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Yes, and then later that night 3 BLM fascisti are arrested while throwing Molotov cocktails at police cars that were parked in front of the officer's houses Good times
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Not likely they would do more than virtue signal. Too easy, Bee
[Babylon Bee] According to sources, Hollywood celebrities have courageously united under an inspiring new movement to show respect for black lives. Entitled the #BurnYourHouseDown movement, celebrities such as Alyssa Milano, Jimmy Kimmel, and John Legend have volunteered to relinquish their power and privilege by burning their houses and everything they have to the ground.
The organizer of this movement released the following statement on Twitter: "Your homes, your riches, and your toys are built on a foundation of white supremacy. They are forever tainted by racism. Your walls and security systems have shut out the voices of the oppressed. Join us. Stand with us. #BurnYourHouseDown!"
As the provocative hashtag began trending on Twitter, rich celebrities lept into action. Alyssa Milano employed her house servants to light torches and throw them through her broken windows. Jimmy Kimmel hired Instagram models to jump on trampolines while throwing Molotov cocktails into his front door.
Black Lives Matter protestors gathered to watch the flames as they engulfed the multimillion-dollar homes. With tears in their eyes, they joined hands with celebrities and sang John Lennon's 'Imagine' as the massive monuments to white supremacy toppled to the ground.
Local news stations reported that twelve local housekeeping and landscaping businesses have been put out of work due to the #BurnYourHouseDown movement, but it's a small price to pay for the "change we need."
The twelve small business owners then moved to Texas and built mansions of their own.
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[TribLIVE] A Pittsburgh man has been charged with a federal crime after police said he placed a backpack containing several homemade bombs in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 31.
U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady announced Saturday that Matthew Michanowicz, 52, of the city’s Duquesne Heights neighborhood, was charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device. He was arrested Friday by Allegheny County sheriffs.
Pittsburgh police responded Monday morning to an open area at 2 PNC Plaza where PNC security personnel reported seeing a "military, green backpack" by a bicycle rack.
The police’s bomb squad found what they referred to as three suspected "homemade Molotov cocktails," identified in arrest papers filed against Michanowicz as "spent OC vapor grenades," which contained a fluid that was leaking out of at least of the devices.
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They got lucky — this Antifa idiot planned to much worse. From the article:
Authorities searched Michanowicz’s Republic Street home Thursday. They say it turned up a bundle of the same type of fuse as those on the bombs, a can of spray foam and a syringe containing a liquid whose odor was consistent with the bombs.
Investigators also allegedly found 10 more backpacks similar to the bag left Downtown.
If convicted, Michanowicz faces up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. A court date has not yet been set.
And now that they have him, tracking his connections should be informative.
Bitchslap!
[Breitbart] In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the Michigan Supreme Court sided with 77-year-old barber Karl Manke over Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday.
Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have been relentlessly pursuing Manke, attempting to force the closure of his shop during the coronavirus pandemic.
Great Lakes News reported on Facebook late Friday that the Court ruled unanimously in favor of the Owosso barber — a stunning decision, given the narrow 4-3 ideological split in favor of conservatives.
According to Great Lakes News, Manke's attorney, David Kallman, called it the "biggest, most lopsided victory of his career."
Whitmer and Nessel fined Manke and stripped him of his license after he repeatedly refused to close his business in defiance of Whitmer’s executive orders.
A Michigan Court of Appeals upheld that Manke’s license suspension was valid, but the Supreme Court decision reversed that.
Manke was defiant after the Appeals Court ruling and told WILX, "I'm still open, still working until they cut my hands off."
He said the response during the protest and the support for his stand was "overwhelming," and called himself "a Michigan small town barber that just wants to work."
"This is an oppressive move on this governor's part," Manke said, observing that it "reflects almost a police state."
"I refuse to stand down on this," he said.
"I wasn't this rock star three weeks ago," Manke told Breitbart News, but Whitmer made him one.
He thanked God for the development.
"I'm still standing up. I still have that courage," Manke said.
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Sue everyone involved under Witchmer and make them stand in court and say "I was just following orders."
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A unanimous decision on any level speaks volumes. Congratulations to Mr. Manke (and F.U. to Witless Whitmer).
[Stars & Stripes] STUTTGART, Germany — The one-star general who commands the Army’s reserve headquarters in Europe was suspended this week, pending the outcome of an internal probe, U.S. Army Europe said.
Brig. Gen. Michael Harvey, who leads the 7th Mission Support Command and also serves as deputy commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, is under investigation for a matter that "does not involve criminal activity or safety," USAREUR said in a statement Wednesday.
Not stealing pens from the office or consorting with jihadis, then. Which leaves sleeping with the wrong person or insubordination, in my limited imagination...
Harvey was removed from his position Tuesday. Col. Douglas A. LeVien, a 21st TSC deputy commanding officer, was named acting commander of the 7th MSC.
"No further information will be released until the investigation is complete," USAREUR said in a statement.
The 21st TSC manages logistics for the Army in Europe and plays a key role in getting supplies to forces operating at relatively austere outposts in places like Poland. It also supports U.S. Africa Command.
Harvey, a native of Piney Flats, Tenn., assumed command of the 7th MSC in June 2019.
LeVien takes over with extensive logistics experience. Before arriving at the 21st TSC, he commanded the 406th Army Field Support Brigade out of Fort Bragg, N.C. He then deployed with the XVIII Airborne Corps to serve as the "Kobane Landing Zone, Syria Base Commander," from September 2018 to May 2019, his biography said.
The mission of the 7th MSC is to function as the Army's forward-based headquarters in Europe and provide soldiers to the service's various units supporting U.S. European Command.
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Military personnel are notorious for hyperactive sex lives, not all of it with their legally-married wives or even steady girlfriends. This may be a minority getting all the action, or an all-pervasive phenomenon, but there are certainly more than a handful of people who've gotten into trouble because they were indiscreet about it.
A major fire broke out at an Amazon distribution warehouse in Redlands, east of Los Angeles on Friday
The fire broke out around 5:25 am with those living nearby hearing a loud noise
Around 40 people were working inside at the time but all managed to escape
It's not clear what started the fire but the building was brand new and was said to have the latest fire protection. The blaze was finally brought under control by 11am
Authorities said there was no connection to George Floyd protests
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I have a friend who took a job at an Amazon warehouse last year, after a decade working in the oil spill cleanup business (he also is a regionally known professional wrestler and a massage therapist, which is not important). He walked around the site before the interview, and reported back to me afterward that they did not comply with a single rule or regulation about worker or building safety — and the supervisor who interviewed him not only didn’t know this, but was completely uninterested in his offer to research the manuals and develop a plan for them.
Start-upitis. Unless the authorities crack down, it’ll take more disasters like this, and probably avoidable injuries and deaths, before management bothers to do even the basic things.
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At least it's not hitting Houston. We have enough problems already. And I'm sorry but as the price of oil goes back up, I'm hoping the jobs come back because after 2016 I really hate this being laid off.
[America's Survival] Such notables as Drew Brees and General Mad Dog Mattis sold out to the mob this week. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old girl, Ala’junaye Davis, was killed in Baltimore, shot in the throat in a Democrat-run city whose previous mayor pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in the "Healthy Holly" book fraud scandal. The local paper reports that Baltimore homicides total 135 so far this year, outpacing the 128 recorded at this time last year.
The mob, however, is concerned about the death of George Floyd, a criminal whose carefully hidden autopsy showed traces of meth, fentanyl, marijuana, and heroin. It is not clear what role these drugs played in his death.
With the economy back on track, after re-opening many states, it’s the communist rabble on the streets that poses the most direct threat to the safety and security of the American people. So far, President Trump has depended on the governors to deploy the National Guard.
Tucker Carlson observed on Thursday night that the riots are all about getting rid of Trump. He means that the Democrats running the major cities are allowing the violence to spread so that they can create more chaos that they can blame on Trump.
This strategy helps explain why the dozens of black deaths taking place in our major cities, as a result of black-on-black violence, are of no interest to the those who back or excuse the riots and looters.
Crime victim advocate Tina Trent comments, in a blog post about Atlanta, another Democrat-run city, that black-on-black violence accounts for nearly all killings of black youth.
[Zero Hedge] An Illinois journalist who broke the story that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's wife violated the state's "stay-at-home" order by traveling to the family's equestrian estate in Wisconsin has sued after she was barred from Pritzker's coronavirus press briefings.
On Friday, May 15, Jacobson broke the story that Pritzker’s family had traveled to their equestrian estate in Wisconsin amid Illinois’s stay-at-home order — weeks after it was reported that his family was at another estate in Florida. The news raised questions about why the stay-at-home order did not apply to the governor’s family.
On the day of the governor’s next press briefing, Pritzker’s press secretary told Jacobson she was banned from the briefings because she had attended a rally advocating for Illinois to end its lockdown. When questioned by reporters about Jacobson’s exclusion the next day, Pritzker told the press corps that Jacobson could not attend because advocating for Illinois to end its stay-at-home order represents an "extreme position." The governor went on to say: "That is not a reporter ... once upon a time she was a reporter but she proved that she is no longer a reporter." -AP
Here in Chicago I found 2 signs to be offensive. There is NO need for this. @GovPritzker @MorningAnswer @DanProft https://t.co/QOl3wrJ0cD pic.twitter.com/TBoIHTtg1J
— Amy Jacobson (@AmyJacobson) May 16, 2020
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, asks the court to take immediate action to allow Jacobson back into the press briefings.
"Gov. Pritzker has been in the hot seat over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s visible from his reactions to Amy Jacobson’s questions that her reporting made him uncomfortable. But what the governor appears to not understand is that Americans have a right to hold their elected officials accountable, and one of the ways they do this is through a vibrant, free press," said Liberty Justice Center president and co-founder, Patrick Hughes.
"It’s not up to Gov. Pritzker to pick and choose which reporters can cover him based on how much he agrees with their coverage or their points of view. And keeping reporters out of the room because he disagrees with their line of questioning or point of view is a gross violation of the First Amendment."
Jacobson has worked for television and radio stations nationwide for over 25 years - the last decade of which has been spent as a reporter and morning show host on Salem Media's Chicago AM 560 The Answer.
Jacobson has been attending the governor’s COVID-19 press briefings on behalf of the station since April. While some reporters have used the daily briefings to ask softball questions, such as how the governor is holding up, Jacobson has asked notably tough questions. -AP
"The reason we sent Amy to these press briefings is because she is a dogged reporter with a reputation for holding public officials accountable. Over the last two months Amy has done her job well, asking the tough questions that are on the minds of so many of our listeners," said AM 560 regional VP and general manager, Jeff Reisman. "We’re disappointed that the governor would retaliate against her and take the unprecedented step of blocking her from his press briefings. We had hoped litigation would not be necessary, but it’s imperative for Amy to get back into the room and keep doing her job."
[NYP] They were the castoffs of local real estate — until coronavirus came to call.
Some houses in suburban towns and rural areas outside of New York City sat on the market for years.
But then the pandemic spurred cooped-up urbanites to run for the hills and sparked an uptick in property sales within a few-hour radius of Manhattan. Many say they’ll never return to the city.
In Connecticut, a charming colonial home in Darien lingered on the market for 1,083 days, while a 1980s contemporary in Salisbury ticked over the 1,500-day mark.
But then COVID-19 hit. They went from being the last kids picked on the team to idyllic quarantine dreams.
The four-bedroom colonial at 208 West Ave. in Darien, a tony town near Stamford, listed in September 2018 for $980,000 but drew little interest until March. (Like many houses that linger on the market, it was likely overpriced at the start.)
Then, Halstead agent Cheryl Williams says, she conducted multiple virtual showings before the colonial sold to a young couple for $750,000. They had to cancel their May wedding, Williams adds, "so they decided to buy a house instead."
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Yes, those who are able are leaving cities. Leaving states with harsh CON virus lock downs. Especially the young people. Watch as their revenues drop and pleading for money. The dead man walking. Zombiefied.
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And they'd best have good homeowners insurance because those taxes don't go to pay for the police to stop looters or arsonists as of a few days ago.
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[France24] From building fires to foraging for food, some in Australia have taken to brushing up on essential survival skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a way to prepare for future global disasters while reconnecting with nature.
Gordon Deman, a senior instructor for Bushcraft Survival Australia, says interest in survival courses has peaked following the pandemic.
"If it’s one thing this pandemic has highlighted, is our disconnection to the environment across the world," he told Reuters. "Our over-dependence on the way we use modern technology and the lack of community and people looking after people and, our main focus has been on economy, rather than community."
On a three-day intermediate course led by Deman near Ku-ring-gai National Park, Ingleside, north of Sydney, participants learn not only how to provide heat and shelter, but also solar and celestial navigation, signalling for help, and knot tying.
"That’s why I think this course is pretty popular now with people. So just to connect with nature and learn different skills and be a bit more prepared, I think," said participant Victor Mossely.
"I was a bit of a prepper anyway, in the first place, so, collecting things. So when this happened (pandemic), I said ’Oh, finally.’ Oh, not finally something’s happened, but you know, you talk to people at work and they go, ’oh yeah, yeah, you know, you prepping this, prepping this, nothing’s going to happen,’ and then so, yeah, a little bit happened, so yeah."
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I have made a connection. I have met a woman who lived thru the Spanish flu. I have learned of a woman who her and family survived the Spanish flu. No reason offered by the first woman but the second woman has an answer. Her mother and father helped the ill in her small town. She delivered food to the sick and her parents provided care for the ill. Their family never got sick. Upon death people were burred in their death bed clothes and wrapped in their deathbed sheets. What did they do different?. Her mother insisted they drink a glass of water with 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of baking soda. This action has been shown to lower incidence of flu and upper respiratory illness. I say add that one to your survival kit bag.
[Zero] Variant Bio has spent the last several years scouring the world for genetic outliers in human beings. It found a small group of "outlier humans" with special variations in their DNA that could affect disease risk and eventually be used to develop medicines to improve human life.
Founded in New York, the 10-person startup's lead geneticist Stephane Castel is focusing on the DNA of Sherpa people living at high altitudes in Nepal and Himalayas. Their unique genetic characteristics allow them to live healthy lives with blood oxygen levels far below what most humans need. Most people in high altitudes suffer from hypoxia, which is the absence of enough oxygen in the tissues to sustain bodily functions.
"They [Sherpa people] don't suffer any ill health effects," Castel told Bloomberg."It's incredible.
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Castel's team is betting on the sequencing of Sherpa DNA, which could lead to discoveries of new superior traits that would aid in the development of novel medicines and therapies to improve metabolism, eyesight, and immune response.
It's up to Variant's software and scientific analysis to find breakthrough genetic coding in Sherpa DNA, Castel said it could take several years to develop drugs and therapies based on the results.
[The Hill] The Trump administration will prohibit Chinese airlines from carrying passengers to the U.S. beginning in mid-June after Beijing failed to live up to an agreement on the flights, according to multiple reports.
"Our overriding goal is not the perpetuation of this situation, but rather an improved environment wherein the carriers of both parties will be able to exercise fully their bilateral rights," the U.S. Department of Transportation said in its order Wednesday, according to CNBC. "Should the [Chinese aviation authority] adjust its policies to bring about the necessary improved situation for U.S. carriers, the Department is fully prepared to revisit the action it has announced in this order."
The restrictions are slated to take effect June 16, Reuters noted, citing three U.S. and airline officials briefed on the matter. It added, however, that they could be implemented earlier.
The administration in late May had accused Beijing of making it all but impossible for U.S. airline service to China to resume and ordered four Chinese carriers to file their flight schedules with Washington, according to Reuters.
[Free Beacon] Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
"Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow," Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to "seize the opportunity" to rid the country of "institutionalized racism," which she blamed for the violence.
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One of my clients tossed her out of a charity basketball game in the first quarter because she was such a coont. Horrible barely begins to describe this lesbo.
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Sort of forgot how long it took the South to grow after Sherman burned it.
Most of us in the North have absolutely no idea, Procopius2k. Perhaps The Third Man should be mandatory viewing, just to get a feel of what an aftermath might feel like.
It is certainly one of the grandest quarters ever for a candidate for attorney general: a $1.4 million Charlestown townhouse.
For four months, as Maura Healey and her small staff worked to launch her candidacy, she used the home where she lives as a working office for some of her political operations.
Healey does not own the property, but because she lives there, her campaign was not required to pay rent, saving some hefty bills in its early low-budget efforts to jump-start her candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
When you don't own property, I guess you'll have a different perspective on it being torched.
[Breitbart] Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave the hotel they were staying at, according to an official.
The city had taken over the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, D.C. to use for the National Guard’s coronavirus response mission, but many rooms remained vacant, so National Guard members deploying to D.C. as part of the civil unrest mission began staying there.
Bowser did not like the idea that Guardsmen from out of state were staying at the hotel, so she ordered the more than 1,000 members to leave.
National Guard members who worked the night shift now are looking for a new place to stay instead of getting rest before their next shift, the official told Breitbart News.
The National Guard said in a statement:
Some National Guard responders were quartering in hotel accommodations which had preexisting contractual agreements with the District. Out of respect for existing agreements those facilities have with the city government, those service members have relocated. For further information, please contact city government.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) blasted Bowser’s order, which affected 200 National Guardsmen from Utah:
If you don't understand this, let me explain: #CCP is encouraging everyone to become a street vendor and official media are saying that someone is earning 30K yuan per day. So Wonder Woman is rushing to China to be a street vendor! 走！上中國擺攤去！ pic.twitter.com/k5C5DTk2tE
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In Brazil it is common to call a vendor who then brings everything into your living room for you to look at and then choose what you wish to purchase.
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I was a big fan of Gal Gadot when the anti-Israeli bigots attacks her, then she started that Imagine sing along. Now I figure she's as woke as the rest. Sigh.
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More properly claimed by either Viet Nam or the Philippines, it is Chinese by possession. Strategically of value, tactically it is a sitting duck.
South Vietnamese fishing boats fleeing the Communist takeover and making their way to Palawan in the Philippines used this reef as a marker.
From the Wiki: Perhaps the most visually striking and scientifically compelling application of ISAR is in the deep space imaging of asteroids.
I would guess the three small ones to the left are optical trackers for Kalman steering the big grid. The damned thing looks like it would simulate a dish several hundred feet in diameter.
I'm assuming the apparent distortion in dome shape may correlate to different antenna shapes therefor frequencies.
Twitter moderators mistakenly disabled a video of House Republican candidate Rich McCormick doing push ups with his sons for PTSD awareness, a company spokesperson said Friday without providing an explanation for the error.
Users were unable to watch the Thursday video, which contained a “sensitive content” label, if they were not logged into Twitter or were otherwise not following McCormick. People who followed the military veteran or were already logged in had access to the video, which shows McCormick and his sons doing pushups outside in the rain.
A Twitter spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that McCormick’s video was flagged in error and is being corrected. He did not provide a reason for speaking anonymously, but Twitter’s press office often requests anonymity when speaking to journalists.
McCormick, a physician and candidate for Georgia’s 7th congressional district, is participating in an online challenge in which he must do 22 pushups per day for 22 days in support of soldiers who suffer from PTSD. (RELATED: Here’s Twitter’s Plan To Create A World Where Censoring Conservatives Is Unnecessary)
“Day 6 of the #22pushupchallenge with my sons….in the rain,” he wrote in a tweet accompanying the video, adding:”#PTSD is not something to be ashamed of. To all my #veteran brothers and sisters out there you are loved!! If you are having a problem reach out!”
McCormick posted five other tweets on his account that include videos of him doing pushups, none of which were censored.
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These street thugs are dangerous. Probably best that one takes ample ammo with them in case they inadvertently end up in one of these situations while traveling.
A commencement address previously recorded by Trump was set to air Saturday at Wichita State Tech’s graduation ceremony in Kansas. She had been invited back in February to deliver some remarks, but on Thursday, an assistant professor at Wichita State University, the tech school’s parent campus, wrote a whiny letter to faculty about how “horrified and disgusted” she was by Trump’s scheduled appearance.
The letter, written by Jennifer Ray, complained that as an administration official, Trump was complicit in the president’s supposedly “callous disregard of the concerns of black people, immigrants, and Latinx people.”
But after the letter penned by Ray, a woman who isn’t involved with the tech school, Wichita State Tech President Sheree Utash decided to cancel Trump’s speech.
[AlAhram] President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... will increase its support for Libya's leader Fayez al Serraj and that the conflict there can only be resolved politically under the auspices of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... "Turkey would advance its cooperation with Libya including searching for hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean, as part of a bilateral maritime deal reached between the two governments".
Erdogan also welcomed the recent advances made by the 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... government on the battlefield saying it was right to use "self-defence", adding that Haftar cannot remain at the negotiating table.
Erdogan said eastern commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... and his supporters are the biggest obstacle to peace.
"An individual who constantly threatens the future of Libya cannot have a representation capability at the table," the Ottoman Turkish leader said.
He also criticised outside countries backing Haftar, saying they were "the biggest obstacle before peace" in Libya. "History will judge them."
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's parliament stripped two pro-Kurdish politicians and one MP from the main opposition party of their parliamentary status on Thursday after convictions against them became final, drawing sharp criticism from their parties.
Those stripped of their status were Leyla Guven and Musa Farisogullari from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Republican People's Party's (CHP) Enis Berberoglu.
The decisions were announced in parliament after appeals courts upheld Berberoglu's conviction for disclosing government secrets and the convictions of Guven and Farisogullari for being members of a terrorist organization.
"This disregards the national will. We will continue the democratic fight to obtain justice, rights and law," CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu wrote on Twitter.
"This is the trampling and theft of the will of the voters and the Kurdish people," HDP deputy Saruhan Oluc said in a speech in parliament.
The government has repeatedly accused the HDP of ties to the holy warrior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought against the state in the largely Kurdish southeast since 1984 and is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . The HDP denies such links.
The prosecutor's office in eastern province of Diyarbakir ordered arrest of Guven and Farisogullari following the decision for the politicians. The HDP said Farisogullari has already been taken into custody by the authorities.
President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party has 291 deputies in the 600-seat assembly, while the CHP now has 138 seats and the HDP has 58 seats, keeping it as the second biggest opposition party.
The AKP is planning to push measures through parliament with its nationalist MHP allies that affect how political groups may contest elections and could hamper new opposition parties taking part in any snap elections.
Those plans would not be affected by Thursday's removal of the three politicians' parliamentary status.
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[Treehouse] It seems quite transparent what the agenda is for Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. After giving the DC police orders to stand down; and after ending the previously declared state of emergency; and after cancelling the flow-through purchase contract where feds repay the city for national guard housing; she is now demanding that all national guard troops and security elements leave the nation’s capital city.
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Hotels? Fine. Go tactical. Set up tents & latrines in her front yard, the parks in her neighborhood, and the parking lots of every non-police DC city government facility. Be sure to run the generators day an night as well.
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She's violating the civil rights of the people targeted by the riots. She should be in federal custody awaiting trial.
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Rebirth of the weather underground as a city leadership cadre.
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Well there was crack-smoking Marion Barry, a two-time winner. He was probably more sane than Muriel is. What she is doing is totally insane and will end up badly for many.
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I thought of Marion Barry as well....hard to fathom that he appears in retrospect as the epitome of sanity compared to the wacko there now. But, we'll never know. He might have come up with something just as absurd as long as he can read the "play book".
Australian Muslim preacher Ismail al-Wahwah predicts Islam will replace US ...also known as Abu Anas, the Hebron-born Palestinian taxi driver applied for asylum in Australia in 1997. He was previously deported from Indonesia, then briefly ran off to Syria to play at caliphate in 2013 ...
His Hizb ut-Tahrir group is a global Islamist movement pushing for a caliphate ... the Islamic Liberation Party is active in about fifty countries and banned in thirteen of them last I heard, claiming about a million followers plus the enthusiastic graduates who moved on to real jihadi groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS. The national emirs report to Number 1, Sheikh Ata Abu Rashta, a Palestinian Jordanian Islamic scholar ...
It wants to replace world governments with Islamic system based on Sharia law
Mr al-Wahwah said American riots were an 'opportunity' for Muslims to exploit
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Well boy howdy if now wouldn't be the time to try that. The country is even more armed than it was before, if such a thing is even possible. Everybody is mad at somebody already and some wandering jackass named after a regional convenience chain is going to show up and announce the imposition of sharia. Hey, maybe he could join forces with the vegans!
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Father Wah-Wah DID say 'American riots were an opportunity', so I figured he had made the geographic jump. As for the average Australian, I would be hesitant to make any assumptions about the overall state of civilian armament.
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I visited the local pawn shop the other day to by a little G2S. Was 6 or 7 other folks in there ahead of me. Lets just say they didn't look like part of the woke crowd.
Pubs have gone down the "They wub us -- they really wub us! And now we'll have a cool black friend too!" road before, only to have it prove a chimera, while ignoring or even alienating their own actual voters.
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I believe there is a growing number of Black Americans who are starting to realize that voting straight Democrat for the last 50 years may have lead to the problems in major urban cities.
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If you raise them out of poverty they become middle class and likely to vote Republican. Can't have that. Got to keep the plantation system humming.
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Biden had 40 years to do the things the locals expect of their "home town boys." He's done about as much for Scranton as Murtha did for Johnstown. Which is scary if you look at either city today.
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All Trump needs is 5% of the blank vote to walk away and a lot of political contests get more interesting. 20% ? You’re talking an electoral landslide and flipping the house.
[HOTAIR] Writing at the Washington Post, author Alyssa Rosenberg has a unique solution for the problems with our policing: Cancel all the cop shows on television. She argues we need to do that because there’s a "reactionary streak" behind the "surface liberalism" in these shows.
For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero style of policing over the harder, less dramatic work of building relationships with the communities cops are meant to serve and protect. There’s a reason for that beyond a reactionary streak hiding below the industry’s surface liberalism. Purely from a dramatic perspective, crime makes a story seem consequential, investigating crime generates action, and solving crime provides for a morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion.
The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity...
Say writers made a commitment not to exaggerate the performance of police. Audiences would have to be retrained to watch, for example, a version of "Special Victims Unit" where the characters cleared only 33.4 percent of rape cases, or to accept that in almost 40 percent of murders and manslaughters, no suspect is arrested. If storytelling focused on less-dramatic but more-common crimes such as burglary and motor-vehicle theft, the stakes would shrink — along with the case-clearance rate.
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How about a SCOTUS interpretation that corporations are not covered by the 'free press' protection of the First Amendment? They seem OK with states banning semi-auto weapons.
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Nearly all of these shows follow the same format. Hero cop breaks the rules to bring in the bad guy, and all is forgiven. Not sure that's the right message to be sending.
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If storytelling focused on less-dramatic but more-common crimes such as burglary and motor-vehicle theft, the stakes would shrink — along with the case-clearance rate.
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After watching a few episodes of Cops on TV I noticed that a lot of times when cops stop black guys, the black guys freak out, run and resist arrest. Like, if they have a little marijuana in their pocket, they try to run away or just otherwise get all hinked up when they could have walked away freely if they had just remained cool. White guys tend to be passive around police, submit to frisking and being handcuffed. But I always thought it was the black guys who taught us white guys to be cool so it's kinda confusing. Maybe it's easier to be cool when there is no pressure.
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The original Hawaii Five-0 was more diverse than pretty much all cop shows up until the woke era. You got Linc on Mod Squad, yeah, sure, but McGarrett worked with and busted people of pretty much all races except Inuit, if I recall.
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What will happen is we'll see a few racist characters introduced or existing characters made racists so they can bash the police.
Reports of widespread looting and at least two revenge killings in the city of #Tarhuna as GNA aligned forces capture the city. GNA's MoI says there is a plan to secure the city, but it will be days at the very least to secure the city. #Libya
Greek pilot says : "I HAVE HIM" he also said : "I got this thing on the record", other guy : "cool".
Looking at the footage he had him with missiles (good tone), and then a couple times with guns (thats a deadly computed gun target line) had this been a full combat engagement instaed of a peace time intercept. The Turkish Pilot wisely leveled off and bugged out.
Turkish pilot had his head up his ass, or was simply no good.
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Turkey's military hasn't shown any real aptitude in Syria and has had its ass handed to it a few times.
American forces conducted two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters to foil the krazed killer group's plan to launch attacks on Afghan cops, a U.S. military front man said on Friday, in a move that could hurt the grinding of the peace processor.
The airstrikes, conducted in two different provinces, were the first since the start of the Eid ceasefire declared by the Taliban and Afghan forces last month.
Sonny Leggett, a U.S. military front man based in Afghanistan, said in a tweet that an airstrike was carried out against 25 armed Taliban fighters executing a coordinated attack on an Afghan force checkpoint in Farah province in the west. He said a second attack was conducted in Kandahar in the south.
He did not give casualty figures, and a Taliban front man refused to comment on the airstrikes, which were conducted at a time when the United States is steadily pulling its troops out of Afghanistan.
U.S. President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... in recent weeks has restated his desire for a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan but has not set a target date, amid speculation he might make ending America's longest war part of his re-election campaign.
But Afghan security officials and European diplomats said the fighting had yet to ebb despite all parties working towards finding a political settlement to end the Afghan war.
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[JonathanTurley] Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on the role of familiar groups like Antifa in the violence following the death of George Floyd. Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged yesterday that there is a "witches' brew" of groups fostering violations, including an anarchist group from the right. The anarchists on the left or right are opportunists who will strike at any time of unrest to seek the breakdown of order. However, police are reporting a high number of Antifa and anarchist members arrested in various states. (here and here and here) These are groups that are all too familiar to some of us on college and university campus. While I have opposed efforts to declare Antifa a terrorist organization, the role of all of these groups in the recent violence should be a cautionary tale for academics and politicians alike in the tolerance shown for such anti-free speech movements. Many leaders and academics have denounced such groups on the right (some of which are also active in these riots), but notably have been more muted in condemning anti-fascist and left-anarchist groups.
Here is the column:
Ian Fleming famously lamented that history often moves so quickly that "heroes and villains keep on changing parts." Our media and politicians are now struggling with the same problem today, following the killing of George Floyd. As rioting and looting continue across the country, the question is who to blame for the mayhem. Ultimately, the response was strikingly familiar and telling. Maybe white supremacists were behind it. Maybe the Russians were. It could be anyone except people in the rioting communities or, worse yet, groups lionized or tolerated by the left.
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Kinda weird that the colors of Antifa are the same not only of Imperial Germany, but also of Nazi Germany. Red for commies and black for anarchism? Just wonderin'.
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Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged yesterday that there is a "witches' brew" of groups fostering violations, including an anarchist group from the right.
Many leaders and academics have denounced such groups on the right (some of which are also active in these riots)
Memo to Turley and Bagpipe Bill: Name these "right wing groups" and show your evidence or GTFO with that shit.
If this doesn't tell you how the game will be rigged (and whose side Barr is on), nothing will.
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This could have been avoided when the Wall fell and all those who had back the losing side were hauled out to pay for their treason. Turn the other cheek got you here.
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Yesterday on The Five Juan Williams was still claiming it's not Antifa but white supremacists posing as Antifa.
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Right-wing troublemakers? Proud Boys and (a new one to me) Boogaloo. But Turley is correct - the media loves to hate right-wing white supremacists.
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If they are doing the right things out of fear of right-wing anarchists, keeping those white and vicious faces all over the news, and then the Emmanuels are revealed as Antifa in front of all the world, how much fun will it be to watch minds blowing all over the landscape?
THat's because the Nazi Party and the Communist takeover of Russia were basically initiated by the same people: The Imperial German military from WW2.
They used to teach a lot of the history of this period in school, and other things, like that Kaiser Wilhelm was a raging semite, that the Germans more or less installed the communist government in Russia, that the various Czarist secret police were involved in the funding of the 'black bloc' groups pre-WW1...
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#5 This could have been avoided when the Wall fell and all those who had back the losing side were hauled out to pay for their treason. Turn the other cheek got you here.
Key point.
There were never any treason trials in the West and there was never an equivalent of the Nuremburg trials (Imperfect success that they were. Many Nazis escaped or faded into the woodwork) for the Communists.
This is what you get when you tell the shrunken cancer "Let's let bygones be bygones".
[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... has ordered the Pentagon to slash the number of troops it maintains in Germany by more than a quarter in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The newspaper said the Defense Department would cut the number of military personnel by 9,500 from the current 34,500 permanently assigned to Germany postings.
The Journal also said a cap of 25,000 would be set on how many US troops could be inside German at any one time, whether in permanent postings or temporary rotations, half of the current allowance.
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The move would significantly reduce the US commitment to European defense under the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... umbrella, though it could also impact Pentagon operations related to Africa and the Middle East.
White House and Pentagon officials declined to confirm or deny the story, which comes amid tensions between the Trump administration and European allies over longstanding cooperation agreements.
I guess it’s time to put the MLF Lullaby to bed.
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How many million $US of "invisible" foreign aid will that drain out of Germany's economy yearly? Even better is that we are leaving...
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During the Cold War, almost 300,000 American soldiers were stationed in (West) Germany at times. This reduction began long before Trump. The remaining bases became operational and logistic centers, which the American military uses for its missions in other parts of the world, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Reducing the American troop presence in Germany by almost a third would have no immediate impact on Germany's security, it would rather be a problem for the American military itself. It has well-developed and functioning facilities in Germany, which it would then have to do without or rebuild elsewhere (Poland?). And since the Americans have even increased their engagement on NATO's eastern flank in recent years, the strategic situation in Europe would not change in principle for the time being.
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Amis raus. Once the Warsaw Pact crumbled, NATO and the US presence in Europe should have shriveled.
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...but the Globalist kept it alive. They couldn't and won't change. We've wasted lives and resources like Justinian trying to resurrect the old western Roman Empire. In doing so, we've undermined the structures of the old republic.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of two members, including an officer, of the regime’s “4th Division”, after being shot by unknown assailants on the road between Gharaz and Um Al-Mayaden in the eastern countryside of Daraa.
Meanwhile, two persons were found dead with marks of gunshots on their bodies in Tariq Al-Sadd neighbourhood in Daraa city. The identities of the two fatalities have yet to be known.
Since the beginning of security chaos in Daraa in early June 2019, Syrian Observatory activists have documented more than 496 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs. These attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 327 persons, and they are as follows:
80 civilians, including seven women and seven children
169 regime soldiers, loyalists and collaborators with regime security services
52 fighters of the faction who struck “reconciliation and settlements” deals with the regime and became in the ranks of regime’s security branches, including former commanders
17 Syrian militiamen affiliated to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces
Six members of the so-called 5th Corps which was established by Russia.
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Does this mean Salmah Rizvi, the nice, multilingual lawyer, protege of Paul Soros and CAIR, will get back the deposit she put down on the bail?
[NYDAILYNEWS] Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are now getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now.
Princeton grad Colinford Mattis, 32, and his alleged accomplice and fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman, 31, lost their home detention status late Friday when three federal judges ordered them returned to official custody pending a further review of their bail appeal.
Mattis and Rahman were initially granted permission to stay in their respective homes after posting $250,000 bail, and an initial attempt by federal prosecutors to get that decision overturned failed.
Prosecutors appealed again and Friday the federal panel decided to send Mattis and Rahman back into lock up while a final ruling was made.
Defense attorneys for Mattis and Rahman blasted the decision to send their clients back into federal custody — even if it might only be temporary.
“The remand of Urrooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis by the Court of Appeals is shocking and wrong,” said Federal Defenders Attorney-in-Charge Deirdre Von Dornum. “They have been at home for a week with perfect behavior, consistent with their lifetimes of law-abiding behavior.”
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Whoa. Second Circuit reversed granting of bail for 2 lawyers charged in Molotov cocktail attack on NYPD. https://t.co/bX1U59kpO9
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TW. I just saw your comment regarding South Korean women. Your experienäe was very interesting. The ones I had business dealings with came to the US for college education then decided to stay in the US to start a business while single.
Your knowledge did explain why they seemed to be very intense and cautious when dealing with men in business situations which was unique and puzzling to me until now.
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Honestly, from the lofty heights of age they both look like children to me. (Probably because they are young enough to actually be my children.) I find their case highly depressing for reasons I can't quite specify. Possibly "Think of all the good things you could be doing with your lives?"
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I’m glad something I said provided unexpected illumination, Varmint Splat1454. Sheltered though I’ve been all my life, I’ve had some unusual experiences. Especially during our time in Europe with the big, multinational corporation. In part because I was the wife of a little R&D group leader tasked to the team opening up Eastern Europe after the Wall fell, while most of the other expat and local wives in my circle were married to senior vice presidents or the equivalent in their various fields. Mr. Wife’s promotions came later.
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 5, 2020
Dubai’s State Security forces arrested Amir Faten Mekky, the leader of one of the most dangerous international crime rings involved in murder, drug trafficking and money laundering, Dubai Media Office announced on Friday.
Mekky, who is wanted by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) for murder, is associated with one of the world’s most notorious international criminals Radwan al-Taghi, the head of the ‘Angels of Death’ gang, the media office said.
Al-Taghi was arrested in Dubai in December 2019 and handed over to Holland.
Intelligence services discovered that Mekky had entered the country in 2018 using a forged passport after having eluded security forces across Europe, the security official said.
A Danish citizen allegedly involved in gang-related crime in southern Sweden, and killings and explosions in Spain, has been arrested in Dubai, a Swedish newspaper reported Friday.
The Swedish daily Expressen said the suspect had “for long been rooted in Malmo” — Sweden's third largest city — where he has appeared “in a handful of murder investigations over the past five years.”
Expressen did not name him, in line with Swedish practice, but said the 23-year-old had earlier been detained in Malmo, a city that has seen scores of suburban feuds between criminal gangs. He was considered a suspect there in a March 2017 killing but was never prosecuted and two years later, received some 210,000 kronor ($22,700) in damages.
Spanish police confirmed the arrest in Dubai of a Danish citizen of Iranian origin who was wanted in Spain.
[ABC News] GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — Two men wanted in an assault on a New York police officer were arrested early Friday morning in Georgetown County.
The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office says Calife Hough, 44, and Jason Velasquez, 21, both of the Bronx and both with ties to Georgetown County, were wanted for striking a NYPD officer with their vehicle after fleeing a pawn shop robbery, authorities say.
Hough was arrested in the parking lot of a local Walmart, while Velasquez was found hiding in a nearby hotel.
Both men are awaiting extradition to New York.
Georgetown Police, U.S. Marshals and NYPD officers joined in the hunt for the fugitives.
Madagascar's education minister has been fired over a $2.2-mln plan to buy sweets for students to take the edge off the 'bitter taste' of a herbal tea the president claims is a coronavirus remedy.https://t.co/CIZfbkYHgt
[Jpost] Shocking secret file exposes Israel-related antisemitism among German Moslem associations.
A previously classified German intelligence report on Wednesday revealed widespread Islamic-animated antisemitism among Moslem organizations in the federal republic, including defective statistics about the origin of crimes due to Jew-hatred.
The German paper Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) first reported on the document that is "a special file of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution." The federal office (BfV) is the rough equivalent to the Shin Bet and it noted in the file that a Syrian teacher declared on June 4, 2018 in the city of Solingen in the middle of his lesson that "all Jews belong in the gas chamber."
The report said that on June 2, 2018, the recoding clerk for a branch of the German-Ottoman Turkish radical Islamic association Furkan told his guests that with respect to the children of Israel, the Jews, "Don't be like beings that are worth less than animals." He added that the Jews were the cursed and that they betrayed Moses.
Lethal antisemitism targeting Israel was also present in the report. An Imam who preached at a Ottoman Turkish state-allied Millî-Görus mosque in an unidentified German city on December 8, 2017 declared, "Free Paleostine in no time," adding the need to "Deliver the whole community of Muhammad from the evil sons of Israel."
According to the intelligence agency, there are already 700 cases listed in this "case collection of antisemitic events with a suspected Islamist background," wrote SZ.
The paper noted that the former interior minister Thomas de Maizière started to chronicle Jew-hatred among Moslems in 2015, including the arrival of Moslem refugees and migrants colonists.
The SZ, which titled its article "Hatred of Jews in the Friday Sermon," reported that "Domestic intelligence eavesdroppers were present on both occasions" at the radical Islamic Ottoman Turkish meetings.
The intelligence report noted a case of another Syrian person who said in a German city on April 26, 2018 that Israelis murder babies in Paleostine and Jews deserve to be beaten. Neither the city nor the Syrian were identified.
The names of the antisemites were not disclosed in the SZ report.
Thomas Haldenwang, president of Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV, told the SZ that antisemitism is part of the basic equipment of Islamist ideologies. Hostility to Jews is "represented by practically all noteworthy Islamist organizations that are active in Germany," whether it be Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, the Moslem Brüderbund, Millî-Görus, Hezbollah or the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... The SZ reported that approximately 20 antisemitic acts of violence by Moslem perpetrators were documented in this case collection. The paper added that there were roughly 80 antisemitic statements in the private sphere, and around 350 statements on social media.
According to the paper, "The police do not count crimes committed by Moslem antisemites in a reliable manner at all."
A distorted statistical picture emerges, noted the SZ, because when there are doubts, everything is lumped into the "right-wing murderous Moslem" category by the Federal Criminal Police Office, which compiles the annual crime statistics.
The SZ wrote that "All official statistics, according to which 70, 80 or 90 percent of all antisemitic attacks in Germany are carried out by right-wing radicals, should therefore be read with great skepticism."
Last week, Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Munich Jewish community told The Jerusalem Post that three German MPs should resign from the German-Paleostinian Society becasue the organization supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel. The German Bundestag classified BDS as antisemitic last year. The three MPs are the Social Democrat Aydan Özogus, the Green party's Omid Nouripour, and the Left party's Christine Buchholz. BDS , according to its critics, seeks the abolition of the Jewish state.
[SYRIAHR] Two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were found today, one dead and the other injured. The circumstances of the incident are still unknown as to how they were targeted on the road between the cities of Idlib- Sarmin, near a Ottoman Turkish post in the area.
Yesterday, Syrian Observatory sources monitored a violent explosion on Aleppo-Latakia international highway (M4), caused by the detonation of an IED nearby Ariha. The IED went kaboom! just after the passing of a Russian-Ottoman Turkish joint patrol on the M4 highway.
After the earth-shattering kaboom, Ottoman Turkish forces were seen in the area on high alert. A joint patrol of Russian and Ottoman Turkish forces had set off yesterday from Tarnabah village to Kafr Shalaya village in rural Idlib.
This attack comes a week after the killing of a Ottoman Turkish soldier on M4. SOHR sources had reported that a Ottoman Turkish soldier died affected by the injuries he sustained in an IED explosion on Aleppo-Latakia highway, west of Jisr al-Shughour city.
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#UPDATE Libya's UN-recognised government announced Friday another victory in its counter-offensive against eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, overrunning his last western stronghold Tarhuna, launchpad of an abortive 14-month assault on the capitalhttps://t.co/MZmae9CnVq
The Ottomani Tarhouna This is what this Turks mercenary wrote on the billboard. An example for the ethnic background of what’s happening in Tarhouna.@UNSMILibya
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The Iraqi National News Agency said on Friday that the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces arrested members of an ISIS sleeper cell in al-Qayyarah district of the Nineveh governorate, northern Iraq.
“The counterterrorism forces arrested a sleeper cell consisting of 6 terrorists (...) who were intending to carry out operations against the security forces and destabilize security,” the agency stated.
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#Egypt- #ISIS latest al-Naba (#237) includes reports on 2 attacks in Central #Sinai Jabel al-Maghara. 1- May 30 incident (referencing Muhammad Fadl as LTC, not Brig. & co of 269 Bn.) :https://t.co/8svkZPYzU2 2- complex ambush (IED&small arms) on patrol with 10 casualties pic.twitter.com/fy6rUEFAUb
[GatewayPundit via Lucianne] Mr. President, you’ve taken step one: Declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. That was a brilliant move. Now it’s time for step number two: Cut the head off the snake. We’ve got to move to aggressively cut off the funding of domestic terrorism.
Those who provide funding are terrorists themselves. Who is providing the funding? There are many suspects. Suspect number one is globalist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. It starts there.
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This is a nationally organized riot. Today in the downtown area of a major city a large group of people were blocking traffic.
There were a number of people running around coordinating the riot, and they all wore red shirts.
If you look at images and videos of riots around the country you will see individuals wearing red shirts. Those are the riot coordinators on the ground.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Anti-Terrorism service on Thursday started with specific duties in separate areas of the country, under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhmi.
The front man for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Rasul, said in his statement that the Iraqi News Agency (INA) received, "Under the guidance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa al-Kadhmi, and in coordination with the Joint Operations Command, Air Force Aviation, Army Aviation, and International Alliance aircraft, formations of the anti-government apparatus Terrorism, represented by the leaders of the first and second Special Operations, has specific duties in separate areas of the country.
[Zero Hedge with WBBM link inbedded] While Chicago officials give slaps on the wrist to arrested protesters, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is begging Walmart and other major retailers who were hit by looting and vandalism to reopen their doors despite riots over the killing of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer who now faces charges for second-degree murder.
Lightfoot held a conference call with Walmart and the other retailers when she pleaded with them not to abandon Chicago, according to WBBM.
"I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the extent of what's left so it doesn't perish, and other perishables, and they are talking their time, as I would expect," she said.
There were earlier reports that Walmart expected to rebuild all stores trashed by looters and vandals, but company officials later said they would open some stores and would not say which ones.
The Mayor said most of the others said they are committed to Chicago. She said she hopes Walmart follows suit. -WBBM
"My hope is that they will come back," said Lightfoot. "But I got a resounding, 'Mayor, this is our city, this is our home,' from a lot of other retailers and I would hope that Walmart would follow suit."
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The nerve of that slob mayor. Surely these retailers will make sound business decisions, but here's hoping they do, indeed, abandon that particular area.
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"Baby, you know I didn't mean to give you that black eye. It's just that I get so mad because I love you so much."
Unfortunately the CEOs of many of these retailers are more interested in sucking up to the poz than in doing right by their employees and shareholders.
Let's not forget how some business orgs have recently renounced the whole concept of fiduciary duty to shareholders.
The Huns and Mongols must be kicking themselves for not having come up with this sweet scam.
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Did the Mayor and the Governor and Michael Madigan get down on their knees to bow to the retailers like the Hollywood government made the National Guard soldiers do? No? Then it should be tough titties.
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Urban retail shrinkage is one thing. Burning the store to the ground is yet another. The mayor may soon be getting a revealing education involving the road to Detroitification.
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You build them and lease them back to those who will fill them instead of sport stadiums. Along with a riot rider that kills any contract obligation on the other party.
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What the hell incentives do these blue city mayors and blue state governors provide for them to stay?
Violence, burning and looting of their stores? They have created a weird dystopian society redolent of that depicted in "Escape from L.A. and Escape from NY."
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How are insurance rates doing in these areas/ZIP codes?
I'm sure that the Illinois and Minnesota insurance commissioners will declare any realistic risk assessment of urban areas in their states amounts to illegal "red-lining."
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The CEOs will bend the knee, because that's what they do.
What will be interesting to see is if they can get a sufficient number of competent people to man these outposts.
I suspect that the next form of racism to be condemned by Minitru will be the disinclination of white staff to make themselves available for future looting, beatings and killings.
After all, Tim Wise already wants your kids to suffer, so why would they cavil at demanding adults submit to the same?
And here's Karen from HR to explain how your career path will be determined by your willingness to put your head in a noose.
Don't worry though -- Karen and the CEO will be behind you all the way.
The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May, while the unemployment declined to 13.3%, according to Department of Labor data released Friday.https://t.co/VML1pyU3LA
According to reports from eastern Syria, the U.S. Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces began their operation in conjunction with the Iraqi Army, hitting a number of hideouts belonging to the Islamic State in the Khabour River area.
The operation will attempt to clear the Islamic State zones of influence, which the terrorist group has built between the Syrian and Iraqi border.
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The region surrounding Khabour River, which helps form the Mosul Lake, should have been cleared long ago. Obviously, Kurdish forces will be the spearhead.
[NYPOST] The entire Buffalo police Emergency Response Team has resigned following the suspension of two officers who were caught on video shoving a 75-year-old protester to the pavement, according to reports Friday.
A total of 57 officers resigned from the emergency team in solidarity with the two suspended cops, who pushed Martin Gugino, causing him to stumble backward and crack his head on the ground, WGRZ reported.
"Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders," said John Evans, president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.
The special squad was created in 2016 and is deployed for mass protests or riots, the network reported.
The officers who resigned are still employed, just no longer part of the Emergency Response Team, according to WIVB.
Gugino, an activist who is well known in Buffalo, was listed in serious but stable condition.
The shocking video shows blood gushing from his head after he fell.
Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo said earlier Friday that the city should pursue terminating the two officers, who were suspended immediately by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.
Legal Insurrection posted on the story here, courtesy of charger, who commented:
Note that they resigned from the team, not the department.
Heavy.com did their usual 5 Fast Facts about Mr. Gugino here. It turns out the gentleman is a long time “peace activist” associated with the Western New York Peace Center — pro-Antifa, Communist, all the usual nonsense, active on Twitter and YouTube. Heavy has several videos of the event in question, taken from different perspectives.
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Now imagine if the bulk of the union resigned? All it takes is one a rich Soros type to offer two months pay and moving expenses to the members and a city could find itself pretty much out of business.
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"Gramps is a bleeding-head liberal Commie. (Fixed it for you.)
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OK, that crap is on gramps. They were trying to just get around him until he starts paddling that dude with his PED. That wasn't a push or shove, a mere knock it off with the paddling crap and the dude went down like a jaegermeister drunk.
As for just walked by, that isn't the lineman's job, and they got on the radio for EMT right then.
Yeah, mayor going to choose the yelp famous lipstick salesman I'd be outta there too.
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This looks like a staged fall down. I've seen these kind of staged "accidents" before. Look for an ensuing lawsuit. I wouldn't be surprised if this has happened before with this guy.
[TIME] Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step.
While debates over the role of coppers in schools have raged for years, activists say the latest high-profile examples of police violence against black people — the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,— have fueled the argument that coppers don’t belong in schools.
The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. "I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools," school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
On Thursday, the superintendent of Portland Public Schools said he was "discontinuing" the presence of school resource officers (SROs) and would increase spending on counselors and social workers, the Oregonian reported.
Advocates for police reform and racial justice are hoping more school districts will follow. "It is a huge, huge, huge moment. It feels unprecedented," says Jonathan Stith, director of the Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.
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Give it to a few - good and hard - pour encourager les autres.
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The Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex is a bit alarmed at the lack of school shootings since schools have been closed. The skids must be greased!
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After spates of school shootings over the years, most parents would not agree with these student activists. Most of the people doing the shooting were either really screwed up nutso or could be considered student activists of a similar ilk as those calling for removal of the police security officers.
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Give it to them. Most urban colleges are located in bad neighborhoods and learning what the locals think of them could be very educational.
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NO! ...
likely it some liberal single parent acting out thru their kids.
Students don't DEMAND anything.
They are there for an education.
If they want to show their tail ends, then send them to alternative schools just for the misfits.
Given more and more intercity youth are assaulting teachers and each other, school police are now needed more so.
Also what about a timely response to school shooters?
Are the kids demanding their initial only line of protect be removed?
BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November.
It fits in with the Liberals election year play book.
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Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.
Building on the success of 'gun-free' schools.
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We've had a lot of "education free schools" for some time now.
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BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November.
It fits in with the Liberals election year play book.
That's one reason why they're anxious to get schools re-opened.
Not only has indoctrination been constrained; not only has the necessity of sending kids been rendered a topic of debate; it has been impossible for them to arrange any school shootings as the anti-Trump coup started impinging upon people's consciousness.
The Floyd deletion was a Devilsend in that regard.
[AlphaNewsMN] "We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department," says Lisa Bender, the president of the Minneapolis City Council.
A man named George Floyd died in Minneapolis Police custody on May 25, triggering a wave of national protest and civil unrest. Prompted by Floyd’s untimely passing, a member of the Council said that the legislative body was "working on finding out" if disbanding the police was a possibility, days ago. It now appears that what began as an inquiry has become a reality per Bender and another council member, Jeremiah Ellison, via Twitter, Thursday.
What about the union contract? Surely the police would object to suddenly having to learn to code...
[THEMIX.NET] NBC News published an op-ed blasting NFL star Drew Brees for criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem. The op-ed by Noah Berlatsky goes so far as to say that Brees’ "biggest mistake" in defending the American flag was "believing" that it "means anything."
Brees has been hit with an unprecedented amount of backlash this week after simply saying that he does not agree with kneeling during the national anthem. The New Orleans Saints quarterback said that he views the move as a sign of "disrespect" and shared the story of his military roots.
NBC News decided to pile on to him on Thursday with this op-ed, teasing it on the network’s "THINK" page under the headline "Drew Brees’ biggest mistake?’ Believing the American flag means anything."
The actual headline of the story, which was written by Noah Berlatsky, ended up reading, "Drew Brees’ comments on George Floyd protest prioritize symbols over justice."
Needless to say, Berlatsky was not kind to Brees and his patriotism in the slightest of ways:
"[Brees] has unfortunately become the poster child for what happens when you venerate a hollow space wrapped up in red, white and blue. Brees believed that his comments honored the flag and America’s ideals. But valuing a symbol of justice over justice itself isn’t moral or righteous. It’s the opposite. When honoring the flag is the price of justice, then the flag does not symbolize justice. It symbolizes force, inequality and racism. It’s a flag of conquest for white people, not of mercy or freedom for all."
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Comcast-NBC means nothing...
BTW once StarLink is functional Comcast and AT&T(CNN) and Verizon will slowly begin to Tank.
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BTW, Musk has admitted that the current tough problem with the StarLink network is to make the phased array user's terminal cheap enough. The current one costs $1500+ just to build.
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So they have freely admitted they are traitors, strip their citizenship and deport them to Devil's island or it's near vicinity. When they get kicked out of the Helo, who cares if they hit water or land?
VIDEO: Thousands of Hong Kong protesters lit candles and chanted democracy slogans as they defied a ban Thursday against gathering to commemorate China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with tensions seething in the financial hub over a planned new security law pic.twitter.com/KnsjAa2Bl8
What, another one? Photos or ears are the usual proofs, I believe.
[NEWS.YAHOO] French forces have killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... , in Mali, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Friday.
Droukdel was killed on Thursday in the northwest Mali town of Tessalit. "Many of his close associates" were also "neutralised", said Parly.
"Abdelmalik Droukdel, member of al-Qaeda's ruling committee, commanded the whole of the jihadist groups in North Africa and the Sahara" including Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM) -- an umbrella group of al-Qaeda affiliates, Parly said.
AQIM stems from a group started in the late 1990s by radical Algerian Islamists, who in 2007 formally subscribed to al-Qaeda's ideology.
The group, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... , has bases in northern Mali from where it regularly carries out attacks and abductions of westerners in the sub-Saharan Sahel zone.
La Belle France also claimed on Friday to have captured a leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) group, which carries out frequent attacks over Niger's western borders.
Operations against EIGS "the other great terrorist threat in the region" are continuing, said Parly.
La Belle France has over 5,000 troops deployed in its anti-jihadist Barkhane force in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... Mali is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in 2012 and which has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.
Despite the presence of thousands of French and UN troops, the conflict has engulfed the centre of the country and spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... and Niger.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[TribLIVE] A Pittsburgh man has been charged with a federal crime after police said he placed a backpack containing several homemade bombs in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 31.
[NYP] They were the castoffs of local real estate — until coronavirus came to call.
[France24] From building fires to foraging for food, some in Australia have taken to brushing up on essential survival skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a way to prepare for future global disasters while reconnecting with nature.
[Zero] Variant Bio has spent the last several years scouring the world for genetic outliers in human beings. It found a small group of "outlier humans" with special variations in their DNA that could affect disease risk and eventually be used to develop medicines to improve human life. 
[Free Beacon] Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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[JonathanTurley] Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on the role of familiar groups like Antifa in the violence following the death of George Floyd. Attorney General Bill Barr acknowledged yesterday that there is a "witches' brew" of groups fostering violations, including an anarchist group from the right. The anarchists on the left or right are opportunists who will strike at any time of unrest to seek the breakdown of order. However, police are reporting a high number of Antifa and anarchist members arrested in various states. (here and here and here) These are groups that are all too familiar to some of us on college and university campus. While I have opposed efforts to declare Antifa a terrorist organization, the role of all of these groups in the recent violence should be a cautionary tale for academics and politicians alike in the tolerance shown for such anti-free speech movements. Many leaders and academics have denounced such groups on the right (some of which are also active in these riots), but notably have been more muted in condemning anti-fascist and left-anarchist groups.
...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...
[NYDAILYNEWS] Two Brooklyn lawyers accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at an empty NYPD car during a chaotic George Floyd protest last weekend are now getting tossed into lockup themselves — for now.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[AlphaNewsMN] "We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department," says Lisa Bender, the president of the Minneapolis City Council.
[NEWS.YAHOO] French forces have killed the leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian 
"Abdelmalik Droukdel, member of al-Qaeda's ruling committee, commanded the whole of the jihadist groups in North Africa and the Sahara" including Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
