[Task and Purpose] When the commander of Special Operations Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve unceremoniously booted SEAL Team 7 out of Iraq this week, the U.S. Special Operations Command justified it "due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during non-operational periods."
But according to an alarming new report in the New York Times, "deterioration of good order and discipline" seemed to be an understatement.
While the Navy initially indicated that an alcohol-soaked July 4th party was the core driver of the decision, a senior Navy official revealed to the New York Times' David Philipps that a senior enlisted platoon member had allegedly raped a female service member assigned to the SEAL platoon.
In addition, "when commanders began investigating the allegations, the entire platoon invoked their right to remain silent" under the Fifth Amendment, Philipps reports. "At that point, the official said, commanders decided to send the whole platoon home, including the lieutenant in command."
When reached for comment by Task & Purpose, SOCOM spokesman Ken McGraw said the command was "unable to confirm the nature of any allegations that are currently under investigation."
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....raped a female service member assigned to the SEAL platoon.
Female assigned to a SEAL platoon ?
....the entire platoon invoked their right to remain silent" under the Fifth Amendment
No problem, you're Hazardous Duty & Special Duty Pay (SDP) has now been revoked and you've been assigned to the Great Lakes Training Center, Culinary Specialist (CS) "A School" and reclassification upon successful graduation. What are your questions ?
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Besoeker, collective punishment because one person allegedly (not proven) did something bad to a woman is a great way to convince more men to walk away from their dreams of entering the military. When it is clearly demonstrated that men are second class citizens with no protections or rights, don't be surprised when no one wants to fight to defend the nation.
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Ref #4: Pancakes - I agree with you regarding collective punishment, innocent until proven guilty, etc. Being questioned under UCMJ Article-32 by the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) is however, not punishment. An entire platoon refusing to make statements to NIS investigators is tantamount to a MUTINY !
Quick! Lead me to the fainting couch. I feel an attack of the vapors coming on.
Reading between the lines and considering that the modern definition of 'rape' is unwanted attempts at smooching, I'm filing this one as Men & Women Get Drunk/Do Embarrassing Stuff No One Wants to Talk About Later.
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I sure don't know what happened here, but it bothers me that our super-secret naval commandos are on the front page more than Kim Kardashian. Have any of them not written a book?
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In this 24/7/365 media mashup of anything newsworthy especially if the pencil necks can defame a tough guy like a SEAL, everything is NEWS. 10 to 1 says it is FAKE news but the CO has no other option but exfoliate.
[NY Post] A Minnesota congressional candidate hoping to unseat Ilhan Omar with promises of being tough on crime faces felony shoplifting charges, according to a report.
Danielle Stella, 31, was arrested twice this year in the thefts of 279 items worth more than $2,300 from a Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store, The Guardian reported.
"I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law," the special-education teacher told the news outlet.
"If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides," added Stella, who this week described Minneapolis as "the crime capital of our country."
Stella told police that she "remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else" due to post-traumatic stress disorder, and that she "normally she goes to Target with someone because of anxiety around people," according to a criminal complaint cited by The Guardian.
An arrest warrant was put out for Stella for alleged contempt of court on April 4 after she failed to show up for a court hearing in the Jan. 8 Target case, the paper reported, citing police and court records.
Stella is reportedly a believer in the infamous QAnon conspiracy, whose movement believes a deep state of Hollywood celebs and Democrats is working to undermine the president and is running an international pedophile ring.
Know what invaluable article she robbed the store of ? A fucking can of tick spray for cats. When genetically regressed delinquents are contaminating ice-cream and stuff and getting away with a finger wag. Clearly the deepstate conspiracy thing she believes has reached out to make itself felt. Her crime is being a christian American challenging a somalian terrorist bitch to represent her district.
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Anon1 — so good to see you again, even if just in the posting of an article! We have not always agreed on everything, but on the critical things we do, and you’ve played a part in shaping my opinions,
Lord Monckton has been an active, articulate critic of the lockstep, antiscientific approach to research on climate by the British establishment, a joyful warrior of the first water. Nice to see him getting exposure to the Daily Mail audience.
The raison d'être of USNA-At-Large is to provide USNA-related news quickly and reliably to Graduates and Friends of the United States Naval Academy. (The graphic to the right/above illustrates some dynamic related to Trade School life and is rotated on a frequent basis.)
These comments reflect reader thoughts on the recent arrests of military personnel involved in human trafficking and other criminal activity.
Sam: If we harken back to the days of the Vietnam War and the time it took to recover from the cultural tumult of the 1960's and early 70's, I think we can see there's a good deal of truth in saying "as the nation, so goes the military". It took years to recover from that period, and some might say we never fully recovered. I would.
A new Establishment was empowered after Watergate and it persists. Though the Mueller hearings seem to have dealt a near mortal blow to this regime, the culture wars aren't fought solely in the halls of Congress. The ballot box has something to do with it, I imagine.
As much as I'd like to think that we're about to set America on a new, more stable and moral course, looking back over the decades and centuries makes me wonder if this is possible. Are we close to being out of the woods of cultural "malaise", or is it just another clearing like the one that we wandered into during the Reagan administration?
Guy: I am one of those who don't agree that we've recovered from the cultural tumult of the '70's. That was my generation, and I'm sad to say that a significant number of them were and remain spoiled, self-indulgent narcissists (into which category I would assign Al Gore and John Kerry among many others). The flower children of the '70's grew into adults completely unwilling to comply with a set of ethics. They believed and still believe that "if it feels good, do it" and "if it doesn't hurt anyone, there's nothing wrong with it."
It feels really good to eat and drink to excess – to enjoy the flavor of things. That leads us to the situation we face now where almost half of all adults are obese and looking at other people to pay for their medical treatment, crying, all the while, that it's immoral to just let them die. I am of the mind that they chose to get obese, they can deal with from their own resources, and if they can't then it's just to bad. That sounds terribly harsh, but it's the rule by which Australopethicus Afarensis (or one of them precursors of homo sapiens) evolved in the direction of a high level of intelligence. Let "Darwin" continue to cull the herd. No one has the right to force me to pay for their decisions and their folly ‐ although (and here's why I don't think we're out of the woods), all the candidates for the Democratic nomination for president all tout Medicare for All. They're proposing to use the lethal force of government to compel me to pay for the lifestyle choices made by a bunch of narcissists and hedonists.
There is no such thing as any activity that does not affect someone else. We're all tied together on spaceship earth. A person who abuses alcohol or drug or who cheats on their spouse is harming others. It may be a small harm, but it is a harm. My generation is unwilling to accept that. We insist that whatever I do in private does not affect others, and therefore I am not bound by traditional morality. Further, my peers (I use the term loosely) have bought into the idea that Each of us deserves to be liked and embraced for whatever characteristic we choose publicize ‐ "I deserve to be liked because I'm gay, trans, fat, Swedish, whatever." That's nonsense. Every person deserves to be accorded the respect due to a fellow human being by default ‐ until they demonstrate that they are undeserving of that respect.
My generation rejected conventional morality fifty years ago and continue to do so (at least some significant fraction of us do). The rejection of that morality brings us to right where we are today, in a world in which we reject God as a myth but insist on a higher power which we invest as the government. So rather than believe that an omnipotent and omniscient God cares for us, we prefer to believe that a government made up of inherently fallible humans, invested in their own well being, can care for each of us individually. Sort of like the Politburo took care of the average Russian, but that's not how Bernie et al see it.
The point of my rant here is that society isn't going to find its way out of the woods until individuals assume responsibility for their own behavior and (this is important) reject the unacceptable behavior of others. I think the theological perspective is, "Hate the sin but love the sinner."
Ron: I concur. Three adds:
First, Nietzsche published Die fröhliche Wissenschaft in 1882. The book's title was first translated into English as The Joyful Wisdom; but, in the 1960s, Walter Kaufmann updated the title as The Gay Science, which remains the common version in use today. It was in this book that Nietzsche was credited for the "God is dead" revelation (even though later in the book Nietzsche explains that God is dead because we killed Him). It is the mantra that fuels today's secular humanism.
Second, the Watergate folklore . . .. My Chinese family informs me that China is blocking out of its history any mention of the Tienanmen Square incident. What America's leftist intellectuals and politicians want us to know about Watergate has been grossly distorted. Silent Coup by Len Colodny paints a different and much more documented picture. The left's distorted picture is critical for justifying many of today's actions to take out a president.
Third, does good character matter? Last week, I had an opportunity to conduct a seminar with USAFA basics on the honor code. The week before, my brother-in-law who was a senior member employed by a major defense contractor warned me that the younger generation brings a different set of values to the work place and that the sooner we understood those values, the sooner they could make accommodations to be congruent with their values. I told him the session I was about to engage in was considerably different from his experience. I was about to teach the cadets the importance of honor and duty such that they could understand how they related to our oath to support and defend the Constitution and the values it represents. We do not make accommodations for values that are incongruent with these. The cadets have an opportunity to become acculturated into this lifestyle or they can leave the Academy.
The difference between my brother-in-law's experience and teaching honor and duty is similar to the difference in Nietzsche's book title versions. Wisdom is derived and once accepted can lead to a joyful life. Science on the other hand is a journey. The Latin root verb, "scio," means "to know." Thus, science is a journey in pursuit of knowledge. Even knowledge can be abstract and theoretical. Practice or experience is more concrete. Wisdom flows more from experiencing reality. This also explains how science has become politicized, and often contrary to wisdom, to accommodate the narcissistic "gayness" of today's culture.
[Irish Times] Imagine if you suddenly began hearing voices in the air that followed you wherever you went; heading to work on the train, or out walking on a busy street. Voices that offered wise, accurate and relevant information.
This is what happened to an unassuming public servant named Patrick McMahon in 1978. While working as an official in the land registry in Dublin, he became aware of invisible entities communicating with him. For a man reared without electricity or running water, in the Catholic claustrophobia of rural Co Clare, it was a disturbing development, and he tried his best to block it out. But visions of other civilizations and other ages kept flooding his mind.
"Was it the devil and all his cohorts of evil spirits playing tricks on me?" he wondered. "Was I simply going mad?"
What became clear was that life couldn't continue as before, with this constant deluge of information that was as loud and clear as a person standing right next to him. He needed to gain control of it, and after three months of leading what he calls "a double life", he finally learned to shut off the flow and return to normal. This should have been the end of the story: a bout of stress-related psychosis, a temporary mental anomaly, like many of us have experienced.
Yet, once McMahon realised that he was able to start and stop the communication at will, he became more at ease with it, and began to realise that it provided eerily accurate and relevant information. Not only that, but much of it was wise and profound. He described it as "a vast vista of never-ending, evolving consciousness, which put all the happenings of day-to-day existence into a totally new perspective".
Over time, he began writing down the thoughts that were coming to him, imagining that, if they had any validity, someone somewhere might publish them posthumously and anonymously in the far distant future. But Dublin in the 1980s was too small to keep such things secret, and soon people began to hear about this quiet Clare man who had access to uncannily precise information about their personal lives, their past and futures.
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"Was it the devil and all his cohorts of evil spirits playing tricks on me?" he wondered. "Was I simply going mad?"
His first and last original insight. There's no such thing as rebirth. The devil peddles it to humans to make them complacent and replaces their anxieties about their soul with theories of interminable chances for karma and reward.
Well-intentioned I'm sure, but deluded. Tried to read one of his books. Balderdash, I'm afraid. H.P. Lovecraft at least had a more engaging alternate universe.
There's a new wave of this type of doctrine, it's spiritually akin to the LGBT thing (which is the physical parallel to it) in that it espouses no particular belief, you may believe in anything and everything, just as long as it's not Christ ( or יהוה, if you will ). Deepak Chopras of this world have turned the gullibility of millions of absolute schlemiels into $ million enterprises. There's a Gaia channel , which streams thousands of 'mindfulness lessons' and yogic exercises pulled out of a bearded loon's ass guaranteed to make you a healthier nut than you were.
Nothing that doesn't make a visible difference to lives, actually wipes a tear from off a face or even attempts to expose the hypocrisy inherent in humanity, can be supernatural. If something real touches down, it will be shunned and fought. Because the man will say the truth. Not "you are beautiful" and "love yourself" but probably something as unpaatable as the words of John the baptist were to Herod's wife.
Most dreams and visions of 'the realty behind the curtain' that are sold to people are either impressions from psychogenic fugue states or actual spiritual encounters but with the more wayward cousins of uncle Screwtape.
Only 'mindfulness' I need is Peter's admonishment to 'be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.'
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Tried to read one of his books. Balderdash, I'm afraid.
He and everyone around him were very lucky that his schizophrenia was benign — assuming that his claim of hearing voices was actually true — rather than driving him to attack, and amenable to control without medicines. That so many sought out his opinion and bought his books speaks to a general gullibility subsequently transferred to anti-vaxxer and global warming panics.
[Irish Post] ALLERGAN, an Irish-based pharmaceutical company have had their breast implants pulled from US markets by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after more than 500 cases of uncommon cancer worldwide were linked to the product.
The link is to various forms of Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).
Research has shown that the risk of cancer caused by Allergan's implants is six times greater than the risk from other manufacturers.
The sale of Allergan's implants were halted in Europe in December and now the US has followed suit after the high levels of risk were further examined.
"Although the overall incidence of BIA-ALCL appears to be relatively low, once the evidence indicated that a specific manufacturer's product appeared to be directly linked to a significant patient harm, including death, the FDA took action to alert the firm to new evidence indicating a recall is warranted to protect women's health," said FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Amy Abernethy in a statement.
[The Lid] Funny things always happen to Bill and Hillary Clinton, friends have this nasty habit of turning up dead. We all gotta go sometimes, but the Clinton's buddies seem to go under weird circumstances (and many by suicide). My friend Tami Jackson has compiled a list and description of 47 Clinton friends whose deaths seemed a bit odd. We will share them over the next few days. Below are the first ten.
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And now a non-friend with Clinton connections dies mysteriously - FBI financial crimes investigator Cincinelli, who had been looking into the Clinton Foundation, suddenly decides to shoot himself in the middle of an Austin club dance floor (though I am not sure where that is anatomically....)
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐A constant target of remarks from President Trump, including chants of "send her back" from a recent rally, Representative Ilhan Omar has introduced a resolution to the House of Representatives condemning the three things she finds most dangerous to society: racism and white men and "also the Jews."
"It's time to take a stand and say there is nothing more un-American than judging people by the color of their skin," Omar said on the House floor, "except for maybe white men. And Jews. Let's add the Jews too I guess."
Omar found especially racist Trump's remarks about people "going back to where they come from," and specifically condemns that language in the resolution, saying good people would never use such language, especially against evil white men, since "then they'd just stick around here." She also pointed out that if Jews went back to where they came from they'd just go back to Israel, which she doesn't want. "But maybe we could push them into the sea or something."
Omar recognizes that her resolution, despite having help from "the Squad," is unlikely to pass, which she blames on discrimination against someone like her and "evil Zionist money."
[The Hill] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch as "very decent and very smart."
"I can say that my two newest colleagues are very decent and very smart individuals," she said Wednesday at an event in Washington, D.C., according to CNN.
Ginsburg's comments come amid concerns that if she were to die or to retire from the bench, a spot would open up on the nine-member court for President Trump to appoint a third conservative justice and push the ideological balance further to the right.
In an interview with NPR on Tuesday, the 86-year-old justice refuted those concerns, saying she's "very much alive."
Ginsburg is one of the court's four liberal-leaning justices and has served on the bench since 1993. Earlier this month, she praised Kavanaugh for his entirely female staff as a "very important first."
"There is a very important first on the Supreme Court this term, and it's thanks to our new justice, Justice Kavanaugh, whose entire staff is all women. All of his law clerks are women," Ginsburg said at an event held by Georgetown Law, CNN reports.
Harris and Booker should be censured by the Senate. Their fraudulent presidential campaigns should end.
These two lies shamelessly about Kavanaugh and amplified the hallucinations of a mendacious nutjob who slandered a good man - a man who has more integrity in his left big toe than these disgusting specimens have combined.
[The Federalist] Robert Mueller's testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees provided yet further proof that the entire special counsel investigation was a political witch hunt. While Democrats succeeded in eliciting affirmative responses from Mueller to their dramatic reading of the special counsel report at Wednesday's prosecution of President Trump in absentia, it was Mueller's ignorance when queried about Fusion GPS that exposed both the proceedings and the special counsel probe as a sham.
In what he surely saw as an introductory question, Rep. Steven Chabot asked Mueller to confirm that the name of the firm that produced the Christopher Steele dossier was Fusion. "I'm not familiar with that," the former special counsel responded. Taken aback by Mueller's ignorance, Chabot stressed, "It's not a trick question," before attempting to ask Mueller about Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier.
"This is outside my purview," Mueller testified. How is that even possible?
In his opening statement, Mueller stressed that he agreed to serve as special counsel because he thought "it was of paramount interest to the nation to determine whether a foreign adversary had interfered in the presidential election." "The order appointing me as special counsel directed our office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," Mueller continued.
Yet here he was, telling Congress that Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier were outside of his "purview." But the Steele dossier built the entire case of Russia collusion. It justified the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surveillance orders on former Trump adviser Carter Page. It detailed supposed connections between Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen and the Kremlin. Had anyone truly believed there was collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia, they would have pulled every thread in the Steele dossier to see if something stuck.
SEATTLE (AP) ‐ Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online.
The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah.
There's a rise in cyberbullying nationwide, with three times as many girls reporting being harassed online or by text message than boys, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The U.S. Department of Education's research and data arm this month released its latest survey, which shows an uptick in online abuse, though the overall number of students who report being bullied stayed the same.
"There's just some pressure in that competitive atmosphere that is all about attention," Whalen said. "This social media acceptance ‐ it just makes sense to me that it's more predominant amongst girls."
Many school systems that once had a hands-off approach to dealing with off-campus student behavior are now making cyberbullying rules, outlining punishments such as suspension or expulsion, according to Bryan Joffe, director of education and youth development at AASA, a national school superintendents association.
That change partly came along with broader cyberbullying laws, which have been adopted in states like Texas and California in recent years.
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The term "Mean Girls" was a surprise to DoE researchers (do I need to put a /sarc on that?). Anyone think that a mind set that only boys bully is fundamentally sexist? /rhet question
[American Thinker] I earn my living investing other people's money in the stock market. I am terrified contemplating how I am going to save my clients' money, as well as my own, if a Democrat is elected president. The policies that the Democrats are advocating will destroy the American economy, not just the stock market, but the whole US economy. My first instinct will be to raise cash ahead of the stock market crash, but even that is only a temporary safe harbor.
The Green New Deal, renewed regulations, Medicare for All, free college, as well as the 70-90% tax rates proposed by Democrats, will tank the stock market and US economic growth, leading to higher unemployment and reduced wage gains. All these programs require higher taxes and not just the soak the rich fantasy of the 70-90% rates. Most of the Democratic candidates have pledged to roll back the 2017 Republican tax cuts that fueled the renewal of economic growth in the US.
Open borders will flood the US with poverty stricken immigrants and their competition for jobs will depress wages. The social welfare needs of the immigrants will skyrocket government expenditures. So while taxes receipts are falling due to slower economic growth rates, expenditures will be rising, leading to increased government debt and consequently higher interest rates. If the Federal Reserve tries to keep interest rates low to prevent a deepening recession, then the increase in the money supply and the expanding deficit will eventually destroy the value of the dollar. So much for my safe harbor in cash.
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Do You Understand that Democrats Socialists will Destroy America?
FIFY. Well, yeah. For socialist, there can be only one. The whole 'Let's ignore the Electoral College' movement is about a one party system. They call you Nazis, you should call them at the least Socialist if you can not come to calling them Commies.
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Been saying this for years. They are not the loyal opposition. They are not well meaning people with whom we have a good faith disagreement. They are the enemy.
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Of course. It's easier to rule a police state hell-hole of misery, disease, ignorance, crime and corruption than a republic of enlightened individuals with clearly demarcated rights and directives, meaningful education, skilled work-force and a prosperous economy.
The Democrats have always gone for the easier, more convenient way to do anything. Carpet bomb a desert slum to show someone in a palace in Riyadh who's boss, kill off a president to replace him with a stooge, appease your rabble with representation, power and sops, let vile, heinous criminals have their way as long as they fund you.
Hell, do away with elections because... keeping up the patriotic posturing and 'benevolent leader' act is so goddamn tiresome. The old ones not Yog Sothoth and friends, but close, like Clinton and Biden have completely lost patience and want to go straight to banana republic. While the new ones are the American equivalent of the jihadi also a democrat construct, arming desert sasquatches began under Carter . Weapons of unbridled destruction created to increase one's reach and presence, now shrugging off their blue dog leashes.
[Washington Examiner] Sen. Bernie Sanders said if the U.S. wants help bring peace to the Middle East, it cannot prioritize the wants and needs of Israel over all else.
The 2020 presidential candidate, who is Jewish, said the tensions between Israel and Palestinians have become worse under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"I lived in Israel … I have family in Israel. I am Jewish. I am not anti-Israel. I believe that the people of Israel have absolutely the right to live in peace, independence, and security. End of discussion, that is what I fervently believe. But I think what has happened is in recent years under Netanyahu, you have an extreme right-wing government with many racist tendencies," Sanders told the "Pod Save America" podcast.
He also took shots at the Trump administration's overtures to Israel, which includes moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, potentially putting at risk peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
"Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel, pro-Israel, pro-Israel. It has got to be pro-region, working with all of the people, all of the countries in that area," he said, adding that Palestinians deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Sadly, we so seldom see wife Jane these days.
Sanders also said he would "absolutely" consider using the billions of dollars in military aid it sends to Israel each year as leverage to force the Israeli government to act differently.
ROME (Reuters) - A 19-year-old U.S. student has confessed to killing a policeman in central Rome, in a crime that has shaken Italy, national news agency ANSA reported on Friday.
Mario Cerciello Rega, an officer with the Carabinieri military police, was repeatedly stabbed early on Friday after trying to arrest two people suspected of stealing a bag from a man in a popular tourist district.
Initial media reports suggested the assailants were North Africans, but police later said they had arrested two U.S. students in an upscale city center hotel and had taken them in for questioning over the incident. Neither man was named.
ANSA reported that one of the two had confessed to the killing. The police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Looking at those photos, Seeking cure, the wonder is that witnesses tagged the lads as north Africans. The one on the left is clearly a natural blond, as well as overly groomed.
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled a plan to invest $60 billion in historically black colleges and universities if elected, the latest effort by the U.S. senator from California to reach out to black voters.
She also released a plan to spend $12 billion on entrepreneurship programs aimed at the black community, her campaign said.
Harris is one of two dozen contenders in a field led by former Vice President Joe Biden seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
The daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, Harris has consistently polled behind Biden among black voters.
At last month's Democratic nominating contest debate, Harris took on Biden, who is white, over issues of race, and was rewarded with a bump in the polls.
[Free Beacon] A Washington Free Beacon report on homophobic and racist comments made by a top Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official set off a battle between the campaign committee's chairman and minority members of Congress, according to Politico.
Neither the DCCC nor its chairwoman Rep. Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.) responded to Free Beacon inquiries for its June 24 report on Tayhlor Coleman, who had just been promoted to lead a multi-million dollar minority outreach program, but behind the scenes Bustos scrambled to put out fires with "shocked" and "inflamed" members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Bustos shocked a room of members when she announced Coleman's promotion to the minority outreach position just a day after the Free Beacon report was published, according to Politico.
"Some lawmakers‐well aware of the spate of controversial tweets‐turned to look at each other in shock, according to multiple sources present," Politico wrote.
One Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), says he texted Bustos to ask whether Coleman's tweets‐including one where she indicates being around Mexicans makes her feel unsafe‐were fake. He, and other concerned members including House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.), were assured by Bustos that Coleman was being reassigned, according to the Politico report.
[Breitbart] Federal data released Thursday show serious incidents of violence in the nation's public schools are on the rise at the same time more schools are employing Obama-era "restorative justice" disciplinary policies and nearly all schools are touting "social emotional learning" (SEL) practices.
A report released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Education Department (USED), used data from a sample of 4,803 public schools that participated in the 2017-2018 School Survey on Crime and Safety.
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....at the same time more schools are employing Obama-era "restorative justice" disciplinary policies and nearly all schools are touting "social emotional learning" (SEL) practices.
Could this be a causative link, an enabler? Inquiring minds, etc.
[AnNahar] Two people were killed and several wounded when Boko Haram fighters raided a camp for people displaced by the jihadist conflict in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said Friday.
Dozens of Islamist militants on motorcycles and two motorised rickshaws stormed into Dalori camp on Thursday, shooting people and looting food supplies after overrunning a nearby military base.
"We have recovered two dead bodies from the attack which also left several IDPs (internally displaced persons) with injuries," said Bello Danbatta, head of security in the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
"The insurgents looted and burnt shops in the camp and also carted food supplies from the main store where food aid is stored," he said.
Dalori, about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from regional capital Maiduguri, houses about 50,000 people in makeshift dwellings.
The jihadists attacked the camp after pushing out soldiers at a nearby military base in a shootout, several displaced people said.
"They (Boko Haram) chased the soldiers away and burnt the base before forcing their way into the camp, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Great)," said camp resident Aisa Kyarimi.
"They started shooting and we all fled the camp," said the mother of three.
Hassan Modu, a civilian militia member guarding the camp, said he ran into the attackers as he tried to flee.
"They were no doubt after looting food," he said.
Dalori camp and the neighbouring village have been repeatedly targeted in Boko Haram attacks by heavily armed fighters and female suicide bombers.
In January 2016, at least 85 people were killed when militant fighters stormed and torched Dalori village and tried to gain access to the camps.
Despite the government's insistence that Boko Haram jihadists are near defeat, attacks on civilians and troops persist almost a decade after the insurgency started.
The conflict has claimed more than 27,000 lives since 2009 and left some two million people displaced.
The jihadists have splintered and a faction affiliated to the Islamic State group is waging its own campaign of violence mainly targeting the military.
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Why two? Sounds like a targeted hit. And where was security. If such a thing exists.
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Why two?
Two dead bodies recovered thus far, several wounded, and many ran away in panic. Sounds to me in my ignorance like the usual gun s3x in the process of shearing the sheep rather than anything more focussed, Whiskey Mike.
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Thanks TW. I hate stuff like this. My gut, my heart says “help them”. My body snickers, and says “Right, you wouldn’t survive the flight”. And the body is right. It really sucks.
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*hug* We’ll sit at the sidelines drinking tea and eating cookies, doing our best to enable and support the current generation, my dear, as others did for you and your cohort. There is no shame in passing the torch.
But honestly, there are so many different fights going on at the same time in Nigeria — two versions of Boko Haram jihadis, that Shiite bunch supported by Iran, the Fulani herdsmen with their jihad against the farmers, the locals who like to kidnap foreigners to get a bigger share of the oil wealth, and aof course the soldiers abusing the local civilians when they aren’t kept under proper discipline — that I have been forced to conclude the only way to really help the innocents is to reimpose a strong colonial authority, which simply isn’t going to happen. Possibly things will get somewhat better after oil prices have been low for a while, squeezing some of the wealth, and therefore the motivation toward mayhem, out of the various equations.
[AnNahar] The trial of Saudi dissident cleric Sheikh Salman al-Awda is to resume Sunday after an almost six-month postponement, Amnesty International said, expressing fear he will be sentenced to death.
The prominent cleric's family and Saudi media have said prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The charge sheet has not been made public.
Human rights groups have said the trial is a political reprisal against Awda, a leading figure in a 1990s Islamist movement associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The cleric was among more than 20 people arrested in September 2017 in a widening crackdown on dissent in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
"We are gravely concerned that Sheikh Salman al-Awda could be sentenced to death and executed," Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Middle East research head, said in a statement.
"Since his arrest almost two years ago, Sheikh al-Awda has gone through a terrible ordeal including prolonged pre-trial detention, months of solitary confinement, incommunicado detention and other ill-treatment,"
According to Amnesty, Awda was arrested a few hours after posting a tweet welcoming reports of a possible reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Saudi Arabia and several allies cut off all diplomatic and economic ties with Doha in June 2017, accusing it of links to Islamist extremists, a charge Qatar has categorically denied.
The cleric's family have said Saudi authorities had demanded that Awda and other prominent figures publicly back the kingdom in the dispute, but he refused.
The last hearing in the case was postponed in early February at the request of the prosecution.
"Saudi authorities continue to claim they are fighting ‘terrorism’ when this trial, as well as those of other activists, including 37 men executed last April, are clearly politically motivated and meant to silence independent voices in the country," Amnesty said.
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[AnNahar] Damascus said Friday it would reject any agreement between Turkey and the US to establish a "security zone" in northern Syria as tantamount to a violation of the country's sovereignty.
"Syria reiterates its categorical rejection of any American-Turkish agreement," a foreign ministry source told state news agency SANA.
Such a deal would "constitute a blatant attack on the sovereignty and unity of the country", the source added.
Turkey and the US began talks on Tuesday to establish a "security zone" in northern Syria aimed at creating a buffer between Kurdish fighters and the Turkish border.
The idea was first mooted by US President Donald Trump in January, in a call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at a moment when Turkey was threatening to launch an offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria.
But Turkey said Wednesday it was not satisfied with the buffer zone solutions offered by the US.
"The latest US proposals are not satisfactory," said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
"We should say things clearly: we have the impression that (the United States) is trying to buy time," he added.
The US has provided extensive support to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in Syria.
The YPG has led the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, but Ankara sees it as a terrorist offshoot of Kurdish militants inside Turkey.
Turkey has launched two previous offensives into Syria against IS and the YPG, in 2016 and 2018.
[AnNahar] The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against three of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's stepsons, a Colombian businessman and six others for running a "corruption network" that profited from emergency food imports. "Tonight on the Food Corruption Network: 'Your rations - Chopped'"
The US has in recent months escalated sanctions against Venezuela, which is struggling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of its 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
The new restrictions target Maduro's stepsons Walter Jacob Gavidia Flores, Yosser Daniel Gavidia and Yoswal Alexander Gavidia Flores, whom the US says collaborated with Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran and his business partner Alvaro Pulido to profit off importing emergency food into the country as it struggled with rising malnutrition.
"What Treasury has described today is an extraordinarily elaborate network, whose purpose is to steal food from the poorest Venezuelans and build up profits for regime members and their families," a senior US official said on condition of anonymity.
As its economic crisis worsened, Venezuela's government in 2016 created a program to provide subsidized food to the poor, which Saab and a business partner organized so that food would be imported "at the most profitable rate for themselves," Treasury said in a statement.
"Under Maduro's watch, Saab reaped substantial profits and imported only a fraction of the food needed for the CLAP program," Treasury said.
It added that he "laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in corruption proceeds around the world," while paying off Maduro's stepsons for access to contracts.
Despite the sanctions, Maduro said the food subsidies would continue. "Not even with a million sanctions will CLAP stop," he said, adding that the food "belongs to the Venezuelan people."
The program had 16.3 million beneficiaries in 2018, according to a study by the main universities in Venezuela.
- SHELL COMPANIES -
The Treasury sanctions prevent Saab, Maduro's stepsons as well as six others involved in the alleged scheme from accessing the US financial system or doing business there.
Saab and Pulido were charged with money laundering, moving some $350 million out of Venezuela either to the US or through the US to foreign accounts they owned or controlled.
The two had been hired in November 2011 by Maduro predecessor and mentor Hugo Chavez to build low-income housing.
Saab, 47, and Pulido, 55, face up to 20 years in prison for the charges.
Also sanctioned are 13 companies registered around the world that Treasury said were part of "a sophisticated network of shell companies" involved in the food importation scheme.
Opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido denounced the sanctioned individuals, saying they had "enriched themselves by taking advantage of the suffering" of the Venezuelan population.
In January, Guaido declared himself acting president, branding Maduro an "usurper" over his re-election last year in a poll widely believed to have been rigged. But despite the support of some 50 countries including the US, Guaido has been unable to dislodge him from power.
Representatives of the two sides have in recent weeks been negotiating in Barbados to resolve the political impasse.
[AlAhram] Iran has freed nine of 12 Indian crew from a Panama-flagged tanker seized on July 14, India's foreign ministry said Friday.
Iran had accused the MT Riah ship of smuggling contraband fuel when it was detained, amid mounting tensions between the Iranian government and both Britain and the US over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
The MT Riah crossed into Iranian waters around July 14 and stopped transmitting signals shortly afterwards, the TankerTrackers online oil shipment website reported at the time.
"Nine crew members have been released and they will be on their way to India soon," said Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar.
"Our mission in Iran has requested the concerned Iranian authorities for the release of remaining crew members."
The release left 21 other Indians in Iranian detention however, including three from the MT Riah and 18 from the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker which was also captured by Iranian forces on July 19.
The Stena Impero and its 23 crew have been impounded at the southern port of Bandar Abbas for allegedly breaking "international maritime rules". The vessel is at the heart of the showdown between Iran and Britain.
Apart from the 18 Indians, there are three Russians, a Latvian and a Filipino on the ship.
India announced on Thursday that its diplomats in Iran had been given access to Stena Impero crew.
"All 18 Indian crew members on board are safe and doing fine. Will continue to push for their early release," junior foreign minister V Muraleedharan said on Twitter.
Iran's foreign ministry confirmed that Indian diplomats had met the crew in a statement reported by Iranian state television on Friday.
The ministry added that further meetings between crew of other nationalities from the Stena Impero with diplomats from their countries had been arranged and would happen soon.
Images from inside the ship released by Iran on Monday showed some Indian crew sat around a table, chatting and smiling. Two members could be seen cooking in the ship's kitchen.
The tanker's seizure has deepened a crisis triggered between Iran and Western countries in April when the United States said it would sanction countries buying oil from Iran.
Iran has hinted it is open to swapping the Stena Impero for an Iranian tanker, Grace 1, detained in Gibraltar on July 4 allegedly carrying Iranian oil to Syria in breach of international sanctions.
[Saudi Gazette] A UK court has ruled in London's favor in a long-standing financial dispute with 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... that has wider political ramifications for Britannia's increasingly strained relationship with the Islamic republic.
The case revolves a payment of £650 million made by Iran in the 1970s to buy 1,500 Chieftain tanks from Britannia and repair 250 more.
The deal was blocked after the 1979 Islamic Revolution deposed the Western-backed Shah.
Britannia kept the paid portion of the contract.
Just under £400 million ($500 million, 450 million euros) are now being kept in a frozen British bank account.
Sending the money to Tehran is further complicated by EU and US sanctions linked to Iran's nuclear program.
A judge with the UK High Court ruled on Wednesday that Britannia did not owe Iran interest payments of more than £20 million that had accumulated on the sum over 10 years.
Justice Stephen Phillips cited a precedent case that found claims made by any "Iranian person, entity or body, including the Iranian government" were invalid in commercial disputes because of the Western sanctions.
The Iranian claim was made jointly by its defense ministry and armed forces.
New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said while he was still foreign minister in 2018 that making the payment could help pave the way for the released from a Tehran jail of British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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[Saudi Gazette] Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday he would not let an Italian coastguard boat carrying 135 migrants colonists dock until Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union countries agreed to take them in.
The Gregoretti coastguard vessel rescued the migrants colonists on Thursday from two boats off Malta, but was awaiting orders on where it could take them.
"I will not give any permission for them to disembark until Europe commits to accept all the immigrants colonists on board," Salvini, who is head of the far-right League party, said in a statement.
Rome has asked Brussels to coordinate migrant redistribution between member states, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Friday, adding that the EU executive would act to this effect.
Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, has staked much of his political credibility on a drive to halt migrant flows and has drawn protests by closing Italia's ports to charity rescue ships.
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Devious bastards. Somebody bought off the Gregoretti crew. Why the rescue ? Why not drop 'em off at Malta itself ?
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What happened to Africa? Drop them off there, or within swimming distance.
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Maybe nations of the world can contribute to setting up floating barges, or unused drilling platforms and structures amid sea, artificial islands etc. Like that stupid Sealand place ? Somewhere to drop off these miserable 'citizens of no country' until their admission is decided. The UN sponsored NGOs and Soros and his blue bleeding heart friends can feed them all they want there.
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Funny how you or I would be in big trouble without a passport, but no worries for these jamokes...
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Really is amazing, tens of thousands streaming across our southern border. Contrast that with returning to the United States from overseas and the long lines at US Customs in the Atlanta Airport International Terminal.
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What pushes these beasts of no nation
To sashay all over creation?
Some blame public health
Or the building of wealth
Or Big Oil for this dark inundation.
"Lights, seeds, magic soil?
General easing of toil?"
"And the seizure of leisure
To head for the seashore!"
"Meds, mobiles, and mass transportation?"
Shriek sellers of worldly salvation,
"Bosh! Racism! Hate! Exploitation!"
[IsraelTimes] 30-year-old Sam Goodwin had been trying to visit every country in the world when he went missing in war-torn country.
A 30-year-old American held captive in Syria for two months was attempting to visit every country in the world, US media reported Friday, after he had been freed.
Sam Goodwin was released by Syrian officials following the mediation of Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s internal security, Goodwin’s family told The New York Times and The Washington Post.
His disappearance had not been previously reported and the exact date of his release remained unclear.
“We are grateful to be reunited with our son Sam,” Goodwin’s parents, Thomas and Ann Goodwin, said in a statement. “Sam is healthy and with his family.”
“We are forever indebted to Lebanese General Abbas Ibrahim and to all others who helped secure the release of our son,” they said. “We will have more to say at a later date. Right now, we appreciate our privacy as we reconnect with Sam.”
According to the Post, Goodwin was last seen on May 25 in the city of Qamishli
...the city in Hasaka province is divided between the Kurds and Assad’s government, so possibly thr idiot was not captured by jihadis of any sort...
in northeast Syria after crossing from Turkey as part of his bid to visit every country in the world.
Several other Americans have gone missing in Syria including Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who vanished in 2012.
Heavy.com has more about the travel-loving American expat, including photos, and the Washington Post suggests most Americans held hostage in Syria are held in Assad’s prisons
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“We are grateful to be reunited with our idiot son Sam... We will have more to say at a later date. Right now, we appreciate our privacy as we... uhh, reconnect with Sam.”
Mr. Thomas Goodwin made this final statement with a thousand yard stare, then picked up a 2X4 plank as he headed back inside his home. Sounds of the joyous reunion were so loud, they were almost undifferentiable from wailing and gnashing of teeth.
[Saudi Gazette] Denmark said on Friday it welcomed a British government proposal for a Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and would consider a military maritime contribution.
Britannia has sought to assemble the mission in Hormuz, used by tankers carrying about a fifth of the world's oil, following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged ship in what London said was an act of "state piracy".
The initiative won initial support from Denmark, La Belle France and Italia, three senior diplomats said on Tuesday.
"The Danish government looks positively towards a possible contribution to such initiative," Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said in a statement. "The initiative will have a strong European footprint".
The backing contrasts with a lukewarm response shown by European allies to a similar American call first voiced at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... in late June, which was resisted by La Belle France and Germany. They worried the US-led military alliance would be dragged into a possible confrontation with Iran.
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[DAWN] Indonesia’s parliament approved on Thursday an amnesty for a woman who was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! after recording lewd phone calls from her boss in a case that has caused outrage and warnings that it could discourage victims of sexual abuse from speaking out.
President Joko Widodo had granted an amnesty to Baiq Nuril Maknun after she had exhausted all other legal avenues in the controversial case.
Parliament’s approval was met by loud applause as the tearful mother of three who was in the chamber covered her face with her hands before kissing the ground.
Erma Suryani Ranik, a member of parliament, read a statement confirming the decision and said in this case "Baiq Nuril was the real victim, instead of the perpetrator".
Maknun, who had been working at a school on the island of Lombok, recorded some parts of lewd telephone calls from the school’s principal without his knowledge in 2012 after complaining of sexual harassment. She then gave a recording to a third person, and distributed it on an electronic device, which resulted in the principal losing his job, court documents showed.
In 2015, the principal reported Maknun to police, which resulted in her being prosecuted under laws targeting the electronic distribution of pornographic material.
Although the case was dismissed by a lower court, prosecutors took it to the Supreme Court and Maknun was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for six months and given a 500 million rupiah ($36,000) fine.
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[FOXNEWS] An aide has been fired after President Trump took the stage at a Turning Point USA event earlier this week in front of a doctored presidential seal that featured pro-Russian imagery and said "45 is a puppet."
White House front man Judd Deere told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named officials "never saw the seal" before it was projected on a screen behind Trump as he was introduced Tuesday at Turning Point USA's teen summit. The altered seal appeared on the projector screen for at least 80 seconds behind Trump before it was taken down, the Washington Times reported.
Turning Point USA, a conservative group that has been aligned with Trump, announced Thursday that the aide responsible for the supposedly accidental mix-up has since been fired.
The doctored image featured a two-headed eagle, a direct nod to the Russia Federation’s coat of arms. The bird’s left claw held golf clubs instead of the original’s 13 arrows, which symbolize the 13 colonies. The right claw grasped cash, instead of the original’s olive branch.
The altered presidential seal read "45 es un titere," which translated from Spanish means "45 is a puppet." The authentic seal sports the Latin phrase "e pluribus unum," the U.S. motto meaning "out of many, one."
Turning Point USA claimed that, in haste, a member of the video team searched for a high-resolution file of the presidential seal and did not realize that the image was doctored before placing it on the screen behind Trump.
"We’re sorry for the mix-up and meant no disrespect to the White House or the President or the advance team," the nonprofit told CNN. Turning Point USA insisted they had "zero malicious intent" in the switch.
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Somebody had malicious intent.Somebody who took part in the operation.
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Tomorrow, if I ran the zoo...
DEPLORABLES
The cool kids are angry, dejected:
"Usurper! Uncool! Unelected!"
[LOOK OUT BELOW... DONALD...
GEORGE... ABRAHAM... RONALD]
"Though satire is, sadly, protected,
The office must still be respected!"
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Air strikes by the Syrian government and its allies on schools, hospitals, markets and bakeries have killed at least 103 civilians in the past 10 days, including 26 children, U.N. human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Friday.
"These are civilian objects, and it seems highly unlikely, given the persistent pattern of such attacks, that they are all being hit by accident," Bachelet said, adding that the rising toll had been met with "apparent international indifference".
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Yet another example of warmongering neocons engaged in endless war with no regard for the lives of innocents.
[ToloNews] Three security force members and 14 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters were killed in two separate festivities in Ghazni.
Samiullah Popal, the acting police chief of Khogyani district in the central province of Ghazni, was killed in aTaliban attack on Thursday night, the provincial police said in a statement on Friday.
Two security force members were killed in the attack which started when a group of Taliban fighters stormedpolice headquarters in the district, the statement said.
The statement said that four Taliban fighters also were killed in fire exchange between security forces and the turban group and five security force members sustained injuries.
In a separate incident, at least 10 Taliban fighters were killed in Afghan Special Forces operation in Qarabagh district of Ghazni on Thursday evening, the statement added.
Amazing, negotiating from a high position with a hammer .....works?
[NYPost] President Trump announced Friday that Guatemala would agree to restrict asylum applications to the US from Central America.
The so-called "safe third country" agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the US to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the southern border.
It could potentially ease the crush of illegal immigrants overwhelming the US immigration system and hand Trump a win in his effort to fulfill his campaign promises to restrict illegal entry.
"This is a very big day. We have long been working with Guatemala and now we can do it the right way," Trump said.
"This landmark agreement will put the coyotes and smugglers out of business."
The announcement came after a federal judge court in California blocked Trump's most restrictive asylum effort to date, one that would effectively end protections at the southern border.
The two countries had been negotiating such an agreement for months, and Trump threatened Wednesday to place tariffs or other consequences on Guatemala if it didn't reach a deal.
"We'll either do tariffs or we'll do something. We're looking at something very severe with respect to Guatemala," Trump had said.
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Nobody of significance reads this paper. This is not news until it's in that other New York paper.
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[DAWN] A driver sustained bullet injuries when unidentified button men opened fire on a container truck carrying supplies to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops in Afghanistan in Khyber tribal district on Friday, police said.
The incident took place at the main Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... road near Takhta Baig check-post, Khyber District Police Officer Hussain Khan told DawnNewsTV.
He said that the attackers targeted the vehicle from the front and fled before police reached the site.
The injured driver, whose identity could not be ascertained immediately, was shifted to a nearby health facility where doctors said he was out of danger.
"Police have started an investigation and a search operation has been launched in Takhta Baig area to arrest the attackers," the DPO said.
Khan said it was premature to comment about the motive behind the attack, saying that police were trying to assess whether the target was NATO supplies or the incident was a result of a personal rivalry.
"This is the main route connecting Pakistain and Afghanistan and NATO and transit trade containers use this road," he observed, adding that police will arrest the attackers soon.
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[CHRONICLET] Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million appeal bond before he stays execution of the multimillion-dollar judgment recently won against the college by Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family.
Attorneys for the Gibsons had requested the college post a bond worth $36,367,711.56, representing the total amount of judgments against the college, plus interest, awarded by a jury and Miraldi following a six-week trial that lasted from late May into early June.
Such bonds are known as supersedeas or appeal bonds and allow defendants in a suit to delay paying the judgment ordered against them until they have exhausted all their appeals. Oberlin College attorneys said in court they intend to appeal but have declined further comment on the matter outside court.
Attorneys for Oberlin College had asked the judge to not immediately order their client to pay the $25 million in compensatory and punitive damages awarded at the conclusion of the case, saying they anticipated filing additional post-trial motions. They also asked him not to enforce a bond, a request attorneys for the Gibsons had opposed.
Miraldi ruled Thursday that Ohio law gives him "great discretion in determining what conditions, if any, are proper to grant a stay of execution of the judgment and to afford security to the Plaintiffs."
There are conditions to Miraldi’s order: He ordered Oberlin College to post the bond by Wednesday, July 31, in order to stay judgment until Aug. 19. Failure to post the bond, he wrote in his decision, will result in the stay of judgment being lifted.
Miraldi also gave Oberlin College until Aug. 19 to file post-trial motions if they wish to extend the stay of judgment further, to Sept. 9.
Attorneys for the Gibsons will have 14 days from Aug. 19 to respond to Oberlin College’s motions. Miraldi wrote that he would rule on Oberlin College’s motions by Sept. 9.
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Completely utterly shameful.
From the plaintiffs' i.e. the Gibsons' attorneys, here's an extremely detailed and precise recitation of the evidence presented at trial - evidence of Oberlin College senior leaders' and administrators' actual malice toward and tortious interference of the Gibsons and their business. It's devastating:
Ambar's blatant lies and through-the-looking-glass denials of reality are so disgusting that they deserve to be demolished with specific evidence presented at trial.
That voluminous body of evidence in the form of many emails and text messages that Oberlin College high-level staff sent each other - and even to the president of Oberlin at that time, Marvin Krislov - shows beyond a doubt that not just Oberlin students but Oberlin's LEADERSHIP behaved with actual malice toward the Gibsons.
This malice took the form of an urgent desire, which these Oberlin leaders acted upon, to try to bully and punish the Gibsons for daring to resist Oberlin College employees' and students' false charges of racism.
Everyone should read the detailed, precise and superbly well-organized recitation of the facts by the Gibsons' attorneys' here's the link: https://www.lawlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/FAQs-re-Gibsons-Bakery-v.-Oberlin-College.pdf.
Oberlin College President's Big Lie #1. "There was one administrator there who was representing the institution ... the dean of students ... was there to ensure that the protest was lawful and was safe, and was saying to students 'you can't stand there, you can't stand there.'"
Oberlin College President's Big Lie #2. "There's no doubt that the college felt bad about what was happening and tried to resolve it."
FACT: Evidence presented at trial shows clearly that Oberlin staff were anything but neutral. There were dozens of examples of actual malicious intent and active behavior to stir up the students against the Gibsons.
From Lee Plakas et al.'s "FAQ", find specific evidence to specific questions in the following pages of the FAQ:
1. Did Oberlin College and Dean Raimondo act with actual malice? .............3
2. What led the jury to conclude that Oberlin College and Dean Raimondo acted with
actual malice? ....................... 4
3. Did Oberlin College interfere with a 100-year business relationship without
justification and support, by its words or actions, a boycott against Gibson’s Bakery? ........................ 8
4. Did the Oberlin College administration fail to act as the adult in the room and instead succumb to the threat of students throwing nursery-school like temper tantrums in the school dining halls? ...........................11
5. Did Oberlin College insist that its students were above the law and entitled to special treatment? ......................................... 13
6. Did the College recklessly disregard the truth that the Gibsons do not have a history
of racial profiling or racial discrimination? .......................................17
7. Did Oberlin College take any action or make any efforts to correct the false narrative
calling the Gibsons racists?...............................................................................................22
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It's a good thing there's no insanity defense in civil cases...
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it would be interesting to dive into the mailbag and read letters from alumni as well as whatever the school is sending out.
suspect huge drop in incoming funds.
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...depends upon how big of a base they've indoctrinated over the last couple decades. Got to remember a lot of diversity offices and officers popped up in that time frame. This is a big 'victim'* card to play to that audience.
* as in the plea for leniency because one is an orphan, after murdering their parents.
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...Something to keep in mind - Oberlin swears that they only have about $60M USD available, and that a $36M USD bond (and add 5-7M USD to that for fees and costs, so you're possibly as high as $43M USD by the time it's done) would break them.
It appears that their insurers are digging in their heels about paying for anything (they don't have to pay at all on defamation judgements) and though they may have nearly a billion dollar endowment; there tend to be very, very strict limits on how that money can be used.
So IF they're telling the truth, they're toast - and if they're lying, it'll become real clear real fast.
Either way, I'm happy. I grew up a few miles north in Lorain, and believe me when I tell you that the only thing greater than the hate the college has for the townies is the hate the townies have for the college. This is a Berserkley - I mean, Berkeley-level academic asylum in the middle of the very definition of rural America.
And the townies have been waiting for this for a long, loooooooooooooong time. Whatever benefits they've gotten from the college have long since been passed by the cost of having to deal with them. And this isn't an East/West coast liberal judge laying down the bond requirement - if it were, the verdict probably would have been disallowed in the first place - this is a Democrat from an area where most Democrats would be considered Republicans in most other places.
Oberlin got too smart for its own good and forgot where it was - living in a bubble will do that for you. The best case scenario for them right now is a massive financial hit combined with a substantial drop in enrollment, the worst case is a bankruptcy. Either way, Oberlin College is about to perform the greatest service in its history:
Being a bad example.
Mike
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USN,Ret.: it would be interesting to dive into the mailbag and read letters from alumni
See pp. 48-55 from the plaintiffs' attorneys' "FAQ" doc linked in my comment above.
It shows four letters to Oberlin's president which where introduced as evidence at trial. These include two letters from alumni and two from Oberlin residents expressing their disgust and anger at the College's actions in trying to bully and extort from the Gibsons.
These emails are contained within internal Oberlin administrators' email threads and are preceded by the nasty, malicious and vulgar interval back-and-forth of Oberlin's leadership in which hurl F-bombs at the Gibsons for their "arrogance" in daring to defy false charges of racism.
The Oberlin leaders also discuss plans to use threats of cutting off the Gibsons from Oberlin's purchasing spend in order to coerce the Gibsons into not prosecuting the many Oberlin student shoplifters who repeatedly try to rip them off and also dropping the defamation lawsuit.
The multi-million $$$ judgment rendered by the court against Oberlin was for not only defamation but also tortious interference in the Gibsons' business.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed a Taliban ...Arabic for students... group leader Qari Syed and his three murderous Moslems in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the security forces conducted the airstrike in Gurziwan district of Faryab.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Taliban group leader Qari Syed and his three krazed killers.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the airstrike also maimed 2 other krazed killers.
"slowly, then all at once"
[ToloNews] A day after the fall of Keran Wa Manjan district of Badakhshan to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , almost 110 members of the public uprising forces who fled to the neighboring Nuristan province said they attempted through many channels but the relevant officials did not pay attention their plight.
The district, which has the biggest deposits of lapis lazuli, fell to the Taliban on July 24.
The soldiers said they walked for 22 hours from Keran Wa Manjan district to Parun, the center of Nuristan, which shares borders with Badakhshan.
The police chief for Keran Wa Manjan district, Abdul Wali Hussaini, said they fought against the Taliban for nine days, but they were forced to leave the district after their ammunition ended.
"We phoned the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the secretary of Mr. [Chief Executive Abdullah] Abdullah, the Badakhshan police chief, Badakhshan governor and even we phoned Badakhshan MPs, but no one heard our voice," Hussaini said.
He said that at least 60 members of the public uprising and police force members surrendered to the Taliban.
"The clash in our village continued for nine days. Then we understood the reinforcement and ammunition will not arrive and then we left the district," said Zafaruddin, a member of public uprising forces in Keran Wa Manjan.
"People left the district as they did not have other option," said Mohammad, member of public uprising forces in Keran Wa Manjan.
The lapis lazuli deposit in Keran Wa Manjan district in Badakhshan fell to the Taliban on July 17.
At least 20 security force members were deployed to protect the deposit. Many mineral deposits are located in disputed areas between the security forces and the Taliban in different parts of the country. Reports indicate that the Taliban receive a big amount of income from illegal mining.
"Some members of local police and public uprising forces unit have come to Nuristan," the Nuristan Police Chief Saber Aryan said.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday claimed to have arrested a terrorist belonging to the proscribed organization in Rawalpindi. CTD officials relayed the arrest was made on a tip-off in Rawalpindi’s area of Mankial. Arms and kaboom were also recovered from his possession. "The arrested terrorist identified as Mujahid Iqbal was planning to carry out terror activity in Rawalpindi", the CTD officials said. He was moved to an unknown place by the CTD officials for the interrogation. Earlier on June 25, the CTD claimed to have rounded up three alleged terrorists, having links with the proscribed organization from Gujranwala. As per details, the arrested bandidosmurderous Moslems are affiliated with a banned outfit and weapons and explosives were also recovered from their custody. "Donation receipts, detonators, and other stuff were also confiscated from the arrested three alleged terrorists", the CTD official said.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] A rare female suicide bomber used in the deadly al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
attack in the office of Mogadishu’s mayor was aiming for the American who is the new UN envoy to Somalia and had left the office just minutes earlier, the hard boy group and officials said.
The corpse count in Wednesday’s attack rose to seven and the seriously maimed Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman was in a coma Thursday. He and other officials were expected to be airlifted to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... for treatment, said Mohammed Ahmed, a government official at the Mogadishu hospital treating the mayor.
The new UN envoy, James Swan, was the bomber’s intended target, Abdiaziz Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military front man, told local media.
Capt. Mohammed Hussein, a police brass hat, said the female bomber walked into a security meeting and blew herself up a few yards away from the mayor. It was just the fourth time the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab had been known to use aexploding trollop female suicide bomber.
Swan had paid the Somali capital’s mayor a brief visit and left the compound less than an hour before the bombing, an official at the mayor’s office told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
In a statement, Swan condemned "this heinous attack, which not only demonstrates a violent disregard for the sanctity of human life, but also targets Somalis working to improve the lives of their fellow Somalis." The US ambassador to Somalia, Donald Yamamoto, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... also condemned the attack.
UN deputy front man Farhan Haq said that "any threats against any UN personnel anywhere in the world are a matter of grave concern for the secretary-general" and the UN reviews its security after such attacks.
"We want to make sure that all of our personnel everywhere are protected and able to go about their work free of any hindrance and free of any threats," Haq said, adding that Guterres will be writing to Swan and the UN staff in Somalia to express "solidarity with their work and our concern for their safety."
It was not clear how the bomber managed to enter the mayor’s office, as visitors are required to pass through at least four metal detectors. Some security officials said the attacker might have bribed corrupt officials. Ya think?
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[RUDAW.NET] Ahmed al-Muthana, an Iraqi Army colonel in charge of protecting excavation work at three mass grave sites uncovered in Samawa near the Saudi border, broke into tears when he saw the remains of Kurdish civilians buried there thirty years ago.
The remains of hundreds of women and kiddies have been found in the burial pits. They are victims of Saddam Hussein’s campaign of extermination known as the Anfal, launched in the late 1980s to punish the Kurds for their rebellion.
Muthana, who was sent to the site by Baghdad’s Ministry of Interior, spoke to Rudaw as excavation work got underway at the first mass grave site. He could not hide his revulsion.
"This is the first time I have seen a mass grave up close. The tragedy that can be seen in this mass grave is huge," Muthana told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"I wonder what was the sin and crime of those children and women from Kurdistan to be buried alive," he added.
Muthana condemned the actions of the former Baathist order, branding it a "buried regime".
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Just when you thought the day coudn't get worse, someone leaves a door or two open and WHAM ! A canine caper written by Ryuhei Kitamura.
(CNN)Workers at an animal shelter in southeastern Alabama came to work Thursday and were shocked to find that two of the dogs had killed 29 cats overnight. It was like two unhinged far-outright wingers went at smug leftist academics and gay actors with axes and chainsaws !
Bill Banks, director of the Dothan Animal Shelter, told CNN affiliate WTVY that two pit bulls forced their way out of their pens and pushed hard enough against the chain-link fences of the cat area to get inside.
Dothan Mayor Mark Saliba told CNN that the incident will be investigated immediately and that the City Commission has since identified the need for an updated animal shelter.
"Unfortunately, tragic events sometimes fuel us to push things forward a little bit faster," he said. "I'm thinking this will do just that." Meaning new construction contracts, a bigger kitty... oh my... sob!
Officials at the shelter, about 110 miles southeast of Montgomery, said that the pit bulls were brought in after being found roaming Wednesday and that their futures are still uncertain. If ever there was a need for the 'misguided youths' defense, it's now.
"We are all saddened and surprised by the event that took place," Saliba said. "The safety of our animals is the top priority at the shelter." Then stop screening Tarantino movies in the doggy pens.
Counseling will be available for the wussanimal shelter workers, according to WTVY.
That's the gist of it. Head to CNN, if you want the rest of the sordid tale.
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I know Dothan well as I lived here for several years. Shipman did, too, rest his soul.
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Dothan is an agricultural city. Not much there in the way of industry. It's claims to fame are the hometown of Bobby Goldsboro and the National Peanut Festival.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman retired Maj Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa on Friday told a Senate panel that the government should either increase the body's "technical capabilities" or block social media websites in the country in order to stop the circulation of "blasphemous content".
While briefing the Senate Special Committee to examine purported grievances, Bajwa said: "[Dealing with] blasphemous content on social media is a huge problem. Most of the websites are being operated from other countries."
"The government should either formulate a policy and block social media websites in the country like China and the United Arab Emirates ‐ [which would mean] developing social media platforms locally like China ‐ or it should increase the technical capabilities of the PTA," he said.
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[Saudi Gazette] Britannia's Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an partners on Friday warned Boris Johnson that his hard-line Brexit stance was putting the UK on a "collision course" with the EU and called on the new premier to avoid "provocations".
Johnson is planning meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... in the next few weeks, officials said Friday, as the British premier insists he will renegotiate the UK's divorce accord with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Macron extended the invitation to Johnson in a call late Thursday from his official summer vacation residence in the south of La Belle France, where he is expected to stay for the next three weeks, said an aide.
But in a sign of wariness about Johnson's anti-EU rhetoric, La Belle France's Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin urged Britannia's new leader to create a working relationship with his partners on the continent.
"From our side, we need to be responsible," she told La Belle France 2 television. "That means being clear, predictable and it means on the other side that we need to create a working relationship, that there aren't games, posturing, provocations."
Macron, who has said he is happy to be considered the "bad guy" in the Brexit negotiations, is set to be a key figure during the tricky and potentially bad-tempered talks in the months ahead.
"Emmanuel Macron has had one of the firmest positions of European leaders in the negotiations," said Vivien Pertusot, a research fellow at the IFRI foreign affairs think-tank and specialist on Brexit.
"Nothing is going to force his hand and he has no reason to soften his position," he added.
Pertusot said that upcoming negotiations would be marked by "frankness" with attention on "which side is going to blink first".
Macron, a devoted Europhile who is seeking to deepen links between EU members, views Brexit as an act of self-harm by Britannia and he has been highly critical of Johnson personally in the past.
The timing of the meeting between Macron and Johnson was unclear. The British prime minister is due in La Belle France to attend the G7 meeting of developed nations in Biarritz on August 24-26.
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The people voted for Brexit and replaced the government which refused to implement it. Their message is clear and it is the duty of the government to carry it out, even if the critics are correct and it is a bad idea, since there is nothing illegal about doing so.
[DAILYCALLER] Why not? I'd think even an empty-headed former actress would be able to support executing people who murdered innocent little kiddies.
Or was she thinking of vicious six-year-old cut-throats?
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I'd put it this way. You can't claim to oppose the death penalty if you support the death penalty for unborn children without trial or even the possibility of guilt.
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Daniel, that's so inconvenient that they'll just have to ignore it because it's racist. Somehow. They'll figure out the details of how later.
[RUDAW.NET] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) remnants fired at least five mortar shells at the village of Topzawa in Daquq, an area south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... on Thursday night, and attempted an armed ground assault, according to local sources.
This is the latest in a series of mortar attacks on villages in the Daquq area in recent days, indicating an uptick in bad boy activity in the disputed territory.
Although ISIS has not grabbed credit for any of the recent attacks, locals believes remnants of the group operating in the disputed territories are responsible.
"Late on Thursday night, ISIS shelled Topzawa village with at least five mortars," Rajab Kakei, head of the Daquq-based Mitra Organization for the Development of Yarsani Culture, told Rudaw English on Friday.
"The mortars didn’t hit any houses or properties inside the village, but around four ISIS individuals started to shoot at the houses, which was believed to be a ground attack by ISIS bad boys."
"Fortunately local Kakais responded to the attackers and the individuals left the village," Kakei said.
The Kakais are a distinct ethnic group in the disputed province of Kirkuk.
The shooting lasted for around 20 minutes. There are no reports of casualties and it is unclear why the holy warriors chose to target the village. Kakei claims federal cop shoppeed in the area failed to respond.
Shiekh Lewis Sindi, the mayor of Daquq, confirmed the Iraqi federal police have two brigades in Daquq to provide security for the town.
"Iraqi federal police have bases near every Kakei village in Daquq," Sindi told Rudaw English on Friday.
"We believe the mortars are originated from the Wadi al-Shay area southwest of Daquq town, since the area is full of ISIS bad boys," he added, without providing details.
Federal police were accused on Wednesday of killing nine members of the same family in the Daquq area after mistaking them for ISIS fighters, after holy warriors shelled another village in the area.
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[Saudi Gazette] Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they lost one soldier and killed a number of "anti-revolutionaries" in festivities on Friday near the western border with Iraq.
A Guards border patrol "encountered and fought with an anti-revolutionary group in Sarvabad," in Kurdistan province, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The report said an unspecified number of the "anti-revolutionaries were killed and maimed and a considerable amount of their weapons and ammunition was destroyed".
One of the Guards was "maimed and died en route to hospital", the agency added.
It did not say whether or not the combatants were from Kurdish opposition or krazed killer groups, both of which have previously entered 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... from neighboring Iraq.
For much of the past 40 years, Iran has been battling krazed killer Kurdish opposition groups who use bases in Iraq's Kurdistan to stage attacks against the Guards and state institutions inside the Islamic republic.
Earlier this month the Guards launched deadly strikes against krazed killer Kurdish opposition groups across the border.
Using rockets, drones and artillery, the attack followed festivities inside Iran on previous days which left dead eight combatants, including three Guards.
A Guards statement issued on July 12 said the targeted groups had tried to use "villagers as human shields".
Rocket fire on farmland killed a civilian woman and two members of her family, Ehsan Shalabi, mayor of Sideka, north of Iraq's Arbil,said at the time.
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[Townhall] While watching a documentary this week called "Mysteries at the Museum," I was struck by an epiphany which helped me to better understand the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax operation and the FBI's willingness to perpetrate it. The program brought home to me how the FBI is blindingly lacking in self-awareness. And shame.
The documentary is part of a regular program on the Travel Channel that examines very interesting artifacts found in museums and builds out stories by focusing on the artifact featured in each episode. It’s a very cool program for history geeks like me.
So, for example, one episode discusses a handgun that can be seen in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum which was used by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme to attempt to assassinate President Ford. The episode describes the attempt on Ford's life, discusses Fromme's role in the Manson Family and her continued devotion to Manson following her incarceration.
The program does a wonderful job of illustrating important scientific or sociological changes that resulted from many of the artifacts it focuses on. One episode looks at the medical records of Mary Mallon, a cook in wealthy New York City households in the early 1900s. Family members in those households where she was employed would fall ill, and in some cases die, from typhoid fever. At least 50 victims associated with Mallon were discovered.
After Jufra drone attacks on their armed groups, spokesperson of warlord Khalifa Haftar, Ahmed Al-Mismari, says #Tripoli will see surprises in the coming hours pic.twitter.com/hVYxjg544f
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs during the operations in Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces.
The military officials said Friday that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during a raid in Qarabagh district of Ghazni.
The officials further added that the Special Forces conducted another raid in Qarabagh district in which they killed 10 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache.
Furthermore, the Afghan Special Forces conducted an operation in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan killing 13 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters and wounding 6 others.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... will not wait for the outcome of their talks with the US officials over the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria and is "determined" to clear its border of a "terror corridor," Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said on Friday amid mounting border tensions.
"No matter what the result of talks with the US are over the establishment of a safe-zone along the Syrian border, we are determined to rip apart the terror corridor east of the Euphrates [River]," Erdogan said during a Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) meeting with provincial heads in Ankara, according to his office.
He added that his country would not "watch" idly as Americans and Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... ans send military assistance to the Kurdish forces on the ground.
East of Euphrates is dominated by Syrian Democratic Units (SDF), mostly consisting of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The group is considered as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Kurdish gang that has fought for greater minority, cultural, and political rights against the Ottoman Turkish state over the past four decades.
Turkey has called for a 40 kilometer buffer zone into Syria between Kurdish positions and its border which would be "cleansed" of the SDF. Kurdish authorities have repeatedly rejected the idea and claimed they have no ties to the PKK.
Erdogan reiterated in his Friday speech that Ankara’s aim is to "get rid of the PYD ... and bring tranquility and security to Syria," referring to the Democratic Union Party, the political wing of the YPG.
The SDF has said that they would approve Ottoman Turkish involvement in such a corridor only if Ottoman Turkish forces withdraw from Afrin in northwest Syria that was taken in March 2018 by Ottoman Turkish forces and its Syrian proxies. It had previously been under the control of the YPG which trusted Russia or the US to sway Erdogan.
This week’s rocket attack that hit a house in the Kurdish province of Sanliurfa in Turkey made Ankara emboldened as the rockets were said to have been launched from SDF-controlled areas across the border. The SDF denied any involvement in the incident, and then its media claimed that the SDF had arrested an unnamed suspect.
US Special Envoy to Syria James Jeffrey arrived in Ankara this week to meet with Ottoman Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and other brass hats. Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry said in a statement that they have begun joint work with the United States to establish a long planned "safe zone" on Turkey’s southern border with Syria.
"Both countries’ military authorities began the joint work today at MSB in Ankara to establish a planned safe zone in northern Syria in a coordinated way," the Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry tweeted on Tuesday.
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"said on Friday"... not dead then.... (insert frowny face here)
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] For all of CNN’s suggestions that President Trump was a racist and anti-Semite, they sure don’t seem to catch those tendencies of prospective employees during the hiring process. Instead, they have them resign after they’re exposed on social media. It’s especially troubling when the prospective employee had publicly celebrated the deaths of "jewish pigs" in Jerusalem.
On Thursday, CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy was exposed as an anti-Semite after numerous wardheelers and news outlets dove into his Twitter history and discovered his hatred. Elshamy has since made his Twitter account private.
In a series of tweets, political strategist Arthur Schwartz highlighted Elshamy’s elation at the news Jews were killed by bully boyz in Jerusalem back in 2011. "More than 4 jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Paleostinian bomb explode," he wrote.
He seemed to celebrate the killings, tweeting: "HAMAS HAMAS HAMAS #Anti-Israel #Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... #Paleostine #Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,".
Daily Wire news hound Jordan Schachtel pointed out that Elshamy was celebrating a terrorist attack that "killed a Christian woman who was studying in Israel & severely injured a 14-year-old Israeli girl who would succumb to her wounds 6 yrs later. The attack injured 39 more."
Schwartz called out CNN for hiring Elshamy despite a public tweet that read: "Israel is the main enemy for the people of Egypt and shall always remain despite rulers who lick Jewish legs 3/3 #IsraelEmbassy."
The Washington Free Beacon dug up a series of disgusting tweets Elshamy put out during the rise of the Moslem Brüderbund in Egypt. "Only in #Egypt you find the Zionist embassy being a flag-less embassy," he proclaimed with a smiley face. "Thr flag has been removed ALLAHU AKBAR #israeliembassy #cairo #egypt #israel".
"Despite everything happening now in Egypt. I'm proud of the army generation that liberated us from the zionist pigs @ 6 october 1973," he would add.
Mediaite's Caleb Howe uncovered Elshamy tweets that touted the raising of a Hamas flag and flouted his discontent after U.K. soccer team Arsenal hired a Jewish player. "YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK! BENAYOUN SHITTY JEWISH IDIOT JOINED ARSENAL :S:S:S:S:S::S:S:S:S:S:S #ARSENAL," he exclaimed.
It took CNN several hours to respond to the outcry. At 9:46 Eastern time, CNN Media janitor Brian Stelter tweeted out a statement from the network’s communications department. "The network has accepted the resignation of a photo editor, who joined CNN earlier this year, after anti-Semitic statements he'd made in 2011 came to light," they wrote.
[BREITBART] Another CNN personality who was presenting on the CNN Arabic network as recently as last week appears to have expressed a series of antisemitic sentiments on Twitter, even praising Hitler. This follows the recent resignation of a CNN editor, whose past antisemitic statements surfaced Thursday afternoon.
Kareem Farid heads up a digital tech show on CNN Arabic. He began in January 2019, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is also listed as the "Lead of Storytelling and Video Production at APCO Worldwide."
On Friday, tweets surfaced, showing Farid writing, "I love you Hitler" and commending the Nazi dictator for "his determination to reach his goal."
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Minnesota Congresswoman 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... and her husband Ahmed Hirsi ‐ the father of her three children ‐ have split, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively
Omar left her husband and has moved into a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis's trendiest neighborhoods
'Wow,' said Hirsi, when approached about the split by DailyMail.com. 'I can't comment on that. I'm sorry, I just can't say anything'
Omar did not return calls requesting comment from DailyMail.com by deadline
The news comes as critics are demanding Omar answer questions about whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the US
'Obviously we are proud that a Somali-American has been elected ‐ but we just think it is the wrong Somali-American,' a community leader told DailyMail.com
Omar first married Hirsi in an Islamic ceremony in 2002 when she was 19, but six years later they 'reached an impasse in our life together,' and divorced
In 2009, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, who has been identified as her brother - but this has not been proven
Omar had a third child with Hirsi in 2012, even though she was still legally married to Elmi - who she divorced in 2017 and married Hirsi in 2018
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Seems every aspect of her finances (and probably everything else about her) is ripe for investigation. Of course, all 435 congress creatures have personal interests in keeping their "arrangements" out of the public's gaze.
Just as with Bath House Barry, we see the puppet, but the puppet masters are completely hidden from view...
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Ref #5: Just as with Bath House Barry, we see the puppet, but the puppet masters are completely hidden from view...
[Townhall] Millions use his product every day. Mike Lindell, the creator of My Pillow, is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters. He also could be leaving his pillow empire behind, as rumors are circling that he’s considering running for political office. He posted a cryptic tweet that around 7:30 A.M. he will be making an announcement concerning whether he will be entering the political arena in Minnesota. If he does toss his hat in the ring, many are speculating that he could be itching to take on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the members of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Leninist Girl Scout Troop who is rapidly taking over the Democratic Party. These gals are left-wing. They’re radical. They hate America. And they’ve peddled bigoted views, especially toward those who are of the Jewish faith. And if they didn’t peddle anti-Semitic tropes, they sure defended their fellow sisters who did.
[Libya Observer] The first batch of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has arrived in the oil crescent region in central Libya to protect oil installations in order to allow forces loyal to warlord 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... to concentrate all their power on the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... attack, Sudan’s Radio Dabanga reported Thursday.
Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a source estimated the number of troops to be about 1,000 out of the 4,000 troops expected to arrive in Libya in the next few months.
The RSF militia is made attractive by offering relatively high levels of pay.
Earlier, Al Jazeera unveiled documents that prove Sudan used its airspace to transport hundreds of mercenaries, recruited by Mohammed Hamdan Delgo (Hemitti) - deputy head of military council in Sudan -, from the Arab tribes in Darfur as well as neighbouring African countries to Libya, 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... and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... .
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[NY Post] The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.
The Supreme Court said Friday that it would lift a freeze on the money put in place by a lower court. The Supreme Court's action means the Trump administration can tap the funds and begin work on four contracts it has awarded. Four liberal justices wouldn't have allowed construction to start.
A trial court initially froze the funds in May and an appeals court kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
The court’s four more liberal justices dissented. One of them, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, wrote that he would have allowed preparatory work but not construction.
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The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
The court’s four more liberal globalist justices dissented. FIFY. So much for a contract that begins with "We, the People of the United States..." Four have no use for that contract.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Predictably, the action will shift to the UN and "world courts" in eurine-land. No surprise which side those entities will weigh in on. Even less surprise they will be totally ignored by the US until the next time we have a "citizen of the world" president...
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This is good news. But I would like to have seen the Supreme Court give a little more guidance (or direct instructions) to lower courts not to meddle in things that are beyond their purview.
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...their purview?
Sort missed the last century of assumption of all powers by our aristocracy? They believe nothing is beyond their purview or authority. They sit for life and do not have the consent of the governed. You dare call it a republic.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... say they will visit Pakistain whenever they received a formal invitation, as they routinely pay visits to regional and other countries to explain their position regarding grinding of the peace processor and to address to others’ concerns. as they routinely return for R&R and to get mission instructions from the ISI
Comments from Suhail Shaheen, Taliban political office front man in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , came days after Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... said in Washington he will meet the Taliban leaders in Pakistain on his return to convince them to hold negotiations with the Afghan government.
Taliban have rejected calls for direct talks with the Afghan government as they do not recognize the Kabul administration and insist their priority is to end invasion and seek a time-frame for withdrawal of all foreign forces.
Taliban have held a series of meetings with Afghan politicians in Moscow and Doha over the past few months; however, no formal intra-Afghan negotiations have started so far.
Taliban for the first time agreed to allow three officials of the Afghan government to join a delegation of over 50 politicians, women activists and civil society members in Qatar on July 7-8. The government representatives participated in their personal capacity but that also indicated Taliban flexible position about the intra-Afghan meetings.
Taliban front man Suhail Shaheen told Daily Times on Thursday from Doha via WhatsApp that Taliban political representatives will Pakistain if they are formally invited.
"We pay visits to regional and other countries for talks to explain our position on grinding of the peace processor and to listen to others. Pakistain is our neighbor and a Moslem country. Members of our political office will travel to Pakistain if we receive a formal invitation from Pakistain," Shaheen said when he was asked about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks.
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as they routinely pay visits to regional and other countries to explain their position ...and to address to others’ concerns.
Coming to you soon to explain their position.
These poor sods have been relieved of all concerns
[KhaamaPress] The Indian police forces have seized Afghan heroin worth around 13.2 billion Indian Rupees,
...if I got the number of zeros right in the currency calculator, that’s US$191,689,282.06, a substantial amount in any reasonable currency...
it has been reported.
The Delhi Police Special Cell has recovered over 330 kilograms of heroin during the ongoing operations which has a street value of around 13.2 billion Indian Rupees.
The police forces seized 130 kilograms of the seized heroin on Friday only after conducting a raid in Navi Mumbai.
The smugglers used the sea route between Islam Qala of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Via to smuggle the heroin.
A police official has told India’s ANI News that the consignment originated from Islam Qala in Herat province of Afghanistan and came via sea to Mumbai via Bandar Abbas of Iran.
The official further added that the police forces have arrested two individuals in connection to the smuggling of heroin, including an Afghan national.
Furthermore, the official said it was a rare seizure of landlocked Afghanistan’s heroin taking the sea route to India ever.
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Fantastic news. Except the heroin (or anything worth selling) lying in an Indian police warehouse has a half-life. I would guess something like...
Where Q is the final quantity left for inspection by court,Yc is the annual (undisclosed) income of all the cops manning the warehouse, and T is time taken for the case to finally come up in a court.
Rats eat drugs, eat seized currency, run off with guns too. Indian rats are omnivores of evidence. At least half of it finds its way to dealers who buy it off the cops cheap and are registered as police informants in the drug trade.
Ah yes, that would be Mahmoud the Weasel and the large family he supports in braces and piano lessons through his confidential information to the trade, though we here at Rantburg know him mostly through his interactions with the RAB. See here and here among many, many examples over the years.
Not a viable, credible, stable candidate.....next?
[NY Post] A Minnesota congressional candidate hoping to unseat Ilhan Omar with promises of being tough on crime faces felony shoplifting charges, according to a report.
Danielle Stella, 31, was arrested twice this year in the thefts of 279 items worth more than $2,300 from a Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store, The Guardian reported.
"I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law," the special-education teacher told the news outlet.
"If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides," added Stella, who this week described Minneapolis as "the crime capital of our country."
Stella told police that she "remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else" due to post-traumatic stress disorder, and that she "normally she goes to Target with someone because of anxiety around people," according to a criminal complaint cited by The Guardian.
An arrest warrant was put out for Stella for alleged contempt of court on April 4 after she failed to show up for a court hearing in the Jan. 8 Target case, the paper reported, citing police and court records.
On April 28, she was arrested in nearby Bloomington, Minnesota, for allegedly stealing a bottle of tick spray for cats, according to the report.
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If she works on the not getting caught thing or co-opts the press, she has the makings of a successful political career.
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So she violated the social rituals by directly looting the population rather than using the process of Congress to raise taxes on the same population. Just another RINO (do I need to put a /sarc on that?). Remember, first get elected, then do the looting.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Dera Ghazi Khan on Thursday awarded 298-year imprisonment to three gangsters, including Chotu gang leader Ghulam Rasool alias Chotu, for killing two coppers in 2011. "Chotu gang leader Ghulam Rasool alias Chotu" - How clever! They'll never be able to ID him
The other gangsters who have been convicted by the court were identified as Sher Khan and Ghulam Rasool Kahu.
The ATC also imposed Rs200,000 fine on each of the convicts and ordered them to submit the fine, according to media reports.
Earlier in March, at least 20 gangsters, including those affiliated with infamous Chotu gang, were awarded death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... by the ATC Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... on charges of killing six coppers in Rajanpur.
Police had sought help of the army and Rangers in the fight against Chotu Gang in Rajanpur district. Chotu gang had surrendered to the army.
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[DAWN] THE debate about religion and science dates back centuries. The debate is not about a technical matter, but about two realms of knowledge ‐ theological and scientific. There seems to be an epistemological clash of validity between the two, apparently with each claiming sway over human life.
Faith leaders or Learned Elders of Islam, in general, boast of having a godly system, which is eternally true, free from error and change. They underplay the hand of man in the understanding, interpretation and application of religious dogmas. Religious leaders are known to oppose scientific developments that they interpret as opposing the key notions of religion due largely to the fear that these would undermine the faith of believers. They may do it with sincerity to religion, and presumably, to save believers from error.
Their tools to deny science are theological and based largely on discursive reason, and not necessarily empirical evidence. They do not always have at their disposal the modern tools of understanding religion, such as scientific history of religions, sociology, psychology, anthropology etc. Reza Aslan’s work God: a Human History is illuminating; it explores how the evolution of religious impulses has taken place in the history of humankind.
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scientific history of religions, sociology, psychology, anthropology
none of which are scientific disciplines though they try and tie on the trappings.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run health ministry says 23-year-old Ahmed al-Qarra dies after being shot in stomach as 4,500 take part in weekly protest.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian demonstrator on the Gaza border, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said overnight Friday-Saturday.
The ministry said a bullet struck 23-year-old Ahmed al-Qarra in the stomach Friday and he later died at the hospital.
Around 4,500 Palestinians rioted along the fence on Friday. Some of the demonstrators threw explosive devices, firebombs and stones at Israel Defense Forces vehicles, causing damage to one of the them, the Kan broadcaster reported.
Some 56 demonstrators were injured in the protests, including 38 from live fire, according to Walla news.
The weekly protests call for an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Israel maintains that the blockade is necessary to prevent arms from entering Gaza that could be used in attacks against it.
[IsraelTimes] The boycott issue is not going away, the two state solution gets a boost, and the resolution does nothing — and a lot.
The US House of Representatives this week approved a non-binding resolution that condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
Much was made of the 398-17 vote, a tally that earns the hoary journalist adjective “overwhelming.” Democrats and Republicans at long last could bond on an issue — rejecting attempts to boycott Israel.
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[RUDAW.NET] Ottoman Turkish state media reported on Thursday that the Ottoman Turkish army and intelligence agencies have "neutralized" the alleged planners of the July 17 Erbil shooting, in which a Ottoman Turkish diplomat and two Kurdish civilians died.
According to state media outlets, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... launched two separate operations in Duhok province targeting the suspects. The outlets did not identify the alleged planners.
The first operation was reportedly conducted in Duhok city on July 18, one day after the Erbil attack took place, while the second took place six days later on Wednesday in the Batifa area of Zakho, TRT reported Thursday.
The pro-government Daily Sabah said two people were "neutralized" in these operations, claiming they were senior members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Turkey and pro-government media use the term "neutralized" to denote captured, maimed, or killed.
The Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) carried out the twin operations based on information from "local intelligence sources", TRT said, without providing details.
The outlet also published photos of two destroyed vehicles ‐ a Toyota Hilux and a Jeep ‐ which allegedly belonged to the planners.
On Wednesday, senior PKK commander Bahoz Erdal denied the gang was involved in the "amateur" Erbil attack, but praised the perpetrators for killing a "blood sucker".
Erdal claimed that Osman Kose, the Ottoman Turkish diplomat killed in the attack, was a top official in Turkey’s military intelligence agency MIT running operations against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region.
"We did some investigations and concluded that first of all the killed person is not a diplomat but the head of MIT in charge of activities against us in all southern Kurdistan [Iraqi Kurdistan Region]," Erdal told the PKK-affiliated Sterk TV.
The July 17 shooting took place at a Ottoman Turkish restaurant in the upmarket Empire complex in Erbil. Kose and two Kurdish civilians died when three button men opened fire with pistols fitted with suppressors.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Irish Times] Imagine if you suddenly began hearing voices in the air that followed you wherever you went; heading to work on the train, or out walking on a busy street. Voices that offered wise, accurate and relevant information.
[The Lid] Funny things always happen to Bill and Hillary Clinton, friends have this nasty habit of turning up dead. We all gotta go sometimes, but the Clinton's buddies seem to go under weird circumstances (and many by suicide). My friend Tami Jackson has compiled a list and description of 47 Clinton friends whose deaths seemed a bit odd. We will share them over the next few days. Below are the first ten.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐A constant target of remarks from President Trump, including chants of "send her back" from a recent rally, Representative Ilhan Omar has introduced a resolution to the House of Representatives condemning the three things she finds most dangerous to society: racism and white men and "also the Jews."
[Washington Examiner] Sen. Bernie Sanders said if the U.S. wants help bring peace to the Middle East, it cannot prioritize the wants and needs of Israel over all else.
[Free Beacon] A Washington Free Beacon report on homophobic and racist comments made by a top Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee official set off a battle between the campaign committee's chairman and minority members of Congress, according to Politico.
...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 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[IsraelTimes] 30-year-old Sam Goodwin had been trying to visit every country in the world when he went missing in war-torn country.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...Arabic for 
[CHRONICLET] Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million appeal bond before he stays execution of the multimillion-dollar judgment recently won against the college by Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family.
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
[DAWN] Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman retired Maj Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa on Friday told a Senate panel that the government should either increase the body's "technical capabilities" or block social media websites in the country in order to stop the circulation of "blasphemous content".
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...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 
...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 
[Townhall] While watching a documentary this week called "Mysteries at the Museum," I was struck by an epiphany which helped me to better understand the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax operation and the FBI's willingness to perpetrate it. The program brought home to me how the FBI is blindingly lacking in self-awareness. And shame.
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] For all of CNN’s suggestions that President Trump was a racist and anti-Semite, they sure don’t seem to catch those tendencies of prospective employees during the hiring process. Instead, they have them resign after they’re exposed on social media. It’s especially troubling when the prospective employee had publicly celebrated the deaths of "jewish pigs" in Jerusalem.
[BREITBART] Another CNN personality who was presenting on the CNN Arabic network as recently as last week appears to have expressed a series of antisemitic sentiments on Twitter, even praising Hitler. This follows the recent resignation of a CNN editor, whose past antisemitic statements surfaced Thursday afternoon.
...Somali-
Ref #5: Just as with Bath House Barry, we see the puppet, but the puppet masters are completely hidden from view...
...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...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[DAWN] THE debate about religion and science dates back centuries. The debate is not about a technical matter, but about two realms of knowledge ‐ theological and scientific. There seems to be an epistemological clash of validity between the two, apparently with each claiming sway over human life.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run health ministry says 23-year-old Ahmed al-Qarra dies after being shot in stomach as 4,500 take part in weekly protest.
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
