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Old infrastructure, like the September 9, 2010 fireball 1,000 feet high which killed eight people, injured dozens, and destroyed or damaged 55 homes in San Bruno, California.
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..anyone tapping the gas line for, you know, free stuff, "We ain't going to pay for no gas". Seems to happen to petroleum pipes in Nigeria.
[Jpost] "Today we follow the will of the people in their demand to hold accountable those responsible for the disaster that has been in hiding for seven years, and their desire for real change."
Lebanon's prime minister announced his government's resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that tore through Beirut and caused public outrage was the result of endemic corruption.
While the move by Prime Minister Hassan Diab attempted to respond to popular anger about the Aug. 4 blast, many Lebanese calling for a complete overhaul of the political establishment will not be placated.
The detonation at a port warehouse of what authorities said was more than 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate killed at least 163 people, injured more than 6,000 and destroyed swathes of the Mediterranean capital, compounding months of political and economic meltdown.
The resignation plunged Lebanese politics deeper into turmoil and may further hamper already-stalled talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a financial rescue plan.
The talks, launched in May, were put on hold due to inaction on reforms and a row between the government, banks and politicians over the scale of vast financial losses.
President Michel Aoun asked Diab's government - formed in January with support from the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies - to stay as a caretaker until a new cabinet is formed.
Playing hot potato — nobody actually wants the job, and who can blame them?
Ahead of Diab's announcement, demonstrations broke out for a third day in central Beirut, with some protesters hurling rocks at security forces guarding an entrance leading to parliament, who responded with tear gas.
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Trump should award Andy Ngo the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his reporting, and for having solid titanium balls. Actually, Ngo deserves a Pulitzer Prize, but we know that ain't happening.
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The way to deal with rioters is to take names and remove their right to own guns. Let them know what will happen before starting this and if it does not denture them go to their residences and collect all guns they now own. This does not mean that peaceful protests should be handled this way!
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Amazon has serious technical means and this is their home turf. I would expect they've profiled every mobile device in proximity to the store and matched them to the owners.
[WGNTV] 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... ’s top cop said about 100 people were arrested and 13 copperswere maimed after a night of looting in downtown Chicago.Widespread damage was reported throughout Chicago after looting and rioting began around midnight Monday. Witnesses reported hundreds of people smashing their way into stores throughout Michigan Avenue, areas in the South Loop and the near North Side.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said the looting started as a result of misinformation following a police-involved shooting in Englewood.
Brown said police were called to the 5700 block of Racine Avenue for a call with a man with a gun. Brown said that suspect was spotted and officers attempted to interview the man but he quickly fled. He said as the man was running away, he pointed a gun at officers and fired shots. Officers returned fire and struck him.
The man, 20, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and is expected to survive.
Brown said the 20-year-old had four previous arrested including burglary, child endangerment and domestic battery. "He was an aspiring rap artist, turning his life around, possibly the priesthood. Dindu Nuffin"
No officers were maimed during the incident and a gun was recovered at the scene.
After the shooting, the superintendent said a crowd started to gather on the South Side following police action. He said tempers started to flare. Brown said CPD then became aware of social media posts encouraging looting downtown.
About 400 officers were dispatched downtown. The superintendent said caravans of people were seen heading downtown to loot.
Both Brown and 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... emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.
"This was not an organized protest," Brown said. "This was an incident of pure criminality."
WGN’s Judy Wang was on the scene early Monday morning and reported seeing people filling trash bags with merchandise. She also saw crowd trashing the streets outside the stores and turning over garbage cans.
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) told WGN he witnessed people driving up in vehicles, smashing windows of stores on Michigan Avenue and grab items and drive away.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasized that the looting was not a part of an organized protest.
Slowly, painfully, micron by micron she begins to come to the obvious conclusion.
Sunlight is the best medicine... short of ten years in a federal pen and loss of pension.
[FoxNews] The subpoena demands that he produce 'all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation'
The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday subpoenaed the FBI and Director Christopher Wray as part of its broad review into the origins of the Russia investigation, Fox News has learned.
Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., issued the first subpoena as part of the panel's review to Wray.
The subpoena, obtained by Fox News, demands that he produce "all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."
"This includes, but is not limited to, all records provided or made available to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice for its review," the subpoena states, referring to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of abuses related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The subpoena also demands "all records related to requests" to the General Services Administration or the Office of the Inspector General for the GSA for "presidential transition records from November 2016 through December 2017."
The FBI must provide these documents to the committee by Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. ET, according to the subpoena.
In a statement to Fox News, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that "the FBI has received Chairman Johnson’s August 6th subpoena."
"The FBI has already been producing documents and information to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which are directly responsive to this subpoena," the FBI said in a statement. "As always, the FBI will continue to cooperate with the Committee’s requests, consistent with our law enforcement and national security obligations."
The subpoena is directed to the "Federal Bureau of Investigation c/o (care of) Christopher Wray."
An FBI official told Fox News on Monday that the bureau has already been producing documents to the committee on a "rolling basis and have surged resources to do so."
In June, the committee voted to authorize subpoenas to the FBI and other agencies for records and testimony from Obama-era officials related to the bureau's original Russia investigation and the Justice Department inspector general's review of that probe.
The committee authorized subpoenas to the FBI for the production of all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation — the bureau's internal code name for the Russia probe, which began in July 2016.
The subpoenas would cover all records made available to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz for his review of the Russia probe and alleged misconduct surrounding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant approvals to surveil members of the Trump campaign.
The committee also authorized subpoenas to the State Department for the production of records related to meetings or communications between State Department officials or employees with ex-British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who compiled the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier which served as much of the basis for the FISA warrant applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The subpoenas would cover documents from June 2016 through January 2017.
The committee also authorized subpoenas to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the production of all records related to the process of “unmasking” U.S. persons or entities affiliated "formally or informally" with the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team or the Trump administration from June 2015 through January 2017.
Johnson has the ability to issue subpoenas to a number of officials, including former FBI Counsel James Baker, former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Joe Pientka, former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI director of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, Sidney Blumenthal, and a number of other Obama-era officials.
Also part of the committee’s probe is the process of “unmasking,” which occurs after U.S. citizens' conversations are incidentally picked up in conversations with foreign officials who are being monitored by the intelligence community. The U.S. citizens' identities are supposed to be protected if their participation is incidental and no wrongdoing is suspected. However, officials can determine the U.S. citizens' names through a process that is supposed to safeguard their rights.
In May, Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public a list of Obama officials who purportedly requested to “unmask” the identity of Michael Flynn, who at the time was President Trump’s incoming national security adviser.
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The masks doctors use hook behind the head, and don't loop over the ears. Fun fact: the masks you see with ear loops that claim to be E90+ are phony; the rating requires behind the head loops.
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[Jpost] Hamas fired several missiles toward the Mediterranean Sea on Monday morning in a warning to Israel that calm along the border with the Gaza Strip will not last.
The rockets, at least eight of them, were a “message” to Israel that armed groups “would not remain silent” in the face of the continued blockade and “aggression,” a source close to Hamas was quoted as saying by AFP.
Millions of dollars in aid payments by Qatar and an unofficial ceasefire have been key to maintaining quiet in the South, which has been relatively calm in recent months.
Two weeks ago, the Qatar Committee for Reconstruction of Gaza announced it would pay its monthly assistance of $100 each to 100,000 families.
The uptick in violence is believed to be due to Hamas’s concern that Qatari might not continue past September.
The rocket fire came hours after the IAF struck Hamas observation posts in northern Gaza near Beit Hanun in response to the launching of incendiary balloons into southern Israel over the course of the day.
Dozens of incendiary and explosive balloons have been launched into the South in recent days. The Israel Police has defused explosive devices attached to balloon clusters, including in Arad, some 80 km. from Gaza.
On Monday, several fires and explosions in the South were believed to be caused by incendiary and explosive balloons.Last Thursday, the IDF launched retaliatory strikes against targets in northern Gaza in response to balloons that ignited several fires in the South.
“During the day, explosive balloons were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory,” the IDF said in a statement last Thursday. “In response, a short while ago, an IDF fighter jet and an IDF aircraft struck infrastructure used for underground activities of the Hamas terrorist organization in the northern Gaza Strip.”
The firing of the missiles on Monday by Hamas came as tensions continue to rise along the southern border, reportedly due to concerns that the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terrorist group could collapse.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-most-powerful group, threatened on Sunday that Israel “will bear the consequences of anything that happens to the residents or farmers [of Gaza] as a result of the escalation.”
The warning came after the IDF fired smoke shells into Gaza to evacuate civilian workers who had been working on the perimeter fence and were targeted by gunfire near Kissufim.
Soldiers hurried to the scene of the incident. They and the workers were unharmed.
Translated from Russian. Appeared in regnum.ru Russia makes a mistake after a mistake
Russian authorities decided to work with Alexander Lukashenko because he definitely controls the situation in Belarus, but in the long run it is a mistake, said in a conversation with the correspondent of the IA REGNUM on Monday, August 10, political scientist Dmitry Bolkunets.
According to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko gained about 80 % of votes in the elections of the President of Belarus. Vladimir Putin sent him a telegram, in which he said: he expects that Lukashenko's state activity will "further develop mutually beneficial relations in all areas", "deepening cooperation within the framework of the Union State", "increasing integration processes and military-political connections".
"Unfortunately, the Russian authorities do not notice important Belarusian trends. And in this political direction, one mistake after another.
But there is no news in this. Russia has always behaved like this.
One of the elements of the game in the post-Soviet space is to recognize authoritarian leaders, and then when something happens to them, hit the bells and shout about Maidan.
Lukashenko controls the situation in Belarus, and therefore decided to work with him. But Lukashenko spent his entire campaign in an anti-Russian way, and therefore Russia loses its face. Lukashenko becomes a triumphant. It turns out that he is allowed to provoke Russia, and then receive both financial and political support for it.
At the same time, the Russian authorities certainly know what the real situation in Belarus is, understand that civil resistance will not die, and do not nourish any illusions in this regard ", Dmitry Bolcunets said.
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Big power politics. Of course the Russians don’t care what is best for the Ukrainian citizenry, they want the one who will work most comfortably and effectively for them and for Russian goals.
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The way to deal with rioters is to take names and remove their right to own guns. Let them know what will happen before starting this and if it does not denture them go to their residences and collect all guns they now own. This does not mean that peaceful protests should be handled this way!
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And they're off with the sound of the gun. This event involves how much you can score not just in distance and time, but also carry. If they had gotten the Olympics in Chicago, it probably would have been made an official athletic category.
It's Kurt. Don't get cocky
[Townhall] Remember how Donald Trump was totally doomed just a couple weeks ago? Grandpa Badfinger was ridin' high down in his basement and the GOP was going to be destroyed in November. All the smart people of smartness who make up liberal blue check Twitter tweeted it so it had to be true.
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Professor who has called every election since 1984 says Trump will lose.
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Lichtman did NOT predict a Trump win, and he was a Gorehead in 2000
Other than that, he's right 115% of the time. Just ask him
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I'm not saying I want him to be right. Not hardly, Frank.
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No prob - so, he's wrong when he predicts a Dem win over a Republican, his argument is he should've been right. He's always been a Democrat fellatrix
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Headline doesn't say he's accurately predicted, just that he predicted.
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I want to see lots of sad faces on teevee Tuesday night in November. I want to see Larry Sabato chew his scraggly mustache half off...
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LOL
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watching the Trump news briefing this afternoon I was pretty shocked that there weren't many snarley questions.
This may be an indicator as well.
Just surprised & hopeful, not trying to get cocky
But it was probably just a fluke
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This may be an indicator as well.
Like rats leaving the sinking ship and hoping the public forgets?
h/t Hot Air
[CNN] -
...a group of researchers at Duke University created a simple technique to analyze the effectiveness of various types of masks which have become a critical component in stopping the spread of the virus.
...In the study published Friday, researchers with Duke's physics department demonstrated the use of a simple method that uses a laser beam and cell phone to evaluate the efficiency of masks by studying the transmission of respiratory droplets during regular speech.
..."We use a black box, a laser, and a camera," Martin Fischer, one of the authors of the study, told CNN. "The laser beam is expanded vertically to form a thin sheet of light, which we shine through slits on the left and right of the box."
In the front of the box is a hole where a speaker can talk into it. A cell phone camera is placed on the back of the box to record light that is scattered in all directions by the respiratory droplets that cut through the laser beam when they talk.
...Researchers tested 14 commonly available masks including a professionally fitted N95 mask, usually reserved for health care workers. First the test was performed with a speaker talking without wearing a mask. Then they did it again while a speaker was wearing a mask. Each mask was tested 10 times.
The most effective mask was the fitted N95. Three-layer surgical masks and cotton masks, which many people have been making at home, also performed well.
Neck fleeces, also called gaiter masks and often used by runners, were the least effective. In fact, wearing a fleece mask resulted in a higher number of respiratory droplets because the material seemed to break down larger droplets into smaller particles that are more easily carried away with air.
Folded bandanas and knitted masks also performed poorly and did not offer much protection.
"We were extremely surprised to find that the number of particles measured with the fleece actually exceeded the number of particles measured without wearing any mask," Fischer said. "We want to emphasize that we really encourage people to wear masks, but we want them to wear masks that actually work."
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I thought of using an old CPAP mask, but it looks too weird.
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Japan masked up early.They focused on "super spreader" events and called it "cluster busting" and trained the public to avoid closed spaces,crowded spaces and close conversations.
They even encouraged no talking on subways or trains.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India said Sunday that it will ban the imports of 101 items of military equipment in an effort to boost local production and improve self-reliance in weapons manufacturing.
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said the government is planning to progressively implement the embargo on select military imports between this year and 2024.
The military equipment includes some high technology weapon systems and range from assault rifles and artillery to transport aircraft and light combat helicopters, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
"Our aim is to apprise the Indian defence industry about the anticipated requirements of the Armed Forces so that they are better prepared to realise the goal of indigenisation," Singh wrote on Twitter. "This is a big step towards self-reliance in defence."
[Bretigne Shaffer] So now we don’t have to listen to what those doctors said in front of the US Supreme Court, because it turns out that one of them has some whacky beliefs about sex with demons causing reproductive disorders. What a relief.
I’m not going to pretend that the things Dr. Stella Immanuel has said don’t sound just a little crazy to me. They do. But I’ve been observing this game long enough to have a pretty good idea of how this works:
Someone says something that contradicts the dominant narrative (in this case, the narrative about medical science), and the machine that supports that narrative goes into overdrive to discredit them, with whatever information they can dig up—as long as it doesn’t involve discussing the actual substance of what the person has said.
I understand that for some people, maybe even for a great many, that is the end of the conversation. So for everyone who is satisfied with the "fringe doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine also believe demon sex causes fybroids" narrative—please, stop here. Your ride is over, and you may go on believing that this group of doctors and other professionals has been thoroughly discredited by these statements.
For everyone else, if you are at all interested in why such a coordinated effort has been launched to silence and discredit this group, why—even before the sex demon stuff was uncovered—videos of the group’s press conference were quickly yanked from YouTube, and why their own website was taken down without warning by its host, SquareSpace, (their new website can now be found here) then please keep reading... ....
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Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug that could cure the coronavirus, according to a new study.Specifically, researchers from Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University in Australia found ...
Antifa assaulted someone in a wheelchair. That's what set off the beat down from residents. Police were on the scene to arrest the commies. pic.twitter.com/LhqHFztjV2
Counterprotesters got involved in a violent confrontation with pro-police supporters at a Back the Blue rally in Fort Collins, Colo. Saturday, which ended with the arrests of three people.
The pro-police attendees said two different groups of counterprotesters -- consisting of Black Lives Matter supporters and what appeared to be members of Antifa -- joined the event. They also claimed a faction from one of those two groups attacked a veteran who was in a wheelchair, according to The Collegian.
Clips featured on a rally goer's Instagram account showed an all-out melee of various protesters beating one another, as people screamed and cursed while they looked on.
Another attendee can be heard on the video saying, "Keep punching each other in the face but don't shoot anybody."
Ciara Wilson, a local high school student who filmed part of the fight, said there were no police to be found as opposing sides battered one another in the grassy ditch.
“Once they get all the way down the street from the police station, it just goes into an all-out brawl in the middle of a grassy pit,” she told The Collegian. “10 to 15 people just piled up on top of each other. Chokeholds, batons, punched in the face all of it, and there were no police.”
A Black Lives Matter rally had been held at Colorado State University earlier that day. Some of those rallygoers went on to the police station to start a counter-protest.
At first, it seemed to be a peaceful conversation between members of the two groups. Once the second group of anti-racism demonstrators --- dressed all in black and thought to be Antifa-- showed up, things escalated and turned violent.
Witnesses claimed the agitators dressed seemed to bait the pro-police protesters with verbal taunting.
FCPS Public Relations Manager Kate Kimble sent an email to The Collegian saying the “physical disturbances” near the station ended with three arrests and one citation.
The booking report showed two men and one woman were arrested for disorderly conduct. One of the men was also booked for allegedly possessing an illegal weapon, while another was hit with a resisting arrest charge.
"We respect everyone’s right to peacefully assemble to voice their concerns,' Kimble added. "For the safety of our community, acts of violence, destruction of property and other unlawful behavior will not be tolerated."
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When I lived in Fort Fun the cops were known as ones that didn't play around with people that made trouble. Glad after 15 years the trend is the same.
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I support policemen and women. How some ever, there are bad ones and they should be removed. All orders from top cops that police are to write so many tickets should be removed. I remember the days when two policemen rode in one car. You are here to protect me and not to write 12 MPH over tickets on the open hiway!
[Rudaw] Six suspected 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) Death Eaters were arrested in Sulaimani province earlier this week, the Kurdistan Region Security Agency announced on Saturday.
The six men were arrested in two raids by Sulaimani's Asayesh Operation Forces in and around the town of Chamchammal on August 4 and 5, according to a Kurdistan Region Security Agency statement published by PUKMedia.
The arrests were made "based on information and continued precise monitoring of the Kurdistan Region Asayesh, and the Sulaimani Asayesh Operation Forces, associated with the Kurdistan Region Security Agency," the statement said.
The suspected ISIS fighters were from the south of Iraq, the statement said, and had settled in the Chamchammal area, about 65 kilometers west of Sulaimani, using forged documents and working as gardeners.
"According to the obtained information, the apprehended holy warriors had fled from southern Iraq and intended to build a hideout in Chamchamal to establish a route to get connected with a number of ISIS sleeper cells to reorganize themselves and carry out their activities. But their plots were foiled before they managed to do it," the statement added.
Though its activities have centered on territories disputed by the governments of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, Kurdish security forces have apprehended Death Eaters in raids in areas under KRG control since that territorial defeat.
But some anti-ISIS operations by Kurdish security forces have not been publicly announced, according to Saturday's statement.
"The Kurdistan Region Security Agency has previously apprehended many other holy warriors in Sulaimani, the Garmiyan administration region and other towns and cities of the Region in which we have kept the information secret for the sake of the safety, continued investigations and the security of the people," it added.
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Weren't we told ISIS was utterly defeated?
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[AnNahar] The huge chemical explosion that hit Beirut's port, devastating large parts of the Lebanese capital and claiming over 150 lives, left a 43-meter (141 foot) deep crater, a security official said Sunday. and now the 3,943rd most holy site in Islam
The blast Tuesday, which was felt across the county and as far as the island of Cyprus, was recorded by the sensors of the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) as having the power of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake.
It was triggered by a fire in a port warehouse, where a huge shipment of hazardous ammonium nitrate, a chemical that can be used as a fertilizer or as an explosive, had languished for years, according to authorities.
The huge blast also maimed at least 6,000 people and displaced more than 300,000 from their destroyed or damaged homes.
The revelation that the chemicals had languished for years like a ticking time-bomb in the heart of the capital has served as shocking proof to many Lebanese of the rot at the core of the state apparatus.
Demonstrators on Sunday called for renewed anti-government rallies after a night of angry protests saw them storm several ministries before they were expelled by the army.
It was a new tactic for a protest movement that emerged last October to demand the removal of a political class long accused of being inept and corrupt.
"The explosion in the port left a crater 43 meters deep," the Lebanese security official told AFP, citing assessments by French experts working in the disaster area.
The crater is much larger than the one left by the enormous blast in 2005 that killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri, which measured 10 meters across and two metres deep, according to an international tribunal investigating his murder.
French rescue and police teams are among a much larger group of international emergency response specialists that has flooded into Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... to ease pressure on local authorities unable to cope with the disaster relief on their own.
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, Russian and German rescuers are also working at the port blast site.
[AlphaNewsMN] Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has found time away from his multiple suits against the Trump administration and is instead turning his attention to a rodeo.
The rodeo took place in Itasca County, next to Bemidji, where Grand Rapids is the county seat. According to Ellison's own press release, his office is bringing an "enforcement action against [a] rodeo that defied COVID-19 safety precautions." The rodeo was put in place by North Star Ranch, LLC.
According to Ellison's press release, he is bringing the "enforcement action" against the rodeo company for "carelessly" allowing "large crowds to attend its annual three-day rodeo without taking required safety precautions against the spread of COVID-19."
The (pro Antifa, CAIR endorsed)
Democratic attorney general appears to be specifically incensed by a comment that the owner of the rodeo made on Facebook, which Ellison's office mentions in its press-release. After talks broke down with state officials about the safety precautions that the state would require at this outdoor rodeo, the owner of the rodeo posted on Facebook:
"The North Star Stampede will take place with no spectators. If people would like to come and protest against this ridiculous Government Overreach, feel free to do so, I will not stand in the way of people's Right to Assemble."
Here, the owner was making a clear reference to the mass protests and riots that have occurred in the wake of George Floyd's death, which were both allowed and encouraged by state and local officials.
One person who attended the rodeo later tested positive for COVID-19, but it is unclear if this person got the virus from attending the rodeo.
Ellison's press release put it this way: "The North Star Ranch's violations are even more disturbing as the Minnesota Department of Health recently learned that at least one attendee has tested positive for COVID-19 and was infectious at the time they attended the rodeo."
Days later, a headline from the (Red)
Star Tribune read that "Minnesota reports 622 new COVID-19 cases, no more from the rodeo yet." Then a Fox 9 headline made it sound like an outbreak had occurred because of the rodeo: "At least 1 attendee infectious with COVID-19 at northern Minnesota rodeo, thousands possibly exposed." Photos from the Fox 9 article showed a relatively light crowd.
So far, there has been no outbreak because of the rodeo, and it doesn't appear that major (POS)
Minnesota media outlets have followed up to report that.
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Religion is funny that way. Left - Right political distinctions peter out in the church pews, where everyone is a hard leftist, in "established" Western religions, anyway...
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Quarantine4Evah and maskhole religion is even worse.
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What I can't understand is why it's ugly people in particular who object to wearing masks.
[POLITICO] Three groups of college Democrats in Massachusetts disinvited left-wing congressional primary challenger and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse from all future events alleging that he showed a pattern of using "his platform and taking advantage of his position of power for romantic or sexual gain, specifically toward young students."The email, sent on Thursday and signed by College Democrats of Massachusetts, U-Mass.-Amherst Democrats, and Amherst College Democrats alleged that Morse, who is challenging House Ways and Means Chairman Richie Neal, had "sexual contact" with students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he was a lecturer on political science.
"Numerous incidents over the course of several years have shown that it is no longer appropriate to encourage interaction between College Democrats and Alex Morse," they wrote.
In a letter sent back to the groups on Thursday and obtained by POLITICO, Morse wrote, "I want to be clear that every relationship I’ve had has been consensual.
Does this mean “Nice GPA ya got there, kid. Be a shame if anything happened to it...”
or “Hey, Joe — I hear Professor Morse will raise the grade of students who volunteer to be his extra-special assistants”?
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... I also recognize that I have to be cognizant of my position of power." He continued: "Navigating life as both a young gay man and an elected official can be difficult, but that doesn’t excuse poor judgment."
In a statement, Morse acknowledged relationships with college students and said the relationships were consensual. Asked if the allegations of "sexual contact" were with students at the college where he taught, Morse’s campaign did not respond.
The letter was first reported by The Massachusetts Daily Collegian.
The university announced on Saturday afternoon that it would launch a review into the allegations to determine whether Morse's behavior violated university policy or federal Title IX law. The school says it was previously unaware of the allegations against Morse.
"The university’s policy on consensual relationships between faculty and students notes that dating or sexual relationships between faculty and students or post-docs are inherently problematic because of the unequal power dynamic between the parties to the relationship," spokesperson Ed Blaguszewski said in a statement. "Therefore, faculty are prohibited from entering into a sexual relationship with any student or postdoc for whom the faculty member has any responsibility for supervision, evaluation, grading, advising, employment, or other instructional or supervisory activity."
[BeSaCenter] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion occurred at a warehouse on the waterfront of the Port of Beirut, Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... . It killed at least 135 people, maimed at least 5,000,
...as of yesterday: 158 dead, 6000 injured with approximately 100 at death’s door, missing dropped to 21 from 60...
left approximately 300,000 people homeless, and devastated the port region of the city, causing damages estimated between $10 billion and $15 billion. The Lebanese authorities are blaming the earth-shattering kaboom on mismanagement by port officials, but there is reason to suspect that it was the result of Hezbollah negligence.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Police in Philadelphia announced that six people, including one pregnant woman, were hospitalized after a shooting Saturday night.
The incident took placed just before 9.30pm when a group of residents were gathered for a barbecue at a park near Poplar Street in West Philadelphia.
ABC 6 reports that victims include three women and three men who were maimed at the scene.
A 59-year-old woman was shot in the left foot; a 24-year-old pregnant woman was hit in the left thigh; an 18-year-old woman was shot in the right arm; an 18-year-old male suffered from two graze wounds on his lower back; an 18-year-old male was shot in the right calf; and a 17-year-old male was took a shot in the left leg.
Authorities recovered 28 shell casings from the scene. Suspects or a motive have not been disclosed.
Two of the victims were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center from the scene, while one officer found another victim and took her to the hospital.
CBS Philly reports that the remaining three victims arrived to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on their own. All six residents are in stable, pH balanced condition.
Authorities are now searching for four to five suspected shooters dressed in all black.
Their continent, their choice — for as long as the gods of the copybook headings let them keep it.
[Mises] After intense negotiations, long days and nights of clashes, and a distinctly sour note underlying the entire summit, European Union leaders finally agreed on an unprecedented €1.82 trillion ($2.1 trillion) budget and covid recovery package. This agreement provides €750 billion in funding meant to counter the impact of the pandemic and also includes €390 billion in nonrepayable grants to the hardest-hit EU members, with Italy and Spain being the main recipients.
The harsh negotiations brought to the surface once again the deep economic, structural, and cultural divide between north and south. This divide has been at the core of every serious political and economic crisis in the bloc so far, and its reemergence served as yet another reminder of how unnatural, forced, and unsustainable the integration vision of the Europhiles really is. Their wider strategic aims, much like this covid relief package itself, are nothing more than a massive redistribution of wealth and a vain effort to impose uniformity on a radically diverse group of national identities, economic profiles, and local political realities.
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After the fact, they will all argue the "medical supplies" were worthless in combatting the panic anyway, so, no harm, no foul.
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Whoever this article is isn't wrong. This is federalism by the back door. They can't do it legally, so they pull this crap.
You have to realize, the EU as an organization is in real danger. If Brexit is a success it's curtains for them. Tens of thousands of people will be jobless. Obviously this must never be allowed to happen. So they've got to act now or never.
Sure, it's going to be stupidly expensive to keep the EU together. Sure the other nations are going to waste the money and laugh. These are bribes, plain and simple. That's why Macron was banging the table. Bribe them and they'll stop agitating to leave.
this was a retrospective study not a random clinical Trial and in addition there were a lot of problems getting all the demographic and co morbidity data for each patient; the study was completed in late June and has undergone enough peer review to make it to the NIH publication (which I think is a BIG DEAL), notwithstanding that, it adds to the growing case for HCQ
[NCBI.NIH]... patients under HCQ-AZ treatment for at least 3 days had a better clinical outcome, based on mortality rates among patients >60 years, less transfer to ICU and shorter length of stay at the hospital, and these patients also had a shorter duration of viral shedding than patients who did not receive this drug combination. Finally, a global strategy for the management of the COVID-19 outbreak may help to limit both the number of cases and fatalities and guide countries where this pandemic has not yet peaked. [case fatality rate for people over 60 years old were 0.9% w/o HCQ, 0.5% w HCQ]
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Ooooohhhhh.... I bet Big Pharma doesn't like this part - However, the choice of the best treatment should be made according to its safety profile, which is much better for HCQ-AZ than for remdesivir (adverse events leading to cessation of treatment in 0.9% in our study vs. 12% for remdesivir
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Who will tell the Dems who panned it, then banned it, costing lives?
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[Rudaw] Warplanes conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Sulaimani province's Qamish village near the town of Mawat early Friday afternoon, according to a local official.
Kamaran Hassan, the head of Mawat town, confirmed the bombardment to Rudaw, saying no casualties have been reported, but agricultural lands were set ablaze during the airstrikes.
The official claims the airstikes were Ottoman Turkish.
"The fire is still not under control, and civil defense teams are at the site attempting to contain the fire," Hassan added.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain welcomes Afghan Loya Jirga’s recommendation on the release of prisoners, the Pakistain Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
"We hope that with the implementation of this step relating to the prisoners’ release, as envisaged in the U.S.-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Peace Agreement, the Intra-Afghan Negotiations will commence at the earliest", Pakistain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The statement also added that Pakistain has repeatedly emphasized that the Afghan leaders must seize this historic opportunity and work together constructively through Intra-Afghan Negotiations to secure a comprehensive, broad-based and inclusive political settlement in Afghanistan.
”And also blah blah blahdy blah,” the statement pontificated, at boringly predictable length.
The international community must also reinforce its support for the success of Intra-Afghan Negotiations for sustained and durable peace and stability in Afghanistan, the statement added.
Pakistain reaffirms its support for a peaceful, stable, united, democratic, sovereign and prosperous Afghanistan, at peace with itself and with its neighbors.
This comes as Pakistain is accused of supporting terrorist networks in the region.
[ToloNews] At least 7 coppers were killed and 15 others were maimed in a boom-mobile explosion that occurred in the city of Ghazni on Saturday evening, targeting a unit of the public protection forces, a security source said on Sunday.
The explosion was followed by an attempt to storm the compound in Kotal-e-Rawza area in the city of Ghazni at around 7:45 pm, but all attackers were killed before entering, said the Interior Ministry front man Tariq Arian on Saturday night.
The source said that the maimed have been taken to Kabul by helicopter for treatment and three are "at death's door."
"The snuffies were using a Humvee vehicle for the earth-shattering kaboom," the source added.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack so far.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Fars News Agency quoted a Pak senator as saying that the Pak government had seized an Iranian oil tanker in the port of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... at the request of the United States.Senator Rahman Malik, Secretary of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Pak Senate, said: "We have warned against the transfer of Iranian oil to Pakistain. This is an important international issue and will lead to pressure on Pakistain," noting that "the transfer of oil to Pakistain is a violation of the embargo on Iran."
Rahmani added that "the Iranian oil tanker was monitored by an American organization, and this organization informed the Pak government to seize it, and asked it to take legal action regarding the consequences of importing and exporting as well as refining Iranian oil."
For its part, the Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization said that it had not received a notification from Pakistain regarding the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.
"Pakistain has not officially informed us yet about the seizure of the oil tanker, as we are the state owner of the flag that the tanker flies," Abbas Ahmadinejad, director general of maritime affairs in the organization, told Fars News.
Ahmadinejad indicated that Pakistain should inform the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which in turn informs the port organization to take the necessary measures.
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[Al Ahram] Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was set for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election on Sunday, an official exit poll said, after a political newcomer mounted a historic challenge to the strongman leader.
The exit poll for state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
gave Lukashenko 79.7 percent of the vote, with main challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya coming second with 6.8 percent.
The opposition had said it expected the results to be rigged and some were already calling for protests on Sunday night.
The atmosphere in the capital Minsk was tense, with police and special forces on the streets and a Soviet-era protest song blasting from car radios and flats.
Huge queues had formed outside polling stations in the capital Minsk and other cities before voting ended at 8:00 pm local time (1700 GMT), after Tikhanovskaya urged her supporters to vote late to give authorities less chance to falsify the election.
Four loud blasts have been heard, people are retreating from the monument in the square and OMON forces are advancing in #Belarus. pic.twitter.com/78VakPqRJw
[Al Ahram] The Egyptian government has decided to form a supreme committee to check all warehouses, shipments, and storage containers at all areas affiliated with airports nationwide in order to take all precautions for hazardous materials, Civil Aviation Minister Mohammed Manar Anba said on Sunday.
The committee will be presided over by the head of the ministry’s security section, Tariq Nosair, and will include representatives of all concerned bodies, the minister’s statement added.
The committee is tasked with "checking and enumerating all warehouses, shipments, and storage containers at cargo villages and storage arenas affiliated with Cairo airport and all airports nationwide, in order to take all preventative measures against hazardous materials and to release them immediately or transfer them to safe storage places away from airports and populated areas."
The minister said the committee will fully re-evaluate procedures adopted at all storage places to provide the highest standards of safety and security, in accordance with the instructions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
He added that the move is aiming at addressing any risks before they arise and protecting all customers and workers in the civil aviation sector.
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Protip: The only reason the ammonite was 'stored' in Beruit was port authorities had seized it to shake down the ship operator. He eventually walked away and said "keep it". There are some things you don't want to be left holding.
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[IsraelTimes] David Abrams’ lawsuit alleges the group violated its tax-exempt status by supporting grantees in Israel who are vocal on political issues.
A pro-Israel activist has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service that, if successful, could severely restrict freedom of speech for non-governmental organizations.
David Abrams’ lawsuit alleges that the nonprofit New Israel Fund
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[Al Ahram] A fire broke out at an entrances to parliament square in central Beirut as hundreds of angry anti-government protesters tried to break into the cordoned-off area, Lebanese TV channels showed. The live broadcasts also showed police firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators. Protesters broke into the housing and transport ministry offices.
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[Al Ahram] Eight people including six Frenchies and their local guide and driver were killed by button men on Sunday in Niger's Koure region, home to the last herd of West African giraffes, officials said. "There are eight dead: two Nigeriens including a guide and a driver, while the other six are French," Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, the governor of the southwest Tillaberi Region, told AFP.
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A lifeless young lady of Niger
Is riding inside of, um, I'Ger.
She'd like to be free
From its cloud, as would we,
But the murderous pig won't oblige 'er.
[Al Ahram] Six years ago, Libya saw a division in power between two authorities in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and Tobruk.
The ongoing Sirte-Jufra battle involves fighting between the two authorities, including the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the troops of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
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after an uprising and loss of power by long-serving leader Muammar Qadaffy
An uprising? Is that what you call what Barry and Hill pulled off?
As #antifa have taken to Portland residential areas to riot, they’ve also assaulted & intimidated residents there. Tonight, they threatened those who looked out the window. #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/1qiIOLk99j
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In June of 2019, I was puzzled to see an electronic billboard near ORD in Chicago that was recruiting info for the Portland PD- a mere 2100 to the west of here. Their department has had difficulty "protecting and serving" that menagerie for a while now.
Native American tribes have set up checkpoints to block thousands of bikers attending the 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota from entering tribal lands
The Cheyenne River Sioux announced Saturday the checkpoints would be set up as a part of the tribe’s larger COVID-19 prevention policy to prevent a potential outbreak
Only commercial and emergency vehicles will be let through the checkpoints onto reservation land
Officials say a number of bikers have already tried to enter the land but were turned away
Those checkpoints were set up during pandemic to prevent people from entering tribal land to block virus
The 80-tradition motorcycle rally anticipates 250,000 attendees and revelers have been seen maskless and ignoring social distancing so far
In South Dakota there are 9,477 COVID-19 cases, 146 deaths, and 48 hospitalizations
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Only thing worth stopping on the rez for are the cheap cigarettes. If you like the girls, there's something wrong with you and there will be even more wrong with you shortly...
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I do understand the allure of heading west on Hgwy 212 on a bike. Nicer scenery, decent road and more places to stop along the way.
I-90 is...well...the interstate. Long and hot this time of year with not many places to stop once you're past the Missouri River. Plus you get to deal with drivers traveling the 'minimum speed' (45MPH) on the freeway. They do it to save fuel or something. I've rarely seen it done anywhere else, but in SD it's prevalent.
Nonetheless, Bobby is correct in this instance.
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[Dhaka Tribune] It was December 3, 2019. Abdul Jalil, a CNG auto rickshaw driver, was picked up by some men in white clothes from Cox's Bazar’s Adalat Para. On the same day, Saddam Hussein, 20, son of the late Sultan Ahmed of Maulvi Bazar village in Hnila Union, also went missing.
Jalil’s whole family went crazy looking for him. News of his going missing was published in local newspapers but proved to be futile, reports Bangla Tribune. Chhenuara Begum, Jalil’s wife, inquired at the offices of various law enforcement agencies but there was no sign of her missing husband anywhere.
Two months later, in February this year, a local man who was suddenly released from the cop shoppe confirmed Chhenuara that her husband was with the OC’s team, or to be specific, OC Pradeep Kumar Das’s team.
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A bullhorn is a very visible target. Beanbag any that are seen. A few teeth get knocked out that way and habits will change.
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As reprehensible and degenerate as this joker is, he didn't get there by accident. Neither he nor De Ballsio. They were duly elected, so the citizens ought be happy with the result. Oh, and don't be sending me or any of my neighbors the bill.
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Soros and the rule of law breaking down, even as small indication that vigilante groups are forming. The fatal flaw in the emergent communist revolutionary thinking is that no county In recent memoryever had a more well armed citizenry or as well experienced conservative populace. The muzzled spirits that exist here that are the dogs of war are feeling the leashes loosening.
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I'm not excited about shooting fellow citizens, even if they deserve it. That said, I think about 300,000 Antifa / BLM / sympathizers shot will about do it. Not even a dent in anybody's ammo cache...
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I think an important after-action will be looking at every fat black mama who is suddenly in financial distress because "her chile" been shot. Maybe some IRS investigations?
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Maybe some IRS investigations?
I've been waiting on these assholes to process a penalty waiver request back in January, so those investigations ain't happening any time soon.
[Al Ahram] Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... 's environment minister resigned from Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government on Sunday, saying the government had lost a number of opportunities to reform, a statement said. Damianos Kattar's departure follows the resignation of Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad earlier on Sunday in the wake of the earth-shattering kaboom that rocked Beirut on Tuesday
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The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the Taliban militants fired a mortar round which impacted a civilian house in Sherzad district of Nangarhar province.
The statement further added that the Taliban militants fired the mortar round on Saturday which landed on a civilian house Angar area of Sherzad district.
[Dhaka Tribune] A crude bomb, locally known as cocktail, went kaboom! in the capital’s Mirpur area on Sunday night.
Mirpur cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mostafizur Rahman confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
"Someone hurled a crude bomb on the road in front of two residential buildings in Block F of Mirpur Section-2 around 8pm. We couldn’t arrest the culprit. The reason behind this explosion is still unknown," he said.
An investigation has been launched and security camera footage of the area is being collected to identify the perpetrators, said OC Rahman.
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The Oregon chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations tweeted out support for the riots in Portland. CAIR is linked to jihadist terrorism & its Oregon chapter has thrown its full support behind antifa for the past few years. pic.twitter.com/SL67ex3w10
#Egypt- #ISIS photos showing RQ-20 Puma tactical UAV that crashed near Rabaa, Bir al-Abd, North #Sinai.
This is directly related to ISIS capturing of villages in the area (and you can see how the militant stands openly on the road onside the village) pic.twitter.com/XHfSghPQZ7
[Al Ahram] 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 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... rebels said Sunday that floods have swept through rebel-held parts of the country since mid-July amid heavy seasonal rains, leaving more than 130 dead and damaging more than 260 homes. Another sign Allan doesn't like you
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said at least 124 others were maimed by the flooding in parts of northern Yemen controlled by the rebels, including the capital Sanaa and its historic Old City, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
More than 160,000 people were forced to leave their homes amid heavy flooding and rainfall in the provinces of Hajjah and Hodeida, according to security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
At least 33,000 displaced people who were sheltering in camps in southern Yemen lost their tents and belongings in the floods, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said last month.
The devastating floods in the Arab world's poorest country have exacerbated a cholera outbreak, with 127,900 suspected cases across eight provinces since January, the World Health Organization said in July.
The Red Thingy also warned the floods have accelerated the spread of dengue fever and malaria, as mosquitoes carrying the diseases breed in puddles.
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[Rudaw] Iraq's defence ministry has removed potentially kabooms from a Baghdad International Airport warehouse, a military spokesperson announced on Sunday, following last week's deadly blast in Beirut.
Movement of the unspecified cargo comes with the formation of a committee by Iraq's premier and commander-in-chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi to investigate and track "high-risk materials" held in the country, said Kadhimi's spokesperson Yehia Rasool.
"The Military Engineering Directorate of Iraqi defence ministry...safely transported highly dangerous materials from the air cargo section at Baghdad Airport...to its destination, the warehouses of the Military Engineering Directorate," Rasool tweeted.
Transport of the materials was done "under the guidance of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to form an urgent committee to detect high-risk materials (chemical, dual-use materials, and ammonia nitrate) at all border crossings (land, sea, and air)," he said in a subsequent tweet.
A devastating twin explosion rocked the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing at least 158 and wounding 6,000, according to health ministry figures. The number of fatalities is expected to rise as bodies continue to be recovered from the rubble.
President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... attributed the blast to 2,750 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that had been left stored at the city's port since 2013, prompting a wave of mass protests and the public's storming of several ministry buildings.
Iraq too has witnessed explosions at sites holding kabooms in populated areas, with a blast at a weapons depot at al-Saqr military base in Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood killing one civilian and injuring 29 more last year.
Fearing the same fate as Beirut, Iraqis have been taking to the streets and to social media this past week to demand removal of kabooms from city neighbourhoods.
On Friday, Iraq's transport ministry granted port authorities in the southern city of Basra 72 hours to inspect all of Basra province’s ports, and remove all chemical, radioactive or combustible materials stored in their warehouses.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A huge fire broke out on Sunday morning at the Pardis commercial complex on the Iranian island of Kishin the Persian Gulf. According to RT, the president of the Kish Merchants Club said that the cause of the fire was a short circuit in the air conditioner at the clothing store.
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.@Austin_Police arrested suspects last weekend at the unlawful #BLM occupation. Protesters aggressively confronted drivers on the road & many of them came openly armed with weapons. https://t.co/TTRldjaXzY
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Second from left needs a close encounter with Clearasil.
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^ Or better Meth
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#Three Bagger Lives Matter
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Suburban white punks. Indoctrinated to be unquestioning "revolutionaries" with no real context as to consequences. Justifiably hard consequences must be imposed for this to stop.
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Finally found a group who would accept them for whatever the heck they are.
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish air forces bombed at least three areas in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province on Saturday, according to local officials.
Areas in Deralok, Batifa and Shildaze were hit by Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Saturday morning, local mayors told Rudaw.
"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... has been bombarding the vicinity of the villages of Avla, Banka Sare, Manin and Pirbile [in the area] since 9am," Batifa Mayor Dlsher Abdulsattar told Rudaw.
A civilian vehicle was also targeted in the strikes, according to Abdulsattar. No casualties have been reported.
Turkey launched a new air offensive in the Kurdistan Region on June 15, with the stated aim of removing Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters from its borders with the Region. Residents and wildlife of the mountains have borne the brunt of the campaign, however.
Deralok Mayor Sami Barwari confirmed to Rudaw that Turkey had bombed the mountains and a number of nearby villages.
Video footage submitted to Rudaw by Deralok resident Abdullah Ali showed smoke rising from the Link mountains, with Ali saying Turkey had "intensely" bombed the area, forcing farmers to leave their land.
"The farmers had visited their villages to irrigate their farms but they were forced to leave their villages," he added.
Turkey’s new offensive has been focused on areas in Duhok province’s Zakho region.
[Al Ahram] Some Lebanese called on Sunday for a sustained uprising to topple their leaders amid public fury over this week's devastating explosion in Beirut, and the country's top Christian Maronite holy man said the cabinet should resign.
Protesters have called on the government to quit over what they say was negligence that led to Tuesday's explosion. Anger boiled over into violent mostly peaceful scenes in central Beirut on Saturday.
Christian Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai said the cabinet should resign as it cannot "change the way it governs". "Reminder to self: Get a remote car starter"
"The resignation of an MP or a minister is not enough ... the whole government should resign as it is unable to help the country recover," he said in his Sunday sermon.
Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad said she was resigning on Sunday, citing the earth-shattering kaboom and the failure of the government to carry out reforms.
Saturday's protests were the biggest since October when thousands of people erupted into the streets to demand an end to corruption, bad governance and mismanagement.
About 10,000 people gathered at Martyrs' Square, which was transformed into a battle zone in the evening between police and protesters who tried to break down a barrier along a road leading to parliament. Some demonstrators stormed government ministries and the Association of Lebanese Banks.
#1
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!
Send me the rats who swarm your swamp,
Your potent rodents keen to chomp
On all that's green, and not vote Trump.
#3
Charming and clever, Beldar Unimble4745.. I love the repeated hard st/ts , the progression of near rhymes at the end of each line -- pomp, swamp, chomp, Trump — and the smoothness of swarm your swamp. And the shock of the final image of monsters voting against Trump in the midst of all that innocently bucolic horror.
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Read something once about raising cats and rats in seperate 'farms' next to each other. Feed the rat meat to the cats and the cat meat to the rats and sell the cat fur for profit or something like that.
[FoxNews] FBI background checks for gun purchases in New York in June more than doubled from a year ago, according to a new report.
Data shows the FBI processed 52,252 background checks for people seeking to buy firearms in the state in June -- a 121% increase from June 2019, the New York Post reported Saturday.
“When the original COVID scare started in the beginning of March and people thought they might get laid off, at that point we saw a huge surge," Cliff Pfleger, the owner of a Long Island gun shop, told the paper. "We sold out of almost everything we had in the store.”
He added, “We had lines continuously, even though we didn’t have things to sell. The people who are coming to the store — a lot of them were first-time firearm purchasers, and they obviously did not apply or have a handgun license."
The Post reported that at the same time gun purchases soared, so did shootings in New York City.
The Big Apple saw 205 shootings in June, the bloodiest June in 24 years.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis estimated that an extra 2.1 million guns sold nationwide between March and May this year are linked to 776 gun-related injuries that would not have occurred without the sales spike.
A Brookings Institute study suggests there are 3 million extra guns as a result of the pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody, according to the Post.
The think tank found that after Floyd's death on May 25 in Minneapolis, daily gun sales surged to 150,000 by June 2 — and remained steady throughout the month, the paper reported.
[ToloNews] At least 10 non-combatants were killed in a blast in Kabul and another in Kandahar on Sunday amid rising hopes for peace as the Loya Jirga delegates approved the release of high-value Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners, a key step hoped to open the way for intra-Afghan negotiations.
The two explosions happened on Sunday afternoon. The first happened in the west of Kabul at a market in Company Bazaar area.
According to the Interior Affairs Ministry, the bomb was placed on a pushcart in the market and went kaboom! when the area was about to be cordoned off by police forces who were attempting to defuse it.
The blast left two civilians, including a woman, dead and five coppersmaimed, according to the ministry.
Another explosion happened in Arghistan district of the southern province of Kandahar when a civilian vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in Sheen Nari village in the district, the ministry said.
The ministry added in a statement that the Kandahar roadside kabooming killed eight civilians.
This comes amid increasing efforts by the government to kickstart the much-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations.
Kathleen M. Mahoney, 43, is another Portland attorney arrested at an #antifa riot. She's charged w/attempt to assault an officer, resisting arrest & more. She's a self-described "neutral observer" w/@ACLU_OR who is already suing Portland Police. https://t.co/9zKS0JrOw4pic.twitter.com/uoV3TdsV5k
Riley Isley Harris, formerly known as Timothy Michael Harris, is charged w/multiple offenses in relation to the #antifa riot in north Portland. The 31-year-old transsexual was previously charged w/felony assault at another violent protest last month. https://t.co/HrFXm4V0aapic.twitter.com/nrrVcRV13U
Kyle appears to be happy with a single gender, despite having lifted the name from someone else.
Brandon Shane Paape, 31, was charged in relation to the violent #antifa protest in SE Portland. He was already arrested & charged at another violent gathering in June. Both times he was released without bail. This week, Paape threatened my elderly parents. https://t.co/y5yW1AfhdKpic.twitter.com/bmwXlPRn76
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What percentage of the attorneys, that we see in these riots and protests, immigration attorneys no-longer able to make big bucks with the rule changes?
[GatewayPundit] Before the President departed on his trip to Ohio, then to travel to his Bedminster, NJ, resort, this weekend. The White House staff lined up to wish him well. When has this ever happened?
There are numerous reasons why the Deep State and the Obama gang should be worried:
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“So, I have a lot of enemies out there. This may be the last time you’ll see me for a while. A lot of very, very rich enemies, but they are not happy with what I’m doing,” he said.
So, Mr. Trump said he is going to get "scarce." Very, very strange statement from him.
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If the 'Occupy' jackals are going to set up shop around the White House until the election, Secret Service may have decided it's a great time for a road trip.
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FTFA: [ColonelCassad] OMON and other security forces are still working quite confidently.
The protests themselves do not yet reach even the Saturday riots in Beirut, when the seizure of government buildings was carried out.
But it seems that the main "rally strike" will take place today, but a little later. Comments appear to remain split between the government and the protesters.
#2
Almost everyone is conservative where their personal interests lie. That may come back to bite the Billy Jeff school of "make the personal political" now.
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It's in English, so most Angelenos can't read it.
[GatewayPundit] Steven Schrage joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. Schrage worked with FBI spy Stefan Halper for years. Steven introduced Stefan Halper to Carter Page back in 2016 while Halper was spying on the Trump campaign.
On Sunday he spoke with Maria Bartiromo in his first interview. Schrage told Maria, "Halper was not that engaged up to the point he crossed paths with Page and Christopher Steele's former MI6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove..."
Schrage said he was surprised that Stefan Halper was making over a half a million dollars for writing reports for the government.
Schrage said the key part, the real smoking gun in this is, "All these tentacles lead back to the "small group" including Stefan Halper in SpyGate, Christopher Steele at the center of Russiagate, Stefan Halper's FBI handler. None of the Senate has subpoenaed or called these people to talk in four years. I think that is the real smoking gun. How are these people being protected?" Deep state FBI Wray, Lindy Graham-cookie monster comes to mind. Remember the London CIA chief at the time was Gina Haspel, the now CIA director. Now I see Clapper won't get charged. Getting the picture?
Steven Schrage also added that Halper bragged that David Ignatius was one of his press media contacts. Schrage added, "So it seems to me that this is something that needs to be investigated." Schrage then added that he believes there were quite a few Republicans involved in leaking this damning smears against the Trump campaign.
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No surprise.
Anyone with half a brain could figure this out when the Senate and House did nothing more than engage in hearings theater when the GOPe controlled both houses.
They were in on the undermining of the Tea Party as well.
I'm resigned to the fact that this won't be settled with hearings and trials and elections.
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I suspect it will eventually be discovered that Carter Page was a Deep State drone and he was completely aware and cognizant of his role. The FISA warrant was simply a control or communications vehicle. I too believe that if something were to come of all of this, something would have already happened. I hope I am wrong.
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GOPe side of the uniparty is a fogging embarrassment to human intestinal worms.
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Anyone with half a brain could figure this out when the Senate and House did nothing more than engage in hearings theater when the GOPe controlled both houses.
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The deep state has probably more fingers in dodgy pies than can be imagined if they're prepared to attempt to unseat a democratically elected president and not worry too much about legal blow back...
[Rudaw] An Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)-Peshmerga meeting to be held at the end of August will see the launch of "joint anti-ISIS [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.... ] attacks", a Baghdad military spokesperson has said.
Maj. Gen. Tahsin Khafaji, spokesperson for Iraq’s Joint Operation Command told Rudaw on Sunday that the next meeting between the two forces, whose location has yet to be decided, will see as yet unsettled agreements resolved.
"A very high-level meeting was held between the Joint Operations Command and the [Kurdistan Regional Government] Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs at the end of July, where several points were agreed upon while some other points remain up for discussion," Khafaji said. "There will soon be joint operations by Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga against ISIS [ISIS] in the disputed territories."
The Peshmerga ministry "requested some time" to review the agreed points with the Iraqi defense ministry, Khafaji said, the meeting between the two sides set for the end of this month.
At the height of its power between 2014 and 2016, ISIS controlled an area roughly the size of Great Britannia, spread across both Iraq and Syria.
Although Baghdad announced the territorial defeat of ISIS in Iraq in December 2017, remnants of the group have returned to their earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable rural populations, particularly in territory contested by Erbil and Baghdad.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Kurdish counter-terrorism units, who operate outside the control of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, and the Iraqi defense ministry launched the fourth stage of an operation against ISIS bully boyz last month in Diyala province.
Iraq's defense ministry and the KRG Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs agreed last month to establish three joint coordination rooms with the aim of eliminating ISIS cells active in Diyala, Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces, parts of which are disputed territory.
Iraqi Army-Peshmerga coordination between the two forces already took place earlier this month on a stretch of road between Kifri in Diyala and Tuz Khurmatu in Salahaddin.
[Al Ahram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's resumed search for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean is "extremely worrying", the EU said Sunday after Greece and Egypt set up an exclusive economic zone in the region.
"Latest naval mobilisations in eastern Mediterranean... will lead to a greater antagonism and distrust," foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, calling the development "extremely worrying"."Maritime boundaries must be defined through dialogue and negotiations, not through unilateral actions and mobilisation of naval forces," Borrell said in a statement.
The discovery of vast gas reserves in the region in recent years has sparked a prospecting scramble by Greece, Turkey and Egypt as well as Cyprus and Israel.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... announced Ankara's resumption of operations on Friday, accusing arch-foe Greece of failing to keep its promises.
His comments came a day after Athens and Cairo signed an agreement to set up an exclusive economic zone in the region.
On Sunday, Borrell said "disputes must be solved in accordance with international law," adding that Brussels was "committed to help solving such disputes and disagreements in this area of vital security interest".
He added: "The present course of action will not serve the interests either of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , or of Turkey. We have to work together for the security in the Mediterranean."
The deal between Greece and Egypt aimed to establish maritime boundaries between the two countries and appeared to be a direct response to a similar accord reached last November between Turkey and the UN-recognised government in Libya.
The agreement considerably enlarged Turkey's maritime territory and drew accusations from several countries, led by Greece, that Ankara was trying to assert its dominance in the region.
#Turkey is the only place in the #world were you can find shops selling #ISIS souvenirs and shirts!! This is the NATO member that sent 17,000 #ISIS and AlQeada terrorists to #libya to fight for the expired #GNA . pic.twitter.com/JBPDAG3Wd7
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[POLITICO] Three groups of college Democrats in Massachusetts disinvited left-wing congressional primary challenger and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse from all future events alleging that he showed a pattern of using "his platform and taking advantage of his position of power for romantic or sexual gain, specifically toward young students."The email, sent on Thursday and signed by College Democrats of Massachusetts, U-Mass.-Amherst Democrats, and Amherst College Democrats alleged that Morse, who is challenging House Ways and Means Chairman Richie Neal, had "sexual contact" with students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he was a lecturer on political science.
[Mises] After intense negotiations, long days and nights of clashes, and a distinctly sour note underlying the entire summit, European Union leaders finally agreed on an unprecedented €1.82 trillion ($2.1 trillion) budget and covid recovery package. This agreement provides €750 billion in funding meant to counter the impact of the pandemic and also includes €390 billion in nonrepayable grants to the hardest-hit EU members, with Italy and Spain being the main recipients.
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...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Fars News Agency quoted a Pak senator as saying that the Pak government had seized an Iranian oil tanker in the port of 
[Al Ahram] Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was set for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election on Sunday, an official exit poll said, after a political newcomer mounted a historic challenge to the strongman leader.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[Dhaka Tribune] It was December 3, 2019. Abdul Jalil, a CNG auto rickshaw driver, was picked up by some men in white clothes from Cox's Bazar’s Adalat Para. On the same day, Saddam Hussein, 20, son of the late Sultan Ahmed of Maulvi Bazar village in Hnila Union, also went missing.
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
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[FoxNews] FBI background checks for gun purchases in New York in June more than doubled from a year ago, according to a new report.
...Arabic for 
[GatewayPundit] Before the President departed on his trip to Ohio, then to travel to his Bedminster, NJ, resort, this weekend. The White House staff lined up to wish him well. When has this ever happened?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[ColonelCassad] OMON and other security forces are still working quite confidently.
...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 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
