[Ynet] An exit poll showed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party will win a majority of 86 seats and Labour will win 191 seats in a British general election dominated by Brexit and - for the Jewish community at least - allegations of anti-Semitism.
The result gives Johnson the numbers in parliament he needs to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31, the exit poll indicated.
The exit poll showed the Conservatives would win 368 seats, enough for a comfortable outright majority in the 650-seat parliament. The Scottish National Party was predicted to win 55 seats and the Liberal Democrats 13.
Official results were to be declared over the seven hours after polls closed at 10 pm.
In the last five national elections, only one exit poll has got the outcome wrong - in 2015 when the poll predicted a hung parliament when in fact the Conservatives won a majority, taking 14 more seats than forecast.
If Johnson's bet on a snap election has paid off, he will move swiftly to ratify the Brexit deal he struck with the European Union so that the United Kingdom can leave on Jan. 31 - 10 months later than initially planned. Over all things certain, this is sure indeed,
Suffer not the old King: for we know the breed.
Give no ear to bondsmen bidding us endure.
Whining "He is weak and far"; crying "Time shall cure.",
(Time himself is witness, till the battle joins,
Deeper strikes the rottenness in the people's loins.)
Give no heed to bondsmen masking war with peace.
Suffer not the old King here or overseas.
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"Alas, I am not meant to marry
But to go it alone," mourned old Barry;
"A brogue for a brogan,
All thanks to Bo Grogan,
That tow-headed son of a Tory!"
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IF BJ hangs in there, Britain may yet prosper. Scotland seems to want to leave, why not let them, and they can shift for themselves. Same for any other parasites.
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GROGAN: In heaven's name, what does all the row mean?
BARRY's COUSIN: The fact is, sir, the young monkey's in love with Nora. He found her and the Captain in the garden today. Now he's for murdering Jack Quinn!
QUINN (indignant): Mr. Brady, I've been insulted grossly in this house. I'm not satisfied with these ways of going on. I'm an Englishman! And a man of property! And this impudent young swine should be horsewhipped!
BARRY (to Quinn): Mr. Quinn can have satisfaction any time he pleases..by calling on Redmond Barry, Esquire of Barryville.
GROGAN (to Quinn): I'll see the boy home.
GROGAN (to Barry): A pretty day's work, Master Redmond. Knowing your uncle is distressed for money--trying to break off a match which will bring £500 a year into the family....Quinn has promised to pay off the £500 which is bothering your uncle. He takes a girl without a penny...a girl that's flinging herself at the head of every man in these parts. And missing them all! And you, who ought to be attached to your uncle as to your father....
BARRY: I am.
GROGAN: And this is the return you make for his kindness? Didn't he harbour you when your father died? Hasn't he given you and your mother a fine house, rent free?
BARRY: Mark this, and come what will of it: I will fight the man who pretends the hand of Nora Brady. I'll follow him if it's into the church and fight him there. I'll have his blood, or he'll have mine.
GROGAN: Faith, and I believe ye! I never saw a lad more game in me life. Give me a kiss, me boy. You're after me own soul. As long as I live, you shall never want a friend or a second!
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You know the 'conventions' treat the holders of human shields to be in violation not those who have to go through them. Not that you would know that from the anti-Western, anti-American traitors in our midst.
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"There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now in control of the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousands channels, or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear."
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If your arguments don't convince, then create crap art in public spaces.
8-story murals with Greta as the Madonna, or a baby dressed as a cop and brandishing a loaded handgun, on the sides of buildings in downtown San Francisco.
Stupid and ugly sculptures of a homeboy on a horse.
Obscene tributes to trannies, pr0n, crucifix-in-urine.
= The Shitshow's Retarded Younger Brother's Attempt at Self-Expression
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No matter what you guys say, battling artwork is by definition civilized. And I vastly prefer it to fighting it out in streets a la Munich circa 1920. Which is the direction we've all been heading in lately.
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Meanwhile, on a separate issue politically correct game developers fearful of alienating muslims ruined the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise. Not that I can play it for the life of me, but I loved watching the thing.
The monument equivalent of putting an action figure on top of a My Little Pony...OK.
Haven't seen baby cop but the Greta, oh the Greta, they avoided the chin up looking away classic communist pose, but managed to make her cross-eyed, a very powerful symbolism I doubt the painter was going for..
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Reference Time Greta, chin up, looking away, leg forward in movement, background in turmoil yet not a flay of hair. Classic communism pose.
But Kansas, don't those posters usually have something about the subject which is hyper-physical, something beyond the real world, like shoulders twice as wide and hands three times normal size?
Look closer at that photo. What do you suppose the chances are of nailing that shot first try and in between waves? She stands there for anything longer than that first wave and she is wet, yet no wet marks, no beads of water, nothing. Then, with a breaker like that, the wave would be getting some assist from the wind. I see no wind flutter in the clothes or the hair.
Not nearly as decisive is the camera angle. Squeaky is not very tall, and here we have a focus at mid height, a hip shot. I'd have to be sitting down to get that shot - sitting on the cold wet rocks trying to get a good look. To be fair, digital cameras have remote viewing so maybe on the camera is that height. Maybe its all hi-def video and they picked an image. But it all makes the feet look awkward to me, that forward foot especially awkward for the task.
I ask which is more likely, a very impressive rushed first shot on a windy rocky noisy shore and getting the lighting perfect, or in a green room with her foot on a baseball and taking direction to get just the right amount of Mussolini chin?
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or in a green room with her foot on a baseball and taking direction to get just the right amount of Mussolini chin?
Trim around her image in a photoshop app, place it on a stock or personal background of choice, fiddle with sizes until you have your effect, paint shadows and highlights to match the background. No need for an actual green room anymore.
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Given the fluid and stupid nature of our modern world, it is an easy mistake to make, Nero.
/pedantic graphics nerd mode on
With a green screen (or any solid color background), modern graphics software makes it simple to cut out an image without all that laborious clicking and masking by hand. Quite nice for detailed work like hair and such. Once the background is gone, compositing that image into another scene is easy, although the devil is in the details when it comes to matching lights, colors and shadow.
No need for an entire green room, even for video. Portable green screens come in many sizes. You just need one large enough to frame your subject. Add some tracking markers so you can move the camera and you are well on your way to Fake City.
Long story short, photographic evidence ain't what it used to be.
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I don't want a civil war, or even a rumble, but this is still shore that's shitting up our neighborhoods. I and a hundred other parents have to stare at this shit every week in SF.
It's ugly, stupid, offensive, demeaning.
It makes me feel like I'm in a slum that's been taken over by Chavistas or Bolsheviks. I have learned to avert my eyes, but it still sucks. It's an assault on the visual senses.
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Beware ye of citizens' vetoes,
Of night-riding wingnut banditos,
Of kitschy meme vectors,
PC disre-specters,
And... tee hee... that hoodied dude's Cheetos!
#19
I believe Day-Glo is the shade you're looking for, you nutsy peckerwood Russian Supremacists. So help me, if I were trigger-rich (or totally judgement proof), I'd put up a re-ward.
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Recruiting today, the EU:
"Sign up at The Mandarin's Queue!
For just a Queen's shilling,
You'll get all the drilling
You like." [Uncle Juncker wants YOU!]
Man, Pic-a-Nic's spooky sometimes. First suggestion (after a redundant Lemuel): Skunky McCoy.
It's going to become Skynet one day, this site. It sees more smarts than any thing on earth spout rants, and wishful thinking all day long. And Fred will be blamed/praised for the emergence.
[Hot Air] Only two days before the deadline to qualify for the last Democratic presidential primary debate of 2019, entrepreneur Andrew Yang secured his last qualifying poll to join six of his competitors in Los Angeles on Dec. 19, marking the only candidate of color who will appear on the stage so far.
He will join: former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, billionaire Tom Steyer, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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musta been the whipped cream... bet he has Buttigig's (or whatever) vote.
[The Last Refuge] Amid the investigative and research questions over the past several years, there was always a question about who, within the Trump orbit, may have been subject to FISA court authorized surveillance during their activity in 2016.
Because they were initially the four targets of the FBI investigation, there was speculation Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos and/or Lt. General Michael Flynn were also subjects of Title-1 FISA Court authorized surveillance, in addition to Carter Page.
Today during his testimony, Inspector General Michael Horowitz specifically noted there was no other FISA application against any other campaign official. [See 05:23 of testimony to questions by Senator Chris Coons ‐ prompted just hit play]:
[FOX] The Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed 260-165, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. The bill provides a process for undocumented farmworkers to seek a temporary five-and-a-half-year "Certified Agricultural Worker" status if they have worked for approximately six months in the industry in the last two years.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., the bill’s sponsor, said that it was a "historic" compromise and example of bipartisanship.
Because California needs more serfs
The bill had support from a number of farm groups, but has faced fierce opposition from immigration restrictionists, who claim that the amnesty component is similar to one in the 1980s that was rife with fraud and saw more than a million illegal immigrants win protection. They also say that the bill keeps immigrant workers tied to their jobs in a form of indentured servitude until they get their green cards.
"The only thing worse than another large-scale amnesty is one that then forces people to continue to toil for poor wages and under poor working conditions for the same unscrupulous employers who hired them illegally in the first place," Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), said in a statement.
[Mil.com] An Army deputy chief of staff has been retired at a lower rank after a watchdog investigation found he had plagiarized work for his master's degree at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a lieutenant colonel, Military.com has learned.
Lt. Gen. Aundre Piggee, 60, deputy chief of staff of the Army for Logistics, G-4, has retired as a major general, an official confirmed to Military.com. The U.S. Army War College Academic Review Board determined this year that Piggee had committed plagiarism while at the school, where he received a master's in military strategy.
According to a Defense Department Inspector General document reviewed by Military.com, Piggee's master of strategic studies degree and Army War College diploma was revoked based on the findings. The U.S. Army War College Academic Review Board has amended his record "to reflect a failure to complete graduation requirements," according to the document.
According to a published resume, Piggee was at the Army War College from July 2001 to June 2002.
"After an academic review board was conducted by the Army War College appropriate action was taken against Lt. Gen. Aundre F. Piggee," Army spokeswoman Col. Kathleen Turner said in a statement provided to Military.com. "Lt. Gen. Piggee was retired at the rank of Major General on December 1, 2019."
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The "Biden Rule" allows him to run for POTUS a couple times in the future
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Must've been some other, undisclosable reason. Or a number of reasons combined. This sort of thing is too trivial for such an action. Happens in every military.
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He really really pissed somebody off. This feels personal, notsome investigation but someone who was willing to dive deep to find a hook to ruin this guys career.
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So they must be finally loading all the papers into a common database. Some of the universities around here have it and they can adjust the sensitivity on the screening to catch this type of cheating. Always site your sources...
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[ConservativeTreehouse] I’m not going to write a long history of the background again {Go Deep}. However, to be fair, if we are going to hold Barr accountable it is appropriate to be thankful when at least one aspect of a gross injustice has been addressed.
When the decision to allow James Wolfe to escape accountability for his leaking of the classified documents was made, there were only a few people within the DOJ who could make that decision.
AG Jeff Sessions was recused from anything to do with the ongoing DOJ activity into the 2016 election issues and the Russian-collusion/conspiracy investigation.
Therefore Robert Mueller, DAG Rod Rosenstein, DOJ liason Ed O’Callaghan and U.S. Attorney for DC Jessie Liu would have been the group of decision-makers. With Mueller and Rosenstein gone that left O’Callaghan and Liu still on staff at Main Justice. Today the last two were removed from positions of authority in the DOJ.
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Wikipedia: On December 10, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Liu as Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes at the Department of the Treasury
[Red State] It’s a question that could go either way given the latest details of how Republicans are planning to approach this.
According to Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, they may be looking to punt completely. No witnesses, no defense, just letting Democrats rattle on and then voting. The wisdom of such a strategy is certainly debatable, but when is the last time such cowering worked out in the positive?
This from the Washington Examiner.
Senate Republicans do not expect to call witnesses President Trump might want to hear from most in an impeachment trial, conceding there are not the votes to summon key figures such as Hunter Biden and the unidentified government whistleblower whose complaint sparked the process.
Senate impeachment rules require a majority vote to call witnesses, and with just two out of 53 votes to spare, there is no “appetite” among Republicans to pursue testimony from people that Democrats blocked Republicans from subpoenaing during the House investigation. Indeed, Republicans might forgo calling witnesses altogether, saying minds are made up on Trump’s guilt or innocence and that testimony at trial on the Senate floor would draw out the proceedings unnecessarily.
Not calling Joe and Hunter Biden is one thing, as it could conceivably devolve into a fight Trump doesn’t really need. I can just imagine the elder Biden chastising Republicans on national TV for using his son against him after he’s already had one die in recent years. I’m not sure that’s a visual the Republican party needs or wants, as it could unintentionally boost candidate Biden in an election year.
But they aren’t even going to call the whistleblower? They aren’t going to ask Adam Schiff about his machinations? They aren’t going to get Alexander Vindman under oath and make him answer for leaking classified information? I understand being risk averse, but that strikes me as politically dumb. Further, it’d be letting people off the hook who shouldn’t get to pretend like the past two months never happened.
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I think there’s a middle ground that needs to be reached here.
It would appear the "middle ground" (the happy ending) has already been reached. The Dems toss in a couple of foggy, notional articles of impeachment, the senate votes them down. Hunter, Joe and Schiff avoid the deep-dive, and everyone goes home to watch football.
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I'm fairly optimistic still. Cocaine Mitch just did a masterful fuck you to the house dems. The demoncrats announced they passed NAFTAv2 before they announced the impeachment.
Mitch shelved the trade deal bill in the Senate until the Senate is done with impeachment.
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This is going to get interesting. If Trump get Biden Jr on the stand he will out all the other congress critters who have family on the take. Both sides are guilty of this money laundering scheme. This will blow the entire swamp out against him. Buy popcorn.
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Kabuki graphics seems apropos here.
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Trump plays hardball. If the impeachment articles don't get out of the House, he wins. If this goes to the Senate and a vote is held, the 67 threshold won't be met; he wins. If it goes to a Senate trial, and he brings in witnesses to question such as Schiff, the whistleblower, and others, he wins and a light is shined on more Swamp critters.
[Townhall] Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth.
But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election.
...Most presidents might seem angry after three years of that. Yet in paradoxical fashion, Trump suddenly appears more composed than at any other time in his volatile presidency.
Ironically, Trump's opponents and enemies are the ones who have become publicly unhinged.
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden recently had a complete meltdown while campaigning in Iowa. Biden called a questioner who asked about his son Hunter's lucrative job with a Ukrainian energy company "a damn liar." An animated Biden also challenged the 83-year-old ex-Marine and retired farmer to a push-up contest or footrace.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fared little better. On the first day of his committee's impeachment inquiry, Nadler stacked the witness list by bringing in three left-wing law professors, as opposed to one Republican centrist witness -- as if partisan academics might sway the nation.
...Nadler's Judiciary Committee was supposed to be empowered by the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report. But the contents of that report were overshadowed by the revelation that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the Intelligence Committee, had obtained data on the private phone calls of ranking Republican House Intelligence Committee Member Devin Nunes, Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, journalist John Solomon, former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and others. Schiff had obtained the data via congressional subpoena.
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference to announce plans to proceed with articles of impeachment. But she would not say which particular charges would be brought against the president.
Then, Pelosi lost her cool and shook her finger at a reporter who simply asked her, "Do you hate the president?"
At that point, a furious Pelosi shouted back, "Don't mess with me!"
...The common denominator of all this petulance is exasperation over the inability to derail Trump.
Trump's many enemies fear he will be re-elected in 2020, given a booming economy and peace abroad. They know that they cannot remove him from office. And yet they fear that the more they try to stain him with impeachment, the more frustrated and unpopular they will become.
Yet, like end-stage addicts, they simply cannot stop the behavior that is consuming them.
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We have a national meltdown about to take effect. On the right if they take Trump down 62 million American will be angered beyond belief, and some will act on that anger-not protests but actions. If he is not impeached the Left will lose their minds and the riots, already in the planning phases will commence. The lies and propaganda has spun this to the point our nation will be fighting in March no matter the outcome. If Russia was really trying to overthrow the USA by this, their plan is nearing the execution phase and moving forward nicely...
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I wonder what would happen if conservatives started stockpiling ammo and supplies right now. An overt, unspoken implication that the attempts to impeach are being seen as a dry coup, ready to be followed up with worse.
[Townhall] The establishment narrative on Joe Biden is, to put it mildly, malarkey. Gropey J actually is everything the liberals accuse Donald Trump of being ‐ bizarre, vulgar, dumb, corrupt, incompetent, and utterly unfit to be president. But yet the Creepy Veepy is so much more. In the last month, this totally not-senile, not-at-all-weird guy has assembled a track record of freaky behavior that would put mid-eighties Crispin Glover to shame.
Let’s review...
Corn Pop is old news. Biden’s latest rambling onion-on-the-belt monologue was something about little kids at a pool rubbing his leg hair or something ‐ it’s so random I’m not even linking to it. There’s no best-case scenario here ‐ he’s just creepy.
Then, for no other reason than I guess he felt like a snack, he started gnawing on his wife’s fingers in public and on camera. You know, like people do. You wonder what the thought process there was...
...But the best part was when some guy pointed out that, you know, Biden’s loser son Lil’ Crackpipe is the poster child for corruption and Sane Joe started spazzing out and calling him "fat" and challenging him to a push-up contest for some reason.
...No one can seriously argue that Joe Biden is smart, and no one does. They’ll either call you "racist" or start complaining about Trump. But you won’t get anyone comparing the former veep to Stephen Hawking. They just sort of elide past his staggering stupidity, perhaps hoping that whoever he picks for his veep will give him a rubber ball to play with and lock him in an Oval Office closet when it's time to do some presidenting.
He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of his manifest corruption ‐ he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his position. He thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!
Understand that Biden sees nothing wrong with this. Nothing. And that means there will be exponentially more of it. Hell, the useless DoJ under Trump won’t prosecute obvious graft. Do you think a DoJ that’s thrilled to have a fellow traveler back in the White House is going to root out Biden's business badness? You do? Well, then meet my unicorn Chet.
And SloJoe is utterly incompetent. This is the guy who thought they should let bin Laden skate. As Robert Gates, no Trumpie, said, "I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."
...Basically, we’ll get rid of all the peace and prosperity that Trump has brought and get back to normal ‐ that is, people like us being plundered by the garbage elite.
Trump has a track record of success, and Democrats hate him. Joe has a track record of failure, corruption, and creepiness. Well, I guess we know why the Democrats seem to love him.
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Read a biography of Strom Thurmond. There was much mention of their affinity for each other at the end of J. Strom's senate career and IIRC Biden gave a eulogy at his memorial service. For what it's worth ..Thurmond often did pushups on the campaign trail and also stood on his head and handstands.
This week he became the only 100-year-old senator in the Republic's history. He's the only American to have been elected to national office by a write-in campaign. And the only senator to have spoken for 24 hours and 18 minutes continuously, back in 1957 when he filibustered the civil rights bill and had an aide standing with a bucket in the adjoining cloakroom so he could relieve himself while keeping one foot on the Senate floor and still speaking.
And he's the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have made love to a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women's prison to Death Row.
This was Sue Logue, the only woman in the state ever to be sent to the chair, but not before she'd been sent to the back seat of Strom's car for a lively final ride. (It was a particularly bloody murder case that had begun when Mr. Logue's calf had been kicked to death by some other feller's mule.) ..
I only met the senator during the impeachment trial in 1999. On the first day, in a chaotic melee by the elevators, I was suddenly pushed forward and thrown between Thurmond and California Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Ol' Strom had just cast an appreciative bipartisan eye over the petite brunet liberal extremist. Boxer gave an involuntary shudder. I was squashed between the two for about five seconds when I became aware that my elbow was being affectionately caressed by Strom.
Presumably he'd mistaken my dainty arm for Barbara's, but who knows? But what a great country. In how many other national legislatures can a guy just wander in off the street and find himself in a tripartisan squeeze being petted by a 97-year-old senator?
[American Mil News] The United States military will deploy 20,000 troops to Europe in April and May for the largest military exercises on the continent since before the end of the Cold War.
U.S. Major General Barre Seguin said the exercises will be centered in Germany. According to Reuters, the troops being deployed will join with U.S. forces stationed throughout Europe and military forces from 18 other NATO allies, adding up to a total of 37,000 troops participating in the military exercise.
The training will reportedly test the alliance’s ability to move troops across the Atlantic into Belgium and the Netherlands before maneuvering them through Germany and Poland. The maneuvers parallel the "Return of Forces to Germany," or "REFORGER" practice operations of the 1980s.
The military training is reportedly meant to rehearse a military response to Russian aggression, such as its 2014 annexation of the Crimean region of Ukraine. NATO has already deployed battalions into Poland and the Baltics as a deterrent to potential Russian offensives.
Following the maneuvers, the U.S. troops deployed will return home.
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The military training is reportedly meant to rehearse a military response to Russian aggression
I expect the Donks in Congress have a different plan when Trump is gone and they have more latitude on the subject. [Who's really the Russian agent in this story?]
[Special Ops] Had the Cold War turned hot, there would have been no escape for the U.S. garrison in West Berlin. Marooned in a city more than 100 miles inside Communist East Germany, the U.S. Berlin Brigade‐and the British and French garrisons as well‐would certainly have been overwhelmed by Soviet and East German troops. Their presence helped keep half of Berlin free from Communist rule. But it was no secret that theirs was a suicide mission.
Yet there was a unique American unit with an even more hazardous mission: a small Special Forces detachment whose job it would during wartime to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Soviets and their puppet armies. That sentence bears repeating: Deep inside East Germany, in the midst of a vast Soviet military and secret police apparatus, a small group of U.S. commandos would attempt to blow up Russian supply depots and lead local resistance groups.
The phrase "suicide mission" doesn’t even apply.
The unit had many names over the Cold War. But as James Stejskal, a veteran of the detachment, describes in his book Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite 1956-1990, they always knew what they were getting into. "They were aware of the odds against them and the threat posed by the Warsaw Pact forces stationed just kilometers away. Despite that, no one wavered in their commitment to face and deter the Soviet war machine."
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Working behind ebemy lines, working with resistance, was the SF first mission. It was like the OSS and the Jedburgh teams of WW II in Europe. It's the context of Robin Sage, and why the guys have to be fluent in a foreign language.
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Plan B: Get the Rus to assign all the Spetznaz to the Wagner Group. Given their casualty rate, problem solved.
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Oh look, a spelling flame. Haven't seen one of those for a while.
Operation Gladio is the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that was planned by the Western Union (WU), and subsequently by NATO, for a potential Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest in Europe.
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Oh, look, Herb falls for anti-western agitprop again.
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All the troll does is word search for "Herb" or "erb" and get his panties in a wad :-)
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Gladio isn't agitprop. It was for real.
"During the Cold War secret armies in all West European states prepared themselves for possible Soviet invasion. An ETH study was presented last week that shows how these hidden groups operated and did not even shrink from terror attacks against their own people.
Gladio did not flinch from cowardly terrorist attacks against its own people. The population was to be unsettled so they would demand more security from the state. By using false trails and exerting control over the the judiciary, Gladio succeeded in laying the blame on the political opponents."
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I know! I remember! We all died. Tool
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Now, now, Frank! If someone took the time to post it on the InterWebs, then it must be true.
Gladio was controlled by the military secret service Sismi and worked in close collaboration with the CIA. But apparently Gladio was also in league with the Mafia, the fascists and the Catholic Church.
Also the Illuminati, the Grays, the Reptilian Shapeshifters and other aliens to horrible to contemplate. OMG, what if Trump himself is an alien? Seriously, have any of you seen a full-body MRI that would tell us he is really human?
BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] In his report, Horowitz said Comey was one of a number of former FBI employees who "chose not to request that their security clearances be reinstated for their [inspector general] interviews" and "therefore, we were unable to provide classified information or documents to them during their interviews to develop their testimony, or to assist their recollections of relevant events."
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Oh, your clearance has expired? No problem, we'll just grant an administrative extension to your Periodic Re-Investigation (PR) for the duration of the investigation.
Still a no-go? No problem, we'll simply 'declassify' all related documentation.
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Once being deposed for two days, I had to see a couple of documents before my memory came flooding back. So not seeing those docs, I could have (and did) respond, "I don't remember". Once refreshed, I did remember.
Without the documents, I could have lied about remembering, and still not have been confronted with the truth.
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"...Someone like Durham can compel testimony, he can talk to a whole range of people, private parties, foreign governments, and so forth.”
Declassification and Durham criminal investigation might clear up a lot of these problems.
I noticed Senator Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI) was probing around the edges in the Horowitz hearing to try to get at what Durham was up to. Horowitz did not know or had not talked with him.
The attacks on Bar, Durham and Rudy Giuliani have increased.
...former State Department and USAID officials and current officials accused Pence of “meddling” in internal agency contracting practices to benefit Christians over other minorities. They also have claimed that the administration’s policies toward Iraqi religious minorities are politically motivated to appeal to Christian communities in the U.S. to help Trump get reelected in 2020.
Obama appointees or just gravy eaters at the last stop. May Gawd exact tenfold on them, their children, and their children's children.
[WSJ] WASHINGTON‐One by one, Republican senators expressed outrage Wednesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had committed errors in how it sought and obtained surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser, describing the findings contained in a new inspector general report as evidence of alarming privacy violations that could be wielded against any American.
The concerns echoed those made by civil liberties advocates for decades. But they came this time from self-described national security hawks who have long voted to renew and expand U.S. surveillance powers.
In dressing down the FBI during Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s testimony about his report on the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, several Republicans suggested they were open to major alterations of a post-Watergate intelligence law known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
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To be perfectly frank, as much whitewashing as the liberal press is doing in this, these ARE the exact same abuses that libertarian groups (such as Reason) warned would continue and expand under these surveillance laws. FISA being 100% secret can scarcely not be corrupted sooner or later. When introduced to already corrupt law enforcement officials like at the FBI and NSA, it will only be that much sooner before things become awful.
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Lex, I would like to see Obama have to testify at Trump's Senate impeachment trial.
Along with the Bidens, Comey, Brennan, Strzok, Page, and the rest of the gang.
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Me too, Rambler. I honestly don't understand the logic behind rushing through it and not putting anyone on the stand. The GOP holds the high cards.
[Dallas 10 News] One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital after an attempted robbery Tuesday night in northeast Dallas.
The two had tried to rob a pizza delivery driver around 10:30 p.m. in the 8100 block of Southwestern Boulevard, Dallas police said. That's located in The Village, a large development in the area.
The driver was armed and shot both suspects, police said. The driver was not wounded in the incident.
One suspect was 15 years old and the other was 17 years old, according to police records. One of them allegedly tried to run away during the incident but was later found.
Officials had not identified the person that was killed as of Wednesday morning.
The surviving suspect was arrested on a charge of aggravated robbery. If your armed robbery resulted in a (justified) homicide, you usually get charged with that as well. WTF?
"After examining the totality of the evidence and interviews, the driver was released," Dallas police said in a post on their DPD Beat blog page.
The case will be referred to a Dallas County grand jury.
[PJ] On Wednesday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his report and the FBI's counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign back in the last presidential election cycle. Senator Lindsey Graham confronted Horowitz and everyone else present with a shocking finding from Horowitz's report: the FBI lawyer supervising the FISA process, named Clinesmith, purposefully doctored an email to make former Trump adviser Carter Page appear as a Russian agent rather than as a CIA source, which he actually was.
"When you read this report," Graham said today, "is that a lawyer supervising the FISA process at the FBI, according to Mr. Horowitz, doctored an email from the CIA to the FBI and he's going to be referred for criminal prosecution."
"Why is that important?" Graham then asked rhetorically. "Carter Page, who has been on the receiving end of all this, the foundation to believe he was a foreign agent comes from a dossier that we will talk about in a minute. In that dossier provided by Christopher Steele -- and we will talk about him in a minute -- they claim that Page meets with three people known to be Russians, Russian agents, people associated with Russia."
Mr. Page still viewed as totally oblivious (unwitting) regarding his clandestine involvement in the Trump Campaign.
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Permissions would have to have been issued. Reasons and justifications given, etc. Perhaps former Director Brennan could shed some much needed light ?
[The Independent] Chinese scientists have successfully bred monkey-pig hybrids as part of research into the growth of human organs for transplantation in animals.
Although the two chimera piglets died within a week of being born, both were found to have DNA from macaque monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin.
They were bred from more than 4,000 embryos which were implanted into a sow using IVF, according to the New Scientist.
A team from the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing genetically modified monkey cells to produce a fluorescent protein allowing the researchers to track the cells and descendant cells.
These modified cells were injected into the pig embryos five days after fertilisation.
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#13 Yeah, they have kind of done that. Take Henan Province, for example, where (according to Wiki) there are 150 boys 3-6 for every 100 girls. That will result in selective breeding. For this, or for that.
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Came across Wall Street Journal Headline which has apparently been edited:
"An attack that left six people dead, including the two suspected shooters, has shaken a historically black neighborhood where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community recently has taken root."
Love the picture, bunch of Jews doing Jew things right there in front of a black beauty parlor. Probably block store traffic too.
[The Hill] Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz that "someone’s got to be fired" within FBI leadership based on his inspector general report, which found widespread fault with how the FBI handled its investigation of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
"After about 15 percent of the way through [the report] it made me want to heave, after about 25 percent of the way through I thought I’d dropped acid, it’s surreal," Kennedy said.
Asked by Kennedy how many people involved in the investigation were still working for the FBI, Horowitz responded "the higher level people, as you know, have changed over in the last year ‐ a lot of people at the upper levels," but "some of the agents are still there."
Asked for details on who was still at the FBI, Horowitz responded "I would encourage you to speak to the FBI about that."
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No, not some scapegoat who will only be hired in some think tank or media. The entire chain involved in this should serve serious jail time if not charges of Treason.
h/t Instapundit
An Education Department investigation revealed universities failed to report more than a billion dollars in foreign funding, which officials believe is only a sliver of the unreported overseas donations flowing onto campuses.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told the Washington Examiner she had launched a preliminary investigation into six universities but already turned up an alarming $1.3 billion in foreign funding over the past seven years from nations such as China, Russia, and Qatar that the schools hadn’t told the federal government about, despite their legal requirement to do so.
Only six? Imagine how much is out there just in the Ivy League schools.
"It is already a reporting requirement for schools to report all foreign contributions. From my perspective, it’s a simple requirement: Report all foreign money you get." DeVos said. "We’re going to continue to raise the flag on this, and we think, just given what we’ve seen scratching the surface, there’s a lot there that has gone undetected."
DeVos said foreign funding is an administration-wide national security concern.
[Federalist] A 2017 letter from the FBI, responding to a senator’s inquiry about the nature of the agency’s counterintelligence briefings with the Trump campaign, was contradicted on Wednesday by the testimony of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. This latest revelation of FBI lies exposes more undue spying and abuse of power at the highest levels of the intelligence agency.
On September 20, 2017, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to the FBI Director Christopher Wray, asking about whether or not the FBI ever provided the Trump campaign with a defensive briefing regarding Russian interference in 2016.
"I write to inquire about whether the FBI ever provided the Trump campaign with a defensive briefing or other warning regarding attempts to infiltrate the campaign by people connected with, or compromised by, Russian intelligence," Grassley wrote.
On October 26, 2017, the FBI responded saying they did provide a counterintelligence defense briefing to then candidate Donald Trump and other campaign officials.
"In August of 2016 the FBI provided a counterintelligence defensive briefing to then candidate Donald Trump and other senior campaign officials. This defensive briefing was conducted by an experienced FBI counterintelligence agent and focused on the broad range of threats posed by foreign intelligence entities," wrote Gregory Brower, assistant director in the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs.
During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings with Horowitz on Wednesday, an exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina uncovered how the FBI not only failed to brief the Trump campaign on the alleged Russian interference they were so concerned about, but used their meeting with the campaign as an opportunity to spy.
"If this is a counterintelligence investigation, who are they trying to protect?" Graham asked Horowitz.
[Washington Examiner] A woman has made it through the Navy SEAL officer assessment and selection for the first time. A famous Weeki Watchi Mermaid.
The unidentified woman completed the screening earlier this year, according to Military.com. The news was disclosed this month at a meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
Despite women being permitted to be considered for SEAL openings since 2016, no woman has made it through the grueling selection process.
Candidates for Navy SEAL officer assessment and selection are chosen from Reserve Officer Training Corps programs, Officer Candidate School, and service academies.
And even after making it through the two-week selection this year, the woman was not chosen for a SEAL contract as she had not selected the SEALs as her top choice of career path.
"We do not discuss details of a candidate's nonselection, so it does not interfere with their successful service in other warfighter communities," said Capt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare.
This is preliminary screening to qualify for SEAL training. Since December 2015, women have been eligible to enter the SEAL training pipeline provided they can meet the same acceptance guidelines as men. Women accepted into the program undergo the same training regimen as do the men. As of November 2018, one woman has entered the training pipeline but dropped out during the 3-week Indoctrination phase prior to entering BUD/S. The policy is under review.
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CL, she did not attend BUDS. Correct? She just did the pre buds (selection) training? Sort of like RIP for the Rangers or Pre selection for the Q course??
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Think subdermal layer of fat :). I HATED being immersed in freaking cold water for hours under physical and psychological pressure for what seemed like eternities (not BUD/S) and found it to be my limit for staying alive. I AM NOT SEAL MATERIAL! Hated that kind of stuff. If an XX can make it through, great.
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[Washington Examiner] Bias may have crept into the process by which the FBI sought the authority to monitor electronically a onetime member of President Trump's campaign, according to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
An assessment from the DOJ watchdog found the Trump-Russia investigation was opened on a sound legal footing and was unable to "find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced" the genesis of that investigation. "We even did a word search for 'bias' but didn't find any exact references"
But Horowitz, who released a report on Monday regarding the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump team, distinguished between the opening of the inquiry in late July 2016 and the investigatory actions related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that followed.
"We asked all the witnesses ‐ not just him ‐ as to whether bias or other improper considerations had any impact, but we also looked for emails, text messages, documents that could show what we found, frankly, with Strzok and Page," Horowitz said while answering a line of questioning by Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Horowitz was referring to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former FBI officials who were part of the Russia investigation before being removed due to the discovery of anti-Trump text messages that the inspector general found in a prior investigation. One revelation in Horowitz's latest report is that Strzok was involved in the decision to initiate the counterintelligence investigation, but it was his superior, Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, who made the actual authorization.
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It was wrong, he was unjustly prosecuted, he was destroyed by overzealous agents, but there was no intent. And he said that with a straight face? Our nation is crumbling, and he is mincing words. Don't they understand that the swamp will get burned off the face of this nation if they don't start acting like adults??
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The DOJ IG report was soomewhat vanilla in presentation but there were bombshells in it too.
For many it will be an eye-opener. In the beginning every MSM news outlet laughed when Trump said he was wire-tapped. They are not laughing so much now.
I think we are in for a long showing of War and Peace. There are many moving parts. Our country has many internal enemies. Russia has not done as much damage.
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[DB] What is it like training an international student?
Each nation is different, and it was interesting to see some stereotypes play out and interact with different cultures. The Swedish and Norwegians were your typical vikings. The Germans were often humorless, focused, and smart. The Singaporeans were incredibly disciplined, and this group of students policed itself in an impressive manner. Any Sing who did poorly on a flight or test would have the other students ensure they did well the next time around. I’d gladly fight alongside any of these guys any day of the week. I stay in touch with several of my students as their careers advance.
The Saudi students have an entirely different reputation and structure to their training. While all of the other nations employ a form of meritocracy to be in the flight program, the Saudi students are typically the child of a Saudi sheik, politician, or member of a rich/important Saudi family. They all drive luxury vehicles, and flaunt their wealth to the other students and instructors. It isn’t unusual to see a Saudi student wearing designer shoes that cost thousands of dollars in their uniforms instead of their issued shoes or boots.
The Saudis do not stand any of the squadron watches (Like assistant OOD, where the flight schedule is executed), while other nations participate fully in squadron functions. The Saudis also have a cadre of senior officers in Pensacola, ostensibly to monitor and aid the progress of the students. They employ a number of former/retired (US) Navy pilots to serve as tutors to the Saudis, and also to provide instruction on how to properly interact with their US instructors and inside of American society. The retired officers also act as a liaison to the American command structure.
Our instructors are told that we can only instruct the Saudis in flying. Issues regarding disciple, respect, or military bearing, etc all have to be referred to the liaisons. Those issues are rampant among the Saudi contingent, and are well known among the chain of command. While there are certainly some Saudi students who have been respectful and disciplined, the norm is an aloof, arrogant child who seeming feels superior to his instructor.
American and non-Saudi international students are expected to show up to the pre-flight briefs ready to explain all of the concepts required in the flight to the instructor (proof they study and paid attention in class). Saudi students often show to briefs unprepared to meet that standard, and expect the material to be presented to them anew. The norm for the Saudis is to pass the student regardless of performance, unless they are simply a danger to themselves, then they get referred back through the liaisons.
So the 'instructors' are just that ? Like public school teachers who should be mindful of what they say, who may not offend the princes, let alone discipline them ?
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C'mon, cut them some slack. A hundred years ago they were just goat herders. You can't expect them to create a viable, technological country in that little a span of time. They're not Jews, for Jeebus' sake.
[AnNahar] “Last seen: Friday, 9:18pm." About an hour after button men began attacking a protest encampment in Iraq's capital at the weekend, Mustafa -- who had slept there for weeks -- went offline.
In the days since, the 20-year-old demonstrator has not reappeared on messaging application WhatsApp, or in real life.
Late Friday, unidentified button men stormed and torched the multi-storey building known as al-Sinek Garage, where anti-government protesters had camped out for weeks.
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Just a gentle reminder that they’re holding one of our people in durance vile, INFIDEL!!
[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish court rejected a request Wednesday to release a US consular staffer tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! since 2017 on espionage charges as he told the judge no credible evidence had been submitted against him.
The case of Metin Topuz, a Ottoman Turkish citizen and liaison for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, has added to growing tensions between Ankara and Washington.
Topuz has been in jail since his arrest in October 2017, accused of ties to US-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , who Ankara says ordered an attempted coup the year before.
His next court appearance was set for March 10.
"The charges are based on unrealistic allegations and contradictory testimonies of so-called witnesses," Topuz told the Istanbul court.
"Not one single piece of evidence has been presented to the court that would convince a rational person that I tried to destroy the Ottoman Turkish republic," he added, referring to claims made by the prosecution.
The trial has been delayed as prosecutors try to locate a witness who Topuz's lawyers say has fled to Italia and has no bearing on the case.
Since the failed 2016 coup, tens of thousands of people have been arrested over suspected ties to Gulen and more than 100,000 people have been sacked or suspended from public sector jobs. Gulen rejects the coup accusations.
Washington's refusal to extradite Gulen, combined with differences over the Syrian conflict and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's decision to buy a Russian missile defence system, have put unprecedented strain on relations between the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... allies.
[AlAhram] At least 60 people were killed in a holy warrior attack on a Niger military camp in the western Tillaberi region near the Mali border, a security source said on Wednesday.
"The faceless myrmidons bombarded the camp with shells and mortars. The explosions from ammunition and fuel were the cause of the heavy toll," the source said.
The source did not say which group was responsible for the attack on Tuesday. But Niger forces are fighting against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans in the southeast and jihadists allied with 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 in the west near Mali.
Islamist militants killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in the deadliest raid against the Nigerien military in living memory.
Jihadists with links to Islamic State and al Qaeda have mounted increasingly lethal attacks across West Africa's Sahel region this year despite the commitment of thousands of regional and foreign troops to counter them.
The violence has hit Mali and Burkina Faso the hardest, rendering large swathes of those countries ungovernable, but it has also spilled into Niger, which shares long and porous borders with its two neighbors.
Several hundred militants attacked a base in the western Niger town of Inates over a period of three hours on Tuesday evening, army spokesman Colonel Boubacar Hassan said on state television. It was in the same area where Islamic State’s West African branch killed nearly 50 Nigerien soldiers in two attacks in May and July.
"The combat (was) of a rare violence, combining artillery shells and the use of kamikaze vehicles by the enemy," he said.
He added that another 12 soldiers were wounded and an unspecified number of others were missing, while a "significant number" of militants were also killed. Two security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 30 soldiers were still missing.
President Mahamadou Issoufou arrived in Niger on Wednesday evening after cutting short a visit to Egypt, his office said in a tweet.
The attack comes at the end of a year of intense violence in Inates, a cattle herding community near the banks of the Niger River 200 km (130 miles) north of the capital Niamey. Apart from raids on the army, jihadists looking to assert control have targeted civilians too, killing two village chiefs this year, according to two local sources.
Since July, hundreds of people have fled the area for the capital Niamey or other nearby towns, the sources said, leaving their cattle and houses untended and unguarded.
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Security has deteriorated this year across the Sahel, a semi-arid strip of land beneath the Sahara, amid jihadist attacks and deadly ethnic reprisals between rival farming and herding communities.
The region has been in crisis since 2012, when ethnic Tuareg rebels and loosely-aligned jihadists seized the northern two-thirds of Mali, forcing France to intervene the following year to beat them back.
But the jihadists have since regrouped and expanded their range of influence.
The rising body count this year has inflamed popular anger against regional governments and former colonial master France, which has 4,500 troops deployed across the Sahel.
French President Emmanuel Macron, frustrated by mounting anti-French sentiment, has invited five West African leaders to a meeting next week. There he plans to ask them to clarify whether they want French troops to remain in their countries.
"We have no interest in this region other than for our own security," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an interview with Le Monde on Wednesday.
"If this doesn’t get resolved through accords and a clarification of commitments, we will have to ask ourselves questions and rethink our military positioning," he said. But he added that a withdrawal of French troops from the region was not on the table.
[AlAhram] The Trump administration on Wednesday hit 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 new sanctions that target several transportation firms as it continues its ``maximum pressure campaign`` against the Islamic Theocratic Republic over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The sanctions target Iran's state shipping line and a China-based company that has been involved in delivering missile parts to Iran.
They also add a layer of new penalties to a previously sanctioned Iranian airline, Mahan Air, which is accused of sending weapons to Iranian proxies in Leb and 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... , and three of its sales agents.
The moves were announced by the Treasury and the State Department and will subject foreign firms and governments that do business with the targeted entities to sanctions themselves, including a freeze on any assets they may have in US jurisdictions.
``Today's designations put the world on notice that those who engage in illicit transactions with these companies will risk exposure and sanctions themselves,`` Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
Pompeo announced the sanctions even as he expressed hope that a weekend prisoner swap with Iran could lead to a dialogue between Washington and Tehran over prisoners.
He called Saturday's release of Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang in exchange for an Iranian locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in the US a ``happier note'' that could yield progress.
``I do hope the exchange that took place will lead to a broader discussion on consular affairs. We are working to use this as an opportunity to continue that effort,`` he said.
``I hope that it portends well. We have had some indication that that may be the case, but I don't want to be overstate that, I don't want to give false optimism about that pathway.''
``If we can find an opening and deliver these people back to their families and back to America we will certainly do that,'' he said.
US authorities say Iran is holding one American national and five dual US-Iranian nationals.
They include Navy veteran Michael White, who is serving a 10-year espionage sentence, as well as environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian with US and British citizenship also initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Iranian-American father and son Siamak and Baquer Namazi. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson has been missing for 13 years since disappearing in Iran.
Iran says American authorities are holding about 20 Iranian nationals in jail and on Monday said it was ready for more prisoner swaps with the US.
[ToloNews] UPDATED: Coalition forces ended the Bagram clash with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, said a Resolute Support front man. The Taliban ...Arabic for students... has grabbed credit for the attack.
At least two civilians have been killed and 73 people have been maimed--mostly civilians--in a kaboom in the Bagram district of northern Parwan province close to Bagram airbase on Wednesday morning. A shootout involving seven Lions of Islam followed the blasts but was ended this evening by airstrikes.
Earlier on Wednesday MoI front man Nusrat Rahimi said that three Lions of Islam had been killed, one had been arrested, and three were still active.
A Resolute Support front man on Wednesday evening that the remaining Taliban fighters were killed in a series of airstrikes.
Residents said earlier that a "big explosion" happened in the area and it also damaged nearby houses.
"The explosion was very heavy and surprised the people as it was very early," said Qudousi. He added that "the attackers were hidden in a non-active hospital building and clashed with security forces."
"The target was Bagram airbase," he added.
Resolute Support in a statement said that "Enemy forces conducted an attack on Bagram airfield this morning, targeting a medical facility being constructed to help the Afghan people who live near the base."
A motor bomb explosion and long-running gunfires near U.S military base in Bagram district of Parwan province on Wednesday morning, killed 2 civilians and injured 73 most of whom were civilians, MOI spokesperson confirmed.
The powerful explosion has totally destroyed a large clinic which was built by the Korean Development funds and was in active since 2016.
According to Nasrat Rahimi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior Affairs, 7 militants entered in to the clinic building after the explosion.
Taliban have taken the responsibility of the attack and have claimed that their militants have succeeded to enter in to the U.S military base in Bagram.
A Resolute Support Spokesperson told Khaama Press that the Taliban fighters who remained after an unsuccessful attempt to breach Bagram airfield were killed in a series of airstrikes this evening.
The fighters barricaded themselves inside the medical facility building they attacked early Wednesday morning, RS spokesperson said.
[NYTIMES] The battle for control of Libya threatened to escalate further this week as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... said it might intervene to stop the Russian-backed forces now closing in on 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... , the capital.
In comments to Ottoman Turkish television networks on Monday night and again on Tuesday, 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... pointedly raised the possibility that Turkey might send troops to counter the Russians if the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... -recognized government headquartered in Tripoli formally requested it.
"In case of such an invitation, Turkey will decide itself about what kind of initiative to undertake," Mr. Erdogan said Monday. On both Monday and Tuesday he referred explicitly to the possibility of "sending soldiers" or "our personnel."
Mr. Erdogan, for commercial and political reasons, has emerged as the last significant patron of the beleaguered Tripoli government. His blunt talk of a new military intervention underscored the perilousness of the situation now facing the Tripoli government, which is under a tightening siege by Russian forces backing the militia leader Khalifa Hifter.
Officials of Tripoli’s so-called Government of National Accord said they were open to any assistance that advanced its mission. "The G.N.A. welcomes ALL international support," Mohammed Ali Abdullah, an adviser for United States affairs to the Tripoli government, wrote in a text message.
Libya is a strategic prize with vast oil reserves and a long Mediterranean coastline.
But eight years after a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... intervention helped topple Col. Muammar el-Qadaffy during the Arab Spring revolt, the country remains mired in chaos. The bedlam has turned its beaches into a departure point for tens of thousands of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... -bound migrants colonists and its deserts into a haven for bands of murderous Moslem Death Eaters.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Swedish activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change... on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action "misleading" at a summit in Madrid disrupted by festivities between youth activists and security.
The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an "opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition" to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and observers to vigorous applause.
"Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action."
Nations are gathered in Spain's capital to finalise the rulebook of the 2015 landmark Gay Paree climate accord, which aims to limit global temperature rises to "well below" 2°C and to a safer cap of 1.5°C if possible.
But the consensus-based talks are bogged down in politically charged wrangling over the architecture of carbon markets, timetables for the review of carbon-cutting pledges and a new fund to help poor countries already reeling from climate impacts.
Laurence Tubiana, architect of the Gay Paree deal and current head of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Climate Foundation, told AFP there was slim prospect of major progress in Madrid.
She said the key issue of how ambitious countries' climate plans can be would only be settled at next year's COP26 summit in Glasgow.
"This decision needs political negotiations at the highest level," she said.
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"Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action."
It's great fun flying around the world, attending conventions, giving virtuous speeches, and making the all the parties. But when it comes to crippling your economy, well, that's a whole different thing.
Would it be rude to mention that the US, despite not being part of any silly climate treaties, is one of the few countries that has reduced CO2 emissions. Thank you, frackers!
(ignoring for the moment that CO2 appears to have virtually no effect on planetary climate)
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If St. Greta were really serious about fighting climate change, she would go to China and confront the government there.
If she made it out alive, rather than as an involuntary organ donor, she could then walk to India and confront the government there.
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She'd find a bewildering welcome and even more bewildering stay here. By the time she left, she'd be declaring, "Everybody must learn from India, how superbly they are conserving the environment !"
[IsraelTimes] A Russian court on Tuesday sentences 11 people to terms including life in prison after finding them guilty of a deadly kaboom on the Saint Petersburg metro in 2017.
Abror Azimov, a 29-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, is sentenced by a military court in Russia’s second biggest city to life in prison for organizing and participating in a terrorist group.
Ten other people who are also from Central Asia are sentenced to between 19 and 28 years in prison.
All have denied the charges, and said they were tortured.
Shokhista Karimova, 48, pounds the glass of the courtroom cage and cries "let me go" after she is handed a 20-year term.
The kaboom in April 2017 killed 15 people in the Saint Petersburg metro and maimed dozens more.
The alleged perpetrator, Akbarjon Djalilov, a 22-year-old from Kyrgyzstan, died in the attack.
Before detonating himself, the suicide bomber also planted a second bomb in the metro which he planned to detonate remotely, but which malfunctioned and did not go off, the Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Investigative Committee described the men as radical Islamists acting as part of a group founded in Syria in 2013 by a native of Kyrgyzstan named Sirozhidin Mukhtarov.
International warrants have been issued for Mukhtarov's arrest and for that of another group leader, Bobirzhon Makhbubov, the Investigative Committee said.
Russia has experienced bomb attacks carried out by Islamist rebels from Russia's North Caucasus region in the past, although Moscow has largely crushed that insurgency.
[IsraelTimes] Short-lived 22nd Knesset automatically disperses at midnight, new election season kicks off, as political turmoil continues to engulf country.
With no Knesset member having gained the support of 61 MKs by the midnight deadline, the Knesset officially dissolved and new elections set for 90 days time, March 10.
Netanyahu will be campaigning in the upcoming election in the shadow of criminal charges against him in three corruption probes, which were announced by the attorney general last month. He faces an indictment over bribery in one case, and fraud and breach of trust in the three cases. He denies all wrongdoing.
He also faces an internal leadership challenge by Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar in an upcoming party primary.
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Of thought the Parlimentary form of gov't was ridiculous in it's inefficencies and lack of ability to actually govern ... now I'm beginning to see that as a good thing.
[Rudaw] Located between the cities of Erbil and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Zartik Mountain is one of the Kurdistan Region’s most strategic peaks.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) briefly took control of the mountain in 2014. Though Peshmerga forces retook overall control within a month, it witnessed continued festivities between the two groups for years.
Khalid Mullah Hassan was a Peshmerga commander who took part in the operation to recapture Zartik.
Prior to its recapture, the mountain was barren.
"Until 2014, there were no trees on this mountain. There was no shade to rest in. It was very hot when Peshmerga forces came here. We would move with the shadow of our cars. We thought the mountain should no longer be like that [desert]," Hassan said.
Khalid decided to grow a forest on the mountain.
"We planned [tree planting] with the army commander - he was very supportive of the idea. The first step was taken here. We planted this group of trees, then we developed the idea to build a forest. As a result, we planted more than 1,000 olive trees. We planted Vitis [grapevine] trees. To this date, we’ve planted about 1,200 trees here," Hassan explained.
Tree planting took place even when the fear of deadly festivities breaking out was a constant. Khalid recounts a time when a group of Peshmerga were shot at while planting.
"We were a huge number of Peshmerga - about 20 were with me digging holes to plant more trees in. All of a sudden, we heard a lot of gunshots. Mortar rounds were landing in that valley, but the group continued to plant trees."
In recounting the mission to make Zartik green, one Peshmerga expanded on the usual understanding of a soldier’s role to include the "sacred work" of planting trees in the midst of conflict.
"We could do both our duties [fighting and planting] because planting trees is sacred work. Wherever the Peshmerga goes, there should be reconstruction. Even if a place is in ruin, the Peshmerga has to reconstruct it."
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Thursday’s vote on impeachment says everything about Mrs. Pelosi’s speakership and nothing about Mr. Trump’s presidency.
This is Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... ’s Waterloo, and she knows it.
Pelosi Bonaparte has desperately tried to throttle down the impeachment freight train that the crazies in her party have been frothing about since Election Day 2016.
Not because she likes Mr. Trump or wants him to be president, but because she is a smart enough politician to know that impeachment will fail to remove the president and could very well cost Democrats control of the House ‐ not to mention assure Mr. Trump’s reelection.
In that case, Pelosi Bonaparte still goes down in history as the nation’s first female House speaker, but she also goes down as the first female House speaker to lose her majority ‐ twice.
Thursday’s vote is final proof that she has surrendered and allowed the inmates to take over the asylum.
Among those voting who clearly understands what Pelosi Bonaparte also understands is Rep. Collin Peterson, the longtime Minnesota Democrat who represents a district that voted for Mr. Trump by 30 percentage points in 2016.
In 1998, when the House voted to launch impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Mr. Peterson voted in favor of proceeding, though he would later vote against actually impeaching the president.
What does it say that a guy like Mr. Peterson saw a case at least worth pursuing against the president of his own party back in 1998, yet he doesn’t see such a case worth pursuing against the president of his opposing party today?
It tells us that, like Pelosi Bonaparte, he knows Waterloo when he sees it.
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If she didn't go for impeachment she would have been primaried from the left. She threw her party under the bus, and put her country through the grinder, hoping to save her own seat. I hope her efforts fail and her party splinters.
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I can't help but think that the impeachment proceedings are being used to deflect what they thought would be a far more damning Horowitz report, but now they can't let go of the tiger's tail.
[TOWNHALL] Last month, a DNA test confirmed that Hunter Biden is the father of a child born in August 2018. The mother, Lunden Roberts, reportedly worked at Mpire Gentlemen's Club in Washington, D.C., where Biden frequented. That's how the two allegedly met. Roberts has, understandably, gone after Biden for child support, health care and legal fees.
Biden filed a motion in the Arkansas Circuit Court of Independence for a protective order to shield his financial records from being made public a few weeks ago. A judge demanded both Roberts and Biden hand over five years worth of financial records, meaning he has to reveal his position at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma and just how much money they paid him, Daily Mail reported. It has been estimated that he was paid anywhere between $50,000 to $83,000 a month to sit on Burisma's board, despite having no natural energy experience.
The judge presiding over the case originally wanted only three years of financial records but ultimately said he needed five years of records to determine how much child support Biden needs to cough up.
Roberts wants Biden to admit he sat on the board of Burisma and received a monthly paycheck from the company and that "he 'or an entity owned, controlled or under your direction or supervision' received money from a Chinese person or entity for foreign and domestic investment purposes."
The judge in the case has made it very clear that he doesn't want to drag this out any further and wants to make a decision soon.
"I do not want to have this [drag] out nor do I want to have to drag out the monies these individuals may have received in any form or fashion. I anticipate paternity as well as custody, support and visitation being established at our next hearing," the judge wrote.
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I wonder what the IRS might have uncovered if they weren't busy slow-rolling conservative groups' applications for non-profit status and playing fast and loose with conservatives' tax returns.
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Hoover's China payoff will make Burisma look like pikers.
We haven't even got started plumbing the depths of his / hhs dad's / Kerry & Son's corruption.
[BUSINESSINSIDER] In the past month, layoffs and cuts have hit Verizon Media, Gannett, the CBC, and Highsnobiety, bringing the total number of media layoffs, cuts, and buyouts in 2019 above 7,800, according to Business Insider's tally.
The latest cuts followed layoff and buyout announcements at BuzzFeed, Vice Media, and Disney.
For comparison, it's estimated that some 5,000 media jobs were cut from the market from 2014 to 2017.
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I suspect as with liberal Collages a decline is occurring and on going. 20% of liberal collages have closed so far this year and nearly 50% are estimated to close in 10 years. In contrast conservative oriented Colleges are expanding as I would suspect conservative media outlets as well.
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Taibbi's a punk but he's dead right on this, the central ring in The Shitshow, and has been right from day one.
Not surprising though when you consider that he knows a bit about Russia from living there for years.
It was immediately obvious to EVERYONE who knows even basic facts about contemporary Russia that the Steele pastiche was laughably, embarrassingly, painfully stupidly bogus.
No one in Russia had ever heard of Trump-- let alone cared about him enough to risk his neck to bend the rules stipulating that foreigners don't get prize assets such as primo real estate concessions in the heart of Moscow.
The above was obvious to every Russia hand and every journalist who knows anything about Russia, be he or she left right or center on the spectrum, ranging from Matt Bivens former Moscow Times editor to lefties Taibbi, Masha Gessen of The NY Review of Books and Soviet Historian Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton, and the entire Russian press corps, including the anti-Putin Russian liberals.
All of these people knew and said from the beginning that this narrative, especially the Steele garbage, was nonsense on stilts.
The Russians think Americans have lost their minds. They're right.
The South Korean firm closed its last smartphone factory in China in October after it had operated at the Jinxinda complex in Huizhou city for almost 30 years
Samsung relocated production to Vietnam and India in response in large part to the US-China trade war
Concerns about being sued should goose congregational preparations against future attacks in the way that concerns about future attacks clearly have not. Ditto for schools and churches, one hopes.
[IsraelTimes] Almog Peretz, who was shot in the leg, claims Chabad center did not use a $150,000 government grant it received to protect congregants against potential anti-Semitic attacks.
A man who was injured in the shooting attack at the Chabad of Poway is suing the Jewish center for not protecting its worshipers.
Almog Peretz was shot in the leg in the April 27 attack. His 8-year-old niece was also injured.
Peretz was shot while gathering children together in the synagogue and ushering them to safety. One woman was killed in the attack, and the synagogue’s rabbi was shot and lost a finger.
The lawsuit filed on Friday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that the synagogue did not have proper security, despite a rise in anti-Semitic attacks nationally, and did not use a $150,000 government grant to upgrade security, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Chabad of Poway received the grant a month before the attack because the synagogue "believed that it was at risk of an anti-Semitic attack on its congregants," according to the lawsuit. On the day of the attack, the building’s doors were not locked, and no guards or other security measures were in place, it says.
Peretz plans to sue the gun store that sold the shooter his weapon, as well as the Chabad organization, Fox5 San Diego reported.
Attorney Yoni Weinberg told Fox that the federal government had sued the Chabad of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in 2014 for not using grant money toward security.
The accused gunman in the Poway shooting, John Earnest, 20, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to charges of murder and attempted murder. The murder charge is classified as a hate crime, making Earnest eligible for the death penalty . Earnest told a 911-operator right after the attack that he did it to save white people from Jews.
Chabad of Poway had no comment for either news outlet.
[AnNahar] U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said Wednesday that attendees at a Gay Paree meeting on supporting Leb had agreed to give technical advice to Lebanese institutions but they won't provide the bailout that caretaker 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.... had requested.
Hariri had called on 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... , La Belle France, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , the United States, China, and Egypt to send funds to help Leb finance imports.
"There's no aid package, there is no bailout," Schenker told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "Leb is not being saved from its financial mess."
Schenker said the group is considering sending some humanitarian aid to Leb to alleviate residents' suffering, though it was unclear when or how much.
Schenker also insisted the U.S. is not laying out conditions for which groups can be included in the new government.
"We have stuck until now with focusing on a set of principles, which is not who is the prime minister, not who is the minister of finance, not what party they're from, not what religion they're from -- but whether they are capable of reform," he told AP.
Turkish forces have never committed to a ceasefire, nor their government’s pledges to the Russian sponsor in Astana, nor to the U.S. guarantor in the Global Coalition against ISIS. https://t.co/cWGuNElStn
[NPASYRIA] Although The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... is one of the guarantor states of the de-escalation agreement in northwestern Syria, it is stepping up its offensive toward the internally displaced people and the civilians who fled the war in Idlib, towards the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders. Where the displaced people who try to cross the borders to enter Ottoman Turkish territories illegally, are attacked with live gun-shots by the Ottoman Turkish border guards, killing and wounding dozens of Syrian civilians, including women and kiddies.
ASSAULT AND LARGE SUMS OF MONEY
Furthermore, the intensively deployed Ottoman Turkish guards on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders, deliberately target the camps nearby the borders with light and medium weapons, especially after control over large areas of Syrian agricultural lands near the towns of Aqrabat and Kafr Lusin, in the northern countryside of Idlib.
Ahmad al-Yaseen, a young man from northern Hama, told North-Press that he tried several times to cross into the Ottoman Turkish territories to work there and secure a living for his family, after he was displaced from Hama countryside and lost his land, which was his only source of livelihood. He added that every time he tried to enter Turkey, he was arrested by the border guards, who were severely beating him. "One of my relatives was severely beaten and his bones were broken after being hit by an iron bar with no mercy," Ahmad said.
Regarding the sums of money they pay, al-Yaseen explained: "We pay the smuggler $500 in addition to another $50 in favor of the so-called border sector of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... ," stressing that it is impossible for anyone to enter without paying this tax to the HTS bad boys, who deploy offices for them In Urim al-Joz, Harem, and other bordering areas where smuggling takes place. While one of the workers in smuggling into Turkey (Kh. al-Hajji), from the town of Harem, told North-Press that during his smuggling work, he was subjected dozens of times to firing shots by the Ottoman Turkish border guards, the matter that often causes the death and injury of several people accompanying him.
"Last time when I was trying to get a group of 35 people including children and women into the Ottoman Turkish side, we were subjected to direct gun-shots, which resulted in the injury of several civilians, including a woman, where the Ottoman Turkish border guards managed to arrest most of them, and beat them horrendously," he added.
EXPLOITATION OF THE DISPLACED PEOPLE BY THE HTS
According to al-Hajji, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) imposes taxes on each smuggler, as its offices operating in the border zone force civilians to get a paper specifying the name of the person, and the amount of money paid for the smuggler on the pretext of protecting them and not being used by those smugglers.
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[DAWN] IT is an incredible video to watch. After the incident yesterday when a mob of lawyers marched on 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 (PIC), and forced their entry into the hospital and ransacked it, a video did the rounds that showed a long-haired man raised on the shoulders of somebody soaking in the applause of a large crowd assembled all around him.
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This in a country where men have gotten PHDs in Physics debating how many JINN can dance on a head of a pin - makes total ALICE IN WONDERLAND sense.
Main payload was RISAT2-BR1 - a synthetic aperture radar spy satellite for the Indian military
Israel’s aerospace education reached new heights on Wednesday when a satellite built by Israeli students, the “Duchifat-3”, was launched into space from India.
The satellite successfully blasted off into space aboard a PSLV-C48 rocket from the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Sriharikota launch site.
Duchifat-3, the third satellite in the Duchifat satellite series, is an experimental and educational spacecraft developed by high school students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC) and students from the Sha’ar HaNegev High school in Israel’s southern region.
Alongside its educational purpose, the Duchifat-3 has two missions which will be carried out in parallel, featuring an on-board camera for earth imaging and a radio transponder for communication missions. The satellite images will be used for ecological research.
The Duchifat-3 satellite is small in size and weight, measuring only 10x10x30 centimeters and weighing only 2.3 kilograms.
The students worked on the project for nearly two and a half years, during which they designed the satellite, programmed its software and put it through rigorous tests until they were certain it was prepared for launch.
During their work, the students faced various scientific and technological challenges including the preparation of the satellite for its scientific mission, managing its energy resources, communications system, and more.
Additionally, the satellite must be stabilized in space for successful space-borne photography, a complex task that requires control of the satellite’s position in orbit.
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Doesn't Isreal have its own space program? If not, why not?
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Israel's actually leading in the mid-east space race. The Beresheet thingy didn't go so well like ours, but both our guys in goggle glasses press on, for that unwinnable dark yonder.
The thing where we fling up each others' sats is a friendly exchange mostly. We actually benefit more in the relationship; from their freely shared Israeli innovation and engineering skills, top notch intelligence and support activities, discounted SOTA hardware. The best part is they're the only ones we deal with who are not arseholes about procedure. Every exchange is kept almost informally fraternal. The Langley goombahs and MI6 flat tops often wonder how so much gets accomplished so fast and with zero hassles with Israelis. They bring zero 'baggage' to the job.
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The thing where we fling up each others' sats is a friendly exchange mostly.
Also, sensor comms and control parameter ranging between payload, launch buss and multiple mission controls are multi-lingual normalized and exercised preflight.
[Berlingske.dk] Police have taken a total of 20 actions around the country, police said at a press conference on Wednesday at 5pm. A total of 20 people have been arrested and charged.
Police have today taken several actions in several places in the country.
That's because police suspect a terrorist attack with a "militant, Islamist motive" has been under preparation.
Six police districts are involved in the actions. Police have called on 20 addresses in total and 20 people have been arrested and charged in the case.
The persons - or at least some of them - are charged with section 114 (1) of the Criminal Code. 1, which is one of the terrorist regulations.
“It is important to emphasize that we have got hold of all those we have been seeking. So there are none of those we have had in the binoculars that are on the loose. And we are now in control of this situation, 'said Chief Police Inspector of Copenhagen Police Jørgen Bergen Skov at a press conference at 17.
On the map below you can see where the police have conducted searches or another type of action.
You can read more here.
DETAINEES ARE CHARGED WITH TERRORISM CLAUSE
About 20 people were arrested Wednesday for obtaining remedies to manufacture explosives and attempts to obtain firearms.
Several of those arrested will, according to the police and the Police Intelligence Service (PET), be manufactured and charged with the so-called terror clause.
The Terrorism Clause, section 114 of the Criminal Code, states that acts such as killings, attempted murder, violence, serious arrests and detention should be counted as terrorism, among other things if the intention is to seriously intimidate a population.
You can also be punished if you "unlawfully force Danish or foreign public authorities or an international organization to take or fail to take any action or to destabilize or destroy the basic, political, constitutional, economic or societal structures of a country or international organization" .
The penalty is up to lifetime.
In addition, section 114b may also be charged with terrorism if you directly or indirectly provide financial support to a person, group or association who commits or intends to commit acts covered by the terrorist clause.
It can be punishable by imprisonment for ten years.
It is not known what the individual detainees will be charged with. Just that "several of them" will be charged for section 114 (1). First
[Berlingske.dk] A major police operation in several of the country's police districts is about preparing for a terrorist attack with a "militant, Islamist motive", the Copenhagen Police said.
A major police action in several of the country's police districts is about preparing for a terrorist attack with a "militant, Islamist motive", it is now from the Copenhagen Police.
A terrorist attack with a "militant, Islamist motive" has been under preparation, according to police.
That's the reason for a major police action in several locations in the country on Wednesday afternoon.
This is stated by the Copenhagen Police in a brief press release:
"The reason for the action is the suspicion of preparing for terrorist attacks with a militant, Islamist motive."
At a press conference at 17, the Copenhagen Police and the Police Intelligence Service (PET) are expected to tell in more detail.
Earlier in the afternoon, the report from the Copenhagen Police, in collaboration with several other police circles - North Jutland Police, Central and West Jutland Police, Funen Police, Mid- and West Zealand Police and Vestegnens Police - was under investigation and arrests in several places in the country.
According to Ekstra Bladet, among other things, a number of college residences on Stormgade in Aalborg and, according to Nordjyske, an address on Ravnkildevej in Aalborg East have been searched.
B.T. writes that two men of Middle Eastern appearance wearing white DNA suits in Aalborg were carried away by combat officers.
According to B.T. addresses in Herlev have also been searched. In addition, an apartment in Husum northwest of Copenhagen has been searched.
The same applies to an address at Rydevænget in Aarhus V.
The latest assessment of the terror threat against Denmark from the Police Intelligence Service, PET, was published in January 2018. Here, PET's Center for Terror Analysis, CTA, describes the threat of militant Islamism like this:
»The CTA considers that the terrorist threat to Denmark comes mainly from people with sympathy for militant Islamism. These are motivated by a perception that Islam is under attack from the West and that Denmark is a legitimate target as a result of Denmark's active foreign and security policy, including participation in the international coalition against IS, and perceived violations of Islam, such as the drawing case. «
The analysis continued:
“The CTA considers that the terrorist threat is primarily based on individuals or small groups living in Denmark or in a neighboring country. Simple means and short planning attacks are the most likely form of attack. However, there is still a threat to Denmark from complex attacks directed by militant Islamist groups abroad, albeit reduced. "
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[Rudaw] It was four in the morning in mid-September when Lydia* saw her opportunity to escape. She quietly let herself out of the Erbil house where she had been abused for the past month and fled, taking nothing but the clothes she was wearing. She had no shoes on her feet, spoke no Kurdish, and had only recently learned she was in Iraq and not The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... where she had been led to believe she would have a good job in a cleaning service.
The sun had not yet risen when she was found in tears and huddled behind a car. The men who found her, guards for a guest house on the eastern edge of the city, brought her to local tribal leader Nawzad Anwar Betwata.
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SDF military sources to North-Press: The withdrawal of Turkish-backed armed groups from M4 highway at a distance of 1km. As 2 Russian armored vehicles with 2 helicopters conducted a patrol on M4 highway this morning, to check the withdrawal Turkey's armed groups pic.twitter.com/LGfDkWMi9p
[WASHINGTONTIMES] An Ohio man accused of plotting with his girlfriend to obtain guns and explosives for a foiled domestic terror attack at a bar was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison.
Vincent Armstrong, 24, of Toledo, pleaded guilty in August to a charge related to conspiring to transport or receive an explosive with intent to harm. He will remain on probation for three years after his release, The Toledo Blade reported.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Freeman said Armstrong’s girlfriend Elizabeth Lecron was the criminal mastermind behind the planned attack and that she introduced him to online communities interested in mass murders.
Prosecutors said the pair had talked extensively about taking part in violent attacks on public places, visited the site of the Columbine High School massacre and had bomb-making materials and weapons.
Armstrong said his roommate convinced him to not go through with the assault.
"When I recall being confronted by my roommate, I felt like it was a second chance at life," Armstrong said. "My life is far from over. I will become a better version of myself with the help of my family and friends."
Armstrong’s defense attorney, Adam Nightingale, said Armstrong’s roommate persuaded him to end his involvement with Lecron about six months before he was arrested in December 2018.
Lecron was sentenced to 15 years in prison in November after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide and conceal material support and resources to faceless myrmidons and to transporting explosives in interstate commerce.
I’m terribly sorry, my dear, but absolutely nobody cares about your concerns. If they did, you’d be doing this interview on NBC, not that other news channel.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw came on CBS’s The Late Show Monday to talk about his new Watergate book and compare the impeachment inquiry of Richard Nixon to the current impeachment of President Trump. While he was there, he also boasted how journalists in his day could be counted on to report accurately; but today, people got their news from social media which couldn’t be trusted.
While comparing his time covering Watergate to the current impeachment proceedings, Brokaw told host Stephen Colbert how journalists used to be considered trustworthy, because they had plenty of time to do their own sourcing and could control what was reported:
“[I]t wasn't 24-7 on television...I would be working the phones all day long to try to find out what, in fact, happened and, when it would go on, it would be very much organized and I could count on what I was saying,” he touted.
Colbert interjected to joke, “Wait, go back! What was news like when it was organized and you could count on what you were saying? Take me back to this mythical land!”
But now, Brokaw lamented, the rise of new media on social media platforms had caused Americans to pick and choose what media they wanted instead of what “could be authenticated.” He added that while journalists weren’t infallible, they “worked hard” at finding the facts and were held accountable for their reporting.
Brokaw also complained that the traditional media no longer had a monopoly on news reporting, saying we've "lost control" of social media:
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Tom Brokaw sharing his "Fake News" sorrows with the "Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off Man" Stephen Colbert himself. This would break the even the fabled Rantburg Irony Meter™!
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No jackass, journalists used to be trusted, until Vietnam, then people started realizing what worthless subhuman lizards reporters were. Yeah there's a few of the old kind around, but they are vilified by the rest.
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"Your honor, my client didn't recklessly and maliciously defame the plaintiff and destroy his reputation for professional advantage and financial gain. 'Social media' did that."
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We are actually coming full circle. Once upon a time the maxim was "Believe half of what you see (with your own eyes) and nothing of what you hear (read in print, radio, TV, gossip, etc.)"
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"Your honor, my client didn't recklessly and maliciously defame the plaintiff and destroy his reputation for professional advantage and financial gain, he did it because the plaintiff is conservative."
[Dhaka Tribune] The families and friends of Australian victims of the White Island volcano tragedy paid tribute to "wonderful" lost loved ones on Wednesday and expressed doubt they were made aware of the risks of visiting the island.
Seven of the nine people so far identified and named as missing by New Zealand police are from Australia.
An eighth Australian victim who died in hospital was named by authorities there late Wednesday.
That number is expected to rise.
Many more of the victims are expected to have been day-trippers from a cruise ship that left from Sydney.
As the human toll from Monday's eruption came into sharper focus, the families of four of those Australian victims - who are presumed dead - spoke out.
"Gavin was a wonderful son and brother," father Brian Dallow told media, saying it would have a "big impact" on the family, especially at Christmastime. "We're really going to miss him."
"We'll miss him at the cricket - I will, at least, and we'll miss him at the football."
"He was a generous man, always helping his family and his community."
Gavin Dallow was believed killed along with his 15-year-old stepdaughter Zoe Hosking.
"Our hearts break at the loss of Zoe at such a young age. We know her loss will also devastate her school community and the local Girl Guides of which she was an active member," her step grandfather said.
Her mother, Lisa Hosking, is among those being treated for severe burns.
Brian Dallow said he did not believe his son would have visited the island if he was aware of the risk.
"I think if he knew there was a danger, he would haven't gone on it. So I'm pretty sure they weren't fully informed of the dangers, otherwise he would haven't gone. I'm quite sure of that. That's the only thing I can be really positive about."
Brisbane woman Julie Richards and her 20-year-old daughter Jessica were also presumed dead.
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So, prancing about inside an active volcano is dangerous Who could have known? It sounds like a dashing adventure. Except for the getting dead part, I mean.
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Key takeaway: If you see flames and smoke belching from an open cavern in the surface of the earth and you can still breath, depart the area immediately.
[DAWN] At least three heart patients died on Wednesday after a protest by a group of lawyers against doctors at Lahore's 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 (PIC) turned violent.
More than 200 lawyers, who had ongoing issues with the doctors of PIC, stormed the hospital, vandalising property and damaging dozens of vehicles of visitors and setting ablaze a police van, according to Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid.
Patients, some in ambulances, were unable to reach the hospital while those receiving treatment were left unattended due to the chaos. Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , who ordered an inquiry into the incident, directed the Punjab government to take stern action against all those involved in the attack.
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[VARIETY] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is asking Warner Bros. and the makers of “Richard Jewell” to release a statement acknowledging it took dramatic license when it portrayed journalist Kathy Scruggs as trading sex for tips.
The Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being exonerated. Scruggs, an employee at the paper, broke the story that Jewell was under investigation by the FBI. The film shows Scruggs, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, sleeping with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) to get the story. Scruggs died in 2001 at the age of 42. The paper has maintained that there is no evidence that Scruggs slept with anyone involved in the Jewell investigation.
“We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” the letter, sent to Warner Bros., Eastwood, and screenwriter Billy Ray, reads. “We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect.”
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Heard a piece about this on National People's Radio (NPR). Lots of outrage over the suggestion some girl journo may have boinked an FBI dude for info. Not denial. Just outrage.
No mention - absolutely no mention - of how the newspaper and the FBI totally *bleep*ed Richard Jewell's life based an FBI profiler's idea of who the perp was.
It's a good thing you can't reach thru the radio and strangle someone.
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Our era has witnessed a nonstop orgy of lying, casual slander, libel, and character assassination by the same people who'd have us believe they're defending democracy from "darkness" and malfeasance.
Screw these liars.
Now that Lin Wood has taken up Nick Sandmann's case, I hope that Sandmann wins big, and creates a precedent for a tidal wave of defamation suits against these preening, lying sacks of shit.
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So the slutty reporter at least willing to get to the bottom of the story by sleeping with an FBI agent is now dead (giving the newspaper an excuse for claiming no evidence of sex for tips). Just maybe the FBI agent or his partner or his friend or his girlfriend or wife.......... provided the evidence. But how would a building full of reporters ever get to the bottom of this.... maybe sleep with Clint Eastwood?
[TOWNHALL] Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made a name for himself as a leader in the gun control movement. After all, he funds Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. Naturally, Bloomberg has decided to use his anti-Second Amendment stance to make himself a top tier in the 2020 Democratic field.
In an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg rehashed his stance on the Supreme Court case known as New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. New York City. At the time, NYC prohibited gun owners from transporting firearms outside of city limits, even if the resident was taking them to a gun range. Once the New York Rifle and Pistol Association, along with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF )challenged the city's ordinance in a court of law, NYC decided to rescind the law. The city tried to get the lawsuit thrown out, saying the point is now moot because the ordinance no longer exists. Gun rights advocates, however, are worried the city will reimplement the law if the Supreme Court decides to throw out the case.
According to Bloomberg, pro-gun groups, like the NRA, are trying to thwart "public safety." His solution is to "appoint judges who understand that the Second Amendment allows for common sense limits on gun ownership."
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Thank you Mike for showing that the Constitution is irrevocably broken. Who needs an Article V amending process when the court has now become the defacto power to alter the Constitution? Who needs the consent of the governed? There was a reason the Founders put such a high bar to altering the original document. It's not impossible because its been done over 25 times. Much easier to do it with Princes who sit for life and are unaccountable to the governed. It's not a republic.
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There is lib law fare in a sentence. A socialist judge will find or manufacture a pretext for their 'side', regardless. A conservative judge will more usually find based on the facts within the parentheses of law and precedent.
If the MASS attorney general can read that state's constitution, a document written by 2nd and 3rd generation Puritans in the latter 17th century and find an embedded legal right to sodomy, the Law becomes meaningless.
This is what they would do to all of us. Always time to regulate when you're too lazy to legislate.
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I believe it's time for Republican lawfare. Not conservative, in the puritan sense. But republican party control. An iron-fisted bias. It's time for judges to pick sides, instead of spend their lives trying to be paragons of virtue. Make the law say and do what is necessary to preserve your republic first, worry about probity and 'the letter' later. Who's going to deter you, the Hague ?
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the media mogul's campaign spending soars over $60MILLION
So generous of him to put that much into the economy without any hope of a return. He would have been more effective donating to the Democratic party presidential campaign and key congressional candidates. But his money will be spent and spent again, according to Keynes, benefitting us all.
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^ Hmmmm. Put a game camera on that and you're guaran-darn-teed to catch Florida Man. Also, needs a plasma globe up top so customers can tell they're getting top quality juice.
[POLITICO] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... ’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he would serve only a single term.
While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.
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Not so fast - Another Biden gaffe. Or maybe his staff didn't explain it to him.
Knowing it would seriously hurt his election chances if true, the Biden campaign has now denied reports that former Vice President Joe Biden plans to serve just one presidential term in order to set the stage for a more progressive candidate to take his place — a sort of battering ram candidate purposed with smashing the walls of Trump.
Here come ol' Hairplugz... he come
Sniffin' up slowly
He got
Roamin' fingers
He got
Creepy-crawly
He sniff - hair - down - tooooo her knee...
Got-to-be-retarded-'cuz-he-too-dumb-for-real... PAPA HOOVAH - right nowwwwwWAH: youf---in kiddin' me?
[FOXNEWS] Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., said Tuesday she's willing to impeach President Trump again if he wins reelection in 2020.
TMZ founder Harvey Levin presented Bass with a scenario in which Trump wins a second term but Democrats take over the Senate from the Republicans.
"There's no such thing, really, as double jeopardy in an impeachment trial because it's political," Levin said. "Suppose he gets reelected... and you win back the Senate in a big way. If you did that, would you be inclined to take a second bite at the apple and reintroduce the exact same impeachment articles and then send it through again a second if you have a Democratic Senate on your side?"
"So, you know, yes, but I don't think it would be exactly the same and here's why," Bass responded, "because even though we are impeaching him now, there's still a number of court cases, there's a ton of information that could come forward. For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he's owned 100 percent by the Russians."
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It takes a super majority of 2/3 to remove a president (or any federal official - just ask Alcee Hastings). So just winning a majority wouldn't be enough.
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At Democrat lasses in glasses,"
But "nazis" resist 'em...
In fact, the whole system:
"That ass, Karen Bass, is the fascist!"
[DAWN] Somali security forces rubbed out five al-Shaboobs, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night, police said early on Wednesday.
Al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... , an Al Qaeda linked Death Eater group, frequently launches bombing and gun raids in Mogadishu in a bid to topple Somalia's UN-backed government. The group confirmed last night it had attacked the Syl hotel, a popular gathering place for officials and politicians.
The latest attack started at around 7pm on Tuesday and ended at about 1am on Wednesday, when all five attackers had been killed, deputy police commissioner General Zakia Hussen said in a statement on Twitter.
"The security forces ended the operation. Five people including three civilians and two soldiers died in the attack," Hussen said.
"Eleven others were slightly injured, including nine civilians and two soldiers," she added.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two children, both aged four, were raped in Narayanganj and Tangail.
The girl in Narayanganj was raped by her uncle in Sonargaon upazila on Monday.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the accused uncle, Jibon Hasan, 27, on Tuesday. Hasan confessed to raping his niece during preliminary interrogation on Wednesday.
RAB 11 ASP Md Alep Uddin said: "Jibon took his niece to his room and raped her. The child later revealed the incident to her father."
The girl has been admitted at Narayanganj General Hospital.
The other girl in Tangail was raped by a teenager on Tuesday night in Dhanbari upazila.
Police arrested the accused teenager, Momin, 12, from Sujolkor village last morning.
The child’s father filed a case, stating that Momin lured the child with a packet of potato chips before raping her behind a shop in the village.
Dhanbari cop shoppe SI Ariful Hasan said: "The teenager was produced in court and the child was sent to Tangail General Hospital for medical examination."
SISTERS RAPED IN GAZIPUR Two teenage sisters, aged 18 and 17, were raped in Tongi, Gazipur, on Tuesday night.
RAB 1 on Wednesday arrested two rape suspects identified as Shraif Miya, 22, and Momin Miya in connection to the case filed by the elder sister.
RAB 1 Additional SP Md Kamruzzaman said: "The arrested have confessed to their crimes upon preliminary interrogation."
According to the case statement, the girls were waiting for their relative on the bank of the Turag River around 8pm when five unknown individual kidnapped them to an isolated place before raping them.
Tongi police OC Emdadul Haque said the girls had been taken to a hospital for medical examination.
2 ARRESTED FOR RAPE IN JESSORE
Police on Wednesday arrested two men for allegedly raping a woman in Chougachha upazila.
The arrested are Shahid Ali, 32, and Abdul Karim, 35.
According to the case statement, on Monday when the woman was standing near a local tea stall, its owner Shahid Ali kidnapped her and took her to a deserted place, where he and his accomplice Abdul Karim raped her. Later, Abdul Karim forcibly took her to his home, where she was raped again. Chougachha cop shoppe OC Rifat Khan confirmed the incident to Dhaka Tribune on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] As the protest by lawyers outside Lahore's 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 (PIC) on Wednesday took an ugly turn, members of the legal fraternity slammed those protesters who resorted to violence.
PPP leader and senior lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan, while talking to the media, said that the violence was "shameful and should be condemned".
"Many of them will be candidates for the January election coming up. They want to become prominent. These people should not be allowed to even contest the elections. These lawyers are destroying the reputation of all lawyers. My head is bowed with shame," he said.
"They have attacked a hospital. For black coats to break the glasses and enter wards ‐ this should never happen. Everyone who took part in this should not be voted for."
Some members of the legal fraternity took to Twitter to express their concern and called for action to be taken against the lawyers for attacking a hospital.
Lawyer Babar Sattar called the violence "abhorrent" and pointed out that "it isn't the first such incident". He said that the bar leaders should call for the cancellation of the licences of the lawyers involved.
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Kinda reminds me of the 1700's London "Hellfire" type clubs. Gangs of upper class thugs.
[AnNahar] Tension rose in central Beirut when a group of young men tried to attack the epicenter of the anti-government protests, prompting security forces to fire tear gas.
Dozens of men threw stones and Molotov cocktails at anti-riot police who deployed to stop the advancing assailants.
Police pushed them back firing rounds of tear-gas. The group of mainly young men who came from the impoverished Khandaq al-Ghamiq area were chanting "Shia, Shia!" as they approached the area of anti-government protesters.
It is not the first time supporters of the two main Shiite groups in Leb, Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and AMAL Movement, attacked the protesters’ site.
Breaking News: Libyan Grand Mufti Shiekh Sadiq Al-Gharyani hails #Libya-#Turkey MoUs on maritime boundaries and security cooperation, urging Libyan authorities to accept Turkey’s military support to repel warlord Khalifa Haftar and his foreign backers attacking the capital pic.twitter.com/E4HH61G1ec
[IsraelTimes] Jihadists in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... release a video showing the execution of two soldiers and a policeman.
The video, posted online late Monday by 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 (IS) propaganda agency Amaq, is made by a branch of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... that has sworn allegiance to IS known as the Islamic State Group in West Africa (ISWAP).
It shows three men in plain clothes kneeling in a field, introducing themselves as members of the Nigerian security forces before masked men in fatigues open fire on them shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).
"We tell the Nigerian army that we will never spare those fighting against the people who follow Allah’s religion," one of the executioners says in Hausa, a language widely spoken in the north of the country.
"We will attack your bases and confront you on your routes," the krazed killer adds, shortly before the execution.
Here’s hoping Britain's voters choose the intelligent path today.
[Jpost] In November 2002, the Ottoman Turkish people voted into power an antisemitic, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", supporting politician named 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... . It took a few years, but bilateral ties between Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , which had been flourishing at the time of the election, tanked.
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Wednesday indicted Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , the chief of the proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), and four other JuD leaders who were booked in July for offences pertaining to terror financing.
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20 Rupee fine and dinner at Lahore's finest restaurant. Case closed.
[Dhaka Tribune] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not complicit in deadly religious riots that broke out in 2002 in one of the bloodiest episodes in independent India, according to a judge-led commission report released Wednesday.
Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... when nearly 1,000 people -- the majority of them Moslems - were killed in riots triggered by a fire on a train which killed 59 Hindu activists.
The riots have long dogged Modi, who was accused by human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups of turning a blind eye to the violence.
The Nanavati Commission found that the riots were spontaneous, sparked by the train burning deaths, rather than pre-planned attacks.
"There is no evidence to show that these attacks were either inspired or instigated or abated by any minister of the state," the Nanavati Commission said in its nine-volume report of more than 2,500 pages.
The release of the report came amid protests in northeastern India over a citizenship bill that proposes excluding Moslem refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistain.
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), re-elected in a landslide in May after coming to power in 2014, has long been accused of following a "Hindutva" agenda favouring officially secular India's majority Hindus.
In August Modi's administration rescinded the partial autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , India's only Moslem-majority state, in what his government said was aimed at boosting the local economy and rooting out corruption.
The report - which included 44,445 affidavits from witnesses and 488 government officials -- was tabled in the Gujarat state assembly on Wednesday, five years after it was submitted to the government following a 12-year probe.
While the commission's terms of reference did not require the government to make the findings public, it said in September the report would be released after a petition for its publication was filed in the High Court.
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For every hindu killed by a muslim, there's got to be at least 10 muslims killed. That's like an unwritten universal rule, prior to any constitution. There's nothing the police, courts or even Modi can do to stop that.
Our reporter: Turkish-backed armed groups renew their artillery shelling on the town of Tal-Rifaat in Aleppo's northern countryside, no reports regarding casualties. pic.twitter.com/tOnAB9doHD
[AlAhram] An Egyptian politician has called for a full ban on the niqab, or the face veil, in Egypt, reviving a longstanding debate over whether outlawing face veils would be a violation of religious freedom.
Amna Noseir, who is also a professor at Egypt's top Islamic institution al-Azhar, has called for issuing a law or a government decision banning the face veil in all public places, saying it is not a matter of personal freedom, but rather a door to illegal acts and crimes, according to local news website Youm7.
Only a small minority of Moslem women cover their faces in Egypt, a predominantly Moslem country. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... most Egyptian Moslem women do wear the traditional Islamic headscarf, or hijab, as a sign of modesty.
This is not the first time that Nosseir, who was a member of a committee that drafted Egypt's new 2014 constitution, which guarantees freedom of belief and the practice of religious rites, has called for the ban.
Rights advocates say a total ban would violate women’s rights to freedom of expression and religion, with many calling it a form of bigotry against conservative Moslems. Supporters say the measure is necessary for security reasons.
"Women should not be prevented from dressing as they wish, and a wholesale ban on this form of clothing would be absolutely impermissible and unconstitutional," said Gamal Eid, director of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information.
"But there can be guidelines regulating how women should reveal their faces to verify their identities," he said, adding that a partial ban where facial identification is required is not illegal.
The MP's remarks came days after a niqab-wearing woman, who was acting interim head of a state cultural house in the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira, was let go from her position after a journalist criticised her appointment in a post that went viral on Facebook. A culture ministry official later claimed the decision was not prompted by her clothing, but was due to the fact that a more senior staff member was more entitled to the post.
In late September, an Egyptian administrative court ruled against banning the niqab in public places.
Under a 2015 decision backed by an administrative court ruling, faculty members at Egypt's state-owned Cairo University are banned from wearing the face veil. A group of researchers are spearheading an appeal against the decision, with the next hearing scheduled for 19 January.
Many Arab countries have restricted the face veil, including Tunisia, which has outlawed it in public institutions and government offices, and Algeria, which has barred women from wearing it to work.
Western Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries such as La Belle France and Belgium ban face coverings, while others impose partial bans including the Netherlands and Germany.
[Dhaka Tribune] Aung San Suu Kyi has advanced the arguments at The Hague, in response to allegations including genocide were much the same as the Burmese leader has been making for years now.
She might have been saving her best defence for the highest stage of all. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... most had been discredited long before she delivered her 20-minute address at the international court of justice on Wednesday morning.
There had undoubtedly been violence in the country’s restive northern Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi told the judges. Armed groups had attacked the Burmese army, which had responded with force, sending more than 700,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
Nonetheless she challenged the idea that the military’s actions were carried out with genocidal intent ‐ "to destroy the Rohingya as a group, in whole or in part."
She cited Myanmar’s efforts to investigate the alleged crimes. Soldiers had been incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , and an extensive special inquiry was under way, she said. In addition, Myanmar has been negotiating with Bangladesh’s government for the "voluntary, safe and dignified" return of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, who fled to Cox’s Bazar starting in August 2017.
"How can there be an ongoing genocide or genocidal intent when these concrete steps are being taken?" Suu Kyi asked.
Yet far from absolving the country, each of these steps has been sharply criticized as delaying justice, at best, and denying it at worst.
Seven Burmese military personnel were indeed sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour after being found guilty of murdering 10 Moslem men. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... they were released after serving less than a year behind bars. (In contrast, two Rooters journalists who exposed the killings were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for more than 500 days.)
Suu Kyi herself pointed to the inadequacy of the justice system in this case, noting on Wednesday: "Many of us in Myanmar were unhappy with this pardon [of the seven military personnel]."
It is also true that a special investigation has been established. Myanmar announced an international commission of enquiry (ICOE) in May 2018. Still the rule of law in the country is notoriously patchy, and the independence of the judiciary has been in question for decades.
The Myanmar government explicitly said it was establishing the ICOE in response to "false allegations" of violence against the Rohingya. At a presser in August 2018, the commission’s chair made clear "there will be no blaming of anybody, no finger-pointing of anybody."
[TimCast] "STOP ATTACKING FREE SPEECH!"
"Can I say I don't care about your pronouns?"
"NO! I AM NOT FOR FREE SPEECH!"
"But I thought you didn't want to attack free speech?"
Head explodes into a billion pieces
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"Gender is NOT fluid" hate speech. "African Americans' IQ average is 80" hate, hate, hate speech. "Israel doesn't have a right to exists" free speech.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Hate speech
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I have a dream. That some people will just accept the boot and learn to live in their narrow confines until their future generations forget what all the fuss was about. Of course that boot must be MINE.
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J street, Jewish Voices for Peace and a few other leftist groups have denounced the EO (which does not ban antisemitism but puts some mild pressure on Colleges and Universities to avoid endorsing the most rabid groups)
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Vox published an explainer on the subject that shows once again what a master level troll President Trump is. Key paragraph:
But a draft of the executive order — published Wednesday morning by the news site Jewish Insider — is far less troubling than the Times made it out to be. The executive order has still not been officially issued, but according to the draft text, it does not redefine Judaism as a nationality. Instead, it appears to largely be a reiteration of 2010 guidance issued by the Obama administration aimed at providing a more expansive definition of anti-Semitism.
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Trump knows how to push buttons, and without wires or radio waves, makes empty heads explode.
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CBS News fell for it, too. I did a YouGov poll this morning where CBS asked if the respondent thought Judaism was a nationality or a religion. I thought it an odd question, but now I understand!
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[AMERICANTHINKER] The first signs of trouble ahead for newly elected so-called moderate representatives in swing districts are being felt here in Virginia's 7th District.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger hopped on the moderate train in 2018, touting her CIA background ad nauseam to the people of the traditionally Republican 7th District. With the help of millions of dollars from pro-child sacrifice abortion PACs and Soros-funded outfits, volunteers from Northern Virginia spread out over the western and southwestern suburbs of Richmond to give her a slim margin of victory over Republican Dave Brat. But Spanberger's cover as an across-the-aisle moderate is not holding up well under the pressure of an impeachment hoax and a newly elected majority-Democrat Legislature.
Up until this past weekend, Spanberger's numerous town halls have been generally peaceful Q&As. That all changed during Sunday's gathering at a middle school gym in Spotsylvania County.
The Virginia General Assembly's push for more radical gun control policies coupled with Spanberger's "yes" vote for the impeachment inquiry after she promised to vote "no" came to a head on Sunday. If many of her constituents weren't paying attention to Spanberger's flip-flop before the hearings began last week, they are now.
The mask is slipping, and the lady is no moderate. In one exchange with a member of the audience, Spanberger, the CIA officer, apparently didn't understand that here in the United States we are innocent until proven guilty.
"No one has dispelled or attempted to dispel or provide evidence that would exonerate the president," she said.
"Did you really say that? You have to prove you're innocent?" someone else responded.
Spanberger then insisted President Trump's conduct with Ukraine jeopardized national security.
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Congressman: "No one has dispelled or attempted to dispel or provide evidence that would exonerate the president."
Citizen: "Did you really say that? You have to prove you're innocent?"
The above is yet another example illustrating why the vulgar term, Shitshow, is really the only term that fits the current political class and its antics.
In this example we have a college-educated former intelligence officer, now a Representative in Congress, showing for all the world to see that she doesn't have the faintest understanding of the foundational principle of our system of justice. Unbelievable.
This is Elmer Fudd territory: the farmer as moron, not knowing which end of the gun is the business end. Or Mr. Bean/Rowan Atkinson as pastor at the wedding, nattering on about the "Holy S-S-Spigot" and asking the groom if he will "take this woman to be your awful wedded wife."
What the hell has happened to this country?
How did we arrive at so many millions of educated fools not knowing the most basic facts about the presumption of innocence, or due process, or the foreign policy-making process, or basic facts about contemporary Russia?
Spanberger's support of the impeachment fiasco has come back to bite her, and with at least four Republicans now vying for the chance to unseat her in 2020, the suburban, wine-swilling soccer moms may not be enough to save her.
[IsraelTimes] Interior Minister Arturo Murillo says Israelis ’know how to handle’ terrorists; La Paz set up new anti-terror units aimed at rooting out ’threatening’ foreign groups.
Murillo told Rooters local police were investigating leftists with alleged ties to Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... n President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground... whom he said was trying to destabilize the region. Bolivia’s interim government, headed by President Jeanine Anez, unveiled a new anti-terrorism police force it said was aimed at dismantling foreign groups "threatening" the troubled South American country.
Murillo said Friday that the units were "tough and not messing around," and that several countries had helped with training. He also said he had asked Israel for help, citing its experience with terrorism.
The minister said the state had to act to "free Bolivia from these narcosnuffies who have settled in the country in the last 14 years" ‐ a pointed reference to Morales’s term in office.
Morales resigned on November 10 amid swelling protests over what political opponents said was his rigging of October 20 elections. He fled to Mexico the following day after losing the support of the military and police, claiming to be the victim of a coup.
The transitional government of Anez, a former opponent of Morales, has denounced foreign influence in the country since taking power, naming Colombians, Peruvians, Cubans and Venezuelans at different times. Her government has blamed foreigners for provoking violent festivities during more than a month of post-election violence in Bolivia that has left dozens of people dead.
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
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[Red State] It’s a question that could go either way given the latest details of how Republicans are planning to approach this.
[PJ] On Wednesday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his report and the FBI's counterintelligence operation into the Trump campaign back in the last presidential election cycle. Senator Lindsey Graham confronted Horowitz and everyone else present with a shocking finding from Horowitz's report: the FBI lawyer supervising the FISA process, named Clinesmith, purposefully doctored an email to make former Trump adviser Carter Page appear as a Russian agent rather than as a CIA source, which he actually was.
[The Hill] Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz that "someone’s got to be fired" within FBI leadership based on his inspector general report, which found widespread fault with how the FBI handled its investigation of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
[Federalist] A 2017 letter from the FBI, responding to a senator’s inquiry about the nature of the agency’s counterintelligence briefings with the Trump campaign, was contradicted on Wednesday by the testimony of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. This latest revelation of FBI lies exposes more undue spying and abuse of power at the highest levels of the intelligence agency.;img.crop(width:1080,height:608))
The "Why" has been established. The "How Much, To Whom, and for How Long" remains something of a mystery. 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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 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 
...
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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 
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
[TOWNHALL] Last month, a DNA test confirmed that Hunter Biden is the father of a child born in August 2018. The mother, Lunden Roberts, reportedly worked at Mpire Gentlemen's Club in Washington, D.C., where Biden frequented. That's how the two allegedly met. Roberts has, understandably, gone after Biden for child support, health care and legal fees.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
[WASHINGTONTIMES] An Ohio man accused of plotting with his girlfriend to obtain guns and explosives for a foiled domestic terror attack at a bar was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison.
[DAWN] At least three heart patients died on Wednesday after a protest by a group of lawyers against doctors at Lahore's
...aka 
[TOWNHALL] Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made a name for himself as a leader in the gun control movement. After all, he funds Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. Naturally, Bloomberg has decided to use his anti-Second Amendment stance to make himself a top tier in the 2020 Democratic field.
I was so hoping he'd start championing electric cars. (Enjoy the interesting photo) 
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
[Dhaka Tribune] Two children, both aged four, were raped in Narayanganj and Tangail.
Two teenage sisters, aged 18 and 17, were raped in Tongi, Gazipur, on Tuesday night.
...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 
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
