During the Yom Kippur War then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir was told that the CIA was threatening to not help Israel. What was his response? He told his own deputy Efraim Halevy to call then-CIA deputy head, Lt.-Gen. Vernon A. Walters, and say "kiss my a**," Ynet in Hebrew reported.
Halevy, also a former Mossad head, told the story at the annual FSU Study Association conference this past weekend in Ashdod.
Walters told Halevy that the US was not sure if Israel really needed its help, and that it wanted a summary of the war from Israel saying that Israel would win ‐ because US policy was to support the winner, according to Ynet. Halevy further stated that the CIA official threatened that if Israel did not give the US what it needed by the end of the day, the CIA would sever all ties with the Mossad and Israel.
Before he knew it, Halevy was presented with a non-secure phone, meaning the conversation could be heard by anyone, and Zamir was on the other end. He reportedly instructed Halevy to call Walters and say 'kiss my a**.'
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The CIA records all Trump's phone calls and sends transcripts to the New York Times. It's a wonder he's still able to make deals with foreign leaders.
h/t Instapundit
Notice the source
[CNN] - When the global elite are aligned against him and laughing like the immature cool kids you hated in middle school, President Donald Trump is winning.
When the liberal law professors are neglecting their Thanksgiving turkeys to read congressional transcripts and snarking about Trump's 13-year old son, Trump is winning.
When the politicians are mad ‐ so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called "wafer thin" evidence ‐ Trump is winning.
You have to remember: Donald Trump wasn't elected to fit in with these people ‐ the political, intellectual class -- to make them happy, or to become one of them. He was elected to break them. And that's apparently what he's done.
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Having 3 halftracks shot out under him near Bastogne, my uncle John quickly learned the value of marching silently deep in the woods. That knowledge served him well until the war ended and he was deep in the Ruhr.
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My Uncle Bob was in the 106th Division and was captured just before Christmas. He spent the rest of the war in a POW camp and nearly starved. When the camp was taken by US forces at the end of the war he weighed less than 100lbs. If not for the Red Cross packages that we not stolen by the German guards, he said they would have not survived. He never missed a meal for the rest of his life and at the end of his life showed his family the Bible he kept during captivity. Every page edge was filled with descriptions of food and meals he remembered. He was still 19 when he was captured and even after coming home on a troopship with a mess deck open 24/7 for the repatriated prisoners still was described by my grandmother when she first saw him at Walter Reed as skeletal.
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My godfather (my dad's youngest brother) fought in the Battle of the Bulge- at age 18. He dropped out of high school to enlist.
And kids today need puppies and therapy if someone expresses a contrary opinion.
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Not being taught these days
The Bulge, Tet, the 507th in Iraq. Heck the military doesn't teach it today. In that, there occurs events in which there are no cooks, no clerks, no maintenance personnel, just plain infantry. If you're not infantry, then you are a POW or dead. The enemy sets the standards on the battlefield not ribboned politicians in or out of uniform.
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Yeah, in some cases a handful of guys with a 57mm anti-tank gun delayed an SS tank column, but did they use the correct pronouns? "Yo -- do you guys prefer du, ihr or sie?"
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My wife's father was in the 82nd Airborne and dropped into Normandy. He was at the Bulge as well. Won a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.
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[TheFederalist] During a question and answer session on NBC's "Today" show, former vice president and rumored presidential 2020 contender Joe Biden said the hero who stopped the Texas church shooter earlier this month should not have been allowed to carry an AR-15.
"With the tragedy that just happened in Texas, how do you justify the Democratic view on gun control when the shooter was stopped by a man who was legally licensed to carry a gun?" a young woman in the audience asked Biden.
"Well first of all, the kind of gun being carried he shouldn't be carrying," Biden said. "I wrote the last serious gun control law . . and it outlawed assault weapons and outlawed weapons with magazines that held a whole lotta bullets so you could kill a lot of people a whole lot more quickly." When your devotion to your rhetoric is greater than your devotion to logic...
"Assault weapon" is a nonsense term not usable in legislation, since it could apply to any object used to attack another person. An assault rifle generally means a select-fire or automatic rifle with an intermediate cartridge designed for military use. The AR-15 is not an assault rifle, most clearly because it is semiautomatic. Civilians are already banned from owning automatic weapons.
The Texas man who stopped the shooter from killing more people used an AR-15 to confront the alleged murderer, who wore a ballistic vest and was armed with tactical gear and a rifle of equal firepower.
"If I had run out of the house with a pistol and faced a bulletproof vest and kevlar and helmets, it might have been futile," Stephen Willeford told CRTV in an interview last week. "I ran out with an AR-15 and that's what he was shooting the place up with." The left doesn't want you to do that. You will stay there and be defenseless so they can kill you when they want too.
Biden apparently doesn't think guns are useful for self-defense and protecting others, even though police and soldiers can't stop bad guys without guns, and neither can private citizens. Public records are replete with instances of private citizens enjoying protection against evil when armed.
"It's just rational to say certain people shouldn't have guns," Biden insisted, however. "The fact that some people with guns are legally able to acquire a gun and they turn out to be crazy after the fact, that's life. There's nothing you can do about that, but we can save a lot of lives and we've stopped tens of thousands of people from getting guns who shouldn't have guns." No. You have killed thousands of people by denying them their constitutional right. And would kill millions more if you had your way.
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This moron in Breitbart 2013: On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on a Facebook townhall, where he was asked a question about gun ownership by a female viewer from Parent Magazine. Biden’s suggestion: nobody needs an AR-15, especially women. Instead, he stated, “If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun.” In fact, Biden went further, describing his strategy for home defense:
I said, ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here … walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house.’ … You don’t need an AR-15 — it’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!
There are a few problems with this. First, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in public in Delaware, as it is in virtually every state. Shooting a gun into the air would arguably not constitute self-defense and poses a threat to the public, especially since a slug would come down at some point.
Second, if you have a typical double-barreled shotgun, the gun only holds two shells. If you fire twice into the air, you have just disarmed yourself.
Third, shotguns are used in more murders every year in the United States than the rifles the left wants to ban.
Fourth, for Biden to suggest that women are incapable of handling AR-15s, even as the Obama administration pushes women into frontline military combat, is ridiculous to say the least.
Leave it to Joe Biden to repeatedly undermine his own gun control case – and to get basic self-defense with a shotgun wrong.
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His handlers must dread him being out of his cage.
#Iran’s #IRGC navy commander claims the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran, and that Iran has the right to question any vessel that enters the Straits of #Hormuzpic.twitter.com/3yMlufzAgL
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#Iran’s #IRGC navy commander claims the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran, and that Iran has the right to question any vessel that enters the Straits of #Hormuz
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Back in the Navy, we called it "Letting your alligator mouth override your candy @$$."
Love the Daffy pic. in my mind all the comments were in his voice.[HEH!]
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Sorry, admiral, but I bought the Persian Gulf from a reputable antiques dealer in the French Quarter several years ago for $25US. But you can have it if you want -- the liability insurance premiums are killing me.
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Move Iran's territory back to 50 miles from the Persian gulf line and put their NEW border there.
[MAIL] Five staffers serving under freshman Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew resigned on Sunday after news of the lawmakers decision to join the Republican Party following a meeting with President Donald Trump.
In a letter addressed to Allison Murphy, Van Drew's chief of staff, the aides wrote that the politician's latest move, 'does not align with the values we brought to this job when we joined his office.'
Furthermore, they expressed how 'deeply saddened' and 'disappointed' they were by Van Drew's decision.
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Resigning seems like a normal thing to do since they were probably all Dims. I would have been surprised and applauded them if the staff resigned and all went with Jeff Van Drew to the Pubs.
The author lays out what I and many others have been thinking
The behavior of the Democrat party over the last decade has been that of an overt criminal enterprise, using the power of government to shield themselves from prosecution while engaging in eye-popping levels of corruption.
The articles and charges put forward by the Democrats spring from a laughable pretext, requiring a willful suspension of rational thought to accept.
Presumably, those elected to office as Democrats are not so intellectually disabled as to be unable to see through the obvious charade, a reality that leaves only one other conclusion to explain their behavior: they are fully and knowingly engaged in this seditious scheme and intend to reap the benefits of absolute power should they succeed.
This is not the behavior of a political party. These are not the activities of a "loyal opposition," but rather the acts of an organized revolutionary element attempting to overthrow our government.
It is my opinion that the Democrat party has rendered itself illegitimate in the extreme by not only crossing the line of illegality, but by obliterating it entirely.
Attempting to subvert the will of the people (as expressed through our electoral process) by creating impeachable offenses out of whole cloth is not merely a breach of decorum, a "mistake," or "wrong-headed." It's sedition.
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For a long time, the establishment has been playing a "privatize gains, socialize losses" model for economic and political activity. Absent accountability in the form of tangible pain for specific actors when things go wrong, there will be no improvement.
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How? Destroy them at the ballot box.
Follow Boris Johnson's example: "One Nation" platform + one overriding cultural/social/political issue.
That issue is The Constitutional Rights of CITIZENS.
- roll back all the Obama/Bush stupid policies that infringe upon our constitutional rights - amnesty/"Sanctuary Cities," campus kangaroo courts, gun confiscation, and shut down the rolling nonstop FBI/DOJ/CIA coup and the clownish impeachment Shitshow
- conclude our land wars in Asia and shift our strategic doctrine to one of staying offshore and balancing regional powers
- new trade agreement with U.K. & Australia
- vigorous pro-growth and pro-employment policies at home, with a central focus being the significantly raise incomes and savings for working class American citizens
- deport illegals, finish the wall, enforce employment laws, push up wages for unskilled native-born workers
- expand vocational education and reduce the number of people floundering in neither-nor, third-rate, 4-year colleges
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"The behavior of the Democrat party over the last decade has been that of an overt criminal enterprise, using the power of government to shield themselves from prosecution while engaging in eye-popping levels of corruption."
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In line with the author's comments, there are only 3 kinds of Democrats:
1) those that are corrupt and fully intend to loot what they can and/or accrue personal power
2) those that aren't personally corrupt but are willing to ride the Dem's filthy coat tails to achieve their own ends
3) those that are too stupid to realize and admit that the Dems are an organized crime syndicate.
All three groups are morally ineligible to hold any public office.
[ABC] WAYCROSS, Ga. ‐ A Santa Claus who sparked controversy after posting a photo of himself wearing a hat supporting President Trump at a Georgia mall shared his side of the story Tuesday via Facebook.
Frank Skinner has played Santa Claus every Christmas for nearly 50 years, including the past 14 years at the Mall of Waycross in Georgia.
Skinner said the mall was closing and no children were around when he decided to switch hats and pose with the President Trump hat for fun.
"It really was an innocent thing. It really was," he told First Coast News.
Skinner believes someone saw the photo on his Facebook page and sent it to mall management - he was then told not to come back.
"I just felt like my constitutional rights were being taken away," he said.
In a lengthy statement posted to his personal Facebook page Tuesday afternoon, Skinner said he didn't intend to "create a firestorm by doing that but simply intended to post the photo on my page for a little humor, as I have many friends and family who, like me, support our president."
Skinner said after he posted the photo to his personal Facebook page, someone took a screenshot of the photo and reported it. The photo eventually made its way to mall management with a request to remove the hat. Skinner said the request was made out of context "as if I wear [the hat] all day."
Since that day, Skinner said he's unsure what actions the mall will take next after he was replaced as management investigates.
No matter what happens next, Skinner wants to make it clear that he did not intend to offend and that he's learned a serious lesson.
"I in no way meant to cause anyone discomfort," Skinner said. "At the time I thought it was harmless fun. Now I realize in this day and age that I should not have posted it. Obviously it did offend some folks. I can assure everyone that was not my intent. I have learned a lot from this. Going forward I will keep this in mind."
[Aljazeera] Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base that hosts US nuclear warheads in response to threats of US sanctions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned.
US senators backed legislation last week to impose sanctions on Turkey over the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defence system earlier this year and its recent military operation in northern Syria.
"If it is necessary for us to take such a step, of course we have the authority... We will close down Incirlik if necessary," Erdogan said on A Haber TV on Sunday.
Incirlik is a key air base used by the Turkish Air Force located outside the city of Adana, about 150km from the Syrian border. Since November 2011, the US air force has flown drones from the base and has used it to to carry out air strikes against the armed group ISIL (ISIS).
The United States stores nuclear weapons at Incirlik as part of the legacy of the Cold War.
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"According to White House visitor logs, on January 19, 2016, Eric Ciaramella chaired a meeting of FBI, Department of Justice and Department of State personnel, which had two main objectives:
To coerce the Ukrainians to drop the Burisma probe, which involved Vice President Joseph Biden’s son Hunter, and allow the FBI to take it over the investigation.
To reopen a closed 2014 FBI investigation that focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.
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I wonder if we still nukes at Incirlik. If I were me, I would have removed them slowly, one at a time, disguised as routine flights. Maybe replace them with a little radioactive waste so a casual Geiger counter inspection wouldn't show anything missing. Yippy is just too much of a wild card at this point.
[Townhall] We know that former Vice President Joe Biden was handling international relations on behalf of the Obama administration in Ukraine. At the same time, his son, Hunter, was being paid more than $50,000 a month by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. And the kicker is he had no natural energy experience. But he did have access to the veep.
Despite all that we know, former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden is still arguing that Hunter did nothing wrong. In fact, she blames President Donald Trump for wanting to get to the bottom of the Bidens' corruption.
"I know my son. I know my son's character," Jill Biden told MSNBC's David Gura. "Hunter did nothing wrong and that's the bottom line."
Gura pressed the former Second Lady about how the Bidens respond to voters' questions about Burisma and Ukraine.
"You must have watched as your husband interacted with that voter in Iowa, very forcefully. There was a question about this. I imagine you and he [Joe] face questions about this from time to time on the campaign trail. What did you make of that response and how do you and he respond to the fact that this question keeps coming up?" the host asked.
Jill instantly turned the question into two parents defending their son against warrantless attacks.
"Well, I think that any parent who is watching this show knows that if anyone attacked their son or daughter, I mean, you don't just sit down and take it," she said with a half-hearted laugh. "I mean, you fight for your kid, and I think that shows that, you know, Joe's going to stand up to bullies and bullies like Donald Trump. And it shows his strength and his tenacity and his resilience."
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Droit du seigneur, also known as jus primae noctis, is a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on their wedding nights.
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If Trump were an angry leftist harpy law professor and Hunter Biden was a 12 year old boy, it'd all be good...
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Her 'doctorate" is in education. Pretty slimy to imply that you have an M.D. when all you have is an EdD.
From Google: "In January 2007, at age 55, she received a Doctor of Education in educational leadership from the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs, was published under the name Jill Jacobs-Biden."
[Gateway Pundit] Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was on a roll Sunday afternoon and dropped bombshells revealing a huge Ukrainian money laundering operation involving Obama-era officials and the Biden crime family.
"Much more to come" Giuliani said Sunday concluding that Democrats’ impeachment for innocent conduct is intended to obstruct investigations of Obama-era corruption.
Giuliani also stated the the sham impeachment against Trump is intended to cover for the DNC’s collusion with Ukraine during the 2016 election "to destroy candidate Trump."
Billions of laundered $
‐ Billions, mostly US $, widely misused
‐ Extortion
‐ Bribery
‐ DNC collusion w/ Ukraine to destroy candidate Trump
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I am shocked I tell you. So Brennan is somewhere in that attempted coup?
Rudy Giuliani says he's got a ton on documentation of Ukraine-Dem corruption he would like to share with the Senate Judiciary Committee and perhaps with Durham. Guiliani made his bones taking down organized crime and political corruption.
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I have asked this question on previous occasions:
How is it wrong for a president, any president, to ensure before giving taxpayer money to a country like Ukraine that the money will not end up in the pockets of people like Hunter Biden?
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You have answered your own question Abu - considering who's voting to impeach.
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One way to look at the impeachment effort is that some folks are creating a bargaining chip to be cashed in for good and valuable consideration -- "We'll forget Ukraine ever existed if you will too."
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#5: I've heard that too, but it goes "We'll forget impeachment if you forget Ukraine."
Problem for the Democrats is that if the Ukraine bombshell goes off, it not only destroys the Bidens, but the REASON for the Impeachment becomes known, AND the Demonrat Congressmen become accomplices in the blown coverup.
BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] When this legislation is proposed in coming weeks, it will not pass. But it must also not go unnoticed. Democratic attacks on the right to work will only become stronger, especially if they continue their efforts to break down the rule of law. If Democrats manage to take control of the Senate and abolish the filibuster, pro-union, anti-worker policy will become a top priority.
The repeal of right-to-work laws would reimpose upon large and now prosperous areas of America the very sort of labor rules that used to hold them back, from a time no one remembers anymore. Many of today’s baby boomers were not yet born when Taft-Hartley passed. In those times, the South was a backwater and the mountain West an undeveloped, provincial region. Those regions’ embrace of right-to-work laws was part of what helped them take the lead in our country’s economy in the modern era. It is no accident that 11 out of CNBC’s top 15 states for business are right-to-work states, or that right-to-work states enjoy lower unemployment, or that personal incomes in those states grew 50% faster between 2001 and 2016.
Democratic efforts to abolish right-to-work laws should be viewed as the rejection of seven decades of sound labor policy, the economic equivalent of resurrecting the polio virus and setting it loose on unsuspecting populations. Washington has no business fouling up the healthy business climates of the nation’s best-run states, just as a kickback to union bosses for their partisan contributions and activism. The abolition of the right to work would be a quid pro quo for unions and a knife between the ribs of the workers whom organized labor is supposed to represent.
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Remember the Card Check Initiative to outlaw Secret Ballots because the Union thugs organizers couldn't strongarm "persuade" employees how to vote when they were behind the curtain?
[Jpost] The Sudanese transitional government is slated to close the offices of the foreign terrorist organizations, Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and Hezbollah, according to a report in the Middle East Eye.
The Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... regime financed Middle East Eye reported that "A reliable Sudanese source close to [Prime Minister Abdallah] Hamdok's office disclosed to Middle East Eye that the government will close the offices of foreign groups designated as bandidoshard boyz by the US, including Hamas and Hezbollah."
According to the report, "The Sudanese source who spoke to MEE, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said: "The government will close the offices of Hamas and Hezbollah and any other Islamic group designated as terrorist groups that has presence in Sudan, because Sudan has nothing actually to do with these groups and the interests of Sudan are above everything."
The Sudanese source added "Actually they have hidden their presence in the past few years but we won't tolerate any individual's presence in the future."
The outlet said the action to evict Hamas and Hezbollah from the north African country was meant to convince the United States government to de-list Sudan as a state-sponsor of terrorism. The United States proscribed Sudan a state-sponsor of terrorism in 1993.
In early December, the US and Sudan agreed to begin exchanging ambassadors again after a period of more than two decades. US-Sudan relations have improved since the Sudanese people overthrew the dictatorship of former president Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... The US listed Sudan a state-sponsor of terrorism in 1993 after it hosted the dear departed al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... US Secretary of State Pompeo did not address the terrorism classification at the time of Abdallah’s December visit.
The US government said that Sudan has still not met the conditions for being de-listed from its terrorism list but the country is making progress.
Sudan accused Israel of carrying out an air strike that killed two people in a car near the city of Port Sudan in 2011. In 2009, Sudan said a convoy of people smugglers was hit by unidentified aircraft in Sudan
The then-Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert said at the time: "We operate everywhere where we can hit terror infrastructure - in close places and in places further away."
Arms smugglers have used Sudan as a pipeline to send weapons to Hamas-controlled Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip. The EU and the US classify Hamas as terrorist organization. The UK, US, Canada, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , the Netherlands and Israel designated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah a terrorist entity.
In May, a Sudanese general announced a shift in its foreign policy to back 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... instead of its traditional ally Iran. "Sudan is standing with the kingdom against all threats and attacks from 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 Huthi militias," said General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo in his meeting with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... According to the US State Department entry on terrorism, "Sudan broke diplomatic relations with the United States in 1967 after the start of the Arab-Israeli War. Relations were reestablished in 1972. Sudan established links with international terrorist organizations resulting in the United States’ designation of Sudan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1993 and the suspension of U.S. Embassy operations in 1996. The U.S. Embassy was reopened in 2002."
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And thus ends a pernicious 30 year Sudan-Iran and Sudan-Hamas alliance that began within weeks of the Sudanese Islamist revolution of 1989. Hasan al-Turabi's effort to meld the Sudanese Sunni circle and the Iranian Shiite square has failed.
[Jpost] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, leader Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... arrived in Doha, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Sunday after completing a visit in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... , according to Channel 13.
Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was in Doha on Sunday as well, according to Rooters.
[IsraelTimes] The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, known as Apex-Brasil, which operates under the auspices of the country’s foreign ministry, officially opens a trade office in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim tech park.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, is in attendance at the opening.
He tells the crowd his father will eventually relocate the country’s embassy to the capital, describing it as a "normal" step.
The trade office does not hold diplomatic status, an official told The Times of Israel earlier this month.
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We have seen a number of stories lately about minor countries (no offense!) recognizing Israel or moving their embassy to Jerusalem, along with a number of stories on jihadi plots that were thwarted thanks to shared Israeli intel.
Makes me wonder if there is some connection or whether said govts are simply acting like grown-ups for a change.
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I’ve been posting them to document how the atmosphere has changed since President Trump formally moved the American embassy to Jerusalem, SteveS. You’re right that most of the countries moving into Jerusalem are not big players — we’ll see what Britain does now that JoBo won his election, but I have no expectations despite his anti-BDS announcement — and no doubt some portion of those moving expect some sort of reward from our president, and from Israel, for openly following his lead on this. But the reported beneficiaries of Israeli jihad intelligence, like France, Germany, and Denmark, generally seem perfectly content to keep quiet the fact that they owe the juices a debt of gratitude, just as they keep quiet the fact that their industries have been picking up Israeli tech firms.
[IsraelTimes] Officials led by Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... praise the Ottoman Turkish president for supporting the Paleostinians, the terror group’s website reports; al-Aqsa TV says Haniyeh to attend Malaysia summit.
A Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, delegation led by its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, met Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... in Istanbul on Saturday and spoke to him about the dire humanitarian situation in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the terror group said in a report posted on its official website.
Haniyeh had been in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... since the previous Sunday following talks with the Egyptian General Intelligence Services. The trip marked the first time he has traveled beyond Gaza and Egypt since he became Hamas’s top leader in May 2017.
"The Hamas delegation spoke about the difficult humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the ongoing siege and the necessary measures to end [it]," the report stated, adding that it praised Turkey for its "positions vis-a-vis the Paleostinian people and its just cause."
The Ottoman Turkish Presidency’s Twitter account confirmed that Haniyeh and Erdogan met and released a photo of the two at the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.
Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV reported Sunday that Haniyeh will be attending the Kuala Lumpur Summit in Malaysia on Wednesday.
The conference will "delve into seeking new solutions for problems affecting the Islamic world," the Malay Mail, a Malaysian daily, reported.
Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... , Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... and Erdogan are "among the notable Islamic leaders expected to join the summit," the Malay Mail report added.
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January 2018: The United States government has designated Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh as a specially designated terrorist, becoming the first country outside of Israel to do so.
President Trump continues to make good on his campaign promises... Pamala Geller.
Erdogan continues to play with fire. The result is predictable.
[JPost] The "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is "totally done" despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday.
Lighthizer, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation" program, said there would be some routine "scrubs" to the text but "this is totally done, absolutely."
A date for senior U.S. and Chinese officials to formally sign the agreement is still being determined, Lighthizer said.
[IsraelTimes] Minister claims attack was ’aimed at spying on government intelligence,’ just days after ’massive’ assault was blocked; says hackers were tracked.
Iran’s telecommunications minister announced on Sunday that the country had defused a second cyberattack in less than a week, this time "aimed at spying on government intelligence."
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said in a short Twitter post that the alleged attack was "identified and defused by a cybersecurity shield," and that the "spying servers were identified and the hackers were also tracked." He did not elaborate.
It was not clear if the attack caused any damage or disruptions in Iran’s computer and internet systems, and whether it was the latest chapter in the US and Iran’s ongoing cyber operations targeting the other.
Last Wednesday, Jahromi told the official IRNA news agency that a "massive" and "governmental" cyberattack targeted Iran’s electronic infrastructure. He provided no specifics on the purported attack except to say it was also defused and that a report would be released.
He also said the "security attack was very large" and that authorities were investigating its exact dimensions. Jahromi said he could not reveal any further details beyond saying that the "attack has been identified and defused."
"I cannot give details but yes, we were targeted by a very organized and governmental cyber attack," he said. "We are looking into the attack’s different dimensions and will release a report on it. It was a massive attack."
On Tuesday, the minister dismissed reports of hacking operations targeting Iranian banks, including local media reports that accounts of millions of customers of Iranian banks were hacked.
"Banks were not hacked," he said, adding that the rumors evolved from a blackmailing case by a former contractor who had managed to "access complex information."
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 disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint US-Israeli creation, disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the country’s nuclear sites in the late 2000s.
In June, Washington officials said that US military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems as US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran’s downing of a US surveillance drone in the strategic Persian Gulf.
Jahromi himself was sanctioned by the US late last month for what officials described as "his role in the regime’s widespread internet censorship."
[AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed Sunday with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... the latest developments in the Paleostinian file on the sidelines of the second day of the World Youth Forum being held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
El-Sisi stressed Egypt's support for helping to develop "a strategic vision" that goes beyond "short and temporary solutions" to bring stability to Paleostine.
No doubt Israel would dearly love that, too, though they require that Israel continue to thrive as an independent state throughout the process and after.
The Egyptian president stressed Egypt's firm position on the "two-state solution, and the establishment of a Paleostinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital."
Oh well, It was a nice idea for the few seconds y’all had it.
El-Sisi and Abbas reviewed developments taking place internally, especially the move to hold Paleostinian general elections.
...which will definitely take place sometime between now and never, though probably closer to never...
The two leaders also discussed bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries,
...that’s “brotherly”, actually, given the current Egyptian insistence that they are not Arab, but a special kind of thing that is also not African...
and ways to develop them in various fields.
During the talks, the duo agreed to continue intensive consultations and coordination on issues of common concern, especially in regard to unifying Paleostinian stances in a way that contributes to achieving the aspirations of the Paleostinian people.
You mean their aspiration to live in Tel Aviv and Haifa while the Mediterranean runs red with Jewish blood? It will never happen. If Allah wanted such a thing, y’all would have won at least one of the wars y’all lost so mortifyingly. Clearly y’all are not actually the beloved of Allah, and those of you who died a-jihading did not find themselves in Paradise at the end of it. Sorry.
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With the release of the Inspector General report on the Trump-Russia investigation, an amazing thing happened.
Prior to the release, the self-described smartest among us assured the country for the last three years that the FBI are the best and brightest available. In fact, you were never allowed to question their ability and integrity. To do so was to question the very core of our being as a nation or something.
But when the avalanche of "mistakes" laid out in the IG report became known, things suddenly changed. Now, the clear bias and extensive misconduct was just the work of incompetence that just so happened to always only go in one direction. The FBI and those who lauded them now want you to believe they are just morons.
...The FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team turned over every rock to find out whether members of the Trump campaign were working with Russians in 2016, but failed to discover that Christopher Steele, the FBI’s primary source for claims of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, was himself working for a Russian oligarch, according to the Justice Department inspector general’s report.
...Further, the FBI knew that Carter Page wasn’t a Russian agent, yet they targeted him anyway. This wasn’t a case of morons going wild. It was a case of blatant abuse of power in order to try to provide an insurance policy in case Donald Trump got elected. They did so knowing there would be no consequences and so far they’ve been correct.
...These people aren’t stupid, they are malicious and entitled. They may want to play dumb now that it’s convenient, but the political targeting of Trump and the lengths to which they were willing to go to do so, are crystal clear. Enough with the clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
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As the saying goes, "most of the evil in the world isn'd done by bad people, it's done by stupid people." But the power of and certainly applies to the deep state.
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17 significant errors in the FISA process, 6 of them egregious
what are the odds they would all go in the direction of justifying the FISA application?
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The bureaucratic equivalent of "Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off" that pundits and commentators hide behind in the MSM?
h/t Instapundit
[TheRightGeek] Gun confiscation plans might sound great in your NoVA bourgie enclaves, but you're sharing a state with both the Appalachian and the Southern sub-cultures, neither of which is going to take kindly to any unconstitutional attempt to seize people's private property.
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Lost some western counties the last time they decided they didn't need the federal Constitution.
I will point out, it would never have gotten this far if the federal judiciary hadn't spent the last 60+ year incrementally undermining the second amendment. It's the same with the death penalty. Use Article V to alter the Constitution not the courts, but the courts love the power. You can not have one branch of government sit for life and be unaccountable to the people in a real republic.
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If Virginia has NICS then they will be able to ID all AR-15 purchases without going to personal registration. The Feds would need to get involved to prevent the State access to NICS.
h/t Instapundit
[JPost] A German state commissioner to combat antisemitism told The Jerusalem Post that his country’s UN ambassador promotes antisemitism at the United Nations when he compared the Jewish state with Hamas.
"The comparison made by [Christoph] Heusgen between Israel’s actions and the terrorism of Hamas damages solidarity with Israel and is unfortunately apt to promote Israeli-related antisemitism," Uwe Becker, the commissioner tasked to fight antisemitism in the state of Hesse, told the Post.
[AlAhram] The Libyan embassy in Cairo has suspended its work in Egypt until further notice starting Sunday 15 December over "security reasons."
The embassy announced its closure in a statement published on its official Facebook page on Saturday.
In a separate statement on Sunday, the embassy denied that members of its diplomatic mission had defected from the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).
It said a statement about the matter, which was reported by Egypt's official news agency MENA, was forged by a group that is not affiliated with the embassy in any way.
MENA had reported that the Libyan diplomatic mission in Egypt announced in a statement on Saturday that it had defected from the GNA headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, and that the mission’s members no longer recognize the GNA after it recently signed "illegitimate agreements" with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , adding that it stands by the Libyan National Army (LNA), which is led by Libyan commander 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... and the elected parliament.
Last month, head of the GNA al-Serraj signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on security and maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean.
Egypt had officially condemned the signing of the MoUs, saying they violate the Skhirat Agreement, which does not give the prime minister the authority to sign international agreements.
Egypt’s Parliamentary Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal stated yesterday during a meeting with Libyan parliament speaker Aguila Saleh that Egypt considers the Libyan parliament the "only legitimate representative of the Libyan people."
He also announced earlier this month Egypt’s solidarity with the Libyan national parliament and the LNA.
LNA commander Khalifa Haftar announced last Thursday the start of "zero hour" of the battle to take over the Libyan capital 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... from the UN-supported GNA.
Fighting intensified between Haftar’s forces and militias affiliated with the GNA during the past days following Haftar’s announcement.
The LNA claims that Haftar’s forces took over al-Tawghaar town to the south of Tripoli.
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[AlAhram] The Observatory for Monitoring Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Fatwas and Extremist Ideologies at Egypt's Dar al-Iftaa said in a statement on Sunday that the terrorist group ISIS has created a new mobile application on Google Play and the App Store called ’Because Communication Matters.’
According to the observatory, the terrorist group uses this application to promote its ideology and attract more supporters.
The observatory said that ISIS created this application after an online campaign against it succeeded in shutting down around 26,000 accounts belonging to the group on different social media platforms.
The observatory believes that this led the group to create the new app outside of the common social media platforms
The observatory explained that the new app guarantees users full confidentiality, and that it is well-shielded against any possible infiltration by security agencies.
According to the observatory, the application can host around 10,000 users, and is able to store videos and transfer encrypted information.
The observatory’s statement referred to a report by VICE News, which says that since last week the group has created around 10 channels and pages on the application, and that some of them have over 100 followers.
The observatory said that ISIS is also using the application to collect more funds in Bitcoin.
The observatory warned from the dangers of such a development in the group’s communication techniques, especially as it is currently trying to reorganize itself following the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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[AlAhram] In recent days, 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... hawks in Congress leveraged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's interest in a Senate run to win a key concession from the Trump administration that could help their bid to kill the nuclear deal with Tehran.
Late last week, the State Department agreed to release a portion of an internal legal opinion that says the U.S. has the right to demand that all U.N. sanctions on Iran be reinstated, despite President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear deal. In exchange, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, lifted his hold on the nomination for Stephen Biegun to serve as the State Department's No. 2 official, according to an administration official and a congressional aide.
Cruz's hold on Biegun not only put his nomination in jeopardy, but it also risked upending a relatively seamless transition at the State Department if Pompeo soon steps down to run for Senate in Kansas. Without Biegun in place, the top job at State would have likely gone on an interim basis to a David Hale, a career official who testified in the impeachment inquiry into Trump.
The behind-the-scenes drama raises new questions about Pompeo's future as the nation's top diplomat. A former congressman and Trump's CIA director, Pompeo has been weighing a Senate campaign in his home state for months, though officials say no final decision has been made.
The matter also highlights the extent to which some Republicans in Washington are still pushing to dismantle remaining elements of the Iran nuclear accord more than a year after the U.S. withdrew. The State Department legal opinion will be used by Cruz and others in the coming weeks to argue that Washington can still force the reimposition of U.N. sanctions set to expire next year.
Cruz placed the hold on the nomination for Biegun, currently the U.S. special representative for 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... , pending the release of the Iran opinion. Cruz is an ally of the White House and one of the most hawkish politicians in Congress on Iran.
The hold would have scrambled the pecking order at the State Department should Pompeo depart for a Senate campaign.
The current deputy secretary of state, John Sullivan, was confirmed on Thursday to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia. The third-ranking official is Hale, the most senior department official to testify in the impeachment investigation. He shed light on the decision to oust Marie Yovanovitch from her posting as the ambassador to Ukraine, as well as on the department's decision to not defend her.
After considering the possibility that Hale would become acting secretary of state with Sullivan off to Moscow and Biegun's nomination on hold, the department relented and released the Iran memo, according to the administration official and congressional aide.
Hours later, Cruz lifted his hold on Biegun.
The administration official and congressional aide were not authorized to public discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Iran opinion will be used by Cruz and other Iran deal opponents to argue that the U.S. should invoke a ``snapback'' mechanism for U.N. sanctions that is allowed under the Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as JCPOA. Snapback would mean the reimposition of all U.N. sanctions against Iran, including an arms embargo and travel bans on specific Iranian officials that are due to expire in October 2020.
Under Security Council Resolution 2231, any ``participant state'' in the agreement may invoke the snapback if Iran is found to be in ``significant non-performance'' with the agreement. Although Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear deal last year, the resolution names the participants as those countries that originally negotiated it: Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany, Russia, the United States and the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, along with Iran.
Deal supporters have argued that Trump's withdrawal means the U.S. is no longer a participant and is thus ineligible to invoke the snapback mechanism. Critics of the accord maintain the language of the Security Council resolution would allow it.
The State Department's legal opinion leans in favor of that latter argument by saying the U.S. has a legal avenue to demand the restoration of the U.N. sanctions.
``As the United States is an original JCPOA participant identified in (the UN resolution), there is a legally available argument we can assert that the United States can initiate the snapback process under UNSCR 2231 by submitting a notification to the Security Council of an issue that the United States believes constitutes significant non-performance,`` the State Department opinion says
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If Pompeo remains at State -- a thankless and exhausting job -- he will be in line to replace Trump in 2024. If he leaves his replacement is up in the air. Many would like Cruz but he can never get the vote; many would have had Bolton before he blotted his copybook; many see the former UN Ambassador as a possibility, but her independence raises a question. The governor of Florida is a possibility. One thing for certain at present, if Pompeo leaves his replacement will not come from the State Department "professionals".
[AlAhram] Moroccan anti-terror police announced Sunday the arrest of an alleged jihadist who "planned a suicide kaboom".
The 41-year-old Death Eater tried to "build expertise in the use of arms", Morocco's central office for judicial investigations said in a statement.
He was imbued in the "ideological propaganda" 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, it added.
"Electronic devices and documents... on the making of explosives" were seized, the office said.
Long spared jihadist violence, Morocco was last year hit by the gruesome murder of two Scandinavian tourists in the High Atlas mountains, committed in the name of IS.
The perpetrators were sentenced to death, a penalty not carried out in Morocco since 1993.
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[Rudaw] US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday that his country has deployed about 14,000 troops to the Middle East to confront Iran’s growing influence in the region.
"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... continue its malign influence and widespread destabilizing activities across the Middle East," Esper said during an onstage discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, citing Iranian support to its proxies in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Leb and Iraq, and shutting down of dronezaps on shipments in the Strait of Hormuz.
"To address these threats, since May this year, nearly 14,000 US military personnel have been deployed to the region to further enhance deterrence and demonstrate our commitment to our allies and partners," he added.
Believing that Iran could be behind a series of attacks on its military bases in Iraq, several US officials told CNN last week that the US is increasingly concerned about new provocations against their troops in the region.
A number of defense sources told the news agency that may deploy 4,000-7,000 additional troops to the area.
Esper’s comments follow rocket attacks on a military base near Baghdad airport, which houses US troops, on Wednesday. The tenth of its kind since late October, the attack was blamed on the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic.
Two days earlier, several members of the Iraqi counter-terrorism units, trained by the US, were maimed near the same airport in an overnight attack.
"We strongly condemn the Iranian proxy attack that maimed five Iraqi soldiers near the Baghdad Airport this week. To Iran’s leaders - the U.S. will respond decisively if Iran or its proxies harm U.S. personnel or our Iraqi partners," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Friday.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of Hashd al-Shaabi and is blacklisted by the US, was blamed by security sources for the attacks.
Iran provides military, financial and political support to a number of hard boy groups overseas including Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq, Hezbollah in Leb, 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... s in Yemen, and various Paleostinian groups.
It's wide involvement in regional affairs is deemed to be a core component of Iranian defense strategy.
A report published by the US Defense Intelligence Agency last month described Tehran as leading an "Axis of Resistance®" against the West, made up of state and non-state Shiite and Alawite actors, and labelled Iran as "implacably opposed" to the US presence in the Middle East.
Aramco oil facilities in 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... were repeatedly attacked in September, with Iranian-linked Houthi rebels claiming responsibility for the offensive. Despite popular speculation, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said Tuesday that they were unable to verify that Iran was behind the attack.
Following the US withdrawal from northern Syria in early October, which attracted widespread condemnation, 3,000 troops were sent to Saudi Arabia as a "defense tactic" against Iran.
The US announced fresh sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, targeting an Iranian shipping network and three agents of an Iranian airline company.
"The Iranian regime uses its aviation and shipping industries to supply its regional terrorist and hard boy groups with weapons, directly contributing to the devastating humanitarian crises in Syria and Yemen," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement.
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Council on Foreign Relations. Gosh, if that's not an untrustworthy nest of globalist snakes. If they say we should do it, it's a pretty good indicator that it's a mistake. These are the people who cheerleaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
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the 14k may be an average deployment or it may be a peak or it may even be a bogus number including people who were rotated out as well as those rotated in
its a govt spokeperson
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[Dhaka Tribune] A fifth grader girl, who is a rape survivor, gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday in Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH).
According to a rape case filed on August 20, the minor was allegedly raped by her uncle Jewel and two unnamed others on multiple occasions for over a year.
Confirming the incident Bakerganj cop shoppe OC Abul Kalam said, police arrested Jewel on October 30 and submitted a charge-sheet to the court.
The girl however alleged the headmaster of her school, and a neighbour is also involved with the incident, but her mother couldn't add their names in the case as they were threatened by the accused.
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I lost count. How many nooses do we eed?
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I wonder how paternity DNA testing fits into Islamic law.
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...doesn't fit in American law, see child support. That's where the state becomes an accomplice to the crime of filing false official statements (birth certificates).
[Rudaw] Kurdish Peshmerga and Asayesh (security) forces launched a widespread raid in pursuit 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) forces of Evil near the Iraq-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... border on Sunday and arrested ten suspects, according to Kurdish security force officials.
Multiple Peshmerga brigades and Garmiyan Asayesh forces were involved in the raid south of the town of Kolajo, Diyala province. Ten armed suspects who had disguised themselves as farmers were captured in the area, described as a prohibited militarized zone.
"The captured suspects were carrying arms," Peshmerga commander Sherko Hama Salih said. "Our operations will continue. ISIS [Islamic State] has switched to partisan [hit and run] tactics."
Increased ISIS activity forced the Peshmerga to change their tactics "from the defensive to offensive," Salih added.
"We will from now conduct operations in any place where there is information of ISIS conducting activities," he said. "We will uproot them."
Today's raid saw the identification of ten new locations to establish observation posts, he added.
According to Asayesh official, the aim of the operation was to clear 20 different locations in and around Kolajo of ISIS presence. Satellite images provided by the US-led counter-ISIS coalition were used to assist the operation, he added.
"We raided all the designated areas... The operation included all the dangerous places where ISIS forces of Evil were hiding," Captain Jasim Mohammed of Garmiyan’s Asayesh told Rudaw.
Over the past two months, Kolajo has witnessed several attacks by ISIS remnants and sleeper cells. The town, situated 188 kilometers southeast of Erbil between Kalar and Tuz Khurmatu, is currently under the control of the Peshmerga and Asayesh.
Today's operation comes after a spate of ISIS attacks in Diyala in recent weeks. An attack on Peshmerga forces in Kolajo on November 29 killed a commander and two other force members.
As a result of the resurgence, more Peshmerga have been deployed to the area, and the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs has already called on the international community to increase its military support.
ISIS seized vast areas of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014. At the height of its power between 2014 and 2016, ISIS controlled an area roughly the size of Great Britannia, spread across both Iraq and Syria. It was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017.
Two years later, international warnings of an ISIS resurgence continue to ring out.
The latest US Pentagon inspector general report covering July 1 to Oct 25 said ISIS has continued to cement and expand its command and control structure in Iraq, enabling the group to stage more attacks.
"ISIS in Iraq conducted both attacks of opportunity, such as improvised bombs and hit-and-run attacks, and attacks designed to intimidate or gain influence, such as liquidations, kidnappings, and sniper attacks," the report read, citing the Combined Joint Task Force‐OIR (CJTF-OIR) which leads the fight against the murderous Moslem group.
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[DAWN] THERE is no doubt that you are at your most vulnerable when ill and confined to a hospital bed as you have to rely entirely on the sense of duty or the kindness and compassion of someone for the very basic of needs.
Having experienced this myself this summer when an accident left me needing surgery and immobilised for a period of time, I was so, so grateful for my incredible wife and daughters. Equally, the commitment and compassion of the nursing staff makes me misty-eyed on reflection.
If I’d have had to brave a full-fledged riot in that helpless state, with some of the rioters liberally using sticks, stones and bricks and, as in one photographed instance, even a pistol, I doubt I would have survived.
Ergo, I can’t even begin to imagine what the patients and their family/friends went through at the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Institute of Cardiology this week when the men in black let loose their fury at the hospital in Lahore. Imagine the fear, the grave anxiety gripping the heart already weakened by disease.
A lot has been written, but surely still not enough about how barbaric and shameful the marauding lawyers were. Many demands have been made that those involved must face the harshest possible sanction under the law. But the dead can’t be resurrected.
The pain, anguish and fear of those who were forced to brave the nightmare, while grappling with cardiac disorders, may resurface with each hospital visit and, heaven forbid, should they need hospitalisation again. Post-traumatic stress is very real.
How can any ’punishment’ be enough, or even be quantified, for those responsible?
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... let’s not be naïve. The lawyers whose audacity and criminal behaviour was the subject of live telecasts on multiple channels deserved every bit of the opprobrium they got. But not too many focused on the abject, miserable failure that is the Punjab government.
The tragic episode, by my reckoning the first of its kind in Pakistain in which a hospital was attacked, was the culmination of a running feud between two groups of professionals ie the lawyers on the one side and the PIC doctors and paramedical staff on the other.
For several days, the administration remained paralysed and took no action to defuse the situation by enforcing the law. Then finally on that day of shame, the charged, vociferous lawyers walked more than five kilometres from the courts unimpeded to the PIC; the administration did nothing.
Let me tell you why this happened. Since the day of its inauguration, the government from the prime minister down to the lowliest minions of the governing PTI have had one priority: the hunting and hounding of their political opponents.
This seems to have affected the orientation of the law-enforcement agencies from the paramilitary forces to police to the country’s multi-organization, intelligence setup. So, was it a surprise that when an occasion arose warranting robust policing, those responsible were found wanting?
The multifaceted law-enforcement machinery is not inefficient. Its full, ’efficient’ wrath is unleashed to telling effect against political opponents and dissidents. Believe me, I know what I am talking about. Just go to Twitter and search for ’Okara lawyer’ for evidence.
You will see a one-minute video on the enforced disappearance of lawyer Ahmad Shafiq on Dec 10. This is the second time he has been kidnapped. He is also facing a case (placing anti-state material on social media) by the FIA under the cybercrime law, enacted so stubbornly by PML-N minister Anushey Rehman’s overruling many voices of sanity.
In the CCTV video, the impunity and efficiency of the state agencies are on full display ‐from start to finish when a white Toyota corolla car comes to a halt and a couple of masked men alight, to the time these two and some three to four of their accomplices grab and shove the brave lawyer into the car and drive away.
I say brave because a quick look at his Twitter timeline demonstrates what sort of (in the FIA’s view) ’anti-state’ content he was putting out on social media. His crime was no more than yours or mine: believing some policies of our state are not in the national interest. Expressing dissent. That’s all.
The state was clinical in the disappearance of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activist Idris Khattak, who disappeared without trace a few weeks ago and is still to be found. These were people who raised conscientious objections to the state’s unlawful actions but were citizens like you and me.
Look at what happened to Rana Sanaullah Khan, the PML-N MNA, whose National Assembly performance caused so much discomfort to the hybrid regime that he was arrested from the Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... -Lahore motorway. Some 15 kilograms of heroin were allegedly recovered from him.
It was another matter that the Lahore Safe City Cameras recorded important segments of the episode and it turns out that timeline of the case, filed and prosecuted by the military-led ANF, was all over the place, casting serious doubts about the charges.
One can go on endlessly about how efficient the state is whether in the case of locking up former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi or former finance minister Dr Miftah Ismail after the two reportedly spurned overtures by powerful quarters to assist the PTI government.
Grateful for small mercies even then are we. The four Baloch women who were arrested in Awaran for carting ’arms and ammunition’ for anti-state ’terrorists’ were released at the intervention of former Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... chief minister Akhtar Mengal, currently an MNA. His party provides vital numerical support to sustain the PTI government in Islamabad.
In the absence of the rule of law, people seek safety in numbers and resort to tribalism. What else would prompt two of my favourite public figures, lawyers Raza Rabbani and Ali Ahmad Kurd, to say there might be justification for the PIC attack? There isn’t one.
Those of us without the safety net of such tribalism can be likened to patients in a huge hospital ward, bereft of compassion and at the mercy of the next marauder.
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[DAWN] British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will “get Brexit done” by Jan 31 and then agree a new trade deal with the European Union by the end of 2020, cabinet office minister Michael Gove said on Sunday, vowing to deliver on the government’s top priority.
Johnson and his team were triumphant last week when he won a commanding majority of 80 at an early election he said he was forced to call to break the Brexit deadlock. Winning over many traditionally Labour voters in northern and central England, Johnson has proclaimed he will lead a “people’s government”.
[DAWN] The Trump administration intended to announce the drawdown of about 4,000 troops from Afghanistan early next week, US officials told NBC News on Sunday.
"The drawdown could be ... a unilateral concession to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ," other officials told CNN. "The smaller US military presence will be largely focused on counterterrorism operations against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS-K," they added.
The officials, however, acknowledged the expected withdrawal could "reduce considerably" the US military’s ability to train and advise local Afghan forces.
The United States still has between 12,000 and 13,000 troops in Afghanistan.
The officials who spoke to NBC News said this would be a phased withdrawal that would occur over a few months, but they did not say when it would begin.
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[DAWN] GUADALAJARA: The bodies of at least 50 people have been unearthed from a mass grave at a farm outside Mexico’s western city of Guadalajara, local authorities said.
The grim site was discovered just over three weeks ago in Jalisco ‐ a state hard-hit by violence linked to organised crime. The local prosecutor’s office said on Saturday 13 of the dead ‐ 12 men and a woman ‐ have been identified and the remains given to their families.
The process of identifying more of the victims and how they died would continue, it added.
A mass grave with 34 bodies was discovered in a suburb of Guadalajara on Sept 3, while another was found nearby in May with the remains of 30 people.
Nearly 2,500 murders were reported between January and November in Jalisco ‐ where the powerful Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel is based ‐ state authorities have said.
More than 3,000 unmarked graves with at least 5,000 bodies have been found in Mexico since the government deployed the military to fight the country’s powerful narco mobs in 2006.
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a state hard-hit by violence linked to organized crime
The cartel or the government? Yeah, I know, embrace the power of 'and'.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police claimed on Sunday to have arrested an armed suspect involved in torture of a citizen on a road in Cavalry Ground after a footage of the episode went viral on social media.
A video footage on social media showed an armed man brutally torturing a citizen, later identified as Shan Shehzad, whose vehicle accidentally hit the attacker’s on a road in Calvary Ground.
The suspect can be seen armed with a pistol that he took out of his car and then started beating the man with kicks and fists. The social media users continued to condemn the torture and demanded the law enforcement agencies should arrest the armed attacker.
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Zulfiqar Hameed taking notice of the incident directed his subordinates to trace and arrest the suspect.
Acting on CCPO’s orders, Cantonment Division SP Furqan Bilal constituted a police team to arrest the suspect who was later identified as Aqeel Mirza, manager of a private bank, living in State Life Society.
The police raided the suspect’s house and arrested him, recovering the vehicle and gun from the house.
Police also started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the attacker on the complaint of the victim, Shehzad.
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[DAWN] More than 100 activists protesting against a new Indian citizenship law were maimed in New Delhi on Sunday as they clashed with police who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse demonstrators at a major university.
Thousands, including students at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, protested against a new law that will give citizenship to non-Moslems fleeing religious persecution from several neighboring countries. The third day of what had been a peaceful demonstration against the law, passed by India’s Parliament last week, descended into chaos on Sunday afternoon. Three buses were set on fire, police officials said.
Chinmoy Biswal, a top police official, said that six police personnel were maimed in the melee in an upscale enclave of south Delhi.
Student organisers blamed outsiders for the violence.
"We have time and again maintained that our protests are peaceful and non-violent," they said in a statement. "We stand by this approach and condemn any party involved in the violence."
The protests have raged particularly in some eastern states such as Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, where resentment towards Bangladeshi immigrants has persisted for decades. The death toll from violent protests in northeast India rose to six on Sunday.
Authorities have shut down internet access in several parts of the affected states in an attempt to maintain law and order.
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More than 100 activists protesting against a new Indian citizenship law were maimed
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Five people have been arrested over involvement in killing an Iraqi teenager among protesters in central Baghdad, Interior Ministry said.
Interior Ministry Spokesperson Khalid Mahna said police arrested five suspects involved in the incident, describing it as a "criminal act".
Earlier this week, videos went viral on social media showing the body of a teenager being hanged on a traffic light post at Wathba Square in Baghdad, allegedly after being killed by a group of people among protesters.
Reports said that the victim, was under effect of drugs,
...we haven’t heard anything about drugs before, though we have heard that the protesters were Eve teasing the girls of the lad’s household, and the police stood by while the mob hanged him...
when he shot up protesters and killed five people. Protesters later captured and killed him among the crowd.
Gruesome images emerged on social media on Thursday of an individual named by his family as Haytham Ali Ismael being strung up from a set of traffic lights in Baghdad’s Wathba Square, where protesters have been camped out for several weeks.
It was alleged that Ismael had fired on protesters from a rooftop, killing at least five, before being grabbed by the mob.
Relatives of the slain teen insist he did not shoot at protesters.
"The thing is he went out, told them that they should leave because they have girls at home, that it is inappropriate [for them to continue camping in front of his house]," Ismael’s aunt told Rudaw.
"He told them that they are protesters, that they should be protesting in Tahrir Square, not near families," she added.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The ISIS armed faceless myrmidons once again targeted the Iraqi federal police west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing at least two coppers.
According to a statement by Iraq’s War Media Cell, the attack took place early morning on Sunday near Riyadh subdistrict of Kirkuk province.
The police convoy was delivering food supplies to outposts in the region when it came under attack.
The remaining ISIS Lions of Islam in Kirkuk enjoy so-called security vacuum since the Iraqi government took control of the disputed Kurdish province in October 2017.
Iraq declared final victory over IS back in December 2017. The group, however, remains a serious threat to country’s stability with its frequent terrorist attacks on security forces and civilians.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Diyala provincial council has prevented the Iranian Militias in Iraq and Syria (IMIS) from opening new offices in the province, a high-level security source in the province operations command said.
The source underlined that IMIS was ordered to move its offices and warehouses outside the province.
Many international and local human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations accused IMIS of committing sectarian genocide against Sunnis in Iraq, as the terror militias aim to make a demographic change in Iraq to carry out Iran' Mullah Shiite crescent plan.
IMIS is working to hasten 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... plots to carry out demographic changes in the Sunni areas, exploiting the deteriorating security situation in the Iraqi cities where battles against ISIS were being conducted.
[Rudaw] Domestic petrol consumption has fallen 20 percent in recent weeks, leaving 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... with a surplus for export, President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... told ministers on Wednesday, almost a month after security forces brutally repressed nationwide protests against petrol price hikes.
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[Rudaw] "Ready to sell my blood, which is O+," the Facebook post reads. The page’s profile picture features a human kidney.
Hamid*, who posted the message along with his phone number, is a divorced father of one, living in Baghdad. His mother has cancer and he needs money, fast. He decided to put a kidney up for sale and said he got multiple offers ranging from $10,000 to $25,000.
The man buying his kidney also lives in Baghdad, but the surgery will take place in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok.
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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 or detained 12 Talibs during the operations in Kabul and three provinces.
The military officials said Sunday the Special Forces killed 6 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province.
The officials further added that the Special Forces arrested 3 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a separate raid in Mahmood Raqi of Kapisa province.
The Special Forces arrested 2 Talibs during a raid in Kabul city, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces destroyed a cache of weapons during a raid in Shindand district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... The officials also added that the Special Forces arrested a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bully boy during a separate raid in Ghorian district of Herat province.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iraqi protesters have rejected Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s nomination to become the country’s new prime minister.
Al-Sudani is a frontrunner to head Iraq’s interim government amid ongoing protests which forced the resignation of former Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi in November.
At least 400 people have been killed at the hands of security forces and person or persons unknown firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the demonstrations since they erupted in October.
At Tahrir Square, the focal point for the spontaneous, leaderless protests over long-standing grievances including government corruption, unemployment and a lack of basic services, demonstrators voiced their opposition against al-Sudani’s nomination.
One protester said al-Sudani, who resigned from the powerful Shiite Dawa and became an independent candidate, was still a "biased party member" and would prefer someone who comes from "inside the revolution," referring to the protests.
[KhaamaPress] The administration of President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... intends to announce the withdrawal of more than 4,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, it has been reported.
The former and current U.S. officials privy of the development have told NBC News that the Trump administration intends to announce the draw down as early as next week.
The officials further added that the withdrawal would leave between 8 to 9 thousand troops in Afghanistan.
According to reports, the United States has between 12,000 to 13,000 troops in Afghanistan.
This comes as the U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Khalilzad on Thursday announced a brief pause in talks with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... politicians, days after resuming peace talks with the group which stalled in September.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?... a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has said "U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has not received orders to reduce troop levels in Afghanistan. We remain fully committed to the Resolute Support mission and our Afghan partners, and focused on our key objective: ensuring Afghanistan is never again used as a safe haven for bully boyz who threaten the United States, our allies or our interests."
Ambassador Khalilzad announced the ’brief pause’ following a coordinated attack near Bagram airfield on Wednesday which killed 2 civilians and maimed at least 70 others.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Baghdad International Airport administration announced on Sunday, that air navigation has stopped today.
"Due to the bad weather and lack of visibility due to thick fog, air traffic stopped for Sunday from the early morning hours, when the visibility range reaches zero, and the airspace will be opened as soon as the ranges of visibility are consistent with what was approved by international organizations is reached ," the airport administration said in a statement received by Shafaq News.
The statement called on "travelers to understand the matter in order to preserve their lives and properties, and will be announced later as soon as the airspace opens and air traffic returns to normal."
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Rudy Giuliani traveled to Hungary and Ukraine a couple weeks ago and met with officials in Kiev in his ongoing efforts to expose corruption and pay-to-play schemes involving the Biden crime family and other Democrats.
Mr. Giuliani revealed last Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s radio show "The War Room: Impeachment" that he was working to release a report on his findings from his latest trip to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to Attorney General Bill Barr and GOP politicians in Congress.
A few hours after his initial tweet on Sunday, Rudy began dropping bombshells one tweet at at time.
Rudy said Victor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor general investigating Burisma was not only fired after Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine, but that he was poisoned and barely survived the poisoning.
"Shokin holds documents proving money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s," Giuliani said. "He was fired due to VP Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... ’s threat not to release $1 billion in vital US aid."
Giuliani then said, "Shokin’s medical records show he was poisoned, died twice, and was revived."
"Lots of heads will roll in Ukraine if this opens up," he added.
"All of a sudden Shokin gets this communique from Latvia that shows a $16 million laundering transaction ‐ classic laundering transaction," Giuliani said. "It goes from Ukraine, to Latvia, it’s disguised as a loan to another company to ’Wirelogic’ I believe ‐ it then goes to Cyprus, gets disguised as another loan ‐ this is called "Digitech" then it’s dispersed as payment as board fees," he added.
Giuliani added, "Now you don’t make two loans to make board fees unless you’re laundering the money. $3 million gets to Hunter Biden in that way."
"That is a straight out violation of a money laundering statute," he said.
The United States quietly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday.
The newspaper, which cited multiple people with knowledge of the episode, said it appeared to be the first time in more than 30 years that the US has expelled Chinese diplomats on suspicion of espionage.
At least one of the diplomats was believed to be an intelligence officer operating under cover, the Times said.
The Times said the diplomats, accompanied by their wives, drove up to the checkpoint at the entrance to a sensitive installation near Norfolk, Virginia that includes special operations forces.
The guard saw that they didn’t have permission to enter and directed them to go through the gates, turn around and exit.
The Chinese officials continued onto the base, evading military personnel pursuing them until they were forced to stop by fire trucks blocking their path, according to the Times.
The Chinese officials said they had not understood the instructions they were given, but US personnel were unconvinced by their explanation.
The motive for the incursion was not clear, but US officials said they believe the Chinese diplomats were hoping to test the security measures at the base.
Weeks after the incident at the Virginia base, the State Department placed restrictions on the activities of Chinese diplomats, in what it said was a response to years-old Chinese regulations limiting the movements of US diplomats. China instituted similar restrictions on US diplomats in December.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A well-known journalist was assassinated by unknown gunnies in capital Baghdad on Sunday.
Haqi Ismail Azawi, who was also known as a civil activist, was reportedly killed in the area of Shaabi in north of Baghdad, Iraqi media reports said.
A medical source said in a statement that his body was received by the forensic department for investigations.
Awazi was an active and well-known journalist covering news about the ongoing anti-government protests in Iraq.
Iraq has been rocked by mass demonstrations since early October. Several activists and journalists have been assassinated since the beginning of the protests.
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[ToloNews] Under the US law, Nuristani faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
A former Afghan politician, Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, pled guilty in a US federal court on December 11 to "theft of public money," admitting that he received over $100,000 in government benefits by concealing foreign travel and residency between July 2015 and December 2018, according to a statement by the US Department of Justice.
According to the statement, Nuristani admitted that he applied for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the Social Security Administration in July 2015.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a United States program that provides cash assistance to individuals residing in the United States who are either aged 65 or older, blind, or disabled.
Nuristani admitted to concealing and repeatedly lying to the Social Security Administration about his foreign travel and residency, and to receiving $27,492.44 in SSI payments and to "causing a loss of $73,090.34 to the State of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, for health care payments and services as a result of his fraud," the statement added.
Nuristani served as both the head of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission and as an Afghan senator even as he received SSI at his claimed address in El Cajon, California, the US statement said. He has also served as the governor of the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and he was appointed as a member of the Meshrano Jirga, Afghanistan’s senate, in September 2018.
As a part of his plea agreement, Nuristani has agreed to make full restitution to the Social Security Administration and the California Department of Health Care Services, the statement said. He also faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 at his sentencing on March 9, 2020.
According to the statement, Nuristani, 71," is a former Fulbright Scholar and has been a prominent politician in Afghanistan for many decades."
Nuristani was head of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission from August 2013 to March 2016 and was heading the election commission during the controversial 2014 presidential polls which ended up with the shared National Unity Government.
"Those who abuse the trust of the taxpayer will be brought to justice," said United States Attorney Robert S. Brewer, Jr.
[ToloNews] Afghan helicopters firing on Qaisari compound.
A clash that started late Saturday night in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, is still ongoing. Security forces have surrounded the house of Nizamuddin Qaisari, the former police chief of Faryab’s Qaisar district, police officials confirmed.
Afghan helicopters targeted the house of Nizamuddin Qaisari, and "special forces have arrived at the scene," said police officials.
The festivities between security forces and Qaisari fighters started at 11:30 pm local time in PD5 of Mazar-s-Sharif after the security forces launched an operation to arrest Qaisari, said Gen. Mohammad Ajmal Fayez, provincial police chief.
The illegally-gunnies affiliated with Qaisari recently "destabilized the security situation in the city" and an "arrest warrant has been issued," officials said, adding that "Qaisari is fighting against police forces with his 150 gunnies."
"The arrested warrant has been issued after the residents complained against Qaisari," officials said.
Nearby houses have been damaged in the shootings, said Najibullah, a resident: "Our house was damaged in the shooting and is very close to the house where Qaisari is living."
Qaisari was formerly held by the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), but was recently freed.
Qaisari was arrested by the Afghan commandos in July after being accused of "insulting" the government, employing illegal gunnies and violating human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... Qaisari’s job had been suspended and travel ban had been put on him, according to source.
Before his release, Qaisari appeared at a ceremony at first Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... ’s residence in Kabul where he met a number of his supporters.
The Afghan security forces have been unable to detain Nizamuddin Qaisari and his 150 armed men after 18-hour battle in Mazar-e-Sharif of Balkh province.
Nizamiuddin Qaisari was a warrior commander of General Dostum, but lately their relationships have been strained.
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The biggest voter fraud was in Californicate where some district’s had votes counted in excess of 154% of the registered voters in that district
In fact almost 2million of Shillary’s 2.5 million majority came from that failed state
I went to vote in the 2016 election and when I signed in I was told I had already voted
I bet they tossed my provisional ballot when they saw I voted for Trump
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Another well for Dim rigging closed. Election results may begin to look realistic. Maybe, we will even get rid of those sitting in Congress who look like they were 'placed' instead of elected.
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The left will claim voter suppression and have a number of folks ready who were turned away from voting because of this. GOP has to see that play coming, I hope they are prepared for it.
Make it as easy as possible to register up until election day. Demand two forms of ID for any late registering voters (assuming no voter ID laws). Something like that.
This is a really strange story with so many angles and issues. You have Uncle Sam the Indian Giver. You have a founding force of the Democrats Andrew Jackson. A bill signed by a president and congress. A bill that should have really been an Amendment to the Constitution so therefore signed by 2/3rds of the states. Since it wasn't, maybe it should be unconstitutional. If it is unconstitutional then is the treaty with the Cherokee Nation invalid? Is it a still-pending amendment to the constitution waiting for 2/3rds of the states to vote on it? Is there an expiration time on amendments? Oh, and the lady who would win the seat is an activist who was in political alignment with Obama. Lots of interesting questions.
[RollCall] Move poses technical and moral questions, including whether Cherokees would get ‘super vote’
Kim Teehee was an intern combing through dusty archives when she first learned of a largely forgotten agreement between her Cherokee tribe and the federal government.
More than 25 years later, that document has placed Teehee at the center of a historic reckoning of the way Congress treats Native Americans, while raising questions about what representation in Washington really means.
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Another little problem for the Cherokees were that they were slavers and sided with the South during the Civil War, and yes they did have sex with their slaves. Watch the Black Caucus spin in circles it that comes up.
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Plenary power doctrine: Congress, and not the Executive Branch or Judicial Branch, has ultimate authority with regard to matters affecting the Indian tribes. Federal courts give greater deference to Congress on Indian matters than on other subjects.
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What would happen if all the 'reservations' were cut free and allowed/forced to become one or more independent nations. Or a geographically disconnected 51st state? Would they sink or swim?
Those who were able to hire good management companies for their c@$inos might do alright.
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..yep. Have two big ones in the immediate area. Watched the before and after. Far better off than when they were at the tit of the Bureau of Indians Affairs. Have a policy that basically says 'he who will not work will not eat'. The communities did it right. Biggest discovery was the power of lobbyists and their benefits.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed at least 18 Talibs in Ghor, Uruzan and Kandahar provinces, the informed military officials said Sunday.
The officials further added that the security forces conducted the airstrikes in the past 24 hours in the three provinces.
Elaborating further, the officials said an airstrike killed 12 faceless myrmidons in Dowlatyar district of Ghor province in the central parts of the country.
Another airstrike in Shaid-e Hasad district of Uruzgan killed 3 Talibs, the officials said, adding that a similar airstrike killed 3 more Talibs in Khakrez district of Kandahar.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[LA Times] Scuffles broke out Saturday during a Glendale town hall event on Armenian genocide that was attended by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is at the center of the effort to impeach President Trump.
The event at the Glendale Central Library was meant for an Armenian organization to thank U.S. government officials for their support of resolutions recognizing the Armenian genocide. Schiff is a co-sponsor of a resolution.
As Schiff began speaking, a man and two women held up signs reading,"Don’t Impeach." When they were asked to take down the signs, they refused.
Then, about a dozen people scattered throughout the auditorium began yelling, "Liar!"
When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room. The audience members who were yelling at Schiff removed their jackets, revealing shirts supporting Trump.
After about 15 minutes, the scuffles settled down, and the event continued.
There were three Glendale police officers at the event who helped deal with the situation, according to the Police Department. No injuries were reported, police said.
The event was organized by the Armenian National Committee of America ‐ Western Region to thank the U.S. House of Representatives for recently passing a resolution affirming its recognition of the Armenian genocide and celebrating the U.S. Senate’s passage of the resolution.
The measure’s passage is considered a rebuke to Trump, who had sought its delay, and to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had lobbied the White House to block the designation. The Turkish government disputes that a genocide took place.
Erdogan, in an Oval Office visit last month, warned of dire consequences for the Washington-Ankara relationship if the "genocide" term were to be formalized. The Senate resolution declared it U.S. policy "to commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance" and "reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide."
Southern California is home to an estimated 200,000 Armenian Americans, the largest community in the U.S.
Schiff said he appreciated the opportunity to take part in the event.
Those we are helping now can give us the greatest help in saving Europe. We are giving persecuted Christians what they need: homes, hospitals, and schools, and we receive in return what Europe needs most: a Christian faith, love and perseverance". — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Daily News Hungary, November 28, 2019.
"Our estimation is that more than 90 percent of Christian have already left Iraq and almost 50 percent of Christians in Syria have left the country". — Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church.
European leaders, rather than being embarrassed, should make the condition of Christians under Islam the starting point of their conversations with Muslims.
"The fate of Eastern Christians and other minorities is the prelude to our own fate." — Former French Prime Minister François Fillon, Valeurs Actuelles, December 12, 2019.
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European leaders, rather than being embarrassed, should make the condition of Christians under Islam the starting point of their conversations with Muslims.
Given they don't give a rat's ass about Christians in their own country, why would they be concerned about those in others. When the Left made themselves their own god, the Christians became their enemies.
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Funny that the safest place for Kews in Europe us Viktur Orban's Hungary.
Actually not funny at all. Makes perfect sense that the western society which values our Western heritage more than any other should preserve and protect Judaism.
[AlAhram] Delegates from rich nations, emerging giants and the world's poorest countries all objected to a draft final text unveiled by host Chile in a botched attempt to find common ground.
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When voting yourself other people's money stops working...
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UN Climate Talks = Left-wing money and power grab.
I'd write that as UN Climate Talks = Virtue Signalling + (Left-wing money and power grab)
Most everyone except TrumpHitler and the Evil USA are fine with the virtue signalling part. Where the wheels come off is the monetary payments that the US, Brazil, India and China object to.
Would it be mean to again point out that the US is the only country to reduce CO2 emissions despite not being a party to their stupid treaty? Frack on!
[JihadWatch] There may be a glimmer of hope for Sweden after all…
The Swedish School Inspectorate has revoked a Gothenburg Islamic school’s licence due to concerns that pupils may be exposed to radical Islamic ideology.
The Swedish government has been infamously succumbing to dhimmitude. Only days ago, when a Muslim posted a video threat, saying “We Arabs are here to take over your f*****g country so go down on your f*****g knees and…,” a 53-year-old Swede who insulted him on Facebook was slapped with a hate crime charge.
Three out of four Swedes support banning independent religious schools, even though the problem is coming from Islamic schools, not Hindu, Christian, Jewish or other religious schools. In mid-May, the Swedish security service arrested five “radical Islamists in a short period of time, with one of those arrested being one of the main leaders of an Islamic school in western Sweden.”
It’s not only in Islamic schools that the “radical” Islamic ideology is being taught, but in mosques, too. There has been a push by some politicians over the past few years to force mosques in Europe to deliver sermons in the local language instead of in Arabic. This should be a practice throughout the West. But that, too, is not enough.
“Sweden Shuts Down Islamic School Due to Radicalisation Concerns,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, December 10, 2019:
The Swedish School Inspectorate has revoked a Gothenburg Islamic school’s licence due to concerns that pupils may be exposed to radical Islamic ideology.
Authorities closed the Safirskolan school after its former owner, Abdel-Nasser el Nadi, had been detained by the Swedish security police (Säpo). Säpo recommended he, and several other Islamic radicals, be deported from the country on national security grounds, Nyheter Idag reports.
While a new individual did take the helm of the school, which was formerly called Vetenskapsskolan (the Science School), the inspectorate determined that the new head was still close enough to el Nadi that the school risked “being subjected to radicalisation and recruitment to environments that accept violence or serious crime as a method of political change”…..
[The National Interest] B&T's Veterinärpistole 9 (VP9) is one of the most niche products made by Swiss firearms manufacturer B&T AG. A bolt action pistol with a magazine grip designed to quietly kill wounded animals, it outwardly resembles the suppressed Welrod pistol used by the Allied Special Operations Executive (SOE) to assassinate targets during World War II. This, along with the stylish leather case the gun comes in, has led some to suggest that the VP9 is a modern stealth assassination pistol. But a closer look at the design and contemporary technology suggests that B&T was being honest with the name of the pistol. British Welrod pistol in the graphic. Welrod wiki link here.
In mechanical design, it’s amazing how much the modern VP9 resembles its predecessor, the Welrod. It wouldn’t be surprising if the VP9 project started as a way to see if the company could modernize the Welrod. The design of the trigger bar and grip safety are practically the same as the original Welrod, albeit made with better materials and manufacturing. The design of the bolt is also similar, with two locking lugs operated by a rotating knob on the rear of the pistol.
The suppressor itself is where the differences begin to be seen. B&T’s VP9 has a detachable suppressor that screws onto a very short barrel. The detachable suppressor makes it easier to interchange the wipes and perform maintenance on the suppressor. The detachable suppressor also means that the sights are moved onto the front of the upper "receiver," rather than being on the tip of the suppressor as they are on the Welrod.
So why is the VP9 a true "veterinary" pistol? Part of it is the target market. Police in Germany are often called out to perform mercy kills on wounded animals, an action called a "Gnadenschuss" (directly translated, a mercy shot). These are usually carried out with hunting rifles or Bundeswehr surplus G3s. However, these usually end up bothering citizens due to the loud noise of a rifle shot.
[Telegraph.UK. $$ to read further] Nearly 90 peers from the main political parties are calling for Baroness Tonge to apologise for claiming that the Tories won the general election due to Israeli attacks on Jeremy Corbyn.
The letter, from an "unprecedented" number of former cabinet ministers, senior lawyers and leaders of industry and commerce, calls on Lady Tonge to apologise for bringing the House of Lords into disrepute over the remarks.
Lady Tonge, a former Liberal Democrat MP, wrote on social media after the result last week: "The Chief Rabbi must be dancing in the street. The pro-Israel lobby won our General Election by lying about Jeremy Corbyn."
Oh my dear, whatever gave you the idea that this was primarily about Israel for even all of Britain’s Jews? BoJo was pro-Brexit, and so, for different reasons, was the corrupt and vicious Corbyn, which left nobody for the Remainers to vote for. And there were so very many reasons to vote against Mr. Corbyn or stay home, so Bob’s your uncle.
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Wiki: Critical of Israel and vocal in support of the Palestinian cause, controversial acts and comments led to accusations of antisemitism and to her eventual suspension from the Liberal Democrats group in the Lords in 2012, then her suspension and resignation from the party itself in October 2016. She has sat as an independent in the Lords since 2012.
My only regret is that they were really big and tasted like chicken. Hey, you don't suppose the Juice had anything to do with that asteroid impact, do you?
[MEMRI.ORG] His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... : "The hostility toward Islam and Moslems that is becoming more common in Western countries as time goes on is another important question. One section of the problems is in the form of direct attacks on property and lives. One section appears in insidious policies of assimilation. Whereas another section appears as a blind hostility. Whatever form it takes, in the end those who are victims, who are oppressed, are always Moslems. Are they attacking our mosques? They are. Are Moslems being killed where they are seen? They are. For how long will we remain silent in the face of this?"If we do not raise our voices, if we do not intervene with our hands, [we will intervene] with our words. If we do not intervene with our words, then do we have no obligation, no responsibility to hate from our hearts? For as long as we do not do this, we will take many more beatings. These terror organizations, all of which are the product of a scheme and which exploit our religion's name, are used as an excuse by these tyrants. At the recent NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... Summit, the president of La Belle France, still, stands up and talks about 'Islamic terror.' How many times have I told him: Islam, beginning from the word's meaning, derived from slm, means peace. How can you, with the phrase 'Islamic terror,' bring peace and terror together?
"However much we take ownership of children, women, the elderly, and the disabled, against threats whose source is the West, our family structure will be protected to that degree.
"We should be vigilant against the erosion that is a result of the content whose source is the West on means of communication such as social media and television. While our borders are protected, we must rapidly fill every gap, every crack that will allow our minds to be taken prisoner.
"What is happening in Syria is clear. What is happening in Somalia is clear. What is happening in Sudan is clear. What is happening in Iraq is clear. What is happening 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... is clear. It is the same in Paleostine. My dear brothers, take note: All of these things are happening in Islamic countries. The imperialist understanding of 'divide, break apart, and swallow the Islamic countries' is continuing on its path.
"370,000 people, by their own wish, have returned [to Syria] and settled in the regions of Syria that we have made safe. We have begun our work in constructing the settlement areas between Ras al-Ayn and Tel Abyad in which, in the first phase, we will be able to house hundreds of thousands of people and along with the other places along the border, we will be able to house one million people."
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Know Muslims, no peace, No Muslims, know peace.
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Gosh, it's almost as if Erdy thinks there is some sort of clash of civilizations going on. We have been assured by top men that this is not the case.
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"Truus recalled: 'He [the Nazi] grabbed the baby and hit it against the wall,' according to a new book seen by the New York Post. 'The father and sister had to watch. They were obviously hysterical. The child was dead.'
That would be enough to turn any peace-loving normal person into a killer.
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...well, not at Planned Parenthood. They're already the killers. (Also, why so much energy and resources are put into suppressing what PP actually does)
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Something that occurred to me yesterday during our "up against the wall" discussion was that little Greta is probably *not* writing her own speeches.
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The reporter has such a sweet (/sarc) eurine accented English until he gets to Grrrrrrretttttah with his lavishly rolling rrrrrrs. As phony as American reporters or politicians putting their southern or hispanic accents on like flipping a switch.
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] Attackers in northern Leb set fire to the offices of two major political parties on Sunday, the state-run National News Agency said.
The assaults came just hours after the capital Beirut was rocked by the most violent government crackdown on protesters since nationwide demonstrations began two months ago. Lebanese security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and used water cannons throughout the night to disperse anti-government protesters from the city center ‐ the epicenter of the protest movement in Beirut ‐ and around parliament.
The overnight confrontations in Beirut left more than 130 people injured, according to the Red Thingy and the Lebanese Civil Defense.
In the northern Akkar district on Sunday, attackers broke the windows and torched the local office for resigned Prime Minister Saad Hariri ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... ’s political party in the town of Kharibet al-Jindi.
In a separate attack in Akkar district, assailants stormed the local office of the largest party in parliament, affiliated with President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and headed by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. Their party said the contents of the office in Jedidat al-Juma town had also been smashed and burned.
Leb is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades, and the protesters accuse the ruling political class in place for three decades of mismanagement and corruption.
The violence comes a day before the president is due to hold talks with different parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister on Monday.
Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan on Sunday ordered an investigation into the festivities which she said injured both protesters and security forces. She said she watched the confrontations "with concern, sadness and shock."
Al-Hassan blamed "infiltrators" for instigating the friction and called on the demonstrators to be wary of those who want to exploit their protests for political reasons. She didn’t elaborate.
Nationwide protests began on Oct. 17, and the government headed by Hariri resigned two weeks later.
Political parties have since been bickering over the shape and form of the new Cabinet. Protesters want a technocratic government, not affiliated with established political parties.
After weeks of back and forth, Hariri has emerged as the likely candidate for the job.
[BREITBART] Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz pointed out on Friday that the Supreme Court had undercut the Democrats’ second article of impeachment by agreeing to hear three White House appeals against subpoenas.
The second article of impeachment passed by the House Judiciary Committee earlier Friday on a party-line vote accuses President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... of "obstruction of Congress" because he appealed to the courts rather than immediately obeying congressional subpoenas.
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley had warned Democrats not to impeach the president for obeying the Constitution: "If you impeach a president, if you make a ’high crime and misdemeanor’ out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power. You’re doing precisely what you’re criticizing the president for doing. We have a third branch that deals with conflicts of the other two branches."
But the House Judiciary Committee ignored Turley’s warning, passing two articles of impeachment. The first accused Trump of "abuse of power" ‐ a new standard never before used against a president ‐ and "obstruction of Congress."
Appearing on Hannity on Fox News that evening, Dershowitz pointed out that the Supreme Court’s decision later the same day completely undermined the second article of impeachment.
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If I understand this right:
Democrats sent out subpoenas to government officials who ignored them. Then Democrats said, we're not going to the courts to force the witnesses to comply, we just name it "Obstruction of Congress" if they don't.
Dershowitz says it can't be obstruction as long as you haven't exhausted your legal possibilities. And the Supreme Court, by taking Trump's case, is signaling that you have these legal possibilities.
It makes sense. Whatever the government or Congress asks or forces you to do, you must have the possibility to legally challenge this.
Any subpoena can be challenged in court before you have to produce anything.
The problem I have with Dershowitz is this: You can't just ignore a subpoena, you must challenge it. If you don't, you could be held in contempt of court.
It will be interesting to see whether this also applies to subpoenas issued by Congress. If not, any investigation will just be a hell of a lot more difficult, because it could take years before a witness can be forced to appear before Congress and testify.
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...see AG Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, non-compliance with Congressional investigation. Anybody go to jail? /rhet question
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The penalty for ignoring a Congressional subpoena is a misdemeanor which would require a separate intervention by DOJ or a federal DA-- which almost never happens in reality.
People ignore Congressional subpoenas all the time. This is because it's just a dead-letter, minor feature of the power-sharing relationship between Congress and the other government branches.
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Will these Congressional scofflaws be punished for their transgressions? Although, I think they should be slapped hard, it probably won't happen judging from the past.
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we just name it "Obstruction of Congress" if they don't.
Euro conserve: The Dems say 'obstruction of Congress'; however, it is just one chamber of the two Houses of Congress who make this claim--the radical left-wing branch.
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How it is supposed to go, since no one branch of our government has power over the other, is congress sends out subpoenas. If the Executive branch ignores or disputes them, Congress is supposed to go to the judicial branch where the matter can be decided.
The demoncrats NEVER went to the courts and filed impeachment over "obstruction". Dershowitz is right. They didn't follow the process and now are doing the very thing the other article states Trump did. Abuse of power.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base, which hosts U.S. nuclear warheads, in response to threats of U.S. sanctions and a separate U.S. Senate resolution that recognized mass killings of Armenians a century ago as genocide, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
'If it is necessary for us to take such a step, of course we have the authority ... If this is necessary, together with our delegations, we will close down Incirlik if necessary,' Erdogan said on A Haber TV.
Turkey can also close down the Kurecik radar base if necessary, he added.
The two bases sit on Turkey’s southwest coast, near the border with Syria.
Erdogan has regularly raised the possibility of closing the bases in the past, during tensions between the two countries.
The US air force uses the airbase at Incirlik for raids on positions held by the so-called Islamic State group in Syria. The Kurecik base houses a major NATO radar station.
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The Daily Mail claims that Incirlik air base, "hosts U.S. nuclear warheads", but neither it nor any American source can prove that fact. Insiders claim the base has not housed nuclear weapons for more than a decade.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TheFederalist] During a question and answer session on NBC's "Today" show, former vice president and rumored presidential 2020 contender Joe Biden said the hero who stopped the Texas church shooter earlier this month should not have been allowed to carry an AR-15.
[MAIL] Five staffers serving under freshman Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew resigned on Sunday after news of the lawmakers decision to join the Republican Party following a meeting with President Donald Trump. 
[ABC] WAYCROSS, Ga. ‐ A Santa Claus who sparked controversy after posting a photo of himself wearing a hat supporting President Trump at a Georgia mall shared his side of the story Tuesday via Facebook.
[Aljazeera] Turkey could shut down its Incirlik air base that hosts US nuclear warheads in response to threats of US sanctions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned. 
[Townhall] We know that former Vice President Joe Biden was handling international relations on behalf of the Obama administration in Ukraine. At the same time, his son, Hunter, was being paid more than $50,000 a month by Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company. And the kicker is he had no natural energy experience. But he did have access to the veep.
...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...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 
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...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 
...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 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[Dhaka Tribune] A fifth grader girl, who is a rape survivor, gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday in Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH).
[DAWN] THERE is no doubt that you are at your most vulnerable when ill and confined to a hospital bed as you have to rely entirely on the sense of duty or the kindness and compassion of someone for the very basic of needs.
A lot has been written, but surely still not enough about how barbaric and shameful the marauding lawyers were. Many demands have been made that those involved must face the harshest possible sanction under the law. But the dead can’t be resurrected.
For several days, the administration remained paralysed and took no action to defuse the situation by enforcing the law. Then finally on that day of shame, the charged, vociferous lawyers walked more than five kilometres from the courts unimpeded to the PIC; the administration did nothing.
The state was clinical in the disappearance of 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
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[JihadWatch] There may be a glimmer of hope for Sweden after all…
[The National Interest] B&T's Veterinärpistole 9 (VP9) is one of the most niche products made by Swiss firearms manufacturer B&T AG. A bolt action pistol with a magazine grip designed to quietly kill wounded animals, it outwardly resembles the suppressed Welrod pistol used by the Allied Special Operations Executive (SOE) to assassinate targets during World War II. This, along with the stylish leather case the gun comes in, has led some to suggest that the VP9 is a modern stealth assassination pistol. But a closer look at the design and contemporary technology suggests that B&T was being honest with the name of the pistol.
Nearly 90 peers from the main political parties are calling for Baroness Tonge to apologise for claiming that the Tories won the general election due to Israeli attacks on Jeremy Corbyn. 
...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 
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
