Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday night in which he called on Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beteynu's Avigdor Liberman to join him in a unity government, to "keep Israel safe and annex the Jordan Valley."
[j-post] During the Tuesday conference in the Knesset titled "Elected yet Excluded" Joint List MKs, diplomats and Amnesty International activists addressed the situation of Arab-Israelis in politics.
Recently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Joint List members and raised doubts about Israel’s abilities to deal with security threats from the Gaza Stripif they would be included in a Blue and White led government or if such a government would have to rely on Joint List support from the benches of the opposition.
Not a single MK from any other party attended the event.
Just four days after the last filing deadline, everybody! It's all there, including a link to the 2018 tax return (Federal Form 990), which I'm going to rip through this afternoon (70 or 74 pages); not an overly complex 'foundation' in those terms. If I spot anything noteworthy (like officer's salaries, etc.) I'll add a comment below.
[Zero Hedge] - Hillary Clinton’s name is pure poison and no one in their right mind wants anything to do with her.
This is evidenced nowhere more in the fact that the Clinton Foundation has gone from turning over a revenue of almost $400 million in 2013, to actually LOSING almost $33 million since Donald Trump wiped the floor with Hillary in 2016.
Newly released tax records show that the foundation reported a loss of almost $17 million in 2018, to add to the net loss of $16.1 million the previous year in 2017.
The numbers don’t lie.
Total revenue reported for 2018 was just $30.7 million, less than a tenth of what was being pulled in While Hillary was Secretary of State.
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I had hoped her pet vultures start feasting on her even before she's dead. The spoils of America denied them, may they cannibalize her foundation and her.
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US Attorney for Utah, John Huber, has been tasked with investigating the Clinton Foundation. So far there has not been a single leak out of his office over its work. That could mean either that they have turned up nothing, or that the investigation and grand jury are proceeding with the secrecy that the law demands.
Huber. I've heard that name before. Let's hope his work is proceeding nicely.
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That could mean either that they have turned up nothing, or that the investigation and grand jury are proceeding with the secrecy that the law demands.
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When you have nothing to sell, people don't buy, funny how that pay-to-play seems out of place for a "CHARITY" but fits selling influence perfectly!
#2
When I lived in PeeAye, the power company read the meter every other month and "estimated" the months it didn't read the meter. Guess whether the "estimates" were high or low...
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Maybe the customers are on a 'Budget Plan' where you get billed the same every month....no matter what.
The utilities that do this will reconcile at the end of the year but in their own time, not yours.
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[the college fix] "In this time of heightened tensions and fear from national and international events, we need to recognize real fear, grounded in real threats and true harm at events still raw and recent in our memory ‐ El Paso and Gilroy, Pittsburgh and Poway."
What prompted Stanford administrators to make this reference to mass shooters and domestic terrorists? The Stanford College Republicans advertised their event with conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.
Provost Persis Drell and Vice President for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole (left and right, above) wrote the message to voluntary student organization leaders and student residential staff Nov. 7, and emailed it to the whole community that afternoon.
At the time it was sent, The Stanford Daily excerpted just two benign sentences from the email, leaving out administrators’ association of flyering with killing people. A doctoral student who received the email, Scott Borgeson, recently posted it.
h/t Instapundit
[Boston herald] President Trump is calling Nancy Pelosi’s bluff, dramatically raising the stakes of the impeachment hearings with a threat to offer testimony to House investigators.
And the ploy could work.
Trump is hijacking the hearings for a second straight week, overshadowing the Democrats’ carefully choreographed plans to methodically call witnesses to show Trump tried to bribe Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The House speaker initially launched this latest twist, in an interview suggesting Trump should testify himself or in writing. It was said more in a condescending tone than a serious offer, and even the CBS interviewer scoffed at it.
But it was the perfect opening for Trump, who tweeted on Monday that he liked the idea and would "strongly" consider it.
[BBC] “Did the president lie?" a House lawyer said in court as he requested files from the special counsel's inquiry. Congressional impeachment lawmakers are reportedly scrutinising the president's statements to Mr Mueller on WikiLeaks.
Mr Trump did not testify in the Mueller investigation, but he did submit written responses to some questions from the Mueller team.
During Mr Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, he was asked whether Mr Trump's incomplete written responses showed he was not always telling the truth. Mr Mueller replied: "I would say, generally."
It is unclear what exactly Mr Mueller meant by his response, except he was not too lucid at that time but Mr Letter told the court on Monday he believed it meant the president "had been untruthful in some of his answers". He believed? Or did he hear it from somebody's cousin who said his Aunt Hillary told him?
US media report Mr Letter may have been referring to whether Mr Trump lied about contacts with WikiLeaks and knowledge that they were going to publish hacked Democratic emails.
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Mueller filled that report with landmines a partisan congress could use to launch fresh investigations.
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The plan is to keep investigating until hell freezes over.
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They need a "Wheel of Fortune" type device to decide what handful of dung to fling at the wall next.
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This will be the thing, every time Trump is found to be innocent of the charges a new accusation will surface. It will be like this until the coup end.
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^Unless, in 2020, there is a Republican (not RINO) majority in both houses
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What's up with all the Wheel of Fortune references or allusions today? My wife and I love the show, we watch each afternoon while enjoying our first vodka martinis of the day. And don't forget Sajak was an Army DJ in old Saigon.
1. Emoluments Clause: too nerdy, long, hard to grasp. Also, no evidence to support. So...
2. Collusion: easier to grasp but not actually a crime. Also, no evidence to support.
2. Collusion: easier to grasp but not actually a crime. Also, no evidence to support. Next:
3. Treason: easier to grasp, definitely a crime but the exact opposite of Trump's extremely anti-Russian, confrontational foreign policy actions. Then:
4. Ukraine: not easier to understand than Russia ties, but hey, no evidence to support Russia, so why not change the field? OK, so...
5. Quid Pro Quo: see #1. Also, no evidence to support. oops...
6. Bribery: much easier to understand than #6. But no evidence to support. Oh f--- it all, what the hell....
7. Liar Liar Pants on Fire: easy for morons and kindergarten children to understand. Of course, no evidence to support.
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March along, sing our song, with the Shitshow of the Fools
Count the nuts, count the sluts, who have dunked us in their pools
We’re the Shitshow and proud of our name
We’re the Shitshow and proudly proclaim
Verse: First to fight for the woke,
Of our Nation make a joke, And The Shitshow Goes Rolling Along
Proud of all we have done,
Fighting till the battle’s won, And the Shitshow Goes Rolling Along.
Refrain: Then it’s Hi! Hi! Hey!
The Shitshow's on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong (TWO! THREE!)
For where e’er we go,
You will always know That The Shitshow Goes Rolling Along.
Verse: Hurricane, Mueller's ranks,
Hillary and Nancy’s skanks,
And the Shitshow went rolling along
Twitter bots, spreading lies,
Putting blinders on your eyes, And the Shitshow keeps rolling along.
(refrain)
Verse: Men in tights, chicks with dicks,
Still that Shitshow got the clicks, And the Shitshow went rolling along.
Faith in Gaia, 'til we’re mad,
Fight for dear DC-abad, As the Shitshow keeps rolling along.
(refrain)
[CNN] A Southern California woman who was wounded in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting has died, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Coroner Department said.
Kimberly Gervais, 57, of Mira Loma, California, was one of the more than 500 people injured when Stephen Paddock
...the semi-divorced, brilliant, retired accountant on anti-anxiety meds who collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and shot it up for a grand total of 58 59 dead and over 400 wounded. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath...
opened fire from his hotel room on the Route 9 Harvest Music Festival on October 1, 2017.
Fifty-eight people were killed in the attack, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Gervais' death could potentially be the 59th fatality, depending on the findings of an autopsy.
Gervais, who suffered spinal injuries and had been recovering at a nursing facility in Redlands, California, died Friday, the coroner said in a statement Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ For years, the federal Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by systematic failures, from massive staffing shortages to chronic violence. But the largest agency in the Justice Department has largely stayed out of the public view.
The death of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and the revelation that he was able to kill himself while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America has cast a spotlight on the agency, which has also been besieged by serious misconduct in recent years.
Staffing shortages at the agency ‐ it employs more than 35,000 people and has an annual budget that exceeds $7 billion ‐ are so severe that guards often work overtime day after day or are forced to work mandatory double shifts. Violence leads to regular lockdowns at federal prison compounds across the U.S. And a congressional report released earlier this year found "bad behavior is ignored or covered up on a regular basis."
At the same time, the Bureau of Prisons will be responsible for carrying out the first federal executions in more than 15 years, the first of which is scheduled for Dec. 9.
The issues at the Bureau of Prisons are likely to take center stage Tuesday as the agency’s new director appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her appearance comes as federal prosecutors in New York prepare to charge two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding Epstein when he took his own life in August at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The city’s medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.
The officers are suspected of failing to check on him every half-hour, as required, and of fabricating log entries to claim they had. Federal prosecutors offered the guards a plea bargain, but the officers declined the deal, according to people familiar with the case. The people insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
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Give us more money and we'll do better! - taking a page from the Teacher's Union playbook.
If I were King of the Forest, I'd put money into cryogenic research. If we could freeze-dry convicts for the duration of their sentence, it would cut down on staffing, maintenance and storage space.
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It was not guards neglect or staffing issues, the union is out front on this cover. It was corruption, in the union, that allowed someone to enter the room and murder him.
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I'd institute a motorcycle riding, armed judiciary with license to kill and a quota to fill.
Certainly more likely to achieve results before cryogenic research. I'm generally against death squads, but everything is a situation. It's complicated...
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Violence leads to regular lockdowns at federal prison compounds across the U.S. And a congressional report released earlier this year found "bad behavior is ignored or covered up on a regular basis."
So the AP is saying Epstein didn't kill himself.
[Front Page] This isn’t terrorism. It’s a war. And it’s going on every day in Sweden.
Sweden is reeling from a wave of shootings and bombings with 268 shootings just this year so far. And that's in a country of 10 million people which has crime numbers on par with some American cities.
"Sweden may have the answer to America's gun problem," Vox declared in 2016. Or maybe not.
These shootings aren't being carried out with handguns, but with AK-47s. The weapon so often used as a boogeyman by gun control advocates, but rarely featured in everyday gun violence, is a staple of Sweden’s gang war scene. Along with hand grenades and other explosives rarely seen in America.
A call by the police last year asking gang members to turn in their grenades worked as well as expected.
There have been 187 bomb attacks this year. In just 1 week in August, there were three major bombings. Much of the violence is concentrated in Malmo which experienced 58 bombings in 2017.
Malmo has a sizable immigrant and Muslim population. And it’s a center of gang violence.
In fact, the Muslim immigrant population pretty much is the gang violence problem. Will it be Iraqis, Kurds, Syrians or another Muslim nationality that gets to harvest this lucrative field?
Swedish authorities and its media rarely discuss or name the perpetrators, but the latest shooting left Jaffar Ibrahim, a 15-year-old boy, dead. Jaffar was shot in a Malmo pizzeria and had been part of a family of Syrian refugees who migrated to Sweden in 2016. Services for him were held in a mosque.
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Jesus Christ. The richest countries. The smallest, most manageable populations. The most homogeneous demographics. The most liberal cultures. The most magniloquent constitutions.
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My great grandfather left Sweden in 1879, but it's still shocking to see what has become of the country.
Agree with #5. If any country should have had everything going for it, it was Sweden. To throw all that away for some passing fashion is just incomprehensible.
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..when you throw away God and make yourself your own god, things have a tendency to 'go down hill'.
[The Wrap] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is questioning the accuracy of Clint Eastwood’s film "Richard Jewell" ahead of its premiere on Wednesday.
In a letter obtained by TheWrap, AJC editor-in-chief Kevin G. Riley challenged the portrayal of the newspaper in the film, according to an unnamed colleague Riley said had seen it. Riley said Eastwood depicted Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs trading sex with an FBI agent in exchange for a tip on a story, but he stated that there is no evidence this ever happened and that Scruggs herself is deceased.
Riley also defended the paper’s reporting of the Richard Jewell case, challenging the notion in the film that the paper ran its story based on questionable sourcing, that the paper’s decision making was unsound and that the paper failed to challenge law enforcement’s investigation.
"This is essential because the underlying theme of the movie is that the FBI and press are not to be trusted. Yet the way the press is portrayed often differs from reality," Riley said in the letter to TheWrap on Monday. "As more and more filmmaking has come to Atlanta and Georgia, we’ve gotten a taste of just how difficult it can be to cover this industry. I share this information in the spirit of a fellow journalist who knows how crucial it remains to have solid information when covering demanding stories. It’s also ironic that a film purporting to hold the media to account disregards such crucial facts."
Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The paper that lied about Richard Jewell complains they're being lied about...
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Considering that your only defense was that YOU make Richard a public figure, and therefore exploited the judicially created fiction that as such the 14th Amendment of equal protection before the law does not apply to said public figures, you'd better keep a low profile rather than invite attention to such miscarriage of justice.
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"Wonder what they said about the film about paedophile harvey milk?"
They sighed longingly and wished they could be such a "man"...
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^ Found the bigot! I bet you're the kind of fascist freak who'd have a problem with consenting adults plucking out glass eyes in Starbucks and skull-f-----g one another with humanely-blunted kid-friendly unicorn horns! Weirdo.
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[American Thinker] For the past several years, most of us who have been following the seditious Deep State activities against President Trump and many of his close associates have been eagerly awaiting a reckoning. A presidential campaign, then administration, was spied upon by the previous administration, using fabricated domestic and foreign intelligence, with the willing assistance of the mainstream media.
President Trump has been accused of being a Russian agent, a Putin stooge, and a traitor by high level executives of ex-President Obama’s justice and intelligence agencies. A two-year $30 million special counsel investigation, that we were told would unearth "mountains of evidence" of Trump-Russia collusion, was a big dud, exonerating the president of his supposed treason.
Meanwhile these accusations and investigations have ruined the reputations and finances of many Trump associates. Now it’s on to so-called "impeachment inquiry" hearings, attempting to remove a duly elected president based on third-hand hearsay and disagreement with foreign policy approaches that are totally under the purview of the president, not the unelected administrative State Department apparatchiks.
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The Chancellor at Syracuse University has stated that he will actively work with a group of students who have issued several demands meant to address a racism issue at the school, including the institution of a new policy that would require students be offered an option to choose that their roommate share the same race.
The demand to allow "students of color" to elect not to room with students of other races was one of several such demands issued by a group of protesting students who aired their concerns about racism on campus during an ongoing sit-in. Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke at the sit-in in a live-streamed exchange.
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I have a dream that our children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.
I have a dream that one day, in the college they attend, black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with other black boys and black girls and not have to treat white boys white girls as brothers and sisters.
I have a dream that we will all devolve to a lower state of being and return to a simpler time, one filled with enmity and fear.
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New roomies: "Yo." "How do you do?
Are you too a human of hue?"
"Ma nigga." "Woo-hoo!"
Ethnic hijinks ensue,
And come Christmas: "Peace out." "Fond adieu!"
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[The Northern Echo] RELATIVES are being sought of a Northallerton man shot down on a night-time bombing mission over Belgium during the Second World War.
Bernard Touzel was born in Northallerton in 1912. He attended the Grammar School and became a clerk with the North Riding County Council at Northallerton.
In September 1939 he married Joan Broadwith of Thirsk. Volunteering for the RAF in 1940 Bernard was accepted for aircrew training and qualified as an Air Observer, later navigator and posted to No 166 Wellington Squadron based at Kirmington in Lincolnshire.
On the night of June 24, 1943 as part of a force of 630 aircraft consisting of 251 Lancasters, 171 Halifaxes, 101 Wellingtons, 98 Stirlings and 9 Mosquitoes they attacked Wuppertal in the Rhur. During the raid 34 aircraft from the bombing force were shot down by nightfighters. Bernard’s Wellington was one of those lost and he and the entire crew were killed. Bernard Touzel was buried in Brussels Military Cemetery at St. Evere. He also is remembered in the Central Church of the Royal Air Force St Clement Danes London, the Romanby War Memorial, the Grammar School Memorial Plaque, the All Saints Parish Church Memorial and the NALGO Memorial in County Hall. He was 31.
A Belgian aircraft recovery group has now located his Wellington and has been in contact with Northallerton historian and author Tony Eaton in an attempt to locate any relatives.
Mr Eaton said: “The Belgian group are searching for any of Bernard’s family members in order to offer them the chance to visit the site. It is known that he had a daughter named Valerie who was born in 1941 and she is thought to have married in 1962 and had two children.”
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Mr Eaton on 01609 774439 or tony.ae778@gmail.com. 'We'll meet again.'
[PJ] In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as a social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves.
Now everybody just hates him.
Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape and merely wanted a chance to showcase his skills for a team.
Last week, the NFL offered him that chance. The Nike hero was supposed to work out for twenty-five teams in Atlanta last Saturday.
As most of you probably know by now, the workout was derailed a bit because Kaepernick did what he truly does best: act like an insufferable prima donna.
At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, with about two dozen scouts waiting at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick announced that the workout would be moved to a high school an hour away. Many scouts threw up their arms and headed straight to the airport. Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.
The NFL -- which often gets things like this wrong -- responded like adults, but if you read between the lines here, you can see that they’re really over Kaepernick:
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"You fools are still following Football?
It's time to get ready red, eh, for Rootsball!
Don't go for the headfake;
Make every last snowflake
Fear time's blitzing linebacker's footfall."
Kaepernick... or Nazi? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.
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Or, Stick a pick in it -- he's done!
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...Burger King was sued on Monday by a vegan customer who accused the fast-food chain of contaminating its meatless "Impossible" Whoppers by cooking them on the same grills as its traditional meat burgers.
In a proposed class action, Phillip Williams said he bought an Impossible Whopper, a plant-based alternative to Burger King’s regular Whopper, at an Atlanta drive-through, and would not have paid a premium price had he known the cooking would leave it "coated in meat by-products."
...I hope this serves as a lesson to corporate America: You just can't please vegans, because if they were capable of happiness, they wouldn't be vegans. You can't cater to them -- in this case literally -- because their entire philosophy is anti-human. They're ashamed of their own existence on this planet, and that shame has turned them into totalitarian wackjobs. Trying to sell things to them will only backfire. Your best option is just to ignore them.
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...had he known the cooking would leave it "coated in meat by-products."
He's complaining about the fat that comes off of normal hamburgers during cooking. A) Why, yes - it's cooked on the same fucking flattop grill as everything else and b) it's the only flavor that fake burger's ever gonna have.
I haven't been to a BK since they started shoving this horseshit down our throats. The day they remove the fake burger from their menu is the day I go back.
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So, I could sue that this questionable non-meat product contaminated by burger? Flame on!
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Burger King where I live means a silly 1/2 inch chicken patty and some stupid sauce between two warmish buns. The chicken always tastes like it died of a broken heart. And for the price of swiss chocolate.
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I gotta try the coconut, that sounds interesting.
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Burns for a bit longer. I order from a local who sells a mix of wood and coconut. People put in just coconut blocks, because of the lesser amount of smoke and easy cleaning, but I prefer the mix.
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^ The real buddha rejected vegetarianism as a virtue, Magpie. He only suggested consideration for animals and moderation. Not all of them are vegetarians. Some buddhist omnivores will rather 'respect' the meat on the table, now that it's dead - they'll just finish it off right quick.
[MAIL] Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign used a photo of a Kenyan woman to promote his plan to help black Americans, it has emerged. "They all look alike to me"
The Pete for America website used the stock image of a black woman and child to illustrate the candidate's Douglass Plan.
However, the woman in the photo is from Kenya and has since voiced 'confusion' about why her picture was used at all.
'What's the meaning of the message accompanied by the photo? Have no idea of what's happening,' she told a reporter from The Intercept.
[Townhall] Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) told Fox Business on Sunday he has heard quiet concerns among House Democrats who represent districts President Trump won about the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Van Drew represents New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, a district that went to Trump in the 2016 election. The congressman was one of the two Democrats who voted against the impeachment inquiry resolution.
Van Drew told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo he plans on voting against impeaching Trump when the time comes unless, "there’s something new or something we have not heard or something that really rises to the level of treason or high crime, that would be different. But we do not see that. We see little different variations, hearsay, discussions, somebody heard something that somebody else said."
"Impeachment as you know, our Founding Fathers had vigorous debate of whether they would even allow impeachment in the Constitution," he continued. "You don’t disenfranchise voters. Millions upon millions of voters. Voters choose their leaders in America."
Bartiromo asked Van Drew if there are other Trump-district Democrats who are going to be voting against impeachment.
#5
Which is why they are so desperate to make it a secret ballot. But that could backfire since they wouldn’t know who voted against it for later retaliation.
#7
When they ritually set themselves on fire, I'll believe they are really having second thoughts about their coup attempt. Until we see the mass suicides of Dem's attempting the 'honorable' way out, I'll not believe it a bit.
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When they ritually set themselves on fire, I'll believe they are really having second thoughts about their coup attempt.
Psychopaths feel no guilt or shame so this will never happen. Just because this guy has enough intelligence to understand that the coup might backfire doesn't mean he's not a reptile.
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[J-Post] Four rockets, fired from Syria, were intercepted by Iron Dome missile defense system as they flew over the Golan Heights into Israel early Tuesday morning. The rockets set off a red alert alarm early Tuesday morning.
Residents of the area reported that they heard explosions and the IDF confirmed that the Iron Dome had intercepted the rockets, likely fired by Iranian elements in the Damascus area.
An old Aryan way of dealing with domestic disturbance
[American Thinker] Woke as ever, Starbucks touted its rising profit from same-store sales as an indicator that its policies and plans, presumably its open-bathroom policy, was working.
That was the policy put into place to allow all comers, whether the homeless, the drug-addicted, or the general bums to use the store bathrooms without buying a thing. It happened in response to a racial incident with some non-paying customers who wanted to use the facilities, including the table space and the bathrooms, or else "racism." Starbucks was all apologies and bent over backwards to accommodate everyone involved.
Not so fast.
A Texas study finds that actually, there might be a problem, according to this report from Yahoo! Finance:
Starbucks' (SBUX) changes to its bathroom policy appear to be impacting foot traffic for the coffee giant, despite sales that have outpaced expectations, according to recent data.
Since opening its bathroom doors to the public in the wake of a controversial incident in Philadelphia, the coffee giant has seen a 6.8% drop in store attendance per month relative to other coffee shops nearby, according to the findings of a joint study from the University of Texas at Dallas and Boston College.
"When you throw open the policy to let people come in and just use the bathrooms and the tables, maybe people come in and find the bathrooms are dirty, and the tables are crowded," David Solomon, Assistant Professor at Boston College Carroll School of Management, told YFi PM. "And so they don't buy the coffee as well."
Starbucks was quick to decry the report as nonsense, citing its fine overall store numbers.
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And then there's this little gem in which a homeless freak dumped a bucket of hot diarrhea on a lady's head on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The bum was arrested but is now back on the street.
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[American Thinker] Joe Biden, whose own kid somehow managed to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his cocaine habit in the Navy, is out condemning President Trump for pardoning a few military small fry whose draconian sentences didn't match the "crimes" they were convicted of.
Skipping past tweets:
The troops were guilty of minor offenses, such as posing for a private picture with the body of a dead Taliban terrorist, as was the case of Gallagher. In earlier ages, that was called a victory dance. The others were imprisoned for heat-of-battle crimes under terrifying circumstances, entirely entitled to some kind of clemency, given the courage they showed and the sacrifices they made. They weren't crooks out to gain something for themselves when they became foot soldiers. If these guys aren't entitled to clemency, why the heck is Hunter Biden not in the brig?
They were little guys, forced to pay a huge price, and their families were ecstatic with appreciation for President Trump's mercy shown. While Joe was condemning Trump as "unfit" for throwing them a few crumbs of mercy, here are the families Biden insists deserve no mercy whatsoever:
[AlAhram] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is terminating the sanctions wavier related to Iran's Fordow nuclear plant, adding that it is closely monitoring ongoing protests in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and is deeply concerned by reports of several fatalities.
"The right amount of uranium enrichment for the world's largest state sponsor of terror is zero...There is no legitimate reason for Iran to resume enrichment at this previously clandestine site," Pompeo said at a press briefing about the Fordow site, where the U.N. atomic watchdog says the country has been enriching uranium.
If you’ve paid attention to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statements on FISA abuse and the coming IG report, you know that he’s consistently insisted that he won’t schedule any hearings on the matter until the IG report has been released. His logic is that without the report, he won’t have the totality of the information needed.
Given that, this is a pretty big development.
With that, things suddenly got a lot more official. Graham would not be scheduling this hearing if he did not have assurances that the report would be released beforehand. In this case, perhaps the rumors it was coming right before Thanksgiving (likely dumped on the eve of the holiday if you are making bets) are true.
While I’m still a cynic anyone will be held accountable, multiple sources are saying that the report itself will contain numerous criminal referrals. We could be just a few days away from finding out just who is being targeted here. Is it James Comey? John Brennan? That will be revealed soon enough.
As impeachment begins to lose steam, the IG report and DOJ investigations into exactly what happened during the Trump-Russia investigation could prove to be a big shift in the political atmosphere. While the media will do everything they can to downplay it, they won’t be able to hide the truth from voters.
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Kind of looks like the FISA abuse / FBI coup etc was being held in reserve in case the Dems went ahead with their impeachment charade, and that eventually the Dems got desperate and decided to move forward anyway.
“I appreciate all the hard work by Mr. Horowitz and his team regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant application and the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign,” Graham released in a statement. “Mr. Horowitz will be appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 11, where he will deliver a detailed report of what he found regarding his investigation, along with recommendations as to how to make our judicial and investigative systems better.”
[PJ] On Friday, as former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was testifying, President Trump made a series of tweets criticizing her performance as ambassador, which got Democrats so triggered that his tweets were read soon after they were made, and the narrative presented was that the tweet was witness intimidation. ME damit! It's all about MEEEEEE !
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," Trump tweeted. "She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors."
"They call it 'serving at the pleasure of the President,'" Trump continued. "The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First!" Trump also noted that he's done far more for Ukraine than his predecessor than Obama.
This triggered Adam Schiff. "What we saw today is it wasn't enough that Ambassador Yovanovitch was smeared. It wasn't enough she was attacked. It wasn't enough that she was recalled for no reason, at least no good reason. But we saw today witness intimidation in real-time by the president of United States," Schiff said. "Once again going after this dedicated and respected career public servant in an effort to not only chilled her but to chill others who may come forward. We take this kind of witness intimidation and obstruction of the inquiry very seriously," he added.
Really? First of all, Yovanovitch wouldn't even have known about the tweet until after her testimony had Schiff not posted the tweets in the first place, but regardless, where's the intimidation? I can't see any. If Schiff was taking this seriously, he wouldn't be lobbing absurd charges for the purpose of piling on more ridiculous charges against Trump, hoping something will stick.
But what really gets me is how it's been almost seven years since Barack Obama left one of his ambassadors to die in a terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate, and the same people who defended the Obama administration endlessly over that are feigning outrage over Trump's tweet expressing his opinion. Democrats have been crying "impeach!" over everything for years, and now every time Trump expresses an opinion, we're hearing "intimidation." The same party that defended the Obama administration's failure to protect our consulate in Libya from an attack that claimed four American lives, including that of a U.S. ambassador, are now trying to tell us that we should be outraged over a harmless tweet‐a tweet that, regardless of what one thinks of the content, was written after Yovanovitch started testifying, and as far as Trump knew, she wouldn't have even had an opportunity to see until well after her testimony concluded? A tweet that she'd have been oblivious to had Schiff not brought it up.
[Washington Examiner] An official at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine testified U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told him President Trump "doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine" and only cared about "big stuff" benefiting his own presidency.
David Holmes, a political counselor based in Kyiv, spoke with congressional investigators behind closed doors on Nov. 15, and his 213-page interview transcript was released Monday evening.
Holmes recounted a July 26 phone call between Sondland and Trump he overheard while sitting at a restaurant in Kyiv with Sondland and two other staffers. Holmes told the House that Sondland told Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "loves your ass," and when Trump asked if Zelensky was going to do the investigation, Sondland told him "he’s going to do it" and "will do anything you ask of him."
The call took place the day after Trump’s controversial phone call with Zelensky, which sparked a whistleblower complaint. In the call, immediately after Zelensky expressed interest in purchasing anti-tank weaponry, known as Javelins, from the United States, Trump asked Zelensky "to do us a favor" by looking into a CrowdStrike conspiracy theory. The president also urged Zelensky to investigate "the other thing," referring to allegations of corruption related to Joe and Hunter Biden stemming from the younger Biden’s lucrative position on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. Trump told Zelensky to speak with Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr.
Holmes said Sondland called Trump on his cellphone and appeared to connect through the White House switchboards. Holmes said he could overhear what Trump was saying because Trump was speaking so loudly, Sondland had to move the phone away from his ear.
Could we have a look at your cellie please? Oh, you no longer have that selector? No problem, the WH communications detachment will have a record of the call.
When asked whether he was concerned foreign actors such as the Russians may have intercepted the call, Holmes said, "It was surprising to me that he ‐ yes."
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This is one of the shittiest aspects of the Shitshow: the absurd, head-spinning, up-is-down and night-is-day BS about how Trump is a Russian agent -- wait, er, I mean a Ukrainian agent.
First Russia was benign and Romney was a benighted warmonger living in the 70s. Then Russia became evil, the Fourth Reich, and Putin was Satan incarnate. Now Ukraine's president is a wicked toady of Trump-- even though, I guess, er, Ukraine's opposed to Russia and Trump supported Ukraine with Javelins and sold Patriots to Poland and pulled out of the INF Treaty and authorized our Special Forces in Syria to fire on Wagner Group/Russian soldiers... Whatever, he's evil I tell ya.
Do these shitheads have even the faintest idea as to what they're alleging?
Do they have even a single coherent, intelligent thought regarding Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Turkey?
[Washington Examiner] House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff once praised a doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit photos, and later invited him to his 50th birthday party.
Schiff, now 59, who is leading the Democrats in their efforts to impeach President Trump, introduced Bruce Hensel, now 71 and then a TV medical correspondent, at a contentious healthcare town hall in Alhambra, California, in 2009. The following year, Hensel was among the "close to 300 friends and supporters" at Schiff’s Hawaii Five-O-themed 50th birthday party.
"It gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this evening, a wonderful doctor and a very brave moderator, and that is my friend, Dr. Bruce Hensel," Schiff said at the 2009 event.
"Dr. Hensel is one of the preeminent medical and science journalists in the country. He’s published two books and has won numerous Emmys and Golden Mikes for his work on NBC TV and ABC TV radio. Perhaps even more significantly, he writes and produces much of his own TV and radio material, and is one of the only such medical experts to be a practicing physician and teacher.
"He is board-certified in two specialities ‐ emergency medicine and internal medicine ‐ and is a full-time professor of medicine at UCLA. I don’t know how you find time to do all of this. He’s an award-winning filmmaker and continues to take medical shifts. And he’s dedicated his life to empowering people with information to get and stay healthy. So, please join me in welcoming Dr. Bruce Hensel."
Al Ahram takes a second look at the 700 page leaked trove discussed here and here yesterday. Yesterday’s articles looked at issues in Iraq. Today Al Ahram and the Jerusalem Post look at the team up between the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s Quds Force, midwifed by Erdogan’s Turkey.
[AlAhram] According to The Intercept report, Brotherhood delegation in the meeting said that 'one of the most important things the groups shared, was a hatred for 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... , the common enemy of the Moslem Brüderbund and Iran'.
Three prominent Egyptian representatives of the terrorist-designated Moslem Brüderbund group and Iran's Quds Forces met in 2014 in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed five Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and ISIS bully boyz and destroyed multiple caches of weapons in four provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Monday the Special Fores killed three Talibs and detained two others during a raid in Pashtun Kot district of Faryab province.
The officials further added the Special Forces killed two ISIS Khurasan bully boyz and destroyed a small cache of weapons of the group in Kot district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. The Special Forces destroyed another cache of weapons of ISIS Khurasan in Achin district of Nangarhar, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces destroyed a large drug cache of Taliban and a weapons cache in Deh Yak district of Ghazni and Khakrez district of Kandahar.
The anti-government armed elements have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[Jpost] Russia on Monday handed back three naval ships it captured last year to Ukraine, something Kiev wanted to happen before a four-way peace summit on eastern Ukraine next month in Gay Paree.
The handover, confirmed by the two countries' foreign ministries, occurred in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Russia seized the ships in the same area in November last year after opening fire on them and wounding several sailors. Moscow said the ships - two small Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tug boat - had illegally entered its territorial waters. Kiev denied that.
Russia returned the sailors who had been on board the ships to Ukraine in September as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
Various Russian media outlets reported that the ships would be returned to Ukraine on Monday without their ammunition and documentation.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Moscow would respond harshly in future to what it called any similar maritime "provocations" near its borders.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the three captured ships were en route to the port of Odessa.
It said that their original voyage, which Russia had interpreted as a border violation, had been peaceful and legal and that Kiev planned to pursue a case against Russia over the matter at an international arbitration panel in the Netherlands.
Despite those and other continuing tensions, the handover is likely to be seen as a confidence-building measure ahead of the planned Ukraine summit however.
The leaders of La Belle France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will meet in Gay Paree on Dec. 9 in an attempt to advance efforts for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the French presidency said on Friday.
More than 13,000 people have been killed in the more than five-year-old conflict in east Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia collapsed following Moscow's annexation of the Crimean peninsula, which prompted Western sanctions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a landslide election victory in April promising to end the conflict.
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How can France and Germany have any credibility as honest brokers in this matter? Weren't they (like the US) doing all they could to encourage Ukraine to join the EU?
Why isn't the summit being held in a non-EU/non-NATO venue like Austria or Switzerland?
[Jpost] The central city of Graz in Austria on Thursday outlawed public space and institutional support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as well as for political Islam.
According to the legislation reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, the city council of Graz announced that "Municipal services are not allowed to support group events that pursue or promote the goals of the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) and political Islam."
The law added that "Space and institutions that are under the city administration must not be made available to organizations that express themselves in antisemitic terms or question Israel’s right to exist."
The measure was passed with votes from a wide range of political parties, including the conservatives, the Greens and social democrats. The communist faction of the city council voted against the anti-BDS law.
The anti-BDS law in Graz is significant because the city is the second largest municipality after Vienna. Graz is the capital city of the state of Styria, with a population of nearly 300,000. Elie Rosen, the head of the Jewish community in Graz, welcomed the city council’s action to ban BDS. Graz’s mayor Siegfried Nagl also supported the anti-BDS measure.
The law said the city of Graz "condemns every form of antisemitism and anti-Zionism." The capital of Austria, Vienna, passed an anti-BDS resolution in 2018, which unanimously proscribed the organization as antisemitic and banned support for "events that advertise for BDS."
In September, the Post reported leading Austrian politicians have vowed they will declare the BDS campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic during the next legislative session. Austria has not yet formed a new government.
"We hope that words will be followed by deeds and that... there will soon be a parliamentary resolution," wrote the organization Jewish-Austrian Students, which hosted the politicians at its event in Vienna earlier this month.
In response to a question at the event from college student Noah Scheer, who asked if the Austrian parliament will replicate the May decision of the German Bundestag to classify BDS as antisemitic, the MPs pledged to do so.
Sibylle Hamann from the Green Party compared BDS to the Nazi-era "Don’t buy from Jews" campaign. She said the Nazi slogan "resonates" with the BDS campaign.
[Babylon Bee] The impeachment hearings have been thrown into chaos after President Trump announced that he supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose their own impeachment inquiry.
"Impeachment? I'm for it. Great idea. Best idea, maybe ever," he said, adding that he's "getting kinda sick of all this winning anyway."
"Sure, why not. Impeach me. I love it. Whatever. Now I'm gonna go watch Joker again. Great film. What's that guy's name? Phoenix something. Bob Phoenix, that's it. Tremendous actor---absolutely perfect."
Democrats quickly condemned his statements. Pelosi said, "It's clear that Trump wants to be impeached because he's not good at being president. Well, we're going to show him a thing or two by forcing him to stay in the White House and finish out his term."
"And Joker is alt-right propaganda," she said, falling for Trump's ploy to make Dems condemn one of the most successful, beloved films of the year.
One pundit on CNN suggested that Trump is supporting impeachment at the request of Putin or the guy from Ukraine or "whichever conspiracy thing we're pushing this month, I forget."
At publishing time, Democrats had also withdrawn from the 2020 race to teach Trump a lesson.
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[ChristianPost] The Christian Post reached out to Chick-fil-A Monday, asking them to respond to the criticisms that they were compromising their principles in order to appease their ideological opponents.
“Beginning in 2020 the Chick-fil-A Foundation will introduce a more focused giving approach, donating to a smaller number of organizations working exclusively in the areas of hunger, homelessness and education. We have also proactively disclosed our 2018 tax filing and a preview of 2019 gifts to date on chick-fil-afoundation.org. The intent of charitable giving from the Chick-fil-A Foundation is to nourish the potential in every child,” a Chick fil-A representative said in a statement emailed to CP Monday.
"Our goal is to donate to the most effective organizations in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger. No organization will be excluded from future consideration – faith-based or non-faith based," the spokesperson said, noting "I also wanted to add that Chick-fil-A will not be opening on Sundays."
According to an exclusive from BisNow Monday, Chick-fil-A was shifting away from its current philanthropic structure to refocus their giving on other causes, specifically education, homelessness and hunger, and would no longer be donating to groups like the Salvation Army, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.
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If there is one organization that has historically worked to -
...working exclusively in the areas of hunger, homelessness and education.
it would be the Salvation Army. Sorry excuse of surrender to the LGBT radicals, a loud but very small group that promotes intolerance of Christians. Like any radicals in any movement they give everyone a bad name. Chick just empowered them.
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All the whining that it's a sell out grates on me. They are a big business and they have to play the game as it is currently being played. The owners of the company can still donate to any charity they want, and there are ways to do it without being in the news.
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Question, somebody, ANYBODY? Why do the producers of 'Wheel of Fortune' the most successful game show running, continue to insist on LGBTQ contestants (mostly male) on nearly every fok'n segment ?
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B - you watch HGTV much? Their shows are very inclusive. And I don't mind that. What I fuss about is that so many participants are out of the old, antiquated, so-twentieth-century 'mainstream'. Just like Wheel, Mrs. Bobby's favorite show.
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[Libya Observer] Spokesman for Tarhuona Protection Force of the Libyan army, Yusuf al-Ma'amari confirmed on Sunday that their forces had repelled an attack by Hatar's militias in al-Rawajeh area, between Tarhuona and Garabulli districts.
"A force of 40 cars from "Al-Kani militia" attempted to attack our troops in the area, but we made them suffer a heavy loss and forced them to withdraw," al-Ma'amari explained.
Haftar's militias infiltrated the coastal road at dawn last Thursday and opened fire on a civilian car, killing three members from one family.
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Airlines company in Benghazi said Misrata Airport had seized a plane after it arrived in the airport coming from Benina Airport in Benghazi for maintenance purposes.
Since 2014, Libyan Airlines, like all other state institutions, has been split into Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and Benghazi administrations. The Benghazi branch has one plane only that is operating from Benina Airport.
The airliner in Benghazi's front man, Ezzedine al-Mashnoun told Rooters that the only plane operated by Libyan Airlines - Benghazi Administration was seized during maintenance, adding that the incident was causing serious disruption to the flight schedule as it operates three flights to international destinations daily.
A front man for the eastern-based Libyan administration told Rooters that the authorities in eastern Libya have given Misrata Airport hours to return the plane or they must take responsibility for other escalatory measures in their airspace.
"The problem was fixed by the company's engineers at Misrata airport and after preparing the plane for take-off, it was stopped by Hussain Ballaou, the assistant manager of Misrata airport." The airliner said in a statement on Facebook.
Last Thursday, eastern authorities forced an Afriqiyah Airways plane to land in Benina Airport in Benghazi for security checks after it had taken off from Misrata Airport.
As a response, the Libyan Transportation Ministry halted flights that take off from Misrata and Mitiga Airports via eastern Libyan airspace for fear of being forced to land in Benghazi.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has taken control of two towns along a key highway in the northeastern region of Syria.
According to reports from the al-Hasakah Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army entered on Monday the towns of al-Dashishiyah and al-Tawilah along the Aleppo-Hasakah Highway (M-4 Highway).
Following the Syrian Army’s entrance, they would clash with the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces in the Abu Rasin area near the strategic border city of Ras al-’Ayn.
At the same time, local sources in the town of Tal Tamr in northwestern al-Hasakah confirmed the establishment of a new bridge on the Jarjab River by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Both the SDF and SAA have maintained control of the Tal Tamr District, despite repeated attempts by the Ottoman Turkish-backed gunnies to capture the area.
While some reports claim that the SDF have agreed to hand over all their points in Tal Tamr to the SAA and Russian military, their spokesperson Kino Gabriel announced these rumors untrue.
[DAWN] Hong Kong police using tear gas and rubber bullets fought off protesters on Monday as they tried to break through a police cordon that is trapping hundreds of them on a university campus.
Protesters advanced on the police from outside the cordon, while others emerged from the campus, their trademark umbrellas at the fore. Police in some places swooped in to subdue protesters and make arrests.
It wasn’t clear if any of those inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University escaped.
Hong Kong’s work week started with multiple protests that disrupted traffic, and schools remained closed because of safety concerns. There was a temporary lull in the pitched battles for control of the Polytechnic campus as the emphasis shifted from battering the protesters with tear gas and water cannons to waiting for them to come out.
[DAWN] A government ban on demonstrators wearing face masks, aimed at helping to quell months of pro-democracy unrest in Hong Kong, is unconstitutional, the territory's high court ruled on Monday.
"The restrictions it imposes on fundamental rights [...] go further than is reasonably necessary [...] and therefore fail to meet the proportionality test," the court said, according to a press summary.
The ban on face-covering came into force in October, when the city's unelected pro-Beijing leader invoked colonial-era legislation for the first time in more than 50 years.
The move was seen as a watershed legal moment for the city since its 1997 return by Britannia to China ‐ but has been largely symbolic.
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[NYPOST] Last week, Israel once again faced a barrage of rockets from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... while most of the mainstream Democratic candidates whistled and looked away.
Candidates don’t have to comment on every event happening around the world, but the silence of much of the Democratic field feels like more than passing disinterest. And when Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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Sanders also lent credence to the Paleostinian narrative about Israel’s supposedly sinful birth. "Acknowledging these realities," he lectured, "does not ’delegitimize’ Israel any more than acknowledging the sober facts of America’s own Founding delegitimizes the United States."
Wrong. America doesn’t have to defend its very existence.
Spot on. Sanders is such a moron. His foreign policy views are beneath sophomoric. It's shameful that such a fool could get anywhere near the nomination of a major political party.
[Jpost] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has breached another limit of its nuclear deal with major powers by accumulating more than 130 tonnes of heavy water, a moderator used in a type of reactor Iran is developing, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
"On 16 November 2019, Iran informed the Agency that its stock of heavy water had exceeded 130 metric tonnes," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to member states obtained by Rooters.
"On 17 November 2019, the Agency verified that the Heavy Water Production Plant (HWPP) was in operation and that Iran's stock of heavy water was 131.5 metric tonnes."
[DAILYCALLER] Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph allegedly helped an illegal alien avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehension by directing him to leave through a back door in April 2018, prompting federal prosecutors to charge her with obstruction of justice.
Some in the immigrant activist community are not standing by Joseph, noting that she went so far as to turn off a recording of her conversation with lawyers while conspiring to help the illegal alien, which violated courtroom policy.
Joseph is refusing to take a plea deal and is instead choosing to fight the charges. The court case could take years to reach its conclusion.
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Arrest every public official who in any way shape or form helped illegal alien criminals to elude law enforcement, for aiding and abetting felony crimes.
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So... Francis would have preferred twenty times as many dead and wounded?
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So the fire bombing of Tokyo back in March '45 has his blessings? As was the rape of Manila?
BTW, we were reading the Japanese diplomatic code well after the war ended. Records show that the foreign office was engaged in promoting the 'evil' of the bombs in order to down play the atrocities of the former government.
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I have really come to dislike this pope. I really hope that he gets removed or retires soon. They need to select someone that actually reads and believes in what the church is supposed to teach, not someone who thinks everyone has to like him.
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This Pooh-Bah of Catholic kabuki
Sez nuclear weapons are kooky?
I might bow along
With his kowtowing song
If it wasn't for Maestro Suzuki.
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^ Off the pile from yesterday. Have I mentioned my Rantburg monkey theory (lately)? As in, dozens of informed, articulate humans, typing for not very long at all, regularly produce long strings from the stream of consciousness of a demented monkey? Positively spooky sometimes. ["Thanks!" in monkey]
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Wubbish ! I can monkey all my own. Within seconds.
[DAWN] Sri Lanka's new president and scourge of the Tamil Tigers Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday urged minorities unnerved by his election victory to work with him, as he was sworn in at a ceremony steeped in symbolism for his core supporters.
Having spearheaded the brutal end of the Tamil separatist war a decade ago, Rajapaksa is a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... figure but popular among his own majority Sinhalese-Buddhist community.
His landslide win split the island nation of 21.6 million on religious and ethnic lines as never before, seven months after deadly terrorist attacks.
Unusually, his inauguration was held at a revered Buddhist shrine with an imposing stupa ‐ reputedly built by a Sinhalese king who vanquished invading Tamils over 2,000 years ago.
At the ceremony, Rajapaksa put his success down to the "extraordinary blessings of the Buddhist monks". "The main message of the election is that it was the Sinhala majority vote that allowed me to win the presidency," the 70-year-old retired lieutenant colonel said.
"I knew that I could win with only the votes of the Sinhala majority. But I asked Tamils and Moslems to be a part of my success. Their response was not what I expected. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... I urge them to join me to build one Sri Lanka," he said.
Rajapaksa was defence chief under his brother Mahinda's 2005-15 presidency, when the military conducted a no-holds-barred campaign to end the 37-year war in which 100,000 people perished.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has requested that Germany extradite the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.
"We quickly asked for the arrest and extradition of the so-called commander of the YPG [People’s Protection Units, a military wing of the SDF], a PKK [Kurdistan Worker’s Party] member terrorist, Ferhat Abdi Shahin [code-named Mazloum Kobani], from relevant states to our country after media reports that he will travel to the United States and Germany," Cavusoglu said," as quoted by Bas News.
Germany, who is part of the U.S.-led Anti-ISIS Coalition, has worked alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria, despite Turkey’s insistence that the SDF are ’terrorists’ and an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The German government has not issued a response to this latest request from the Ottoman Turkish authorities.
Turkey has made similar requests in the past, including their demand that the leader of the PYD, Salih Moslem, be handed over to the Ottoman Turkish authorities.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly killed one of the leaders of the Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boyz in the northern countryside of the al-Raqqa Governorate on Monday.
According to pro-opposition media, the military commander of Ahrar al-Sharqiyah, Abu Hafs al-Gharbi, was killed during festivities with the Syrian Demoratic Forces near the town of ’Ayn ’Issa in northern al-Raqqa.
Abu Hafs al-Gharbi is the highest ranking bully boy commander to be killed this month by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
On Monday, Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan warned that Operation Peace Spring would resume if the Syrian Democratic Forces did not completely withdraw from the border.
While Erdogan made this statement on Monday, his allied forces on the ground continued their attacks on the Syrian Democratic Forces’ positions in ’Ayn ’Issa and Tal Tamr.
[Libya Observer] The UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has briefed the Security Council on the latest developments in the country saying he was angry and sad to report that on Monday there was another mass civilian casualty event, referring to the baby milk biscuit factory in the Wadi Rabea in southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Salame said that regardless of whether the attack, which was carried out by 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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... 's warplanes, deliberately targeted the factory or was an indiscriminate attack, it may constitute a war crime.
"The frontlines in Southern Tripoli are highly fluid. The dangers and direct consequences of foreign interference are increasingly evident. To fill gaps in manpower, there is growing involvement of mercenaries and fighters from foreign private military companies. The insertion of these experienced fighters has naturally led to an intensification in the violence. I am gravely worried by the expansion of artillery fire northwards into the city. Over the past days, the number of civilians killed and injured has been rising and many families are leaving the areas impacted by the shelling. A further escalation of ground fighting in these densely populated areas would lead to disastrous humanitarian consequences." Salame explained to Security Council member states.
He added that the use of air power and precision technology has become a dominant feature of an otherwise low intensity conflict.
"UNSMIL estimates the total number of dronezaps in support of Libyan National Army forces at well above 800 since the beginning of the conflict. The total number of dronezaps in support of the Government of National Accord is estimated at around 240. It is our judgment that the drone infrastructure and operations are facilitated by external parties to the conflict. There were also several incidents of precision Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s conducted by unknown aircraft between September and November. In addition, the increasing use of unguided bombs in airstrikes conducted by Khalifa Haftar's forces in populated areas of Tripoli caused an increase in the number of civilian casualties." Salame remarked.
He added that reports indicate that everything from spare parts for fighter aircraft to tanks, from bullets to precision missiles, are being brought into Libya in support of different groups involved in the fighting.
Salame said Mitiga Airport remains closed and that it has been more than two and a half months now that this key outlet for the civilian population of Tripoli and Western Libya has been forced to shut due to indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes.
"Mitiga Airport needs to reopen as soon as possible. Together with the GNA Ministers of Interior and Transportation, I am working on a number of practical steps to achieve this goal, including the clear delineation between the civilian and military sections of the airport, as well as the establishment of a dedicated UN terminal." Salame said.
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who gives a shit, thin the herd
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[Rudaw] Almost two years after the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group was announced territorially defeated in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the holy warrior group has said it conducted 47 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on targets over September and October, while Iraq’s counter-terrorism forces and predominantly Shiite militias have reported counter-ISIS gains in operations conducted on Monday.
Nineteen airstrikes were conducted against ISIS targets in Iraq in October, according to a November 13 blurb from the US-led Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR). In September, it conducted 28 airstrikes against ISIS targets in the country, their November 16 release detailed.
The coalition was established in 2014 after ISIS snuffies seized vast swathes of northern Iraq, including Iraq’s second city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and threatened to march on Baghdad and Erbil. It has conducted some 34,674 strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria between August 2014 and the end of September 2019.
The group was declared defeated by former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi in December 2017. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... remnants of the group continue to operate, returning to earlier insurgency tactics including ambushes, kidnaps and assassinations.
The US-led coalition has supported the Iraqi army in operations to eradicate these remnants. Operations have focused on the northwest of the country, including areas disputed between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. As yet, operations have failed to entirely clear their presence, and military bodies worldwide have warned the group is still resurging.
ISIS propaganda outlets have continued to publish claims of attacks it has conducted. According to the group’s weekly al-Naba newspaper, its snuffies conducted more than 161 attacks against security forces and locals in Iraq in September alone.
Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces (ICTS) conducted an anti-ISIS operation on Makhool Mountain, Saladin province on Monday, destroying six ISIS ’nests’ in the area, according to state media outlet INA .
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist group launched a big attack on the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions east of Palmyra city on Monday.
According to a military source in the area, the Islamic State launched their attack in the Badiyah al-Sukhnah region east of Palmyra, where they managed to infiltrate the Syrian Army’s positions after overrunning the latter’s post.
The source said the Islamic State was able to catch the Syrian Army troops in the area off guard, resulting in their brief infiltration before the Syrian and Russian air forces got involved in teh battle.
He would add that Russian warplanes chased the Islamic State murderous Moslems out of the area after killing and wounding several of these krazed killers.
The Syrian Arab Army has been periodically carrying out combing operations in the Badiyah al-Sukhnah area of eastern Homs; however, the Islamic State uses the large number of caves in the region to evade capture by the military.
ISIS has thrived in the desert region of Syria since their defeat in eastern Syria; this is due to the simple fact that the area is vast and has many mountains that allow them to disappear and regroup before they launch new attacks.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) has reemerged in eastern Hama after their defeat at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies.
According to reports from the Hama Governorate, a fierce battle broke out on Sunday morning when a group of Islamic State gunnies opened fire on a Syrian military patrol inside the village of al-’Ayyour.
The reports said the Syrian military patrol was acting on information about an Islamic State security cell in al-’Ayyour when the gunnies attacked their convoy.
"When the patrol arrived at the outskirts of the village, we came under heavy fire from some button men stationed at the hills surrounding the village. Violent festivities then took place between the patrol and the button men, resulting in a number of dead and injured among the button men and the wounding of four members of the patrol," a field news hound told Sputnik Arabic.
The news hound pointed out that a Syrian Army force and the accompanying troops stationed near the village of al-’Ayyour rushed to the scene of the festivities due to the heavy fire, and supported the patrol elements, which at the same time received air support from Syrian warplanes.
The source confirmed that the button men belonged to the Islamic State, likely to have arrived in the region a short time ago through the Hama desert that links al-Sukhnah region of eastern Homs.
The Islamic State bully boyz were eliminated as a result of the festivities; however, there are fears that more gunnies are now in this region of the governorate.
[POWERLINEBLOG] The Daily Mail has recently published two stories ‐ here (October 21) and, most recently, here (November 12) ‐ covering the tabloid-friendly aspects of Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... ’s life and career. These stories directly demonstrate a few of the lies that Omar is living and indirectly illustrate the protective cover provided by the Star Tribune.
The Daily Mail is doing the work that the Star Tribune refuses to do, as I am here on Power Line. My thing is the incredible frauds in which Omar is enmeshed. I mean to keep at it until she removes herself from high political office. She is not the most important political figure in our firmament, but she lives and works in my back yard and I have developed knowledgeable sources as well as an appreciative readership in Minneapolis’s Somali community. Attention is warranted.
The Daily Mail’s coverage of Omar has had an impact in the Somali community. They are embarrassed by her. They do not appreciate the humiliation of her most recent ex-husband husband (Ahmed Hirsi, universally known by the nickname Southside), a widely respected player. They have come to see that she is quite the phony. They have come to see her as unrepresentative of the community. (I can’t say the same about the millennial snowflakes and other DFL activists in the district.)
In the past two weeks I have met with three new Somali sources. They have confirmed everything we have previously reported here about Omar’s back pages. I have in addition continued to meet with my original Somali sources. Their reliability has been proved many times over. Taken together, they have made the following points:
• There is widespread fear of Omar in the community. They do not feel free to speak out publicly. They require assurance that I will keep their identity in confidence.
• At a meeting with two of my three new sources last week, we spotted Hirsi through a window. "There is Southside," said one of them, and told me to "close your notebook" (she actually closed it for me).
• They all know that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is Omar’s brother. They didn’t all know that Omar purported to marry him in 2009 until we began covering the issue in 2016.
• Omar made a separate side deal with Hirsi to continue his public silence. She has agreed to pay him $250,000 over time. None of this is reflected in the October 31 divorce decree itself.
I would add only this note based on my own experience. This story is out there for the asking. Any serious news hound who spent time in Minneapolis would find it. The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the New Yorker, the Daily Beast, the Star Tribune and all the rest ‐ they don’t want it. They want to leave it right where it is.
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If this were a Republican...
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I strongly suspect she works for, or facilitates and employs Al-shabab functionaries within America. I've heard her speak, watched her move. There's no way that woman is not a fully committed, pathological, extremist. The kind that shall plot the next 9/11.
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She's obviously mentally unstable.
As is her comrade Batshita.
As was the serial liar and perjurer and slanderer Blowsey Ford.
As is the serial liar and perjurer and extortionist Avenatti.
As are the serial liars at the New York Times who suborned perjury and coaxed their Yale classmates to concoct absolute lies about Kavanaugh.
Most of these Shitshow Stars are emotionally or mentally deficient.
Schifferbrains is a pathological liar. His "parody" was a national disgrace.
Hillary is a sociopath who is mentally and physically unwell.
Pelosi is showing signs of dementia.
This crew is an open-air mental asylum. Through the Looking Glass, we are.
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And of course there's Fauxcahontas, the women whose entire professional career has been based on repeated fables about her DNA.
Plus the hysterical, deranged antics of the Weekly Standard Never-Trumper types.
The violent psychotic characters who don masks and crack heads for Panty-fa.
The less violent but equally deranged characters who accost politicians, and also ordinary strangers, in public and bark nonsense at them for alleged thoughtcrimes.
[Rudaw] Nergiz Dawoud, a 23-year-old Yezidi woman from the northwest Syrian district of Afrin, was allegedly killed on Sunday by suspected Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian fighters, according to several sources.
Afrin fell under the control of Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian militia proxies in early 2018 following Operation Olive Branch.
A source inside Afrin, who must remain anonymous to protect them from reprisals, confirmed the woman’s identity in a series of voice messages sent to Rudaw, claiming she was killed by a group of gunnies on Sunday in the village of Kimare.
Rudaw’s source inside Afrin said it has not yet been confirmed who was responsible for the killing.
Ezidi 24, a local news outlet focusing on the Yezidi community, also reported Dawoud’s death and accused Syrian proxies backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... of killing her.
Dawoud was reportedly working for Afrin’s Civil Defense Organization. She was allegedly attacked while carrying a large sum of money to pay the salaries of the organization’s employees, according to Rudaw’s source.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, said another individual was killed alongside Dawoud.
Hawar News, a media outlet close to Kurdish authorities in northern Syria, identified the other person as Ali al-Shaghouri, an Arab man from Eastern Ghouta, who had settled in Afrin following Turkey’s invasion of the Kurdish enclave. He was also a member of the Civil Defense Organization.
Their bodies were discovered early on Sunday morning on the Gumrik village road in the Mobata sub-district in Afrin, the outlet said.
The Kurdish-majority region of Afrin is isolated from other Kurdish towns and cities by a Ottoman Turkish-controlled zone in northern Aleppo.
Turkey launched its Afrin offensive against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in January 2018 to force the group back from its border.
Ankara accuses the YPG of fostering ties with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an gang fighting for greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey.
Turkey’s Syrian proxies were accused of looting Kurdish homes and businesses, vandalizing Kurdish cultural landmarks, and resettling Arab families in vacant homes left by fleeing Kurdish families.
According to UN estimates, upwards of 150,000 Kurds were displaced. General lawlessness, arbitrary kidnappings, and liquidations have overrun Afrin.
According to Rudaw’s source from Afrin, the Yezidi ethno-religious minority, who faced genocide in Iraq at the hands of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS), nowadays face a double stigma in Afrin.
As Kurdish speakers, they are a target of Ottoman Turkish-backed groups, while their non-Islamic faith has also made them vulnerable to aggression. According to Rudaw’s source, Islamists among the Ottoman Turkish-backed groups have pressured local Yezidis to convert to Islam.
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[Jpost] Egypt's purchase of Russian fighter jets puts it at risk of US sanctions and endangers future acquisitions of US equipment, a US state department official said on Monday.
Egypt is aware of those risks, US Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper said at the Dubai Airshow.
[DAWN] A Dutch court sentenced a Pak man to 10 years behind bars on Monday for planning to assassinate anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders after the MP announced a cartoon competition depicting Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
The man, identified as Junaid I. by local media, was arrested in August 2018 at a train station in The Hague after he posted a film on Facebook in which he said he wanted to "send Wilders to hell" and urged others to help.
Judges at The Hague's district court found the 27-year-old man, who had travelled from La Belle France, guilty of "planning a murder with a terrorist motive" and "incitement to commit a terrorist deed".
"The suspect more than once said that Wilders' death would be a good deed," said presiding judge Jan van Steen, who added four years in jail to the six years sought by the prosecution.
"Furthermore, the suspect wanted to commit the murder in one of the parliamentary buildings, the heart of Dutch democracy," Van Steen said. The suspect had denied any terror-related motives.
He said during the trial that he was "peace-loving" and had only travelled to the Netherlands from La Belle France to protest against Wilders' cartoon competition.
The Facebook video was seen by more than 153,000 people and shared 14,000 times.
Far-right leader Wilders cancelled his plans two days later to stage the cartoon competition, a move that angered many Moslems, particularly in Pakistain where widespread protests were held.
[Jpost] Indonesian anti-terrorism officers rubbed out two suspected bomb makers during a raid on the weekend and arrested more than a dozen as authorities linked a suicide kaboom last week to an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -inspired network, police said on Monday.
A 24-year-old student went kaboom! outside a cop shoppe in the city of Medan in North Sumatra province last Wednesday, killing himself and wounding six people.
Police had initially declared the attacker to be a "lone wolf", but a national police front man said on Monday the student along with 22 other suspects in the area had links to the Islamic State-inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).
JAD has been blamed for a series of attacks in recent years and was banned in Indonesia last year for "conducting terrorism" and being affiliated with foreign krazed killers.
"(The network in) North Sumatra has direct links to JAD," police front man Dedi Prasetyo said in a statement, adding that a leader of the group had been arrested.
Their main target is the police," Prasetyo said in comments broadcast on television.
Of the 23 suspects, two suspected bomb-makers were rubbed out on Saturday while resisting arrest, while one officer was maimed during the raid, said Prasetyo.
Bomb-making material was seized, he said.
Four suspects had turned themselves in and the others had been arrested, he said.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority country, has seen a resurgence in militancy in recent years, with police frequently the target of attacks.
Hundreds of suspects have been detained under tougher new anti-terrorism laws brought in at the beginning of the year after a series of suicide kabooms linked to the JAD group killed more than 30 people in the city of Surabaya.
Last month, a man affiliated to JAD was named a suspect in the stabbing and wounding of the then security minister.
Stanislaus Riyanta, a terrorism analyst, warned that faceless myrmidons could intensify attacks in retaliation for the death of the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who killed himself last month during a U.S. commando raid on his compound in Syria.
"Alert levels for terror acts must be ratcheted up because of the momentum that's usually associated with the Christmas and New Year period for radical groups to act," he said.
[Rudaw] Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened the Iranian public on Monday with a "decisive and revolutionary" response if nationwide protests against the government’s tripling of petrol prices continue.
Security forces have failed to quell the unrest which has seen dozens of protesters killed and a total internet blackout imposed.
Despite the blackout, a small number of videos emerged on Monday showing extensive damage to cop shoppes and vehicles, banks, and other infrastructure, with security forces deploying live ammunition against unarmed protesters.
Kurdish human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organizations reported around a dozen protesters were killed in the Kurdish areas of the country’s west, with the cities of Mariwan and Javanrud resembling a war zone.
"This for the world to hear our voice," a woman who had removed her mandatory headscarf screams from an overpass in one of the videos as hundreds of vehicles stop below. "We have lost everything... we gave deaders and this is how this regime repays us."
Another woman off camera says: "Hopefully this time it [the protests] will bear fruit."
In another video filmed on Sunday two members of the security forces can be seen running along a rooftop shooting down at the people below.
Another video from a hospital in the Kurdish city of Mariwan shows a number of maimed people lying on hospital beds.
There are no exact figures as to how many people have been killed in the four-day protests. Iranian authorities claim three protesters and two members of the security forces have been killed, while Iranian human rights groups based outside the country say more than 40 are dead.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network said on Monday the authorities in the Kurdish regions of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... are refusing to hand over the bodies of those killed to their families for burial.
Authorities launched a fresh crackdown following a call from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... to deal with the protesters, which he branded "thugs" on Sunday morning.
More than 1,000 people were arrested overnight with more arrests taking place on Monday. Members of the IRGC intelligence organization detained two protest leaders in the city of Shiraz, which has seen widespread violence in recent days, one pro-government website said on Monday.
While the crackdown has been vicious since protests gained momentum on Friday night, the IRGC’s official entrance onto the scene will likely have dire consequences for the protesters, with the number of dead expected to rise.
The IRGC said in a statement on Monday it has taken into account the instructions of the supreme leader and sees it as its responsibility "to protect the security and stability of the society by working with other security forces... and when necessary they would deal with any continuing acts that disturbs the peace of the people and causes insecurity in a decisive and revolutionary manner".
Sepideh Gholian, a well-known Iranian activist and journalist in the southern city of Ahwaz who was recently released from prison for her activism, was immediately arrested after joining the protest and raising a placard that read "You increase petrol to 3,000, have you increased the salaries too?".
Gholian was referring to the price of a liter of petrol which was increased from 1000 ($0.10) tomans to 3000 tomans ($0.30) on Friday morning bringing many people who are already under extreme economic pressure to the streets, igniting protests that soon engulfed the whole country.
The Iranian government is under increasing economic and budgetary pressure as the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and the subsequent re-imposition of crippling sanctions have emptied its coffers, while inflation and unemployment have skyrocketed.
As of Monday lunchtime, the internet blackout was still in place across Iran.
"Forty hours after #Iran implemented a near-total internet shutdown, connectivity to the outside world remains at just 5 percent of ordinary levels," the non-partisan connectivity tracking group NetBlocks said in a tweet on Monday.
Government spokesperson Ali Rabie admitted an internet blackout is in place, but said it was implemented to prevent foreign hands from taking advantage of the protests. He said the service would be resumed once the unrest subsides in the coming days.
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I believe the ideal government for muslim majority nations is a dictatorship. An autocratic police state which copies the worst elements of 'pre-modern' States blindly and squeezes the last drop of blood from its citizens. But that too would not be good for the rest of the world.
For the good of the rest of the world, an ideal government for these countries to have would be a post-modern liberal chaos existing alongside fundamentalist extremism focusing inward at their own increasingly kuffar populations. Atheist, LGBT, feminist, follywoods trying to thwart roving sasquatch squads of koran addicts.
It would keep them busy and unstable, and we could all get on with our lives.
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Yeah. Libya is good. The 'Stain too these days. Of course there's always a danger that democracy might prevail, but we must actively prevent that. For the greater good.
Oh dear ! I hope 'erb doesn't see this. He wouldn't understand.
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a post-modern liberal chaos existing alongside fundamentalist extremism focusing inward at their own increasingly kuffar populations. Atheist, LGBT, feminist, follywoods trying to thwart roving sasquatch squads of koran addicts.
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Not sure the Iranian people have the arms necessary to deal with the Basenji and IRGC plus any regular military that support the regime. Mullahs have been following the Democratic Party Plan for 40 years now.
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I imagine this it what the Democrats look forward too, if they ever regain control of the White House and repeal the 2nd amendment. No wonder they are so cozy with Iran.
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recent estimates of fatalities in the recent civil unrest in Iran ranges from a few dozen to several hundred
past month and a half unrest in Iraq: estimates from several hundred to a thousand
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and yet, while this important event, consequent to Trump's strategy of financial strangulation bears possible regime change fruit, we look at the bug-eyed Shiff-for-brains and the travesty that is our news media now!
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied on Sunday that an agreement is in place to allow the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian military to control the Assyrian town of Tal Tamr in the Al-Hasakah countryside.
“To public opinion. Some media outlets published reports about a so called agreement between Russia, Turkey, and SDF. We at the Syrian Democratic Forces deny this news. The invading Turkish army continues its fiercest attacks on the villages of Tal Tamer,” the spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces, Kino Gabriel, said via his official Twitter.
Al-Masdar reached out to a Syrian military source after the SDF’s denial; they said that an agreement was in place, despite these claims by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Earlier in the day, reports began to surface about an agreement between the SDF, SAA, and Russian military in Tal Tamr. The reports said that the SDF agreed to cede control of the town to the Syrian Army and Russian military.
A video was released this morning showing the Russian military allegedly leaving ‘Ayn ‘Issa in Al-Raqqa for Tal Tamr in Al-Hasakah; however, the information from the video was authenticated.
A drone belonging to warlord Haftar destroyed a truck carrying bags of cement killing the driver, in Wadi Rabea district, south #Tripoli, today. pic.twitter.com/gkSGlqGOJM
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels launched a counter-offensive in the northeastern countryside of the Latakia Governorate last night after losing several points south of Kabani.
Led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the jihadist rebels began their counter-offensive to retake the strategic Zuwayqat Mountains last night by storming the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) recently captured points near the town of Kabani.
Following a short battle at the northern edge of the Zuwayqat Mountains, the jihadist rebes were able to retake all of the areas they lost to the Syrian Army’s 4th Armored Division, including the northern hilltops.
The Syrian Arab Army withdrew from these points back to where they started, leaving them with no new ground under their control.
According to a military source in the Latakia Governorate, the Syrian Army made the decision to launch this Kabani offensive on Sunday after the weather reports indicated low visibility due to heavy fog.
This was important for the Syrian military because the low visibility would provide much needed cover for their troops as they enter a well-fortified area south of Kabani.
Ultimately, the Syrian Army’s attack would fall short of attaining its primary objective, which was to reach the southern entrance of Kabani.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia have confirmed that they’ve seized a vessel in the Red Sea, and said that the ship will be released if it is confirmed that it belongs to South Korea, Rooters has reported.
On Monday, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a Houthi leader, tweeted that the group’s ’coasties’ had seized the vessel, and would release it following the completion of legal proceedings related to the violation of Yemen’s territorial waters. al-Houthi said the safety of the crew had been assured.
Earlier, the Saudi Press Agency reported, citing a Saudi-led military coalition front man, that the militia had hijacked and seized a vessel towing a South Korean drilling rig in the Red Sea on Sunday night. According to some reports, the vessel was the Saudi-flagged Rabigh 3 tugboat.
The seizure was said to have taken place in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, separating southwestern Yemen from Djibouti. The coalition front man said the Houthi attack threatened ’vital shipping routes’ used to ship Middle Eastern oil and Asian goods to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[NYPOST] A man in Iowa allegedly opened fire in a strip club parking lot after his debit card was declined for a private dance, a report said.
James Allen Wells, 67, was a patron at the Porsches Theater of the Arts strip club in Waterloo around 11 p.m. Friday when he got a lap dance and stiffed the club, according to the Courier.
After the card was declined, Wells stormed into the parking lot and pulled a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver from his waistband, firing off five rounds, the report said.
Multiple cars were struck, including the rear window of a Dodge Durango, the tailgate of a Chrysler Town and County, and the windshield of a Chevrolet Impala.
The gunman then fled and police attempted to pull him over for speeding ‐ but he refused to stop, leading to a short chase.
Wells eventually crashed his vehicle into a curb and was apprehended after a scuffle with cops. One of the officers injured a hand during the arrest.
Wells was charged with criminal mischief, reckless use of a firearm, assault on a peace officer and reckless driving.
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Frisky old feller. Albeit rather young for a Democratic Party leader.
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Multiple cars were struck, including the rear window of a Dodge Durango, the tailgate of a Chrysler Town and County, and the windshield of a Chevrolet Impala.
He couldn't find a Prius?
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) in Iraq announced on Monday that they detained several suspected family members of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) fighters from the al-Hawl Camp in Syria’s al-Hasakah Governorate.
The Popular Mobilization Units said in a statement on its website that "a force from the Nineveh Popular Mobilization Operations Command detained a number of ISIS families as they attempted to enter Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate after escaping from the al-Hawl Camp.
They added that "the crossing attempt by these families was carried out by smugglers"; they would later be transferred to the local authorities for questioning.
In December 2017, Iraq declared the liberation of all of its territory from the grip of the Islamic State after nearly three and a half years of war with the terrorist organization that occupied about one third of the country and declared the establishment of an "Islamic caliphate".
The Iraqi security forces continue to the Islamic State remnants across the country to ensure that ISIS and its fleeing elements do not re-emerge, while the PMU is stationed on the border with Syria to counter repeated attacks by the terrorist organization.
[The National] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... runs a shadow government in Iraq, which is "no secret" to the public, officials in Baghdad told The National, as leaked intelligence reports detailing how Tehran holds sway over its neighbour were published on Monday.
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...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and The Intercept say they have reviewed over 700 pages of reports written mainly in 2014 and 2015 by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security that show "how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs." It includes paying Iraqi agents working for the United States to switch sides.
"Of course, it is no secret that Iran controls different sectors of the government and parliament," a senior Iraqi official, who chose to remain anonymous, told The National.
"Everyone knows that there is a shadow government run by Qassem Soleimani that has infiltrated the political, economic and security sectors of the Iraqi state," he said.
General Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, is Tehran's point man on Iraq and travels there frequently during times of political turmoil.
Demonstrators took the streets of Baghdad and southern cities last month in anger over corruption and the government's close ties to Iran.
The documents showed that Mr Soleimani was seen in Iraq after the protests kicked off.
He chaired various meetings to persuade allies in the Iraqi parliament to help Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to hold on to his role.
What the leaked documents show is a confirmation of the details and names that the public already knew about, the official said.
In the 16 years since the fall of Saddam, Iran has emerged as a key power broker in Iraqi politics, with arguably greater influence than the US in the Shiite majority country.
The documents "offer a detailed portrait of just how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs, and of the unique role of General Soleimani," the two outlets said.
The information in the documents can be "classified as new black points to Iraq's dark history", Hashim Al Hashimi, an Iraqi security expert, told The National.
"Details of the report are not new to those interested in Iraq's political affairs, they will also not renew concerns about the people mentioned in them," he said.
[DAWN] Pakistain will host the 8th meeting of the Istanbul Process next year with a focus to evolve responses to growing religious intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday.
The announcement in this regard was made by Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood today at The Hague, Netherlands during his keynote address at the 7th Istanbul Process meeting.
The minister drew the gathering's attention to the "alarming levels of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... " prevalent in many parts of the world, citing incidents of hate crimes, negative profiling, assaults on hijab-wearing Moslem women and denigration of venerated Moslem personalities and symbols as examples, the FO statement said.
He cautioned politicians against using "incendiary and populist rhetoric" for electoral gains, saying it can serve as a catalyst for hate speech leading to acts of violence, systematic discrimination and in some cases acts of terrorism.
Mahmood underlined the need for upholding the right to self-determination of people under foreign occupation. He called upon the flag-bearers of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... to "eschew ambivalence and double standards" in the face of grave human rights violations including in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... He also expressed deep concerns over the growing incidents of "systematic discrimination and state-sanctioned violence against Moslems" in India, the FO statement said.
Talking about the importance of upholding fundamental freedoms, the minister stressed that freedom of expression must be exercised with responsibility and the international community should "begin to consider reasonable restrictions in this regard", both online and offline.
[DAWN] Rights activist Idris Khattak was allegedly kidnapped by faceless myrmidons while on his way from Akora Khattak village to Swabi, his driver Shahsawar told police, DawnNewsTV reported on Monday.
In a complaint filed in Anbar cop shoppe, Shahsawar said that he was driving Khattak to Swabi when about four faceless myrmidons stopped the activist's car at Swabi Motorway Interchange and kidnapped him. The incident took place on November 13, according to the complaint. Though complaints have been lodged by Khattak's driver and family, police are yet to register a first information report (FIR).
Officials did confirm that Khattak was missing but said an FIR will be lodged after an initial investigation.
Politician Jibran Nasir claimed that the activist was "kidnapped by intel agencies six days ago on Islamabad Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... highway near Swabi Interchange". Nasir said that the driver was kidnapped along with Khattak but was released after three days. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the application filed by Shahsawar did not mention any such occurrence.
[REDSTATE] As we’ve seen for the past three years, vast swaths of the nation’s judiciary are in opposition to the rule of law. In the federal courts, we are seeing judges interject themselves into mundane and banal executive branch actions simply to obstruct the ability of the Trump administration to govern because those judges oppose the policy decisions by the administration. These decisions are routinely overturned on appeal but the net effect is depriving the administration of months or years of potential actions. At the state level, we’re seeing state judges in lockstep with progressive state governments in trying to hamstring the ability of federal agencies to perform their duties. The chief target is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which has the responsibility for enforcing immigration laws within the interior of the United States.
ICE has discovered...despite propaganda asserting that illegals are more law-abiding than any other demographic group...that the best place to round up illegals is at courthouses. Routinely, agents scan the docket, identify illegals, and have agents in the courtroom ready to take them into custody when their legal affairs are concluded. This has led the chief justice of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s Supreme Court, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, to write a letter to the Attorney General and the head of DHS demanding that courtrooms be considered some kind of sacred space for illegals. And it isn’t just in California.
Last year, a Massachusetts judge, Shelley Richmond Joseph, connived with one of her staff, a guy named Wesley MacGregor, to slip an illegal out of the courthouse via the judge’s private entrance because she knew that ICE agents were waiting to pick up the defendant once his case was adjudicated. At that point, the Department of Justice decided it was tired of playing silly games, so she was indicted on felony charges and is currently awaiting trial.
[Jpost] IDF troops, along with Shin Bet, Border Police and Israeli Police, arrested 17 people in the West Bank on suspicion of committing acts of terrorism and violence against soldiers and civilians early Monday. The suspects were taken in for investigation.
[DAWN] Protesters have once again blocked the entrance to Iraq's Umm Qasr commodities port near Basra, preventing employees and tankers from entering and bringing operations down by 50 per cent, two port sources told Rooters on Monday.
If the blockage goes on until the afternoon, operations will come to a complete halt, the sources said. The port was previously blocked from October 29 to November 9 with a brief resumption of operations between November 7-9.
Umm Qasr is Iraq's main Gulf port. It receives imports of grain, vegetable oils and sugar shipments that feed a country largely dependent on imported food.
The blockage cost the country more than $6 billion during just the first week of the closure, a government front man said at the time.
More than 300 people have been killed since the start of mass unrest in Baghdad and southern Iraq in early October, the largest demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
[Libya Observer] Seven people - two Libyans and five foreigners - have been killed and 15 civilians have been injured in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by 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, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. 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... 's forces on a baby milk biscuit factory in Wadi Rabea in southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , field medical center confirmed Monday.
The 15 injured foreign workers were sent to two Wadi Rabea field hospitals and then to Tajoura Heart Center, the field medical center added, saying the airstrike caused massive material damage as well.
The Volcano of Rage Operation of the Presidential Council's government said on Facebook that UAE drones had carried out the airstrike.
The front man for ambulance and emergency apparatus Osama Ali said the number of deaths hit 10 and injuries 20 - foreign workers - as the final number.
Haftar's warplanes hit a field hospital of the Anti-terrorism Force in Wadi Rabea but caused no casualties.
Commander of the Anti-terrorism Force Abdelbasit Tika said the airstrike destroyed an ambulance and caused some damage to the hospital's building, saying the warplane must have been foreign.
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[EN.YNA.CO.KR] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n 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... has supervised an airborne landing training, emphasizing the need to improve the country's war preparedness, Pyongyang's official news agency said Monday.
Kim's "field guidance" was reported a day after South Korea and the United States decided to put off their wartime air exercises to encourage North Korea to return to the negotiation table for its denuclearization.
Kim watched "an airborne landing training of sharpshooter sub-units of the Air and Anti-Aircraft Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA)," according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
"It is necessary to wage a drill without notice under the simulated conditions of real war like this and examine it, not being affected by rule and formality, and thus make it an opportunity for improving the preparedness of KPA units for war and examining and training them," Kim was quoted as saying.
According to footage released by the North's state TV, the sharpshooters jumped from a plane that appeared to be an An-2 aircraft, which is known to be used for infiltration operations.
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"Use Pogo sticks when landing. My army does not drag their butts through grass sideways !"
[NYPOST] The mayor of the Indiana city of Muncie, Dennis Tyler, was arrested by the FBI at his home Monday amid a years-long corruption probe.
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to the Muncie Star Press that the arrest warrant was executed at the 76-year-old Democratic mayor’s northside home.
"I can confirm an arrest warrant was executed at the home of Mayor Dennis Tyler this morning and he is currently in jug," spokeswoman Christine Bavener said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear what charges Tyler, who has held the office of mayor since 2012, was facing.
According to the Muncie Star Press, a federal investigation into allegations of corruption linked to the Tyler administration has been underway for nearly four years.
The probe, according to the news outlet, started in early 2016 with Craig Nichols, Tyler’s former building commissioner.
Nichols pleaded guilty last January to wire fraud and money laundering and was sentenced to two years in federal prison, according to the report.
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Isn't Muncie larger than South Bend?
Maybe the Muncie mayor should have run for POTUS-- or does he not check off any identity boxes?
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The current mayor is a Republican. City council swung to GOP majority for the first time since 1979. I had to go spelunking to find out Tyler is a dem. Whuttasurprise!
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Oops, newly elected mayor, not current.
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A second look at the 700 page leaked trove discussed here and here yesterday. Today Al Ahram and the Jerusalem Post look at the joint plottings of IRGC, Muslim Brotherhood, and Erdogan’s Turkey against Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and America.
[Jpost] Leaked Iranian intelligence documents revealed that the Moslem Brüderbund and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... sought to work together. Like an iron fist in a velvet glove, the IRGC would be the muscle and the Brotherhood could give it cover in the 85 countries it works in, members of the organizations discussed. They convened in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... in 2014 to discuss how they might work together and who to fight against. First target: Soddy Arabia
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[Jpost] Could uprisings in Iraq and Leb, coupled with US sanctions, permanently impair Iran’s influence in the region?
In the past few weeks, frustrated and fed-up demonstrators have taken to the streets of Leb and Iraq to voice grievances against their governments. The perception of Iranian infiltration and influence certainly continues to impact this political shake-up in both regions.
These protests have toppled two governments in just three days. Saad Hariri
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The people in power in Leb and Iraq are getting their bread buttered by Iran, they will do their utmost to suppress the demonstrators. If they fail, they may not make it into exile.
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[Jpost] ’On both the northern and southern fronts, the situation is tense and fragile and could deteriorate into a confrontation," IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi said in late October. Israel was facing a complex set of threats among Iranian proxies and allies and was increasing its pace of preparations.
We now know that one of those preparations was to strike Bahaa Abu al-Ata, who was planning terrorist attacks and had been deeply involved in Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ’s escalation against Israel over the past year.
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[Jpost] In a historic reversal of US policy, the Trump administration announced on Monday that it does not view Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal. The policy change was announced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington.
"After carefully studying all sides of the legal debate, this administration agrees with President Reagan," Pompeo said in reference to Ronald Reagan’s position that settlements were not inherently illegal. "The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law," Pompeo said.
Pakistan successfully conducted training launch of SSBM Shaheen-1 capable of delivering all types of warheads upto range of 650 KMs. Launch was aimed at testing operational readiness of Army Strategic Forces Command (ASFC) ensuring Pakistan’s credible minimum deterrence. pic.twitter.com/xXynslmjLt
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It's the solid fueled Dong-Feng 11 repainted dung green. They bought 200 missiles, with American aid money back in '96. But they couldn't get in the Erector launch vehicles before the US began to ask for explanations. Now they've concocted a story about how it was 'researched and developed' in the 'Stain.
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Meanwhile in India, the Navy is conducting sea trials of a yet to be named ship, for now called by its shipyard designation of VCC1184. Equipped with AESA X and S band radars to support the ABM programme. In March the PDV ABM exo-atmospheric interceptor missile was tested against a satellite. The kill vehicle homed in on the target travelling at 10 km per second hitting it within 10 cm of the center.
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10 cm is 4" good enough for better than gubbamint work. Nice
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Always good to see you, John Frum!
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Thank you, John Frum.
That's the VC11184, awaiting a grandiose name. There's actually an interesting story about how the NTRO misled the chinese into believing it to be an oceanic research vehicle for the first 3 years of the project. A lot of honey traps and disappearances.
And that missile in the pic's the K4, a nuke warhead SLBM, in the 900km range. The PDV Anti-Ballistic thingy is this one - the PAD (Prithvi Air Defence). A supersonic interceptor vehicle wedded to the short range Prithvi missile.
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PAD has been superceded by the PDV. Suggests cannisterization of the interceptors. The photo is from the actual ASAT test. The video is interesting. You even see the infrared image of the satellite target as the kill vehicle approaches.
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Here. Lots of shots of the new PDV. At 3:45 the image from the onboard IR seeker of the kill vehicle is shown. Very cool. video
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In fact, the launch cannister can be seen in the video behind the interceptor missile inside the assembly shed.
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Thanks. Yes, the video is interesting. And especially inspiring.
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Pakistan is in a real mess economically. In 2019, 33% of all Pakistan Federal government revenue goes to military spending. The other 67% goes to debt repayment. There was even a 4 billion US dollar revenue shortfall this year. All other Federal spending is met by further borrowing. They are unable to repay the Chinese loans on time. They borrowed 6 billion from the IMF because of balance of payments difficulties. Just 8 billion US in foreign reserves.
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According to the Pakistan Government's National Nutrition Survey, 33% of all Pakistani children were underweight, nearly 44% were stunted, 15% are wasted, 50% were anemic, and 33% were anemic (iron deficiency). More than 50% of Pakistani households were unable to afford two meals a day. According to the Federal Ministry of Education, 44% of Pakistani children do not go to school. 38% of the Pakistani population is illiterate.
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The elusive Pakistani dream of parity with India is evaporating. India's foreign currency reserves alone (445 billion USD) are almost 1.5 times the entire GDP of Pakistan.
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Parity ? They were ... dreaming that ? Really ? How sweet.
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Then there is Reko Diq. The greed of the Pak military led to them breaking a mining contract for the Reko Diq mine. The physicist Samar Mubarakmand took a vacation from assembling Chinese designed atom bombs and tried his hand at gold extraction from copper ore. Not an ounce of gold priduced, but with an idiot Chief Justice (and son) behind the greedy lot, Pakistan continued to violate the contract. Pakistan got taken to a a World Bank tribunal, the ICSID, who were so incensed at all this, that they imposed a fine on Pakistan of 5.9 billion US dollars. Their 6 billion IMF loan cannot be used to pay the fine and the IMF will not permit its money to be used repaying Chinese debt. The Financial Action Task Force has grey listed them for terrorist financing and money laundering. They are well and truly up the creek. They need to stop testing missiles and stop squealing about Kashmir. The jig is up.
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Where will they get funding for the collaborative effort to combat islamophobia, with Malaysia, Indonesia and some others ? Some new broadcast channel. I thought they'd ask Qatar.
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I have made this thread a Classic, so we can easily reference it in the future. Absolutely fascinating discussion!
John Frum, Dron66046, I just want to confirm that everything said here is acceptable to be publicly available. If not, please say so, either here or in the O Club, and I will spam cop whichever comment(s) are inappropriate for a public forum. Many thanks to you both.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in northern Faryb province killed two group commanders of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group in northern Faryab province, the Afghan military said.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement the Afghan Air Force conducted an airstrike in Gurziwan district at around 11:40 pm local time on Sunday.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Mullah Ahmad and Qari Meraj, the two group commanders of Taliban.
The airstrike also maimed two other Talibs, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the 209th Shaheen Corps said a clash broke out between Afghan forces and Talibs in Qarqeen district of Jawzjan at around 4:20 pm local time on Sunday which left 2 Talibs dead and 3 others maimed.
[ToloNews] A grenade attack in Police District 19 maimed four soldiers and one civilian.
’Grenades thrown by men riding a cycle of violence’ caused blasts at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Police District 19 on Monday morning, the Ministry of Defense said in an updated statement on Monday.
The incident took place at approximately 7:30 am, and four ANA soldiers and one civilian were maimed, according to the latest statement.
Previously, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said the earth-shattering kabooms were caused by a jacket wallah.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported that Syrian army forces seized back Tishrin power plant, located 90 kilometers (55.9 miles) east of the lovely provincial capital city of Aleppo, on Monday.
The report added that Russian military forces will soon start patrols near the strategic facility, which has an electricity generating capacity of approximately 630 megawatts (MW).
Syrian government troops had earlier taken back control of Tabaqa Dam, or al-Thawra Dam, located 40 kilometers upstream from the city of Raqqah.
"Before the war, Syria used to supply electricity to neighboring countries such as Jordan and Leb," Dr. Ali al-Ahmad, a member of the Syrian Geopolitical Research Academy, said.
Ahmad added that the most important reason for the economic crisis that Syria is experiencing is the lack of electricity.
[Rudaw] A senior Armenian official in Diyarbakir says his community is under threat because a curfew imposed on his home district of Sur some three and a half years ago amid festivities between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Ottoman Turkish military has not been lifted, leaving the predominantly Christian ethnic minority unable to carry out religious ceremonies at its church.
Ghafur Turkay, head of the Armenian Religious Council in Diyarbakir, spoke of the plight of his community in the Kurdish majority province during Rudaw’s Breakfast with Friends program earlier this week.
"Our church is located in [Sur], which is now a prohibited zone. Since 2016, we have not been able to return there and visit our church. It has been three years and a half now since we have been able to perform our religious ceremonies or hold our feasts. On important days, we have to perform our duties at restaurants or a public place."
[Space.com] NASA has recruited SpaceX's Starship, Blue Origin's Blue Moon and three other commercial lunar lander ideas to join its Artemis moon program.
Today (Nov. 18), NASA announced the selection of SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp., Ceres Robotics and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. to join its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS). The five companies can now vie to deliver robotic payloads to the lunar surface for NASA, helping to pave the way for the return of astronauts to the moon by 2024.
"American aerospace companies of all sizes are joining the Artemis program," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. "Expanding the group of companies who are eligible to bid on sending payloads to the moon's surface drives innovation and reduces costs to NASA and American taxpayers. We anticipate opportunities to deliver a wide range of science and technology payloads to help make our vision for lunar exploration a reality and advance our goal of sending humans to explore Mars."
The five companies join nine others selected by CLPS in November 2018, bringing the total number of private moon lander hopefuls to 14 firms.
The newly selected five are:
Blue Origin, Kent, Washington
Ceres Robotics, Palo Alto, California
Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, Colorado
SpaceX, Hawthorne, California
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc., Irvine, California
The largest lander, by far, of the new entrants is from SpaceX, which bid its Starship reusable launch vehicle. Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, said that Starhip will be able to deliver up to 100 metric tons of cargo to the surface of the moon and return an unspecified amount back to Earth.
“We do think this is a really neat program. It reminds us a bit of the COTS program,” said Shotwell, referring to NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services effort that funded the development of SpaceX’s commercial cargo capability.
Shotwell said Starship lunar lander missions could begin in 2022. Such missions would be cargo only, but she said could serve as a “nice stepping stone” to later crewed missions. She didn’t give a date for crewed missions, but said SpaceX would fly Starship “a lot” before flying any missions with people on board.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 21 murderous Moslems of Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems and destroyed two boom-mobiles in six provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said earlier today an airstrike killed 6 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache in Zurmat district of Paktiya.
The officials further added that a similar airstrike killed 6 ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems in Achin district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. while another airstriked 2 ISIS Khurasan murderous Moslems in Deh Bala district of the province.
Separate airstrikes killed 3 Talibs in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar and Sharan district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , the officials said, adding that an airstrike killed 3 more Talibs in Marjah district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The security forces also conducted airstrikes in Sherzad district of Nangarhar and Daymirdad district of Wardak which destroyed two boom-mobiles belonging to Taliban and ISIS Khursan groups, the officials added.
When everyone else refuses even to acknowledge there is a Moslem colonist problem, whoever does will get ever more votes.
[NEWS.YAHOO] The leader of a party once shunned for its ties to far-right extremism is now riding a wave of popularity that he says may pave the way to a century of political dominance in Sweden.
Jimmie Akesson, the 40-year-old head of the Sweden Democrats, woke up on Friday to news that his party was now polling as the country’s biggest. At 24%, it’s a few percentage points ahead of the ruling Social Democrats that have towered over Sweden’s political landscape for most of the postwar era.
"We want to be part of shaping this country over the next 100 years, just as the Social Democrats have been doing for 100 years," Akesson said in an interview at the Swedish parliament in Stockholm. "We want political influence, and we want a significant influence."
The kind of influence Akesson is talking about would mark an historic break with the balance of power in Sweden, where the political establishment once vowed to keep the Sweden Democrats out of any coalition. The more established groups on the right and left have pointed to the party’s past ties to neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s and white supremacists in defense of their efforts to isolate the group.
But that stance seems increasingly out of step with what voters in Sweden want. A separate poll from Sifo also out on Friday put support for the Sweden Democrats at 23%, the highest level ever registered by that pollster. While still trailing the Social Democrats, Sifo said the difference between the two parties was not statistically significant.
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The other parties are all oikophobic.
All thye needed to do is not be oikophobic, and they can't do that as they're all globalist puppets.
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See the story two stories above about AK-47s turning Sweden into a war zone.
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They are also tired of being taxed out the behind. A few years ago there was a story about middle class professionals having to brown bag their lunches because they had less spending money that the poorest black in Mississippi due to high taxation. Now they get to watch that money going to freeloading Muslims.
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If the "respectables" won't fight the destruction of the West, people will turn to those who will (or who will promise to).
And if it turns out to be awful people who pick up the gauntlet and take advantage of the circumstances, then the "respectables" will have no one to blame but themselves.
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During Mr Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, he was asked whether Mr Trump's incomplete written responses showed he was not always telling the truth. Mr Mueller replied: "I would say, generally."
[The Northern Echo] RELATIVES are being sought of a Northallerton man shot down on a night-time bombing mission over Belgium during the Second World War.
[American Thinker] Joe Biden, whose own kid somehow managed to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his cocaine habit in the Navy, is out condemning President Trump for pardoning a few military small fry whose draconian sentences didn't match the "crimes" they were convicted of.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[PJ] On Friday, as former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was testifying, President Trump made a series of tweets criticizing her performance as ambassador, which got Democrats so triggered that his tweets were read soon after they were made, and the narrative presented was that the tweet was witness intimidation.
[Washington Examiner] House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff once praised a doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit photos, and later invited him to his 50th birthday party.
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[Babylon Bee] The impeachment hearings have been thrown into chaos after President Trump announced that he supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose their own impeachment inquiry.
[NYPOST] Last week, Israel once again faced a barrage of rockets from 
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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[NYPOST] A man in Iowa allegedly opened fire in a strip club parking lot after his debit card was declined for a private dance, a report said.
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...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[NYPOST] The mayor of the Indiana city of Muncie, Dennis Tyler, was arrested by the FBI at his home Monday amid a years-long corruption probe.
In March the PDV ABM exo-atmospheric interceptor missile was tested against a satellite. The kill vehicle homed in on the target travelling at 10 km per second hitting it within 10 cm of the center. 
[Rudaw] A senior Armenian official in Diyarbakir says his community is under threat because a curfew imposed on his home district of Sur some three and a half years ago amid 
[Space.com] NASA has recruited SpaceX's Starship, Blue Origin's Blue Moon and three other commercial lunar lander ideas to join its Artemis moon program. 
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