Jordan brought to an end Israeli access last year.
The army has upped its presence in the area due to increased attempts to smuggle weapons and drugs across the border, Channel 13 news reported.
[FoxNews] Michael Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell on Tuesday filed an emergency writ of mandamus to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking the immediate removal of Judge Emmet Sullivan from the case -- and saying that under appellate precedent set by the "Fokker Services" case, Sullivan or his replacement must dismiss the prosecution, as the Justice Department has requested.
Writs of mandamus are extraordinary remedies, which are appropriate when there has been a "usurpation of judicial power" that is "clear and indisputable" -- and, Powell argued, Sullivan's behavior fits the bill. Powell pointed in particular to Sullivan's bizarre suggestion in December 2018 that Flynn had "sold out his country" and could have been prosecuted for "treason," as well as Sullivan's misstatements on the facts of the case.
Powell also demanded the appellate court vacate Sullivan's order appointing an "amicus curiae," or "friend of the court," to argue in favor of preserving Flynn's guilty plea on one count of making false statements to the FBI during an unusual January 24, 2017 White House interview. Oral arguments are set for July 16.
The amicus appointed by Sullivan, retired federal judge John Gleeson, has openly criticized the Trump administration's handling of Flynn's case, raising concerns that he was selected to improperly bolster Sullivan's efforts to keep the Flynn case alive even though both the government and defendant want it dismissed. (In 2013, Gleeson himself held that “the government has near-absolute power under [the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] to extinguish a case that it has brought" -- but he has since apparently changed his opinion.)
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Good for Powell; she is representing her client well. Sullivan is not following the law or recent higher court decisions. Sullivan appears to be trying to act as both judge and prosecutor. It is best to try to get this out his court and into a higher court.
[Rudaw] A UN investigative team says it has made "significant progress" in collecting new sources of evidence in Iraq against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) murderous Moslems, including over 2 million call records that should strengthen cases against perpetrators of crimes against the Yezidi minority in 2014.
The team also reported progress in its investigations of the mass killings of unarmed cadets and military personnel from the Tikrit
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[Rudaw] A rocket landed near the US embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Iraq's Security Media Cell.
This is the first rocket attack to hit Baghdad under the rule of new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
"A Katyusha rocket landed on an empty house inside the Green Zone in Baghdad. As per information [we have obtained], this missile was launched from al-Idrisi neighborhood, on Paleostine Street, resulting in minor damage to the wall of the house," read a statement from the cell.
The blast could be heard across the Iraqi capital and triggered security sirens at the US embassy compound but did not result in casualties, security sources told AFP.
The Green Zone hosts several Iraqi government ministries, the federal parliament, and foreign diplomatic missions.
Such attacks have not been reported in the Green Zone for two months.
While no one has taken responsibility for the latest attack,the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi), have been accused of similar attacks in the capital city.
Tensions between Baghdad and Washington have run high since late last year, with pro-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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... militia supporters storming the US embassy compound in Baghdad in late December.
The US liquidation of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and PMF deputy Abu al-Muhandis in Baghdad on January 3 sent tensions soaring, prompting a flurry of rocket attacks targeting the embassy and Iraqi army bases hosting US-led coalition troops, attributed to pro-Iran militias in Iraq. A non-binding resolution followed to expel foreign troops from the country.
Earlier this week Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... said that the US will be "expelled" from both Syria and Iraq.
[Rudaw] Residents of a Duhok village say they are "terrified" following a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Monday evening.
Locals in the village of Dargale Musa Bag, near the town of Kani Masi, were startled by the strike targeting members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) amid a recent wave of festivities in the area.
Sarbast Sabri, head of Kani Masi subdistrict told Rudaw that the village was "bombarded by Ottoman Turkish air forces" at 4:30pm on Monday.
"A number of rockets hit 400 meters away from the populated area of the village," causing material loss, he added.
According to the official, a recent spate of bombings has terrified locals.
"Bombardments have taken place continually throughout the last week, terrifying people. Fortunately, there have not been any casualties."
Ankara has not released any statement regarding the attack on Kani Masi but did say that forces targeted a PKK position on Mount Khakurk, Erbil province on Monday. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s defense ministry said that they "neutralized" three PKK fighters in the attack, publishing a video of the airstrike. Ankara uses the term "neutralized" to imply targets were killed or captured.
Kani Masi saw another clash between Ankara and the PKK last week after the PKK attacked a Ottoman Turkish military base near the village, cutting out the local power supply for nearly a day.
One villager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Rudaw English that the members of the Kurdish gang pass by the village in disguise in order not to be identified by Ottoman Turkish forces.
The source, who works for a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) office in the village, also said that Monday’s strike hit near a spring regularly visited by villagers, who rely on the water for farming.
Another villager, who also did not want to be identified, told Rudaw English that "almost all houses of the village were affected by the bombardment," with most of them having their windows broken.
"We are really terrified," he added.
Village chieftain Salih Kamil, who was in the village at the time of the bombing, told Rudaw English that seven to eight houses had their windows broken in the strike.
Amedi mayor Ismail Mustafa told Rudaw this week that 23 civilians have died as a result of PKK-Turkey violence since January 2019. He added that the population of 361 villages in the area have abandoned their homes due to the decades-long history of festivities between the two forces.
[ToloNews] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has raised deep concerns over a surge in the number of civilian casualties in the country and has urged the Afghan warring factions to end hostilities and engage in intra-Afghan talks.
The UN envoy called on the Afghan warring sides to respect international laws and protect the civilians.
Seriously?? Even I’m not that naive.
"Rising numbers of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, with a disregard for international law aimed at protecting civilians from harm, underscore the urgent need for parties to halt the fighting and to re-focus on starting intra-Afghan peace negotiations," UNAMA said in a report on Tuesday amid escalating violence in multiple frons across the nation.
"UNAMA’s latest preliminary figures indicate a trend of escalating civilian casualties in April from operations conducted by both the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). There is also grave concern about levels of violence in the first half of May, including recent attacks claimed by 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.... -Khorasan Province (ISKP)," the report said.
According to the report, the Taliban were responsible for 208 civilian casualties in April which shows an increase of 25 percent in comparison to April 2019 and at similar levels to March 2020.
Based on the report, civilian casualties attributed to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) for April 2020 numbered 172 civilians, an increase of 38 percent compared to April 2019, and 37 percent higher than March 2020.
The report states that since April 1, in addition to the unclaimed attack on a hospital in Kabul last week, UNAMA has documented the abduction of 15 healthcare workers by the Taliban as well as a threat to healthcare workers and the confiscation of medical supplies by the ANSF.
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacked Kunduz city from several directions on Monday night and clashed with security forces for several hours, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Tuesday.
"At least 40 Taliban were killed in the clash with security forces and 50 others were maimed," the MoD said, adding: "The Afghan forces pushed back the Taliban attack."
"The situation is in the control of the Afghan forces and is back to normal," the statement said, adding that Afghan forces also pushed back Taliban attacks in Imam Sahib, Chahardara and Khan Abad districts on Monday night, and the "Taliban have suffered heavy casualties in the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s."
Acting Defense Minister Khalid visited Kunduz and said that eight Afghan forces were killed in the Taliban attack last night and several others were maimed: "The Taliban have suffered heavy casualties and over 50 Taliban were killed in last night's festivities."
"About 1am, the enemies launched attacks on Kunduz city from different directions and fortunately the Taliban suffered heavy casualties and over 40 Taliban were killed and over 60 others were maimed" said Mohammad Ali Yazdani, commander of 217 Pamir corps.
The Taliban said that the Afghan air forces had targeted "a hospital in Chahardara that killed civilians."
But there have been no reports yet of civilian casualties in the festivities or airstrikes.
[ToloNews] On Tuesday, Afghanistan’s security chiefs briefed politicians in the Afghan Parliament where they said that the recent terrorist attacks in Kabul and other provinces indicated Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... involvement.
The three security chiefs — the acting head of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , Ahmad Zia Saraj, the acting minister of interior affairs, Massoud Andarabi, and the army chief of staff, Gen. Bismillah Waziri-- received criticism by MPs for their apparent inability to ensure the safety of the people and prevent deadly attacks, such as the ones at the Kabul hospital and the 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.. funeral that claimed dozens of civilian lives.
"Pakistain is under pressure for harboring Taliban leadership. The Taliban is trying to capture two to three provinces so they can transfer their leadership here in order to ease pressure on Pakistain," the acting head of the National Directorate of Security, Ahmad Zia Saraj, said. "This place blows"
A week ago, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , in response to recent attacks in different parts of the country that killed dozens of civilians and security force members, ordered the Afghan forces to switch from "active defensive" mode to "offensive" mode, and to resume attacks on the Taliban.
Also on Monday night, Ghani in a meeting with members of the special forces of the Afghan National Police (ANP) said his administration cannot remain "indifferent" to those killing children.
Ghani was apparently referring to last week’s attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul where button men massacred at least 24 people, including women and newborn babies.
Earlier in the day, the UN mission in Afghanistan called on the warring factions to stop violence and protect civilians under international law.
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Afghan security chiefs: Taliban trying to capture 3 provinces so can move out of Pakistan
Which tells you where the real problem is. Unless you are willing to make Pakistan into a parking lot for India, you won't solve the 'problem'. Get out.
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/\ A fact seldom discussed by the esteemed retired general officer teevee talking heads or Washington politicians. Possibly some redundancy contained in the reference, sorry.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces arrested two holy warriors who were planting magnetic improvised bombs (bombs) in Kote Sangi area of Kabul city.
The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said the security forces arrested the two mine planters with the support of Kote Sangi resdients.
The statement further added that the two mine planters were arrested as they were attempting to plant a magnetic bomb in a vehicle of the Ministry of Defense.
The anti-government armed holy warriors including Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have not commented in this regard so far.
Talibs and other krazed killer and terrorist groups often use improvised bombs, particularly magnetic bombs as the weapon of their choice to target the security personnel and government officials.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... has said the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group is making a fortune out of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, claiming that the leadership of the group is mixed about even wanting the U.S. out of Afghanistan.
"Could someone please explain to them that we have been there for 19 years," Trump wrote. "The Taliban is mixed about even wanting us out. They make a fortune $$$ out of having us stay, and except at the beginning, we never really fought to win," Trump was quoted as saying in a report by Washington Post.
Trump further added "We are more of a police force than the mighty military that we are, especially now as rebuilt. No, I am not acting impulsively!"
This comes as the U.S. and Taliban signed a peace deal late in February this year with an aim to pave the way for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan as well as the launch of intra-Afghan talks in a bid to end the conflict in the country.
Counter-terrorism assurances, reduction in violence or ceasefire, intra-Afghan talks and troops withdrawal were among the key issues the U.S. and Taliban representatives held extensive talks ahead of signing the peace deal.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... the Afghan officials blame the Taliban group for expanding its ties with the terrorist groups, specifically Al Qaeda and ISIS group following the signing of the peace deal with Washington.
The Afghan officials also blamed Taliban for coordinating with Al Qaeda and ISIS to conduct the recently deadly attacks, including the raid on maternity ward in Kabul city.
A sixth region of New York ready to reopen-governor
[AlAhram] A region in the western corner of New York will become the sixth region to start reopening on Tuesday after hiring enough people to trace contacts of people who test positive for the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo told a daily briefing.
The western New York region will follow the reopening of five regions on Friday -- all of them in central and upstate parts of the state outside New York City, which remains under strict stay-at-home restrictions.
“Seeking to secure the nation’s supply of critical medications, the Trump administration has signed a $354 contract that would create the nation’s first strategic stockpile of key ingredients needed to make medicines,” NBC News reported. “The agreement was signed Monday with Phlow Corp., a generic drug maker based in Virginia.”
White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro, a staunch China hawk who is the mastermind behind President Donald Trump’s trade war with the communist nation, said that the move “will not only help bring our essential medicines home but actually do so in a way that is cost competitive with the sweatshops and pollution havens of the world.”
The New York Times reported that the company could see the contract “extended for a total of $812 million over 10 years, making it one of the largest awards in” the history of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
France revises down coronavirus death toll
[AlAhram] France on Tuesday adjusted downwards its death toll for the coronavirus as a result of revisions to how fatalities are registered in nursing homes.
The health ministry put the latest toll at 28,022, compared with a figure of 28,239 published the day earlier.
It said this was due to a revision in the data for nursing homes, where 342 fewer people are now recorded to have died from COVID-19.
Over the last 24 hours, 125 more people were registered to have died of the coronavirus in hospital, it added.
With France now over a week into the easing of its hard lockdown, the numbers of people in intensive care continued to fall by 104 to a total of 1,894.
At the peak of the crisis, this figure reached over 7,000.
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So China is reporting they have up to 30 DNA mutations to the virus so far. This is the weaponizing everyone was afraid of.
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Ref #2: Yes, the Chinese beta testing went quite well. Little doubt they'll soon be able to field the 24-48 hour killer bug. Their labs should be destroyed. Slice of history, ok, here's one:
Operation Grouse - Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of Allied-led efforts to halt German heavy water production via hydroelectric plants in Norway during World War II. It was successfully undertaken by Norwegian commandos and Allied bombing raids. Wikipedia
They continue to flip us off and deny wrongdoing on a near daily basis. We fail to destroy these SOB's at our own peril.
[BREITBART] Former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Katie Nice Boobies! Hill ...Dem representative from California who ran as a bisexual, resigned from Congress when nude pictures of her came to light, along with information that she was being bisexual with one of her aides. Katie appears to be unacquainted with the word shame... (D-CA) said she cried for days over Republicans flipping her old seat and said while she takes responsibility for her actions, the GOP win is "no coincidence."
Republican Mike Garcia (R) successfully flipped California’s 25th Congressional District, becoming the first Republican in over two decades to do so. He defeated his Democrat opponent Christy Smith by nearly ten percentage points.
Katie Hill, the #MeThree Democrat who stepped down from her seat last year after a kaboom of scandal, reacted to the loss of what was once her blue district, calling it "pretty fucking devastating" and admitting that she went offline and "cried for a few days."
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Hill also expressed the view that the GOP win was "no coincidence."
"Let’s be clear. My ex gave nonconsenual nude pics of me to the ppl who wanted this seat- people who were backing Garcia when he was my opponent," she said. "They gave those pics to the press. I resigned."
"I take full responsibility for my mistakes, but this Republican win is no coincidence," she concluded.
True. The voters repudiated you and your adventures in entirely too many people’s pants. my dear, and also the party that supported you.
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"Let’s be clear. My ex gave nonconsenual nude pics of me to the ppl who wanted this seat- people who were backing Garcia when he was my opponent," she said.
Does anyone know if this is true or not? You know how I'm bettin'.
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#4 "Let’s be clear. My ex gave nonconsenual nude pics of me to the ppl who wanted this seat- people who were backing Garcia when he was my opponent," she said.
If so, then Garcia simply took a cue from your boy Obama at the start of his career.
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If she was worth saving the Dems would of fought for her. heck they rallied around VA ‘Coonman Blackface KKK wearing hood’ Northam without much trouble.
[BREITBART] Six of seven convicted sex offenders freed in Orange County, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, last month due to fears of the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... crisis spreading in local jails have since been rearrested for violating their terms of release.
In April, as Breitbart News reported, "high risk" sex offenders Luis Joel Ramirez, James Franklin Bowling, Rudy William Grajeda Magdaleno, Calvin Curtis Coleman, Kyle Albert Winton, Jose Adrian Oregel, and Mario Ernesto Sandoval were authorized for release by Court Commissioner Joseph Dane despite the opposition of Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.
A Mercury News report this month reveals that six of those seven sex offenders have been rearrested after their release. Law enforcement officials said the sex offenders violated their terms of release:
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BREAKING: Palestinian President Abbas says the PA sees itself free of all the agreements and understandings with Israel and the U.S. - including on security matters
[BREITBART] An Iraqi refugee, linked to al-Qaeda and accused of murder, is now seeking release from an Arizona prison claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... Ali Yousif Ahmed al-Nouri, a 42-year-old Iraqi national, first entered the United States as a refugee in 2009 — three years after Iraqi government officials say al-Nouri participated in the murders of two coppers in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... Iraq.
After being resettled in the U.S. as a refugee, al-Nouri was approved in 2015 by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to become a naturalized American citizen.
In May 2019, an Iraqi judge issued a warrant for al-Nouri’s arrest, alleging that he had led an al-Qaeda terrorist group that was responsible for the murder of the two Fallujah coppers. Court records allege that al-Nouri led the al-Qaeda group in the premeditated murders in 2006.
Al-Nouri had been running a driving school in Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S. officials arrested al-Nouri in February and locked him up in a Florence, Arizona prison, holding him for extradition to Iraq. Now, al-Nouri is seeking release from prison, claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus.
Al-Nouri’s attorney, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, says her client has heart and lung issues which make him particularly vulnerable to contracting coronavirus. Prosecutors have refuted the claims, noting that al-Nouri is in a cell by himself and, if released, would flee the U.S. to avoid extradition.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Morrissey is expected to soon rule on whether al-Nouri will be released from prison.
"Armed vessels approaching within 100 meters of a U.S. naval vessel may be interpreted as a threat and subject to lawful defensive measures," a U.S. military statement says.
Seems this event is over, 2 Sudanese crossed the border from Lebanon and were arrested shortly after.
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Reported image from this evening. I think this one is new?
A source earlier claimed the event was next to barrel 49, this is right next to a barrell. pic.twitter.com/cD3FFbvQvF
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) May 19, 2020
#BREAKING: IDF sources say #Hezbollah is behind the migrants being sent to infiltrate from #Lebanon into #Israel, this is part of the steady rise in tensions along the northern border (Kann)
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[Politico] The head of NASA’s human spaceflight office has resigned just one week before the agency is expected to launch astronauts from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a congressional notification obtained by POLITICO.
Douglas Loverro has served as the associate administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate for just seven months. He took over the job in October after his predecessor, William Gerstenmaier, was demoted and eventually left the agency.
"Doug hit the ground running this year and has made significant progress in his time at NASA," the note from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. "His leadership of HEO has moved us closer to accomplishing our goal of landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024. Doug has dedicated more than four decades of his life in service to our country, and I want to thank him for his service and contributions to the agency."
While the agency officially announced Loverro's departure as a resignation, two officials with knowlege told POLITICO that he was pushed out over disagreements with Bridenstine.
Ken Bowersox, the current deputy associate administrator in the human spaceflight office, will serve as the acting administrator.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The late commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani , sent a message before his liquidation to Muhammad al-Dhaif, commander of the Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,.
In a special report from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ’s al- Mayadeen TV, they revealed that Soleimani had sent a message to the Dhaif, in which he said that "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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... will never leave Paleostine alone, no matter how great the pressure will grow, and the siege will be tightened."
Soleimani described Muhammad al-Dhaif as a "living martyr and a brave resister," saying that he "assures everyone that Iran will not leave Paleostine alone." "Endeavor to persevere"
In his message, General Qassem Soleimani addressed Dhaif and wishes peace upon the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , describing him as a "resistance fighter," stressing that defending Paleostine "is an honor for us and we will not abandon this duty in return for any of the pleasures of the world", noting until "friends of Paleostine are our friends and foes are our enemies, this was our previous policy and it will remain."
Soleimani concluded his message to the leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, saying: "I hope that God will help us come to your side, and inform us of our hope of martyrdom in the cause of Paleostine."
Libyan Army under GNA sends ultimatum to Haftar militia groups in southern Tripoli, Tarhuna, Mizda and Alasaba to surrender or face the consequences pic.twitter.com/XicdUbEJ2T
The air base has been of strategic importance to the forces loyal to the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), 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. Actually, he is, but slowly... , who in April 2019 launched an offensive to capture the Libyan capital.
The LNA and its allies still control eastern and southern Libya, which contains most of the country's oil facilities, in addition to the city of Sirte, at the centrepoint of Libya's Mediterranean coastline.
The capture of al-Watiya marks an advancement for the GNA forces, pushing back Haftar’s LNA and its allies.
Egypt, the UAE and Russia are backing Haftar, while Turkey has been supporting the GNA.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Seven Pak soldiers were killed in two attacks in the southwest mineral-rich Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, the Pak military said on Tuesday.
The army’s media wing said in a statement that six of the seven soldiers were killed by an bomb during their return late Monday evening from a routine patrol to their camp in Bir Ghayb in the Mash district of Balochistan province.
The statement added that another soldier was killed during an exchange of fire with button men in the Mand district of Kish.
No group has grabbed credit for the attacks in Balochistan, which borders 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Afghanistan.
Balochistan is located in the middle of the Sino-Pak economic corridor, which cost an estimated $ 60 billion to build, and is part of the belt and road project overseen by Beijing.
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New: U.S. indicts Seyed Sajjad Shahidian, Vahid Vali, and PAYMENT24 for conducting financial transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions against #Iran. Key here PAYMENT24 was designed to circumvent U.S. sanctions & Shahidian was extradited from U.K.https://t.co/rSbj3PdCsD
In last night operation's 2 terrorists were killed. They have been identified as Junaid Ashraf Khan from Srinagar and Tariq Ahmed Sheikh from Pulwama. Junaid is the youngest son of Hurriyat's Chairman Mohammed Ashraf Khan: Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh pic.twitter.com/DoOlphkoVw
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian holy warrior was shot and killed by the Ottoman Turkish military in the northern countryside of the al-Raqqa Governorate recently.
Citing "reliable sources", the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that a fighter from Jaish al-Sharqiyah" was rubbed out by the Ottoman Turkish military in the town of Slouk.
The monitor said the "altercation took place between Ottoman Turkish forces stationed at Sluk checkpoint and the fighter after the fighter refused to stop at the checkpoint. The verbal argument evolved to opening fire on the fighter leaving him dead."
Following this incident, Jaish al-Sharqiyah reportedly attacked the Ottoman Turkish military inside the town.
The Ottoman Turkish Ministry of Defense has not commented on these alleged incidents; however, if true, this would mark the first time during the Syrian conflict that a Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) faction has attacked the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Monday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called on his country’s army to prepare for combat during his meeting with Defense Minister Lieutenant General Mohammed Zaki.
Bassam Rady, the official front man for the Presidency of the Republic in Egypt stated that "the Egyptian President was briefed during the meeting on the overall security situation on all three main strategic directions at the level of the Republic, and the efforts of the armed forces to control the borders and pursue terrorist elements, especially in North Sinai as well as the western region."
He directed the Egyptian President to continue to show the utmost readiness and combat readiness to protect Egypt’s national security, expressing "appreciation for the efforts of the armed forces and their sacrifices made for the homeland and for safeguarding its security, safety, stability and the capabilities of its people."
The Western Military Region is one of the four military regions of the Egyptian Armed Forces and its headquarters are located in Marsa Matruh near the Libyan border, and its military formations conduct an annual training project for the Armed Forces called "Raad maneuvers".
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'Raad Al-Shamal' maneuvers combine forces of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Sudan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, Comoros, Djibouti, Oman, Qatar, Malaysia, Egypt, Mauritania and Mauritius as well as the Peninsula Shield forces.
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North Thunder (or in Arabic: رعد الشمال Raʿad aš-Šamāl / Raad al-Shamal) was a joint military exercise held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the participation of 20 Arab and Islamic countries; notably the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Kuwait, Morocco, Chad, Maldives, Comoros, Tunisia, Oman, Malaysia and Yemen in February-March 2016. (And periodically thereafter.)
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[BREITBART] MEDIA RELEASE UPDATE: Additional Charges In Death Investigation At Daybreak
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Investigators have determined after further investigation that this incident is now a homicide. Kenny Whitehead now has additional charges of murder and rape added to his current charges of necrophilia. This case is still actively being investigated. The family of the victim has been notified of her death. Bibb County Sheriff’s Office will not be releasing the victim information due to the charges and nature of this incident.
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I admit an unfamiliarity with the laws of the great state of Georgia, but do they actually draw a distinction between public and private necrophilia?
[BREITBART] Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all Michigan voters will receive an application to vote by mail for the upcoming August and November elections, citing possible health concerns stemming from the Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
"By mailing applications, we have ensured that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote," Benson said in a statement. "Voting by mail is easy, convenient, safe, and secure, and every voter in Michigan has the right to do it."
"We appreciate that some clerks are proactively protecting public health by mailing applications to all their registered voters, and we are fulfilling our responsibility to provide all voters equal access," the Michigan official continued. "We know from the elections that took place this month that during the pandemic Michiganders want to safely vote."
The Michigan Department of State’s Bureau of Elections will send voters a letter containing instructions on how to vote via mail and require applicants to mail back a signed application. Conversely, voters can email a photo of their signature to a local election clerk.
"The vast majority of voters across the political spectrum want the option to vote by mail," added Benson. "Mailing applications to all registered voters is one of the ways that we are ensuring Michigan’s elections will continue to be safe, accurate, and secure."
Currently, approximately 1.3 million Michigan voters out of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters are on the permanent absent voter list.
In March, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender... (D), who is under consideration to be former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... ’s running mate, expanded absentee voting by allowing the state mail ballot applications to every voter in around 50 jurisdictions.
Earlier May, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order permitting all registered voters in the state to vote by mail in the upcoming presidential election, also citing health concerns from the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh slammed Newsom’s decision, calling it a "thinly-veiled political tactic" to "undermine" election security.
Thousands of absentee ballots in Wisconsin weren't counted because of mailing problems and tech glitches
Nearly 2,700 absentee ballots in Milwaukee were not sent and about 1,600 in the Fox Valley were not processed because of computer glitches and mailing problems, according to the most comprehensive account yet of what went wrong in the April 7 election.
In Milwaukee, 2,693 voters were not sent absentee ballots after technical issues marred their production on March 22 and March 23, according to a report by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
The election for a seat on the state Supreme Court, the presidential primary and a host of local offices, put a global spotlight on Wisconsin for holding an election in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
A separate problem emerged when about 1,600 ballots for the Appleton and Oshkosh areas were found at a mail processing center the day after the election. It was not clear in the report if the ballots were on their way to voters or on their way back to clerks when they were found. Either way, they were discovered too late to be counted.
As officials urged people to stay at home as much as possible to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, voters turned to absentee ballots in unprecedented numbers. Often, clerks could not keep up with demand, the report notes.
The technical problems in Milwaukee occurred late on March 22 and carried into early March 23, when the Milwaukee officials attempted to print thousands of mailing labels for absentee ballots. The problem occurred because of “an extraordinary confluence of events” with technology, according to the report.
Milwaukee election workers used a state computer system to process an unusually large number of ballot requests at once, which took hours to generate, according to the report. At the same time, state tech workers — unaware of what Milwaukee workers were doing — restarted their servers to address an unrelated issue.
The system processed the ballots it was supposed to but later indicated that 2,693 additional absentee ballot requests had been processed even though they had not, according to Neil Albrecht, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. The problem was not figured out until after the election.
"It wasn’t our error," Albrecht said. "There was no way for us to identify the error when it occurred."
Restarting the servers did not affect sending ballots in other parts of the state, according to the report.
The day after the election, the Elections Commission received a call from an election mail coordinator in the Chicago office of the U.S. Postal Service who said three tubs of absentee ballots for the Appleton and Oshkosh area had been found. Later, the postal service said the tubs contained about 1,600 ballots.
According to the report, a large number of absentee ballots generated for voters in Oshkosh on March 24 were never returned. The report concludes those ballots faced mailing problems or mailing labels were never applied to the ballot envelopes.
In another issue that has been previously reported, the post office repeatedly returned absentee ballots to Fox Point Village Hall that had never been delivered to voters. The report could not determine how many ballots were affected, but noted 150 or more undelivered ballots were returned to the village on election day.
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Everyone needs to be careful on this. If Michigan and Nevada get hammered for this I fear they will kill the military absentee ballots as a reprisal, like Clinton did.
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1 \ BREAKING: For the first time ever an Etihad Airways cargo plane from the UAE will land tonight at Ben Gurion airport in Israel after a direct flight from Abu-Dhabi, Israeli officials tell me
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group has claimed that the attack on a mosque in Parwan has killed at least 9 people and maimed more than 10 others.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban group, issued a statement claiming that the security forces stormed the mosque in Khala Zayi area of Charikar city earlier tonight.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... the security sources say the area where the attack has place is under the control of Talibs.
A source in Parwan Police Headquarters confirmed that the button men attacked the mosque in Charikar city earlier tonight, killing 7 and wounding at least 12 others.
No individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.
[APNEWS] A Lebanese man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Minnesota to conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald said Monday that Osama Hamade, 55, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally export goods and technology.
Osama, also known as Usama Darwich Hamade and "Prince Sam" to his friends, is a dual Lebanese-South African citizen...
His brother, Issam Hamade,
...more fully Issam Darwich Hamade, he holds both Lebanese and British passports. A third defendant, Samir Ahmed Berro, is known to his friends as "Tony" for reasons that passeth understanding. He has dual Lebanese and British citizenships, and was missing when last we thought about him...
pleaded guilty in March in federal court in Minnesota.
Prosecutors said the brothers acquired sophisticated technology for drones from 2009 to 2013 and illegally exported them to Hezbollah, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
The Hamades were arrested in February 2018 in South Africa and were extradited to the U.S. last fall.
According to an indictment, the parts included inertial measurement units, which can be used to track an aircraft’s position, and digital compasses, which can be paired with the inertial measurement units for drone guidance systems. The parts also included a jet engine and 20 piston engines.
Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said the Taliban militants had planted an Improvised Explosive Device on a roadside in Mizan district of Zabul.
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[NYPOST] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... has finally unveiled his moniker for 2020 rival President Trump, saying he calls his general election opponent "President Tweety."
Biden revealed the nickname Monday while speaking to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Victory Fund, remarking, "Trump is out there tweeting again this morning. I call him ’President Tweety.'"
The ex-VP made the comment when talking about what he thought the president should be focused on as opposed to spending his time on Twitter.
Speaking about Trump’s vocal desire to reopen the country, Biden asked, "How are we supposed to do that if you’re sitting on the money small businesses need? Stop tweeting about it, get the money out to Main Street."
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OK, OK, it's not exactly a linguistic kill shot, but it's not bad for an old senile dude.
You think he came up with it all by himself?
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Democrats can't meme. No sense of humor
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You think he came up with it all by himself?
Given that this is lame, stupid and doesn't really work, I'd say it's possible. Ether that, or his marketing department (whatever they call that in a campaign) sucks.
INTERIOR: Daytime - Biden Campaign Headquarters
Biden: We'll call him President Tweety!
Staffer1: (whispers) Are we really going to do this?
Staffer2: It's the Boss's idea. Just shut up and run with it.
Pity the poor rich polygamist who must choose between staying safely indoors with the one who is clearly his favourite wife and children, or chancing the gods of the copybook headings by venturing out to divide his time between the ladies’ separate but equal households.
[AlAhram] Abu Othman, like thousands of Kuwaiti men, has struggled to split his time between two wives living in separate homes amid the Gulf state's strict lockdown to combat the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... "My life has become so complicated," the 45-year-old, who has 10 children between the two women, told AFP.
It always was this complicated, habibi. You just were too busy to notice.
"I am constantly on the move between them," he said, stressing that he could never choose one wife over the other.
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Oh no, g(r)omgoru. The divorced dad only need amuse his children for a bit. In this case he also has a needy wife who will not be placated with the adult equivalent of a big lollipop and a ride on the rollercoaster instead of proper husbandly appreciation. And both need to be taken care of within 60 minutes...
#BREAKING: Intelligence officials now say #Israel carried out a cyberattack on #Iran's Shahid Rajaee port on May 9 as retribution for Iran's cyberattack on its water infrastructure. The attack caused "total disarray."https://t.co/zztAjpgRvl
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Tehran: From 22 July 2008 Iran's Bandar Abbas port requires ship documents (manifest & B/lading) to note the discharge port as Shahid Rajaee Special Economic Zone (Shahid Rajaee SEZ). Bandar Abbas port had 2 container terminals, with the new terminal named Shahid Rajaee SEZ and the old one named Bahonar.
#Libya’s Presidential Council is close to signing a military deal with a new strategic partner similar to #Turkey, #Italy’s La Stampa has reported, citing sources from the United Nations. pic.twitter.com/9GTb66XVue
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the security forces conducted an operation in Nani area of Ghazni city as Taliban militants were planning to launch an attack.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 2 Taliban militants during the operation and wounded 3 others.
The security forces killed 2 Taliban militants and wounded 3 others during a similar operation in Wazikhwa district tof Paktika province, the 203rd Thunder Corps added.
Meanwhile, the security forces conducted an airstrike in Syedabad district of Wardak province kiling 7 Taliban militants and wounding at last 3 others, the 203rd Thunder Corps said, adding that the airstrike also destroyed 5 motorcycles and some weapons and munitions.
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The Krasukha (Russian: Красуха; English: Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade) is a Russian mobile, ground-based, electronic warfare (EW) system. via La Wiki
The US State Department says: “Today, the United States designated Shanghai Saint Logistics Limited, a PRC-based company that provides general sales agent services for the Specially Designated Global Terrorist Iranian airline. The United States designated Mahan Air in 2011 under a counterterrorism authority for providing material support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and again in 2019, under a weapons of mass destruction authority for shipping United Nations-restricted missile and nuclear items to Iran.
“More recently, the Iranian regime turned to Mahan Air to facilitate shipments to Venezuela to support the illegitimate former Maduro regime and its desperate attempts to boost energy production, which had fallen due to its own gross mismanagement. It is equally troubling that Mahan Air appears to be carrying gold from Venezuela’s vaults back to Iran, depriving the Venezuelan people of resources needed to rebuild their economy. As always, authoritarian regimes are more interested in their own survival than the needs of their people.
“The United States is pleased that over the last two years, governments and companies across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have wisely severed ties with Mahan Air. This designation serves as another reminder that companies still providing services for Mahan Air – in the PRC or anywhere else – risk potential US sanctions.”
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[NYPOST] A West Virginia man allegedly gouged out his neighbor’s eyes after an argument over a loud rooster, authorities said.
Richard Wayne Ellison, 47, of the town Rock, has been charged with murder after police said he admitted to killing the rooster and its owner, 72-year-old Benny Foutch, saying "Lucifer made me do it," according to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
Ellison was reportedly irritated by the noise of the crowing rooster so he stormed onto Foutch’s property Sunday, leading to an argument between the neighbors, police told the outlet.
Police believe Ellison at some point killed the rooster before turning on Foutch and gouging out his eyes.
EMS responders arrived at the scene to find Foutch dead on his porch with "blood coming from his orbital sockets," according to a criminal complaint filed by Detective-Corporal M.S. Horn of the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office.
Ellison allegedly took the dead rooster back home and instructed his son to dispose of it before officers at the sheriff’s office arrived and arrested him later Sunday, according to Horn’s complaint.
"I asked [Ellison] what happened with him and Benny, he then made the hand motion of pressing his thumbs to his eyes," Horn said. "He advised he went up there to kill the rooster because of a movie he had watched and because it was crowing.
"[Ellison] later explained that he pressed his thumbs into Benny’s eyes, he advised that he stayed there until he knew Benny was dead," the criminal complaint continued.
"He made the statement that he killed him, referring to the incident with Benny. He made a reference that Lucifer made him do it. He kept asking me to shoot him, that he deserved it. He then talked about getting somebody in the jail to kill him." "Make it so"
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Damned roosters and their infernal crowing. First St. Peter, and now this poor soul.
[AlAhram] *Snicker* President Reagan broke the Soviet Union by outspending on weaponry. President Trump is going to break Communist China by forcing them to outspend us in donations to the international organizations they thought they’d purchased for a pittance. “Ya wanna be world hegemon? Then spend like it, paesano!”
[Wash Examiner] Belgian intelligence confirmed it investigated whether China was using the Maltese Embassy in Brussels as a spy post.
French newspaper Le Monde reported last week that Belgian state security suspected "since the early 2010s" that Chinese intelligence used the embassy, which is located next to the European Commission's headquarters, to eavesdrop on European Union institutions.
British intelligence reportedly told its Belgian counterparts about the spying after a Chinese firm was involved in renovations of the embassy.
If Chinese intelligence infiltrated the Maltese Embassy, the EU was not told about it, a top diplomat said last week. But Belgian intelligence said this week that the alleged espionage had been investigated.
"There were Chinese people who were involved in the renovation of the Dar Malta embassy in 2007, and it caught our attention," Belgium's homeland security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat, told EUobserver on Monday.
The security service said suspicions arose "without a foreign service having drawn our attention to this fact."
"There has never been any evidence that Chinese spy activities have [actually] taken place from this building, and we never said that was the case," it said.
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After the retarded decisions on the construction of the US Embassy in Moscow years ago, this ain't sh!t.
[(Red)StarTribune] Whatever is being lost by players in technique and nuance might be gained in the decompression of mind and body from the grind of a long year. Uh,No! Why would you ask such a stupid question? Oops, my bad, linked to the Strib by mistake.
Not the Bee. The truth is stranger than fiction.
[Beitbart] The State of California is offering $500 each to illegal aliens as part of a $75 million coronavirus relief program — even as it asks federal taxpayers for help paying for its $54 billion deficit.
The program, which launched on Monday, saw phone lines jammed as "undocumented immigrants," who are ineligible for the federal aid provided thus far, called a state hotline.
The New York Times reported:
Within minutes after the phone lines opened, many people reported they could not get through, and by 10 a.m., an hour after it opened, many of the phone lines crashed.
The $75 million cash assistance program, awarded on a first-come first-served basis, was being conducted almost entirely by telephone to avoid hazardous in-person contacts.
The available funding will allow only about 150,000 immigrants to benefit, according to state officials.
The governor, Gavin Newsom, announced in mid-April that the state would provide $75 million in cash assistance to the 150,000 who are selected. Philanthropic organizations and private donors pledged an additional $50 million, for another 100,000 immigrants.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday that the federal government has a "moral" and "ethical" obligation to fund ailing state and local governments. He added that Republicans who did not provide such funding would be short-changing "our heroes, our first responders, our police officers, and firefighters."
Notably, Newsom discussed "citizens," not "residents," in describing the beneficiaries of federal aid to the states: "We have an obligation, a moral, an ethical obligation to American citizens all across this country to help support cities, states and counties," he said.
Neither Newsom nor Tapper addressed the issue of California’s "sanctuary" laws, which limit cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement. President Donald Trump has commented that he might make lifting "sanctuary" laws a condition of receiving federal aid.
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Send them $500 equivalent payment-in-kind: an Uber voucher to the nearest Greyhound station + a one-way ticket to Michoacán and the rest in Mexican lottery tickets.
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I don't know if states have their own food stamp programs (or if it's solely run by the Feds), but how about (if/since they are going to do such an insane thing) just giving these illegals food stamps or vouchers or something besides cash? I don't agree with any of this, but to simply give future voters illegals cash is absurd.
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#10 Or set up a "flypaper" version of our own.
Not that this would ever happen. Mitch McConnell's paymasters would get the vapors.
#7 With hold all federal aid then.
We should, but I guarantee that there's a bunch of "practical" Republicans who will want to pay the Mestizogeld, either because the COC wants it, or because they think they'll earn brownie points with people who utterly despise them, as is Republicans' wont.
Don't forget -- the GOP House Minority leader is a Californian, just like Nancy.
It'd be naive to think he's not angling for pork for his state too.
And if the GOP wins the House, he'll be the Speaker, so Cali is covered either way.
We're all just tax cattle for Blue America, and at least half of our brave conservative opposition is only too happy to deliver us into servitude.
This BITCH needs to go down
[PJ] Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D-Portland) said that residents of counties that have yet to reopen may not travel to open counties to get haircuts or dine in restaurants.
In an article that highlighted the confusing and often contradictory nature of Brown’s lockdown orders due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, The Oregonian reported:
Can I leave the Portland area to get a haircut in another county or visit the beach?
The governor said Thursday the answer is no, although it doesn’t appear she plans to enforce that.
Brown asked Portland-area residents to hold tight and resist the urge to drive to another county to get a haircut, dine out at a restaurant or visit a tourist sites.
"I know this is really hard," Brown said. "I know many of us are really wanting to get our hair done, get our haircut, whatever you need to do, but we are asking folks in the metro area to be thoughtful of their fellow Oregonians and to stay home and limit their travel to essential need. ... We obviously don’t want to overwhelm the rest of Oregon by traveling outside the metro area."
Brown also said police won’t be stopping Portlanders who are heading out for a visit to the coast, but she asked that metro area residents respect her direction, which is meant to lessen the spread of COVID-19.
Of course, Brown’s lockdown orders have confused Oregonians since they began. It turns out that many retail outlets shut down when they didn’t have to do so.
As we approach the tail end of the pandemic, and as Oregon has consistently ranked in the bottom five states in terms of infections and deaths, Brown’s scattershot approach to the virus has raised more questions than answers.
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Is Bitchy Female Governor a thing now? asking for a friend from Michigan
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When they switched American History to an half an hour of hate in our education system, they didn't have any use to have the kids exposed the actual document known as the Declaration of Independence. Meanwhile they sort of skip over their own behaviors, like the Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act. The Left will always be the Left. See - the frog and the scorpion.
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Mass civil disobedience is the cure. Virginia Beach over the weekend had tens of thousands defy the Governor and he was forced to just opt for radio silence to avoid highlighting the obvious meaning of the massive Foxtrot Uniform.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group confirmed its stance regarding the position of the group regarding India and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... following speculations on social media which claimed that the group would support Pakistain in Kashmir.
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesperson for the political office of Taliban 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... , tweeted late on Monday that the statement attributed to Taliban regarding India, is false.
According to Shaheen, the statement was published on certain media outlets. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... he said the Islamic Emirate has a clear policy that it would not interfere in internal affairs of the other countries.
This comes a day after officials monitoring social media noted a spike in posts around claims that a Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said it was impossible to be friends with India unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved, according to Hindustan Times.
The spokesperson was also claimed to have said that the Taliban would, after capturing power in Kabul, "capture Kashmir from infidels also".
[ALMASDARNEWS] The front man for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, announced that the General Command decided to relocate to some axes in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , in a process he described as "purely tactical military."
He explained that the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal 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. Actually, he is, but slowly... , "decided to relocate some to the hubs in the city of Tripoli in a purely tactical military operation, to new points and to new concentrations."
He stated that this positioning or localization may impose "the withdrawal or return of sites to previous locations, but in some axes, which is a tactical process that we hope the Libyan citizen does not care about this, because it is a military matter and an operational matter."
Mismari said, however, that Haftar confirmed, just before, that this step is to "dismantle some of the densely populated neighborhoods and people during the days of Eid, so that there is no friction or reason to target them from the enemy and terrorist militias."
He recounted that "what happened at al-Watiyah in the past hours," noting that the army carried out a "successful withdrawal operation with distinction" from the air base to the "second assembly point".
The military front man revealed that the decision to withdraw was taken by Haftar based on a report from the commander of the Western Military Region, and that the withdrawal process began three or four months ago, by withdrawing planes and vehicles from the base, leading to the recent withdrawal of individuals under cover.
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.
[MAIL] Newly released bodycam footage shows the December 2017 arrest of Ahmaud Arbery for shoplifting a TV from a Georgia Walmart. 
[Mil.com] An advocacy group is preparing to go to court unless the Department of Veterans Affairs swiftly removes Nazi symbols and references to Adolf Hitler from the headstones of three German prisoners of war from World War II buried in national veterans cemeteries.
'We Can't Rely on Foreign Sources'
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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[ToloNews] The 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Dem representative from California who ran as a bisexual, resigned from Congress when nude pictures of her came to light, along with information that she was being bisexual with one of her aides. Katie appears to be unacquainted with the word 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[BREITBART] An Iraqi refugee, linked to al-Qaeda and accused of murder, is now seeking release from an Arizona prison claiming he is vulnerable to contracting the Chinese 
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...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. Actually, he is, but slowly...
...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 
[BREITBART] MEDIA RELEASE UPDATE: Additional Charges In Death Investigation At Daybreak
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
Police believe Ellison at some point killed the rooster before turning on Foutch and gouging out his eyes.
[Wash Examiner] Belgian intelligence confirmed it investigated whether China was using the Maltese Embassy in Brussels as a spy post.
[(Red)StarTribune] Whatever is being lost by players in technique and nuance might be gained in the decompression of mind and body from the grind of a long year.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
