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Good catch. He'd really be finished politically if he had left a young woman to drown in his car because calling for help would have hurt his career.
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Good lord ... are the entire lot of Dem wannabes one shingle shy of a roof?
One shingle shy? Are there any other choices not counting zero?
[RedState] The whistleblower complaint imploded big time yesterday when part of it was specifically called out as false by a senior government official, according to Christina Ruffini, the State Department and Foreign Affairs Reporter for CBS News.
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Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.
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Another problem in the story also emerged, according to Fox.
[A]ccording to the whistleblower complaint, by mid-May, U.S. diplomat Kurt Volker sought to “contain the damage” from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s outreach to Ukraine.
But a July 19 text message conversation from Volker to Giuliani, provided to Fox News on Thursday, showed that Volker had in fact encouraged Giuliani to reach out to Ukraine — even sending Giuliani a message reading, “connecting you here with Andrey Yermak, who is very close to President Zelensky.”
Additionally, the complaint said Trump “suggested that Mr. Zelensky might want to keep” his current prosecutor general, a claim not supported by the transcript.
But now there’s even more.
The whistleblower complained that there was nothing at all sensitive in the call. So that there was no justification for thereafter secure storage system in the NSC. The argument was that Trump just didn’t want people to hear the conversation.
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A “White House official” is quoted by the whistleblower (WB) as objecting to the storage of the MEMCON transcript of @realDonaldTrump call with Zelenskyy in a secure storage system in the NSC. This was wrong (a cover up) because it contained “nothing remotely sensitive”. Nothing!
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That’s categorically, 100% false. The President’s call with Zelenskyy contained references to both POTUS’s and the Ukrainian President’s opinions on multiple European countries and leaders, especially Germany/France and Merkel/Macron, as well as sanctions policy towards Russia
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That’s why when originally classified the transcript was set at the SECRET, Original Classification Authority (ORCON), No Foreign Distribution (NOFORN) level
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That classification was set because the diplomatic view of the United States (and POTUS) towards other countries and leaders can “cause serious damage to national security” if disclosed in an unauthorized way. In this case it could also damage the national security of Ukraine too
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The administration also had another very legitimate reason for wanting to secure the information. Earlier in the administration, there were a lot of leaks they were trying to stop. According to ABC, more things were thus put in secure storage than previously.
So either someone in the chain of unreliable hearsay on the whistleblower memo was mistaken or someone along the way wasn’t telling the truth.
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Kelly Conway said the transcript was stored on the secret server because previous conversations Trump had with leaders from Russia and Australia had leaked.
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All very reasonable.
Which of course doesn't matter to the rabidistas.
Anyone vaguely familiar with exercise or athletics could've predicted this, especially myself. My best estimate for my own road bike rides (200 lb. male, 23 miles in 1.5 hours) is a calorie requirement of 1,600 - 1,700 calories, in addition to a normal RDA of 2,200 or so calories. Many complex proteins required for muscle growth and repair simply cannot be replaced or replicated with a vegan diet.
[Charlotte Observer] - Cam Newton and Hannibal Buress walk into a vegan restaurant, and leave with a Ziploc bag of magic mushrooms and new perspectives.
Wait, what?
It’s true. Newton and his friend, Buress, a comedian, shot an episode of the quarterback’s vlog over lunch one afternoon this past offseason, live from the patio of Los Angeles vegan restaurant Gracias Madre. The episode ‐ appropriately titled ’Yo! This Vegan?’ ‐ features the pair trying flash-fried cauliflower in a cashew cheese sauce, with barbecue jackfruit carnitas tacos that easily could pass for pulled pork. Cauliflower - it's what's for dinner - said no man, ever. Go grab some steaks, Cam!
"Climate guru Petteri Taalas: 'Climate change is not yet out of control, but the debate is ‐ It has the features of a religious extremism.'"
[PJMedia] So read the English translation of the headline of a September 6 news report in Finland’s financial newspaper Talouselämä (The Journal) citing an interview with Taalas, a PhD in meteorology and secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization.
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the validity of Taalas’s concern than the use of children to promote the worldwide climate delusion, a scare for which there exists not a shred of physical evidence. Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is a case in point.
After crossing the Atlantic in what she incorrectly dubbed a zero-carbon yacht to address the recent UN climate summit, her actions mobilized millions of climate change demonstrators, many of them children, in more than 100 countries to join protests. In an angry speech at the UN, Thunberg told world leaders that they had "stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us."
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If rationality held sway, we would not be talking about messianic children, modern monetary theory, globalism or borderless states. We would not be talking about making math "feel good" or about making illiterates feel good about their contributions to the space program. We would not be listening to Jenny McCarthy's babble against vaccines. We would not be talking about anything that is not immediately relevant to acceptable results in governance, science and individual freedom. But that would leave way too many on the outside they have chosen, not looking in, but looking for the next unicorn or false religion to embrace.
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Greenism is a religion, you cannot argue against it rationally.
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It has been speculated that "Greenism" is an effort to replace Christianity so they left can conduct goat molesting, mule sniffing, and baby raping without criticism.
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#1 On the other hand, MM, If rationality held sway we'd probably just lay down and die because life has no rational purpose. And don't mention religion because belief is irrational.
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Chris - she's mentally challenged and scared out of what passes for her wits by her feckless parents. She's been lied to her whole life by the people she trusts the most. Blame the bastard parents.
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#5, #6 Anybody her age who feels entitled, indeed obliged, to lecture grown ups - who know and understand a lot more that she does, should get a leather strap applied to her tush.
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Hogg will have his Hahvahd history or political science or "government policy" degree and there will be an Ivy bidding war for Greta (while Felicity Huffman mutters WFT?). As long as the left sees taxes, taxes everywhere, a good 99% tax on endowments is a great place for the GOP to go for starters.
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The original children's crusade ended with most of them being sold into slavery.
Just sayin'.
#6 While I've no doubt she's being guided, she knows what she's doing and revels in the attention and power it gives her.
The worst thing the rest of us could do is give her endless slack because she's "just a child".
She wants the power of an adult? Fine, then be prepared to held as accountable as an adult would be (ideally).
The Right will never win if we constantly insist on white knighting for those who are trying to destroy us.
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To sea went a brave little sailor
Who railed at the gales with a hailer.
She sounded so addled,
Cetaceans skedaddled,
A-blubber: "The tales of that wailer!"
[PJ Media] In late June of 1941, my father's first cousins Moshe and Dvora fled their house in the tiny town of Kameny Most, about halfway between Slonim and Baranavichy in what is now Belorus. Hitler had launched Operation Barbarossa days before, and their home stood almost on the German-Soviet line that had divided Poland in 1939. Now the Germans had marched into town. The boy and girl, then 15 and 16, reached the woods behind their house before the Germans arrived. Their parents and baby brother fled a minute later, but the Germans already were there. They couldn't reach the woods and hid in the tall grass. A Polish neighbor pointed them out to the Germans, who shot them on the spot. Moshe and Dvora joined the partisan brigade led by the Bielski brothers, made famous in the film Defiance. Not long afterwards they returned at night, barricaded the neighbor in his house, set it afire and burned him alive. By the grace of God the teenagers survived the war and came to the new State Israel and started large and flourishing families. I had the merit to arrive at Dvora's deathbed in 2004 just in time to receive her blessing upon the American branch of her family.
I tell this story to make it clear that my family isn't soft on Polish anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism is a matter of the most profound importance, and Polish anti-Semitism is something I take personally. That is why it is especially irresponsible to accuse Poles of anti-Semitism falsely, as the Jewish Insider website yesterday accused Polish President Andrzej Duda. According to the website, President Duda told a group of Jewish community leaders assembled at the Polish Consulte in New York that hostile remarks by an Israeli cabinet minister about Polish anti-Semitism "were a 'humiliation' and were the reason for an increase in antisemitic attacks against Jews in Poland." It is wrong to cry wolf under any circumstances, and reckless to cry wolf where real wolves might turn up.
President Duda never said it. I know he never said it because I was at the meeting. For an accurate account, see Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's note in the Jerusalem Post.
[RedState] Back in July, Kira Davis wrote about the left’s despicable doxxing of the family behind the cute "Mini AOC" Twitter account. The personal threats and invasion into their privacy forced the family to stop making the parody videos mocking the real AOC that made so many people laugh, but it was understandable. Safety first and all that.
But in the aftermath of liberals recently holding up 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg as some sort of unquestionable absolute moral authority on all things climate-related, Mini AOC decided she’d stayed in the shadows long enough, and returned.
It's the Bud light/black victims of Holocaust story
[RedState] ...Calvin is the noxious little BuzzFeed alum working for the Des Moines Register who wrote the story. His idea of doing a "background check" on King included going back into King’s tweets to when he was 16 and happened to quote a racially charged joke from the comedy show Tosh.o. This resulted in King being subject to a lot of public humiliation.
But Karma is real and, as it turned out, Calvin had a lot of very ugly stuff in his social media and it was from only a few years ago, after he was an adult. The Des Moines Register investigated him and today he was disappeared from that paper. RAH says that "any form of government will work, if accountability matches authority". Journos can destroy a person's life, therefore ... (mind you, I do not believe that Calvin will remain unemployed and destitute - the new class takes care of its own).
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And, interestingly, there is no mention anywhere that Carson King is a Republican/gun owner/general "Enemy of the People". It was just Calvin's pleasure in taking down somebody better than himself.
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The Left hasn't 'woke' up yet that the other guys are now doing on to them what they've been doing to the other guys. Since they have no history to call upon (since they've wiped it out in pursuits of grievance studies), their socialist predecessors bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam, and various British cities. In return, the 'other guys' bombed the crap out of their cities. We have now entered that phase of the cold civil war.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s Armed Forces said that it destroyed dozens of terrorist hideouts and killed 118 takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... elements in north and central Sinai during its operations to eliminate terrorism in all strategic directions in the country in the past period.
The Armed Forces added that 10 army personnel, including an officer and nine soldiers, were killed and injured during these operations.
In an official statement issued by the General Command of the Armed Forces on Friday, the armed forces said the takfiri elements were found in possession of a number of rifles and bombs to be detonated in north and central Sinai.
The statement explained that Air Forces were able to target and destroy 33 hideouts used by the terrorist elements, and 115 4x4 vehicles.
The armed forces also seized and destroyed 37 vehicles and 42 cycle of violences used by the terrorist elements during combing and raid operations.
The armed forces said it also detonated 273 bombs, which were planted to target forces in the vicinity of operations, and destroyed 11 tunnel openings in cooperation with border guards.
The operations also seized 2441 kgs of cannabis and other different types of narcotics during its security operations.
The statement added that Egypt's Naval Forces continue to secure vital economic interests and enhance naval security in the territorial waters in the Mediterranean and Red seas.
Ilegal migration attempts by 11,071 people from different nationalities were foiled by the armed forces during the past period, the statement added.
"The armed forces and police stress on their continued efforts to eradicate the root of terrorism, and provide safety and security to the nation," the statement concluded.
[Jpost] Seven soldiers and one civilian were killed in an ambush in Egypt's North Sinai region on Friday, security sources said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Two soldiers were also maimed in the attack in Bir al-Abed, the two security sources said.
Islamic State said 15 soldiers had been killed in the attack, in a statement carried by its Amaq agency. The claim could not be verified.
Egypt has long been fighting Islamist Death Eaters, who have waged an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers, police and residents, in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
Also on Friday, Egypt's Defence Ministry said security forces had killed 118 forces of Evil in north and central Sinai in the "past period," without giving dates.
[Jpost] Several air strikes were reported on Friday evening near the Syrian city of Al Bukamal near the Iraqi border on the Euphrates River, Walla reported.
The strike was allegedly carried out by the Iraqi Air Force and targeted ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[10News via CNN] President Donald Trump and Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, met Friday at the White House, an administration official confirmed to CNN.
The official declined to comment on what the President and La Pierre discussed during their meeting.
The New York Times first reported the meeting.
The paper, citing conversations with two people familiar with Friday's meeting, said Trump and LaPierre discussed how the NRA could support Trump during impeachment and reelectio These delicate c&*ts throw everything they have against him, including meeting with supporters. Not news, PATHETIC
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It's good for Trump to meet with people advocating civil rights.
So which is it gonna be? A Star Wars movie that doesn't suck? Or all further Marvel movies slurping as bad as Star Wars movies subsequent to The Empire Strikes Back aka Episode V, and prior to Episode IV? I do have my suspicions...
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MCU just had the big finale, they need some to to rebuild for awhile with the new actors. Star Wars is in big trouble and may be dead as so many of the eldest, most loyal fans have given up.
[Rudaw] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... will not hesitate to target American bases in Iraq if the United States attacks the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad said this week in a clear warning from a top Iranian diplomat and former senior member of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force. banging his spoon on his highchair
Speaking to Iraq’s Dijlah satellite TV channel, Ambassador Iraj Masjedi said that if the United States chooses to escalate already heightened tensions between their nations, then American forces will not be safe in Iraq.
"If they [the US forces] don't cause any problem for the Islamic Theocratic Republic, Iran won't respond to this presence [of US forces in Iraq]," Masjedi said in an interview aired on Thursday. "If the Americans want to cause any problem for the Islamic Theocratic Republic, they have to expect a response and reaction," Masjedi added.
There are about 5,000 US troops currently based in Iraq.
"A demand of Iran is for American forces to get out of the region because they don't do any positive or constructive work. This is not strictly about Iraq. It is about wherever they exist," said Masjedi.
Baghdad has repeatedly sought to prevent Iraq becoming a battleground between its allies and neighbours, a stance President Barham Salih stressed when he addressed the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... General Assembly: "Terrorism is looking for a gap to rise again, therefore conflict and tensions in the region will create this vacuum that terrorism can take advantage of, so let’s make peace not war."
Iraq could, however, be dragged into conflict by pro-Iranian factions within its Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known in Arabic as the Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitaries. Tensions have already spilled into Iraq, albeit on a small scale. Twice, in a little over four months, rockets and mortars have been fired near the US embassy in Baghdad.
The attacks have largely been attributed to Iranian-backed units within the PMF, many of which have called for US troops to leave Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has ordered gangs to cease their attacks.
The Iranian ambassador rejected the categorization that some PMF units may be acting on directions from Tehran. "If the Islamic Theocratic Republic responds [to an attack], they respond too. They can't accept Iran being threatened, but eventually this is their decision... no one can force them to do anything," Masjedi said, adding that they cannot prevent PMF units from targeting other countries in defence of Iran.
Ambassador Masjedi also gave lip service to Iraq’s independence, telling Dijlah TV Tehran does not intervene in Iraq’s domestic affairs. "Iran doesn't make the decision for these countries, but it asks them and suggests to them [to force US troops out]," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces have arrested 2,000 people in effort to put down demonstrations sparked by construction magnate’s viral videos accusing president and military of corruption.
Scattered protests broke out Friday in Egyptian cities against President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi
...also spelt al-Sisi...
as his supporters also erupted into the streets in counter demonstrations a week after rare anti-Sissi rallies shook the country.
The Jerusalem Post has more about the police and army response, and mentions that Mr. Ali or Aly is an actor as well as a construction contractor.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A jihadist media coordinator was recently killed in a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) attack in the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
According to the jihadist-owned Ebaa News Agency, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... media coordinator Ahmad Mustafa al-Yahya (AKA "Abu Qassem al-Jabhat") was killed by the Syrian Arab Army in the al-Ghaab Plain region of the Idlib Governorate this week.
Several pro-jihadist media channels would pay tribute to the HTS military news hound in their social media feeds on Friday, as they commemorated the latter’s effort to provide reports from the front-lines.
Since the start of the Syrian war, several field news hounds and media activists have been killed on both sides, with the majority of the casualties coming at the front-lines.
[THEHILL] President Trump on Friday demanded House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “immediately” resign from Congress for reading what the congressman described as a parody of the president’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader that is at the center of a whistleblower complaint.
In a series of tweets early Friday, Trump accused Schiff of lying to Congress and “fraudulently” reciting a version of the call that made it “sound horrible” and made the president appear “guilty.”
“He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it sound horrible, and me sound guilty,” Trump tweeted.
“HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!”
Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist. He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019
...sound horrible, and me sound guilty. HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT. Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019
Trump was referring to a moment at the outset of Thursday’s congressional hearing with the acting intelligence chief during which Schiff described Trump as saying on the call that he would tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "seven times" to "make up dirt on my political opponent."
Schiff later made clear that he was summarizing what happened on the July 25 call and that it was meant "to be, at least in part, parody."
"The fact that that's not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course, the president never said, if I ‐ if you don't understand me, I'm going to say it seven more times. My point is, that's the message that the Ukraine president was receiving in not so many words," Schiff said.
Schiff immediately hit back at Trump on Twitter on Friday, accusing him of engaging in "a shakedown to get election dirt from a foreign country" and trying to cover it up.
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I think, up to now, Trump was primarily concerned with implementing his MAGA agenda and not interested in settling scores. Lets hope that this'll change. IMO, removing the self-proclaimed elites from power is a lot more important than improving the economy - better economy just means that they've more to loot.
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@#3: My sense of things is that once re-elected the gloves are going to come off and lots of people will go to jail. I also think he jettisons AG Barr after being re-elected.
No. We do not say things that can be construed as a threat to the lives of American citizens.
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I've seen the same sentiment expressed here on numerous occasions. Maybe a little more subtle than how I said it, however, it would take some pretty soft logic to construe my opinion as a direct threat.
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...that is true Skid, except SCOTUS who somehow found 'wording' in the 14th Amendment to give women and gays (and whatever) 'equal' standing before the laws says that there are Private and Public persons and that Public persons are not entitled to equal protection. Further, they seem to find that if the legacy infotainment enterprises mention their names they magically become public persons.
Yes, we did have an article about the ship sailing off two days ago (see related article, below), but apparently now it’s really left.
[Rudaw] A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
Iran’s marine and port authority said the Stena Impero left Iran Friday morning. Hours earlier, the tanker had begun transmitting its location for the first time in weeks just outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, where it had been held since its July 19 seizure.
The head of the Swedish shipping firm Stena Bulk that owns the tanker said it "has been a long wait" for the vessel and its crew to be released.
Company president and CEO Erik Hanell said the ship’s seizure "has meant an enormous pressure for us all, especially for the crew." The ship was headed to Dubai, where the crew would disembark and undergo medical checks.
Hannel said the vessel appeared to be in good condition and "hopefully it will be on duty within a week or so," speaking by telephone with Swedish television.
The ship tracking website MarineTraffic.com showed the Stena Impero heading south from Iran at a speed of just over 14 mph (22 kph).
Iran seized the tanker on July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20 percent of all oil passes. The raid saw commandos rappel down onto the vessel via helicopter carrying assault rifles, dramatic images later replayed on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?The seizure came after British marines helped take control of an Iranian supertanker on July 4. Authorities in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, seized the ship carrying $130 million in crude oil on suspicion it was breaking Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union sanctions by taking the oil to Syria. Gibraltar later released the tanker, then called the Grace 1, after it said Iran promised the ship wouldn’t go to Syria.
That ship, renamed the Adrian Darya 1, later sat off the Syrian coast, angering Britannia. Iran hasn’t said who purchased its 2.1 million barrels of crude oil.
On Monday, Iranian government front man Ali Rabiei had told journalists the Stena Impero could leave. But the ship remained outside Bandar Abbas until Friday.
Earlier this month, Iran released seven crew members of the Stena Impero. Sixteen stayed on board.
Britannia has responded to Iran’s release of the tanker Friday by accusing Tehran of trying to disrupt freedom of navigation.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the ship "was unlawfully seized by Iran."
He said the seizure was "part of a pattern of attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. We are working with our international partners to protect shipping and uphold the international rule of law."
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I have a front load washer. About every fourth load I use Lysol laundry sanitizer or do a white load in hot water with bleach. Before I started doing that, the clean clothes would smell vaguely mildewed.
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Well,if you're a member of elites you probably have some senora doing your washing by hand - it's ecofriendly. Or a senorita who also provides, ahem, other services.
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Aboutevery fourth load I use Lysol laundry sanitizer or do a white load in hot water with bleach.
I get the same issue. So like you, I now use more chemicals in the wash and run hotter cycles. So water is being saved but more efflux needs treated and more energy is used. Say it with me, kids: unintended consequences...
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It doesn't go into it but it probably caused the deaths of a few children.
I wonder how high the final butchers bill will be for Greenism?
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Also my GF complains about my clothes smell of "old dog". MY washer ticks all the green boxes, I now use hers and transport clothes (she gets my cooking so win win there).
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For a similar reason, I never had the 'water-saving' toilet installed. Sixteen years of use (I'm on 2nd floor) and I never had to deal with a clogged toilet. It's all bullshit.
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I've used front loaders for 20 years, I don't have any issues. The current washer is a Kenmore Elite, I do NOT use the default Eco settings.
The washer gives me the option to custom tailor my settings over a wide rand. I also run an empty load every other week with the hottest water setting and a cup of industrial bleach. It is ~11 times stronger than household bleach. Front loaders are the way to go if you READ the instructions and adjust accordingly. The clothes come out of final spin with less water load, the dry faster. Less time in the dryer means the clothes last longer.
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I have a front load washer too. Can't wait for it to break so we can replace it with an old-fashioned top loader. Unfortunately, it's been going strong for quite some time and shows no sign of giving up.
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Or a senorita who also provides, ahem, other services.
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has plans for a massive construction project to build new communities in northern Syria as part of its intent to resettle at least a million refugees across the border, according to Ottoman Turkish presidential sources.
Unnamed sources told Ottoman Turkish media Haberturk on Friday that 140 villages, each to house 5,000 Syrian refugees, and 10 districts, each accommodating 30,000 Syrian refugees, will be built in the so-called safe zone Turkey wants to see established some 30-40 kilometres deep into Syrian territory.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Iranian and Syrian officials in a meeting in Tehran this week conferred on ways to further increase cooperation between the two countries in oil projects through the use of capacities in the private sector.
Syria’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Soleiman Ghanem visited Iran’s chamber of commerce on Wednesday, voicing the interest of his country’s private sector in joint economic activities with their Iranian partners.
Head of the Iran-Syria Joint Committee Keivan Kashefi and a number of Iranian economic activists hosted the meeting with Ghanem in Tehran.
Kashefi, for his part, said that the level of the economic ties between the two countries had not grown tantamount to their political ties.
"The private sector can play a key role in this regard by tapping the potentialities of the two countries," he said.
Kashefi said the presence of the Syrian official in Tehran could be considered as a starting point for oil and energy cooperation between Tehran and Damascus, saying Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Syria had not had so much to do in this field together.
During the meeting, Ghanem said that his country had intended to exploit the Iranian experiences and capabilities in order to reconstruct their country.
In relevant remarks on Monday, Ghanem said his country was determined to enhance mutual cooperation with Iran in diverse areas of oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
To boost cooperation with Iranian partners, Ghanem paid a visit to South Pars gas field facilities in Asaluyeh, Southern Iranian province of Bushehr, on Monday.
Leading a delegation comprised of Syrian oil and gas officials, Ghanem was briefed by Managing Director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) Mohammad Meshkinfam about the gas field and the investments made on it.
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The whole problem is that 9/11 caused the direct opposite "Oh, what we did to poor Muslims to make them act like this? We have to show them that we are not bad people!"
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My hatred of muzzies started in the early 70’s with the plane hijacking followed up by two months in Beirut in the summer of ‘82, followed by the Marine bombings, followed by an endless list of crimes in the name of that pig Mohammed. We should have turned the Middle East into glass when we had a chance.
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#1 The whole problem is that 9/11 caused the direct opposite "Oh, what we did to poor Muslims to make them act like this? We have to show them that we are not bad people!"
Agreed.
My first reaction to the attacks on 9/11 was, "I wonder if we'll get the hint THIS time?" And when GWB uttered those inane words, "Islam is a religion of peace" I figured I got my answer.
I shudder to think what kind of Islamic atrocity it will take for us to figure things out...
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Russia and the serbs knew long before then.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force has allegedly bombed the jihadist forces in the western countryside of the Idlib Governorate this afternoon, pro-militant activists reported from the area.
According to their claims, the Russian Air Force bombed the town of al-Sirmaniyeh and its surroundings, which, if true, would mark the first time in a month that they have launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over this part of the Idlib Governorate.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has not confirmed these claims and the last time Russian airstrikes were reported in Syria, Moscow denied the reports.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab Air Force is conducting raids in the area, with their attack choppers concentrating their strikes on the nearby town of Kabani in northeastern Latakia.
Al-Sirmaniyeh and Kabani are both under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and the Turkestan Islamic Party; these are two jihadist groups that control most of western Idlib and northeast Latakia.
[IsraelTimes] Eyewitness says handcuffed African man pleaded for help on plane; Immigration Authority says it is unfamiliar with the case.
Israel is flying West African nationals to Egypt, from where they are being sent to remote areas, an Israeli passenger who claims to have witnessed such an incident told Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew sister site of The Times of Israel.
"On Wednesday, July 17, I was on a regular flight from Israel to Egypt," said the man, who asked not to be identified. "One of the other passengers was an illegal migrant, an African civilian, who was bound hands and feet and was under guard."
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They need to go to the countries of origin and tell those people they are not welcome. And if they come they will be deported some crap hole. Drop off a few that were deported and survived to spread the word. Stay in your own COUNTRY!!!
[TRIBUNE.PK] The US military command for Africa announced on Friday it killed 17 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.... (IS) group bad boys, also known as Da’ish, in southern Libya, in the third such strike in a week.
[Rudaw] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... said Friday it will offer tourist visas for the first time, opening up the ultra-conservative kingdom to holidaymakers as part of a push to diversify its economy away from oil.
Kickstarting tourism is one of the centerpieces of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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[DAWN] A probe committee formed to unearth the facts surrounding the violence which broke out in Ghotki earlier this month has found that the attacks were a conspiracy to "foment communal riots in the area", according to a report released by the human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. ministry on Friday.
A fact finding delegation was formed on the directives of Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari after a general feeling of resentment was observed among the Hindu community.
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[BREITBART] House Democrats will hold a "discussion" Friday on "adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the Trump Administration’s policies and proposals." Yes, I do recall ducking and covering under my desk in a drill in case of nuclear war. My childhood was just fudging crippled. I shoulda gone to the UN to bitch about it.
As part two of a Health & Homeland Series entitled "A Conversation on the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Toxic Stress", the discussion will include the topics of "indefinite detention of children, family separation, and the public charge rule."
"Adverse childhood experiences related to natural disasters and migration will also be discussed."
According to the event’s website page, Surgeon General of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and Obama Administration Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin will participate with opening remarks from John Hopkins Professor Dr. Maria Trent. "It's for the Chilruns"
"The event is sponsored by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Lauren Underwood, Vice Chairwoman of the Committee on Homeland Security."
The conversation is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Eastern.
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Dems are not doing anything in Washington except go after Trump. Even this "discussion is partisan." Dems, how about doing something real for kids like stop human trafficking and addressing the drug problems in this country?
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 7 Talibs, detained an ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... fighter and destroyed caches of weapons in four provinces including Kabul.
The military officials said Friday the Special Forces killed 7 Talibs in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
The officials further added that the Special Forces also destroyed a large cache of weapons during the same operation.
Furthermore, the Special Forces arrested an ISIS turban during a patrol in Rodat district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and destroyed a cache of weapons.
The Special Forces destroyed two caches of weapons of Taliban ...Arabic for students... during the operations in Zarghun district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Sarobi district of Kabul, the officials added.
[TRIBUNE.PK] Astronomers have discovered a 13-billion-year-old galaxy cluster that is the earliest ever observed, according to a paper released on Friday, a finding that may hold clues about how the universe developed.
Such an early-stage cluster – called a protocluster — is “not easy to find”, Yuichi Harikane, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan who led the international team, said in a press release.
“A protocluster is a rare and special system with an extremely high density,” Harikane said, adding that the researchers used the wide viewing field of the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to ‘map a large area of the sky’ in their search.
Distant asteroid calamity shaped life on Earth 466 million years ago
The discovery of the protocluster, a collection of 12 galaxies, suggests that large cosmic structures were present in the very early stages of the universe, which scientists believe was born 13.8 billion years ago.
One of the 12 galaxies is known as Himiko, a giant gas cloud found in 2009 by using the same telescope.
Newfound comet likely an ‘interstellar visitor,’ scientists say
“It is reasonable to find a protocluster near a massive object, such as Himiko. However, we’re surprised to see that Himiko was located… on the edge 500 million light-years away from the center,” the paper’s co-author Masami Ouchi said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Ministry of Defense shipped more military equipment to Syria this week as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies prepare for a new offensive in the Latakia Governorate and al-Ghaab Plain region.
According to maritime shipping observer Yoruk Isik, the U.S. sanctioned Russian Pizhma fat merchantman recently transited the Bosphorus Strait that links the Mediterranean and Black seas.
The type of military cargo on the ship is not known; however, the Russian Armed Forces typically transport new equipment to Syria as new operations near.
The next major Syrian military operation is expected to take place in the al-Ghaab Plain; this will coincide with another offensive in the northeastern region of the Latakia Governorate.
The goal of this army operation will be to secure the Idlib-Latakia axis, while also putting their forces in position to strike the key city of Jisr al-Shughour near the Ottoman Turkish border.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... is rising in the polls. In a recent Quinnipiac survey, she even topped Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... . In the past month, she has held steady at 23 percent in an average of the polls that qualify a candidate for the debate stage, reflecting a five-point climb after the last debate, and putting her just a few ticks behind Biden.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem refuted the allegations made by U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo about carrying out a chemical attack in the Latakia province in May.
Speaking to Sputnik on Friday, al-Moallem described Pompeo’s statements, in which he accused the Syrian Arab Army of carrying out a chemical attack, as a "big lie."
On May 25th, an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said the fabricated and baseless news about the Syrian Arab Army using chemical weapons in the town of Kabani in Latakia countryside are merely the prelude for Western lies and hypocrisy that preempts leveling threats against the Syrian state.
The chemical weapons attack was first reported by the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , which is the main group in this part of the Latakia Governorate.
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I have a friend that loves dogs more than his wife, he explained it this way, if you leave your dog and your wife in a hot car for an hour, when you get back which one is happy to see you?
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[FoxNews] Each year, human trafficking generates more than $150 billion in profits – at the expense of human life – with children accounting for around a third of its victims. It’s a practice that operates underground in almost every country on the planet, and despite the resources thrown at it -- by law enforcement, non-governmental organizations, social media campaigns – it only seems to grow.
Experts on the topic say the tools used in even in the most developed societies fall far short of what is needed to put a dent in this grim and growing enterprise.
But artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)? Those could change the game.
“Anytime you have to ingest large amounts of data and information, you try to identify trends and patterns, and it can be very difficult to do well,” Alma Angotti, a former U.S. regulation official for the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority told Fox News. “Typically, it has been a rules-based system – like flagging transactions over a certain amount such or with a certain amount of frequency. The problem with that is you can’t identify patterns and problems.”
AI and ML, Angotti said, have the power to analyze more than just financial activity.
“It can highlight social, economic and even political conditions from hundreds of thousands of sources,” she said. “For example, law enforcement can look at young women of a certain age entering the country from certain high-risk jurisdictions. Marry that up with social media and young people missing from home, or people associated with a false employment agency or who think they are getting a nanny job, and you start to develop a complete picture. And the information can be brought up all at once, rather than an analyst having to go through the Dark Web.”
Despite the potential, for now those tools remain underused, Angotti said.
QuantaVerse CEO and founder David McLaughlin said that while small steps are having a significant impact, there is much more that can be done. Artificial intelligence can follow the money created by human trafficking operations. That means that instead of identifying only lower-level human traffickers, the “beneficial owners” or kingpins of these operations can be discovered, he said.
“AI is better at finding suspicious financial activity than legacy technology alone. Today, banks are required by regulators to report unusual banking activity by filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to FinCEN. To do this, banks’ anti-money laundering (AML) teams currently rely on antiquated, rules-based Transaction Monitoring Systems (TMS),” McLaughlin explained. “Suspicious transactions are ‘flagged’ by the TMS and handed over to human investigators to determine if a flag should be reported to the authorities.
" Unfortunately, 95 percent of the flags produced by the TMS systems are benign and waste vital investigative resources. Even worse, TMS systems are missing crimes that are going through the banking system undiscovered.”
Divorced from his anti-semitic lying wife
[NY Post] Former Ambassador Joe Wilson ‐ who found himself and his then-wife Valerie Plame in the middle of a political firestorm when he contradicted President George W. Bush's rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq ‐ has died at the age of 69.
Plame, a former CIA operative who was outed in apparent revenge after Wilson blew the whistle on Bush, said the cause was organ failure. Wilson and Plame ended their marriage in 2017.
A veteran, 23-year diplomat, Wilson had been assigned by the CIA as a private citizen to go to Niger in 2003 and investigate reports that Iraq had been sold uranium yellowcake by the African country in the 1990s. Wilson found nothing ‐ and said as much in a New York Times op-ed headlined, "What I Didn't Find in Africa" in July 2003.
"If my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very interested to know why)," he wrote in the column.
"If, however, the information was ignored because it did not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses."
Wilson's words contradicted Bush's contention in his January 2003 State of the Union that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Couple of CIA operatives united in their opposition against a conservative president, Bush 43, who were given great amount of press coverage to legitimize their claim that she was outed as a CIA agent as a dirty and dangerous tactic by a corrupt administration to retaliate against any whistle blowers.
It sounds very similar to the current tactics being used today by certain operatives in the FBI and in the CIA with the collusion of the media to undermine the current administration trying to create a scandal to deny the president a second term.
The left are ruthless in their tactics and their lust for power and are very corrupt.
Tell me the Deep State fix wasn't in wrt the Ukraine telephone call whistleblower.
[TheFederalist] Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing.
Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings. This raises questions about the intelligence community's behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting.
The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump's July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only "heard about [wrongdoing] from others."
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Personally, I hope this keeps Schiff and that crowd busy until after the next election. At which time I hope they all are minority members of their committees again and Trump can again skip the inaugural balls to oversee Secret Service roundup of IC malefactors.
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You Knew It Was Coming: Check Out The Whistleblower’s GoFundMe
Used to be they at least had to write a book. That's what I thought Christine Blasley Ford would do. But no. These days somebody sets up a GoFundMe for them. Isn't this all just a little too convenient?
As for threats, I thought that's what Trump was doing when he talked about the way we used to deal with spies. But at least he can fire them, right? When in doubt, fire them all.
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At which time I hope they all are minority members of their committees again
With luck and fed up voters, they might not be returned to Congress. However, I wouldn't bet the farm on that.
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We're going backwards in time. This syndrome is like something from an earlier century: political opponents find a patsy who will spread lies about the target, payments are made, the yellow press creates a scandal, the target is wounded or maimed, and the carnival moves on.
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Personally I am begining to wonder if there is a real whistleblower. Perhaps they do not really exists but are a construct of the DNC leadership, media, and 'deep state'. The complaint itself reads like it was written by a committee. He or she refused to step forward and be identified, it's based on heresay - and that was only allowed a few weeks ago...
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As a minor minor participant in the Nixon era circus of political power struggles I can tell you there was no where near the vitriol that Trump faces today. Huge swaths of the executive branch senior civil service appear to be in active resistance and even clandestine revolt determined to undo the election of 2016.
What is equally clear is that the power centers of the democrat party have an electoral strategy of revolutionary socialism and impeachment as their sole aim. A question I never imagined I would ask in a serious manner is what to do about that..
[Rooters] More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday.
Most of the freed captives seen by a Rootersnews hound in the city of Kaduna were children, aged up to their late teens. Some shuffled with their ankles manacled and others were chained by their legs to large metal wheels to prevent escape.
One boy, held by the hand by a police officer as he walked unsteadily, had sores visible on his back that appeared consistent with injuries inflicted by a whip.
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Why would the US not inspect, certify and license a mosque associated 'religious school' any different than neighborhood daycare? Or food handling facilities at a community center or church basement?
[IsraelTimes] Groups had been absent from the traditional call since Trump’s controversial ’both sides’ comments after white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, the president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the union of Conservative rabbis, told the Forward
...an astoundingly parochial, leftwing weekly Jewish newspaper based in Manhattan. As far as I can tell, they think Brooklyn is a foreign country, and don’t think about the rest of America at all...
on Thursday that its board had taken a vote and decided to have a representative participate in the call this year.
"The overall sense was, regardless of how people feel about the president, that respect should be shown for the office of the president," she said.
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In America the Conservative Jews followed the more liberal Reform branch in ordaining women rabbis a few decades ago, g(r)omgoru. It’s only the Orthodox who continue to resist.
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Groups had been absent from the traditional call since Trump’s controversial ’both sides’ comments after white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
This is one thing that pisses me off about the media. The "there are good people on both sides" comment was clearly about the controversy over tearing down statues. It was *not* some justification for white supremacist groups no matter how many times it gets spun that way.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Tens of people protested at the al-Salihiyah crossing in rural Deir Ezzor, Friday, as they continued to demand that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies withdraw from the area.
According to local reports, the protesters demanded that the Syrian Army and their allies fully withdraw from the eastern bank of the Euphrates.
The protesters said they want the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to replace the army in this rural area.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported about protests against the Syrian Democratic Forces in the al-Tabaqa area of al-Raqqa.
The Syrian government has previously called on the SDF to hand over the territories they control in the al-Raqqa Governorate, including Raqqa city.
[DAWN] Yusuf Hamid was only a teenager ‐ 16 years old ‐ at the time of his capture in 2007. Under detention, he suffered humiliation and [alleged] sexual abuse. The young boy underwent brutal treatment by the US officers and spent seven years in Bagram, Afghanistan.
After five months, he was sent to segregation where he was made to wear only his undergarments while cold air was blasted at him in the winter. He was made to endure sleep deprivation; if Yusuf accidentally dosed off, jail keepers would deliberately create a racket to rouse him, or they would douse him in cold water.
He also alleged that a female sergeant would enter his cell and touch his genitals. Yusuf also described her beating him, and then injecting him with a sedative that would make him lose consciousness. He suspected he was raped during these incidents.
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Yusuf's letter began:
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You're not gonna believe what happened ...
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Imagine how much money and aggravation you [USA] could've saved by dealing with captured Taliban as prescribed by Geneva conventions for non-uniformed combatants.
[TRIBUNE.PK] In a bizarre incident, an elderly widower from Upper Dir, district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was swindled by a conman by marrying him to a transwoman in return for Rs 150,000 in dowry.
According to the family, 55-year-old Jan Saaz – whose wife had passed away three years ago – met an alleged matchmaker in Peshawar, who promised to find him a bride.
The alleged matchmaker introduced Saaz to a transwoman, named Sapna, telling him that she was a woman. Sapna, on the other hand, was told by the matchmaker that Saaz wanted to marry knowing that she had been spayed is gender neutral.
The family claims that they had paid the matchmaker Rs150,000 in cash as dowry, while another Rs150,000 was spent on the wedding ceremony and feast. Nikah was solemnised in the presence of villagers.
However, on the wedding night Saaz was shocked to find out that he had been duped into marrying a transwoman. Sapna was also shocked to learn that the elderly man had been duped into marrying her.
In the morning Saaz took Sapna in a car telling his family that she had fallen sick and that he was taking her to her mother in Peshawar. He got her ticket and sent her off. Later he told the truth to his family.
According to him, he revealed the truth after sending Sapna off fearing that his family, friends and villagers might harm the transwoman.
The family is planning to register a case against the alleged matchmaker who according to them has duped both Saaz and Sapna.
[TRIBUNE.PK] In order to review operational preparedness, the Pakistan Navy conducted live missile firings from surface and air platforms during an exercise on Friday.
The Exercise RIBAT-2019 was aimed at validating various operational concepts and tactical war fighting procedures including joint operations involving all Pakistan Navy’s field commands as well as Pakistan Air Force (PAF), an official statement said.
As night falls, Kashmiri youths wearing masks and armed with stones and tree branches, huddle around bonfires, sipping tea provided by neighbors in Anchar.https://t.co/4Zrr1l80oZpic.twitter.com/zE9ssBjUf3
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia does not rule out discussing with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... deliveries of air defence assets and radio-electronic equipment to the country, as well as the creation of an integrated system of Persian Gulf security, Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation Director Dmitry Shugayev said.
Shugayev stressed that Russia acts strictly in compliance with international regulations, stating that defence cooperation on offensive arms with Tehran cannot be started before October 2020.
"Before the UN Security Council’s sanctions expire, we can discuss cooperation on the following issues: air defence assets deliveries, creation of an integrated surveillance, security and defence system for the Persian Gulf coast, deliveries of radio-electronic equipment, modernisation of air defence equipment that has been previously delivered to Iran, deliveries of small weapons and munition", he added.
Although the current Russian-Iranian defence cooperation agreement has been in place since 2001, cooperation with Tehran is restricted by the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2231 and a Russian presidential decree, issued on 11 March 2016.
Bloomberg reported earlier this year Moscow had refused to sell Tehran its S-400 air defence systems due to the sanctions issue. According to the agency, Russia considered this decision to be too risky, as it could escalate tensions in the region. The Iranian Foreign Ministry, however, refuted the report, saying the country had no plans to purchase the air defence systems.
Shugayev, in turn, noted that Russia is ready to deliver S-400 air defence systems to Iran, but the Islamic Theocratic Republic hadn’t requested them yet.
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Our Gulf is this way. Gas is pumped out and transmitted up the east coast with junctions to help pump it along. Texas Eastern was one as I recall. Then Duke Energy. Big money. High paid jobs. Best equipment. It is thought a huge methane burp caused mass extinction from there in the Gulf and we might soon see another such event.
[IsraelTimes] Concerned by political instability resulting from last week’s election, intelligence officials from Cairo meet with Israeli top brass and discuss security situation.
Fearing a fresh flareup between Israel and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip amid the political deadlock in Jerusalem, an Egyptian intelligence delegation paid a secret visit to Israel, Channel 13 reported on Friday.
The envoys from Cairo met with bigwigs from the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday for the first time since the September 17 elections in Israel, which resulted in no clear winner. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday was given the first stab at forming a coalition, but the bloc of his traditional partners is not large enough to form a government.
Egyptian officials are concerned that the situation in Gaza will once again spiral into violence, and with only a caretaker prime minister governing in Jerusalem, Israel will have a harder time preventing the situation from escalating to a full-blown war.
There was no mention of the delegation also visiting Gaza. Egypt has brokered a number of truces between Israel and Hamas in recent times.
On September 10, two rockets were launched from Gaza, at Ashkelon and another at Ashdod during a campaign rally by the prime minister, who was whisked off the stage by his bodyguards to take shelter.
Haaretz reported that Netanyahu planned a large offensive in Gaza after the incident but scotched the plan after the attorney general advised him he would need to get cabinet approval.
Hours after the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu convened the heads of the security establishment, including IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi, Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen.
According to Haaretz, Netanyahu, who is also the defense minister, sought an "extraordinary" and "far-reaching" military reaction to the rockets ‐ the nature of which was not disclosed ‐ but several security officials were hesitant to take such action.
On the day after elections last week, three mortar shells were fired toward Israel. The projectiles all fell short of the border, two of them hitting a home in the southern city of Rafah and lightly wounding seven people, according to the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry. The third fell near the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip.
[IsraelTimes] 7,000 take part in weekly protests; several hundred riot, throwing bombs and rocks at troops who respond with tear gas and occasional live fire.
A Paleostinian man was killed by Israeli fire during riots along the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -Israel border fence on Friday, according to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run health ministry, as thousands took part in weekly protests.
Sahar Othman, 20, was shot by Israeli forces in the chest near Rafah in southern Gaza, the ministry said in a statement, adding that 28 Paleostinians were maimed.
The Israel Defense Forces had no immediate comment on the death, but earlier said over 7,000 Paleostinians took part in the day’s protests with some rioters throwing rocks and explosives at the security fence and at troops along the border.
The rioters also burned tires and threw fire bombs and one Paleostinian briefly crossed into Israeli territory before immediately returning to the other side of the border. One military vehicle was lightly damaged when hit by an bomb, but no injuries were reported, the IDF said.
The army responded with tear gas and occasional live fire.
UN Special Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, who has been involved in brokering ceasefires between Israel and Hamas, has continuously called on Israel to refrain from directing live fire at the largely unarmed protesters.
Last Friday, more that 8,000 Paleostinians protested along the Gaza border, with 76 of them injured by Israeli riot dispersal measures.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Moslem leaders have called for polygamy to be legalised in Russia in order to ensure 'women's rights' and reduce 'sinfulness and fornication' in the state.
Ildar Alyautdinov, the mufti of Moscow, told state-owned news agency RIA Novosti that allowing men to have multiple wives would help solve a number of social problems in Russia.
He added that there would be 'much less sinfulness and fornication, which is spreading so rapidly' if polygamous relationships were no longer illegal.
Alyautdinov also claimed that women are currently 'completely unprotected' in the social sphere due to the absence of Islamic Sharia law in the country.
'Legalising polygyny would guarantee women's rights', he said. 'It's important to create a legal mechanism of protection, so that women could become full-fledged second spouses.'
'This will help solve many social problems. In addition, there would be much less sinfulness and fornication, which is spreading so rapidly'.
Alyautdinov made clear he only supported polygyny, in which a man has multiple wives, rather than polyandry, in which a woman has more than one husband.
He said this is because there are 10 million more women in Russia than men, according to the Federal State Statistics Service.
In 2018, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service revealed 146.9 million people were living in the country, Russia Beyond reported. Around 68.1 million of these were men, compared to 78.8 million women.
Alyautdinov also claimed there are many women who remain single after becoming 'widowed or divorced'.
The mufti's comments come after Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, who is the head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems in Russia, said he considered it 'appropriate' to legalise polygamy in Islamic regions.
Informal polygamy does already exist in some Moslem areas, including Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... He said taking multiple wives was better than men 'having 40 lovers and not taking any responsibility' of them and any illegitimate children.
Responding to the comments, the Russian Orthodox Church said 'monogamy is associated with respect for the roles of man and woman and the recognition of their equal dignity in marriage'.
A front man added that the church believes relationships outside of marriage 'jeopardise the dignity of man and woman, destroy families and devoid both spouses of happiness', the BBC reported.
[ToloNews] At least three students were killed on Thursday when Pak military cross-border shelling hit a Madrasa in the eastern province of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , local officials said.
According to officials, Pak military have once again resumed shelling on parts of Shultan district.
A front man for the provincial governor, Abdul Ghani Musamim, said that 180 missiles hit the district and one of the missiles hit a Madrasa, and three students--aged 9, 12 and 13--were killed.
Former President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... condemned the shelling from the Pakistain side and asked Pakistain to stop.
"The Pakistain military's repeated attacks on Kunar are acts of aggression against our soil and blatant violations of international law. I call on the government of Pakistain to stop these attacks immediately and prevent further damage to relations between the two countries, and to adopt a peaceful and civilized attitude towards Afghanistan," Karzai said in a tweet.
In May 2019 Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) summoned the charge d'affaires of Pakistain’s embassy to denounce cross-Durand Line shelling by Pak military on parts of Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed at least 25 Talibs in 5 provinces and destroyed a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device.
The military officials said Friday an airstrike killed 10 Talibs in Daray-ye Suf- Pa’in district of Samangan province.
The officials further added a similar airstrike killed 6 Talibs and destroyed a boom-mobile in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province.
Furthermore, an airstrike killed 5 Talibs in Jawand district of Badghis, the officials added.
Another airstrike in Ala’ah-ye Kah district of Farah killed 2 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar air raid killed a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... murderous Moslem in Balkh district of Balkh province.
[BREITBART] A new study from the University of Salzburg has shown 70 per cent of Austrians feel Islam is simply not compatible with the Western world.
The study, which involved 1,200 participants, found that Austrians were very concerned about the effect of Islam in their country, with 72 per cent going as far as to say Moslems were not a cultural asset for Austria, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Half of those who took part in the study said that they would be fine with restricting Moslems’ ability to practise their faith and nearly as many said that mosques should not be tolerated in Austria at all. A third say they oppose Moslems outright.
Another 59 per cent said that there were fearful of Moslems in Austria being Lions of Islam and 79 per cent agreed that Moslem communities in the country should be closely watched by authorities.
In August, the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT), the country’s domestic intelligence agency, said that radical Islamic terrorism is still the number one threat facing the country.
[TRIBUNE.PK] Security forces imposed tough new restrictions in Indian Occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (IOK) on Friday.
Concrete and razor wire barricades went up across Srinagar and other towns in the disputed Moslem-majority territory, which has been under lockdown since New Delhi scrapped IOK’s semi-autonomous status in early August.
The Modi’s administration’s move has sparked new tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Barricades went up across roads and bridges in Srinagar as occupation forces in bulletproof gear guarded deserted streets following orders to stop any public rallies.
"The hospital is just a mile away from my home, but I have already walked three times the distance and am still not sure how long I need to walk to reach there," said Mudasir Ahmad, after pleading with soldiers to let him pass at one barrier in Srinagar’s old town.
Ahmad said he wanted to visit a sick relative at the hospital. He was one of many residents on the streets who were stopped and redirected by soldiers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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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
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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.
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
...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 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[10News via CNN] President Donald Trump and Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, met Friday at the White House, an administration official confirmed to CNN.
So which is it gonna be? A Star Wars movie that doesn't suck? Or all further Marvel movies slurping as bad as Star Wars movies subsequent to The Empire Strikes Back aka Episode V, and prior to Episode IV? I do have my suspicions...
...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 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[DAWN] Yusuf Hamid was only a teenager ‐ 16 years old ‐ at the time of his capture in 2007. Under detention, he suffered humiliation and [alleged] sexual abuse. The young boy underwent brutal treatment by the US officers and spent seven years in Bagram, Afghanistan.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
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[BREITBART] A new study from the University of Salzburg has shown 70 per cent of Austrians feel Islam is simply not compatible with the Western world.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
