The assassination being claimed by ISPP of a "member of Pakistani intelligence" in Mastung is that of @waqarmshahi, who was killed last night in a gun attack. He was a member of pro-govt political party PPP. Photo of his dead body is circulating on pro-IS groups. pic.twitter.com/ODwMK5llAJ
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They’re all the real Islamic State — just a bunch of self-organizing, loosely linked independent groups whose loyalty moves to whoever will pay them more, train them more, or has the latest best press. Later they’ll be Al Qaeda again, or the newest spreading thing. The only fixed thing is their family relationships and youthful friends; even their parents’ loyalties do not remain their own.
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Publicity shot. That's like two decades old. Between '87 and '88 China sold several dozen outmoded DF-3 missiles to Saudi Arabia, without their nuclear warheads of course.
China's DongFeng missile program was copied from the Soviet missile R-12. The first engine for the DF-1 missile was the 5D10, a $900m failure. When they were done knocking their tiny heads on steel, they again copied a russian design, the LA-350 'Burya'. This became the first YF-1. Liquid fuel based obsolete engine. The entire delivery system is outmoded now.
Their real MRBM is the DF-21, a modern solid fuel propelled non-nuclear capability system. US DoD estimates around 60 units in China. In 2014, America allowed the soddy's to go ahead and buy the DF-21 from China. By this time the AEGIS BMD was ready and functional, and the SM-3s had been deployed on all American ships. People think America trusts the Saudis a little too much. They don't.
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I walked a bit on Omaha Beach a couple of months ago. I had understood from books and so forth that Omaha was very difficult. But it wasn't until I stood on the beach and looked up at the bluff that I realized it was impossible. I have no idea how they did that.
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As evil (the axis) made a mad dash for total control of the world, the US responded with action and deep faith. When it was over, the victors were completely humble and put on the face of their currency, "In God We Trust".
[Wired] IN 2014, A graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out how to build on a finding of Günaydin’s from 40 years earlier—a largely forgotten result that supported a powerful suspicion about fundamental physics and its relationship to pure math.
The suspicion, harbored by many physicists and mathematicians over the decades but rarely actively pursued, is that the peculiar panoply of forces and particles that comprise reality spring logically from the properties of eight-dimensional numbers called “octonions.”
As numbers go, the familiar real numbers—those found on the number line, like 1, π and -83.777—just get things started. Real numbers can be paired up in a particular way to form “complex numbers,” first studied in 16th-century Italy, that behave like coordinates on a 2-D plane. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing is like translating and rotating positions around the plane. Complex numbers, suitably paired, form 4-D “quaternions,” discovered in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, who on the spot ecstatically chiseled the formula into Dublin’s Broome Bridge. John Graves, a lawyer friend of Hamilton’s, subsequently showed that pairs of quaternions make octonions: numbers that define coordinates in an abstract 8-D space.
There the game stops. Proof surfaced in 1898 that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions and octonions are the only kinds of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. The first three of these “division algebras” would soon lay the mathematical foundation for 20th-century physics, with real numbers appearing ubiquitously, complex numbers providing the math of quantum mechanics, and quaternions underlying Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. This has led many researchers to wonder about the last and least-understood division algebra. Might the octonions hold secrets of the universe?
“Octonions are to physics what the Sirens were to Ulysses,” Pierre Ramond, a particle physicist and string theorist at the University of Florida, said in an email.
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Quaternions, Octonions and Sedenions as the underlying structural math of the universe have long featured in ancient Indian vedic mathematics. Too bad most of it was suppressed for 700 years under muslim cultural domination. Then the Brits came and told us, 'anything you know is shite anyway you grass eating rag-heads!' Today, this must sound like news to current academics.
And then I ran into Qeshm's reported underground midget submarine pen. I've heard about it, but never seen it until now. Looks close enough to the Chinese sub tunnels at Jianggezhuang and Yulin (just smaller and square) that I'm confident that's what this is here. pic.twitter.com/92Jh2ZJnXw
[Defense One] Scientists looking anew at a 2017 North Korean nuclear test discovered that the explosion was likely about two-thirds more powerful than U.S. officials previously thought.
Earlier data put the yield somewhere between 30 and 300 kilotons; the U.S. intelligence community said 140 kilotons. That was already the most powerful device tested by North Korea, topping a 2016 test by about an order of magnitude. But a new look at seismological data suggests that the blast was between 148 and 328 kilotons, and probably around 250 kilotons.
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So, double in size of the original report.
Is this a model of the weakness of the scientific intelligence research teams and the quality of their work?
Oilers are better at explosive seismology analysis, I think.
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That is all well and good. But it's the destruction of the churches that concern us. Either these reporters or the providers of the sat imagery conveniently left out the Churches destroyed by the CCP. Pastors jailed, christian believers locked up in the tunnels and underground shafts where they congregate. For no reason other than thought crime.
Islam on the other hand is violent revolution disguised as a sect. It's always wise to destroy it.
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oh, it's ok too discriminate against christians or jews
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There is no moral equivalence between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The first two are religions of peace, light and life. Islam is a geopolitical construct masking as a religion whose edicts are death and domination where there will only be peace when everyone converts or is enslaved. This is why they got along with Hitler so well.
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oh, it's ok too discriminate against christians or jews
Well, exclusively Christians and Jews suppression would make it Progressive. These are simply communists of the old ranks to focus so much on a competing destructive ideology. If you lump them all together, they'd be our federal judiciary.
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ChiComs? - organ donation centers from opponents
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I would suggest it's not as complicated as thought police, more like zero tolerance for trouble makers. I don't think the Chinese actually care too much about what you think, but more about how many headaches you cause. As an example, Mafia was a big problem here in Chongqing not too long ago, and the government decided it needed to establish clearly it ran China, not the local Mafia. The Mafia was decimated. Somehow, we in the US have decided the freedom 'to make a huge mess, 24/7' is an inalienable right, and I don't think it's working out too well. A society needs boundaries (and a state needs borders). They are one side of that, and we seem to be on the other.
Come on guys, those Muslims weren't just sitting around roasting lamb. As for the Christians, I don't know as much.
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Seems kinda indecent to put this under the Page 1 D-Day post, so...
Elysian Fields. A hapless chump
Was driving past the City Dump
When suddenly he heard the curse
Of a person more diverse.
A "F-ck!," a truck, and beaucoup clanks.
Nebraska man peeked through the planks.
Like all Caucasians, choked with hate,
He chuckled... but the balky gate --
Upon which swung his very fate! --
Was freed at last: The way made straight!
He jumped the fence to shake the hand
Of that ingenious garbageman
Who all unwittingly had taught him
To put the hinge down at the bottom.
O engineer of sanitation,
Long before the big invasion
Your chariot of inspiration
Saved this great ungrateful nation,
Dumping junk and chunks of chickens,
Thus assisting Andrew Higgins.
For that you ought to get some credit
Though I doubt you'll ever get it...
But just in case, I penned this doggerel
For Obama's next inaugural.
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They should announce that in the future, all riot police will be armed with flamethrowers and AA-12's using FRAG-12 ammunition. Any rioter who manages to survive should consider a new career.
[DW] Cologne ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany.... police have denied that brief detentions of Ramadan revelers at the city's rail hub amounted to 'racial profiling.' Germany's Central Council of Moslems says officers need coaching in cultural sensitivity. "FOAD"
Calls of "Allahu Akbar" ["God is great"] by young Moslems wearing long gowns and vests outside Cologne's main rail station culminated on Wednesday in counter-accusations between city police and the Central Council of Moslems in Germany (ZMD).
Police chief Uwe Jacob denied that his officers were motivated by racism in detaining 10 young Moslem men aged between 18 and 28 inside the station on Tuesday during a one-hour intervention.
Searches done resulted in a one-handed knife being found and infringement proceedings against one person, according to multiple reports.
'APOLOGIES NEEDED'
ZMD chairman Aiman Mazyek said the men were on their way to celebrations to mark the completion of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when faced by a "massive" operation by police.
"We condemn the actions of the Cologne police and expect that coppers will be better culturally trained and sensitized and not react in great nervousness to any intended hint from the public about the alleged 'suspicious' behavior of people of other appearances," said Mazyek, adding that apologies were needed.
In Cologne, a city known for its diversity, police should have a minimum of knowledge about "religion-specific things like holidays and tradition," he added.
The station periphery was the scene of sexual assaults on women as Germany entered New Year in 2016 after dealing with mass "Balkan route" migrant arrivals - an incident that prompted closer policing on the plaza also adjacent to the city's famous cathedral.
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Societies need to protect themselves. I have said before, I will say again. There are some things you cannot leave to a government. The moment the first wave of migrants touched their land, the people should have revolted. Forcefully pulled down a govt. that loved outsiders more than those who elected it.
And beaten, lynched, burnt the rats out of their streets back into ports and borders.
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Trump has over a year to take the heat and still deliver. I'm not sure the Mexicans have that much play in their economy without dire consequences to the ruling class establishment.
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Trump should go after the people who organize and aid and abet these mass migrations such as funders, immigration attorneys and immigration organizations on this side of the border as well.
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Falls into the 'who cares' bin until one considers the burden of physical training for extended missions, field ration quality, performance timelines and mission success expectation modeling.
[Washington Examiner] At a huddle among top Democratic lawmakers Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said she wanted to see President Trump jailed.
"I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison," Pelosi said, according to Politico.
The California Democrat reiterated her stance that she would rather see Trump defeated at the ballot box during the 2020 elections and then prosecuted for alleged crimes that she believes he might have committed.
Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne said that the meeting between Democrats about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was "productive."
"They agreed to keep all options on the table and continue to move forward with an aggressive hearing and legislative strategy, as early as next week, to address the president’s corruption and abuses of power uncovered in the report," Etienne said.
Pelosi is at odds with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who wants to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump. During the meeting he reportedly pressed her to begin the inquiry, only to receive pushback from Pelosi and others in leadership.
With her statement about Trump "in prison," Pelosi continues a balancing act among those in her party who want to see Trump impeached and those who think proceedings would be too politically divisive. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s first public statement on his investigation last week spurred new calls for impeachment among Democrats.
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I saw a piece the other day about the Rolling Thunder motorcyclists. They threatened that if the Dems try to impeach Trump they will have 1-2 million motorcyclists go to D.C. to shut down D.C.
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Projection is the primary motivation of the NPD left. Pelosi is worried about going to jail. Wonder what she thinks she's going to get found out about?
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good point she's been suckin the blood out of americans along time
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What if she's a vampire?
Acording to my sources *(AD&D Monster manual) driving a stake thru its hard kills it - but only as long as the stake remains. To finish the job you need to remove it's head and fill it's mouth with Holy wafers.
But, after viewing her latest videos he's more the Zombie type. Vanpires are intelligent and can charm people.
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Don't EVER refer to Nancy Palsi and "hard" in the same meme
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Somehow I think she'll turn out to be his 'ace in the hole'. I can't shake the feeling. Maybe it'll be a huge 'own goal'. Or maybe she'll do it to save her skin. I don't know.
The corrupt Mueller investigation was third world style failed coup attempt. They rightly fear the lies and corruption will get them prosecuted.
They have no choice but to take out their target by any means necessary now or be prosecuted for this coup.
In other words, they feat they may have put themselves in an impossible situation with this Mueller stunt.
The Democrats are extremists and a threat to freedom. While at Normandy today, Pelosi callously called for a duly elected US president to be thrown into prison. Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito would have been proud.
[American Thinker] Mexico is going to cave, and it's not just the tariffs. We've got the Mexicans over a barrel on energy, and if we want, we can wipe their economy out. Without American energy imports, the Mexican economy collapses.
This actually doesn't make any sense. Mexico is awash in petroleum and natural gas. But the Mexicans just can't get it out of the ground. American petroleum engineers were critical to the early success of the Mexican oil industry. From 1918 to the late '20s, Mexico was second only to the United States in oil production, and it was number one in petroleum exports. But the bounty was not fairly shared, and an inflamed Mexican nationalism booted the American oil industry out of the country. The Mexican oil industry never recovered.
Take a look at a map of the Permian basin, the source of millions upon millions barrels of daily oil production. You'll notice that the geological formation containing this plentitude of hydrocarbons extends well into Mexico. But there is no oil development on the Mexican side of the border. They can't get to the oil without our help.
"Our" is in the sense that our petroleum engineers belong to us. We have some 40% of the world supply, and ours are the finest in the world. Institutions like Texas A&M turn out engineers like George Mitchell, the son of Greek immigrants, who started the fracking revolution.
There's also Scott Sheffield, from the University of Texas, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources. He's led the charge into the Permian, and he's back from retirement to take another run at it. Some years ago on Jim Cramer's CNBC show, Sheffield predicted that then-current American oil production of 5 to 6 million barrels a day (mbd) would double. And so it has.
On June 3, he told Cramer that American oil production would rise from the current 12 mbd to 17 mbd, a 40% increase. Most of that increase will come from the Permian.
We don't need all that new oil for ourselves, so we'll export it to countries like Mexico. Like Mexico, these countries will then be reliant on the United States for their economic well-being.
[Washington Examiner] A former intelligence official predicted British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s intention to meet with Justice Department investigators "will be a car wreck" and a "hot mess."
Philip Mudd, a counterterrorism analyst for CNN and critic of President Trump, said on Tuesday he was confident Steele would have to tell the U.S. officials "no" if asked whether he could verify parts of his dossier that contained salacious claims about Trump's ties to Russia. That "no" would be disastrous for Steele in an interview with U.S. officials, Mudd claimed.
Attorney General William Barr declared his intention to look into the origins of the Russia investigation and examine how the DOJ and FBI conducted themselves. Trump recently gave Barr full declassification authority to aid in this inquiry, and he selected U.S. Attorney John Durham to serve as his right-hand man in the investigation. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz launched his own investigation into allegations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse a year ago.
An article this week from the Times in the United Kingdom said Steele was open to meeting with U.S. investigators and strongly indicated that Steele would speak with Horowitz’s team rather than Barr and Durham.
In a segment with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday, Mudd condemned Steele’s decision, warning that "if you go to car races looking for car wrecks, this is significant" and predicted that "this will be a car wreck."
[Jpost] EU countries push hard to obtain Israeli intelligence cooperation because "they recognize our abilities," former Mossad official Haim Tomer said on Wednesday.
Discussing intelligence cooperation with foreign countries at the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center in Tel Aviv, the former director of Tevel ‐ the Mossad’s foreign intelligence cooperation ‐ said that different political agendas between the EU and Israel did not harm intelligence cooperation.
Rather, he said, "the secrecy of the intelligence world allows cooperation separate from what goes on at the political" level.
At the same time, though Israeli-US intelligence cooperation has generally been considered excellent throughout recent US administrations, Tomer said there were some occasional limits on the Iran issue ‐ once the B.O. regime made the move for a deal with Tehran and the deal became a real possibility, "it became a problem sharing [related] intelligence with the US without things getting mixed with politics."
Tomer was asked about former CIA director Michael Hayden’s statement that though the US and Israel cooperated in using the 2009-2010 Stuxnet computer virus against Iran’s nuclear program, at one point Israel went beyond what was agreed, creating tension between the two.
Tomer acknowledged that on some of these kinds of issues, "there were different ideas" between Israel and the US about what direction to move in, and that Hayden’s retrospective comments "somewhat encapsulate" the tensions.
Nevertheless, Tomer said, the cooperation "got results."
The Stuxnet virus ‐ which Israel has never formally acknowledged being involved in even though it has been confirmed by many foreign officials and some ex-Israeli officials by implication ‐ is credited with delaying the development of Iran’s nuclear program for around two years.
Tomer said that despite excellent Israeli cooperation with many countries, including current public cooperation with moderate Sunni Arab countries, technological cooperation would still need to be limited because it could expose greater vulnerabilities and expose Israeli allies’ intelligence contributions.
Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn righteously snubbed, Brexit’s Farage stroked. A clear message to the crowds cheering for President Trump over there.
[Ynet] Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has held a meeting with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... at the U.S. ambassador's residence in London.
Farage was photographed being driven into Winfield House on Tuesday afternoon.
He later tweeted: "Good meeting with President Trump - he really believes in Brexit and is loving his trip to London."
[FoxNews] The Latest on the arrest on child rape charges of Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz del Mundo church (all times local):
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An attorney for the leader of a Mexico-based evangelical church says his client's $50 million bail on charges of child rape and human trafficking is "outrageous" and unreasonable.
No pleas were entered Wednesday at a hearing for Naasón Joaquín García, the head of La Luz del Mundo, and two followers in Los Angeles. The judge left García's bail at $50 million and ordered them back to court Monday for arraignment.
García's bail had been raised from $25 million to $50 million Tuesday after investigators completed more search warrants.
García answered the judge's questions through a Spanish interpreter while his co-defendants responded softly in English.
His family waved to him as he was being led out of the courtroom before a bailiff admonished them. About two dozen family members and congregants came to the hearing.
[IsraelTimes] Olli Heinonen accuses UN atomic agency of allowing Tehran to weaponize uranium, while also criticizing Trump decision to bolt deal.
A former deputy head of the UN’s atomic watchdog said Wednesday that Iran is capable of producing a nuclear bomb in six to eight months.
In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, Olli Heinonen said that Israel and the Gulf states "have a reason to worry."
Heinonen said that despite assertions to the contrary by the current leadership of the UN’s ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, which he left in 2010, Tehran has not been adhering to the 2015 nuclear deal.
"Iran is actually weaponizing uranium enrichment without making a weapon," he claimed.
Heinonen currently serves as a fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a right-wing Washington think tank that has been highly critical of the Iran deal, which was initiated by former US president Barack Obama teachable moment... He said that according to his personal, "perhaps back-of-the-envelope" calculation, Iran could produce a nuclear weapons in six to eight months, "if they put in their maximum effort."
Heinonen conversation with Army Radio was a rare interview to Israeli press while he was in the country for a conference hosted by the ISDEF Defense & HLS Expo.
The former UN official also criticized the Trump administration for its decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal in May 2018, suggesting Washington’s aggressive stance toward Tehran could prove counterproductive.
"I think they felt comfortable [with the Trump decision]. They have the enrichment technology and they can create more centrifuges. Probably they [will be] able to withstand a lot of sanctions," he said.
Earlier Wednesday, the head of Military Intelligence claimed that the heavy economic sanctions on Iran and their devastating financial ramifications were the driving forces behind attacks linked to the Islamic Theocratic Republic on petroleum facilities last month and Tehran’s recent decision to step up uranium enrichment.
"Iran is under growing pressure that is forcing it to take actions connected to oil and to its nuclear project ‐ though for now there are no changes to its policies," Maj Gen. Tamir Hayman said, speaking at the Intelligence Legacy Center conference in Tel Aviv as part of the Israel Defense Expo.
On May 15, Iran announced it was stepping up its uranium enrichment program in response to the United States’ decision the year before to drop out of the 2015 nuclear deal and impose heavy economic sanctions on Iran and the countries and groups that do business with it. Last week, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was staying within the limitations set by the 2015 nuclear accord, though its stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water were growing.
Last month, four United Arab Emirate oil tankers were damaged in the Gulf of Oman. The United States and Israel said Iran was behind the sabotage, which Tehran denied. Days later, Houthis in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... ‐ a militia that receives significant funding and assistance from Iran ‐ carried out a number of dronezaps on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n oil facilities.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops carried out separate operations in southern Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces inflicting casualties on Talibs.
The 205th Atal Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said the 1st Brigade of 205th Army Corps carried out artillery strikes in Shahwali Kot of Kandahar.
The statement further added that the artillery strikes left two Talibs dead and three others maimed.
Similarly, the 4th Brigade of 205th Atal Army Corps conducted mortar strikes in Uruzgan province killing 3 Talibs.
The operation was conducted in Khas Uruzgan district of the province, the 205th Atal Corps said.
The 205th Atal Corps also added that the mortar strikes also maimed nine Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters.
The security forces also destroyed two cycle of violences and a vehicle during the same operation.
Both Kandahar and Uruzgan are among the relatively volatile provinces in the South. Talibs are active in remote and restive areas of the two provinces.
[TimesOfSanDiego] Authorities Wednesday publicly identified a 23-year-old Riverside County man who opened fire on Customs and Border Protection personnel during a human-smuggling attempt at San Ysidro Port of Entry.
Travis James Eckstein of Beaumont died at the scene of Monday evening’s shootout at the international border crossing, according to San Diego Police.
The events that led to the deadly gunfire began about 7:45 p.m., when Eckstein refused to stop for CBP officers after driving out of Mexico into a secondary inspection area at the port facility, SDPD Lt. Matt Dobbs said.
As the federal personnel tried to stop Eckstein, his white truck wound up blocked by another vehicle. He then allegedly began firing a gun toward some of the federal agents, getting out of his pickup while continuing to shoot. Seven officers returned fire, mortally wounding him.
Customs personnel performed CPR on Eckstein until paramedics took over the unsuccessful lifesaving attempts, Dobbs said.
None of the federal personnel were injured.
Concealed in the back of Eckstein’s truck, officials found a pair of Chinese nationals, ages 18 and 27, with no legal status to enter the United States, according to CBP public affairs. The two men, who were unhurt, were interviewed and turned over to customs officers.
Northbound vehicle and pedestrian operations at the port of entry were suspended for about 30 minutes due to the shooting.
San Diego Police homicide detectives were called in to investigate the case, as is standard in all shootings involving law enforcement officers in the city.
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officials found a pair of Chinese nationals
Important enough mission for the driver to go shooting and die?
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There's trouble on the streets tonight
I can feel it in my bones, I had a premonition
That he should not go alone
I knew the gun was loaded
But I didn't think he'd kill
Everything exploded, and the blood began to spill
You've got to carry weapons, 'cause you always carry cash
There's lots of shady characters, lots of dirty deals
Ev'ry name's an alias, in case somebody squeals
It's the lure of easy money, it's got a very strong appeal
Perhaps you'd understand it better
Standin' in my shoes, it's the ultimate enticement
It's the smuggler's blues, smuggler's blues
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the Guerilla warfare commander of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in western Farah province.
The Police Headquarters of Farah in a statement said the Afghan Police and Intelligence forces have arrested the Guerrilla warfare commander of Taliban Mullah Mohammad Khan in Farah city.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operation on Tuesday night in Chaharbagh Village.
Mullah Mohammad Khan was previously operating as the shadow district chief of Khak-e-Safa district.
He is also responsible for murdering at least 40 personnel of the Afghan Local Police forces in Khak-e-Safa, the Police Headquarters of Farah said.
Furthermore, the security forces arrested four accomplices of Mullah Mohammad Khan.
The security forces confiscated 3 Ak-47 rifles, hand grenades and other munitions during the same operation.
This comes as the security situation in some districts of Farah province has tanked during the recent years.
Talibs are active in remote and restive areas the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
[ToloNews] At least one woman killed and four children were wounded after a mortar round hit a house in Achin district in eastern Nangarhar province, the Ministry of Defense confirmed.
Acting Defense Minister Assadullah Khalid who visited the wounded children said that the mortar was fired by Daesh militants in the area.
From amongst four wounded children, one of them has lost one of his legs.
“These children were wounded as a result of Daesh firing on our house. Their mother was martyred,” said Aqal Mir, victims’ uncle.
The children are under the age of 3 and 12.
Khalid said that the children were transferred in a US helicopter for treatment at Bagram Military Hospital in north of Kabul.
“We arrived in Jalalabad in a civilian vehicle and then the US helicopter transferred us here. The treatment of these children is going well. They are so kind people here,” said Aqal Mir.
According to UN statistics, last year over 600 Afghan children were killed and 1,500 others wounded during conflicts.
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[DAILYCALLER] The woman who assaulted Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz at a town hall event in Pensacola, Florida, last week ran in Florida’s Democratic Primary election in 2016.
Amanda L. Kondrat’yev, who threw a cup of unknown red liquid at the congressman as he exited an event, has a history in politics. She ran in the Democratic Primary election for Florida’s 1st Congressional District in 2016, the district that Gaetz would go on to win, according to Ballotpedia. "HAD" a history in politics
During the early stages of that race, Gaetz and Kondrat’yev feuded over the presence of a large cross in a public park in Pensacola.
Kondrat’yev is the lead plaintiff in a case filed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanist Association that alleged the presence of the cross in a public space violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Gaetz challenged Kondrat’yev to a debate on the matter, and while Kondrat’yev accepted, the debate never occurred.
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Not to be confused with the unknown orange liquid sold at Dairy Queen.
[FoxNews] A young Tennessee mother, 19, has received two years’ probation for putting her 8-month-old baby in a freezer while allegedly under the influence, then closing the lid, according to a report.
FOX 35 ORLANDO reported that Brittany Smith was facing felony charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect. She pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of child neglect only.
Witnesses said they saw Smith holding her baby next to an unused freezer in their backyard.
The resident went outside to speak with Smith, and found her in the crawlspace under their home.
The baby was found in the freezer, which had about an inch of standing water inside.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The deputy head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement rebel group has been detained, a spokesman for the movement said on Wednesday.
Yasir Arman, had been living in exile and was sentenced to death in absentia over his actions in the group, but returned to Sudan recently. He was arrested by security forces, the spokesman said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Organizers of the pro-democracy protests in Sudan say 40 bodies have been retrieved from the Nile River in the capital, Khartoum.
The Sudan Doctors’ Committee said on Wednesday that the bodies were pulled out on Tuesday and were taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to an unknown location.
Including these fatalities, the death toll has climbed to 100 since the violent dispersal of a sit-in outside the military’s headquarters in Khartoum on Monday.
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[IsraelTimes] ’Time for PA to step-up & take responsibility,’ says US Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt, as Paleostinian PM warns of collapse within 2 months amid withdrawal of US aid and financial spat with Israel. "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"
[KREBSONSECURITY] For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as "Robbinhood." Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by "Eternal Blue," a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.
On May 25, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Continued on Page 49
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[BREITBART] Controversial Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne revealed that she not only has a distaste for right-wing Christians, but claims to have more in common with Moslems.
The Church of Sweden bishop made her comments this week on the People and Faith programme broadcast on Sveriges Radio, stating that she believes that the subject of Christian values has been largely taken over by right-wing populists.
"We all have to think about which people we are and who we are living with. And in fact, we all have the same value. Although we do not speak the same language or pray to God in the same way or look the same, we have the same value, and we shall live in a country together and have the same rights," she said, in comments reported by Nyheter Idag.
"I say that I sometimes have more in common with Moslems, those I meet, than with the right-wing Christians," she said and went on to add that Christians have their own bad boys, mentioning the Crusades and the witch burnings that took place hundreds of years ago.
"We hear a lot about terrorism and think that it is Moslems who practice this, which it is, but it is nevertheless a small, small minority of all the Moslems we know," she added. "Wait! Wait! I'm getting a signal here~"
"Can you decode it, Swenson?"
"Ya, sure, sir! It's... ummm... Wait! I got it!"
"Well? Out with it man!"
"It’s virtue, sir!"
"Damn. Wish we had some of that!"
"We're not lady Swedish bishops, sir."
"And never could be. Set course for Sanity, Mister Erickson!"
"Aye aye, sir!"
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Jesus who? This is the church of Marx. Just have to have NPD to join.
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So she's in favor of capital punishment for adultery and premarital sex? In Sweden? My, how things change.
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Stupid but predictable. It's Sweden.
We had two Swedish interns. I couldn't resist. One morning I told them there was a bad incident at the Norwegian, Sweden border. They asked what happened. I explained the Swedish guards threw grenades across the border.
"What happened" they asked?
"The Norwegians took the pins out and threw them back". Old joke but worth the dumb ass look on their faces. Stupid shits.
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Maybe that's why there are so many empty pews on Sundays.
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.."claims to have more in common with Moslems" as she went home to beat her "wife" with a stick (Moe says s'ok - it's not any bigger than her thumb)
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As if millions of quack scientists' and politicians' voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened...to grant and tax monies.
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As if millions of quack scientists' and politicians' voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened...to grant and tax monies.
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actually, contrary to the article, coronal mass ejections are correlated with sunspot maxima although this correlation is weak and the causation of CMEs is not well understood
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The every eleven years solar minimum is the basic model. However, periodically there is an extended minimum — y’all will remember the Little Ice Age, while the more technical are thinking about the Maunder Minimum while hoping for something more Dalton-like ...
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First the Mooslims can't spot the moon, now Sun Spots are playing hide and seek? Oh my!
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Two interesting things about Dr. Zharkova's work:
1) it is based on a statistical analysis of solar activity, NOT the predictions of a computer model.
2) Rather than predicting generic gloom and doom that *could* happen in the future, she makes a specific, testable prediction - that the next few years will be very cold. As she says, we will see if she is right.
As tw points out, this is not your usual every 11 years solar minimum but a Big-Ass Solar Minimum, like back when the Thames used to freeze over. It's worth watching Dr. Zharkova's presentation rather than filtering the idea through 'journalism'. No offense to their mums, but when it comes to a grasp of science, most journalists lack opposable thumbs.
A path for Christian, Republican, and conservative student groups to fight back as well.
[Jpost] The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Williams College in Massachusetts for discrimination after the student government refused to give a pro-Israel group official status.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights in Boston has opened an investigation into a complaint alleging that the College Council, the college’s student government, violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the College Fix reported. Title VI prohibits "discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics."
The complaint was filed by George Mason University law professor David Bernstein. He was notified on Friday of the opening of the investigation.
The complaint notes that earlier this spring Jewish students at Williams sought official recognition for a group called Williams Initiative for Israel. On April 23, the Williams College Council voted 13-8, with one abstention, against recognizing Williams Initiative for Israel, according to the complaint.
The complaint notes that the College Council had previously recognized Students for Justice in Paleostine. That means the council "has no policy, formal or informal, against recognizing student groups that take positions on foreign affairs in general, on the Middle East specifically, or on matters related to Israel or the Israel-Paleostinian conflict," it said.
Less than a month after the College Council turned down the application for recognition by pro-Israel group, the Williams administration granted the group official status, bypassing the council. It is not known if that decision will make a difference to the Office for Civil Right’s investigation.
It was the first time in over a decade that a student group was rejected after complying with council bylaws, minutes from the meeting show, according to the Williams Record student newspaper.
[DAWN] The Paleostinians will celebrate Eid on a different day from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for the first time since 1994 due to differences in the sighting of the moon, leading some to question why.
Some Paleostinians even suggested on social media the decision could be related to politics ahead of the unveiling of the US plan for Israeli-Paleostinian peace.
Paleostinian officials flatly denied the claim related to the Eidul Fitr festival that follows the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Others joked about the different dates, with one social media comment proposing Paleostinians fast for a half-day on Tuesday to bridge the division.
A statement by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Paleostinian territories carried on official media on Monday night confirmed the moon had not been sighted and hence Eid would be celebrated on Wednesday, a day later than Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia celebrated Eid on Tuesday while Iran will do so on Wednesday.
Ekrama Sabri, head of the supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, said it was the first time since the Paleostinian Authority was formed in 1994 that they were holding Eid on a different day to Saudi Arabia.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Bangladeshi student who enrolled in an Australian university with the aim of killing someone in the name of ISIS was jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for 42 years Wednesday for stabbing her local host as he slept.
Momena Shoma, 26, admitted to engaging in a terrorist act when she stabbed Roger Singaravelu in the neck with a kitchen knife just eight days after arriving in Australia.
Shoma, who wore a black niqab showing only her eyes at the sentencing hearing in Victoria state’s supreme court, shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar" as she attacked Singaravelu, who survived and was also present at the hearing, the court heard.
"Your deeds and words, and the intentions accompanying them are chilling," said judge Lesley Taylor in handing down the sentence of 42 years, with a non-parole period of 31 years and six months. She faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Taylor said her actions "sent ripples of horror throughout the Australian community".
"But they do not make you a martyr. They do not make you a beacon of Islam... They make you an undistinguished criminal," she said.
Prosecutors said Shoma became radicalized in 2013 while living in Dhaka and became enamored of ISIS and its calls for Moslems to engage in violent actions against non-Moslems.
After failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! s to study in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , with the aim of crossing into ISIS-controlled parts of Syria, prosecutors said Shoma received a scholarship to study at La Trobe University in Melbourne and arrived in the city on February 1, 2018.
She moved in with an Australian family under a homestay program for foreign students and immediately began planning an attack on them, the court heard.
She purchased night vision goggles on February 3 and on February 6 rehearsed an attack by repeatedly stabbing the mattress of her host couple when they were not home.
The family discovered the damage and immediately asked the homestay organizers to remove her from the home.
Shoma was then placed with Singaravelu’s family and stabbed him three days later after watching videos about ISIS online, the court heard.
Outside court Singaravelu, an immigrant from Malaysia, said he was amazed to have survived the attack, and questioned how Shoma could have obtained a visa to travel to Australia.
"We came from Malaysia, from a Moslem country. We came to Australia for a better life. And most importantly, the security of this country," he told news hounds.
"She was red flagged in other countries; how she was allowed here?" he asked.
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[DAWN] Sri Lanka's government will introduce five-year jail terms for those caught spreading fake news and hate speech on social media, the government said Wednesday, following a surge in online vitriol and disinformation after the Easter suicide kabooms.
The cabinet of ministers approved a proposal by the acting justice minister, which will also see offenders fined one million rupees ($5,715), the government said in a statement.
It did not immediately release a definition of the two offences, but said the penal code will be amended to introduce the new penalties.
The move follows repeated government allegations that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been used to spread online hate, in a country where ethnic divisions still linger after decades of war.
Sri Lanka shut down internet access in March last year to prevent further violence when anti-Moslem mobs went on the rampage in the island nation's central region, killing three people and destroying hundreds of homes, shops, vehicles and mosques.
During the violence, mobs used social media platforms to organise attacks against minority groups.
Sri Lankan social networks also saw a surge in fake news after the Easter suicide kabooms that left 258 people dead and nearly 500 maimed.
A nine-day ban on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp was introduced following the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -claimed attacks on three churches and three hotels on April 21.
Last month Singapore's parliament passed laws to combat fake news that will allow authorities to order the removal of content and could see those convicted of violations imprisoned for up to 10 years.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan’s military rulers offered to resume talks with opposition groups on Wednesday, two days after security forces mounted a deadly raid on a protest camp, but the opposition rejected the invitation.
Medics linked to the opposition said the corpse count from Monday’s operation and subsequent unrest had risen to 101 and that it was expected to increase further. No official casualty figures have been released.
The raid, which followed weeks of wrangling between the ruling military council and opposition groups over who should lead Sudan’s transition to democracy, marked the worst outbreak of violence since the army ousted President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. in April after months of protests against his rule.
The Transitional Military Council cancelled all agreements it had reached with the opposition immediately after the raid but on Wednesday it rowed back amid mounting international criticism of the violence.
ALSO READ: United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... says relocating staff from Sudan
"We in the military council extend our hand for negotiations without shackles except the interests of the homeland," its head, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said on state TV.
But a Sudanese alliance of protesters and opposition groups rejected the offer, saying the military could not be trusted.
"Today the council invited us to dialogue and at the same time it is imposing fear on citizens in the streets," Madani Abbas Madani, a leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), told Rooters.
Madani said Burhan’s invitation had come before the arrest of one of the opposition alliance members, Yasir Arman, deputy head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) rebel group.
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Anbar (IraqiNews) An official source informed, on Wednesday, that a number of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lions of Islam were killed, while their hideout was destroyed by a coalition warplanes air strike, north of Anbar.
In a press statement, the source said that the US-led coalition warplanes bombarded, today, specific area in Juail Valley, in the desert of al-Dulab, north of Anbar.
The air strikes destroyed a hideout belongs to the Islamic State, while killed a number of the group’s murderous Moslems, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Anbar (IraqiNews) Paramilitary forces leader Qatary al-Samarmad announced, on Wednesday, killing the so-called Islamic State’s Emir of Wilayat al-Jazeera, along with six others in an air strike by the Iraqi Air Force, west of Anbar.
Samarmad said in a press statement that after receiving information about the presence of the terrorist Abdullah Farhan, a.k.a Abu Muaallam al-Iraqi, in the desert of Anbar, joint forces from the Iraqi army and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri pursued 4 IS members in Dulab area, in Heet District.
He added that the warplanes bombed the tunnel, where the militants hid, while security forces found seven bodies belonging to the Islamic State inside the tunnel, including the Emir of Wilayat al-Jazeera, Abu Musallam al-Iraqi.
The terrorist group used that tunnel as a hideout to plan for attacks and terrorist operations against security forces and civilians, he further explained.
The operation came as part of an intelligence effort between the forces from the army’s 7th division and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri in the region, which facilitated the pursuit of terrorists and eliminating them.
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[CNN] Air turbulence began to rapidly spin a female hiker as she dangled in a basket attached to a rescue helicopter. This rarity is a known phenomenon in the hoist rescue industry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Global financial bodies including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank plan to be present at a US-led conference on the Paleostinian economy this month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its peace plan.
The efficacy of the June 25-26 meeting in Bahrain has been in doubt since Paleostinian leaders and businesspeople decided to shun it over Washington’s perceived pro-Israel bias and inattention to their political demands.
Israel’s new election, an upsurge in cross-border fighting and the Paleostinians’ resentment at US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital add to the complicated backdrop.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the IMF, which has been operating in the West Bank and Gazoo since 1995, confirmed it and other institutions would be present in Bahrain’s capital Manama.
"The IMF has been invited to the meeting and expects to attend, along with other international financial institutions," a representative said.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed it would have "someone" representing it. A World Bank front man said it had an invitation "and expects to attend."
ALSO READ: Final Islamic Summit communique reiterates Paleostinians’ right to statehood
Lenders and development banks have long played a stabilizing role in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, providing loans, credit guarantees, and policy advice to the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority (PA).
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner this week concluded a trip to the Middle East and Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... aimed partly at drumming up support for the "Peace for Prosperity" conference intended to unveil the economic part of Trump’s long-heralded peace plan.
Paleostinian objections
But Paleostinian and Arab officials suspect the event may be a prelude to a US push to jettison the "two-state" solution - a long-standing, international formula for an independent Paleostinian state alongside Israel in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gazoo.
The twin state blueprint has been the basis for decades of lending and technical support from global financial institutions, aimed at building the capacity of Paleostinian government ministries and the private sector.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... emergency relief coordinator says more than two million men, women and kiddies could die of starvation in Somalia by summer’s end if international aid is not sent quickly to the drought-stricken African country.
UN Undersecretary-General Mark Lowcock says about $700 million is needed after a rainless season that has killed both livestock and crops.
He said on Tuesday that the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $45 million to cover food shortages, water and daily necessities in Somalia as well as parts of Kenya and Æthiopia affected by droughts.
Of a Somali population of 15 million people, more than 3 million are struggling just to meet minimum food requirements, he said, and the shortages are about 40 percent worse now than this past winter.
"What was forecast to be an average rainy season in Somalia is now one of the driest on record in over 35 years," he said.
"Communities that were already vulnerable due to past droughts are again facing severe hunger and water scarcity and are at risk from deadly communicable diseases" he added.
The UN aid complements efforts by governments of the three countries to assist their people, especially those with disabilities or who are internally displaced.
Somalia’s humanitarian fund is currently depleted. If financial aid is delayed, the cost of saving lives on the margin of death are much higher, Lowcock said, adding that the option then is to turn to expensive, therapeutic feeding programs.
"We could have a quick response now, which would be cheaper, reduce human suffering and more effective, or we can wait for a few months until we get all those horrible pictures on our TV screens and social media of starving kids," Lowcock said.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Majed Jameel was overwhelmed. Poor guy. The city, peopled by Paleostinians, is "volatile." It's been "volatile" for seventy two years and shows no sign of ceasing its volatility. The U.S., having its own problems, has ceased funding UNRWA, which has cut funding to Paleoschools. The poor guy's gone from trying to indoctrinate 27 little Islamic exemplars to riding herd on 47, or approximately the same number in my (Catholic) school classroom when I and the Paleovolatility problem were both ten years old.
This wasn’t the kind of pressure he’d grown accustomed to as a teacher in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron. On a recent, not uncommon occasion, festivities erupted between students and Israeli soldiers, sending volleys of tear gas into the playground. That he could handle.
This was a different stress. After the Trump administration slashed funding last year to the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, known as UNRWA, Jameel saw his classes nearly doubled in size.
His disciplined social studies class at the Hebron Boys’ School had become a crowded, unruly scene: Four children squeezed at desks made for two, dozens of hands shooting in the air at the same time, noise snowballing when he paused for questions.
He said the classroom is louder and filled with distractions. "You spend most of the class time restraining student interactions or fights and have no time left to track their homework and classwork ... or give one-on-one help." Hmmm....odd, that. Paleos, you say?
The effects of US aid cuts have rippled throughout UNRWA’s operations, but its sprawling school system, serving 500,000 children across the Middle East, has been hit hardest.
With money dried up and widespread austerity measures in place, the agency says it can no longer accommodate a natural influx of students, recruit new teachers or expand to larger facilities.
Peter Mulrean, the agency’s New York representative, said average class sizes in the West Bank have grown from 30 students a year ago to 50.
"There’s a huge difference between correcting exams for 27 students and for 47 students," said Jameel. "I just want things go back to how they were last year."
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What happened to the money that Qatar promised?
[Breitbart] Appearing Tuesday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
A partial transcript is as follows:
HOST BRIANNA KEILAR: I want to ask you, because you’ve been really a critic of John Brennan, who has been a critic of President Trump. You’ve not been a big fan of him. You’ve said that. He’s the former CIA director under President Obama. What do you think about this recent New York Times story that Brennan still has his security clearance? This was such a big, I guess, promise of the president’s, demand of the president. He said he was going to pull it, and he still has it.
SEN. RAND PAUL: Well, this is what worries me. People talk about the Deep State. Now the Deep State is actually protecting their own and not listening to the president’s orders. I was sitting in the White House when President Trump said, "I want his security clearance taken," and I saw the order given. I saw the chief of staff was there, not the current chief of staff, the previous chief of staff.
And if they’re working against the odds of the president, that really does disrupt our country, does disrupt a representative democracy where the president makes a decision, and if someone is countermanding that, I think we need to get to the bottom of that. And I hope President Trump will say, "who is countermanding my orders. I said get rid of his clearance." And I do think Brennan has been a partisan. And I think Brennan also abused his office in developing the Trump investigation. I think it was done under false pretenses and done for political reasons.
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Assuming the Agency held Brennan's clearance, it would be the responsibility of the Special Security Officer (SSO) of the Agency to suspend or revoke Brennan's clearance.
Rank Paul is very likely correct. The "Deep State Ignored the order".
[AnNahar] A senior source from Iran’s revolutionary guard has confirmed Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... ’s latest remarks that "there are no precision missile factories in Leb at the moment," a media report said.
Possibly this is true...
"But this does mean that there are no missile factories but that Hizbullah had stopped manufacturing the precision type since a while after they were exposed and after it faced along with the Lebanese government strong pressures from the Americans," the source told the Iran correspondent of Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper.
Hizbullah also feared that the precision missile plants could be located by "Israel’s spies," the source added.
A little late for that, habibi. Don’t look up.
Al-Jarida was the first media outlet to report the presence of Iranian arms factories in Leb in 2017.
"Nasrallah is not lying, because Hizbullah has moved these factories to areas in northeast Syria so that they be distant enough from the Israeli targeting," the source added,
...except, of course, that they aren’t and he is..
noting that "the electronic devices and warheads necessary for these precision missiles are being manufactured in Syria whereas the missile bodies are being manufactured in Leb."
"Hizbullah only needs to install those parts on these bodies in order for the missiles to become precision-guided," the revolutionary guard source explained.
"In addition to Syria, the parts that the missiles require to be turned from normal into precision-guided are being manufactured in Iran, North Korea, China and Russia," the source added, noting that "due to the Israeli raids against its Iranian arms shipments, Hizbullah has managed over the past years to smuggle arms factories from Bulgaria and Ukraine in the form of fragments, before successfully assembling them in Leb and Syria."
"It accordingly no longer needs to import a lot of types of weapons from Iran," the source added.
He revealed that an additional reason to shut down the precision missile factories in Leb was Nasrallah’s desire to "give credibility to his allies in the government, who denied the presence of such factories, putting at stake their credibility with the Americans and Europeans."
"Hizbullah now has more than 250,000 normal and precision-guided missiles of the short, medium and long ranges that can hit any point in Israel," the source added.
The day Israel does something about those caches, the secondaries are going to be earth-shakingly awesome.
Hizbullah chief Nasrallah on Friday rejected what he called U.S. conditions for mediating the border and maritime dispute with Israel.
Nasrallah said in a speech that Washington is "using the talks" to discuss, and even make threats over, degrading his group's capabilities, bringing up an Israeli claim that Hizbullah has precision missile factories.
Confirmed above, Mr. Hezbollahman.
Nasrallah acknowledged his group has the weapons but denied it produces them. "So far in Leb there are no factories for precision missiles," he said.
Yeah, yeah. Asked and answered, O lying Nasdallah.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes and shelling by regime forces killed 10 civilians in Syria’s northwest on Wednesday, as residents marked the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a war monitor said.
Two children were among six people killed in regime strikes on the town of Kafr Aweid in the hard boy-held province of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The victims’ relatives gathered at the town’s graveyard on Wednesday afternoon as an excavator dug a large pit in the ground.
The scattered remains of one of the children were placed in a cardboard box before being buried, an AFP photographer said.
The corpse of another was covered in an embroidered blue sheath.
Another civilian died in regime shelling on the northern Hama countryside, also held by bad boys, said the Britannia-based monitor.
Regime air strikes also hit a cycle of violence in the Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan, killing a woman and her two children, said the Observatory.
Wednesday’s attacks come amid an escalation in violence in parts of the country’s northwest held by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham .
A September deal was supposed to avert a full-out regime offensive on Idlib province and adjacent areas, home to around three million people, nearly half of whom have been displaced from other parts of Syria.
But the regime and its ally Russia have since late April ramped up deadly air strikes and rocket fire on the region, and fighters have clashed on its edges.
The bombardment of Idlib province and neighboring areas has killed more than 300 people since late April, according to the Observatory.
It also displaced nearly 270,000 people in May alone, according to the UN.
A total of 24 health facilities and 35 schools have been hit in the latest escalation, according to the UN’s humanitarian office.
Analysts predict that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... and his allies will continue to chip away at the area, but not unleash a major assault that would create chaos on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... ’s doorstep.
The conflict in Syria has killed more than 370,000 people since it started in 2011.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The ISIS bad boy group claimed an attack that killed eight Egyptian coppers in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, as the country marked the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
"ISIS fighters this morning launched two simultaneous attacks on two police checkpoints in the city of El-Arish," said a statement released by the bad boy group’s propaganda wing, Amaq.
It claimed that 10 coppers were killed in the two attacks; one on a checkpoint south of El-Arish and another on a second checkpoint in a "nearby area".
It said the twin operation was designed to "divide" the attention of security forces and give murderous Moslems enough time to pull back before reinforcements arrived.
The country’s interior ministry said eight Egyptian policeman were killed in an attack on the northeastern region, a hotbed of a years-long insurgency by bully boys, some linked to ISIS.
Egyptian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said there were fears the corpse count could rise, amid reports of attacks on multiple checkpoints.
Amaq said the operation also aimed to undermine attempts by Egyptian police to portray El-Areesh as being safe from ISIS attacks.
Egypt has for years been battling North Sinai forces of Evil affiliated with the ISIS bad boy group.
Hundreds of coppers and soldiers have been killed in attacks which surged after the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The interior ministry said last month it had intelligence that murderous Moslems were planning attacks on "important and vital facilities," as well as prominent figures in El-Arish.
In late 2017, North Sinai was the scene of the deadliest bad boy attack in Egypt’s modern history when murderous Moslems killed more than 300 worshippers at a mosque, without any group claiming responsibility.
In February 2018, the army launched a nationwide offensive against the Islamists, focused mainly on the North Sinai.
According to official figures, around 650 murderous Moslems have been killed since the start of the operation, while the army has lost some 50 soldiers.
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Nice story, but I'm posting because he was my Civics teacher at my Jr. HS in Chula Vista. Great stories and a strong man. A genuinely good man
It’s even better when there’s a personal connection.
[10 News San Diego] For most people, a summer trip to France is a chance to relax in beautiful surroundings and to savor the country's fine food. For Tom Rice of San Diego, it's an opportunity to relive the time he nearly died jumping from a C-47 Douglas airplane, then was shot at, again and again.
Despite being 97, Rice climbed once more into the bone-rattling fuselage of a C-47 and, while flying over the Normandy fields where he first saw action in 1944, leaped into the unknown.
Those on the ground watched the anxiety-inducing descent as, strapped to another parachutist dangling beneath a stars and stripes canopy, the old man coasted through the sky, another gigantic American flag billowing out behind him.
Reaching the ground with only a slight stumble on impact, Rice proudly gave V for victory signs with his hands and, wearing a 101st Airborne baseball cap, said he felt "great" and was ready to "go back up and do it again."
Rice, along with thousands of other, was in Normandy to mark the anniversary of the June 6 D-Day military operations that 75 years ago saw Allied forces turn the tide of World War II toward eventual defeat for Nazi Germany.
Most participants were content with touring some of the broad landing beaches -- with code names like Juno, Gold and Omaha -- that saw legions of young men wade ashore into a barrage of German machine gun and artillery fire to push back German advances.
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[DAILYCALLER] Democrats want to bring a panel of psychiatrists to Washington to suggest that President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is mentally unfit to be president.
Kentucky Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth has been tasked with coordinating the project, now planned for July, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
"We’re planning to put together an event ... a town hall. We haven’t actually determined the format," Yarmuth said.
Dr. Bandy Lee, a persistent critic of the president who believes Trump’s state of mental health makes him unfit for office, is slated to lead the team of psychiatrists. Lee teaches at the Yale School of Medicine and is the editor of the book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump."
Goldwater Rule, you unethical asshole. But you go on putting your entire profession into disrepute if you feel the need.
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Hah. First you have Dem "witch hunts" and now you have Dem "witch doctors." This is going to backfire for the Dems like a Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon.
Da Mayor hopes to follow in far left, jihadi-lover Jeremy Corbyn’s footsteps.
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed that anti-Semitism is a product of a "right-wing movement," as anti-Semitic hate crimes surge in the city.
"I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement," de Blasio said at a presser Tuesday, according to the New York Post.
Attacks on Jews have increased by roughly 90% in the past year, and the New York Police Department (NYPD) has tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 75 people in connection with the crimes, according to the report.
De Blasio’s comments were consistent with his past statements on the rise of anti-Semitism in his city.
After a group of Hasidic Jews were attacked in Crown Heights, Brooklyn earlier this year, de Blasio blamed white supremacy, despite the fact that the alleged attackers were identified as black.
"It’s really clear that forces of white supremacy have been unleashed," de Blasio said. "A lot of folks used to be told it was unacceptable to be anti-Semitic, it was unacceptable to be racist and now they’re getting more permission."
At the news conference, the New York Police Department said that hate crimes have risen this year despite a decrease in overall crime. Sixty percent of the hate crimes counted were committed against Jews, in particular those living in predominantly Orthodox areas, Bklyner reported.
De Blasio’s comments drew criticism, including from City Councilman Chaim Deutsch.
“I have not seen any white supremacists coming in here committing these hate crimes,” the Jewish Democrat said, according to the New York Post
[Jpost] On a recent speaking tour in North America, I was asked repeatedly about antisemitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn’s Labour has become an existential threat to British Jews, and audiences smartly inquired what could be done to stop growing antisemitism in UK politics from endangering Britain’s Jews.
At Campaign Against antisemitism, the volunteer-run charity that I am proud to lead, we have been at the forefront of calling out Labour in the media. This media campaign has borne fruit: According to a May 17 YouGov survey, 80 percent of British voters are now aware of Labour’s antisemitism crisis, and just 19 percent are still convinced by Labour and Corbyn’s arguments that they are not antisemitic.
There are lessons to be learned in North America from our experiences in Britain, particularly with a similar dynamic starting to play out on the far left.
Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has played an outsized role in enabling the torrent of antisemitic incidents flowing from the once anti-racist Labour Party.
For years, British Jews watched and failed to do enough as the far-left allied with Islamists, and as their warped hatred took hold on university campuses and in sections of the media.
Then, in 2015, hundreds of thousands of new activists joined Labour, many of them from the far-left, following a change in membership rules which reduced membership fees to only £3 per year. They wasted no time in electing the little-known Jeremy Corbyn to lead them.
Soon after Corbyn’s improbable ascent to the Labour leadership, we saw two changes: Anti-Semites in the Party, who saw Corbyn as a kindred spirit, became bolder, and those anti-Semites ceased to be firmly punished, thereby emboldening others. One of the first, Sir Gerald Kaufman, claimed at an event in Parliament that British Jews donated to the Conservative Party so that Israeli Jews could kill what he referred to as “Arab-looking people.” Corbyn took no action.
Over the following months and years, more and more cases began to pile up, but in most cases, Labour dithered over how to treat Holocaust deniers and anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists, often excusing them and welcoming them back into the fold.
As this cycle developed, the sound of antisemitism grew, and it now roars from Labour’s grassroots with the support or acquiescence of its leadership.
Under Corbyn, the machinery of the party has been corrupted to excuse antisemitism whilst punishing those who stand up against it. Meanwhile, prominent Party figures deny antisemitism by claiming that it is just a “smear” campaign by Jews.
There are lessons to be learned in North America from our experiences in Britain, particularly with a similar dynamic starting to play out on the far left.
Communities elsewhere should learn from the mistakes made in Britain. Do not dismiss anti-Semites as fringe lunatics: They breed on the extremes of society and eventually seep into the mainstream.
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[FOX] NEW YORK CITY – A deputy chief with the New York Police Department died Wednesday after he shot himself, a police spokesman told Fox News.
The NYPD confirmed to Fox News that Deputy Chief Steven Silks, executive officer of Patrol Borough Queens North, was the department veteran who died. The 62-year-old deputy chief had been with the police department for over 38 years, police Sgt. Lee Jones said.
Sources told the New York Post that the officer, who was a month away from retirement, had been sitting in an unmarked patrol car when he shot himself in the head, but police would not confirm it.
[Jpost] The Paleostinian Authority stopped their payments to the Israel Electric Cooperation, which supplies the West Bank with electricity, according to Israeli media. http://rantburg.com/headlinez.php?UPD=Y
In the past three months the Paleostinian Authority's debt to the IEC has grown to NIS 300 million. The current accumulated debt is NIS 2 billion, according to the report. "We want free shit"
[Rudaw] Three Peshmerga fighters were maimed, one of them critically, when Ottoman Turkish jets bombed an area north of Erbil on Wednesday morning.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... launched Operation Claw last week targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions inside the Kurdistan Region of Iraq near its shared border with Turkey and Iran.
Asqi Zubair, a resident of a nearby village in Sidakan, awoke in the early hours of Wednesday to the sound of bombing, which has become a daily occurrence.
"The jets had bombed an orchard and a farm belonging to the Peshmerga fighters," Zubair told Rudaw via telephone. "The three Peshmerga, two of them brothers, rushed to the scene to the put out the fire that was engulfing their crops."
Isa Lawa, a Peshmerga colonel, told Rudaw: "When they went to put out the fire... the jets come back and bomb the area again. One of the Peshmerga has lost a leg and the two others have sustained minor injuries."
The incident took place around 5:30 a.m. in the village of Mergarash, Erbil province.
"I don’t know if there were PKK fighters in the orchard when the jets bombed but this has become our fate since 2008 when the Turks started setting up bases," Zubair said.
"The Ottoman Turkish army fired on a haji yesterday who was trying to attend to his orchard at the foot of a hill on which the Turks have a base," he added.
Thousands of villagers in this area are caught in the crossfire between the armed forces of Turkey and Iran and various Kurdish gangs.
Livestock are also regularly killed, destroying livelihoods. Forests and farmland are also devastated each year in wildfires caused festivities and dronezaps.
"Thousands of acres of woodlands, forestry, agricultural and pastoral lands and their vulnerable ecosystems were destroyed," environmental analyst Wim Zwijnenburg said in a 2018 report titled "Burning Borderlands: Open-Source Monitoring of Conflict-caused Wildfires in Iraq".
"Though it’s difficult to identify the cause of each individual fire, a substantial amount of the fires identified were likely caused by military action."
[Rudaw] Relatives of a Yazidi man shot dead in the border area between Turkey and the Kurdistan Region in the early hours of Tuesday have accused the Turkish military of unlawful killing.
Amin Salih, 20, and two of his friends were travelling from the Cham Mishko internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp in Zakho to an area called Rabanga on the Iraqi side of the river that delineates the border with Turkey.
The three young Yezidis, originally from Shingal, had acquired a plot of farmland there.
As they approached the plot on the Iraqi side at around 4am on Tuesday, they came under fire from the Turkish side. One bullet pierced the windscreen of their white KIA pickup.
“The Turks were firing at us and hitting the vehicle,” Hussein Ali, one of the three Yazidi men, told Rudaw on Tuesday.
“The bullet which went through the windscreen hit [Salih’s] temple.”
The two surviving men hid in the vehicle for an hour as the shooting continued. Unable to escape to find help, their friend bled to death in his car seat.
The young men have farmed this plot of land for two years. Soldiers manning a Turkish outpost across the river had regularly fired warning shots, Ali says.
It is possible Salih and his friends were mistaken for smugglers, who use the secluded spot to move goods under the cover of darkness.
Salih’s family says the men were there in the dark hours of the morning because it was Eid and they wanted to finish work early before visiting their Muslim neighbors.
The Turkish military has not commented on the incident.
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[Rudaw] Through increased exports in the volume of oil, Iraq took $7.38 billion in revenue for May compared to $7.11 billion in April, according to Baghdad.
On average, Iraq exported 3.572 million barrels per day (bpd) in May.
The average price per barrel sold was $66.683 ‐ slightly down from the $67.419 mark in April, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.
However in total, Iraq exported nearly 111 million barrels in May, compared to 104 million barrels in April.
The exports consisted of 3.441 million bpd per southern oil fields, 102,000 bpd from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and 29,000 from Qayyara.
Price for Brent Crude Oil traded internationally around $70 per barrel in early May, but fell sharply through the month to under $64 at the end of the month.
Total oil exports from Kirkuk ‐ which had dropped from 3.06 million barrels in March to 2.57 million barrels in April ‐ rebounded to about 3.16 million barrels for May.
Kirkuk averaged 102,000 bpd of exports through the Ceyhan pipeline that terminates in the Ottoman Turkish port.
Iraq's increased supply coincides with US sanctions targeting Iran a reduction of the Islamic Theocratic Republic's exports from 2.5 million bpd in April 2018 to as little as 400,000 bpd, according to recent reports.
"Producers of heavy and medium sour crudes like Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Russia, UAE, and Iraq are amongst the winners from US sanctions aimed at Iranian shipments," it reported.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , which says it is abiding by US sanctions not to purchase oil from Iran, has increased oil imports from Iraq to make up for the gap, according to Turkey's energy watchdog, the Energy Market Regulatory Authority.
Turkey was one of eight waivers that received initial waivers by the United States to wean itself off of Iranian oil. The others were Italia, India, China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), of which Iraq is a founding and the second-most producing member, has previously said that it wants to prevent oversupply in the global market which would lower prices.
Brent Crude prices continued to slide on Wednesday, trading around $60 on Monday morning.
OPEC members are expected to meet later this month or in July to strategize for the second half of this year.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil fell below $60 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time in four months, weighed down by abundant US crude inventories.
The delivery price for a barrel of Brent crude slipped $2.24 to trade at $59.73 at 1545 GMT.
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[Jpost] Merkel rejects appeals to ban Lebanese terrorist group.
A new German intelligence report asserts the number of Hezbollah members and supporters has climbed from 950 in 2017 to 1,050 in 2018 amid rising Jew-hatred in the federal republic.
The Jerusalem Post reviewed the hair-raising new numbers from the intelligence document of the German state of Lower Saxony.
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[VictoryGirlsBlog] The story of Audrey Hepburn reminded me of my late mother. No, their lives were not the same. Other than the fact that they were both born in the 1920's, there are few other similarities.
Except my mother never got over her impoverished childhood during the Great Depression, despite the fact that my parents became financially successful. Likewise, Audrey never truly recovered from the greater devastation of World War II, despite her outstanding success.
Audrey Kathleen van Heemstra Ruston was born in Brussels, Belgium, in May, 1929, the daughter of Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra and her second husband, British businessman Joseph Ruston. As a young child she lived a privileged life, bouncing around the capitals of Europe. As a result, she also learned five languages. Hers was an elite childhood.
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[DAILYCALLER] Remington Christopher Steele will meet with Justice Department Sherlocks out of concern he will be "thrown under the bus" in a probe of the FBI’s handling of the dossier, a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... news hound said.
"He is incredibly concerned, maybe obsessed, that this investigation is going to throw him under the bus," Matthew Rosenberg, a national security news hound for The Times, said on CNN Tuesday.
Gee whiz — why would he think such a thing about the painfully honest people he’s accustomed to dealing with?
Rosenberg was responding to reports that Steele has agreed to meet with Justice Department Sherlocks to discuss his interactions with the FBI regarding his work on the dossier, which accuses the Trump campaign of conspiring with Russians to influence the 2016 election.
Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, is close to wrapping up an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC. The FBI relied on Steele’s unverified report to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he was prepared to talk to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani but that there was always a chance of US military action against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
"So Iran is a place that was extremely hostile when I first came into office," Trump told British television station ITV. "They were a terrorist nation number one in the world at that time and probably maybe are today."
When asked if he thought he would need to take military action, he said: "There’s always a chance. Do I want to? No. I’d rather not. But there’s always a chance."
He said, when asked, that he was prepared to talk to Rouhani: "Yeah of course. I would much rather talk."
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[DAWN] Military police and forensics in white overalls deployed in the northern Lebanese city of 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... on Tuesday after a lone gunman went on an overnight shooting spree, killing four security personnel before blowing himself up in an apartment in a residential building.
The rare shooting, in which the gunman used a cycle of violence to move around, opening fire on police and army vehicles, shook the predominantly Sunni Moslem coastal city on the eve of the Eidul Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramazan.
Interior Minister Raya El Hassan told news hounds that the gunman, identified as Abdul-Rahman Mabsout, is a former member of the bully boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and now a "lone wolf." She said the situation was under control.
The shooting began late on Monday with Mabsout first firing at a branch of the Lebanese Central Bank, then driving around, shooting at police and later at an army vehicle, killing four.
With police in hot pursuit, opening fire and using tear gas, Mabsout then drove to a residential building, where he shot his way up the stairs and into an empty apartment on the fourth floor and barricaded himself inside.
An hours-long standoff ensued, culminating with security forces storming the apartment. Cornered, Mabsout detonated his explosives vest, killing himself instantly.
On Tuesday, there were multiple signs of battle. At least four civilian cars and one police car were heavily damaged, their windshields smashed and pocked by bullet holes.
Military police and forensics removed bullets from the street. Tear gas canisters were still on the ground.
The nine-floor apartment building where Mabsout died was shell pocked and the apartment itself partially destroyed.
The owner of the apartment said he and his family were not in the house when the gunman stormed the building, but that his flat was left largely destroyed by the kaboom. He said the attacker entered his building after shooting one person in the street.
"Thank God there was nobody in the house, and my door is not made of steel, it is a wooden door so I think he broke the door and he walked in," Kamal Ferri said. Mabsout is a former member of the IS group who fought with the bully boy movement in Syria. He were tossed into the calaboose when he returned to Leb in 2016 and was released a year later.
The Lebanese army announced earlier that it has increased security around the country because of the holiday, when people go out to celebrate.
Tripoli, which is Leb’s second largest city, has in the past seen festivities between rival groups that support or oppose the Syrian government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... . The city is also home to some holy warriors who fought against the Lebanese army in the past.
The bully boy Islamic State group and Al Qaeda-linked turbans have grabbed credit over the past years for attacks in different parts of Leb that killed dozens of people. Such attacks have been rare recently.
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Diyala (IraqiNews) Iraqi Intelligence announced, on Wednesday, apprehending the founder of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group’s branch in Rashidiyah District, north of Baghdad. The Intelligence directorate indicated that the terrorist was apprehended in Diyala Province.
In a press statement, the directorate said, "Based on accurate information, detachments of the military intelligence directorate, backed by the 1st Infantry brigade, apprehended one of the dangerous Death Eaters in Khan Beni Saad area, in Diyala Province."
This terrorist founded a branch for the Islamic State group in Rashidiyah District in Baghdad, the statement added.
After being followed by military intelligence officers, he was forced to flee to Diyala where he was assigned to lead a terrorist group, the statement further explained. The military intelligence officers were able to ambush and arrest him.
The detainee comes from a terrorist family where his mother and sister are imprisoned on charges of terrorism, while his father and brothers fled to neighboring countries. He is also wanted on different charges, including terrorism
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A shout-out to the heroes of this day 75 years ago. Gratitude and thanks.
[NY Post] 
Scientists looking anew at a 2017 North Korean nuclear test discovered that the explosion was likely about two-thirds more powerful than U.S. officials previously thought.
...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany....
At a huddle among top Democratic lawmakers Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said she wanted to see President Trump jailed.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[DAILYCALLER] The woman who assaulted Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz at a town hall event in Pensacola, Florida, last week ran in Florida’s Democratic Primary election in 2016.
[Dhaka Tribune] A fourth grader girl has been reportedly raped by a young man in Sreebardi upazila on Wednesday.
[KREBSONSECURITY] For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as "Robbinhood." Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by "Eternal Blue," a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. But new analysis suggests that while Eternal Blue could have been used to spread the infection, the Robbinhood malware itself contains no traces of it.
[BREITBART] Controversial Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne revealed that she not only has a distaste for right-wing Christians, but claims to have more in common with 
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Majed Jameel was overwhelmed.
[Breitbart] Appearing Tuesday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
North Korea
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Air strikes and shelling by regime forces killed 10 civilians in Syria’s northwest on Wednesday, as residents marked the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a war monitor said.
[DAILYCALLER] Democrats want to bring a panel of psychiatrists to Washington to suggest that President 
[FOX] NEW YORK CITY – A deputy chief with the New York Police Department died Wednesday after he shot himself, a police spokesman told Fox News.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The price of a barrel of Brent crude oil fell below $60 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time in four months, weighed down by abundant US crude inventories.
[Jpost] Merkel rejects appeals to ban Lebanese terrorist group.
[DAILYCALLER] 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
