Marion Cecilia Davies was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany, and then became the mistress of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. He then took over management of her career.
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Notice the guy in the back putting himself down for his afternoon siesta.
[American Thinker] Facing an $85 billion state deficit and $83,738 pension liability per household, the California Supreme Court denied public employee rights to engage in "pension spiking."
Unionized public employees in California and 12 other states had been successful over the last four decades in finding ways to artificially inflate total pay as their members approached retirement age in order to spike lifetime monthly pension payments.
The 2019 compensation for the average California public sector miscellaneous employee was $99,000 in pay, plus $32,000 in benefits. Police averaged $129,000 and $52,000 in benefits; while firepersons average $162,000 and $52,000 in benefits. That contrasts with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculation that the California private sector average compensation was $61,290 in pay and $12,520 benefits.
Government payments flow into public sector pension plans according to average hours worked and overtime authorized. But public sector unions have made access to overtime a right of senior employees. As a result, the highest paid employees can work enormous amounts of overtime in their final years to push up their pension "pay" basis.
Transparent California reported that 80,500 retired California public employees received a pension of $100,000 pension last year, up 24.5 percent from the prior year.
Unionized public employees in California and 12 other states had been successful over the last four decades in finding ways to artificially inflate their total pay as they approach retirement in order to spike the size of lifetime monthly pension payments.
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Interesting, in the military, the retirement is calculated on 'base pay', not housing allowance, food allowance, special pays, or bonuses. That's why during WOT a lot of 'bonus' pay was handed out and base pay stayed flat.
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Oakland has bus drivers spiked their last year by getting all the overtime they could handle, resulting in many retiring at over 100k in pension, more than their full salaries. But the best scheme remain the LAPD trick some years back of retiring after a full career and drawing 90%and then being hired the next day as a contract replacement for your own job with a 5 year contract because of your unique job skills match for the vacated position.
[SOF News] The Special Operations Command — Europe (SOCEUR) will move from Stuttgart, Germany to Mons, Belgium according to the Department of Defense. In a series of news releases defense officials outlined the plan to relocate 11,900 service members from Germany to other European nations or back to the United States. SOCEUR will be one of the affected units.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated in a press conference that the proposed changes are in line with the National Defense Strategy (NDS). The move will reduce U.S. military personnel in Germany from 36,000 to about 24,000.
The repositioning of troops will begin in a few weeks but it will be a long and expensive process. About 5,600 service members will move out of Germany but stay in Europe. An additional 6,400 will return to the states.
Esper is keen to emphasize that this is not a lessening of our support to NATO as rotational troops will take the place of those permanently assigned. The rotational units will likely conduct six to nine month tours in Eastern Europe. The likely locations will be Poland, the Baltic States, or the Black Sea region.
The move of SOCEUR to Belgium will place it near Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. The commander of U.S. European Command, Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, stated that "This will improve the speed and clarity of our decision-making and promote greater operational alignment." He also added that a similar relocation could happen for U.S. Special Operations Command — Africa; however, no new location has been determined.
NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) is located in Mons, Belgium at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). NSHQ is under the daily direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). NSHQ is the primary point of development, coordination, and direction for all NATO Special Operations activities. NSHQ also operates the NATO Special Operations School (NSOS). NSHQ is currently commanded by LTG Eric Wendt — a U.S. Army Special Forces officer.
[NYP] A British man whose penis fell off due to a severe blood infection had a new one built — on his arm, where he even got an extra 2 inches, according to a report.
Malcolm MacDonald, 45, a mechanic, suffered a horrific infection in his perineum that turned his fingers, toes and manhood black, The Sun reported.
"I had struggled for years with an infection in my perineum but I had no idea what could happen," the separated dad of two from Thetford, Norfolk, told the outlet.
"When I saw my penis go black I was beside myself. It was like a horror film. I was in a complete panic. I knew deep down it was gone and I was going to lose it," he said.
He said he was "completely gutted" when his penis "just dropped off on to the floor" in 2014 — but his testicles remained intact, according to the outlet.
"Because I had been through the devastation of knowing I was going to lose it, I just picked it up and put it in the bin," MacDonald continued.
"I went to the hospital and they said the best they could do for me was to roll the remaining stump up like a little sausage roll. It was heartbreaking."
MacDonald said he became a recluse and began drinking heavily.
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There is an old joke about that . Regular Doc says only thing he can do is amputate to prevent the spread, Man goes to Chinese doctor who has a reputation for treating a lot of these infections : "You no need surgery , it fall off any day now. "
[PJ] During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Friday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on whether the government should restrict the massive Black Lives Matter protests across the country in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Fauci admitted that crowds full of people not wearing masks would likely spread the virus, but he refused to say whether or not protests would do so. He also refused to make any recommendations on limiting protests, even though he had made many recommendations in the past.
At one point, Fauci even insisted that "there’s no inconsistency" in preventing people from going to work, going to church, and going to school but allowing them to gather in massive crowds to protest.
"Dr. Fauci, do protests increase the spread of the virus?" Jordan began.
Fauci said he could only make a "general statement" about crowds.
"Well, half a million protesters on June 6 alone, I’m just asking, that number of people, does it increase the spread of the virus?" Jordan pressed.
"Crowding together, particularly when you’re not wearing a mask, contributes to the spread of the virus," Fauci responded.
"Should we limit the protesting?" Jordan pressed.
"I’m not sure what you mean," Fauci responded.
"Should government limit the protesting?" the congressman clarified.
Fauci stuttered, "I- I- I don’t think that’s relevant to..."
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St Anthony did pretty much the same thing in the 80's with AIDS. By all means do NOT quarantine those actually sick and focus on the groups most likely to come down with it. No, the mantras was everybody is equally likely to get it, and there was even the summer alert that it was an airborne illness and even going out of doors for any amount of time could infect an individual. What a pinhead.
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I don't understand his stand on Hydroxochloriquine. I've seen a lot of doctors and studies saying that when combined with zinc it works well. I've seen reports on a slum in India that took it prophylactically and had only 4 or so cases. Too many reports of success to dismiss it as casually as he does.
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It's the stance by so many people/entities against HCQ that is bizarre. I am still convinced that Big Pharma is fighting it tooth and nail (and the media has their marching orders because of advertising dollars) because there is no money in it.
And you also have to wonder that if HCQ really works, then the Left/Dems would be without a crisis. I mean, they went nuts when they found out President Trump was taking it. And remember that Congresswoman from Michigan who was pilloried by her own party (D) for praising HCQ and the president as it may have saved her life.
Puts big chips on the People Who Should Take This Serious Aren't part of the venn diagram, with extra chips for Fauci's dismal mask discipline at the ball park.
[Red State] An appeals court has overturned the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev in a shocking decision that reopens a deep wound at a time when America can barely afford more tragedy. All of this coming as absolutely no surprise. It was so very long ago. Memory hole rules must surely apply.
Tsarnaev and his brother killed two people and wounded over 250 more in a bomb attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. An intense city-wide manhunt led to the capture and eventual conviction of Tsarnaev after Boston police discovered him wounded and hiding in a boat stored at a Boston residence. His brother was killed in a shootout with police.
The overturning of the sentence does not necessarily mean the Islamic terrorist will not ever face the death penalty. The appeals court upheld all the convictions but another trial will be needed to determine the validity of a death sentence.
I'm no longer shocked at the complete corruption of our Federal government. When this piece of shit gets a better legal shake than Gen. Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papadopulous, Carter Page, etc., it's well past time to fire every fucking one of them and start from scratch.
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I'd add in one additional remedy but the mods always tell us not to wish death on our fellow citizens; problem is, I don't feel they are our fellow citizens at this point.
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And then there was Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife, Kathern Russell who was forced to stumble over fireworks and bomb making pressure cookers in the cramped apartment. She dutifully suffered in silence of course. Where has she disappeared to, or should I ask ?
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Frankie - I was referring mainly to the hack judges who found a 'technicality' on which to vacate the death sentence, and the judges who put those men through the ringer for the crime of supporting Trump.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?
No. The FBI tried to get him to inform, but he scornfully told everyone about as he planned the bombing. The FBI didn’t notice, as I recall — the articles are somewhere in the Rantburg archives.
I think Tamerlan’s wife went back to her parents —though I may be remembering the wife of a different mass-murdering jihadi. The parents divorced and went back separately to the olde countrie. There was also a sister and an uncle who were pretty well assimilated — I’ve no idea what happened to them
Daily Mail: Has Katherine Russell remarried and had a baby? Claims made by sister of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to report
Katherine Russell, 25, has remarried and had a baby with her new husband, her late husband's sister Aliana has told the New York Post
She was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev at the time of the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured 260 more in April 2013
He was killed in a getaway attempt a few days later
It was previously reported that Russell had moved to New Jersey to be with her former husband's sisters
[American Thinker] In 2018, Tucker Carlson highlighted the expropriation of land from White farmers in South Africa. He stated "[a]s land seizures based on skin color shows, South Africa is once again becoming a place where an entire group of people is targeted for discrimination and violence on the basis of their skin color."
Twenty-six years ago, "South Africans engaged in a peaceful revolution. As late as the 1980s commentators predicted that any transition from white minority domination and black majority rule would precipitate a bloody civil war. Instead, in 1994 South Africans replaced president F. W. de Klerk with Nelson Mandela in a free and fair election that astonished the world." Thus, ". . . South Africans of all races voted in the country's first democratic elections, choosing Mandela as their first black president. The inhumane apartheid regime seemed to be miraculously ending peacefully, though much work remained to improve the lives of all South Africans." By the "late 1980s, however, South Africa’s economy was in a deep recession and large segments of the country were becoming ungovernable."
Former president Jacob Zuma (2009-18) "brought the country a reputation for corruption and ineptitude." In fact, in 2018, the World Bank ranked South Africa as the most corrupt country in the world.
In 2018, Hammond and Tupy "in reviewing South Africa's flirtation with the idea of changing its constitution to let the state expropriate farmland without compensation, wrote that South Africa need only look north to Zimbabwe to see the disastrous consequences of this kind of policy." Zimbabwe's former dictator Robert Mugabe gave "the green light to his paramilitary supporters to invade commercial farms, seize some 23 million acres of land and the confiscated farms were resettled with small scale agriculturalists. Many of the new would-be-farmers had no real knowledge of commercial agriculture and many soon returned to subsistence farming. The actual commercial farmers left for other African countries and the result was devastating food shortages in a nation once dubbed the 'bread basket of Africa.'"
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I had met a young black entrepreneur last year. He was organizing like minded blacks to purchase these farms to develop. He seemed to think of housing not farming. I believe he felt farming was too much work. The Chinese married into Africans so as to have blood in the game. They also were not restricted on the number of children they could have. I have found the children do not have the bond to China as their parents have.
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Is there anyone you haven't talked with over the years, Dale, and learnt their life story? Someday I will sit with you over tea and add my little life to your collection.
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Tw, ha ha. I have met many thousands of all walks of life. Each has a story to tell and I have a knack of bring out that personal experience. Now that I have been on the Internet I have expanded my contacts all over the world. Just yesterday I talked with an Engineer (at my work) who has traveled the world who now trains young Engineers in environmental related Engineering. Less travel now. Zoom conference calls and on line training. I asked about Russia and he said they are very pro American. The closer you get to Finland they look so American and greatly enjoy conversation with Americans. It is Putin's group(corruption) that they dislike so much there. How long was that conversation? No longer than being at a drive thru say Windy's.
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Good example of both mob rule and give a mouse a cookie and he'll want a glass of milk. They did the right thing (if late) and now the mob is thinking to changing laws to legalize theft. And a lot of Americans have learned that vile lesson.
[Townhall] A 46-year-old California woman who used to live in Ohio has pleaded guilty after stealing pediatric medical research for the Chinese Communist Party.
"Li Chen was a trusted researcher at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, conducting cutting-edge U.S. government-funded research," FBI Cincinnati Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman released in a statement. "With her guilty plea, she admits that she abused this trust to establish a company in China for her own financial gain. The FBI is committed to working closely with partners such as Nationwide Children’s Hospital to protect the innovations that make America a world leader in science and technology."
Chen worked with her husband for a decade to steal the intellectual property. They planned to transfer and sell it in China.
The FBI is investigating thousands of cases of Chinese espionage around the country.
Ontario Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe says mandatory COVID-19 testing for teachers "will just complicate the picture." Read more: https://t.co/cTl1NMZYqQpic.twitter.com/DeLVmsyZ4N
"We also need to do screening for symptoms. And everybody needs to be educated about the symptoms to look for and not go to work if you're sick, go, not go to school if you're sick. Those are the things that are important along with hand washing, distancing, masking, all the things we're talking about. Testing will not actually achieve anything other than take resources away from other places they need to be."
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Canada is vast swaths of open land with a couple of cities. The whole place has a population the size of California. It's not really a shock they are doing okay. The US farm states are doing okay as well.
[BenarNews] Three Filipino soldiers and six holy warriors from a faction of Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... inspired by 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.... (IS) died Friday during a clash in a remote jungle on southern Sulu island, two days after a major clash in another region of the southern Philippines, the military said.
Members of the 32nd Infantry Battalion were on the trail of Abu Sayyaf members when they were attacked by other holy warriors before noon, triggering fighting near the town of Patikul in Sulu province, according to Maj. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, chief of the army’s Joint Task Force Sulu.
"It is with deep sadness to report that three of our brave soldiers succumbed to death while defending the people of Sulu," Vinluan said.
At least six Abu Sayyaf fighters were killed but only three corpses were recovered after holy warriors removed the others from the battle scene, he said.
The names of the soldiers killed were not immediately available as their next of kin had not been notified, said local military front man Maj. Arvin John Encinas of the Western Mindanao Command.
The gunbattle occurred on Eid-ul-Adha, the Moslem festival known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, one of the two most important holidays on Islam’s calendar.
MILITANTS LINKED TO IS
The Abu Sayyaf is a small gang of holy warriors known for carrying out some of the country’s worst attacks, including kidnappings for ransom and bombings.
An IS-linked faction is led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan who is accused of planning and orchestrating the bombing of a Catholic church in Sulu’s capital town of Jolo that left 23 people dead in January 2019. Two Indonesian jacket wallahs were killed in that incident and authorities recently said they averted similar attacks with the arrest of four holy warriors in Manila.
Friday's shootout comes two days after two soldiers and at least 10 suspected holy warriors were killed during another shootout in the southern Philippines as troops hunted for a big shot of a different bully boy group linked to IS. At least 13 soldiers were maimed, a Philippine Army front man said.
The two-hour shootout on Wednesday with suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... bully boy group broke out as the army’s 57th Infantry Battalion launched an operation in marshlands near Datu Salibo, a town in Maguindanao province, officials said. The troops were searching for Ustadz Karialian, a BIFF commander also known as Imam Minimbang.
The two festivities occurred in towns that are about 750 km (465 miles) apart.
[AmadorSheriff.org] On February 22, 2020 the Amador County Sheriff’s Office released initial details regarding Philip Haney
... Obama era whistleblower about Homeland Security handling of jihadis. In 2016 he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, telling them he’d been ordered to delete hundreds of files about reputed associates of Islamic terrorist groups. Supposedly at the time of his death he was in talks with DHS management about returning to the agency...
being found deceased in our jurisdiction on February 21, 2020.
A forensic autopsy was scheduled and performed by forensic pathologists from the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. At that time, we reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist in analyzing documents, phone records, numerous thumb drives and a lap top that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV. Those items and numerous other pieces of evidence, were turned over to the FBI. The FBI has performed a forensic examination of these items. We expect to receive these reports within the next few weeks.
The Sheriff’s Office hopes to complete our review of the reports and compare the FBI’s analysis with what we have already collected and analyzed within a few weeks after reciept.
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The Amador County Sheriff, Marin Ryan, is a retired alicor ia Department of Justice Special Agent in Charge. CalDOJ is a deeply flawed and heavily political agency of the California Deep State bureaucracy. While Martin always seemed straight up in my dealings with him,, any deep state coverup that might be in play here leaves a lingering doubt here about his possible cooperation.
[Jpost] Poland currently hosts a rotating contingent of over 4,000 US troops. A permanent presence, which the statement says will now number at least 5,500 troops, is likely to cost Poland more.
The United States will establish a permanent military presence in Poland as it deploys around 1,000 additional US troops there, Poland's Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Poland is setting growing store by its bilateral defense relationship with its 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... partner, fearful of an increasingly assertive posture from Russia to the east since Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.On June 12 last year, U.S. President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... agreed, with Polish President Andrzej Duda beside him at the White House, to send 1,000 more troops to his NATO ally.
But negotiations on the details of where the troops would be stationed and how much Poland would pay dragged on for years.
"We did it. We have finished the negotiations on military cooperation," Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in a statement.
Poland currently hosts a rotating contingent of over 4,000 US troops. A permanent presence, which the statement says will now number at least 5,500 troops, is likely to cost Poland more.
The deal also involves the development of expertise for Polish forces in the areas of reconnaissance and command, with the possibility of more U.S. forces coming to Poland in case of an increased threat, the statement said.
The financial details of the new deal were not revealed in the ministry's statement.
The US military on Wednesday expanded on plans to withdraw about 12,000 troops from Germany and indicated that some of them could be moved to Poland or the Baltic states.
It was unclear from Friday's statement where the additional 1,000 troops would come from, and whether some would be reassigned from Germany. Poland's Defense Ministry was not immediately available to comment and the US embassy declined to do so.
US officials have insisted that the agreement with Poland and the decision to pull some US troops out of Germany are separate matters.
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We've been hearing about troops moving from Germany to Poland for years & years as the Germans were making training more restrictive (e.g., night training/noise). Maybe the Poles finally got all of the toxic crap cleaned up ... just a guess. But all in all, good. Amis raus!
[IsraelTimes] Retired general Anthony Tata, who called Obama a ’terrorist leader’ and referred to the former US president as a Moslem, continues to advise the defense secretary.
A Senate committee abruptly canceled a confirmation hearing Thursday on a controversial former general’s nomination to a top Pentagon post after a furor over offensive remarks he made about Islam and other inflammatory comments.
The nomination of retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata to be the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy was already under fire from Senate Democrats, who sent a letter to him this week calling for him to withdraw. Tata, a staunch supporter of US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... and a Fox News commentator, has been working in the department as a senior adviser.
It wasn’t clear Thursday if his nomination would be withdrawn.
According to media reports, Tata posted tweets in 2018 calling Islam the "most oppressive violent mostly peaceful religion I know of," and he called former US president Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... a "terrorist leader," and referred to him as Moslem. The tweets were later taken down.
The Senate Armed Services Committee chair, Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, announced the hearing’s cancellation shortly before it was scheduled to start.
"There are many Democrats and Republicans who didn’t know enough about Anthony Tata to consider him for a very significant position at this time," Inhofe said. He said the panel didn’t get required documents from Tata until Thursday. "As I told the president last night, we’re simply out of time with the August recess coming, so it wouldn’t serve any useful purpose to have a hearing at this point, and he agreed."
Jonathan Hoffman, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, told news hounds that Tata continues to work as an adviser to Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
Islamic groups have repeatedly called for politicians to oppose Tata’s nomination. And they hailed the hearing cancellation.
"If Mr. Tata truly does not have enough votes to proceed, his defeat will represent a victory over anti-Moslem bigotry, and for the principle that hatred has no place in our government," said Robert McCaw, government affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... Tata, who retired in 2009 after 28 years in the Army, served in a number of command and combat jobs.
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"Islamophobia is a top-down problem in the Republican party," Robert McCaw stated when speaking on how local county chapters have the door opened to anti-Muslim concepts.
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Let's see... Obama actually said, "my Muslim faith",referred to the call to prayer as "beautiful" (it's not), and condemned those who said had things about the lunatic Mohammed.
How is he not a Muslim?
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How is he not a Muslim?
Being a Muslim requires believing in a higher power outside oneself and the Party. The former president clearly does not have that faith.
[AlAhram] The Tunisian navy on Friday rescued 70 migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa on a sinking rubber boat headed to Italia from Libya, the defence ministry said.
Ministry front man Mohammed Zekri told AFP the boat had broken down in international waters and was taking on water when the navy intervened at around 1:00 am local time.
Five women and four children, including a months-old infant, were among those on board, said Mongi Slim of the Red Islamic Thingy.
The migrants colonists, who had set off Wednesday from western Libya, were taken to Zarzis port, near the Libyan border in southern Tunisia.
They were to undergo tests for COVID-19 and be confined to a Red Islamic Thingy centre, Slim said.
Nearly half of the 11,000 or so migrants colonists who made shore in Italia this year set off from Tunisia, and most of those were Tunisian citizens, according to Rome.
Other arrivals largely set off from war-torn Libya.
[AlAhram] Huawei’s top manager in Germany has appealed to the government not to shut it out of building 5G mobile networks, Der Spiegel said on Friday, after Britannia decided to purge the Chinese firm’s equipment from its network on security grounds. "C'mon, Angela. From one commie to another?"
Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... ’s government has put off a decision on tougher certification rules until after the summer break, amid pressure from some politicians who sympathise with US calls to ban Huawei outright.
"The government’s approach of setting the same, tough security criteria for all is the right way to ensure networks are secure," Huawei’s representative in Germany, David Wang, told the weekly news magazine.
Germany’s three mobile operators are all customers of Huawei, which has had a presence in the country for 15 years. None have found any evidence to support US allegations that its equipment is unsafe, Wang added.
Britannia this month ordered Huawei equipment to be removed from its 5G network by the end of 2027, while La Belle France has told operators to rip out Huawei 5G gear by 2028 without announcing a public ban, sources say.
Deutsche Telekom, the German market leader, has not signed a 5G contract with Huawei but has, under existing agreements, already connected nearly half the population to the superfast mobile technology.
Analysts and industry sources say Deutsche Telekom, which opposes a Huawei ban, is seeking to pre-empt such an outcome by rolling out most of its 5G network before a political decision is taken.
Spanish-controlled Telefonica Deutschland said this week it had signed backup 5G contracts with other telecoms vendors to cover the risk that Huawei ends up being barred from the German market.
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As of April 2020, the German government held a 14.5% stake in DT company stock directly, and another 17.4% through the government bank KfW. In other words, The German government is still the tail that wags the DT dog.
[AlAhram] Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a rare interview, on Friday acknowledged the scale of security problems in two troubled regions, saying developments were "very, very disturbing".
Buhari came to power in 2015 vowing to crush a bloody jihadist revolt in the northeast, which has escalated while violence by criminal gangs has spread in the centre and northwest of the country.
Referring to the latter regions, Buhari said, "What is coming up in the northwest and north central is very, very disturbing indeed.
"I believe the military, the police and other law enforcement agencies, from the reports I am getting, I think they could do much better," he said on national TV.
"They could do much better, but we are keeping them on the alert all the time to do their duties."
Buhari, a 77-year-old former general, has typically had close ties with the military, often insisting that the country's security problems were under control.
His criticism of the security forces came only days after armed forces chief Tukur Buratai said he was "proud" that Nigerians "are living in peace, and Nigeria is safer now than... five years ago".
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... 's insurgency in northeastern Nigeria has claimed more than 36,000 lives in 10 years and forced around two million people from their homes.
The jihadists have also stepped up their attacks in the Lake Chad region abutting Nigeria, affecting Niger, Chad and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... Four people were killed late Thursday when rockets slammed into Maiduguri, the main town of Borno state, where Boko Haram first emerged.
Conflict of a different kind has gripped the northwest and north-central of the country, hitting the states of Zamfara, Kaduna, Sokoto and Katsina.
Here criminal gangs have spread terror in rural areas, stealing cattle, carrying out ransom kidnappings and carrying out ruthless raids on villages.
They are not deemed to have an ideological motive, although some commentators have warned that they could link up with jihadists, noting an ambush in Katsina that killed at least 23 troops.
Last week, the Senate passed a resolution calling for military chiefs to resign or be fired over the country's "deteriorating security situation".
The house also asked for an official investigation after a newspaper reported that 356 soldiers had asked "for voluntary retirement" early this month because of poor conditions and high risks.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the IDF to prepare a response targeting #Lebanon's infrastructure, in case of #Hezbollah attack on soldiers or civilians in #Israel. (Yisroel Hayom)
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Looks like the Iranians have created a nice little hazard for themselves right outside bandar abbas... You had one job IRGCN... [And... go twitter] pic.twitter.com/tKBE7FrKgq
thanks to the heads from @ckoettl I went on the hunt. Imagery courtesy of @planetlabs from today shows the #IRGC’s fake #US Navy Nimitz-Class Carrier capsized just south of Bandar Abbas Port, #Iran after the Great Prophet XIV war games. I assume we will see more propaganda soon. pic.twitter.com/pqjmTInbRW
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Great opportunity for a flex seal commercial
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...What's Farsi for 'schadenfreude'...?
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Andrei, you lost another fake aircraft carrier?
"Speedbump is still dead"
[NY Post] An appellate court has tossed the death sentence and overturned three of the convictions of 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The ruling will not result in Tsarnaev, 26, being freed, and the death penalty can now be revisited in a penalty-phase trial do-over.
If federal prosecutors do not pursue a second penalty-phase trial, Tsarnaev will remain imprisoned on multiple life sentences that are not affected by Friday's ruling.
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will remain confined to prison for the rest of his life, with the only remaining question being whether the government will end his life by executing him," the ruling read.
Tsarnaev is currently in a federal "supermax" prison in Colorado. Are Epstein's jailers still available?
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Cause our robed aristocracy hates America and wants desperately to dictate to it what a 'civilized country' has to be.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
My humble understanding of the English language, implies to me that given due process one may be deprived of their life. Of course I do not have the nuance of years of priestly study in the archaic halls of our aristocracy's caste.
[HotAir] The DC Circuit Court of Appeals tossed an earlier 2-1 ruling written by Judge Neomi Rao ordering Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss charges against Michael Flynn, as requested by the Department of Justice. Instead, the full bench of the appellate court will rehear the arguments presented by attorneys from all three parties — Flynn, the DoJ, and Sullivan himself.
A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out its order that a trial court judge dismiss the criminal case against former national security advisor Michael Flynn, and said it will rehear arguments on the issue.
The ruling is a blow both Flynn and the Justice Department, which has sought to drop the prosecution of him for lying to FBI agents about his conversations in the weeks before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. ...
A three-judge panel in the federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington in late June ordered Sullivan to dismiss the case after hearing arguments from lawyers for the judge, Flynn and prosecutors.
But Sullivan asked the full appeals court to reconsider that order, which is said Thursday it will do. More at the link.
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So Flynn's gag order is still in effect, correct?
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These communist judges are trying to force Trump to pardon Flynn. The federal govt is corrupt beyond redemption.
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AP- Back in the early 70s I had an ongoing argument with a bunch of SDS minor leaders. They were yelling that all over the world (inc. Vietnam) we were supporting corrupt governments. I responded "Do you really really think our government is much less corrupt then any of these? Really?"
They refused to look at any of the machines or legal systems.
Continuing campaign to unperson conservative voices.
Also, revealing pic of Jack Dorsey and the Twitter work force at the link.
[Breitbart] The official Twitter account of Breitbart News remains locked and unable to post, because it was used to post a video of a press conference featuring Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and frontline doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to the pandemic. The platform has yet to respond to Breitbart’s appeal after nearly 48 hours.
Twitter is punishing a news organization for live-streaming a press conference held by a congressman and licensed medical doctors.
Breitbart News lodged an appeal with Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 48 hours later, Twitter has yet to respond or restore Breitbart’s ability to post. Twitter has not replied to a Breitbart News request for comment on how long such a review is expected to take.
Twitter took down the video and locked Breitbart’s account shortly after similar censorship by YouTube and Facebook.
On the latter platform, Breitbart’s video accumulated over 17 million views and was the top-performing post on the social network globally. On YouTube, the video accumulated over 80,000 views before being taken down by the Google-owned platform.
The video showed a press conference held by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. Since the video of the conference went viral, it appears that America’s Frontline Doctors have had their website taken offline.
“Antifa demonstrators placed a decapitated pig's head on an American flag outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland before putting a police hat on it and setting the whole thing on fire.” #PortlandRiotshttps://t.co/gHLb28eifD
[WSJ] The decision means that segments of the president’s signature project likely will be completed before litigation is resolved.
The Supreme Court declined, 5-4, Friday to halt work on the border wall the Trump administration has been building without authorization from Congress, likely ensuring that more than 200 miles of the president’s signature project will be completed before litigation over its legality is resolved.
Lower courts had found that President Trump exceeded his powers by declaring a national emergency and reallocating to the border-wall project $2.5 billion lawmakers had budgeted for other purposes.
Paywalled, so if you don’t have a subscription, you'll need to drop the headline in the Google app.
As the Wall goes up, illegal crossings go down. This past week we built over 10 miles of Wall at our Southern Border. We now have 256 miles of NEW Wall and we are on track to have 300 miles completed by the end of August! pic.twitter.com/AWl0dYfY1w
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Somebody sensing which way the wind blow? A storm is brewing that can take down everything they desperately are trying to control without 'consent of the governed'? You can stuff the ballot box, but you can't get them to die on that hill for you. The last civil war saw the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. The next one will also result in several and elements of concentrated centralized government may well be in the cross target.
More on the story from yesterday: Pakistani accused of blasphemy gunned down in Peshawar court
[FoxNews] An American citizen accused of violating Pakistani blasphemy laws was shot and killed in court. Tahir Ahmad Naseem, 57, had been on trial at the Peshawar Judicial Complex Peshawar on charges that he had claimed to be a prophet, when he was shot six times. The shooter was identified by authorities asa local 19-year-old man named "Faisal."
The United States urged Pakistan Thursday to overhaul the harsh law, which critics say often persecutes members of religious minorities, according to the New York Times.
Naseem had been lured to Pakistan from Illinois by people who wanted to entrap him using Pakistan's blasphemy laws, according to the State Department. Conular officers had been working with Naseem and his family since he was detained there in 2018.
"We grieve with the family of Mr. Naseem," said. Cale Brown, a State Department spokesperson. "We urge Pakistan to immediately reform its often abused blasphemy laws and its court system, which allow such abuses to occur, and to ensure that the suspect is prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Ahmad Naseem had been a member of the Ahmadi sect, which was declared heretical under the Pakistani Constitution, according to the Times, but he left the group and claimed to be the messiah.
[Breitbart] Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll has said that the conservative news website has experienced Google search suppression similar to that reported by Breitbart News yesterday. Based on Google's defense that it manually blacklists "violent extremism," Ingersoll pointed out: "We are not ISIS."
"Specifically we struggled with search slowly dwindling until May 4 exactly. We broke down the analytics. The May 4 flat line is clearly the result of the human hand in the process," said Ingersoll in a series of tweets. Ingersoll was reacting to Breitbart News' reporting on Google's purge of Breitbart links from searches such as "Joe Biden," along with an overall massive drop in search visibility since the 2016 election.
Specifically we struggled with search slowly dwindling until May 4 exactly. We broke down the analytics. The May 4 flat line is clearly the result of the human hand in the process.
As Breitbart breaks down here, they felt a similar effect.https://t.co/LdAcHVY0zR
‐ Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) July 29, 2020
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai was grilled about Google's search bias at the antitrust committee earlier today, with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) pressing the CEO to explain leaks revealing that the Daily Caller and other sites were added to search blacklists.
Pichai responded by saying that sites were sometimes added to manual blacklists, to comply with law enforcement and tackle election interference and "violent extremism."
"In order to comply with the law in every country we operate in, for example there might be an actor or a website identified as ‘interfering in elections', and we then have to put that site on a list so that [it] doesn't appear in our search results… other examples would be violent extremism…"
Pichai neither confirmed nor denied that the Daily Caller and other conservative news sites added to Google blacklists are considered by Google to fall under these categories.
"The idea that we ended up on some blacklist because of some compliance partnership with law enforcement to stop extremism or election interference is just absurd. We have accredited personnel all over Washington, DC. We are not ISIS." said Ingersoll.
The Daily Caller editor revealed that like Breitbart News, the Gateway Pundit, and other conservative websites, Google searches for the headlines of original articles frequently failed to return results from the site.
"There were even instances in which we broke national news, and would not show up in the first page of search results for that particular topic," said Ingersoll. "In fact not in the second, third, fourth or fifth. Meanwhile, outlets that aggregated or syndicated our work did."
That's the kinda satire that stings because it's true
[Babylon Bee] President Trump, always desiring to be gracious and fair, suggested delaying the election yesterday until the Dems can find a candidate who can form complete, coherent sentences.
"Look, I want this to be fair," Trump said. "Why don't we push this thing off six months or so? That will give the Dems plenty of time to try to find someone who can go toe to toe with me. It won't be easy. There aren't many. But I'm sure they can find a worthy opponent for me to beat."
Trump was praised for the graciousness and compassion of the move.
"I disagree with Trump on everything, but this was really nice of him," said a DNC spokesperson. "We're going back to the drawing board and trying to find someone who can talk and think and all those qualities you really want in a leader."
The Democrats did manage to locate a few candidates who can string sentences together, but sadly they were all accused of sexual assault, so Trump agreed to give them another six months.
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[Rudaw] Samira Saeed, 30, is one of dozens of workers who came to the Kurdistan Region for work, but instead fell victim to human trafficking.
Shortly after getting married in her home country of Ghana, she came to Erbil through a company in search for work, but was immediately sent to Baghdad.
"I don't know why they took me like a slave. When I would talk to the house owner, he used to say, 'Don't talk. We got you from the company,'" said Samira.
"I used to tell him ’You haven’t bought me, I work for you as a worker.’ And they said no. The house owner had sons, they wanted to sleep with me and I told him no and they embarrassed me every day," she recounted.
She was able to escape from the house where she was employed and sought help at a cop shoppe in Baghdad. They sent her back to Erbil where the development agency SEED helped her go home to Ghana.
According to the government’s anti-trafficking office in Erbil, women make up 80% of human trafficking cases in the Kurdistan Region.
The SEED Foundation opened a shelter to protect victims of human trafficking in 2019, and has so far helped 54 victims, of which 37 were women.
"Numbers are on the rise and the situation is not good in the Kurdistan Region, which has become a source for human trafficking," said Caleb Odhiambo, Senior Program and Protection Manager at SEED Foundation.
A local aid agency, the Foreign Workers Culture and Defense Organization (FWCDO), accused lawyers of getting in on the trade, bringing women into the country and selling them in southern Iraq for as much as $8,000 and said the courts are not prosecuting the traffickers.
"I don’t think that anyone has been arrested," said Hazhar Mohammed, head of FWCDO, explaining that he has tried to follow up on cases his organization helped, asking the Ministry of the Interior about the whereabouts of people accused of human trafficking.
"We will not give any case to the court because it will take so long for the case to be resolved," he said.
There are six anti-trafficking offices in the Kurdistan Region. In 2019, the office in Erbil registered 201 cases, of which 21 were found to be incidents of human trafficking. So far this year, 132 cases have been registered, of which 79 are human trafficking.
"Our office is visited by foreigners every day," said Major Sardar Fadhil, head of the Erbil anti-trafficking office. "If their case is related to human trafficking, we directly open a case for him or her and present it to the investigating judge."
Human Trafficking is the third-largest crime in the world after weapons and drugs, and in recent years the Middle East has become a center of human trafficking due to war, political, economic instability, unemployment, and poverty.
A #shawarma restaurant in #Jordan that did not refrigerate its meat despite a 40-degree heatwave has been blamed for an outbreak of food poisoning, which has left a child dead and 826 people hospitalized.#MiddleEast#ammanhttps://t.co/5Mc9KBN4rx
— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) July 31, 2020
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A new cell of antifa group Youth Liberation Front has popped up on the Oregon coast. It's unknown how many members they have. Their Twitter banner reads: "Throw the cops in the ocean."
The Portland cell is the largest one & has successfully incited riots in numerous other cities pic.twitter.com/bqmuWIG0xz
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I don't think you'll find many pot smokers in the antifa ranks because it would mellow them right outta there. These are not hippies, they are not into peace and love, they are marxists revolutionaries. Could be some meth users.
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appropriating slogans from the Moslem Brotherhood:
"drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea"
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I sometimes suspect that Trump is egging them on until the public at large is quite tired of them. So when October comes around he can drop the hammer on them hard and the public will cheer and vote for him.
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You'd think the legal weed would mellow them out.
On the contrary.
Plenty of records of the defenders in the Great Siege of Malta of finding hashish on the Ottoman Alliance troops.
And that stuff, that isn't Willie Nelson Chill stuff. In fact, it is quite a designers' industry - uppers, downers, appetizers and suppressors, so forth.
[YAHOO] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... pulled out of a virtual roundtable hosted by Crain’s Chicago Business to avoid appearing on the same digital stage as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has been a lightning rod for criticism after the police killing of George Floyd, sources told The Chicago Tribune.
Lightfoot had been scheduled to join political consultant David Axelrod ...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out.... "and the mayors of two Midwest cities on Wednesday to discuss how COVID-19 and recent civil unrest will define the future of our nation’s cities," according to a since-deleted Crain’s Facebook post.
But Lightfoot abruptly withdrew from the event earlier this week, and sources with knowledge of the situation said the mayor’s team told Crain’s her cancellation was to avoid being on a virtual stage with Frey.
In a brief statement, the mayor’s office attributed the withdrawal to a scheduling conflict.
Crain’s Publisher and Executive Editor Jim Kirk declined comment.
Frey has been roundly criticized since Floyd’s killing spurred national protests and civil unrest. After Floyd’s death, a Minneapolis cop shoppe was burned down and members of the City Council vowed to radically transform the police department.
Frey has opposed calls to abolish police but promised changes to the department and created a task force to look into the issue.
Chicago is the biggest city in the United States not to endorse some form of defunding police.
It’s not clear why Lightfoot wouldn’t want to share the stage with Frey.
Lightfoot has a long, complicated history in the local police reform movement. She’s a former federal prosecutor who headed the board that oversees police discipline and chaired the Police Accountability Task Force formed by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But she is often criticized by activists as being pro-police. "Pro-Police"?? Puhleeez! Couldn't be further from the troof
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[WGNTV] For weeks now, people have been showing up to the Daley Center in downtown reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... for appearances in traffic court that are being handled entirely online or over the phone.
Angelica Velez was among them. She received several citations after being involved in a traffic accident.
"I was told to get in the line and then they gave us a paper that says to do it over the phone," she said. "I could’ve stayed in bed to do this."
Some have waited for several hours only to learn their online hearing took place while they were waiting in an actual line outside the courthouse.
Leon Hendricks drove from Peoria to Chicago in early July for a court hearing he missed while standing in line.
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"That tells me there’s a huge communication gap going on in the Chicago court system," he said.
Hendricks was profiled in the WGN Investigates original report.
Imagine Hendricks’ surprise when he returned home to Peoria and two weeks later received a notice from the Cook County Court Clerk that his July 7 hearing would be held via Zoom. The postcard was dated July 16, nine days after the court hearing had already taken place.
Court Clerk Dorothy Brown agreed to an interview with WGN Investigates in which she claimed "unconscious racism" was at the root of the questions and negative stories written about her during her nearly two decades in office.
"My staff sent out almost a million postcards and emails," she said. "And yet all this news story can focus on is one card they found they think was sent out in error because they think this black woman’s office had to have done something wrong."
She then went on to claim the late notification was sent out intentionally.
For more information on which court cases are being heard online, over the phone or in person, click on the Cook County Clerk of Court website.
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From the mayor to the clerk. All personal failures are the result of 'institutionalized racism'. You have a community that is incapable of accepting responsibility for their work and actions particularly failures. That's why the Smithsonian poster a week or two back listed all the traits that makes western civilization successful as racist. Now you see the alignment of the anti-Western civ movement among that same community. What you see is validation of the observation - if you can't fail, you can't succeed.
[DW] Germany saw a 2.1% increase in the population with a migrant background in 2019, though the rate of increase was the least rapid since 2011. The largest group hails from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , around one in three are from the EU.
The share of people with a migrant background in Germany rose to 21.2 million last year, the Federal Statistical Office said in a report on Tuesday. They represent roughly 26% of Germany's population.
The figure represented a 2.1% increase from the previous year, but it was the slowest rise in people with a migration background since 2011.
In Germany, a person is considered to have a ''migration background'' (Migrationshintergrund) if they, or at least one of their parents, were born without German citizenship. Being born in Germany is not an automatic qualification for citizenship as in some countries, although in the majority of cases, eight years residence will suffice.
Of the 21.2 million people with a migrant background, just over half were born as German citizens, meaning at least one of their parents had become or was a German citizen.
EUROPEANS FORM MAJORITY
Some 65% of all people with a migrant background came from another European country. Of these, roughly, 7.5 million (35%) people with migrant background came from a fellow EU member state.
Asians accounted for 4.6 million people or 22% of all inhabitants with a migrant background. Some 3.2 million (15%) came from the Middle East and just under 1 million people (5%) had roots in Africa. A little over half a million people (3%) came from North, Central and South America and Australia.
The largest single group, forming some 13% of people with a migrant background, originated from Turkey. Those from Poland and Russia followed respectively.
Location varied significantly, with a higher share of people with migrant backgrounds clustered in the west. The northwestern city-state of Bremen has the highest figures, with 36.5% of its total population having a migrant background. In contrast, the eastern state of Thuringia had only 7.8%.
MOSLEM COLONISTS MIGRANTS STILL IN DEMAND
Petra Bendel, chairwoman of the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration (SVR), said that Germany would continue to rely on migration for the foreseeable future, even in light of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Bendel said migration was the key to solving the problem of "demographic shrinkage of the population." Despite rising slightly in recent years, Germany has consistently had one of the world's lowest birth rates since the end of the second World War.
But the study also showed that, as migrants colonists settle in Germany, many lagged behind the German population on high-paying jobs and qualifications.
"People with a migration background are clearly over-represented in cleaning jobs, warehousing, food production and care for the elderly," the SVR chairwoman said. "In the future we will continue to need more skilled workers."
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] A Florida teenager was arrested early Friday in connection with the recent high-profile hack of 130 Twitter accounts, including the accounts of celebrities like former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Silicon Valley mogul Elon Musk. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was the "criminal mastermind, " state officials said, of a hack that turned into an embarrassment for Twitter and called into question the security provided by a range of tech companies.
Federal authorities were already tracking Mr. Clark before the Twitter hack. In April, the Secret Service seized over $700,000 worth of Bitcoin from him, according to legal documents. The Tampa youth faces 30 felony charges, including fraud, and is being charged as an adult.
The Twitter hack began on July 15 as an effort to steal and sell unusual user names. It quickly escalated, as the hackers took over accounts belonging to cryptocurrency companies and celebrities. The scheme netted Bitcoin worth more than $180,000.
The hackers tweeted from 45 of the accounts, accessed the direct messages of 36 accounts, and downloaded full information from seven accounts. They gained access to internal Twitter systems by stealing login information from employees, then used their access to reset passwords on the accounts.
"We appreciate the swift actions of law enforcement in this investigation and will continue to cooperate as the case progresses," a Twitter front man said.
Hackers involved in the breach told The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that they had been quietly selling stolen user names when one person involved in the group suddenly launched the Bitcoin scam before disappearing.
"Working together, we will hold this defendant accountable," said Andrew Warren, the state attorney of Hillsborough County, Fla., in a statement. "Scamming people out of their hard-earned money is always wrong. Whether you’re taking advantage of someone in person or on the internet, trying to steal their cash or their cryptocurrency — it’s a fraud, it’s illegal, and you won’t get away with it."
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The 'mastermind' is the worthless and useless junk that Twitter calls its IT infrastructure.
Of course they knew and so did British intelligence, but it was hands off. These vermin had wired themselves and their activities to the intelligence communities of several nations. Their insurance policy was not unlike that of the Clinton's, only on a march larger scale.
A very well funded off-shore 'home brew' house of child molesters, spies and whores. Two things make the world go around, and the other one is money. I have no further questions.
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There has to be a Hell, because those people need to end up there. My heart weeps for the girls — we were supposed to have outgrown such viciousness.
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The FBI had it's priorities, kowtowing to Whitey Bulger, a warm and thoughtful Q&A with those nice Tasarnaev boys, reading and apparently re-reading MAJ Hassan's e mails, and who can forget GEN Flynn. The finest law enforcement agency in the world just can't be everywhere at once.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The United States has recently sanctioned a key financial supporter for ISIS inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , according to a statement from the US Treasury Department.
Washington has accused Turkey of "undermining" the fight against ISIS last year and sanctioned two ministries and three senior Ottoman Turkish government officials for a military campaign against US-allied forces in Syria.
"The Ottoman Turkish Government’s actions are endangering innocent civilians, and destabilizing the region, including undermining the campaign to defeat ISIS," the US Treasury Department said at the time.
This week, the Treasury Department announced the designation of two ISIS financial controllers in Syria and Turkey.
"This action coincides with the thirteenth meeting of the Counter ISIS Finance Group (CIFG), which includes over 60 countries and international organizations, and plays a fundamental role in coordinating efforts to deny ISIS access to the international financial system and eliminate its sources of revenue," a statement from the US agency said.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration was fully committed to disrupting ISIS’s financial activities and networks. "Together, with our CIFG partners, we must remain vigilant to ensure that the global remnants of this terrorist group do not regain a foothold," Mnuchin said.
According to the Treasury Department, one of the ISIS supporters, Adnan Amin Muhammad al-Rawi, was an ISIS controller in Turkey.
The statement also said that the latest US designation was part of a series of actions since 2016, when "ISIS finance emir Fawaz Muhammad Jubayr al-Rawi," was designated. "Since then, Treasury has continued targeting other al-Rawi network members and their associated entities for providing critical financial and logistical support to ISIS," according to the statement.
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[BREITBART] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s state-run Anadolu news agency confirmed the arrival Ottoman Turkish F-16 fighter jets on Friday to Azerbaijan for joint military drills, aiding a nation that threatened to bomb a nuclear power plant this month.Azerbaijan is currently embroiled in a heightened tension situation with its neighbor and longtime rival Armenia. Both have disputed the Nagorno-Karabakh border territory, legally under Azerbaijani command but claimed by Armenia because the population there is ethnically Armenian, for years. The current tensions follow a military skirmish elsewhere on the border, in the Tavush region, that occurred in early April, leaving 16 dead soldiers on both sides.
It remains unclear which side started the fighting that led to those deaths, but the government of Turkey immediately condemned Armenia for triggering the hostilities and stated it would offer any support Azerbaijan requested.
On Friday, Anadolu reported that Ankara and Baku had organized joint military drills featuring air exercises.
"Ottoman Turkish F-16 fighter jets have arrived in Azerbaijan for joint military exercises, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. In a statement, the ministry said the jets will take part in the TurAz Qartali-2020 Joint Exercises, which began on Wednesday," Anadolu reported. "The drill, involving jets and helicopters, will continue in the capital Baku as well as Nakhchivan, Ganja, Kurdamir, and Yevlakh until Aug. 10."
Anadolu noted the context of the Tavush attack and revealed that, of the 16 killed, 11 were Azerbaijani soldiers, including a major general in the Azerbaijani army.
On Wednesday, Anadolu noted that the two states are also planning joint ground exercises next week, including "artillery, armored vehicles, and mortars striking simulated targets."
Turkey’s increased involvement in Azerbaijan follows a threat from that country to bomb a nuclear power plant in the region, potentially causing millions of casualties. Armenia is home to the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, a poorly maintained relic of the Soviet era built near an earthquake fault. Following the Tavush incident, a front man for Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry threatened to destroy it.
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Whole Azerbaijan Movement: Although the boundaries of Whole Azerbaijan are not strictly defined, some proponents portray them as encompassing the following areas:
(1)Southern Azerbaijan» (Cənubi Azərbaycan) - Iran the provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan
(2)Western Azerbaijan» (Qərbi Azərbaycan) - Armenia majority of the territory of the Republic of Armenia
(3)Derbent (Dərbənd) - Russia Derbent district, Republic of Dagestan
(4)Borchali (Borçalı) - Georgia (country) Part of the Kvemo Kartli province of Georgia
[ToloNews] President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , addressing the nation on Eid on Friday, ordered the release of 500 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prisoners in response to the group’s three-day ceasefire announcement, and said he hoped the truce will extend.
Ghani said the 500 prisoners are not part of the list given to the Afghan government by the Taliban and that these inmates will be released within the next four days.
According to Ghani, the Afghan government has so far released 4,600 Taliban prisoners.
"We are doing this because the government of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan has removed all barriers from the way of peace and 500 Taliban (prisoners) will be released by the fourth day of Eid in exchange for the release of captives of the security and defense forces and civilians who are with the Taliban," Ghani clarified.
Ghani said he does not have the right to decide on the release of those 400 Taliban prisoners on the Taliban's list who are accused of serious crimes. Therefore, Ghani said, he will call a Loya Jirga, a grand assembly of Afghan elders, to decide on the release of the 400 Taliban prisoners.
"The president of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan does not have the authority to decide on the release of 400 Taliban prisoners whose names are on the list provided by the Taliban," Ghani said. "But this does not mean that we provide a negative response to the release of all these prisoners. I should consult with the nation about the fate of the 400 prisoners and I have invited the consultative Loya Jirga (the grand assembly) so that we can make a decision in this respect based on the consultation of the people’s representatives."
Ghani said the Afghan government has a strong position both in war and in peace.
"I have repeatedly called on the Taliban to start talks with the negotiation team of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan at the earliest. Decisions will be made about the remaining prisoners during the negotiations," Ghani added.
He said that COVID-19 is still a threat, therefore, people should observe health advice during Eid.
"I want to assure all that the Afghan government has effective plans on hand to overcome the current situation, and we are seeing movement in all the sectors," he said.
The president vowed to fight the endemic corruption in public offices and boost security in the country.
This comes as the Taliban also completed the release of 1,000 prisoners called for in the peace agreement signed in Doha.
A front man of the group, Suhail Shaheen, said on Twitter that they freed 82 prisoners on Thursday, bringing the total released by the Taliban to 1,005.
[PJMedia] The attorney for the man who shot armed protester Garrett Foster in Austin on the night of July 25 has been identified as an active-duty sergeant in the United States Army, reports the Austin American-Statesman. He is identified as Army Sgt. Daniel Perry. The AAS reports Perry was driving for a ride-hailing company on the night of the unpermitted protest. Foster was carrying an AK-47 rifle on the night of the protest.
Perry had dropped off a rider near Congress Avenue the night of the protest and drove toward a "hot spot" to wait for another client or food order. He turned right onto Congress Avenue near Fourth Street, the statement says.
When Perry turned on to Congress Avenue, he encountered the protest and several people began hitting his vehicle. The statement says Perry did not know a protest was happening that night.
Foster, whom Perry at first thought was a law enforcement official, approached his vehicle and motioned with an assault rifle for him to lower his window, the statement says. Perry realized after rolling down his window that Foster was not a member of law enforcement.
The statement says Foster began to raise his rifle at Perry. Witnesses have told the American-Statesman that Foster had his weapon pointed down.
Perry shot at Foster with a handgun he kept in his vehicle for protection, the statement says.
The fact that the protest was not permitted will be key to Perry’s defense, should he face charges. Protests such as the one that took place on July 25 are not permitted and their routes are not published. Residents and visitors have no reliable way of knowing when or where protests will occur or how large the crowds may be. The protest on July 25 was taking place just before 10 p.m. on a Saturday night in the entertainment district of downtown Austin. Anyone encountering a crowd has little means of identifying who is in the crowd or what their intentions may be. Protests have repeatedly become violent mostly peaceful without warning, in Austin and many other cities, in the past two months.
In Perry’s case, according to a source familiar with events that night and now the attorney representing the sergeant, he was earning extra money that night via ride-share and had just dropped off a ride when he turned south on Congress Ave. and encountered a crowd. Perry had the legal right to be in that place at that time, provided he was committing no crime and there is no evidence or indication that he was. He is a licensed handgun carrier, indicating a clean record. Texans must pass a criminal background check before earning a license to carry in the state.
Video recorded by the dashcam of another car just prior to the shooting indicates the crowd stopped and surrounded his car, refusing to allow him to pass. The crowd had no legal right to stop him from driving on a public street. He honked the car horn, which speaks to his intent. Had he intended to harm anyone, he was driving a car that he could have used to strike members of the crowd.
The crowd reportedly began striking his car, and protester Garrett Foster approached with his AK-47 and motioned Perry to roll down his window with his rifle — which may mean he pointed the rifle at Perry in making that motion. Openly carrying a rifle is legal in Texas, but Foster had no legal right to demand Perry take any action.
Firearms training, including that which Foster would have received during his brief military career, instructs carriers to never point their weapon at another individual unless intending to shoot.
Texas castle law going back more than a decade covers individuals in their vehicles who believe their life is in danger. It places no responsibility on drivers to retreat, and in Perry’s case, the crowd would not allow him to, before using force up to and including deadly force to defend themselves.
More movements from the armored column, they had shut down highways to hasten their movements when it started drawing attention from netizens. There is now a large number of armored vehicles, mostly artillery and missile batteries at the Naval Base in Zhanjiang, Guangdong.#Chinapic.twitter.com/2CKTnLbP5A
Recently, the state banned and destroyed privately owned fishing boats...on one hand the state takes their means to feed themselves, and on the other hand, will gladly provide food tickets for state caught fish, provided you work for it. pic.twitter.com/FrWBqLmoUN
A barge requisitioned to rescued peope stranded by the floods crashes into a bride and is ripped to pieces, some people can be seen on deck, it is unclear if they are deckhands or civilians. Surely this will not be reported on Chinese News#China#Weatherpic.twitter.com/WSwnfwH2Tk
The arrogance and brutality of the central government are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.#ChinaTruthpic.twitter.com/YBLKz4i4Ot
A certificate of admiralty was issued... Everyone pay attention to his expression, he has been embarrassed by his enemies both real and imagined and it shows. pic.twitter.com/mgJwr4JIpv
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Maybe they are getting military assets out of the way of the deluge from the impending 3 Gorges Dam failure.
Of course Southern China has often been at odds with rule from the north. If rumor comment at end of post has any validity Beijing knows they need the profit center of Guangdong and surrounding provinces under control. Any rebellious commies and PLA out of Shanghai would want the same.
Will be interesting to see if anything develops out of this. This guy's twitter feed is full of interesting stuff, as long as taken with appropriate grain of salt.
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"China is up to something bad"
In other surprising news, water is wet. >:-(
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[BREITBART] The Democrat’s presumptive nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island... will name his running mate as early as next week, and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) is reportedly a top contender for job.The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat has emerged as the favorite pick of former Sen. Chris Dodd, who serves on Biden’s vice presidential search committee. According a source who spoke with Politico, Dodd has urged Biden to choose Bass because "she’s a loyal No. 2. And that’s what Biden really wants."
On the surface, Bass’s background as a former medical professional and South Los Angeles community organizer make her an attractive candidate to serve at a time when public health and racial inequality are on the top of voters’ minds.
Her resume bears the hallmarks of a rising political star, starting with her first foray into elected office 16 years ago, when she won a seat in the California State Assembly and later became the first Black woman in the country to serve as the speaker of a state legislature when she assumed the Speakership in 2008. Prior to this, Bass worked as a physician assistant and a left-wing community activist who founded a non-profit in the 1990s called the Community Coalition. She made headlines after the 1992 L.A. riots for her fight to prevent liquor stores from being rebuilt in the neighborhoods destroyed by the uprising.
In 2010, Bass won her U.S. House seat, where her voting record has been typical of a progressive member of a Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people you're listening to a Democrat... increasingly embracing socialism.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... a deep dive into Bass’s background reveals that her influences were not just socialist, but hardcore communist.
The VP vetting process brought renewed scrutiny to comments Bass made about Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro. In a statement following Castro’s death in 2016, Bass referred to him as "Comandante en Jefe" and described his death as "a great loss to the people of Cuba."
The honorific "Commandante en Jefe"—which translates to "commander in chief"—was criticized by Florida Democrats for being excessively deferential to a dictator with a long history of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses.
In an interview with MSNBC on Sunday, Bass attempted to walk back her use of the term. "I have talked to my colleagues in the House about that, and it’s certainly something that I would not say again," Bass said. "I have always supported the Cuban people, and the relationship that Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... and Biden had in their administration in terms of opening up relations.”
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Bass referred to him as "Comandante en Jefe" and described his death as "a great loss to the people of Cuba."
She's obviously quite comfortable with slavery.
In a sane world no one would pay attention when people who are comfortable with slavery are whining about slavery to their ancestors' detriment centuries in the past.
[Rudaw] The Iranian government has ignored requests for additional resources to control the spread of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... and treat prisoners by senior detention officials, according to a new report from Amnesia Amnesty International.
Leaked official letters shown to the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organization sent to the Ministry of Health show officials at Iran’s Prisons Organization "raising the alarm" over shortages of much-needed sanitary and medical products and devices.
"These official letters provide damning evidence of the government’s appalling failure to protect prisoners. Requests for urgently needed disinfectant products, protective equipment and medical devices have been ignored for months." said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesia Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa in the report.
"This is particularly alarming as the letters also note the presence of a highly vulnerable population in Iran’s prisons," she added
The Ministry of Health did not respond to the officials’ desperate pleas, according to the report, which claims Iran’s prisons remain "catastrophically unequipped" for outbreaks.
"Overcrowding, poor ventilation, lack of basic sanitation and medical equipment, and deliberate neglect of prisoners’ health problems, are making Iranian prisons a perfect breeding ground for COVID-19," added Eltahawy.
Over 100,000 detainees in 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have been granted temporary release or sentence remissions since March in an effort to mitigate the spread of the virus in prisons.
But a UN group of experts said this month that released inmates were now being returned to prison, despite a second wave of the virus in the country, according to AFP.
While Iran is gripped by the COVID-19 outbreak, the authorities' hold over its prisons is slipping. UN officials say they are "horrified" at reports of brutality emerging from the country’s overcrowded prisons as the situation spirals out of control. Half a dozen riots have been reported in the past three weeks. At least a hundred prisoners have escaped, and some outbreaks have turned deadly.
[MSN] The largest police union in Florida voted to endorse President Trump in the 2020 election.The Florida Police Benevolent Association's president, John Kazanjian, said on Friday that Trump has sided with law enforcement amid a wave of anti-police sentiment during nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice that have taken place over the past several months.
"I spelled it out. What’s going on in not just in Florida but across this country that, ’Hey, you know what, we’re getting beat up. We’re being used like a punching bag, and we’re tired of it. And President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... has been there for us. He supported us,'" Kazanjian told Fox & Friends.
Kazanjian is set to meet with Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss policing. He said the endorsement for Trump received unanimous support from the chapter leadership in the association, which has 30,000 members. Kazanjian said that he believes the endorsement could have a significant effect on the election.
"Not only the 30,000 members that we have down in Florida. Don’t forget about friends and families, retirees. Yeah, we — I believe last cycle we also put the president on top. And guess what? We’re going to come out in force this time to get him over that top," he said.
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[ToloNews] Pakistain’s foreign ministry in a statement on Friday blamed the Afghan cops for starting a clash on Thursday night at the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar that left at least 15 Afghan civilians dead and 80 more maimed.
In the statement, Pakistain's foreign ministry claimed that the Pakistain Forces "did not open fire first and responded in self-defense only."
Afghan officials and eyewitnesses have insisted that Pak forces fired first.
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The Trump administration has cut by half its budgetary request for a fund that the US uses to compensate coalition partners for military and logistical support, which could mean Pakistan, the principal beneficiary of the allocation, will get next to nothing from it.
The fiscal year 2020 budget request for Coalition Support Fund (CSF) of $450 million reflects a $450 million (50%) decrease from the FY 2019 enacted level of $900 mn, the US department of defence said in a summary of its budgetary requests released Tuesday.
The reason for the reduction, it said, was “the continuing suspension of US security assistance to Pakistan based on the President’s January 4, 2018, guidance”.
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Heartening to see that the MSM misdirection and omissions aren’t as effective as they hoped. After the likely accidental release I believe they purposefully spread the infection and lied about it to cover their purposeful intent to spread it to the West. In some minds it would be considered and act of war by other means. Seems to me they talked about just that in a military publication or two not long ago?
BREAKING: Seattle City Council moves to abolish the entire Seattle Police Department and replace it with a "civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention."
They want to replace the police force with nonprofit programs and "community-led activities." pic.twitter.com/JnFaWusvvv
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 31, 2020
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When I moved to Seattle in 1988, it was so law-abiding that there was a saying that it was the only place in the country where you'd see people standing at the crosswalks waiting for the light to change at 3:00am.
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Substitute the Ledge Jumper (Chicago Ledge Jumper!) with an armed bandit and this Bob Newhart skit will make sense vis a vis the "Civilian Department of Community blah blah blah".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36D3N5Ly14
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYP] A British man whose penis fell off due to a severe blood infection had a new one built — on his arm, where he even got an extra 2 inches, according to a report.
[Red State] An appeals court has overturned the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev in a shocking decision that reopens a deep wound at a time when America can barely afford more tragedy.
And then there was Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife, Kathern Russell who was forced to stumble over fireworks and bomb making pressure cookers in the cramped apartment. She dutifully suffered in silence of course. Where has she disappeared to, or should I ask ? 
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
The FBI knew. They always knew.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
