[Entertainment Weekly] Channing Dungey, the ABC Entertainment president who made the bold decision to yank Roseanne after its star made a racist tweet, has resigned her post.
Dungey will be replaced by Karey Burke, the current head of programming at Freeform, ABC';s sister cable network.
The Conners, the replacement for Roseanne has dropped double digits and two stars ‐ John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf ‐ have allegedly been asked to take big pay cuts. Revenues for advertising are also sinking.
As for Dungey, Entertainment says: It was Dungey who announced the cancellation of Roseanne after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," she said at the time.
They claim she was widely praised for her decision. She was also widely condemned and by the people who actually watched the show.
Does anyone actually believe Roseanne is a racist? She didn't even know Valerie Jarrett was black ‐ many don't. Jarrett is half-white and looks more middle eastern than black. The network could have put a letter in Roseanne's file and kept her on. Instead, they decided to cater to the leftist mob on social media and Valerie Jarrett.
Roseanne apologized over and over but all the mob would do is trash her. She had to be destroyed.
John Goodman said Roseanne was 'missed'; Roseanne and the ABC brass regretted their decision. It's likely true. Their decision was worse than anything she said."
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[NYPost] Authorities in Argentina found a submarine that sank off the coast of the country almost exactly a year ago, killing 44 crewmen aboard, officials said. "found" via American Technology
The vessel was found more than 2,600 feet deep in waters off the coast of the Valdes Peninsula in Argentina, the country's navy said in a statement released early Saturday.
The statement said a remote-operated American ship that was hired for the search effort made "positive identification" of the downed submarine.
The discovery comes just two days after families of the 44 missing sailors held a ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the day the vessel sunk on Nov. 15, 2017.
On the anniversary, President Mauricio Macri said the Argentine government has an "absolute and non-negotiable commitment" to find "the truth." suuuure
An explosion on the vessel caused by a "concentration of hydrogen" likely downed the submarine, the navy said at the time.
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"Was always sketchy"...
Jeez, what drivel. Everthing ALL submarines do is sketchy. They're designed to sneak around where nobody can see them, so that's what they do.
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Sorry to disappoint, Ed. I'm well aware of their purpose. The Argentine Gubbamnint lies and misstatements that came out at the time (and were commented on here) were suspicious
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IIRC at one point they had three different official stories, and there was also the yarn about it being sunk by the British.
[KhaamaPress] At least five Lions of Islam were killed in an Arclight airstrike carried out by the U.S. forces in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Wednesday.
According to a statement released by 203rd Thunder Corps, the coalition forces carried out airstrike in Kobi area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni, leaving at least five Lions of Islam dead and three others maimed.
The statement further added that the 203rd Thunder Corps forces also conducted operations with the Afghan intelligence forces in Surkhab area of Mohammad Agha district in Pashtun-infested Logar and seized 40 warheads of BM-1 rockets, a cycle of violence packed with explosives, and a remote control.
The Afghan forces also discovered and defused an improvised bomb during an operation in Orgun district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, the 203rd Thunder Corps added in its statement.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.
[KhaamaPress] The dead body of a senior Pak police official has been found in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan almost three weeks after he went missing from Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistain.
The Foreign Ministry of Pakistain, quoting Afghan officials, has reported that a dead body has been found in Dur Baba district of Nangarahr province and the police card of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police official Tahir Khan Dawar has also been recovered from the body.
The police officer went missing from Islamabad city on 26th October and his dead body surfaced close to Durand Line in Dur Baba district on Tuesday.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... it is yet not clear how a senior police official goes missing from a secure part of Islamabad city.
In the meantime, a written letter has also been found from the body in which the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s Khurasan province has claimed the kidnapping and killing of Tahir Khan Dawar.
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Gin a body, deceased, meet a body
Atop the auld sod, or a proddy,
And the twain that so meet,
Making mane, be discreet...
Too bad! Busy bodies are naughty!
[KhaamaPress] Heavy festivities erupted among the Afghan cops and the Talibs in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan late on Wednesday night, inflicting casualties both on the Lions of Islam and the security forces.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the Talibs launched coordinated attacks on security posts in Qala Zal district at around 3am local time on Thursday.
The statement further added that the attacks were launched in Gansh, Afghan Tapa, Tapi Afghan, and Mazar areas of the district.
The Afghan forces responded to the attacks leaving at least 13 Lions of Islam and 16 others maimed, the 209th Shaheen Corps said.
At least four commanders of the group identified as Mawlavi Khaksar, Qari Zabiullah, Ahmad Zia Waqari and Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Red Unit Commander Khalid were among those killed.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the local residents did not suffer any casalty during the clash but three armed forces embraced martyrdom and two others sustained injuries.
The anti-government armed krazed killer groups including Talibs yet to comment regarding the festivities.
[KhaamaPress] The Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan (NSC) has ordered the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to increase raids against the Talibs.
According to a statement released by NSC, the enemies of the country have sustained heavy casualties in face to face fight and due to the sacrifices of the National Defense and Security Forces due to which the enemies have changed their fighting strategy by killing innocent civilians, a move which demonstrate their (enemies) weakness.
The statement further added that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group continues to wage an imposed war as the Afghan nation struggles with the drought and cold weather which has added in the difficulties of the people besides inflicting losses on them.
The Office of the National Security Council also added that the National Defense and Security Forces have been instructed to increase raids against the Taliban across the country in a bid to ensure the safety of the people and reduce the casualties of the security forces.
This comes as the Talibs have increased their insurgency across the country which has claimed the lives of several innocent civilians besides inflicting heavy casualties on security forces.
[engadget] Three senators have proposed new legislation aimed at deterring robocall scams. The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Protection, or TRACED, Act would give the FCC broader authority to penalize those that violate telemarketing restrictions, give the commission a longer window in which to act and establish an interagency working group that would explore additional actions that might deter robocall scams going forward.
"As the scourge of spoofed calls and robocalls reaches epidemic levels, the bipartisan TRACED Act will provide every person with a phone much needed relief," Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), a cosponsor of the proposed legislation, said in a statement. "It's a simple formula: call authentication, blocking and enforcement, and this bill achieves all three."
With this legislation, the statute of limitations on penalties for robocall violations would be extended from two years to three, and the FCC would be instructed to propose new rules aimed at protecting individuals from receiving calls or messages from those using unauthenticated numbers. Further, an interagency working group -- which would be made up of both federal agencies and state entities such as the Departments of Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security, the FCC, the FTC, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and state attorneys general -- would be tasked with providing Congress with recommendations regarding both prevention and prosecution of robocall violations as well as strategies for how federal agencies might implement those recommendations.
Additionally, the TRACED Act would require the FCC to ensure voice service providers implement call authentication frameworks that can verify incoming calls are legitimate before they reach consumers.
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The telephone companies could get rid of these overnight if they wanted. They come from overseas with spoofed numbers. But they don't want to get rid of them because they're profitable.
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Herb is right. If the government fined the telecompanies $10,000 per every spoofed call, they would fix it right quick.
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But if you fix this, what's Vonage going to do?
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I still don't have unlimited calls on my cell, which they are not supposed to robocall anyway (in addition to being on the useless 'Do Not Call' list). And now they spoof being from our house phone, so I kind of have to answer them. Plus, if I don't my mailbox gets filled fast. Am grandfathered in to a good data plan, though when they stop that I will probably cancel the account and start over with a new number.
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The phone number spoofing capability is what lets SWATters pull their stunts. The continued failure of phone companies to end this "feature" makes them accessories to acts that get people killed.
It's time to start charging them appropriately.
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#11 - Exactly
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No, no - wait!
We will get an "interagency working group -- which would be made up of both federal agencies and state entities -- would be tasked with providing Congress with recommendations"
They'll do something useful about the time the National Debt is erased.
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True story: after I cancelled my landline, I was trying to straighten out my final bill with AT&T. Got nowhere with the regular 800 customer support line. I called my state's public utility commission, and they referred me to the "executive customer support line" -- a different 800 number which indeed seemed to work better. That AT&T operator later asked me the number I was calling from - she said her Caller ID wasn't working.
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What's wrong with picking up the phone, unleashing a massive burp and hanging up on them? That's how I deal with that crap. Granted I picked that up from Howard Stern, but still...
[InSight Crime] Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated and violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its close proximity to the United States, the world’s largest economy, to grow into a regional threat. Their networks stretch from Argentina to Canada and even into Europe. They traffic in illegal drugs, contraband, arms and humans, and launder their proceeds through regional moneychangers, banks and local economic projects. Their armament, training and tactics have become increasingly sophisticated as the Mexican government has ramped up efforts to combat them. This increased security pressure has caused a dramatic change in Mexico's underworld, as the fall of numerous drug bosses has precipitated the fragmentation of monolithic cartels into a vast number of splinter groups. These groups are more local in scope than their predecessors and rely on a more diverse criminal portfolio to generate illicit revenue.
[10News] The U.S Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, Kevin McAleenan, was nearly clobbered with a large rock Friday night.
According to CBP, McAleenan was taking a tour of the border defenses added to the wall along Friendship Park. He went to speak with people through the wall when someone threw a large rock from the other side and barely missed the commissioner.
President Trump said earlier this month, that any rock and stone throwing would be considered firearms.
CBP did not say what happened after the rock missed the commissioner, but said McAleenan took the rock with him.
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[France24] Britain’s impending divorce from the European Union could drive more people in the UK into poverty unless the government takes action to shield the most vulnerable, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights warned Friday.
Philip Alston’s comments came at the end of a 12-day visit to Britain, where he visited nine cities and met with citizens, frontline workers, and officials from a range of political parties in local, devolved and UK governments.
During his visit, Alston spoke to people directly affected by poverty, including some who depend of food banks and charities to survive, homeless families and people who have sold sex in exchange for shelter.
According to the UN, several studies show that the British economy will be worse off following Brexit, scheduled to be triggered at the end of next March.
In his statement, Alston said that the British government is treating the risks Brexit poses to the 14 million people in Britain currently living in poverty as a mere "afterthought".
"In the fifth richest country in the world, this is not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster, all rolled into one," he said.
Alston said that after years of progress, the poverty risk in Britain is now on the rise, with homelessness up 60 percent since 2010, and child poverty predicted to rise by 7 percent between 2015 and 2022.
The UN envoy said that policies implemented by successive governments have led to "the systematic dismantling of the social safety net [and} inflicted great misery unnecessarily, especially on the working poor, on single mothers struggling against mighty odds, on people with disabilities who are already marginalised, and on millions of children who are locked into a cycle of poverty from which many will have great difficulty escaping."
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Alston said that after years of progress, the poverty risk in Britain is now on the rise, with homelessness up 60 percent since 2010, and child poverty predicted to rise by 7 percent between 2015 and 2022.
BLUF:
[NYT] California is already one of the most expensive states in the country because of a housing shortage, and restricting growth in fire-prone areas ‐ which includes most of the state ‐ will only exacerbate that shortage, raise prices and further marginalize the most vulnerable populations. Many residents of Paradise, the town at the center of the Camp Fire, lived there specifically because they had been priced out of nearby cities.
Instead, we should take a cue from the Dutch. Much of the Netherlands sits below sea level and is therefore prone to flooding, but the Dutch can’t exactly move en masse next door to Germany. So they have learned over the centuries that the solution is to stop fighting the sea, and build their cities and towns to maximize saving lives through smarter planning and infrastructure. We could do the same with wildfire.
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Logging out of dead and diseased trees is effective but opposed by 'huggers. Controlled burns as well
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smarter planning and infrastructure
My dog interprets that 'whistle' as "more government planning and control".
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A few years ago when there were fires rampant around the Tahoe and Plumas County area, a guy who worked for the U.S. Forest Service said basically the same thing as Trump has recently said, i.e. the fires are a forest management problem. The problem has gone on because of the environmentalists railing against forest management (controlled burns, etc.).
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My dog interprets that 'whistle' as "more government planning and control".
Talk about a dog whistle. The above statement is a dog whistle of a dog whistle.
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New York Times telling California we don't have enough housing? They want the whole state to look like the Bronx? They can go to hell.
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California should be burying the power lines through these heavily wooded areas (everywhere actually but...) as they do in the wealthy areas. Should have done this sort of thing back in the 90s when the state was overflowing with cash.
Ummm yeah, WTF? I guess they grow no tulips either.
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"A Capitol notion, to whelp,
For Nature herself needs our help!"
And the poor and the rich:
"Run, pups, scratch their itch!"
More pressure. A whistle. A yelp.
[France24] "Yellow vest" demonstrators have blocked motorways across France in protest at President Emmanuel Macron. The movement began out of fury at higher petrol taxes, but is now a general protest against Macron. Follow FRANCE 24’s blog for all the latest.
[PUNCH] Residents of Kajola Community in Ogun State on Friday freely took beef from 10 cows that were killed by a train.
According to NAN, some residents, including commercial motorcyclists and passersby, used knives and machetes to take away pieces of meat from the lifeless cows.
The train, which took off from Lagos, was heading to its final destination, Kajola Terminus, when it ran over the cows which were crossing a rail track at 11.50 am.
The cows were believed to be searching for food when they were killed by the train. However, no human life was lost in the accident.
Some of the residents said that the herders had been warned to desist from bringing the animals close to the track. They also noted that the meat would have been wasted if residents had not taken it home.
One of the residents, Mr. Adeola Paseda, said that he took beef that would last his family for at least one week.
"I am one of the residents that got there first; I have meat that can last us for a week," he said.
Mrs. Bola Akanni, who was carrying a basin of beef, said, "Times are hard; if we do not take the meat, it will mean that we have wasted an opportunity."
Another resident of the area, Mr. Fatai Akeem, said that he was sad to see pieces of beef littering the track.
"I watched as people took meat and put in basins; they took them to their houses. The herders lost a lot because they did not listen to suggestions that they should not bring their cows too close to the track," he said.
[Jerusalem Post] ax German illicit terror finance policies permitted the US and EU proscribed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah to run a vast criminal enterprise to raise funds through a money laundering operation in Europe and South America. French prosecutors put fifteen members of the criminal organization on trial on Tuesday in Paris.
According to three German media outlets--NDR, WDR and the Suddeutsche Zeitung--two of the accused men lived in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and an additional two men charged lived near the city-state of Bremen in northern Germany.
The members of the crime ring are charged with laundering Columbian narcotics money via a complex finance evasion scheme with the aid of the Lebanese Diaspora.
"Germany is an ideal location for organized money laundering, Sven Giegold, a Green Party member of the European Parliament, said, according to a report on Wednesday in the paper Westfälischen Nachrichten .
He said that "It is fully acceptable that one can pay cash for luxury goods or real estate. There are also no legal limits on the use of cash, " adding that "Cash from dirty sources has a safe home in Germany."
An export trader named Ali Z. in the city of Munster in North Rhine-Westphalia is believed to be one of the main alleged Hezbollah agents who oversaw the illegal narcotics operation that tafficked in cocaine for a Columbian drug cartel and used the profits to purchase weapons for Hezbollah to wage war in Syria.
German media declined to report Ali's last name due to privacy considerations. Ali said he was innocent and his flourishing export business was manipulated by the other accused men on trial. The Hezbollah criminal network was named the "Cedar Affair" by the authorities after Lebanon's prized national tree.
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Sjouth American money laundering finds its genesis in the fake passport operation run by the daughter of Paraguay President Stroessner's Foreign Ministry. In the late 1880s she provided thousands of false passports and travel documents to Lebanese Shiites. Many settled in the tri-border region of S.America, and some began to deal in narcotics. Their operation was abetted by the sons of Brazil and Paraguay Presidents. It has been all downhill since.
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Fascinating regardless which muckety-muck’s daughter she was, but thank you for all of it, Spasing Floting1641. I’d long wondered how that happened.
[NBC] Swedish lawmakers are set to vote on a proposed crackdown on child marriage next week ‐ a move echoing measures taken by a host of countries in the wake of Europe's refugee crisis.
A current ban on marriages for people under 18 would be extended, if the bill is approved, to invalidate such unions of foreigners carried out abroad. Couples who wish to stay together will have to wait until 18 to remarry.
The potential law and others are widely seen as a reflection of the challenges involved in integrating the more than one million migrants who have arrived in Europe since 2015.
"We need to let children be children no matter if they are from Sweden or another country," said My Hellberg, from TRIS, or the Young Women's Rights Society, which runs shelters and campaigns against domestic abuse perpetrated in the name of "honor" for bringing shame on families.
Child marriage disproportionately affects girls, and increases their chances of dropping out of education, living in poverty and becoming victims of domestic violence.
The number of underage married asylum-seekers and refugees across Europe is not known, however, and rights groups estimate that many unions go unrecorded.
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The number of underage married asylum-seekers and refugees across Europe is not known, however, and rights groups estimate that many unions go unrecorded.
Burying the lede: it’s a colonist problem, not an unacceptable tendency among the native population.
[NRL-ILA] With anti-gun Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives come January, now is the time to prepare for a new onslaught on the Second Amendment. Emboldened by the mere thought of controlling the lower chamber, we are already seeing the warning signs of what will come for the next two years.
First, virtually all Democrat leadership positions are likely to be filled by long-time anti-gun zealots, such as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Similarly, key committees will surely be chaired by extremists with long histories of supporting any and all legislation designed to diminish the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
In other words, if you can imagine a new, draconian restriction on guns, gun owners, firearm parts and accessories, or ammunition, expect it to not only be introduced, but to be given a hearing. Also expect the anti-gun legacy media to openly fawn over these efforts. The same goes for any old proposals that have already been introduced and rejected, or even implemented and later repealed or abandoned after proving to be ineffective.
At the top of the list, of course, will be banning semi-automatic firearms. Extremists will try to ban America's most popular rifle, the AR15, as well as any other semi-automatic rifle. The standard magazines that come with these rifles, as well as any that are sold separately that are deemed "too big," will also be the target of bans. Most semi-automatic handguns and shotguns will also be swept into these bans.
"Universal" background checks are also a priority for anti-gun Democrats. In fact, Nancy Pelosi even promised to support criminalizing the private transfer of firearms if Democrats were given control of the House. Pelosi and her ilk will try to exploit all of the recent tragic shootings that have taken place in order to promote "universal" background check while ignoring the fact that none of them would have been impacted by such a scheme. The firearms in all of these horrific crimes were acquired through either the federally-mandated background check, or even more restrictive state systems.
There are many reasons to not trust Pelosi, but when it comes to her pledge to attack law-abiding gun owners, you can take that to the bank.
Democrats who have been chomping at the bit for years to push their anti-gun agenda in the House have made it very clear your rights are fair game, and they have said they will not waste any time once they seize the reins of control.
Along with semi-auto bans and "universal" background checks, expect to see attempts to tax firearms and ammunition out of the grasp of the average American. Through incompetence or malice, these legislative proposals will be so poorly drafted that it will be impossible for law-abiding gun owners to even attempt to comply with their byzantine provisions.
As an example, one need only look to the most recent gun control bill introduced in Congress. H.R. 7115, the so-called "3‐D Firearms Prohibitions Act." Attentive readers will probably notice that the bad drafting started with the title: we live in a three-dimensional world; so all firearms are necessarily "3-D." Despite the title, the bill doesn’t seem to ban all firearms, however, it’s provisions are so poorly drafted and show such a incredible lack of understanding of firearms that it likely does ban nearly any part intended for use in a modern semi-automatic firearm. Even simple pins and springs seem to fall within the provisions of the bill.
While 7115 is unlikely to move in the current Congress, it will likely be on the agenda next year. But that's just the start.
Ultimately, the Second Amendment will likely be under a more severe attack over the next two years than perhaps it has ever seen. With some sources showing that as many as one in five likely voters in Democrat primaries would like to see the Second Amendment repealed, it’s likely that some members of Congress will attempt to oblige.
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The House Dems are feeling frisky? There's legislation that will hopefully die in the Senate. Either that or there are going to be a lot of law-abiding citizens who instantly become criminals while the real criminals go armed. In the extreme, civil war will result.
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Under most Dem wet-dream legislation my very first gun, lo these 60 years ago, would be banned. A Remington Nylon 66 my grandmother bought for me with Green Stamps... in MA, yet.
Plastic stock - check
15 round magazine - check
Fires every time you pull the trigger - check.
Definitely bannable as an "Assault Plinker".
[InSightCrime] Recent ELN attacks against the Venezuela military in the state of Amazonas and civilian miners in the state of Bolívar reflect the Colombian guerrilla group’s growing power and add to a series of events during 2018 that demonstrate its presence in at least half of the country.
On November 4, Colombia’s National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional ‐ ELN) attacked the Bolivarian National Guard (Guardia Nacional Bolivariana ‐ GNB) in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas, leaving three officers dead and 10 wounded. The attack was in response to the arrest of four ELN members, including one of the group’s top leaders, Luis Felipe Ortega Bernal, alias "Garganta," who has an Interpol blue notice issued against him.
When they arrested Garganta, authorities found several identification documents in his possession. One of them was a form of identification used by Venezuelan citizens to obtain government-subsidized services, in this case under the false name of Gabriel Alfonso Ariza Suárez.
The attack ‐ one of the most significant confrontations between the ELN and Venezuelan forces in recent years ‐ elicited a statement from Colombia’s foreign ministry, while Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino only managed a delayed and noncommittal tweet on social media. He denounced the presence of any armed group in the country, never mentioning the ELN as the criminal organization that perpetrated the violent act.
[American Greatness] Conservatives are rightly shocked and dismayed by two recent decisions by Fox News, an allegedly Republican-friendly organization.
First, Fox decided to ban President Trump’s anti-illegal immigration campaign ad after CNN decided it was "racist." Note that Fox, NBC, and other media outlets didn’t discover this racism on their own. No, they needed that paragon of journalistic integrity, CNN, abetted by a Twitter mob, to find it for them. Hardly a profile in courage or a sign of sound judgment on the part of Fox News.
Now, Fox News has compounded its sins by filing an amicus brief supporting CNN’s recent lawsuit against the White House. The lawsuit aims to force the Trump administration and the Secret Service to restore the press pass of legendary blowhard Jim Acosta. The White House terminated Acosta’s access to the White House grounds after he refused to surrender the floor during a recent press conference. In fact, he refused to give the microphone back to a White House intern who was attempting to reclaim it. This was the last straw for Sarah Sanders, who decided that some semblance of order had to be restored to the interactions between the administration and the press, and some standard of professionalism, respect, and courtesy had to be enforced on White House journalists.
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly granted CNN’s request. He temporarily restored Acosta’s press pass, but he also made it clear that no reporter has an absolute right to access the White House or to ask the president questions. He left the door open to the possibility that the White House would be able to draft a formal policy for the revocation of press passes that would pass muster. Sanders and President Trump have made it clear they will soon issue such a policy.
Amazingly, CNN alleged in its lawsuit that Jim Acosta’s constitutional rights had been violated. His rights to free speech, press freedom, and "due process" apparently entitle him to harass the president, at whatever length he deems appropriate, on national television. The audacity of this claim is breathtaking. That Fox News would endorse this specious logic is a bitter blow to those conservatives who thought that Fox, at the very least, could be depended on to give Trump a fair shake. Not so.
Jim Acosta is a free man in a free country. He has been lavish in his criticism of Sanders and Trump, on Twitter and by other means, continuously‐before, during, and after the infamous press conference. No one interfered with his right to free speech in any way, and nor was he at any stage unable to work as a reporter. In fact, more people are listening to the siren song of Acosta-ism now than ever before. One might even say that the volume of his speech has been amplified dramatically, courtesy of the president’s low opinion of him.
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Fox has always been "fairly unbalanced" but slightly better than the opposition. Now they have jumped into bed with the MSM. Seems like the change occurred when the Murdock sons took over. Lou Dobbs, Hannity, Bartiromo, T. Carlson and a few of the guests are good.
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Leftward drift was a certainty and will be paced by ratings to avoid sudden changes. When they let Shepherd and Mike off the leash and started Harf as a regular you k ew they was a sea change. Until an alternative is available, selective DVRS are all you can get on traditional cable here in the People’s Republic of Caliphornia
[Hot Air] I know Allahpundit wrote a comprehensive piece about this yesterday, but I’ve been covering the Gulen/Erdogan/Trump story for a couple of years now and couldn’t let thisreport slide by. As was mentioned in the linked article, some reliable reporting indicates that the Trump administration has been quietly looking into the possibility of shipping Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen out of the United States to Turkey in what obviously seems like an effort to placate their tyrant, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (NBC News)
The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to two senior U.S. officials and two other people briefed on the requests.
Trump administration officials last month asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of removing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen in an attempt to persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government, the four sources said.
The effort includes directives to the Justice Department and FBI that officials reopen Turkey’s case for his extradition, as well as a request to the Homeland Security Department for information about his legal status, the four people said.
Is Gulen one of the good guys or the bad guys? I have no idea, but that’s seriously not the point here. The cleric has been granted permanent resident alien status and now resides in Pennsylvania. As such, he’s "our problem" now and is entitled to a fair shake. And if we either extradite him or (even worse) just pull some sort of black bag operation, kidnap him and ship him to Turkey, he’s going to be murdered. Oh, Erdogan might make a point of putting on a show trial and holding him in prison so they can torture him for a while first, but they’ll kill him in the end.
[Daily Caller] Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell suggested on Friday that the U.S. government could use nuclear weapons on its own citizens if they fight back against firearm confiscation.
Right-wing internet personality Joe Biggs tweeted at Swalwell in response to a May report that Swalwell wants to ban "military-style semiautomatic assault weapons" and prosecute gun owners who did not turn in their newly-banned weapons.
Biggs promised any such legislation would provoke a "war" between gun owners and the government, writing, "You’re outta your f*****g mind if you think I’ll give up my rights and give the gov [sic] all the power."
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Eric ought to see his therapist because he is sounding nuts. People such as him toss things around far too lightly and have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
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Just what level of the National Command Authority is this order to nuke American citizens on American territory with American nukes going to come from? Some LGBTQWTF congressional aide(s)? Riiiiight....
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Observation: I'm seeing zero push back or distancing from this by the Left. This then is their position. Plan accordingly
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic
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#9 calls it. Not just the left's default position, but their most fervent wet dream...
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At least the Dems are making it clear of their agenda and how far they will go to further that agenda.
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[The Federalist] BALTIMORE, Maryland ‐ The one thing the bishops of the American Catholic Church had to do this week at their biennial gathering was to make it clear to a watching world that they take the sexual abuse crisis seriously. They needed to convey that they understand the anger and outrage caused by the alleged sexual misdeeds of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, and by the abysmal response of many other bishops to similar allegations. They needed to take action‐any action‐to ensure that something like the McCarrick case never happens again.
Somehow, they failed to do this.
Not only did they fail, but they managed to convey nothing so much as confusion and impotence in the face of an unimaginably ham-fisted intervention by none other than Pope Francis himself. No sooner had the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops convened Monday morning in the swanky ballroom of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel, than conference president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo announced that he’d received a letter from the Holy See the day before. It instructed them to delay consideration of two proposals that would have formed the basis for a substantive response to the sexual abuse crisis: a new code of conduct for bishops and the creation of a lay commission to investigate bishops accused of misconduct.
The letter, which came from a powerful office in the Roman Curia called the Congregation for Bishops, explained that the Vatican wants the American bishops to wait until February, when Pope Francis will convene a synod about the sexual abuse crisis in Rome with the heads of bishops conferences from around the world. (It is a testament to Rome’s disconnection from the reality of events in the United States that the Holy See didn’t think this delay, announced in this way, would cause outrage and scandal among the laity in America.)
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What is the likelihood that Pope Gramsci I will actually accomplish anything of real value in ending this?
For a good read on why Ratzinger was likely deposed, and for the machinations subsequent to that, this is a good read:
https://akacatholic.com/money-sex-and-modernism/
At best Gramsci I will do nothing. The worst will be fast-tracking gay marriage for the Catholic Church.
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Pope Francis is a Jesuit. The Spanish Jesuits brought Liberation Theology to the Southern Cone of South America. The Argentine Jesuits took the bait. There is a saying in that part of the world that if you could buy an Argentine for what he is worth, and sell him for what he thinks he's worth, you'd be a millionaire. Francis offers the epitome of that truth.
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There is an unavoidable wedge here. The gay mafia has spent ages shrieking that homosexuality and pederasty have nothing to do with each other. The Catholic church's journey puts the lie to that.
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A poor parish priest at his post
Abandons himself... well, almost...
As the bishops, engrossed
In a succulent roast,
Toast the ghost of the Vatican coast.
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WRT Ratzinger, one problem you have when trying to clean up an entrenched mess is finding a clean place to start working. If the people you think you can trust lie to you, you can easily wind up purging the good guys and further entrenching the wicked. I've heard suggestions that Benedict got burned that way. If he figured he couldn't accurately figure out who to trust anymore, maybe he thought new blood would help.
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[Breitbart] A former Wells Fargo banker was arrested by FBI agents on Wednesday, for allegedly participating in an international money laundering conspiracy connected to Mexican cartels.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Luis Fernando Figueroa, 30, for allegedly taking part in an international money laundering conspiracy tied to cartels based in Tijuana, Mexico. Figueroa was arrested in San Diego.
According to the indictment and other public records, the international money laundering organization cleaned approximately $19.6 million in narcotics proceeds on behalf of Mexican-based drug trafficking organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel, between 2014 and 2016. Figueroa’s arrest marks the latest in a string of recent indictments. Between January and March 2018, seven alleged leaders of this organization were charged and arrested in San Diego. Five of those pleaded guilty. Figueroa made his initial court appearance Thursday, according to the DOJ.
The money laundering organization reportedly recruited individuals to serve as "funnel account holders" and open personal accounts with Wells Fargo Bank and others. "Couriers" traveled to San Diego, Los Angeles, and other U.S. cities where they picked up and transported varying amounts of cash, say federal investigators.
[Townhall] Don’t get me wrong, amigos. The Fake News Media does not term the recent UN vote in the same manner as does this column. Instead they reported (gloated) that: "UN voted overwhelmingly to condemn US embargo of Cuba....In a slap to the United States, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday condemning the American economic embargo of Cuba and rejected proposed U.S. amendments strongly criticizing the lack of human rights in the island country."
The occasion was the annual and ritual UN vote against the U.S. "embargo" of mass-murdering, mass-torturing, terror-sponsoring and kleptocratic Cuba, which sits prominently on the UN Human Rights Council! (For genuinely judicious people, this should reveal all they need to know about the UN.)
This mild incongruity (shall we say) did not go unnoticed by Ambassador Nikki Haley who promptly fired back at that assembly of frauds and hypocrites, essentially by quoting the late Tom Petty: "The United Nations does not have the ability or the authority to end the United States’ embargo of Cuba....Our reason for the embargo is and has always been Cuba’s denial of freedom and the denial of the most basic human rights for the Cuban people. The United States will continue to stand with the Cuban people until their rights and their freedoms are restored. Period...We won’t back down.)
In addition to this straight talking of the talk, the Trump team also walked the walk‐and just this week, by tightening the sanctions against Cuba’s military and secret police robber-barons.
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IMO, it not so much Communist thieves that are stealing money from the taxpayers as it is the globalists. The UN is the tool of the globalist bankers. They are ticked-off because Trump pulled back some of the US money going to the UN. Why support a group that is trying to tear down your country? Many of the people who are in or were in the Deep State are just thieves. It doesn't have much to do with ideology.
[Army Times] As migration-related news coverage continues to center around U.S. troops deploying to the U.S.-Mexico border in anticipation of the migrant caravan’s long-awaited arrival, one service member has reportedly gone against the security grain by smuggling Mexican migrants into the United States.
California National Guardsman Pfc. Edward Jair Acosta-Avila was arrested Nov. 10 when his car was stopped near San Diego, California, about two miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, USA Today reported.
After pulling over Acosta-Avila’s Honda Accord, Customs and Border Protection agents apprehended five individuals, including three undocumented Mexican nationals who were discovered hiding under a blanket in the back seat.
[AlAhrqm] North Korea has decided to expel a US citizen who illegally entered the country last month, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency said Friday.
The man, identified as Lawrence Bruce Byron, had been in jug after crossing into North Korea from China on October 16, it said.
"While being questioned, he said he had illegally entered the country under the command of the US Central Intelligence Agency," KCNA said.
"Relevant authorities have decided to expel him from the country," it added.
A man with the same name was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in South Korea while trying to sneak over the inter-Korean border in November last year.
Byron, who is in his late 50s and from Louisiana, was later deported back to the US.
Media reports said he told South Korean officials he sought to facilitate talks between North Korea and the United States, although he is a private citizen.
It is rare for North Korea to release an American detainee so swiftly and it comes amid stalled negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
From journalists to missionaries, most Americans held by North Korea have been released after high-profile interventions.
The reclusive regime freed three US detainees in May in an apparent goodwill gesture before a summit between North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... and US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in Singapore.
The three men travelled home with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and were greeted by Trump on their arrival at an air base near Washington.
Currently, there are no known US detainees held by the rigid communist state.
At their historic Singapore summit, Trump and Kim signed a vaguely worded document on denuclearisation of the peninsula.
Progress has since stalled as Washington and Pyongyang spar over the meaning of the document.
[Breitbart] Iran may help give birth to a "maligned" Shiite terrorist group that mirrors the Sunni Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) savagery, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy to Syria cautioned on Thursday.
While speaking at the Sixth Annual Defense One Summit, U.S. envoy James Jeffrey argued that, in Iraq and Syria, where U.S.-led coalition and Tehran-allied fighters have together taken on ISIS, "It requires stability ops to break Iran’s meddling influence."
Jeffrey cautioned that Iran "will create a new Daesh if we don’t get at the underlying problem," using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. Although American troops and Iran-backed militias fought against ISIS, Shiite fighters have vocally opposed America’s presence in Iraq.
"Direct military action would not be enough to defeat Iran and its expanding network of armed allies, many of which were comprised of Shiite Muslim militias. Like the Pentagon and its own local partners, these fighters have fought jihadi groups like ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but they oppose U.S. influence there," Newsweek notes.
To counter pressure from the West, Iran "will create a new Daesh if we don’t get at the underlying problem," referring to an Arabic acronym for ISIS, the American envoy predicted.
In coordination with Russia, Iranian terrorist proxies Hezbollah, the IRGC, and other Tehra-hired Shiite fighters from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries are already fighting on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad, ultimately allowing the Syrian regime to control more territory in Syrian than any other warring party.
[IsraelTimes] Ramallah says signed forms will be submitted to UN’s Universal Postal Union next week; move could spark US to pull funding
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has stepped up his push for international recognition for the Paleostinians, signing forms on Thursday to join the Universal Postal Union, a United Nations
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SCOOP: US Department of Justice "accidentally" reveals existence of sealed charges (or a draft for them) against WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange in apparent cut-and-paste error in an unrelated case also at the Eastern District of Virginia. https://t.co/wrjlAbXk5Zpic.twitter.com/4UlB0c1SAX
[LinkedIn] RE: Trump's 'lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship' By Evan Sayet in his article "He Fights"
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are "beneath the dignity of the office."
Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
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One thing the World needs to remember of George W Bush, He suffered the Resurrection and ended up with nothing at all to show for it.
His heart was true. All of theirs were and he should be vindicated in the end.
My Prayer is I do not regret the decision to not become a helicopter dad and let the kids learn on their own.
This would indeed be a better and different world had George W Bush had that extra push.
There was a plan, there always is. But it was too early and everything that needed to be said has been said already.
At least the Leadership knows, and you are all able to see more clearly, the more you seek the Truth.
Maybe Thief in the night is the right answer.
Alert the Remnant so it will not be something that needs a big event.
[DAWN] A blistering overnight attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on an Afghan police outpost in western Farah province killed 30 coppers, Afghan officials said on Thursday.
It was the latest in a series of brutal and near-daily Taliban assaults on the military and police forces, government and other installations throughout the country. The resurgent Taliban, who in recent years have taken over nearly half of Afghanistan, did not comment on the attack in Farah.
The attacks have been so relentless that authorities no longer regularly provide casualty figures, but unofficial estimates say that about 45 Afghan coppers or soldiers are killed or maimed on a daily basis.
According to provincial council member Dadullah Qani, the overnight onslaught on the outpost in Farah’s district of Khaki Safed began late on Wednesday and continued for more than four hours.
In Kabul, politician Samiullah Samim said that the Taliban killed all 30 coppers members of both the national and local police force who were deployed at the outpost, including the district police commander, Abdul Jabhar.
Retaliatory air strikes killed 17 Taliban fighters but the turbans still managed to get away with a large amount of weapons and ammunition, he said.
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[PRESSTV] Two people were killed and at least eight more were maimed after a blast in the Quaidabad area 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... on Friday.
Police responded to the incident and a bomb disposal unit was dispatched. It is thought a bomb had been placed near a vendor's cart and put on a timer.
"The kaboom was very powerful. The bomb destroyed a fruit market. The blast shattered the windows of nearby buildings and caused a power outage in the entire area," an eyewitness explained. No group or individuals have grabbed credit for the blast.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Thursday granted interim pre-arrest bail to three former coppers, who were absconding in a case pertaining to killing of an aspiring Wazoo model Naqeebullah Mehsud and three others in an alleged ’staged’ encounter in January.
The suspects ‐ former assistant sub-inspectors (SI) Mohammad Anar and Khair Mohammad and former head constable (HC) Faisal Mehmood ‐ surrendered before the trial court after obtaining protective bail from the Sindh High Court’s Hyderabad circuit bench.
Defence counsel Abid Zaman argued that his clients wanted to join the trial, but the court had issued non-bailable warrants for their arrest. Therefore, they apprehended their arrest in the case and pleaded to admit their interim bail.
Allowing the request, the ATC-III, which is hearing the matter in the judicial complex inside the central prison, granted them interim bail against a surety bond of Rs200,000 each and issued a notice to the prosecutor for Nov 19.
Then SSP Malir Rao Anwar and then DSP Qamar Ahmed Sheikh along with their around 10 detained and 14 absconding subordinates have been booked in the cases of allegedly killing four men in a fake shoot-out in Shah Latif Town on Jan 13 and foisting fake recoveries of illicit arms and explosives on the victims.
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[IsraelTimes] A Syrian asylum seeker shot by coppers in The Hague after stabbing three people was looking for Jewish or Christian victims, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said the officers lawfully and justifiably discharged their weapons in the May 5 shooting of the man who has been identified in the Dutch media as Malek F., the De Telegraaf daily reported.
Detectives found that Malek F., 31, who was initially declared insane but then charged with a terrorist assault, was on the lookout for "Christian and Jewish kuffars," the Arabic word for non-believer in Allah. He had said that kuffars were akin to "animals or retarded people," the prosecution’s report quoted him as saying.
He was shot while stabbing people in the Schilderswijk, one of the most heavily Moslem neighborhoods in the Netherlands. One of his victims, whom he seriously injured, was Moslem.
Malek F. was moderately injured in the incident and faces three counts of attempted murder.
Two days earlier, Malek F. told detectives, he had brought a knife to a church in The Hague but left after no one opened the door when he knocked.
[IsraelTimes] German prosecutors said Friday they’ve charged a 32-year-old Syrian man with membership in a terrorist organization for alleged involvement with the bad boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Prosecutors said in a statement that Mohammed A. G., whose last name wasn’t given in line with privacy laws, was locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Thursday in the western city of Kassel.
He’s accused of joining IS in Syria in August 2013 and fighting in several battles through mid-2015, commanding a unit of fighters.
It was not clear when he entered Germany nor how he was identified by authorities as a suspect. Prosecutors were not available for questions.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians entered Germany in 2015-16 as asylum seekers and in several other cases, migrants colonists have identified IS suspects in their midst to authorities.
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[PRESSTV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become his own minister of military affairs, failing to fill the position with anyone else after Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation, according to a Likud Party front man.
The proper terminology is to say he took over defense portfolio, but not bad for a non-native English speaker working to propagandise the situation.
The decision was announced on Friday after Netanyahu's meeting with a key far-right coalition partner, Jewish Home Party leader Naftali Bennett, failed to determine Israel's next military affairs minister.
Bennett, who is currently Israel's Education Minister, had sought to replace Lieberman. The Education Minister had called for Israel to "start winning again", expressing frustration at Netanyahu's compliance with an Egypt-brokered ceasefire with the Gazoo Strip.
Israel was quick to accept a truce after a botched Israeli operation in Gazoo was met with a strong reaction from the Paleostinian resistance in Gazoo, killing an Israeli special operations officer and firing a record number of nearly 500 rockets into Israel in a single day.
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As he should for now.
Bibi has expert power in this, and we now have new partners we had not before. Testing Our Alliance with other Arab Nations using Gaza is a common thing. Bibi is the one of the whole lot that was chosen for this time. He will stay.
[Aljazeera] The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, US media reported on Friday, a finding that contradicts Saudi government assertions that he was not involved.
According to the Washington Post, who first reported the CIA conclusion, US officials expressed high confidence in the CIA assessment, which is the most definitive to date linking bin Salman to the killing and complicates President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve ties with one of the closest US allies in the region.
Both the Washington Post and the Associated Press cited unnamed officials familiar with the CIA conclusion.
The accuracy of the reports could not be immediately verified.
The White House declined to comment on the Post report, saying it was an intelligence matter. The State Department and the CIA also declined to comment.
Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for the Washington Post, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 when he went there to pick up documents he needed for his planned marriage.
A critic of the Saudi government, Khashoggi had resisted pressure from Riyadh for him to return home.
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The Babylon Bee could make a great article about how the CIA is "predicting that the USSR will finish conquering the world any day now!" Still, what would be more authoritative than Al-Jazeera citing an anonymous CIA staffer...?
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So the NYT also says so, my confidence meter is pegged left. Bottom line is why? Why would bin Salman have ordered it (if he did?) Why would CIA say so? The latter is easy - to discredit Trump Admin's ability to support bin Salman. But why would they do that (besides Deep State hatred of all things Trump?) Is there something worse about bin Salman than I know of? - he seems no worse than those before or the alternatives (and better than most.
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So... the legal government of a sovereign nation ordered the assassination of a mouthpiece/organizer for the world's oldest and most fecund terrorist organization.
Not seeing any problem beyond it was executed a bit clumsily.
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"So what's the big deal" He says in perfect English.
"I do not know" I reply.
[IsraelTimes] Another 14 said maimed in weekly ’March of Return’ protests, which come just days after major flareup between Israel and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,
At least one Paleostinian was killed and more than a dozen injured during festivities on the Gazoo border Friday with Israeli troops, Paleostinian media reports said. The protests came despite IDF warnings that there would be "zero tolerance" for violence.
There was no immediate confirmation of the death from the Hamas-run health ministry in the Gazoo Strip, which said 14 people had been brought to hospitals with injuries.
Some 8,000 Paleostinians were gathering at the border, with thousands more heading to the protests, as of Friday afternoon. Most people were staying away from the border fence, although some were burning tires and throwing rocks at soldiers who responded with tear gas and occasional live fire.
Paleostinian organizers of the weekly festivities had on Thursday urged Gazooks to demonstrate Friday "to thank the resistance" for battling Israel.
One of the organizers behind the protests (“March of Return”), Issam Hamad explained that the Egyptian intelligence delegation requested that they stay back from the fence so as not to endanger the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
[PRESSTV] The UN envoy for 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Martin Griffiths says the warring sides in Yemen are close to a deal on exchanging prisoners as a confidence-building measure ahead of the upcoming peace talks in Sweden, which both sides have promised to attend.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has received firm assurances from the warring parties that they are committed to attending peace talks in Sweden, the UN envoy told the Security Council Friday.
Griffiths said the UN intends to convene the Sweden talks very soon given the two sides’ "renewed commitment" to work on a political solution to end the war waged by the Saudi-led coalition in 2015 in a bid to push back the Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... Ansarullah movement and restore to power former Yemeni President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
"With this in mind, I intend to reconvene the parties shortly and to do so in Sweden. I believe we are close to resolving issues to make this happen," Griffiths said.
"I have received firm assurances from the leadership of the Yemeni parties... that they are committed to attending these consultations. I believe they are genuine."
Griffiths plans to travel to the Yemeni capital of Sana’a next week to finalize arrangements and offered to travel with the Houthi delegation to Sweden after the Saudi-led coalition prevented the Ansarullah delegation from attending the peace talks.
According to the UN envoy, the Saudi-led coalition invading Yemen has agreed to "logistical arrangements" to pave the way for talks including medical evacuations out of Sana’a.
Griffiths announced he was close to reaching a deal on an exchange of prisoners and detainees, in a further confidence-building measure ahead of planned talks.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Friday criticised the country's premier intelligence agency for failing to provide the financial details of leaders of the Faizabad sit-in, rejecting a report submitted by the agency in this regard.
A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam had resumed hearing a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case regarding the 20-day sit-in held at the Faizabad interchange in Islamabad/Rawalpindi by the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain's (TLP) in November 2017. Justice Qazi Faez Isa was the other member of the bench.
"Does the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... ] function under the law?" Justice Isa asked during the hearing, observing that the agency had said in a report it was not its job to obtain certain details of the Faizabad sit-in leaders' finances.
He said the protest sit-in had caused losses of billions and that the court wanted to know whether the persons "who can bring thousands of people" to the sit-in pay taxes.
"Can the ISI not even find out about the bank account of a person?" the judge wondered. He said the agency had said in response to the court's query that it could not furnish income tax details of the protest leaders and that it could be provided by the Federal Board of Revenue.
Justice Isa said if these things did not fall in the purview of the agency "then when [in the future] ISI interferes in other matters, we will ask: 'is this ISI's job?'."
The bench then wondered if it should summon the director general of the ISI or the defence secretary for an explanation.
Brigadier Falak Naz, the director of Ministry of Defence's law branch, said the agency could be asked to obtain the requisite details if the court so orders. "ISI looks after the national security [of the country]," he added.
"Is the sit-in not a matter of national security?" Justice Isa retorted, observing that the ISI was subservient to the country's law and Constitution.
The bench subsequently rejected the third report on the sit-in submitted by the ISI, and two other reports by the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) and the Pakistain Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra).
The intelligence agency, ECP and Pemra were directed to submit new reports as the hearing was adjourned until next Thursday.
The court also directed the attorney general and information secretary to appear at the next hearing.
In November 2017, TLP workers demanding the resignation of then law minister Zahid Hamid had staged a weeks-long sit-in at the Faizabad interchange that had virtually paralysed the federal capital and led to several people losing their lives.
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[BellingCat] One of the unanswered questions lingering after Bellingcat’s unmasking of the identities of suspects in the botched-up poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal, is how two (or, likely, more) undercover GRU officers were able to obtain visas to travel to the UK. Securing a visa to the UK – as to most of EU destinations – is not a trivial procedure. A single-entry visitor visa is relatively straightforward to procure – it requires either an invitation from a UK resident or business, or a pre-arranged tourist trip.
To get a long-term, multi-entry visa – the kind the two GRU officers are reported to have used – a Russian applicant must go through many more hoops. The visa-seeker must make a convincing case for their need for multiple trips and present evidence for both their steady links to their home country, and their financial capability to sustain themselves in the UK over an extended period. The UK consular section makes a concerted effort to validate the data provided by applicants, and is known to reject applicants – even such with a prior multi-entry visa – once they discover an inconsistency in the “back story” presented by a would-be visitor. The following rejection letter sent to an applicant who had a prior six-month multiple visa to the UK, exemplifies the “paranoid” attitude applied by the UK consular service, including its focus on provenance of claimed income.
[Red State] Yesterday, I went against my general policy and called someone an idiot. On rare occasion, something or someone convinces me that policy is made to be broken. Yesterday was Jim Acosta. Today, I’m biting my tongue; I give you "pop music critic" Chris Richards, courtesy of The Washington Post’s "Perspective" page.
I don’t mean any personal disrespect to Chris, but I’m compelled to make order of the mess.
On Thursday, the Post published Chris’s coverage of the President’s intention to posthumously award Elvis Presley the Medal of Freedom today. According to Chris, "Yes, Trump is sending a message here."
Oh, boy. Here we go.
The first robust paragraph:
"Yes, Presley is among the most pivotal and controversial musicians of the previous century, so yes, this is another needling MAGA maneuver ‐ a little nod to the good old days, back when black visionaries could invent rock-and-roll, but only a white man could become the king."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... militias targeted a number of facilities in Yemen's Hodeidah on Friday night in the first breach of the truce.
Earlier today, a special security council session was held focusing on ending the conflict in Yemen, inwhich the UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said that he intends to convene peace talks "shortly" in Sweden in a bid to end the war.
The Yemeni legitimate government and the Houthis have shown a "renewed commitment" to work on a political solution and have given "firm assurances" that they will attend the talks, Martin Griffiths told the council.
The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, said in the security council that the UN has witnessed a truce in Hodeidah and that they welcome it and call for its continuity.
A few hours seperated the UN's appreciation of a truce in Hodeidah and the first breach by Houthi militias.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumed their field operations inside the southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor on Friday.
Backed by heavy artillery and Arclight airstrikes from the U.S. and French forces, the SDF attacked the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s positions west of the imperative mountaintop of Jabal Baghouz.
No advances have been reported by the U.S.-backed forces as of yet.
The resumption of SDF’s offensive, today, comes just days after reinforcements arrived in the Deir Ezzor Governorate from the northeastern province of al-Hasakah.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] he Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their large-scale offensive in the al-Safa region of southern Syria, today, after taking a brief hiatus this week due to the weather.
Led by their 3rd Corps and 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army kicked off their attack on Friday by storming the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) defenses at the northern and northwestern axes of al-Safa.
Following an intense battle with the ISIS holy warriors, the Syrian Arab Army managed to advance more than 1.5 kilometers through the terrorist group’s defenses.
According to a military source in nearby Sweida city, the Syrian Arab Army was able to score more gains this evening after they cracked ISIS’s defenses in the Qasr Sheikh Hussein area.
The source added that the Syrian Arab Army killed over 20 ISISDeath Eaters and destroyed a number of technical vehicles that were used by the terrorist group in the al-Safa region.
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[PRESSTV] The US has, for the first time, endorsed the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights by voting against an annual UN resolution that condemned the occupation and was unanimously approved along with several other resolutions against Tel Aviv.
The resolution titled "The occupied Syrian Golan," adopted on Friday with 151 votes in favor, two against (Israel and the US), and 14 abstentions, condemns Israel for "repressive measures" against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights.
The resolution, which was adopted during the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), expresses deep concern that the Syrian Golan, occupied since 1967, has been under continued Israeli military occupation.
The non-binding annual resolution takes issue with the "illegality of the decision" taken by Israel "to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan," which is illegal under international law.
The non-binding resolution, which is voted on by a UN General Assembly committee each year, takes issue with the "illegality of the decision" taken by Israel "to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan," which it says is illegal under international law.
Despite American support, world body overwhelmingly condemns Israel, and no one else, in 9 separate resolutions.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Abu Mansoor Mukhtar Robow, a deputy leader and former front man of the Somali bad boy group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , became the first official candidate for the presidential elections in Somalia's Baidoa, that are set to take place Nov. 17.
Al-Shabaab, a political Islamist group in Somalia with ideological ties to al-Qaeda, is classified internationally as a terrorist group by countries including the United States.
The group carried out multiple suicide kabooms that targeted diplomatic headquarters of foreign countries and left dozens of civilians dead.
In 2012, the US administration allocated $5 million to any informant who discloses information that could help lead to Robow’s arrest. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... in July 2017, the State Department issued a decision to cancel the reward after they confirmed that he was secretly negotiating with the Somali government.
According to local Somali news reports, the committee overseeing the presidential elections confirmed that Robow was the first candidate to announce he was running for a presidential campaign in southwestern Somalia.
In august 2017, the Somali army formally declared Robow had left al-Shabaab and had joined the ranks of the government.
A picture of Robow with the British Ambassador to Somalia David Concar circulated on social media that showed the ambassador with a suspicious look on his face as he talked to the former terrorist.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two Argentine citizens with suspected links to Leb’s Hezbollah militia were enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Thursday ahead of the G20 summit due to take place in Buenos Aires at the end of the month, Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... ’s security ministry said in a statement.
The two men, aged 23 and 25, were arrested in a residence in the capital. Police discovered a small arsenal that included a rifle, one shotgun and a number of pistols, among other weapons.
Police did not specify the nature of the travel or credentials, and did not say whether the men had intention of attacking the G20 event.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said on Thursday security forces were on the lookout for any suspicious activity ahead of the conference.
Police said that in the course of the investigation, they had discovered evidence of foreign travel “along with credentials in Arabic and an image of the Hezbollah flag,” the Reuters news agency reported. No further details were given on the credentials or travel.
Earlier this year the Argentine government targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] It seems that Houthis in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... are following in the footsteps of ISIS when it comes to destroying historical artifacts and important archaeological sites.
Recently, a Yemeni human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organization revealed a collection of testimonies from archeologists who said the Houthis were responsible for the damage and destruction caused to multiple culturally significant sites.
Houthis themselves have also grabbed credit for deliberately targeting Yemen’s historical sites and often converting them into military barracks.
Misusing archaeological sites
According to Mwatna, a human rights organization, the most damage inflicted on the archaeological sites in Yemen have been at the hands of Houthis who have turned these areas into military quarters for their weapons.
The organization called on international communities to help preserve Yemen’s historical and cultural sites.
In what can only be considered as cultural vandalism, the organization reported that archaeological sites in nine governorates including Sanaa, Aden and Marib were destroyed.
Along with significant monuments, old cities, mosques, tombs, and museums were also destroyed.
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[DAWN] Sri Lanka's parliamentary speaker had to be escorted into the chamber ringed by police on Friday as violence broke out for a second day, with lawmakers throwing chilli powder and furniture in the melee between rival factions in the island's constitutional crisis.
The Indian Ocean nation has been paralysed since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Ranil Wickremesinghe as premier and replaced him with former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya was blocked from taking his chair for almost an hour by a group of legislators and was only able to take his place after he entered the assembly ringed by unarmed officers and parliamentary staff.
They then tried to shield Jayasuriya as supporters of Mahinda Rajapakse, who lost a vote of no confidence as prime minister on Wednesday, pelted him with books and stationery.
MPs broke furniture and attacked officers and some Rajapakse loyalists were also seen throwing chilli powder at rival legislators and police.
Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, a legislator from ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's party, said chili mixed water was thrown at his face and he later required treatment in the parliament's medical centre.
On Thursday punches were thrown in parliament, deepening international concern with the German ambassador to the island nation saying it was "unbecoming of a democracy".
Day-to-day administration in Sri Lanka remains paralysed as the crisis drags on.
Parliament reconvened on Wednesday and lawmakers approved a motion of no-confidence in what they called Rajapakse's "purported" cabinet, also passing motions declaring Sirisena's moves illegal.
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Food fight at the Trincomalee Wendy's.
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[DAWN] Two men allegedly killed a 15-year-old girl and her 27-year-old cousin on Friday in the Laray area of Martung district in Shangla in what police suspect is a case of 'honour killing'.
The Puran Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Zerab Gul told Dawn that the girl's brothers suspected the two were involved in a relationship and subsequently killed them in the name of 'honour'.
The SDPO said that the two were first cousins. The girl was unmarried, while the man, Said Muhammad, had four children.
Zerab Gul said that the murdered man's father, Khan Said, told police that his two nephews had shot his son dead while Said Muhammad was working in the fields.
Khan Said alleged that after killing his son, the brothers went home and killed their teenage sister, police said.
The suspects then fled the scene of the crime, the SDPO added.
Locals told Dawn that a jirga of elders had, one week ago, decided that the girl and man suspected of being in a relationship should marry each other.
Khan Said confirmed that a first information report had been registered in the Martung cop shoppe.
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[DAWN] Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population.
The Khmer Rouge's former head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, and "Brother Number 2" Nuon Chea, 92, are the two most senior living members of the ultra-Maoist group that seized control of Cambodia from 1975-1979.
The reign of terror led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot left some two million Cambodians dead from overwork, starvation and mass executions but Friday's ruling was the first to acknowledge a genocide.
The defendants were previously handed life sentences in 2014 over the violent and forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975.
But Friday's judgement at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) also found Nuon Chea guilty of genocide against the ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Moslem minority group, among a litany of other crimes.
"The chamber finds that Nuon Chea exercised ultimate decision-making power with Pol Pot and... therefore finds Nuon Chea is responsible as a superior for all the crimes," presiding judge Nil Nonn said.
"This includes the crime of genocide by killing members of Cham ethnic and religious group." Khieu Samphan was also found guilty of genocide against ethnic Vietnamese, though not against the Cham, he added.
Both parties were sentenced to "life in prison", merging the two sentences into a single term, Nil Nonn said. Hundreds of people, including dozens of Cham Moslems and Buddhist monks, were bussed into the tribunal, located in the outskirts of Phnom Penh to attend the hearing.
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[PRESSTV] The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... ordered the gruesome murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Arab kingdom’s consulate in the Ottoman Turkish city of Istanbul last month, a report says.
In a report published on Friday, The Washington Post, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said that the American spy agency had reached the conclusion that the Saudi de facto ruler had ordered the liquidation, contradicting Riyadh’s claims that he was not involved in the killing.
According to the American daily newspaper, to which Khashoggi was a contributing columnist, in conducting its assessment, the CIA examined multiple sources of intelligence, including a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the US, had with the ill-fated journo, telling him to go to the Saudi diplomatic mission and giving him assurances that it would be safe to do so.
But shortly after the report was published, the Saudi ambassador to the US denied in a tweet he had spoken to the slain journalist by phone or had suggested he go to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
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So the CIA concludes that the reformer that is disturbing the deep state's cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia committed a crime that justifies his removal. How convenient for them. Gosh, it's like the whole thing was a frame up to begin with. Always ask who benefits.
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[DAWN] It is not the legality of arrest or release of Aasia Bibi that is bothering the nation, but the fact that she has been released under a deal with the West, says Maulana Fazlur Rehman, president of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal (MMA).
“I have been arguing since long that Imran Khan is a Jew representative and has been anointed by the West to play its proxy. Now he has been brought to power only to play games of his masters and hurt the Ummah. The government is guilty of conspiring to alter the blasphemy law, setting blasphemers free and playing to Western tunes”
Addressing the “million march,” which was very thinly attended when compared to the ‘figure’ mentioned in its title, he said the way the West had been celebrating the release of Aasia Bibi “showed the reality of the issue”.
“If Aasia Bibi’s release is only a legal decision, why is there flood of personal praises directed at the CJP and Imran Khan? It only proves that the decision was taken under a deal, which is now being praised in the West. What kind of legal decision is this which is being celebrated by the West and has caused anxiety in the Ummah?,”the Maulana thundered.
The call for the march was given by the All (religious) Parties Tahafuz-i-Namoos-i-Risalat.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F head alleged that an EU delegation that visited Pakistan in run-up to the decision, offered the country membership of international financial clubs and linked the offer to the Aasia Bibi’s release.
“Misquoting the Islamic history of Misaq-i-Madina, the PTI parliamentarians are trying to justify the diplomatic recognition of Isreal as well,” Maulana told the small but emotionally charged gathering on The Mall.
“I have been arguing since long that Imran Khan is a Jew representative and has been anointed by the West to play its proxy. Now he has been brought to power only to play games of his masters and hurt the Ummah. The government is guilty of conspiring to alter the blasphemy law, setting blasphemers free and playing to Western tunes,”. he said, adding that the movement would continue till the PTI mended its ways.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi forces carried out another powerful attack against a group of Saudi Coalition fighters near the border this week. According to the Houthi forces, their attack targeted a Saudi military encampment at the Al-Beqa’ Camp in the Najran Province.
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[DAWN] Sri Lanka’s political crisis escalated on Friday with the sacked prime minister demanding his job back shortly after passing another no-confidence motion against his controversial successor amid unprecedented rioting in parliament.
The Indian Ocean nation has been paralysed since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Ranil Wickremesinghe as premier and replaced him with former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse.
With a second no-trust vote against Rajapakse on Friday despite raucous scenes that involved his supporters throwing chilli powder at their opponents, Wickremesinghe demanded the restoration of status quo prior to October 26.
"Let the status quo come back," he told Colombo-based foreign correspondents at his Temple Trees residence where he remained holed up after refusing to accept his sacking three weeks ago. "The country needs stability. That is the main issue."
He said he was also ready to work with Sirisena despite their bitter personality clash that triggered the unprecedented constitutional crisis last month. There was no immediate comment from Sirisena.
On Friday speaker Karu Jayasuriya was blocked from taking his chair for almost an hour by a group of politicians backing Rajapakse. Finally, Jayasuriya entered the red-carpeted chamber protected by dozens of unarmed officers and parliamentary staff.
Rioting MPs took away the ornate ceremonial chair, but staff carried in an ordinary office chair as a replacement.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... rioters grabbed that chair too, breaking it into pieces that were then used as projectiles to attack rivals and police.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Thursday, condemning Iran’s human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... record, with 83 votes against 30 while 68 countries abstained.
The resolution is due to be voted next December at the UN General Assembly.
The resolution relied on the reports on the human rights situation in Iran presented by both the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Javid Rehman, and Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General."
"The reports of the UN Secretary-General and his Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran indicate that the human rights situation in Iran has worsened since last year and the systematic repression of demonstrators, journalists and users of social networks has increased," it said.
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[CBSNews8] TIJUANA ‐ After traveling more than a month and walking for thousands of miles, nearly 2,000 migrants have arrived in Tijuana ‐ all hoping to cross into the United States, but a tall fence and several border agents stand between them and their hopes.
Another 2,000 migrants are set to arrive this weekend in Tijuana, but not all residents in the city are welcoming the caravan.
While some migrants have secured a place in a shelter, others in the caravan have had to stay in tents set up on sidewalks.
One migrant told News 8 he only had the clothes he was wearing and has had no water or food. "No tengo nada, (I have nothing)," he said.
Jorge Castro is the Border Angels director. On Friday, Castro traveled to Tijuana with a van loaded with donations from San Diegans. "We have some teddy bears with messages to keep fighting for the children."
Other donations included coloring books, socks and blankets.
While many of the migrants may have started the asylum-seeking process, it will be a long undertaking that could last for months. Many have signed a tattered book provided by Mexican authorities as a way of "getting in line" to seek asylum.
Customs would not give News 8 the exact number of migrants who have requested asylum, however, Castro said the waiting list is up to 1,000 people.
Further, according to Castro, immigration officers are only able to see 30 to 40 individuals a day.
To make matters worse, the migrants’ arrival has been met with backlash from some Tijuana residents. Fights have broken out with some residents throwing beer cans and stones ‐ telling migrants to go back home. My emphasis. These people were sold a bill of goods. The caravan organizers told them they were going to the United States. They're not going to the United States. Tijuana is the end of the line and Tijuaneros are not happy about it. Video, pictures and more text at link.
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More than a month to walk thousands of miles. If they walked 33 miles a day for 30 straight days that would be just under 1000 miles. I smell a whole lotta BS.
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[DAWN] Fire swept through a passenger bus in Zim-bob-we, killing more than 40 people and injuring at least 20, some of whom suffered severe burns, authorities said on Friday.
A photograph posted on Twitter by the Zim-bob-we Red Thingy shows the remains of the bus that was completely incinerated late Thursday. The Red Thingy said its teams responded to a "horrific accident" involving a bus heading to neighbouring South Africa at around midnight.
"Combustible material was allowed onto the bus, thus causing a conflagration which entrapped, scalded and consumed innocent passengers," President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a condolence message.
Mnangagwa said the government should "take appropriate measures which comprehensively deal with this growing menace on our roads".
The accident happened in Gwanda district, about 550 kilometres south of Harare, Zim-bob-we's capital.
Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba confirmed a corpse count of more than 40.
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A very well written observation of the repetitive history and a dissertation on the divides.
"Moving apart. American kinship today is fissuring into two visions of the nation’s future way of life. “Red” virtue imagines a continuity of family and community within a publicly affirmed national community. “Blue” virtue imagines personally chosen communities mediated through the individual’s relationship with the state. This framing extends across the range of creedal litigation. Hence, for example, Blue sees guns as a dangerous and uncivil individual choice, while Red sees them as the source of political equality, a constitutional freedom. Red sees abortion as a threat to family, community, and faith, while Blue sees it as an individual’s right to choose. Blue champions “necessary” controls on political speech to protect the vulnerable freedom of individual choice, while Red opposes state control of thought as a threat to individual rights. Yet both agree that their vision of virtue must be eventually enforced."
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"Both sides rush to tear down the constitutional order. Just since the 2016 election, we have witnessed a rolling thunder of Blue and Red elite rhetoric—packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College, repealing the Second Amendment, wholesale state nullification of federal law, shackling of voter rights, and Deep State invocation of the 25th Amendment. These are all potential extremities of action that would not only dismantle our constitutional order, but also skew it to one side’s juridical construct of virtue, thus dissolving any semblance of adherence to law by the other. Over time each party becomes emotionally invested in the lust to dismantle the old and make something new."
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After thousands of years of human existance only during the past 150 years did mankind have automobiles. What nation accomplish that?
After thousands of years of human existance only during the past 150 years did mankind harness the immense power of the tiny electron, a power called electricity. What nation accomplished that?
After thousands of years of human existance only during the past 150 years did mankind find a way to fly through the heavens, communicate with each other over vast distances in real time, walk around on the moon and explore distant planets up close. What nation did that.
When progressives demonize the system that our nation has lived by since our beginning and demand we adopt the system that other totally un-exceptional barbaric nations suffer under, mankind will enter into the dark ages again.
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"Both sides rush to tear down the constitutional order. Just since the 2016 election, we have witnessed a rolling thunder of Blue and Red elite rhetoric—packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the Electoral College, repealing the Second Amendment, wholesale state nullification of federal law, shackling of voter rights, and Deep State invocation of the 25th Amendment
Sounds like what the Blue side is doing, so what's with the "both your houses" bit?
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If the left had any brains they'd give up on the all or none federal approach and embrace states rights. They could then construct their perfect utopias on the coasts without a lot of trouble. Instead they push in the red states and get pushed back and it goes up to the Supremes who become far more important on social issues than they should be.
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I second charger -- how are conservatives tearing down the Constitutional order? By electing a qualified citizen who isn't a career politician?
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" I second charger -- how are conservatives tearing down the Constitutional order? By electing a qualified citizen who isn't a career politician?"
It is not the fact that actually protecting the Constitution, OUR Governing Document, is what is amiss here. It is the point that fast or sudden governing changes amps up the OPTEMPO.
It becomes ever more aggressive like a childrens' schoolyard with ever more one-uppance.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The German government is currently looking at whether or not they can deport Syrian refugees that have committed crimes inside their country, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
According to the Daily Mail report, the German government may choose to deport the refugees back to war-torn Syria if they are legally able to.
Since the restriction on expelling refugees back to Syria ends this year, the German government could choose to deport Syrian refugees that are found guilty of domestic crimes.
Germany is currently assessing the situation on the ground in Syria and determining whether or not this is a possibility.
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[PRESSTV] A Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... front man says a pause in Saudi Arclight airstrikes against Hudaydah is not a submission to international pressure but a bid to buy time and reinforce the military strength for a fresh offensive.
"In every round of aggression against Yemen, the escalation begins and then dies down, mostly without declaring a truce," Houthi front man Mohammed Abdulsalam wrote in a tweet on Thursday night.
"Given the recent developments in the battle on the ground, the aggressive coalition is trying to pretend that it has halted its attacks [on Hudaydah] in response to global pressure or to allow the dispatch of humanitarian aid, but that’s a big lie," he said.
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... and the United Arab Emirates have deployed about 10,000 new troops to Yemen's west coast after repeated campaigns to seize Hudaydah were thwarted by Houthis and their allies in the Yemeni army.
The invaders have hit a stiff wall of resistance put up by the city's protectors who have pushed back the bandidosgunnies and mercenaries.
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[IsraelTimes] Avigdor Liberman may have outflanked Bennett on the right, but with new elections in the offing, that puts the prime minister exactly where he wants to be
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s resignation from the government on Wednesday, after the cabinet okayed a deeply unpopular ceasefire with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, is meant to position him as the true defender of right-wing values, willing to sacrifice his senior ministerial position for a principled stance in defense of the beleaguered residents of southern Israel.
At least, that was how Liberman hoped it would play out. But his calculations may backfire and end up working in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favor.
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As we told the Washington Post the last contact I had with Mr. Khashoggi was via text on Oct 26 2017. I never talked to him by phone and certainly never suggested he go to Turkey for any reason. I ask the US government to release any information regarding this claim.
[DAWN] A passenger on Thursday set his luggage on fire in protest against his flight being cancelled at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA).
Gilgit-bound Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-607 scheduled for 7am was first delayed due to technical reasons and cancelled later due to bad weather.
The passengers started chanting slogans against the airline and one of the passengers set fire to his luggage.
A Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesperson told Dawn the fire was put out by CAA fire fighters.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Stacey Abrams told supporters in Atlanta that she could not win the Georgia governor race and that the GOP's Brian Kemp would be certified as winner
She said her announcement was not a concession because that would acknowledge 'an action as right' and called election 'appalling'
Abrams said she would pursue issue in federal court but Kemp issued statement saying Georgia needed to move on
Trump congratulated Kemp, but said Abrams has a bright political future
Bitter race has been hit by allegations of racial suppression of voters with Kemp now facing start of his term tied up in federal litigation
His final margin of victory is expected to be 50.2 per cent, just fractionally above the 50 per cent margin needed to win
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...The important thing - from Abrams' point of view - is that they have sown doubt and uneasiness about the outcome. She now gets to play a second-string Hilary and question everything Kemp does as potentially illegitimate.
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If The Narrative™ is that anybody whose politics are not left of center are not legitimately human beings, as the DNC asserts, then election of said subhumans is also not legitimate.
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She won't concede? Who cares? She's a LOSER
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So when the mirror of election fraud and corruption is turned back on the perpetrators, they just want it to go away and die quietly. Time to turn up the heat.
[BBC] Since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on 2 October, Saudi Arabia has come under heavy criticism, with calls for trade boycotts of the Gulf kingdom.
The effects of this outrage are rippling all the way to South Africa, whose defence industry could suffer if ties with Riyadh are strained, as the BBC’s Africa Security Correspondent Tomi Oladipo explains.
Video journalist: Mike Onyiego
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that Moscow does not find it reasonable to doubt the ability of Saudi authorities in dealing with the case of Khashoggi’s murder.
On the matter, the Kremlin said that politicizing the case of the Saudi journalist’s killing is unacceptable.
The statement comes after the Saudi Public Prosecution announced the results of the investigation on Jamal Khashoggi’s murder on Thursday.
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So true. Seems to be a politically motivated attack one would be accustomed to seeing applied towards Trump.They should rush that metaled Vietnam war Vet Kerry. Better yet Obama who could easily talk himself and others to death about himself.I believe others would go first.
[Libya Observer] The President of Quilliam Foundation, a London-based think tank, has urged Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR) Aqailah Saleh to immediately sack warlord Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... from his "General Commander" position and to replace him with Abdul-Razaq Nadouri, Chief of Staff of HoR forces.
In a string of tweets, Noman Ben Othman called for "the salvation of Cyrene from the adventures of Wadi Doum", an apparent reference to the battle which Libyan forces staged against Chadian forces in Wadi Doum in 1987. Around 1269 Libyan soldiers were killed and 438 others taken as war prisoners including Khalifa Haftar who commanded the battle.
Ben Othman described Haftar’s rejection to recognize Aqailah Saleh as "the Supreme Commander of the Libyan Army" as "rebellion."
In a video posted by his own TV channel Libya Alhadat, Khalifa Haftar told Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Presidential Council Chairman Fayez Sarraj, presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, and representatives of Russia, La Belle France and EU to the Palermo Conference that the post of "Supreme Commander of the Libyan Army" - Aqailah Saleh - should only be granted to an elected president of the country and that it should currently be passed to the "the General Commander" - Haftar - until elections are held.
"Rajma camp ‐ Haftar’s HQ ‐ is acting now without legitimacy or supervision from control authorities, thus, from now on, Haftar has become an outlaw rebel." Ben Othman tweeted.
"After the rebellion against all legitimate and political authorities and all civil institutions in the country, the stances of Egypt and the UAE will become very embarrassing if they continue to support the rebel, which could slide the country into a civil war and thus chaos in which terrorism prevails." He said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Entertainment Weekly] Channing Dungey, the ABC Entertainment president who made the bold decision to yank Roseanne after its star made a racist tweet, has resigned her post.
[KhaamaPress] Heavy 
[PUNCH] Residents of Kajola Community in Ogun State on Friday freely took beef from 10 cows that were killed by a train.
[Jerusalem Post] ax German illicit terror finance policies permitted the US and EU proscribed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah to run a vast criminal enterprise to raise funds through a money laundering operation in Europe and South America. French prosecutors put fifteen members of the criminal organization on trial on Tuesday in Paris.
[NRL-ILA] With anti-gun Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives come January, now is the time to prepare for a new onslaught on the Second Amendment. Emboldened by the mere thought of controlling the lower chamber, we are already seeing the warning signs of what will come for the next two years.
[InSightCrime] Recent ELN attacks against the Venezuela military in the state of Amazonas and civilian miners in the state of Bolívar reflect the Colombian guerrilla group’s growing power and add to a series of events during 2018 that demonstrate its presence in at least half of the country.
[Hot Air] I know Allahpundit wrote a comprehensive piece about this yesterday, but I’ve been covering the Gulen/Erdogan/Trump story for a couple of years now and couldn’t let thisreport slide by. As was mentioned in the linked article, some reliable reporting indicates that the Trump administration has been quietly looking into the possibility of shipping Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen out of the United States to Turkey in what obviously seems like an effort to placate their tyrant, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (NBC News)
[Daily Caller] Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell suggested on Friday that the U.S. government could use nuclear weapons on its own citizens if they fight back against firearm confiscation. 
[The Federalist] BALTIMORE, Maryland ‐ The one thing the bishops of the American Catholic Church had to do this week at their biennial gathering was to make it clear to a watching world that they take the sexual abuse crisis seriously. They needed to convey that they understand the anger and outrage caused by the alleged sexual misdeeds of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, and by the abysmal response of many other bishops to similar allegations. They needed to take action‐any action‐to ensure that something like the McCarrick case never happens again.
[Townhall] Don’t get me wrong, amigos. The Fake News Media does not term the recent UN vote in the same manner as does this column. Instead they reported (gloated) that: "UN voted overwhelmingly to condemn US embargo of Cuba....In a slap to the United States, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday condemning the American economic embargo of Cuba and rejected proposed U.S. amendments strongly criticizing the lack of human rights in the island country."
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[PRESSTV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become his own minister of military affairs, failing to fill the position with anyone else after Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation, according to a Likud Party 
[Aljazeera] The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, US media reported on Friday, a finding that contradicts Saudi government assertions that he was not involved.
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[Red State] Yesterday, I went against my general policy and called someone an idiot. On rare occasion, something or someone convinces me that policy is made to be broken. Yesterday was Jim Acosta. Today, I’m biting my tongue; I give you "pop music critic" Chris Richards, courtesy of The Washington Post’s "Perspective" page.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 
the personification of Somali state failure...
[DAWN] Two men allegedly killed a 15-year-old girl and her 27-year-old cousin on Friday in the Laray area of Martung district in Shangla in what police suspect is a case of 'honour killing'.
Crown Prince of 
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F head alleged that an EU delegation that visited Pakistan in run-up to the decision, offered the country membership of international financial clubs and linked the offer to the Aasia Bibi’s release.
[DAWN] Sri Lanka’s political crisis escalated on Friday with the sacked prime minister demanding his job back shortly after passing another no-confidence motion against his controversial successor amid unprecedented rioting in parliament.
[CBSNews8] TIJUANA ‐ After traveling more than a month and walking for thousands of miles, nearly 2,000 migrants have arrived in Tijuana ‐ all hoping to cross into the United States, but a tall fence and several border agents stand between them and their hopes.
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[IsraelTimes] Avigdor Liberman may have outflanked Bennett on the right, but with new elections in the offing, that puts the prime minister exactly where he wants to be
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
