[Business Insider] Environmental activists blocked congressional staff and lawmakers after super gluing themselves to doors and each other in a building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon.
The Washington, DC, chapter of Extinction Rebellion glued their hands to one another and to door knobs, forming chains around entryways and exits at the basement in a building for House lawmakers.
The protesters hung signs around themselves imitating emergency notices and calling for the passage of the Green New Deal.
"DECLARE CLIMATE EMERGENCY," one sign said.
"We're sorry. Due to the CLIMATE EMERGENCY Congress is shut down until sufficient action is taken to address the crisis," another sign said.
Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana posted a video of his staff navigating through the hallways of the Capitol: "Supergluing yourself to a door is a very dumb way to protest," the video's caption said.
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Break out glass and haul them away. Severe fines and appropriate charges for door/window replacement and labor. No one is released from jail until fines are paid and time is served.
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Compost them, not just the bits stuck to the glass. Their heads are already full of compost, so it should go pretty quick.
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Leave them there. No food or water. In a day or two they will tear themselves away. Then you arrest them and clean their open wounds with alcohol/salt water.
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I'm against leaving them there. Then everybody else would have had to deal with them. They should have been released to a natural habitat, like central Antarctica. I'm sure it isn't cold, as global warming is such a horrendous problem.
[Right Scoop] Yesterday in Hermitage, Tennessee, ICE officers tried to arrest an illegal for deportation. But the man’s neighbors intervened and prevented ICE from arresting him:
NEWS CHANNEL 5 ‐ An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to bring a man in Hermitage into custody, but neighbors formed a human chain to allow the man and his son to get home.
This happened Monday morning in the area of Brooke Valley Drive and Forest Ridge Drive. The man had entered into his van with his son when an ICE vehicle blocked him in.
[JerusalemPost] Brent crude fell 5 cents to $63.21 a barrel by 1334 GMT on Tuesday.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 16 cents at $56.38.
"The response of oil prices to the seizure of a British oil tanker by armed Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz has been amazingly muted so far," said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at Commerzbank.
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"The response of oil prices to the seizure of a British oil tanker by armed Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz has been amazingly muted so far," said Carsten Fritsch, analyst at Commerzbank.
Apparently Carsten hasn't figured out yet that we're pumping so much oil that the spikes aren't going to be anywhere near as bad as they used to be. There's also all that Iranian oil the Chinese are sitting on but, for some odd reason, not using - it's starting to make an impression on the market as well.
Sorry, Carsten, but you better tell the nice people in Tehran that the old rules don't apply any more.
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Dumbass Iranians can't be depended on for anything.
[Jpost] Britannia’s intelligence services MI6 and GCHQ are checking whether Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... used Russian GPS "spoofing" technology, which produces incorrect location data, to send the British-flagged Stena Impero off course into Iranian waters.
According to British media, the UK’s intelligence services think Iran might have used cyber penetration to send the ship off course into Iranian waters, thus giving the IRGC an excuse to seize it.
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[American Thinker] Democrats have cynically dined out for years on the false narrative that President Trump was always trying to hold down Puerto Rico.
Taking a page from the number they did on President Bush in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they claimed that the U.S. territory, ravaged as it was by Hurricane Maria in 2017, was intentionally not getting the aid it needed, all because Trump was a racist who hated them. Remember this dreck from Democratic Party standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton, who said she wasn't sure President Trump actually knew that Puerto Ricans are citizens? This is an actual narrative from Democrats.com themselves, and it snapped into place the moment the hurricane touched down in 2017.
It can't be emphasized too much how Democrats have tried to push this narrative. Remember this? The big Democrat shindig that took place in Puerto Rico to highlight Trump's supposed badness about helping the island ‐ which happened at a time when the government was in a shutdown?
SAN JUAN, P.R. ‐ It had been planned for months: the largest-ever congressional delegation to Puerto Rico. It would start with briefings on the continuing effects of Hurricane Maria, end with a charity performance of "Hamilton" and include a little down time on the beach.
And then the government shut down.
As they returned to Washington for Monday night votes, the 39 members of Congress who traveled to Puerto Rico over the weekend were taking fire from Fox News, President Trump's communications team and the president himself.
The White House seized on the idea of Democrats "partying on the beach instead of negotiating," as polls have found most voters blaming Trump for the 24-day impasse over funding the federal government, the longest shutdown in history.
Trump tried to highlight that the local Puerto Rican government, loaded as it was with Trump-hating leftists, was the reason the aid wasn't getting through. Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press. Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own? Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials ‐ with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way ‐ couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.
[Military.com] Turkey's minister of foreign affairs spoke out against the United States' decision to remove the NATO ally from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, as well as the looming possibility the Trump administration could impose sanctions on the country.
"If the U.S. shows a hostile attitude to us, we will take a step against it," Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Turkish TV station TGRT Haber on Monday.
That could mean curtailing operations or expelling U.S. forces at Incirlik Air Base, or limiting coalition operations at Kürecik radar station, he said. His comments about the bases were first reported by Stars and Stripes.
Incirlik has played a key role in air operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In 2016, the base went dark for roughly a week during a failed coup attempt in the country.
While Çavuşoğlu was not immediately clear on Turkey's path forward at Incirlik or Kürecik, his comments come after the Trump administration confirmed last week that Turkey will be removed from the F-35 program after it began accepting deliveries of the Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system, which Moscow calls the "F-35 killer."
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Turkey has been the home of the international Muslim Brotherhood at least since 2013. However, the government which has been increasingly Islamicized is now threatened by the people who have voted out the Islamists in Ankara and Istambul. The US forces should not wait to be thrown out of Turkey but should instead be moved to the base north of Irbil and to Greece. Turkey, which now has no chance of joining the EU, has recently threatened Cyprus, and it should be put on notice that any action taken will be met by severe reprisals.
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Talk the Brits into sharing RAF Akrotiri, Crete and/or RAF Kingsfield, Crete and move there. Get the Turks off of Crete and stop their annexing the Easter Mediterranean as an added bonus.
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I can't find the twitter about it but last night it came out that the USA is building a new airport in Kurdistan (Iraq or Syria not clear) right on the Turkish border.
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There are no Turks on Crete, it is owned by Greece. I believe Magpie meant Cyprus, which is still partially occupied by Turks and has a large number of Turkish and British soldiers on it.
[AnNahar] Four Chinese nationals have been indicted for financial dealings with North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n companies sanctioned for involvement in the production of weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday.
Ma Xiaohong, the head of Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Co. Ltd (DHID) and three top executives of the Chinese company were indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey, the department said in a statement.
The other three DHID executives indicted were identified as general manager Zhou Jianshu, deputy general manager Hong Jinhua and financial manager Luo Chuanxu.
"Through the use of more than 20 front companies, the defendants are alleged to have sought to obscure illicit financial dealings on behalf of sanctioned North Korean entities that were involved in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," assistant attorney general John Demers said.
"Ma, her company, and her employees tried to defraud the United States by evading sanctions restrictions and doing business with proliferators of weapons of mass destruction," said US Attorney Craig Carpenito.
A Justice Department front man said the four DHID executives are not in US custody and are believed to reside in China.
DHID, according to the indictment, was based in the Chinese city of Dandong in Liaoning Province along the border with North Korea and its primary business was import and export trade with North Korea.
DHID allegedly set up front companies to work with North Korea-based Korea Kwangson Banking Corp. (KKBC), which has ties to two other sanctioned North Korean entities -- Tanchon Commercial Bank (Tanchon) and Korea Hyoksin Trading Corporation (Hyoksin).
Tanchon and Hyoksin are subject to U.S. sanctions because of their links with the Korea Mining Development Trading Co. (KOMID), which the United States considers North Korea's premier arms dealer and main exporter of goods and equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons.
Ma, Zhou, Hong and Luo face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
They face a maximum of five years in prison for conspiracy to violate IEEPA and a maximum of 20 years in prison for conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
U.S. President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... and North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... agreed to a resumption of their dialogue at an impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas on June 30.
[Naharnet] The Trump administration announced Tuesday new measures to expand its immigration crackdown by permitting more summary deportations of undocumented migrants colonists.
The new rules allow immigration officials to pick up any undocumented immigrant anywhere in the country and, if the immigrant has been inside the United States less than two years, the officers can decide themselves to have the person deported, rather than have the case decided by an immigration judge.
Formerly officers of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies could arrest and summarily deport a migrant only if they were detained within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of the U.S. border and were inside the country less than two weeks.
Cases for more detainees not meeting those parameters would have to be processed in an immigration court.
"The effect of that change will be to enhance national security and public safety -- while reducing government costs -- by facilitating prompt immigration determinations," said a Department of Homeland Security notice published in the Federal Register.
"The new designation will enable DHS to address more effectively and efficiently the large volume of aliens who are present in the United States unlawfully," it said.
The Trump administration has been frustrated by the backlog at immigration courts which often allows detainees to disappear back into the population before their case is heard.
There are currently nearly one million pending cases, according to the website TracImmigration, and the average waiting time for a hearing is nearly two years.
The new rule could accelerate deportations from the estimated 10.5 million undocumented migrants colonists living in the United States, almost two-thirds of them for more than 10 years, according to the Pew Research Center.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and ground operations against Talibs in Uruzgan province killing 10 Death Eaters of the group.
The military officials said Tuesday that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs during a raid in Khas Uruzgan district.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a small weapons cache during the raid.
Furthermore, the airstrikes killed 8 Death Eaters of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in Khas Uruzgan district.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] The public uprising forces killed 9 ISIS murderous Moslems during a clash in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Provincial Government’s media office in a statement said the public uprising forces clashed with ISIS murderous Moslems in Bandar area of Achin district on Monday night.
The statement further added that the public uprising forces killed 9 ISIS murderous Moslems hailing from Pakistain.
Furthermore, the Provincial Government said the slain murderous Moslems were original residents of Bajaur and Orakzai areas of Pakistain.
The Provincial Government also added that the four public uprising personnel also sustained minor injuries during the clash.
The ISIS sympathizers have not commented regarding the clash so far.
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Thanks, but I'll take your word for it,TW. Can't be any more novel indignation than the rest of it floating around in that part of the world. Nothing to take seriously here. The Afghans forget too easily that they would be slaves or dead if not for their American benefactors. And no soldier sacrifices to receive honor or thanks.
Sometimes I think, these things are so exaggerated by reporters to create unnecessary tensions between otherwise friendly parties.
Like the Indian media, that cannot stop raving about how Trump was not asked by Modi to arbitrate on Kashmire.
A mature person would understand that Trump likes to condescend to whatever idiot he's meeting, and says everything they'd like to hear. He even puts in a few bytes of bullshit afterward to fuel his own MSM critics' self immolation with hate. It has no bearing on reality, and that's as it should be. He's got to deal with devious bastards possessing nuclear weapons and extremely narrow agendas all year long, convince them everything can go their way only if they play ball. Of course he says these things. He must.
Taliban Khan went home happy just as Modi went home happy, just as Kim reposed happy - all with empty hands and shimmering words, their problems forgotten in the glaze of having met a sympathetic POTUS, who agreed with them, promised to 'work with them', 'great relationships' were claimed, while both their voters and oppositions except for Kim, who only has 'loyals' and fishfood. heard back home what 'great guys' they were. It's how a president should deal with belligerent leaders with narrow interests. A press conference, photo ops, handshakes, promises, meaningless praise... and a wave at the departing convoy.
BTW - Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.
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Although I agree with much of what Dron said I suspect Iran might be the actual audience for the comments. Just a simple reminder, they want nukes and we have lots and lots and lots of megatons at our disposal.
[KhaamaPress] A U.S. airstrike killed a group leader of Taliban and his fighters in south-eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the U.S. forces conducted the airstrike in Tasan area of Deh Yak district.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed a group leader of Taliban and his five fightres.
The 203rd Thunder Corps did not disclose further information regarding the identity of the slain Taliban group leader.
Meanwhile, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the Afghan forces killed 2 Taliban militants and wounded 3 others during a clash in Qarabagh district of Ghazni.
The security forces also killed 2 Taliban militants and wounded 6 others in Aab Band district of Ghazni province.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed or detained dozens of Talibs during separate raids conducted in Pashtun-infested Logar and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... The informed military sources said Tuesday that the Special Forces killed 27 Talibs during the operation in Pul-e Alam district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
The sources further added that the Special Forces also arrested 5 Talibs during the same raid.
Furthermore, the sources said the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during a raid in Sharan district of Paktika.
The Special Forces also destroyed a weapons cache during the operation.
Why I don’t worry about artificial intelligence taking over the world.
[The AdminZone] Facebook groups are the future.
That is certainly one opinion. And certainly Mr. Wife curated the Cincinnati blues society’s Facebook page like the advertising outreach that it is. But nowadays I only open Facebook every few days, and I’m not nearly as interactive as I used to be when I’m on it. Why should Facebook’s shareholders make money off me, when they’ve been working against everything I believe in?
Facebook is focusing on privacy
Do let’s define privacy. Does that mean they’ll stop selling individual and group information to outsiders?
and making the user experience more intimate.
Let’s define intimate, too.
That’s what the algorithms are going to start catering to. If you don’t have a reader group, you should start one.
The things we post on Facebook should create meaningful interactions. If they don’t, your post is less likely to be seen and suppressed in the algorithms.
If the algorithms suppress it, it is no longer private...
Group Admins are responsible for all group activity. If content is posted in a group that goes against Facebook’s Terms of Service (TOS) or Community Standards, admins are at risk to lose their personal profile, their business page, and their group. Admins can be shut down with no recourse.
Definitely neither private nor intimate. Not to mention that Facebook’s standards are constantly evolving, generally without any notice whatsoever.
Negative ratings reflect poorly on the admin team. Negative ratings are the angry face, the sad face, member reported content, and the number of people who block you. These things also reflect poor ratings on groups and suppress reach.
So if viewers don't like something that happened in say the news or something some politician was quoted on in the post, it's a negative for the group because only BRAIN DEAD STUPID HAPPY PRAISE IS VALUABLE TO FRICK-BOOK
Facebook wants the user experience to be positive. Sad or angry face reactions tells Facebook that the user is having a bad experience, therefore diminishing your organic reach.
Post approval process is a responsibility. Admins should have post approval turned on in groups to protect themselves from negative ratings. Questions should be asked for new joins. It’s the admins responsibility to monitor and know who they are allowing in their group.
Contest, giveaways, and free downloads are being suppressed by Facebook. If you are saying “get this free” or “enter this giveaway,” those posts are being suppressed by Facebook. This goes back to creating meaningful interactions. Authors need to stop using the traditional language and start getting creative on how they post contests, giveaways, and free books if they want their posts to be seen.
Making what should be easy harder. And to be fair, it used to be much easier on Facebook before they decided to improve it by controlling everything so tightly.
When members leave the group, they have the choice to take all of their content with them. This applies to admins as well. So if you had an admin that posted great content and then they leave the group, they have the ability to take their posts out of the group.
Teach readers to leave a reaction, not a LIKE. Liking a post means nothing to the Facebook algorithm. It does not qualify as an engagement. Readers need to LOVE it, react with SHOCK, or use the LAUGHING reaction. This shows positive user experience and will help your organic reach. Comments also boost your reach and GIF’s give you the highest ranking in the algorithm.
Ugh.
You CANNOT tell users how to react. In other words, you can’t say things like “Love this post and...” or “Comment below and…” Those phrases will suppress your reach because they are considered engagement baiting. What you should say is something like, “Leave me a heart and…” Engagement baiting includes words like COMMENT, VOTE, REACT, SHARE, TAG.
Sales posts on your page and in your group should be less than 20%. Facebook doesn’t want an abundance of “buy my books” posts because they don’t create meaningful interactions.
As a reader, I want to know when new books come out or old titles are discount priced. I’ll also check out authors and titles my favourite authors recommend, especially if the price is discounted.
Authors should reduce takeovers or change how they are phrased. The word TAKEOVER is being suppressed. Instead, have a PARTY, an AUTHOR GATHERING, or EVENING ENTERTAINMENT.
Reduce the number of admins in the group. Again, this goes back to admin
responsibility. The group admins should be you and only one or two other trusted sources.
Create Group Rules within Facebook (not just pinned in the announcements or written in the ‘about’ section of the group). They set the tone for the group and gives you something to point to if someone is not following the rules. It is your responsibility to make sure everyone is on the same page, or you risk losing your account with no recourse.
Link your group to your page. Facebook is going to be coming out with features that are specific to business pages that have groups.
Or don’t, depending on whether you want to have a private life or not.
Be a conversation starter in groups. Earn the badge. It shows you are creating meaningful conversations. Readers are like you. If you like to see something on Facebook, chances are that they will like it too.
Understand Facebook Community Standards and know that it’s a robot screening your content. It’s important to work within those rules in order to be present on social media. Understanding and following these standards will help boost you in the algorithms and help your ad approvals.
Newsfeed is shrinking. Stories are merging with the newsfeed. Messenger is being favored. Take the time to look through all the available options in Messenger. Messenger is soon going to be separated from the desktop, meaning it will be its own entity. WhatsApp and Messenger will be contained and can be used for direct selling. Remember, Facebook is moving to “the future is private.”
They keep saying that. But I think it does’t mean what they say it means.
Ads are targeting new avenues. You can no longer have a small budget for Facebookads and expect it to be successful. You need to understand targeting or you’ll be wasting money. Start testing ads in other ways that are not on the newsfeed.
Going LIVE is no longer on Facebook’s radar as an organic algorithm piece. If you didn’t go live often before, this is good news for you. If you are one who utilized it a lot, you’ll need to find other ways to boost organic reach.
A direct attack on Trump speeches and Breitbart?
And anyone else they decide they don’t like. It’s much easier to control if posted afterward rather than evaluating while live-streaming.
Links in posts can be determined click-bait, or something that flags the Click Gap Signal. The Click Gap Signal is a measuring of inbound and outbound link patterns of a site that is being linked out from Facebook. Facebook will reduce the reach of a post if the number of clicks from Facebook is higher than it is in other areas of the internet. In other words, if more people are going to your website via Facebook versus an organic Google search, your post will be considered click-bait or spam. Facebook will suppress it and/or shut down your account. While that might not be true, that’s what the algorithm will see.
Artificial “intelligence”.
Facebook is tracking the link funnel. This means Facebook will follow where the link is going. This could also trigger the Click Gap Signal. Authors should send people to their newsletter or their website, as opposed to Amazon or iBooks. Here’s why: Your website is controlled by you. If a reader clicks on your Amazon link, they’ll find your books, your reviews, and your bio. You might think everything on your Amazon page is completely in line with Facebook’s Community Standards (no naked covers, no foul language, no erotica, etc). However, also-boughts and sponsored books leading to another book that DOES violate the Community Standards is also being analyzed. If the Click Gap Signal happens to fall on a page with questionable content, your reach is suppressed and your ads could be denied (even if you have no control over sponsored Amazon ads on your page). What’s more, the Click Gap Signal can flag you for the reviews on your books. If a reviewer uses negative keywords, bad language, etc, your reach will be suppressed.
Facebook now has the ability to scan images for content that violates Community Standards. Be careful with those erotic book covers and steamy teasers.
Remember the good old days when Puritan was considered an insult of stupidity, antithetical to everything a good liberal stands for?
Groups deemed harmful on Facebook will be shut down. As per the statement put out by Facebook “…we identify and remove harmful groups, whether they are public, closed or secret. We can now proactively detect many types of violating content posted in groups before anyone reports them and sometimes before few people, if any, even see them.” This is a reaction to the New Zealand Massacre. Unfortunately, some people in the romance book world are being targeted by this based on keywords found by bots. They are losing their groups and their accounts are being shut down. Hence the reason why authors need to monitor group content and understand the Community Standards.
Sharing is not caring. Sharing from your page to your timeline/newsfeed is against the Terms of Service. By dropping your page link in a Sharing is Caring post, you are putting yourself at risk to have your account shut down. Sharing posts made on a page you are the admin of is also a no-no. Facebook wants page content to stay on the page. However, if a reader (a non-admin of your page) shares a post from your page, the complete opposite happens. This boosts your ranking in the algorithms. Facebook views this as positive content because a reader cared enough about the post to share it. If someone comments on that readers shared post, you get an even higher boost.
Don’t limit yourself to one platform. Stories, groups, Messenger, and ads are where you need to be on Facebook, but you should also be on other platforms. Move readers away from Facebook to other areas. Spread out your reach. You shouldn’t build your entire business on one platform that you have no control over. Peer-to-peer networking is now bigger than ever. Authors should utilize each other.
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What a colossal waste of time, capital, attention.
Imagine what could have been accomplished with all the investment and effort and technical talent that was sucked up by a stupid timewaster.
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Somehow the republic survived several hundred years without the internet. I suspect it will without in the end. No power, no electricity, no internet. It's going to be interesting when a raging civil war shuts down so many things.
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This may be old hat, but there was research on developing heuristic vernacular engines that can crawl through a text, and change the wordings to mean something else, inserting alternate perspectives on a subject such that the wording seems consistent with writing styles of the author. The original purpose of it was to create AI driven bots that can watch for and insinuate subtle alterations in medium sized bodies of text, like articles, statements and reports along the publishing pipeline, to assist in destabilization of police regimes and autocracies where an educated elite can be roused to activism, impeachment, revolt and coup. It would supplement efforts of real activists and journos while officials rushed about correcting and apologizing for their "hacked accounts" and over-zealousness.
Of course, the uses for such simple but computationally intensive software are many. Facebook was one of the tech giants that denigrated this research and cried "Fascists !" at the time. I wonder if they appropriated it or carried the idea further ?
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TLDR. Too much gobbledygook and too many algorithms.
I like Fred's approach better. That is: you set up your own web site and maintain it yourself, or with the help of some friendly mods who use colors like periwinkle :). Oh, you might have to learn HTML but it isn't hard. If you're really into it, you can try some PERL or javascript. That's a little more intense but then you don't need to worry about Zuckerberg and his algorithms.
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And if HTML, PERL and javascript seem like too much trouble then may you should give some thought to whether your content is really worth it.
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I don't wanna fight a civil war over it.
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The source of the problem isn't the tech. It's the absurd giveaway from Congress that allowed stupid boy-men techies to create vast ad-supported publishing platforms and still claim they weren't publishers.
OF COURSE Facebook and Google are publishers.
If you make $$$$ from ads, you are a publisher.
You bear responsibility for the content of the stuff that your ads are placed next to. You cannot print willfully malicious lies: that's called libel. You cannot deliberately suppress content you disagree with: that's called violating the Fairness Rule. Etc etc.
Capitalism requires strong regulation in order not to destroy itself. A stupidly libertarian, Wild West approach to internet publishing is the root cause of this colossal mess.
[IsraelTimes] At Security Council briefing, envoy Danny Danon says Tehran exploiting civilian firms and maritime channels to supply weapons to its Lebanese proxy terror group since last year.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... on Tuesday accused Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... of exploiting civilian companies and maritime channels to smuggle weapons manufacturing equipment to its Lebanese proxy group, Hezbollah.
In the quarterly meeting on the Middle East, Ambassador Danny Danon told the Security Council that Israeli intelligence has uncovered evidence showing Iran’s Quds Force has been using the port of Beirut to ship items to the terror group since last year.
"In the years 2018-2019, Israel found that dual-use items are smuggled into Leb to advance Hezbollah’s rocket and missile capabilities," he said.
"Iran and the Quds Force have begun to advance the exploitation of the civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut," Danon said. "The Port of Beirut has become the Port of Hezbollah."
In a statement, the Israeli mission said "Syrian agents" purchased the dual use items from foreign companies under false pretenses, and handed it over to the terrorist group after picking up the shipments from the port.
Danon presented the Security Council with a map of the Hezbollah transfer routes that included major hubs at the Damascus airport, Beirut’s port and airport and the official border crossings between Syria and Leb, such as the Masnaa crossings.
He said the weapons transfers violated UN resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Leb War between Hezbollah and Israel.
Danon did not detail what items were obtained by the terror group through these means or name the companies behind the shipments.
Last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Hezbollah was hiding precision missile production facilities underneath Beirut. He revealed satellite photos purporting to show the secret facilities, located within close proximity of Beirut’s international airport.
The Joint Security Room of Gharyan orders the head of Awqaf Office to dismiss all Madkhali clerics who had supported warlord Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on the western region pic.twitter.com/AyHIw9ANBD
[Iraq News] An Iraqi paramilitary force has repelled an attempt by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... faceless myrmidons to attack a military checkpoint in Salahuddin province, a security source said.
Speaking to the privately-owned Almaalomah news website on Tuesday, the source said that members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have destroyed a pickup truck driven by Islamic State faceless myrmidons near a military checkpoint in Baiji city in Salahuddin.
"The IS faceless myrmidons were seeking to storm the checkpoint," the source said, adding that the pickup truck was completely destroyed in the operation.
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[IsraelTimes] The much-anticipated US peace plan will not be based on international consensus, the administration’s peace envoy Jason Greenblatt tells the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council.
International law, he adds, is no guide to resolving the conflict.
"We will not get to the bottom of whose interpretation of ’international law’ is correct on this conflict. There is no judge, jury, or court in the world that the parties involved have agreed to give jurisdiction [to] in order to decide whose interpretations are correct," Greenblatt tells the Council.
"International law with respect to this conflict is a tricky subject that could be discussed and argued for years without ever reaching a conclusion. So we can spend years and years arguing what the law is and whether it is enforceable, and prolong the ongoing suffering. Or we could acknowledge the futility of that approach."
Likewise, the many UN resolutions on the conflict, cited by many as the base line for a future peace treaty, are contested by Israel and will thus not lead to a breakthrough, he adds.
[IsraelTimes] PM hosts Arab media group day after one of them, Mohammed Saud, was harassed at Temple Mt.; Israeli front man: ’He took it harshly but understood this is real face of Paleostinians’.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hosted in his office a delegation of journalists and bloggers from Arab countries, including a 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 national, Mohammed Saud, who was harassed and attacked by Paleostinians on Monday as he was touring Jerusalem’s Old City.
During a lengthy meeting, Netanyahu apologized to Saud on Israel’s behalf for the incident. Saud, for his part, underlined his support for Israel by singing a song, in Hebrew, by poet Leah Goldberg, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson for the Arabic media, Hassan Caabia, told The Times of Israel.
Later on Tuesday, the delegation of six Arab journalists and bloggers also had an hour-long meeting with Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
"He took it somewhat harshly, but he understood that this is the real face of the Paleostinians," Caabia said, referring to the insults and attacks to which Saud was subjected Monday when he toured the Temple Mount and walked through Jerusalem’s Old City.
Three suspects in the harassment of Saud were arrested Tuesday.
In the wake of the incident, a scheduled meeting of the visiting group with Israeli journalists was canceled.
"They talk about how so many in the Arab world want to have peace with Israel, normalization with Israel, want to come to Israel," Netanyahu said later, referring to the group he hosted. "They’re not always free to express it, and there’s always opposition... but they expressed that desire."
[DAWN] At least two people were killed and 16 others injured in an improvised bomb (IED) blast on Quetta's Eastern Bypass area on Tuesday evening, police said.
Quetta DIG Abdul Razzaq Cheema confirmed the incident and said that unknown miscreants had planted the bomb in a cycle of violence and parked it outside a medical store.
The injured were rushed to Civil Hospital Quetta and an emergency was declared in the hospital.
Razzaq Cheema said that two victims of the blast gave up the ghost on their way to the hospital. He added that all the injured were civilians.
He said that the culprits and motive behind the attack were yet to be ascertained. Police and other law enforcement agencies personnel reached the sport and an investigation was underway.
A total of 119 people ‐ including 15 police personnel ‐ were killed and 114 injured in terrorism-related incidents in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... during 2018. As many as 25 bad boyz were potted in encounters and 55 arrested in 1,245 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in the province.
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[BREITBART] Tuesday, MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" discussed a column that compared Germany in the early 1930s to the United States and the United Kingdom now with 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...... and soon to be Prime Minister Boris Johnson leading the two countries.
Host Joe Scarborough asked Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson when the time to "sound the alarm" on a Nazi uprise, to which Robinson replied that the time had already past and the alarm should now "be at full volume."
"[W]e look at this FT article and I’m wondering, Gene, when is the time to sound the alarm? When is the time to start saying, well, does this look like Germany in 1932? Does this look like Germany in 1933? Is now the time to start asking that question?" Scarborough posed.
"Well, the time to start sounding an alarm, a general alarm, was some time ago. And people should be screaming now. I mean, the alarm should be at full volume," Robinson responded. "You know, one thing most columnists wisely resolve, is don’t bring out the Hitler/Germany analogy, you know? You never use that. We’re getting close. I mean, we’re getting to the point where you need to start just looking at the historical precedent and understanding that, you know, history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes, but there are some awful, awful things happening in the great democracies that sort of uphold the western values and western order and have done so for decades, you know, the United States and Britannia. And this is crazy and it does not end well."
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Morons. This just shows the illiteracy and ignorance of our political class.
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Dron, that cartoon needs a slight amendment. The soyboi wannabe ninjas cover their ENTIRE faces now.
The last one who exposed his eyes and eyebrows was easily identified after he appeared in multiple videos clockjbg people with his U-shaped steel bike lock.
[Iraq News] An 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.... terrorist was killed Tuesday while trying to plant a bomb in the eastern province of Diyala, a security source said.
Speaking to the privately-owned Baghdad Today news website, the source said that the earth-shattering kaboom took place near Imam Weis area, some 64 km northeast of Baqubah.
The terrorist’s body was torn into pieces as a result of the bomb explosion, the source added. Lovely and fitting. Aloha Snackbar
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[Iraq News] An Iraqi court has sentenced two men to death after finding them guilty of joining 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.... group, a judicial council said.
One of them was found implicated in terrorist attacks against security forces near the Baiji oil refinery and the University of Tikrit in the Sunni-majority province of Salahuddin, Baghdad Today website quoted the Supreme Judicial Council as saying in a press statement on Thursday.
The other convict confessed to running a workshop for booby-trapping Islamic State vehicles in 2014, the statement read.
The court rulings were issued pursuant to article no. ¼ of the anti-terrorism law, it added.
Iraq’s anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped jihadists even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
The exact number of detained Islamic State Death Eaters is still unknown, however, it’s estimated to be at thousands. It’s also unclear how many members are likely to face death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s.
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Good thing Oblahblah opened good relations with our Cuban Friends™
[NY Post] The brains of 40 former staffers at the US Embassy in Cuba who developed mysterious symptoms during so-called "sonic attacks" have visible differences compared to a control group, according to a new study.
The State Department has said the employees developed what became known as "Havana Syndrome" – headaches, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms that arose when they heard penetrating, high-pitched sounds.
MRI scans from the 23 men and 17 women showed changes in brain structure and functional connectivity between different parts of the organ compared with 48 other adults, according to the study by the University of Pennsylvania.
The difference in the brains between the two groups "is pretty jaw-dropping at the moment," lead researcher Dr. Ragini Verma, a professor of radiology at Penn, told Reuters.
"Most of these patients had a particular type of symptoms and there is a clinical abnormality that is being reflected in an imaging anomaly," she said.
However, in findings published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, Verma and her team said it was unclear if the brain patterns directly translate into significant health problems.
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Skeptics also have challenged State Department assertions that some unknown weapon had targeted the workers.
Any of those naysayers want a job at the US embassy in Cuba? We'll pay you double what you're making now.
[BREITBART] Presidential candidate Julian Castro (D) accused President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... of being the "biggest identity politician" who is putting out siren songs to those who believe "that this is a White America only."
"Well, this guy is the biggest identity politician out there. And what he’s trying to do is to divide Americans along racial and ethnic lines, and I don’t think that there has been anybody who has been more successful at building his political career on dividing people on racial and ethnic lines as Donald Trump has," Castro said on CNN on Friday while discussing Trump’s "racist" remarks against the freshman "Squad." "And that’s what he’s trying to do with his attacks on these four congresswomen of color, trying to make them the other and putting out this siren song to people that might support the idea that really that this is a white America only. " Sorry Hoolian, it's CNN, so nobody heard it outside airport waiting areas
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Momma Castro is La Raza, the premier Mexican racist, separatist organization in the US. A chip off the ole tamale.
[BREITBART] Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has won the internal vote to become the new leader of the governing Conservative Party, meaning he is due to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday afternoon.
Mr Johnson beat rival Jeremy Hunt by 92,153 to 46,656 votes, Conservative party officials revealed Tuesday afternoon from a meeting in Westminster’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. The scale of the victory exceeds expectations to some degree, far from the 55-45 vote split suggested Tuesday morning.
Making a brief but characteristically bumbling speech to the assembled party members after the results were announced, Mr Johnson said he would: "Deliver Brexit, unite the country, and defeat Jeremy Corbyn. And that’s what we’re going to do... I say to all the doubters, dude! We’re going to energise the country, we’re going to get Brexit done on October 31st and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring in a new spirit of can-do.
"And once again we are going to believe in ourselves and what we can achieve, and like a slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the ropes of self-doubt and negativity with better education, more police, and fantastic full-fibre broadband sprouting in every household we are going to unite this amazing country and we are going to take it forward."
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I predict the Oct deadline shall indefinitely extend on down into the next premiership.
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I predict Boris comes away with a real free trade deal with the USA before the October deadline and Europe clambers to appease Britain hoping for the easy access to American markets such a deal would provide despite their own protections.
[IsraelTimes] Regime bombardment today on northwestern Syria kills at least seven civilians, including children, a monitor says, a day after dozens were killed in raids targeting the opposition bastion.
The Syrian regime and its Russian ally have stepped up their deadly bombardment of the Idlib region and adjacent areas in Aleppo and Hama provinces since late April.
Three children are among seven civilians killed in today’s air strikes and artillery fire in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
The bombardment comes a day after regime and Russian air strikes killed 50 people in northwestern Syria.
#SOHR The regime's security services arrest commanders and fighters of those who struck "reconciliation and settlement" deals in the south of #Damascushttps://t.co/7V9X8V80XC
[Iraq News] Iraqi security forces arrested seven 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.... members in the group’s formerly-declared capital, as authorities continue to hunt for the krazed killer group’s vestiges across its former havens.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the seven were apprehended in three neighborhoods of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . It explained that some of those arrested worked for the group’s Hisbah (religious vigilantes) division, while the others worked as personnel officers.
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In which the writer discusses the left's obsession with inventing its own dialect, which will eventually become even more incomprehensible to the rest of us.
[NYPOST] You’ve probably heard that the city of Berkeley, Calif., is banning the use of the word "manhole" because it isn’t gender-neutral ‐ meaning it has that deplorable word "man" in it.
Instead, the city ‐ where, in case you’re interested, I once had the pleasure of seeing a young woman walking on the street with a live rat adorning her shoulder ‐ wants to use the phrase "maintenance hole" to describe that thing people go butt-first into to fix stuff underground.
The city probably could have come up with a better gender-neutral phrase except that "ass hole" ‐ for the butt-first maneuver, you see ‐ was already in use in a much different context.
Why am I bringing this up in a column about money and the economy and such? Because I think it’s about time. Those three letters in order ‐ M-A-N ‐ should be barred from the English language, or at least the American version of it, except when someone is actually pointing to a guy who has done something wrong.
"That man over there robbed the bank," for instance, would be okay.
I’m also bringing it up because the abolition of those three letters could have widespread implications on how we report the economy and business in the years ahead. And I’m going to fix these problems right now before I have an urge to get off my chair and do some manly thing I might regret.
Berkeley already fixed the word "manpower" ‐ which is often used in discussions of the economy. The city’s code now says "human effort" or "workforce" will replace "manpower."
Pretty awkward, I think. "Manpower" does not mean "workforce" in any economic sense. Like "it took a lot of workforce (manpower) to get the job done" just isn’t right.
Instead of "man-power", why not use the word Leslie ‐ a name that can be either male or female? So, to use it in a sentence: "Lesliepower issues have been resolved as the city hired more workers" ‐ of both sexes, of course.
It might take a while, but "Lesliepower" will eventually catch on.
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Is a "Ladies' Man" now only called a "Persons' Person" in Newspeak?
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I was under the impression that the suffix 'man' in words like 'postman' comes from the German indefinite pronoun 'man' meaning 'one' and is already gender neutral. Example: One often sees them - Man sieht Sie oft.
I wonder who would be more surprised and appalled at our modern world, Orwell or Huxley?
Humorless lefty decides cute movie has to offend her some way, finally finds a reason. Personally, I find most ideas pooped out by lefty deconstructionists offensive.
[BREITBART] So you thought that When Harry Met Sally ‐ the classic 80s rom-com which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a competition at Katz’s deli in New York to see who could do the best fake orgasm ‐ was a triumph for its writer Nora Ephron, its star Meg Ryan, and the depiction of rounded, female characters generally?
Think again, sexist bigot!
In fact ‐ so we learn from The Atlantic’s resident kill-joy movie analyst Megan Garber ‐ When Harry Met Sally set back the cause of feminism by years thanks to its crass invention of a term which has haunted womankind ever since: "High maintenance."
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Well, 3rd wave feminists as defined by their personal hygiene, are not high maintenance.
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I'm so old I remember when The Atlantic was worth reading.
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The term "High maintenance" predates that movie by many many decades. It didn't invent the term, after all "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is essentially the same concept many decades before. Oh and my friends and I used to factor in "High maintenance" when dating in the 60s and 70s. I am sure our fathers and grandfathers did the same.
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Come to think of it. My floor RA in 1973 broke up with his GF after her father offered him $50K a year for life to marry her. He started watching her and quickly realized nothing he ever earned even with what was then a large subsidy could ever cover her costs...
Sorry, Mr. McCoy. Yesterday, after only one day of being on your best behaviour, you decided you were entitled to be an ass. Clearly a one-day time out is not enough to nail home the idea that good manners are for every day, not just to get out of trouble. So today you don’t get to post, no matter how sensible your words.
— trailing wife for the moderators at 6:30 pm EDT
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I have been reading a collection of Agatha Christie's Ms Marple novels, written before (in some cases long before) even Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend came out, and the concept was very much there, even if the words weren't. Some women have very expensive tastes, and a great many women require a great deal of attention, even if they don't necessarily need a lot of money.
[ARABNEWS] Rocket fire from Syria injured five people in a Ottoman Turkish border town, the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry said on Tuesday.
One of two rockets fired hit a house and "lightly maimed" five in the town of Ceylanpinar in Sanliurfa province on Monday night, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.
They were taken to hospital for treatment, it added.
Ottoman Turkish media, including CNN Turk, reported six injured including a child, adding that the owner of the house was "in a serious condition."
Ottoman Turkish armed forces responded, "destroying seven targets" inside Syria, the defense ministry said in a statement.
It was not clear who was responsible for the missiles from Syria or their origin.
The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia controls parts of northeastern and northern Syria. Ankara considers it a "terrorist" offshoot of Kurdish Death Eaters inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... The YPG worked closely with the United States in the fight against the ISIS group, much to Turkey’s chagrin.
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In which Spartacus wants to beat up a 72-year-old because he's such a tough guy. He probably learned all that from his friend T-bone.
His testosterone? Looking at that photo, it seems clear he needs to shave his head more often than his face...
[BREITBART] Sen. Cory Spartacus Booker U.S. Senator-for-Life from Noo Joisey, formerly the mayor of Newark. Booker is a candidate for president in 2020, running on a platform of Make America Newark. He once wrote an essay on how to grope babes. He is noted for having an imaginary friend named T-Bone... (D-NJ) told Seth Meyers on Monday night, "My testosterone sometimes makes me want" to punch the "elderly out-of-shape" Trump.
"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 a guy who you understand he hurts you, and my testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly out-of-shape man that he is if I did that ‐ this physically weak specimen," Booker said to hoots and hollers from the trained seal audience.
And what we have here is just one more example of Democrats fantasizing about committing an act of violence against President Trump, and using that fantasy to win applause, to win love from Late Night leftists, and to win votes.
The fiercely heterosexual Booker, who is running for president, then tried to use that fantasy to signal his own virtue. Just after he earned all that audience laughter and applause for describing his fantasy about punching the president of the United States and engaging in outright body-shaming and ageism, Booker quickly humble-bragged about how he keeps his oh-so manly testosterone in check:
But you see what I’m talking there? Even ‐ that’s his tactics. And you don’t beat a bully like him fighting him on his tactics, on his terms, using his turf. He’s the body-shamer, he’s the guy that shows ‐ tries to drag people in the gutter. And I ‐ and this is a moral moment in America. And to me, what we need from our next leader, especially after the time of moral vandalism that we’re in right now, is we need a leader that’s not going to call us to the worst of who we are, but call us the best of who we are.
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If Booker cannot control his temper, then he should not be president! We don't need a person with anger issues in office.
Trump OTOH has shown remarkable restrains in dealing with people and countries having temper tantrums.
[BREITBART] An Amazon delivery driver in the United Kingdom was recently caught on video defecating in a woman’s garden.
Rebekah Eleanor Read, who lives in Wiltshire, posted the footage of the incident on social media with a caption that read "Amazon....what a pile of [poo emoji] it is literally what they deliver to you!!!"
The footage shows a man wearing a yellow safety vest squatting behind a fenced area with his pants down. He appears to clean himself and throw a piece of toilet paper behind him, then pulls his pants up and climbs the fence.
"Did you see that?," a voice behind the camera asks. "Yeah, f‐king minging [a British term for ’foul-smelling’], isn’t it?," another voice replies.
Before she removed the video, Read posted it to Facebook where it was shared over 3,000 times.
"Yes it sounds funny but it really isn’t...he felt the need to hop over our fence and do a poo in our garden and bag up the tissue and throw in the hedge then hops back over the fence and walks off!!" she wrote.
Read continued by saying that the driver was confronted about the incident, but said he did not seem to care.
"Amazon you need to sort this out immediately!!," Read continued. "Disgraceful behaviour from an employee of yours and for you to just say you’ll sort it...48 hours later it’s still there!! Everyone check your garden for [poo emoji]."
A spokesperson for Amazon was alerted to the incident and said the company is taking the complaint seriously.
"We have very high standards for our delivery service providers and how they serve customers. We are taking this matter seriously and have reached out to the customer to apologize for the experience and offer our support."
That’s nice. But meaningless if the driver was not fired without references after being immediately brought back to clean up his mess. Unfortunately, the New York Post article this Breitbart article linked to adds that according to an Amazon spokesperson the driver works for a third-party delivery service outsourced by Amazon.
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[BREITBART] Cornel West believes 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...... is becoming the "American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini" after Trump told members of the "Squad" to go back to their countries of origin even though three of them were born in the United States.
West called Trump a "fascist ...anybody who's not a leftist... Frankenstein" and said this is a "very historic and pivotal moment in the history of this nation" because "this democratic experiment" could "come to an end."
"We have to be clear, though. This is not just a matter of Trump as racist, and I was sad to see the Democratic Party couldn’t just call him a racist but say his words are racist. This is weak for me, but Donald Trump, brother Trump is at this moment becoming the American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini," West told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday evening. "Republicans, across the board, they have adjusted themselves to a profoundly unjust, proto-fascist way of being in the world in terms of being lawless, hiding and concealing, rationalizing this kind of unadulterated raw hatred."
Trump’s late mother reportedly asked one of his ex-wives, "What sort of son have I created?"
Which one? Because Ivana still praises him to the skies, and nobody but her own daughter seems to like wife #2. Is there another ex-wife who somehow has managed to avoid the public eye?
"And we have to answer that question," West declared. "Is it the case the son she created becomes the American version of Hitler and Mussolini in the White House? In the Oval Office? That’s the question."
West said the country has had presidents who were slave holders, defenders of "American barbarism, called Jim Crow," and were "misogynists and homophobes and transphobes."
But he said "fascism ...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... is something else" because "fascism distracts the people, manipulates their emotions, gives them a sense of being a pure community that’s threatened by the impure, and he becomes the very agent that provides the rescue for those based on that fear."
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Apparently, this supposedly educated person has no idea who Hitler was or what he did. Until Trump kills millions based on ethnicity, until he starts a war in which 70 million or so die, he is no Hitler.
Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual
An intellectual! Now I should care what he says.
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Cornel West reveals his ignorance. This guy wouldn't know a NAZI if he had one goose stepping on his butt. To him, the word is just a slur, every bit as offensive as the n-word, to be used against anyone who disagrees with him, designed to dehumanize political opponents the same as calling them cockroaches. West should apologize. I'd say it's politically incorrect but that's offensive too. Really, it's just stupid.
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Left loved the Nazi's until they turned on the Communists.
Left loved Trump until he turned on the Democrats.
Beyond that Hitler had a bad mustache and Trump has bad hair. What more proof do you need that Trump is just like Hitler?
[NYPOST] Over the weekend, young toughs with buckets full of water randomly soaked cops in Harlem and Brownsville just for the hell of it. At one point, an officer got conked on the head by an empty plastic bucket ‐ to the vast amusement of jeering onlookers.
It was apparently an internet challenge sort of thing ‐ and a horrifying sight, at least to those who understand the implications of unchallenged anarchic public behavior.
But it should have surprised no one.
The NYPD, under orders from City Hall, has been standing down for years now ‐ watching fare-beaters beating fares, pot-dealers dealing pot and addicts and insane people defecating in the streets, all without consequence.
And the street people have been watching the cops watching them, but without objection, and all of a sudden the penny drops ‐ Pax Guiliana is over, and now the bad guys believe they can get away with anything.
If the bucket-brigade action is fair testimony, they can.
The irony is that Mayor Running-for-President set out to rid the city of broken-windows policing ‐ the well-tested notion that little crimes left unaddressed beget bigger crimes ‐ and he succeeded. Now the subways stink of urine and it has all come roaring back.
When an in-your-face town like New York suddenly realizes that City Hall tolerates minor crime ‐ as a matter of social equity, no less ‐ it gets more of it, fast. Presently, citizens are pouring water on cops. One shudders to think what comes next.
Tuesday the usual suspects were on about how wonderfully restrained the officers were in response ‐ as if, given present circumstances, they had any choice.
But make no mistake: The cops were victims of a crime ‐ assault on a police officer ‐ and the bucket-to-the-head could have been charged as a Class D felony.
This is all very dangerous stuff ‐ because cops who are made to look absurd in public will be regarded as absurd by the public. The command presence backed by the moral authority of the city will have evaporated ‐ and Gotham will have taken a giant step back to the Lindsay administration’s potted-plant approached to policing: Roll up and take a crime report, but only when necessary, and otherwise stay out of sight.
Anybody wondering how that story ends should just stream "Taxi Driver."
Obviously, Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... never saw it. While Lindsay presided over a catastrophic decline in public safety, Kaiser Wilhelm is hell-bent on accelerating one of his own ‐ largely because, like Lindsay, he panders to constituencies that have trouble distinguishing between criminals and their victims.
Layer on top of that de Blasio’s embrace of disparate impact in policing ‐ the notion that minorities are overcharged relative to their numbers in the community, never mind that minorities tend disproportionately to be victimized by other minorities ‐ and the table is set for real trouble.
Oh, sure, the official statistics suggest the city remains safe. But de Blasio’s crew is hard pressed to tell the truth about anything, let alone embarrassing stats; guns are going off in disturbingly large numbers all over town; Comptroller Scott Stringer is an astonishingly uncurious watchdog ‐ and the city hasn’t felt this chaotic since the Dinkins administration.
If ever there was a time for One Police Plaza to stand tall, this is it. And maybe that’s going to happen.
"Our detectives are looking for who was involved [in the bucket incidents], and arrests will be made," said NYPD chief of department Terence Monahan Tuesday. "That is not acceptable to our men and women who are out there."
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Andy would engage the youthful miscreants in dialog and explain that their behavior was both impolite and not conducive to good social order. He would express his disinterest in repeating this conversation. It would also hurt.
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Thanks to two decades of aggressive policing, Compatat, and application of 'broken windows' theories, NYC actually became a safe and orderly place to live and work.
Under Giuliani and Bloomberg, the murder rate fell nearly 90 percent.
Violent crime also fell. The squeegee men and other shakedown artists, street pervs and nuts disappeared.
ALL of the current mess - 100% of it - is attributable to the incompetent left-wing clown who currently occupies Gracie Mansion - that is, when he's not running for president as clown-candidate #37.
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ALL of the current mess - 100% of it - is attributable to the incompetent left-wing clown who currently occupies Gracie Mansion - that is, when he's not running for president as clown-candidate #37.
[AA.TR] The Venezuelan vice president announced suspension of all educational and work activities on Tuesday due to what the country’s government called an "electromagnetic attack" which caused a major power cut.
"Unless something urgently required, we recommend you to stay in your homes," Jorge Rodriguez said in a Twitter post. "Starve in the dark, proles!"
Starting from 4.45 p.m. local time (2045 GMT), a new power cut left much of Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... without electricity.
"Since the aggressions in March and April this year, the Bolivarian Government has implemented protection and security protocols that allow us to guarantee that we are in the process of reconnecting to restore the electric power service in the shortest possible time," the Venezuelan Presidency said in a statement.
"It's more than 14 hours of national blackout. In 7 states of the country, the service was partially restored and 9 are still without power," Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó ...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.... said on Twitter.
"It is not an option for Venezuelans to get used to this tragedy," Guaido added.
While the government advised people to stay home, there is a mass street rally set for today by the opposition to move forward the "next stage" of their struggle to gain power.
After a weeklong power cut, which began on March 7, in Venezuela, the country went through another blackout on March 25.
Although the government announced that the cuts were due to cyber and physical sabotage, the opposition claimed that the electricity system collapsed due to the government’s lack of adequate efforts.
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[AyPee] South Korean air force jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots Tuesday after a Russian military plane twice violated South Korea’s airspace off the country’s east coast, Seoul officials said in an announcement that was quickly disputed by Russia.
South Korea said three Russian military planes ‐ two Tu-95 bombers and one A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft ‐ entered the South’s air defense identification zone off its east coast before the A-50 intruded in South Korean airspace. Russia said later that two of its Tu-95MS bombers were on a routine flight over neutral waters and didn’t enter South Korean territory.
According to South Korean government accounts, an unspecified number of South Korean fighter jets, including F-16s, scrambled to the area and fired 10 flares and 80 rounds from machine guns as warning shots.
Seoul defense officials said the Russian reconnaissance aircraft left the area three minutes later but later returned and violated South Korean airspace again for four minutes. The officials said the South Korean fighter jets then fired 10 flares and 280 rounds from machine guns as warning shots.
South Korea said it was the first time a foreign military plane had violated South Korean airspace since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry and the Joint Chiefs of Staff summoned Russia’s acting ambassador and its defense attache to protest.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that its planes did not enter South Korean airspace. It also said South Korean fighter jets didn’t fire any warning shots, though it said they flew near the Russian planes in what it called "unprofessional maneuvers" and posed a threat.
"If the Russian pilots felt there was a security threat, they would have responded," the statement said.
The airspace that South Korea says the Russian warplane violated is above a group of South Korean-held islets roughly halfway between South Korea and Japan that have been a source of territorial disputes between them. Russia isn’t part of those disputes.
Japan, which claims ownership over the islets, protested to South Korea for firing warning shots over Japanese airspace. South Korea later countered that it cannot accept the Japanese statement, repeating that the islets are South Korean territory.
South Korea said the three Russian planes entered the South Korean air defense identification zone with two Chinese bombers. South Korea said the Chinese planes didn’t intrude upon South Korean airspace.
The Russian statement accused South Korean aircraft of trying to hamper the flights of Russian jets before "a vague missile defense identification area" that it said South Korea unilaterally defined. Russia said it had raised its concerns about the zone before.
Before their reported joint flights with the Russian planes, the Chinese warplanes entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone off its southwest coast earlier Tuesday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said. Seoul says Chinese planes have occasionally entered South Korea’s air defense identification zone in recent years.
Oh? Why did it take them so many years to do so, and why is poor Dr. Shakeel Afridi still locked up for helping the Yanks find him?
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Pakistan’s main spy agency provided the US with a lead that helped them find and kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Monday https://t.co/uBEikMRnXnpic.twitter.com/fPLgVKlMrv
Though Pakistan officially denies knowing that bin Laden was living on its territory, Asad Durrani, a former spymaster, told Al Jazeera in 2015 that the ISI probably knew where he was hiding and hoped to use him as a bargaining chip before he was killed.
The 9/11 mastermind was tracked down after a 10-year manhunt to Abbottabad, a garrison town north of Islamabad where Pakistan’s military academy is headquartered, sparking allegations authorities were colluding with the terror group.
A leaked Pakistani government report in 2013 said bin Laden arrived in Pakistan in the spring or summer of 2002 — after the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan — and settled in Abbottabad in August 2005.
The report, which coined the term “governance implosion syndrome” to explain the extent of official failures to detect him, said he was once stopped for speeding and enjoyed wearing a cowboy hat.
Two former senior Pakistani military officials told AFP in 2015 that a defector from Pakistani intelligence assisted the US in its hunt for bin Laden, but denied the two countries had officially worked together.
I have always believed UBL was sold to the US by Paki intelligence. The only question remaining is, how much did Obama pay for him ?
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I believe Obama beat his chest and prayed to his god when he just couldn't hold off sanctioning the hit. And allowed the military to fulfill their imperative because the deaths of three thousand innocents couldn't go unavenged without costing him a second term. We all know the kill order was from Clinton's time in office. Obama just couldn't reverse it, but he used every trick in the ISI playbook to delay it. Everyone and his goat in Pak knew what's living in Abbotabad.
Even then, it was a half measure. A convenient whistle for a pressure cooker. Soon, America was involved in a pointless war and the people nearly forgot the irony that after so many of their countrymen and women were killed by muslims, they were still paying high taxes to fund and arm muslims, that muslims were being invited to their political stage daily, groomed to become 'community leaders' and representatives in America, that their dandy of a president was a muslim.
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The official explanation is that US Intel detected Bin Laden's courier from interrogation of a high level prisoner (yes waterboarding works). The courier was eventually traced to the Abbottabad compound. Then the operation to confirm Bin Laden was also there began. The courier was the first one killed in the raid.
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Ref #2: We're talking about two different issues. Yes, discovery could have resulted from interrogation of the courier. Conducting an apparently unopposed raid (both infiltration and exfiltration), deep inside a sovereign foreign country is yet another issue.
* Bagram, AFG to Abbottabad... nearly 650 miles round trip. A bit closer as the crow flies.
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The headline implies the ISI is a monolithic entity. Rather than invoke a cultural fondness for treachery and intrigue, let's just suggest there are internal factions, not all necessarily aligned or incorruptible.
As pointed out, it is a long way from Bagram to Abbottabad and an equally long way back. Hard to believe the Seals didn't have someone looking the other way.
[NYPOST] A US military commander said a Navy ship may have downed a second Iranian drone last week in the Strait of Hormuz. My personal opinion is that we should knock them down whenever they come within range.
"As always it was a complex tactical picture, we believe two drones. We believe two drones were successfully ‐ there may have been more that we are not aware of ‐ those are the two that we engaged successfully," Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told CBS News on Tuesday.
Speaking aboard the USS Boxer, the ship that targeted the drones, McKenzie said they are "confident we brought down one drone, we may have brought down a second."
CBS said the incidents took place about an hour apart after the Navy believed the two aircraft were flying too close to the ship.
The USS Boxer was monitoring Iranian boats and helicopters in the region.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... claimed the US brought down its own drone, a notion that President Trump dismissed by saying during a White House event Monday that the US used "new technology that’s actually quite amazing."
The development comes as Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last Saturday and after Trump called off a military strike against Iran last month for shooting down an unmanned US surveillance drone.
Tensions are running high in the region as Tehran is trying to enlist Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries to help it ease sanctions Trump imposed after pulling the US out of an Obama-era nuclear deal last year.
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[IsraelTimes] Air defenses said to intercept missiles near Al Harah, in area that is reportedly home to several Iranian-backed militias.
Syrian state media on Tuesday night reported Israel carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the nation’s south, close to the Israeli border.
Local media reported that air defenses short down several missiles around half past midnight.
State news agency SANA and state TV added that the "Israeli aggression" struck al-Harra hill that is home to Syrian army posts adding that it only caused material damage and did not inflict any casualties.
According to Rooters Western intelligence sources have said the area is home to several Iranian-backed militias.
According to Ynet, explosions began around 12:40 a.m. near the Golan Heights. Then again at 1:00 a.m. two more explosions were heard. One in the Quneitra area and another in Tel al-Hara in the northwest of Daraa.
This area had long been an outpost for Russian forces but was later taken by Iranian-backed militias, according to Western intelligence sources.
Tel Haraa is a strategically located area in southern Deraa province overlooking the Israeli-held Golan Heights. It was for many years a major Russian military radar outpost until rebels took it over in 2014 before it was again recaptured by the Syrian army last year.
The zone has been a target of Israeli raids against Tehran-backed militias which have become entrenched in southern Syria and the Golan Heights near the border with Israel.
[ARABNEWS] Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-recognized government said they fought off a "major" attack on the capital 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... led by strongman 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... that left casualties on both sides.
On Monday "our forces repelled a major attack by Haftar forces on several fronts in southern Tripoli which they had planned and mobilized for days," front man Mustafa al-Mejii told AFP.
He said six fighters loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) were killed and several others maimed.
The fighting left 25 dead or maimed on the other side, he said.
GNA forces carried out seven air strikes on positions held by Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army in Tripoli suburbs, including Ain Zara some 12 kilometers from downtown Tripoli, the front man said.
"Within a few hours our forces succeeded in forcing them to retreat, and seized new positions that had been under the control of Haftar’s forces," he said.
During the fighting GNA forces also destroyed military hardware, including three tanks, seized others and captured 11 fighters, the front man added.
The LNA meanwhile said in a statement on its Facebook page that it had made progress in the combat zone of southern Tripoli, "inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy," without giving details.
On the weekend the GNA expressed fear that Haftar forces were prepping a new "military escalation" in their months-long push to take Tripoli where the UN-recognized government is based.
Deadly fighting has rocked the capital’s outskirts since the LNA launched an offensive to seize the capital.
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[NYPOST] Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley used a perfectly good word in its appropriate context ‐ and now he stands accused of dog-whistle bigotry.
At the National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC, last week, Hawley gave a keynote address that attacked the coastal elite for being out of touch and out of sympathy with the heartland. He called it "the cosmopolitan elite," described its beliefs as the "cosmopolitan consensus" and accused it of building a "cosmopolitan economy."
Even though there’s not a remotely plausible argument that Hawley was in any way targeting Jews, his use of the "c"-word alone was enough for critics to say he was making an anti-Semitic appeal.
"If you’re Jewish and the use of ’cosmopolitan’ doesn’t scare you, read some history," warned New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... op-ed writer Paul Krugman. A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opined, darkly, that Hawley "chose the word purposefully" (he had, just not in a sinister way). James Fallows of The Atlantic agreed that Hawley knew "exactly the implications of cosmopolitan."
There’s no doubt that the word has been abused for hideous ends. In 1946, Joseph Stalin gave a speech heralding the repression of Jews in the arts and literature that lamented, "The positive Soviet hero is derided and inferior before all things foreign, and cosmopolitanism that we all fought against from the time of Lenin, characteristic of the political leftovers, is many times applauded."
Yet, the connection between Hawley, the over-achieving 39-year-old former Supreme Court law clerk and attorney general of the state of Missouri, and the cruel, power-hungry Marxist-Leninist dictator who is one of history’s great monsters . . . is not obvious.
The word has also been used to target Jews by other anti-Semitic lowlifes and haters, although it’s a smear to mention Hawley, who gladly and forthrightly denounces anti-Semitism, in the same breath as these cretins.
Why resort to the word at all? The axis of the culture war in this country has shifted to national identity, immigration policy and citizenship and requires a new vocabulary. The welcome effort to rehabilitate the word "nationalism," one goal of the National Conservatism conference, is part of this re-orientation. But there also has to be a term for what the nationalists oppose, since Big Government and social liberalism aren’t apt.
Cosmopolitanism is the natural choice. Per the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the word "has been used to describe a wide variety of important views in moral and socio-political philosophy. The nebulous core shared by all cosmopolitan views is the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."
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Bath-house Barry used the same words describing the elite years ago.
I bet he always thought the trashing of his legacy would come from the right rather than those left of him. Ha!
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Good. Now let him put his money where his mouth is. Ooop ! He has no money !
Aid is sunk in pakistain, not spent. It is all misappropriated by the military bureaucracy that propped up Imran Khan, and he serves at their leisure. They won't be denied.
[BREITBART] Mayor Pete Buttigieg ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country... continues warning of the rising threat of white nationalism, telling voters in Iowa over the weekend he believed that it was the most deadly form of terrorism in the United States.
"White Nationalist violence has killed more people on American soil than any other source of terrorism," he told voters in Shenandoah, Iowa, on Saturday. "We got to name that, confront that and say that is not us."
The audience of Iowa Democrats applauded and cheered Buttigieg’s statement.
Buttigieg did not compare statistics between violent attacks from white nationalists in the United States and attacks conducted or inspired by radical Islamic holy warriors such as the 2,977 Americans killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the San Bernardino shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, or the shooting at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas.
The South Bend mayor frequently warns about the existential threat posed by white nationalists as he continues his run for president.
"It could be the lurking issue that ends this country in the future if we don’t wrangle it down in our time," he told ABC News on Saturday.
Buttigieg’s warnings about white nationalism frequently fit with his message of how Democrats will keep America more secure than Republicans.
In March, he accused President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... of failing to protect America from the threat of white nationalism in an interview with the Intercept.
"He is failing to protect us from the clear and present dangers that white nationalism poses," Buttigieg said, arguing that Trump was "probably sympathetic" to their ideology.
He also indicated in an interview with Buzzfeed in March that Trump supporters were "complicit" in the rise of the threat posed by white nationalists.
"I think the moment you come on board with a project like the Trump campaign or the Trump-Pence administration, you are at best complicit in the process that has given cover for the flourishing and the resurgence of white nationalism in our midst," he said.
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Butt terrorism has killed more than one million people in the US in just the last 40 years. Yet Buttigieg continues to celebrate and push it every chance possible.
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"Racist" has been devalued, so they shifted to "white supremacist" and "white nationalist", but they apply all of these terms so broadly they're meaningless.
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His use of these terms is every bit as racist and offensive as anything Hitler ever said.
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"It could be the lurking issue that ends this country
"Trust me, I may not know my facts but I know all about lurking."
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Fred: maybe accompany this with a photo from the video in which the Aussie dog owner liberated his pooch from an attacking kangaroo, squared off with the marsupial, and then pops him in the snout?
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Kangaroo rape is not a crime in Australia, so we don't have courts for that. If you yanks think thats a bit backwards, then theres a few blokes I know who might be up for that sort of rough and tumble. Depends on how many beers they have had.
[Daily Item] When Dow Corning faced thousands of lawsuits in the 1990s from women saying they had become sick from the company’s silicone gel breast implants, its parent firm, Dow Chemical, turned to one of the country’s leading experts in corporate bankruptcies: Professor Elizabeth Warren.
Warren, now a Democratic presidential candidate, has never publicly discussed her role in the case. Her campaign said that she was "a consultant to ensure adequate compensation for women who claimed injury" from the implants and that a $2.3 billion fund for the women was started "thanks in part to Elizabeth’s efforts."
But participants on both sides of the matter say that description mischaracterizes Warren’s work, in which she advised a company intent on limiting payments to the women.
"She was on the wrong side of the table," said Sybil Goldrich, who co-founded a support group for women with implants and battled the companies for years. Goldrich said Dow Corning and its parent "used every trick in the book" to limit the size of payouts to women. The companies, she added, "were not easy to deal with at all."
Heavy fighting resumed near unfunctional #Tripoli International Airport, a day after the failure of “zero hour attack” by Haftar's militia groups to take the capital pic.twitter.com/iy77KWSAtU
[BREITBART] Tuesday on ABC’s "The View," 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... (D-TX) accused 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...... of taking America down "the road to fascism ...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and tyranny."
When asked about Trump’s criticisms of "The Squad," O’Rourke said, "I think it’s not just Democrats who are outraged. It’s Americans, especially Americans of good conscience because this is not an anomaly. A president who described Mexican immigrants colonists as rapists and criminals, who said that the Klan were very fine people, who sought to ban all Moslems, all people of one religion from this country, called the press the enemy of the people, this is the road to fascism and tyranny."
He continued, "243 years into this experiment that we could choose our leaders and the direction of this country has never been to imperiled or undermined as it is now. This is our defining moment of truth. I call upon Republicans and Independents and Democrats alike to stand up and to be counted for this country, not against Donald Trump necessarily but for the best traditions of this country and for a better future of this country. We’re going to reject that racism and that bigotry and that smallness and be defined by our ambitions."
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I'm outraged the democrats are so stupid!
Really they are so out of touch with the real Americans (of all so called races.)
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It ain't Trump running on an ideology for the concentration and centralization of power to direct its citizens in his programs, ie You exist to serve the state. That's the Left.
The Freudian Projection is deep and vocal on the Left these days.
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Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state nothing against the state.
Trump is cutting the state.
Obama massively increased regulatory size and complexity
Obama wanted to nationalise the american people. Got someone falsely arrested to deflect blame.
Used the state to harass political opponents and reward friends.
Ignored law breaking by the politically connected.
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I don't remember Hitler pulling troops back from multiple wars, having improved race relations, and trying to keep people OUT of Germany with warnings and the hopes he'd be allowed to build a wall to stop them.
[BREITBART] Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN) took shots at President Trump, accusing him of harboring "inherent racism" for years during a speech at the Moslem Collective for Equitable Democracy Tuesday.
Omar asserted that Trump’s critical remarks are rooted in racism and claimed that it is not a new development, as Trump ‐ she says ‐ has harbored racist sentiments throughout his entire life.
"Right now, even when we’re talking about the president, people will say, you know, his remarks are racist, and we’ll forget the inherent racism that has always been part of him," Omar explained.
She said Trump "always takes an opportunity to others to vilify them and destroy their existence and ability to access our justice system," adding that "racism can kill."
"Racism distracts, racism destroys and racism can kill," she continued. "And so we have to also confront that. So often, so many people walk around naive to the idea of how threatening this could be. And we see it creep into so many policies."
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She means his skin color. That racism is an 'inherent part of him'. Because if you're born white, your skin itself is a crime.
Your white flesh has been screaming racist rants at blacks nig Afri wakandans all through your life, even if it's a social predilection with you to fellatio them with tears in your eyes and say "Sorry" afterwards.
All the white apologies in the world will not quell their rage against white people. And these mores will continue to place officials and infiltrator 'representatives' like Omar in power.
If you really want to be rid of her, support Danielle Stella for the district in 2020.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
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[IsraelTimes] The International Monetary Fund slashes its economic growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa to the worst level in more than a decade over Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... sanctions and regional unrest.
In its World Economic Outlook update, the global lender projects economic growth for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistain this year would be 1.0 percent, its worst since the IMF put them in one group in 2009.
The downgrade, the fifth in a year, is a half percentage point lower than its April projection.
The reduction is in large part due to a change in the IMF’s forecast for Iran’s growth "owing to the crippling effect of tighter US sanctions," the lender says.
"Civil strife across other economies, including Syria and 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... , add to the difficult outlook for the region."
The price of oil, the main driver for revenues in the region, will also impact growth, the IMF adds. In 2018, the region saw 1.6% growth, down from 2.1% in the previous year.
The IMF in April projected Iran’s economy will shrink by a steep 6.0% this year, its worst performance since it contracted by 7.7% in 2012.
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I'm sure The Sultan of Turkey busily ruining everything he touches also has absolutely nothing to do with it... Well, to be fair, the IMF believes firmly in bad government and will cover up for it and encourage it whenever they are given an opportunity.
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Thank you, Whiskey Mike. Exactly the perspective needed, which is what those excitable reporter types couldn’t be bothered to share.The worst flood in two years, forsooth!
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Maybe the Mad Mullahs tested the app near Japan a couple of years back, crashing two USN ships into commercial vessels? 
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