Snicker. Gotta keep up appearances!
[Yahoo] A mass departure of top aides shook House Democrats' campaign arm Tuesday, an exodus prompted by complaints from Hispanic and black lawmakers that the organization's staff lacked diversity.
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a statement late Monday that she had "fallen short" and promised to "work tirelessly to ensure that our staff is truly inclusive." Executive Director Allison Jaslow announced her departure and a DCCC aide said five other senior aides had also resigned.
The tumult comes in a period when race has become a partisan battlefield, following a series of Twitter attacks by President Donald Trump on House Democrats of color. In his latest blasts, he has disparaged Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and his city of Baltimore, which is majority black.
The shake-up also occurred as both parties are already fundraising and recruiting candidates for the 2020 elections, in which Democrats will be defending their House majority. The DCCC outspent its counterpart, the National Republican Congressional Committee, in the 2018 elections that saw Democrats regain House control after eight years in the minority.
Lawmakers complaining about the DCCC's staff have included Texas Democratic Reps. Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez and Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Bustos, 57, became chairwoman of the campaign committee following the 2018 elections, arguing she would be effective because she has represented a swing district that swung to support Trump in 2016.
Hispanic lawmakers became disenchanted after she replaced top staffers, including many minorities, with aides who were largely white, said an aide to Gonzalez who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly. New committee leaders often name long-time aides to their staffs.
In a statement last weekend, Gonzalez and Vela said the DCCC was "in complete chaos." They said Bustos should appoint a person of color to be executive director "to restore confidence in the organization and to promote diversity."
Fudge also told Politico, which first reported about the DCCC's disarray, about her unhappiness about the committee's lack of diversity.
"It is shocking, and something needs to be done about it," she said.
Gabrielle Brown, spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus, said black House lawmakers have been holding meetings with DCCC officials for months at which they expressed similar concerns. None of the lawmakers complained about the DCCC's performance this year in raising money and finding candidates to challenge Republicans, the committee's main job.
Bustos has also encountered broader problems that have caused divisions within the party.
Liberals in and out of Congress were angered when she announced the DCCC would not do business with political consultants who help Democrats challenging incumbent House Democrats. Much of DCCC's money comes from dues paid by House Democrats, and incumbents have argued that an organization they finance should not give some of its lucrative business to consultants who work for challengers trying to unseat them.
Many Democrats were also unhappy when Bustos planned to attend an event in support of fellow Illinois Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski, an abortion opponent and one of the most conservative house Democrats. Bustos ended up not attending.
A House leadership aide said top Democrats largely faulted the now-departed Jaslow for not quickly responding to the complaints. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the situation publicly, said leaders did not believe Bustos should leave her post.
Jaslow, an Iraq war veteran, said in a statement that "sometimes selfless service means having the courage to take a bow for the sake of the mission ‐ especially when the stakes are so high."
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maybe a wave of the periwinkle wand can fix that?
I’m so sorry, gorb. As far as I can figure out, you wanted one of the images or GIFs from the BBC show Keeping Up Appearances. But for some reason the Burg does not like the link. Perhaps one of our computer savvy moderators will figure it out. If only you’d set the width greater than 450 — I know what to do about that.
I like the idea that they be made of recyclable and/or biodegradeable plastic. And a lot of other stuff should be, too.
[Yahoo] President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has made nearly half a million dollars selling red plastic straws emblazoned with his name, his base apparently lapping up the new merch.
Last week, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale shared the update in a tweet advertising the straws, which went on sale just 10 days ago on July 19.
"Can’t wait to see the pictures of Trump supporters drinking with them," he wrote.
According to a Politico report published Monday, the campaign confirmed that it had raised more than $456,000 from the straws.
The idea, the outlet said, came to Parscale when he was on a flight to Florida sipping ice tea through a paper straw when it tore in two.
Irked by the mishap, Parscale turned it into a political point on Twitter, declaring, "I’m so over paper straws," which he blamed on "liberal progress."
"This is exactly what they would do to the economy as well. Squeeze it until it doesn’t work." That's called "regulation", I believe.
Still in the air, Parscale sent his staff an email titled "Making straws great again," proposing they become part of the Trump brand, Politico reported. When Parscale’s plane landed, the straws were already being produced and a marketing campaign had been launched.
Hours later, Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington tweeted that they were sold out.
Now the straws, which retail at $15 for 10 ― roughly 150 times more expensive than the average straw ― are halfway to becoming a million-dollar idea. It's a donation token, not the actual price.
Though Trump’s campaign website claims the straws are reusable and recyclable, they’re meant to represent a defiant stand against environmental initiatives to end the use of straws and other plastics that often end up in the trash after one use. (Many recycling facilities do not accept plastic straws).
In a study published in 2017, the American Association for the Advancement of Science estimated that beaches around the world are polluted by up to 8.3 billion plastic straws. According to the National Park Service, Americans use 500 million of them every day. Do the math ... that's almost 17 days of consumption. Methinks that 8.3B number is probably low. Unless they are just talking about the straws stuck in turtles' noses.
[MSN] Dozens of wealthy families in Illinois have reportedly been using a controversial tactic to help their children pay for college: They give up legal guardianship so the teenagers can claim dramatically lower incomes and earn need-based financial aid, according to reports from two news organizations published Monday.
ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal each detailed the efforts in separate articles after uncovering dozens of applications filed by Chicago-area parents to financially divorce themselves from their kids over the past year and a half.
As part of the strategy, wealthy parents allegedly file paperwork to transfer legal custody of their kids to other relatives, friends or even co-workers. When the transfers are complete ‐ often during their junior or senior years of high school ‐ students are then able to declare themselves financially independent on college applications. In one instance detailed by the Journal, a student whose parents owned a $1.2 million home only had to declare $4,200 in income from a summer job.
That student was able to obtain about $47,000 in scholarships and federal Pell grants to attend a private university that costs $65,000 per year. Oh please, say it isn't so.
The practice is legal, but the Journal notes that the Education Department is looking into the matter. The agency did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
"It’s a scam," Andy Borst, the director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told ProPublica. "Wealthy families are manipulating the financial aid process to be eligible for financial aid they would not be otherwise eligible for. They are taking away opportunities from families that really need it." Borst also spoke with ProPublica.
ProPublica noted that laws in Illinois governing the transfer of legal guardianship are broadly written and that as long as the parents, children and the court agree, a judge can approve the transfer even if parents are able to financially support their kids.
Almost all of the cases cited by ProPublica and the Journal echo language that says the new guardians "can provide educational and financial support and opportunities to the minor that her parents could not otherwise provide."
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"Wealthy" is a matter of dispute. The owner of a $1.2 million home may seem wealthy, but it isn't liquid wealth i.e. the sort that can make a dent on an absurdly overpriced undergraduate college degree.
The real scam artists here are the college administrators who keep ratcheting up tuition to absurd levels - and our legislators who let them get away with it while retaining their tax-exempt status.
[BearingArms] Drive-by shootings are something that I’ve never understood. I mean, I get the idea. You roll on by and open up on your target, all while presenting a moving target to him and his buddies.
What I don’t get is that most of the people who take part in drive-by shootings have a hard time hitting the broadside of a barn while standing inside of the damn thing. They can’t shoot, so why add difficulty to something you already suck at?
That’s why the problem with drive-bys are collateral damage. It’s because these guys can’t shoot worth a flip.
Apparently, drive-by gunmen aren’t necessarily up on the "don’t shoot your own driver" protocol either (allegedly).
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ‐ A man has died after he was accidentally shot by his own passenger Sunday in a Park Manor drive-by on the South Side. Uh, you know you aren't supposed to shoot out the other window, don't you?
Matthew Gibson, 26, was pronounced dead Monday at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in Hegewisch on the Far South Side.
Jake Lee, the alleged passenger who shot him, has been charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, and is expected to face a murder count, according to Cook County prosecutors. Lee, 27, of Englewood, was denied bail during a hearing on Tuesday. Alleged passenger?
Gibson was driving about 5:40 a.m. in the first block of West 71st Street when he pulled alongside a white SUV waiting to make a left turn, prosecutors said.
Lee, seated in the front passenger seat, began firing at the SUV with a .40-caliber handgun and accidentally shot Gibson in the head, prosecutors said. Even with the gunshot wound, Gibson was able to drive more than two miles to the 6700 block of South Marshfield. A 22-year-old man was also wounded in the shooting.
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It was an accident, no crime in that... I wonder if he'll have a problem finding a driver in the future?
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Uh, you know you aren't supposed to shoot out the other window, don't you?
It's to be expected, DB. Per drive-by protocol, the driver should always make sure the target is on the passenger side of the vehicle. Of course, this starts breaking down if you have more than two passengers in the car doing the shooting . . . .
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It's now in the Somali Minneapolis Police Manual as well...
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has been charged with aggravated battery with a firearm,
Because the bullet absolutely battered the guy's head a millisecond before it punctured it.
Good riddance. I'm guessing, he wasn't even driving for two miles to some hospital. He was just too dumb to realize he was dead. It's funny, like a video game fail. Learn this playing GTAIV, this is what happens.
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I've often thought that if we can't stop the shootings, we ought to offer gang members range time to cut down on the collateral damage. It would be like Midnight Basketball but with targets.
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I remember reading some time ago about some turf wars between S. E. Asians and Blacks. The Blacks did their usual drive and spray attacks. The Asians drove up got out of their cars drew their guns and delivered aimed fire and didn't leave any of their targets alive.
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My Dad's WW2 Story:
The cooks would man a .50 HMG and blaze away at Jap planes. Unfortunately one had a habit of holding the trigger down and spraying the mast as well. My Dad, radar operator, would then have to climb the mast and rebraid the copper cable the idiot cook had shot up. Dad finally talked a mechanic to weld a big knob on the traversing ring so the cook would have to let off on the triggers long enough to get the gun over the bump.
[Babylon Bee] BALTIMORE, MD‐According to expert biologists working in Guilder's infamous Fire Swamp, millions of R.O.U.S.es---Rodents of Unusual Size---have begun a "great migration" from the deadly thicket to the scenic, idyllic city of Baltimore.
"Due to deforestation by Guilder woodsmen and a sharp increase in tourism prompted by the documentary The Princess Bride, R.O.U.S.es have found their home threatened and are seeking more disgusting pastures," said a wildlife expert in the Fire Swamp. "Many people are trying to build summer homes here as well, as the trees are actually quite lovely."
He then dodged deftly to one side as he heard a popping noise, and just in time, as he narrowly avoided a flame geyser bursting from the ground. "Easy enough to avoid," he said, smiling.
Unfortunately, he stepped right into a pit of lightning sand and died.
It's a difficult trip the rodents have to make, as they must descend the Cliffs of Insanity, survive a swim across a channel infested with shrieking eels, tiptoe around the Zoo of Death, and finally board a boat for Baltimore. Only a few hundred thousand survive the journey and take up residence on the streets of Baltimore, where "the streets run rampant with trash" and "the feces flow like milk and honey."
Many people don't think the R.O.U.S.es exist, but they are wrong, as you can go to Baltimore and see for yourself.
[WashingtonExaminer] Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., shared a scathing tweet about Sen. Rand Paul on Monday written by comedian Tom Arnold, which said, "Imagine being Rand Paul's next door neighbor and having to deal with @RandPaul lying cowardly circular whiney bullcrap about lawn clippings. No wonder he ripped his toupee off."
Arnold's tweet was in response to liberal writer and noted President Trump critic, Mehdi Hasan, who had made disparaging comments about the Kentucky Republican, after Paul suggested last week that he would buy a ticket for Omar to go back to her native Somalia to "appreciate America more."
Arnold's tweet was an apparent reference a 2017 incident, in which Rene Boucher, Paul's neighbor (a rabid Bernie Sanders supporter) in Bowling Green, Kentucky, attacked him over a disagreement about lawn refuse. Boucher pleaded guilty to the assault, which left Paul with six cracked ribs, bruised lungs, and a "living hell" of pain.
Donald Jr sums up the typical PMSNBC 5th column response. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar retweeting calls for political violence against @randpaul. I’m not surprised, and look forward to the forthcoming silence from the media on the issue. Minnesotans will note the complete lack of coverage by our official Pravda Twin Cities DNC media
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If Rand was a true Libertarian he would believe in solving his problems and place a contract on her. He doesn't appear to have done so. Maybe he should turn in his Libertarian card?
[Mil.com] BALTIMORE ‐ Federal officials say they've found a missile launcher in a man's luggage at the airport in Baltimore.
The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the military grade weapon was located in the man's checked luggage at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
TSA officers called airport police who found the man and detained him for questioning. The unidentified traveler said he was in the military and coming home from Kuwait. He said he wanted to keep the weapon as a souvenir.
The TSA said the missile launcher was "not a live device." But it was handed over to the state fire marshal for disposal.
The man lives in Jacksonville, Texas, which is about 115 miles east of Dallas. He was ultimately allowed to catch his flight home. He 'amnesty boxed' the pron, but couldn't get the launcher through the slot.
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I suspect they also suffer from high expectations - I gotta have my white kitchen with quartz countertops, a huge island, and matching stainless steel appliances.
I remember having to 'transition' from my parents new color TV to a black and white portable, when I got married. Whadda disappointment!
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Location, location, location:
Got to live within walking distance of the shops and pubs.....
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My first home after I got married was large but a horrendous dog house when we moved in. My wife and I were so pleased to be homeowners we didn't care. It took years to "make it right" and I still spent a lot to "make it right" again when I sold it.
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Its because MotherFatherGovernment won't buy them their dream house.
The "people" that are considered millennials expectations are way out of wack. This is a pampered entitled generation (no, not all of them) that expects that their starter home should have a garage for the Beemer and an outlet for the Prius, not to mention the hot tub and Napolean grill and etc. etc.
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Generally speaking, there are two factors involved - home prices and buyer's incomes. A reasonable column would have at least mentioned the latter in some fashion, maybe even have taken it into consideration. Nope, not this one.
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I know a young married couple who just moved to San Jose and are renting a master bedroom for $1300/month.
Husband just got employment with a tech firm.
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Our parents bought small post-war 2-bedroom Cape Cods or bungalows and thought they had it made.
We bought 3-bedroom ranch styles (with a small patio!) and thought we had it made.
Our kids want 'starter castles'.
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Agree with Besoeker, but add zoning, building codes, inspections: not only the costs, but the delays caused by each step of the process. Right now it is taking 12-18 months from the time a person/couple want to build in our neighborhood until they move in!
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There is plenty of affordable housing. Just not where those who at the drop of a hat will call others racist and white supremacists are interested in homesteading or gentrifying.
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Millennials are the generation that were told that any college degree is awesome take out student loans to get one, then reached adulthood after Sept 11 and faced a tepid job market until recently (except for STEM jobs of course).
Those Millennials? Who would have guessed they aren't buying homes.
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My niece and her fiance just bought a home. $400,000+ for a renovated 19th century farmhouse in a good neighborhood. Fortunately, they are both young professionals with a combined annual (starting) income of 130,000+.
She's a good responsible kid, and I help her where I can like paying off 1/2 of her student loans.
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People love to point out that there is affordable housing for sale. What they don't love to point out is the 1-2 hour commute that comes with it (and I'm in Metro Detroit, not exactly a major city). Of course you could also buy a foreclosed rat hole in the city proper where there's an extra $15,000 in back taxes and gang members to worry about. Neither is a very attractive idea. A lot of young people just stick to apartments and other rentals because of this.
[Jpost] Air strikes killed more than 10 civilians in a market in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Saada province on Monday, a medical source and Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... -run media reported.
The head of the local Al Jomhouri hospital told Rooters 13 people were killed and 23 injured in air strikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition battling the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen. Al Masirah TV said on Twitter that more than 10 civilians had been killed in the strikes.
The front man for the coalition did not immediately respond to a request for comment and there was no confirmation from the alliance or Saudi authorities.
[IndianExpress] 17 killed as military aircraft crashes in residential area near Rawalpindi
A Pakistani rescue official has said that the small plane was on a training flight. The plane lost communication with the tower, before crashing in the village of Mora Kalu on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, and setting fire to residential structures.
At least 17 people were killed and 12 injured after a Pakistani military aircraft crashed into a residential area near Rawalpindi in the early hours of Tuesday, reported Reuters. All five crew members on the aircraft and 12 civilians were killed in the incident. Since the area is a military officers residential, also housing senior officials, to me it's tragicomic.
Believe it or not, this was once an upscale neighborhood.
A Pakistani rescue official has said that the small plane was on a training flight. The reason for the crash is being ascertained. Rescue teams were rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire.
The plane lost communication with the tower, before crashing in the village of Mora Kalu on the outskirts of Rawalpindi, and setting fire to residential structures. "The plane hit the side of the building and the structure it has crashed into has completely collapsed" No shit
an army officer at the scene told Reuters. They also said that the toll could rise as some of the injured were critical In moments of waking they all mumble something about 'getting the safe out of the fire'. .
This is the second unexplained crash since the chinese made F-7PG trainer aircraft were inducted into the PAF and military recon. The first one crashed in January this year, in western Pakistain.
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This is the second unexplained crash since the chinese made F-7PG trainer aircraft were inducted into the PAF and military recon. The first one crashed in January this year, in western Pakistain.
[Jpost] Yemen's Iran-aligned Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... group said it launched on Sunday a Iranian "Domestically Produced"
drone attack on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Abha airport, Houthis' al- Masirah TV reported citing the group's military front man.
There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities.
[IsraelTimes] Conservative governments have cracked down on refugee entry, replacing permanent visas with temporary ones and refusing asylum to those who arrive by boat.
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside Australia’s Parliament House on Monday, saying they wanted to highlight the uncertain futures of many refugees since the government replaced permanent protection visas with temporary visas.
The protesters were from Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia and included Rohingya Moslems from Myanmar. Most were in Australia on three-year visas or five-year visas that are available to refugees who agree to live outside the major cities.
Such refugees lose their visas if they to return to their homelands to visit family.
"The circumstances of the temporary visas are onerous as well as a bureaucratic nightmare," Refugee Action Coalition front man Ian Rintoul said. "People are effectively in limbo in that [they] are indefinitely separated from partners and from children as well as brothers and sisters."
The temporary visas were introduced when the conservative government was first elected in 2013 as a way of deterring asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat. Refugees who do not arrive by boat are entitled to permanent protection visas.
Some asylum seekers who arrived by boat as far back as 2012 were only allowed to apply for refugee visas last year, Rintoul said.
When visas expired, some were not renewed in cases where the government decided that conditions the refugees had fled in their homelands had improved. Refugees who were refused visa extensions included Sri Lankans and some Iraqis, Rintoul said.
Chanting "eight years is too long" and "justice for refugees," most of the 1,000 protesters had driven 650 kilometers (400 miles) from the city of Melbourne to demonstrate, Rintoul said.
Heydar Aftahi, an Iranian Kurd, said he arrived in Australia by boat in 2010 and had his permanent residency visa canceled in May. He faces deportation despite having an Australian citizen wife and a 4-year-old Australian son.
The 36-year-old Sydney interpreter said he was fighting for a visa in the Federal Court, but the government had refused him a bridging visa while his case was heard because he arrived by boat.
"I have no visa at all, having an Australian wife and an Australian son and I have to shut down my business as well," Aftahi said outside Parliament House.
"It’s discrimination just because I came by boat. They prevent me from applying for any other visa," he added.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison declined to meet a delegation of protesters led by Iraqi Council Melbourne president Samir Kafaji in Parliament House. But two politicians from the opposition Labor Party, which opposes temporary visas, agreed to speak to the delegates.
The government toughened its policy against boat arrivals in 2013, banning any asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by water from ever settling there.
The boats have since all but stopped, after arriving at a rate of more than one a day.
Those arriving by boat since 2013 have been banished to immigration camps in the poor Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru, where hundreds still languish.
The United States agreed to resettle up to 1,250 of these refugees. The Australian government said last week that 585 refugees had since found new homes in the United States under the agreement.
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Sounds like they exist upon Australian backs. Maybe they should find somewhere else to exist.
Imagine travelling halfway around the world to escape? It's more likely these are escaping having to exist under their own efforts AKA economic migrants.
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glad too hear they resettled over 500 here. sarc/
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If they return to their home countries to visit family, then by definition they are not in fear for their lives. Wotta scam. Bring lots of Aus Dollars.
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Maybe they could resettle them all in the central desert regions. There aren't any Australians living there to complain, and they would all be dead within a year as well, so everybody wins. Including Australia's multitude of hungry and horrific monsters.
[Jpost] The accused criminal mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has indicated a willingness to be deposed by victims who are suing Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... for damages, if the United States decides not to seek the death penalty against him.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's offer was disclosed late Friday in a letter filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by lawyers representing individuals and businesses seeking billions of dollars in damages.
The Saudi government has long denied involvement in the attacks, in which hijacked airplanes crashed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 people died.
Michael Kellogg, a Washington-based lawyer for the Saudi government, declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier about the letter.
According to the letter, the plaintiffs' lawyers have been in contact with lawyers for five witnesses in federal custody about their availability for depositions.
The lawyers said three, including Mohammed, are housed at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention camp, where they face capital charges, while two are at the "Supermax" maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado.
According to the letter, Mohammed would not agree "at the present time" to be deposed, but that could change.
"Counsel stated that 'the primary driver' of this decision is the 'capital nature of the prosecution' and that ' n the absence of a potential death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... much broader cooperation would be possible,'" the letter said.
Mohammed and the other Guantanamo detainees have been attending pre-trial hearings in their cases, the letter said.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to similar requests.
Saudi Arabia long had broad immunity from Sept. 11 lawsuits in the United States. But that changed in September 2016 when the U.S. Congress overrode President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... 's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act ("JASTA").
In March 2018, U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan, who oversees the litigation by victims, said their claims "narrowly articulate a reasonable basis" for him to assert jurisdiction through JASTA over Saudi Arabia.
His decision covered claims by the families of those killed, roughly 25,000 people who suffered injuries and many businesses and insurers.
The case is In re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 03-md-01570.
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KSM provided a lot of information to US interrogators subsequent to water treatment. This information was used to prevent other jihad airplane acts and also led to clues which ultimately resulted in locating OBL.
I think we could agree not to execute him.
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That's really very decent of him after all, 'agreeing to participate'. Very decent indeed.
Fred C Dobbs had it right in black and white, 'Do the mug in, I say'. Something old timey and poorly done with an appropriate lingering visual quality for the telly.
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri called on China and other countries friendly 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... on Monday to buy more Iranian oil, the oil ministry news website SHANA reported, as Chinese imports plunged after US sanctions took effect.
China's crude oil imports from Iran sank almost 60% in June from a year earlier, Chinese customs data showed on Saturday, following the end of a waiver on US sanctions at the start of May.
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If you sign away your sovereignty to China, I'm sure they'll take buy your oil. BTW, I hear they have nice desert resorts in Western China for the seriously religious like yourselves.
[IsraelTimes] In a dramatic ruling, sure to anger Jerusalem, Canada’s Federal Court rules that Israeli wines produced in West Bank settlements can no longer be labeled "Made in Israel."
Responding to a law suit by Dr. David Kattenburg, a Jewish Canadian critical of Israel’s policies toward the Paleostinians, the presiding judge ruled that allowing settlement wines "to be labeled as ’Products of Israel’ ... does not fall within the range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and law. It is, rather, unreasonable." Nice word salad to justify
The presiding judge, Anne L. Mactavish, says she does not want to determine how exactly settlements wines should be labeled, saying this is a matter for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to decide.
In the ruling, the court decides that the agency’s previous decision to allow settlement wines to be labeled as Israeli products was mistaken, as Canada does not recognize Israel’s illusory sovereignty outside the pre-1967 lines. Hence, the labels currently in use are "false, misleading and deceptive."
Fine, then label such things as Produced under Israeli Rule, and everyone will be happy.
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Israel should respond by requiring all canadian products be labelled Product of Canuckistan - Made in Hongcouver - Made in Queerbec
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or labeling wine as "wine production employees Palestinians"
let them boycott that
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"...does not fall within the range of possible, acceptable outcomes which are defensible in respect of the facts and law. It is, rather, unreasonable."
Anyone who writes or talks like that should be bottled and left alone in a dark cellar to age. For the good of humanity and the English language.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... on Monday said there was no precedent in Islamic history for forcefully converting others, and those who do so "know neither the history of Islam, nor their religion, the Koran or Sunnah."
The premier made the remarks while addressing an event around the National Minority Day hosted at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad.
The premier said that Prophet Muhammad's (PTUI!) life was a road map for people to follow till the day of judgement. He explained that the Prophet himself had given minorities religious freedom and protected their places of worship, "because the Koran orders that there be no compulsion in religion".
"How can we then take it into our own hands to forcefully convert someone to Islam ‐ either by marrying [non-Moslem] women [...] or on gunpoint or to [by threatening to] kill someone because of their religion?" he asked.
"All these things are un-Islamic. If God hadn't given his messengers the power to impose their beliefs on someone, who are we [to do so]?" he asked, explaining that the messengers' duty was only to spread the word of God.
A lovely sentiment. Missing the second half of the prophet’s history, and will therefore be ignored by those who know better, but lovely nonetheless.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan sounds like a flower child and not very realistic in his views of Islam. He totally ignores the source of the majority of terrorism in the world.
[KhaamaPress] Two U.S. service members bit the dust in Afghanistan on Monday, 29th of July, 2019.
The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led Resolute Support Mission issued a statement confirming that two U.S. service members bit the dust on 29th of July.
The Resolute Support Mission did not disclose further information regarding the circumstances that led to the killing of the two U.S. service members.
The Resolute Mission also did not provide further information regarding the location where the two service members bit the dust and identities of the two service members.
[GatesOfVienna] Actually, I don’t know whether this angry Nigerian is a Muslim or not. Nigeria is about 50% Muslim, probably slightly more than that now, but still pretty close to 50-50. I flipped a coin, and it came up heads, which is what Muslims cut off, so I’m making this car-killer out to be a Muslim.
MissPiggy, who translated the video for subtitles, also translated these notes from the original on YouTube:
(July 10, 2019) A 19-year-old Nigerian from the Augsburg area deliberately smashed the glass panes of several of the employees’ vehicles in the Donauwörther Refugee Center and caused property damage amounting to €50,000. According to police reports, after his arrest he spoke “confused stuff” so that he was admitted to the district hospital. After his release from the KKH, he was temporarily arrested. On July 12 he will be brought before the investigating judge.
The Nigerian apparently wanted to return to Nigeria, but he was refused his exit documents.
Send a pic, go to jail
[AmericanMirror] Senate moves bill with up to $15,000 fines for sharing memes online.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported when the legislation was first introduced in 2017 that those pushing for the bill mostly include photographers and other visual artists looking for a cheaper alternative to federal courts to pursue claims, which can be expensive.
But the reality is the CASE Act would significantly lower many of the legal hurdles that protect citizens from overzealous copyright lawyers in a variety of ways, from allowing claims for works that aren’t registered, to the ability to unmask alleged infringers without the same standards as federal courts, the power for the CCB to create its own rules, limited due process for claims below $5,000, and an “opt-out” approach that can be confusing for folks who can’t afford expensive lawyers.
The CASE Act also allows claimants to collect fines without showing actual harm from a copyright violation, and leaves those trapped in the system with little recourse.
[IsraelTimes] German authorities said they have extradited a Bosnian man to Belgium, where he was sought in connection with the November 2015 terror attacks in Gay Paree.
News agency dpa reported that prosecutors in the eastern town of Naumburg said the 39-year-old man was handed over to Belgian authorities on Monday. He was arrested in June, and a court rejected his objections to extradition.
His name wasn’t released.
German prosecutors have said the man is suspected of being connected to the November 13, 2015 krazed killer attack that killed 130 people and was wanted by Belgian authorities for alleged support of a terrorist organization. They didn’t detail the nature of his suspected involvement.
During the Gay Paree attacks, Islamic bandidosmurderous Moslems with guns and suicide bombs attacked the Bataclan music hall, a stadium, bars and restaurants.
The 39-year-old arrested in June and suspected of having procured weapons for the attackers “was extradited this morning,” Naumburg prosecution service spokesman Klaus Tewes tells AFP.
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[AnNahar] Stabbing guards, stoning aid workers and flying the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's black flag in plain sight: the wives and children of the 'caliphate' are sticking by the jihadists in a desperate Syrian camp.
Months after the defeat of the jihadist proto-state, families of IS fighters are among 70,000 people crammed into the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria.
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[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Another hot weekend ended with dozens of people rushed to the emergency room with gunshot wounds. Shootings left nine people dead and 39 maimed over the weekend. Good thing they have such strict gun control
The most recent shooting happened just before midnight Sunday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood.
Two men and a woman were maimed when a man walked up to them and started shooting near 130th and Evans, according to police. A 47-year-old man was at death's door at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, after he was shot in the chest. A 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were stabilized at Roseland Community Hospital, after both of them were shot in the arm.
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about 300 homicides now in Chicago for 2019
its a lot but it trails the 2018 count by about 10%
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Only because this last winter and spring had somewhat brutal weather, garth.
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Plenty of time to catch up.
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Saw an article yesterday (sorry,link has gone down the memory hole - mine, not the internet's) that listed the most dangerous cities based on likelihood of being a victim of crime. Chicago was #57 with a 91/100000 chance.. and beautiful downtown Minneapolis was #56 with the same score. I'm guessing the severity/fatality of victimhood was not a factor in the rating.
djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces arrested on Sunday six members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group in Nineveh province, the Interior Ministry said.
"Based on judicial arrest warrants, six Islamic State holy warriors were busted by the 12th emergency troops of the Nineveh Operations Command in Mosul city," Alsumaria News TV channel quoted the ministry as saying in a press statement.
The arrestees, according to the statement, were fighting for the Islamic State when the city of Mosul fell under the control of the bad boy group in 2014.
The police also found three bazooka missiles at a land plot owned by an IS bad boy in the western side of Mosul, the statement read.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces stormed a key Taliban ...Arabic for students... compound in Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, the Special Operations Corps said Sunday.
According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, the Special Forces stormed the Taliban compound in Dehrawood district on Saturday night.
The statement further added that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs during the operation.
Furthermore, the Special Operations Corps said the Special Forces destroyed the Taliban compound and all its facilities during the raid.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operation so far.
[Ynet] Fire breaks out near southern border from a suspected incendiary balloon sent over from inside the 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... Strip.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces destroyed a house-borne improvised bomb during an operation in southern Kandahar province.
The military officials said Monday that the Special Forces destroyed a house bomb in Maiwand district.
The officials further added that the Special Forces destroyed a small weapons cache during a separate raid in Sayyidabad district of Wardak.
Furthermore, the Special Forces arrested 2 Talibs during a raid in Sangin district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The officials also added that the Special Forces killed a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... murderous Moslem and destroyed an improvised bomb and large cache of weapons in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province.
[DAWN] At least one civilian was killed while seven others were maimed in a village in Azad Jammu and Kashmire in yet another "unprovoked" ceasefire violation by Indian forces from across the Line of Control (LoC), local officials said on Monday.
According to Muhammad Zaheer, a disaster management officer in Haveli, Indian forces began shelling and firing in the Nezapir sector at about 3:45pm and in Khurshidabad sector at around 6pm on Sunday "without any provocation".
"They used both small and big arms and targeted civilian populations, restricting people indoors till late night," he said.
Rehmat Jan, a 45-year-old woman who lived in Mandhar village, died after being hit by the splinters of a mortar shell, Zaheer told Dawn. Another resident of the village, Begum Jan (48) was injured due to Indian shelling, he said.
Three civilians ‐ Zainab Jan (60), Muhammad Naeem Dar (24) and Ulfat Rashid (17) ‐ were maimed in Kairni village while Munir Hussain (20), Kausar Parveen (26) and Nosheen (18) were maimed in Kachar Ban.
The casualties occurred in Khurshidabad and Nezapir sectors of Haveli district ‐ which lies near the LoC ‐ on Sunday night but the authorities shared the information with media on Monday. Haveli Deputy Commissioner Raja Arshad Mahmood said that since the affected villages are located near the LoC, details of the firing reached authorities late on Sunday night.
"After verification of each incident, the same has been communicated to the concerned offices in Muzaffarabad today," he said.
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There's no such thing as Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir is one state of India, while what Pakis call Azad Kashmir is a Pak occupied piece of Kashmir that some idiot PM let them have despite our protests.
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They just began calling it that when they got the stupid UN to agree with them, now emboldened with China's assist they think they can include 'Jammu' in the name 'Azad Kashmir' and encroach into India simply via changing names on maps. True cousins of the Paleostinians.
[DW] "I am Antifa" began trending in Germany after Trump said he might label the group a terror organization. Left-wing politicians hit back at the US president, while police and “far-right”
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Does the Democrat Party qualify? They are showing "whack job" tendencies. Antifa members are annoying and in a group dangerous and destructive. Cowardly also comes to mind. The Weathermen were considered a terrorist group back in the 60s and early 70s. There are many similarities between the Weathermen and Antifa.
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Meanwhile, two members of the Proud Boys are now up for hearing for clashing with what the court says were "left-wing protesters" last year in NY. Hare and Kinsman stood their ground and faced 20+ bastards from antifa. Naturally they hit whatever they got a hold of, wouldn't you ?
The antifa guys and girls they attacked have refused to come to court to identify them or cooperate with the court And yet, the court is the #%@¶ing court, so it must hold court, right ?. This is understandable because going up on the stand, you can't wear a black mask.
Let's see what new travesty of justice the judges can muster up on their own against the citizen defenders.
[Ynet] Amid a wave of public protests, the Population and Immigration Authority intends to deport at least 100 foreign workers, mainly from the Philippines, who have overstayed their work permits, along with their Israeli-born children.
The authorities are currently focusing on families with toddler-age children in order to avoid deporting children who are ingrained in Israeli education system.
Amid a wave of national protests Israel’s immigration authorities on Monday expelled the first family as part of an operation intended to locate, arrest and deport illegal foreign workers and their families.
The decision was made in light of widespread protest against deporting children who were born and raised in Israel, and who in some instances don’t speak their parents' native language and aren’t familiar with their native culture.
[IsraelTimes] An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts.
The allegations included in the confidential report by the agency's ethics department are now being scrutinized by UN investigators. of course even without this stuff UNRWA subsidizes terrorism, so there is that
AFP has obtained a copy of the report, which describes “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses, including involving UNRWA’s top official, Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl.
It says the allegations include senior management engaging in “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives.”
One senior official named in the report has left the organization due to “inappropriate behavior” linked to the investigation, UNRWA said, while another has resigned for what the agency called “personal reasons.”
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“sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority, for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent..."
Didn't realize the UN was a subsidiary of the Democratic Party....
[IsraelTimes] Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth says he objects to Israel’s definition as a Jewish state because it is a "nationalistic term."
Roth is asked about Israel’s right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people during a radio interview with the Kan public broadcaster.
"Nobody has ever questioned Israel’s right to exist," he replies. "Israel can define itself anyway it wants, many states define themselves in nationalist terms."
Asked by the interviewer why he is reluctant to define Israel as a Jewish state, Roth says: "Well, because there are many Paleostinians who live in Israel too, who are citizens who deserve full rights."
Asked whether he would object to Egypt calling itself an Arab state, Roth says he would, "if that means that therefore people who are not Arabs are second class citizens and don’t get respect for their rights."
Maysan (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that its forces arrested two members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group in the eastern governorate of Maysan.
Speaking to the privately-owned Alsumaria News TV channel, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry’s front man, said counter-terrorism forces and intelligence arrested two Islamic State terrorists, who are wanted on terror charges pursuant to article no. 4 of the anti-terrorism law.
According to the front man, the two hard boyz were handed over to the competent authorities for interrogation and legal action.
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[CNBC] WASHINGTON ‐ Nobody spends money on arms like the United States, and it shows in the bottom lines of the biggest defense contractors.
The Trump administration’s 2019 defense-friendly spending bill increased the Pentagon’s spending power to a grand total of $717 billion. Next week, the Senate will vote on a $1.3 trillion budget deal for fiscal year 2020 that includes $738 billion for defense.
This week, America’s top five defense firms ‐ Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon ‐ posted their second-quarter earnings. While the companies’ quarterly performances remained strong, collectively their stocks were largely unchanged. The iShares U.S. Aerospace and Defense ETF was slightly higher for this week after the companies reported. So far this year the benchmark ETF is up nearly 26%.
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Yeah, after years under Obama, catch up can be expensive. Same thing happened after the Donks refused to approve new appropriations after Vietnam and made the military live on continuing resolutions. With most lower grade military families qualified and receiving food stamps, Carter lost to Reagan and the catch up was very expensive then as well.
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Logistics B Hard. Whether it is the Defense Department, or the place I retired from, the Bean Counters just don't see any point in paying for PreventiveMaintenance™ .
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Ref #3: 'Long term' in DoD speak.... one budget cycle to the next. Forget the POM. That's just unicorn meat. Stuff to throw on the wall for the congress.
[BREITBART] Baltimore homicides exceeded 300 each year from 2015 through 2018, and 2019 is on track to cross the 300 threshold for the fifth year in a row.
A 2016 report from the Baltimore Sun showed 344 homicides for the year 2015. A homicides counter maintained by the Sun shows 318 for 2016, 342 for 2017, and 309 for 2018.
USA Today reported that the 342 Baltimore homicides in 2017 represented a "homicide rate of 56 per 100,000 people." The homicide rate in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... was less than half of that, at "24 per 100,000."
As of July 28, the Sun’s counter shows 191 Baltimore homicides for 2019, which means the city is well on its way to surpassing 300 homicides for the year.
At least five people were shot, three fatally, in Baltimore on July 27 alone. And on July 25, Breitbart News reported eight persons were shot in one night of Baltimore violence. One of the shooting victims succumbed to his wounds.
The violence, including surges in homicides, has been all-too-present in the years since Maryland implemented the Firearm Safety Act in 2013. That act put in place many of the left’s favorite gun controls, such as an "assault weapons" ban and "high capacity" magazine ban. It also implemented a fingerprinting/registration process for new handgun buyers.
The number of homicides in Baltimore was 211 for the year 2014, but has been over 300 every year since.
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2015 was the year of the Freddy Grey riots.
2014 had 211 homocides.
300+ every year since
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the 342 Baltimore homicides in 2017 represented a "homicide rate of 56 per 100,000 people." The homicide rate in Chicago was less than half of that, at "24 per 100,000."
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Former scandalized Dem Mayor Catherine Pugh said Baltimore was rat-infested hell hole. Bernie Sanders said this in 2015 while running as a candidate. Trump says the same thing and all hell breaks loose in the opposing Party of Corruption.
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Based on the number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants per year [shortened list]
25 Eswatini, 17.29
24 Guyana, 18.37
23 Puerto Rico, 18.51
20 Mexico, 21.5
Chicago, 24
16 Colombia, 25.50
15 Guatemala, 27.26
10 South Africa, 33.97
7 Belize, 37.60
Baltimore 56, (in 2017)
3 Venezuela, 56.33
1 El Salvador, 82.84
[Jpost] The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ordered the Department for International Development (DFID) to disclose audit reports of accounts into which British grant money was transferred and allegedly used to pay salaries to convicted Paleostinian terrorists.
The decision, signed on Friday by Jonathan Slee, senior case officer for the Information Commissioner’s Office, overturns a 2018 refusal by both the DFID and its internal reviewer to disclose these reports, following a Freedom of Information request made by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) last year.
The commissioner is requiring DFID provide UKLFI with a copy of the information falling within the scope of its request within 35 days or face being sent before the High Court.
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[TheLocal.se] Several Swedish cities and municipalities have warned of a blood shortage, due to a combination of factors including summer holidays and recent knife attacks.
Gothenburg is the area with the most serious shortage, and members of the public have been urged to donate blood at healthcare centres in the city. The biggest shortages are for blood groups O+ and A+.
One potential reason for the shortage is a recent wave of knife attacks in the city, according to Jan Holgersson who works at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. I wonder what the other reasons could be.
"It can be trauma cases like the stabbings recently, but it can also be [due to] traffic accidents, major operations, or patients with blood disorders," he said. Huh, nothing about Muslims.
Uppsala and Gävle have also reported low levels of blood, although unlike in Gothenburg the situation in these areas is not classed as an extreme shortage.
Another reason for the shortage is the summer holidays. Blood can typically only be used for up to six weeks after donations, and with many Swedes taking lengthy holidays over the summer season, regular donors are less likely to donate at this time. Knife crime...why do knives hate us?
In most areas it is currently only possible to give blood if the donor has sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language, and it is up to the nurse to assess the donor's level of understanding.
But a Blodcentralen clinic in Stockholm this year for the first time made it possible for English-speakers to also donate blood, after translating the relevant health declaration documents into English.
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About time for Sweden to get its $hit together. Maybe they've been living under socialistic governments too long and don't have the will.
[Jpost] 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... has enriched 24 tons of uranium since signing the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, said the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, on Sunday, according to Radio Farda.
Iran had claimed that they had limited their stock of enriched uranium to 300 kg. (about 600 pounds) as required by the JCPOA.
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[IsraelTimes] A new video released by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shows a British warship escorting a UK-flagged tanker being warned by the paramilitary troops not to interfere in their seizure of the commercial vessel earlier this month.
The nearly two-minute video shows the British warship Foxtrot 236 during the escort and subsequent seizure of the Stena Impero by the Revolutionary Guard on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical shipping waterway between 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... and Oman.
In the video, an Iranian officer is heard telling the British warship: "You are ordered to not interfere in my operation."
A British officer is heard telling the Iranian officer that the British warship is in international waters with the merchant vessel conducting transit passage.
The Iranian officer responds: "Don’t put your life in danger."
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Not able to watch the video.
So the Iranians took this Brit flagged and escorted vessel, anyway?
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Yupp. There's a lot of polite military verse-speak to-and-fro, and the Brit vessel looks on as the Steno Impero is boarded.
Apparently filmed on the day of the July 19 incident from above the British warship Foxtrot 236 that was in the vicinity of the U.K.-flagged Stena Impero, showing the British navy unable to prevent Iran's seizure of the ship in the critical waterway.
I wonder what would have happened if they hadn't capitulated, instead warned that they would fire in the direction of the IRGC boat if they didn't back off ?
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Dron66046, F236 (HMS Montrose) is equipped with a 4.5 inch gun with a range of 15 miles. They should have put a warning shot through the Iranian boat. Amidship.
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The video is by Iran,thus suspect. I suspect that this video was made after the fact to show "how powerful" the Iran cowards are. If this was real, the Brittish warship would have done something about it.
My take is that this is a a fake video made for propaganda purposes.
[Rudaw] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) continues to terrorize members of the Kakai religious minority in the Kirkuk province, and some feel Iraqi security forces cannot protect them.
In the village of Topzawa, one local says security forces are failing to root out ISIS’ presence.
"The Kakei village surrounding is all plain fields, and any ISIS moves should be noticed easily," Sarmad Rashid told Rudaw. "However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... little has been done to stop them."
The Kakais are a Kurdish ethno-religious group who live in Khanaqin, Kirkuk and Nineveh in Iraq, as well as large parts of western Iran.
Topzawa is a Kakai village in the town of Daquq in the Kirkuk province. ISIS has not claimed any of the recent attacks, but locals suspect they are behind them and say there have been six since July 21. Local resident Hussein Ateeya says mortars have been hitting the town since July 25.
"ISIS bully boyz shelled the village with mortars, and then they conducted ground attacks," said Ateeya.
Residents were forced to defend themselves against the attackers, according to Ateeya.
"I rushed to the roof of my house with my weapon in my hands, I heard the ISIS bully boyz when they attacked the villages," he said. "I started to shoot them which also led the people of the village to start shooting them as well."
"We made the ISIS bully boyz to withdraw and foil their attack on our village."
The constant violence is prompting some Kakais to leave the area for safer parts of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... according to Najib Faris, who is from the Zanqar village in Daquq.
"More than 34 families left the village," Faris told Rudaw. "Now we are only 13 families who stayed back."
Iraqi federal police have bases in every Kakai village in Daquq, according to Daquq Mayor Lewish Sindi.
Their presence is not without problems, though. On July 24, federal police were accused of killing nine members of the same family after mistaking them for ISIS fighters following the shelling of a local village.
Daquq is one of several areas disputed by Erbil and Baghdad. Iraqi forces retook the Kirkuk province from the Peshmerga in October 2017 during the Iraqi-Kurdish conflict after the September 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum. Since then, ISIS has regrouped in areas between Iraqi and Kurdish forces’ positions in the disputed territories.
Talks are underway between Erbil and Baghdad to resume security cooperation in the disputed territories to try and stop the ISIS resurgence.
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[Jpost] An Iranian ship called Bavand, which had been at the heart of a geopolitical spat between Brasilia and Tehran, set sail from Brazil on Monday after receiving fuel from state-run Petroleo Brasileiro , the port of Paranaguá said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... a second Iranian ship, the Termeh, which set sail from Paranaguá port two days ago, was on Monday heading to the southern Brazilian port of Imbituba, where it is due to pick up a shipment of corn before heading back to Iran.
The ships were stranded after Brazil's state oil company, known as Petrobras, refused to sell them bunker fuel in the wake of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Petrobras eventually relented in the face of a supreme court ruling.
The ships' departures mark the end of a longstanding impasse. The Iranian vessels had been at the port of Paranaguá for more than 50 days, said law firm Kincaid Mendes Vianna, which represents the company that chartered the ships.
The vessels are due to return to 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... carrying a load of 100,000 tonnes of corn worth about 100 million reais ($26.5 million), the firm said.
[DAWN] Indian police were investigating on Monday a highway collision that critically injured a woman who had accused a politician of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of rape, a police officer said.
The case against the politician in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has been an embarrassment for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP since 2018, after the woman tried to kill herself, saying police had refused to register her complaint.
The woman and her lawyer were in a hospital battling for their lives after a truck on Sunday hit a car in which they were travelling, killing the woman's two aunts, who were also in the car, police official Rajeev Krishna said.
"Our inquiry is going on and we will look into the family's allegations," Krishna, the additional director general of police, told news hounds in Lucknow, the state capital.
One of the aunts was a witness in the rape case, which has cast a spotlight on lawlessness in the northern state, whose chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, a member of the BJP, has often touted his governments record on cracking down on crime.
The accused politician, Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who has been in jail since last year, has denied the accusation of rape. His lawyer, Awadhesh Singh, said the case was a conspiracy to harm his political career.
"It's just an accident," he told Rooters on Monday, referring to the car crash. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... police have lodged a case of murder against Sengar, based on the family's complaint that he was involved in causing the crash, according to a copy of the report seen by Rooters.
The woman's family said it feared for its safety, with her mother calling the crash a conspiracy by Sengar, who wanted the rape case against him withdrawn. "This is not an accident," the mother told news hounds at the hospital, adding that the family had faced threats over the rape case.
"One by one, all the witnesses are being eliminated. We're afraid for our lives," said the mother, whose husband died while in police custody last year.
Police have arrested the driver and owner of the truck.
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The woman's family said it feared for its safety
Which makes riding in a car with her a stupid thing to do.
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The average Indian politician. Uneducated, overtly criminal, steeped in unlawful activities, uncouth and devious. It's a result of identity politics that entered the Indian mainstream just a few years into independence. Appointments, promotions, selections on the basis of caste, color and class. Appeasement of historically oppressed classes led to the large scale compromise of an entire administrative structure including law, representation, education, everything except the military. No, the military alone survived. Because the politicians knew they were fucking every arm of govt for good, but what would they rule if 'no more India' ? Hence, the military was exempt from the unfair reparation laws requiring reservation of jobs for 'oppressed classes'.
It crippled a young nation just as polio does before life even begins. There's no escaping it, India can get to the moon, throw marigold petals on Mars and celebrate diwali with particle cannons... but the fact remains India is an enslaved society. It is not a republic, or a democracy. It is a police state, where ruler is completely disconnected from the citizen and the innocent taxpayer is a constant victim, the citizenry capitulates to every whim of governments and the mostly incompetent judiciary. It isn't a question of right or left, or who's ruling at the center. The very core of governance in India is coercion and capitulation, without consensus.
One safety valve we have is Indian cinema, a tableau into Indian angst at being enslaved by low-class boors. Every outrageous story contains politicians being beaten up, exposed, ridiculed. Dirty cops lynched or hammered by some heroic avataar that can dispatch an entire population of baddies at once. An Indian predilection to entreat deities instead of wading in, assholes and elbows, to deal with stuff is evident. Consider how leaders are worshiped and the world is expected of them. In the coming decades we expect to become a "Super Power". Wheeee ! India can't even comprehend what responsibilities and experiences come with that.
The learned opposition to this madness and hypocrisy is driven by justifiable motivations, but it invariably finds it's way into yet more dangerous, Maoist dogmatism. Naturally, it is shut down violently.
The existential truth about the Indian nation is bleak. And grows darker even as the media generates glowing tributes to ruling governments every day, obfuscating the fact that the real India, in the hinterlands, the suburbs, the villages is a hotbed of failed socialist experiments and corruption.
Which is why I am alarmed at the sudden descent of western politics into the same cesspool. This shit is exactly where your politics is headed. Not that there haven't been rapist or criminal presidents or senators before, but the reckless abandon with which a class comes to rule over a neutered citizenry is becoming evident only now. At least they seek that outcome. Maybe it's because some American politicians are not actually American. They are mostly from erstwhile colonies or dictatorships and bring with them all the hubris of their own parent societies, seeking to re-create the same haven for their kind in America, or exacting some horrible vengeance for their own historical angst.
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As for this 'accident', it was a planned hit. Very overt, very deliberate. The immediate killers who were arrested are pros and will be let off in a few years to continue their trade. A poor girl was held as a sex-slave after being lured by promise of employment by a powerful family. Her father was brutally killed by cops when he complained, her uncle framed and jailed and more than half of the witnesses murdered.
Karbala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi citizen was killed and three others were maimed on Saturday night in a boom-mobile blast in the holy city of Karbala, a security source said.
"An explosive charge hidden inside a car went off near a security checkpoint on a road between Babylon and Krabala cities," the Arabic language Alghad Press quoted the Euphrates operations command as saying in a press statement.
"The explosion left one person killed and three others maimed," added the source.
He noted that a security force rushed to the blast site and prevented passers-by from approaching.
[Rudaw] The US-led international coalition announced Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed a cell of five 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.... "key" controllers east of the Euphrates River on Monday, while media run by the Syrian government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... reported non-combatants were killed.
"Coalition forces conducted a strike against a ISIS cell near Busayrah," Coalition Spokesman US Army Col. James Rawlinson said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS, AFP reported on Monday.
Al-Busayrah is east of the Euphrates in eastern Deir ez-Zor governorate, approximately 100 kilometers upriver from the Iraqi border crossing at al-Qaim.
The river long has served in Syria as a de facto demarcation line between the United States and Damascus which is backed by Russia and Iran.
"This operation eliminated five Lions of Islam who played a key role in facilitating attacks across the region against security forces and innocent civilians," Rawlinson added.
Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported the airstrikes killed and injured civilians including women and kiddies, citing unnamed local sources.
The strikes also damaged houses and caused panic because of their intensity, SANA claimed. Rudaw was unable to independently verify the US or Syrian claims.
A UK-based conflict monitor opposed to the Assad regime reported that the five killed were not of Syrian nationality in the early Sunday operation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) added that six more foreigners were targeted in the operation and killed over the past 24 hours.
If they were foreigners, what odds that they were actually civilians as opposed to jihadis in mufti?
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have served as the primary ground force in partnership with the US-led coalition. The SDF is predominately comprised of the Kurdish-led Peoples' Protection Units (YPG); however, the SDF is a mixed umbrella force with various affiliations.
Working with local military councils in areas like Deir ez-Zor, the SDF along with the coalition has sought to stabilize liberated towns. On Sunday, the SDF announced a new batch of fighters had graduated after receiving "political lessons and military training on medium weapons, snipers, combat tactics and methods of street fighting."
Busayrah near al-Mayadin and Deir ez-Zor city has large oil reserves, wells, infrastructure. The area has been a flashpoint through the ISIS and Syrian conflicts.
The SDF declared the military defeat of ISIS after months of fighting and a siege in al-Baghouz that sits across the border from al-Qaim.
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[Jpost] A Jewish resident of the German city of Potsdam, near Berlin, who wore a kippah with a Star of David, was attacked and insulted in front of Potsdam Central Station.
Officials had identified two Syrian nationals as the alleged perpetrators, reported a front man of Brandenburg police on Sunday. Police are treating it as a hate crime.
The 25-year-old student told German press that he wears the kippah daily.
"When I got off the tram at the main station, I noticed shadows behind me," he reported.
The next moment he was spat on with antisemitic threats and gestures. He then alerted the federal police. The 2 Syrians were taken for questioning and later released whilst the investigation is ongoing.
[WSJ] The Supreme Court said Friday that the Trump Administration can proceed to reallocate some $2.5 billion that Congress had earmarked for the Pentagon to build a border wall. We disagree with the policy, but the good news is that the High Court is finally sending a message about the proliferation of national injunctions by lower-court judges.
The Court voted 5-4 to overturn a national injunction issued by Judge Haywood Gilliam, a Barack Obama appointee, and upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The order will let the government start spending the money to build the border barrier while the courts consider the legal merits.
Congress passed the money under Section 8005 of the Defense appropriations bill, and the Sierra Club sued (Sierra Club v. Trump). Judge Gilliam ruled that Congress had expressly refused to appropriate money for the wall and therefore the Pentagon can’t use the money to assist the government’s "counterdrug activities," as the Administration had claimed it has the authority to do.
Judge Gilliam might be right on the merits, and we oppose the precedent of taking scarce resources from the Pentagon to fulfill a campaign promise unrelated to defense. One legal complication, however, is why the Sierra Club has standing to sue. It’s a private party that has shown no clear injury from the wall spending, though other litigants might.
Judge Gilliam’s larger legal offense is his quick trigger to issue a national injunction. These sweeping rules by individual judges have proliferated in the Trump years, with destructive consequences for policy debates and the reputation of the judiciary.
The Justice Department reports that, as of late May, federal district courts had issued 37 nationwide injunctions against executive actions by the Trump Administration. By our count the number is now at least 39. This compares with two such injunctions in the first two years of the Obama Administration, and both of those were vacated by the Ninth Circuit.
Progressives say this is justified by a lawless Trump Administration, but the injunctions are issued before the merits are decided. These legal stays are supposed to be issued only in the most extreme circumstances. Too often these days they are issued as a first resort and on mistaken legal grounds. A good example is the 2017 Trump travel ban, which was enjoined several times by lower courts and the Ninth Circuit but was upheld by the Supreme Court.
"These injunctions are beginning to take a toll on the federal court system‐preventing legal questions from percolating through the federal courts, encouraging forum shopping, and making every case a national emergency for the courts and for the Executive Branch," wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurrence in the travel ban case.
"I am skeptical that district courts have the authority to enter universal injunctions," the Justice added. "And they appear to be inconsistent with longstanding limits on equitable relief and the power of Article III courts. If their popularity continues, this [Supreme] Court must address their legality."
Let’s hope this is the message the High Court is finally sending in the border funding case. The proliferation of national injunctions has inserted judges into policy debates in ways they should avoid and can sometimes pre-empt debate in the political branches where the issues should be settled. That’s precisely what happened when a judge issued an injunction against President Trump’s executive order in the DACA immigration case, reducing the incentive for Democrats to negotiate with Mr. Trump.
Lifting the injunction in the border case should also give the district court and Ninth Circuit an incentive to speed up a decision on the merits. Courts have been taking their sweet time on immigration cases, almost as if they hope to push the disputes past the 2020 election. These injunctions aren’t in the public interest, and the High Court needs to police them.
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Security the border is a national defense priority. Hell, most of the latter portion of the 19th Century of the Army was spent trying the secure the border against Mexican Apache invaders.
#4
The WSJ says: "We disagree with the policy." On what basis? Just because they don't like Trump? The statement is like the opening statement of a debate but then nothing follows. It's so because we said so? Editorializing in the story?
[AlAhram] Syrian government forces have recovered two villages from rebel fighters in northwestern Syria after days of bombardment, sources on both sides said on Monday.
Rebel fighters captured the villages of al-Jabin and Tel Melah in northern Hama province in early June during a counter attack against government forces that have been waging a Russian-backed offensive in the area since late April.
A rebel commander in the area said opposition fighters had withdrawn from al-Jabin after heavy bombardment.
The Syrian state news agency SANA said the army had established full control over both villages and was continuing operations against "terrorist organizations" in the northern Hama and southern Idlib areas.
The pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper earlier reported the Syrian army had advanced in the area as Syrian and Russian warplanes targeted murderous Moslem positions and after several days of preparatory fire.
More than 400 civilians have been confirmed killed in the escalation of violence in northwestern Syria over the last three months and more than 440,000 displaced, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said last week.
Ongoing shelling and air strikes included the use of "indiscriminate weapons, such as barrel bombs", it said. The use of these weapons, which are dropped from helicopters, by the Syrian army has been widely recorded in the eight-year conflict.
The targeted area is part of the last major foothold of the rebellion against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , who has vowed to take back "every inch" of Syria. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... his side has failed to make significant gains during the latest campaign.
The Idlib area of the northwest is dominated by Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the jihadists formerly known as the Nusra Front. It is proscribed as a terrorist group by the U.N. Security Council. Groups backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... also have a presence in the area.
The Syrian government has described its operations as a response to murderous Moslem violations of ceasefire agreements.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced two men to life in jail for joining the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and carrying out terrorist attacks in Anbar and Salahuddin provinces, a judicial council said.
The central criminal court in Baghdad issued its ruling after finding one of them guilty of running a workshop for making booby-trapped vehicles for the IS terrorist group in Fallujah city of Anbar, Alsumaria News TV channel quoted the Supreme Judicial Council as saying in a press statement on Sunday.
The other convict confessed his involvement in a terrorist attack that targeted the provincial building of Salahuddin province, in addition to helping foreign and Arab jihadists to enter Iraq, the statement read.
The court rulings were issued pursuant to article no. ¼ of the anti-terrorism law, it added.
Iraq’s anti-terrorism law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped jihadists even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
The exact number of detained Islamic State snuffies is still unknown, however, it’s estimated to be at thousands. It’s also unclear how many members are likely to face death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s.
The UN, the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union and international human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups always criticize mass killings in Iraq and call for abolishing the death penalty , which was suspended on June 10, 2003, but was reinstated on August 8, 2004.
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The Charlize Theron effect. Time was, the CPS used to exist for such cases. These assholes were born in the wrong country. Such people deserve to be born, live and die under the whip.
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Remember Buffalo Bill from Silence of the lambs ? Wasn't his childhood abuse similar ? I wonder how many more serial killers are being created in these homes.
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In many ways this reminds me of the McMartin Preschool trial and the false-memories and all that in the 80s. Everyone in the health care industry seemed to believe it was true, lives were ruined, then the house of cards collapsed and it all went away.
Can't wait for this house of cards to fall and sanity to return.
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Ruprecht, I was thinking the same. The false-memory craze was like a national panic, a kind of mass hysteria that seems to sweep across societies every couple of decades or so. It will take a few years for this latest frenzy to run its course.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces arrested three individuals in Kabul on suspicion of terrorist related activities.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said Sunday that the Special Unit of the Afghan National Police conducted an operation in Dehsabz district of Kabul on Saturday night.
The statement further added that the Special Forces arrested 3 individuals on suspicion of terrorist related activities.
Furthermore, the interior ministry said the Special Forces also confiscated a weapon during the operation which they conducted in Tora Khel village.
The anti-government armed holy warriors including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented in this regard so far.
[TheSun] Commuters chased and grabbed a suspect after the boy and mum were shoved off a platform at Frankfurt's main station.
An eight-year-old boy was hit by a train and killed when a man deliberately pushed him and his mum onto railway tracks, say police.
The mum and son were standing on a platform at Frankfurt's main station, which was "full of children", when they were shoved in front of a train.
The high-speed ICE train - travelling across Germany from Dusseldorf to Munich - ran over the boy as it pulled into the station just before 10am local time on Monday.
His 40-year-old mum managed to roll to safety in a gap between tracks, and a 40-year-old Eritrean man was arrested by police who are treating the incident as a suspected homicide.
The motive was unclear, said police.
The force said there appears to be no connection between the victims and the suspect, who allegedly fled the scene and was arrested a short time later after being chased and grabbed by commuters.
It is alleged that he had unsuccessfully tried to push a third person onto the tracks in front of the oncoming express train.
Ms Neumann said the mother was taken to hospital, and the suspect was being questioned.
The incident led to a huge emergency response which included 16 paramedic vehicles and a helicopter.
Several platforms at Frankfurt station, a major rail hub in Germany and one of the busiest in Europe, were closed after the incident
Earlier this month, a 34-year-old mum died when she was shoved in front of a train at a station in Voerde, Germany. A 28-year-old man was arrested. In that incident, the victim and the suspect did not know each other, according to police.
Unosh Hupinelet8756 submitted the Gates of Vienna take on the story, which also has some interesting comments from their readers.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan army conducted artillery strikes against the hideouts of ISIS terrorist group in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the artillery strikes maimed 2 bandidosmurderous Moslems of the ISIS Khurasan group.
The statement further added that the armed forces conducted the strikes in Sarono Khor area of Shegal district.
Furthermore, the 201st Silab Corps said the strikes also destroyed several hideouts of the terror group.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Four members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist group were killed Sunday in an air raid on a terrorist hotbed in Anbar province, a tribal militia commander said.
"Iraqi warplanes have targeted a secret tunnel of the Islamic State Death Eater group in al-Madham district, 90 km south of Ain Assad airbase in western Anbar," 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... i al Obeidi told Alsumaria News TV channel.
"The Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... left four Islamic State bandidosbully boyz killed," Obeidi said, adding that the bombardment destroyed a large cache of IS ammunition and weapons inside the tunnel.
Earlier in the day, the Iraqi army launched a military operation to purge the desert areas in Ar Rutbah, west of Anbar, from Islamic State cells.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Khogyani and Geru districts of Ghazni province killing or wounding at least 23 hard boys.
The Ministry of Defense in a statement said the security forces conducted the airstrikes late on Sunday night.
The statement further added that the airstrikes targeted the holy warriors of Mullah Cable and Daru Khan, the two commanders of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Furthermore, the Ministry of Defense said the airstrikes killed 9 Talibs and maimed 14 others.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan army conducted artillery strikes against Taliban positions in the outskirts of Ghazni city killing at least 14 hard boys.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the armed forces conducted artillery strikes against Taliban positions in Baba Khel area located in the outskirts of Ghazni city.
The statement further added that the strikes killed 14 Talibs and destroyed 6 cycle of violences.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the armed forces conducted an operation in Madrasa area of Ghazni city and killed 4 Talibs.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban have not commented regarding the strikes so far.
The security situation in Ghazni province has tanked during the recent months.
Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
[DAWN] LARKANA: A special investigation team has been formed to ascertain facts about the murder of a student of class-V, a senior police official said on Sunday.
The victim was strangulated to death after an alleged sexual assault in Moria Faqeer village on the left bank of Dadu Canal, 23 kilometres from here, on July 24 within the remit of the Naudero cop shoppe.
She had left home to buy milk from a nearby cattle pen and did not return. The relatives mounted a search for the girl and found her body stuffed in a gunny bag in a guava orchard.
DIG-Larkana Irfan Baloch told Dawn that ASP-City Muhammed Kaleem Malik would head the team with two inspectors ‐ Ghulam Hussain Dahri and Yaseen Tagar ‐ and the SHO of the Naudero cop shoppe, Ali Hassan, as its members.
The team would probe into the contents of the FIR and submit a report, he added.
He said that Larkana SSP Masood Bangsh had written to the director general of the health services for constituting a medical board to assist the police in assessing medical evidence in the case.
Responding to a question, the DIG said exhumation or to rely on the earlier evidence would depend on the the medical board.
He said officers Dahri and Tagar, who were presently posted in Hyderabad range, had been included in the investigation team on the request of the bereaved family.
The inspector general of police had transferred them to Larkana to undertake the assignment, police sources said.
The sources said that the medical board would also examine the case to ascertain the actual age of the student of class eighth who had been arrested in the case.
The DIG said that relevant section of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 had been incorporated in the FIR, as the incident had triggered a sense of terror and harassment in the vicinity.
Police on late Saturday night had arrested another suspect nominated in the FIR and would obtain his remand from the court concerned on Monday (today).
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Can the special team find their arses? Do they need both hands to do so? Do they need other people to help them find them?
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed three key ISIS group members during an operation in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The Provincial Governor’s Office in a statement said the Special Forces of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... conducted a raid in Momandara district on Saturday night.
The statement further added that the Special Forces killed 3 key members of the terror group during the raid.
Furthermore, the Nangarhar Governor’s Office said the slain bully boyz were residents of Pakistain who were expert IED makers and were also involved in kidnappings.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... the Governor’s Office said the Special Forces also arrested a suspected Death Eater during the same raid.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[MSN] Dozens of wealthy families in Illinois have reportedly been using a controversial tactic to help their children pay for college: They give up legal guardianship so the teenagers can claim dramatically lower incomes and earn need-based financial aid, according to reports from two news organizations published Monday.
[Babylon Bee] BALTIMORE, MD‐According to expert biologists working in Guilder's infamous Fire Swamp, millions of R.O.U.S.es---Rodents of Unusual Size---have begun a "great migration" from the deadly thicket to the scenic, idyllic city of Baltimore.
[WashingtonExaminer] Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., shared a scathing tweet about Sen. Rand Paul on Monday written by comedian Tom Arnold, which said, "Imagine being Rand Paul's next door neighbor and having to deal with @RandPaul lying cowardly circular whiney bullcrap about lawn clippings. No wonder he ripped his toupee off."
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
According to the letter, the plaintiffs' lawyers have been in contact with lawyers for five witnesses in federal custody about their availability for depositions.
...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 
[KhaamaPress] Two U.S. service members 
[IsraelTimes] German authorities said they have extradited a Bosnian man to Belgium, where he was sought in connection with the November 2015 terror attacks in 
[AnNahar] Stabbing guards, stoning aid workers and flying the 
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Another hot weekend ended with dozens of people rushed to the emergency room with gunshot wounds. Shootings left nine people dead and 39 
...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 
...Arabic for 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[IsraelTimes] An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organization faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts.
[IsraelTimes] Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth says he objects to Israel’s definition as a Jewish state because it is a "nationalistic term."
...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 very dangerous business, arms dealing. From the memory hole, the following link and story are provided:
[Jpost] The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ordered the Department for International Development (DFID) to disclose audit reports of accounts into which British grant money was transferred and allegedly used to pay salaries to convicted Paleostinian terrorists. 
[TheLocal.se] Several Swedish cities and municipalities have warned of a blood shortage, due to a combination of factors including summer holidays and recent knife attacks.
...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 
...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 
...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 
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 40 Talibs during an operation in Parwan province.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...Arabic for 
...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...
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positions in the outskirts of Ghazni city killing at least 14
[DAWN] LARKANA: A special investigation team has been formed to ascertain facts about the murder of a student of class-V, a senior police official said on Sunday.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed three key ISIS group members during an operation in eastern 
