[FoxNews] Demonstrators' causes include climate change, immigration, voting rights, health care and racial justice.
A left-wing protest in Washington, D.C., is blocking traffic in the nation's capital to demonstrate against an administration and lawmakers they believe have failed them by not delivering on various promises.
The initiative, dubbed "Shutdown DC," is a joint effort from several activist organizations that are each conducting blockades at different spots near the Capitol building.
"On Dec. 7, as Congress returns to the Capitol for the last week of the 2021 legislative calendar, we’re going to take bold direct action to demand that Congress and the administration take action to pass the programs that they promised us and we voted for," said a message on the Shutdown DC website. "We’re taking to the streets to shut down the backroom meetings and political theater that have failed to deliver the progress that our communities need."
The groups involved include SPACES In Action, Extinction Rebellion DC, Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, Code Pink. Demonstrators are advocating causes including climate change, immigration reform, voting rights, D.C. statehood, health care and racial justice.
In other words, various Black Bloc anarcho-communist groups and various far left activist fellow travelers.
Images from the scene showed protesters blocking roads as they stood in the way of traffic with signs and other props.
Any word on whether they bothered to get proper permits from the city?
The blockade organizers offered training for participants this past weekend, advertising that they would be teaching "the basics of organizing disruptive direct action, specific skills like assertive intervention, working as a police liaison, and making action art!"
According to conservative podcaster Lyndey Fifield, the blockades did more than just draw attention to their causes: they also got in the way of World War II veterans looking to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which took place on Dec. 7, 1941.
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There is some family research I have been wanting to do at the National Archives in DC, but in view of recent events, I've decided to stay far away from that area for the duration.
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[KhaamaPress] Leader of the so-called anti-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... resistance front and son of the slain Ahmad Shah Masoud,
...also spelt Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir Valley was assassinated by Al Qaeda turbans posing as journalists two days before 9/11, when his namesake was only 12 years old...
Ahmad Masoud
...also Ahmad Massoud, official leader of the National Resistance Front based in the Panjshir Valley, though word is that he and former Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh decamped for Tajikistan when the valley fell to Taliban forces....
has met with the head of the notorious private militia- Blackwater- Erik Prince in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
Reports have only confirmed their meeting but details have not been disclosed yet.
Blackwater is a notorious private American militia that gains contracts to secure US diplomatic missions and diplomats abroad.
Ahmad Masoud fled Afghanistan after the defeat of his-led anti-Taliban front and the collapse of Panjshir province to the Taliban.
Panjshir, in the north of Kabul that was known as the resistance front against the Taliban was not collapsed during the five-year rule of the Taliban in the 90s.
The province was fully packed with different large and small scale American and Russian weapons that have been seized by the Taliban and are being delivered to Kabul.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that there are still hundreds of trucks of weapons that were kept in caves during the soviet-mujahideen war in Afghanistan.
Ahmad Masoud seems to be a new player from the northern alliance that will play the role of opposition to the Taliban or any Pashtun-led government in Afghanistan.
His resistance front is reportedly given an office in the US.
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan’s central bank-De Afghanistan Bank- in a statement on Tuesday, December 7 said that they received a second package of cash in humanitarian aids to the bank.
The bank did not close the exact amount of money though, the statement reads that the money was delivered to Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) through the central bank of Afghanistan.
The cash in humanitarian aid by the UNAMA comes as Afghanistan’s local currency is at its lowest point ever against the US dollar.
The most recent official exchange rate I found is 96.1538 afghanis to the dollar.
It is said that the lack of a dollar has caused the local currency (Afghani) to lose its value and ultimately made the prices of food ingredients to be double.
Seventh century customs lead to seventh century economies, say others.
De Afghanistan Bank in the statement said that the problem of the banking system and local currency will soon be resolved and banks will deliver their best services to people.
In the meantime, officials in UNAMA said that the money is not given to authorities in Kabul but to private banks in Afghanistan so that they pay the bills of humanitarian activities of the UN.
UNAMA has announced to be given Afghanistan central bank $16 million in cash.
[ToloNews] Several school-aged girls in the northeastern province of Kunar have called for the reopening of schools for girls grades 7-12 in the province.
They urged the new government to let girls continue their education in Kunar, as they have been allowed in some other provinces.
"My sisters are in grade eight and nine, they are always asking me about their schools, they get upset when they hear no clear news about the reopening of schools. We ask the Islamic Emirate to let schools be opened," said a girl in grade 5.
Along with students, a number of teachers and tribal elders in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... claimed that the Islamic Emirate is behaving inconistently toward Afghan students across Afghanistan.
"High schools are closed in eastern provinces; schools must be opened so everyone--men and women--are allowed to learn and get an education in Islam," said a teacher.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... the head of the education department in Kunar province, Mawllawi Muhebullah Haidari, said the department is prepared to reopen schools for girls if they receive permission.
"We ask elders (government leaders) to give permission, we are ready to open the schools," said Haidari.
Based on the reports, nearly 70.000 girls are attending in Kunar’s schools.
After the collapse of former government, schoolgirls from grade 7 to 12 have been allowed to continue their studies in eight provinces of Afghanistan. Schools in the remaining provinces are still shut.
That’s one way to move the recalcitrants among the Talib cannon fodder far from the children of the citizenry they consider their rightful booty.
[KhaamaPress] A front man of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Inamullah Samangani said that the leadership has created a special military unit to protect forests in seven provinces of Afghanistan.
Inamullah Samangani in a series of Twitter posts said that the 450-member unit will be assigned not only to protect forests but also to prevent deforestation and trafficking of the forests.
"100 members of the unit will be assigned in Kabul and 50 more will be assigned Nuristan, Khost, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Paktia, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and Nengarhar provinces each." Reads Twitter posts.
This is the first time Afghanistan witnesses a special unit for the protection of forests in Afghanistan that is named "Green Unit".
Illegal mining and deforestation in different provinces of Afghanistan have been one of the biggest issues that have concerned not only people in the country but the previous governments about the natural resources of Afghanistan.
[AlAhram] Islamist Lions of Islam waging a brutal insurgency in northern Mozambique have kidnapped more than 600 women and kiddies over the past three years, Human Rights Watch said in report Tuesday.
An gang linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) has since 2018 kidnapped and enslaved more than 600 women and girls in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province," the rights group said in a statement.
Some have been freed by Mozambican and foreign forces deployed this year to help quell the violence that has wreaked havoc in the region since October 2017.
But some are still missing, the rights watchdog said.
Women and girls were kidnapped during raids on towns and villages by the Lions of Islam known locally as al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... , although they have no known connection to the group with a similar name in Somalia.
The group force young women and girls to "marry" their fighters "who enslave and sexually abuse them" while some have been sold off to foreign Lions of Islam for between $600 and $1,800, it said.
"An unknown number of women and girls remain in captivity in Mozambique, facing horrific abuses daily, including enslavement and rape by al-Shabaab fighters," said Mausi Segun, HRW's Africa director.
HRW based its report on investigations including interviews with former abductees or their relatives, security sources and government officials.
The unrest that has plagued the gas-rich northern region of Mozambique has claimed at least 3,578 lives, including 1,575 civilians, according to US-based conflict tracking organization, ACLED.
More than 800,000 others have been displaced, according to government and UN agencies.
Since July, more than 3,100 African, European and US soldiers have been deployed to the Cabo Delgado province to quell the unrest.
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[KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Maykop resident Salamshokh Komilov to seven years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in a city shopping center.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on March 17 the FSB reported on the arrest of a native of Central Asia, a supporter of the terrorist organization "Islamic State."
On the same day, the special service published a video on the footage of which the detainee admitted that he was preparing a terrorist attack in the center of Maikop. The FSB video clip about the arrest of a terrorist in the capital of Adygea looks staged, the veterans of the special services interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted.
The version that the terrorists decided to choose Maykop for the explosion in the shopping center also raises doubts, the Caucasian experts pointed out.
A military court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Maykop resident Salamshokh Komilov to seven years in a strict regime colony, having found him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in a city shopping center.
The 22-year-old Salamshokh Komilov was accused of preparing a terrorist attack, illegal manufacture of explosive devices and attempted production of explosives and illegal purchase of explosives.
"It was established that in February 2021 the defendant decided to commit an explosion in one of the shopping centers in Maikop. Komilov looked on the Internet for information on the manufacture of an improvised explosive device, after which he acquired tools and components for its manufacture, which he began to store at his place of residence. also made an improvised explosive. However, Komilov could not complete the criminal intent due to circumstances beyond his control, in connection with his detention by law enforcement officers, " the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The defendant was found guilty.
"Taking into account assistance in the investigation, full admission of guilt, remorse for what he had done, as well as other mitigating circumstances, he was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security correctional colony with serving the first 2 years and 6 months in prison with a fine of 150,000 rubles," reported the press service of the court.
Whew! That was getting tiresome. Now to get the rest of them to stop playing at universal jurisdiction.
[AlAhram] A Dutch appeals court upheld Tuesday a lower court's decision to throw out a civil case against Israel's defense minister and another former senior military officer over their roles in a deadly 2014 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... The Hague District Court ruled in January 2020 that the case against Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and former air force commander Amir Eshel couldn't proceed because the men have "functional immunity from jurisdiction.''
The Hague Court of Appeal said Tuesday that the lower court was right to rule that Gantz, who was a senior military officer at the time of the airstrike, and Eshel had immunity because they were carrying out Israeli government policies.
The case was brought by Ismail Ziada, who lost six members of his family in the airstrike that lawyers for the men argued was part of an Israeli military operation during the 2014 Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... conflict. He wanted the Dutch court to order Gantz and Eshel to pay damages.
The lower court also said that Ziada was free to sue the men in Israel. At hearings in 2019, Ziada rejected the idea that he has access to justice in Israel as "farcical as well as vicious.''
Ziada told an earlier hearing that he lost his mother, three brothers, a sister-in-law and a 12-year-old nephew in the airstrike.
Israel's Justice Ministry told the court before the 2020 decision that an internal Israeli military investigation determined the airstrike had killed four bully boyz hiding in the house. It said the attack was permissible under international law. Gaza's Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers themselves have said that two bully boyz were in the building.
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A bunch of Israeli politicians and generals can’t get off the airplane in Britain, among others for that reason, Dron. Universal jurisdiction is an interesting conceit that America has been known to indulge in as well, though not against Israelis despite numerous attempts.
[JustTheNews] Chris Magnus was confirmed in a 50-47 vote after his nomination was opposed by the National Sheriffs' Association.
President Joe Biden's nominee for Customs and Border Protection Director, Chris Magnus, was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.
The Tucson, Arizona, police chief secured his position with unanimous support from Senate Democrats in a 50-47 vote. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also voted in his favor, while Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) did not vote.
Magnus' nomination was opposed by the National Sheriffs' Association and the Arizona Sheriffs' Association. The law enforcement groups said Magnus did not assist Border Patrol agents as police chief, and he does not have enough experience to lead the federal group.
Magnus deleted his Twitter last week after making comments about police officers' use of force at his department.
Sexual harassment and retaliation allegations against Magnus were settled out of court in 2017 for an undisclosed sum, Fox News reports.
He faced another lawsuit as a police chief in Richmond, California. Magnus was accused of making racist jokes against black cops, but the 2007 lawsuit was ultimately dismissed.
The now CBP head stood against the Trump administration's fight against sanctuary cities, writing in a 2017 New York Times op-ed that Tucson is not a sanctuary city but takes "pride in being welcoming to immigrants."
"Justice Department grants and other federal support funded through our taxes should not be tied to immigration policies," he wrote.
During his committee hearing on Tuesday, Magnus described the images that conjured false claims of Border Patrol agents whipping migrants as "troubling."
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The law enforcement groups said Magnus did not assist Border Patrol agents as police chief, and he does not have enough experience to lead the federal group.
With respect to the current Administration, he's perfect for the job. Let's call him Captain Turnstile!
[JPost] Wanna bet the Squad, Dems, and Biden veto it? "Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks."
A group of 13 Senate Republicans, spearheaded by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), introduced on Monday the "Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act," a legislation "aimed at eliminating Palestinian 'martyr payments.'"
According to Cotton and his colleagues, banks in "nominally friendly jurisdictions" evade United States anti-terrorism sanctions by avoiding an official presence in the United States "and continue to knowingly provide banking services, including dollar-denominated transactions, for terrorist organizations.
"Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks for the benefit of terrorist organizations," the bill reads.
The legislation includes a Sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Treasury should find foreign financial institutions that flout anti-terrorism financial regulations to be of primary money laundering concern, "and prohibit the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts in the United States by such institutions."
Cotton introduced the bill in a press conference alongside Republican senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). Taylor Force’s murder led to the passing of the Taylor Force Act in both houses of Congress. The act cuts non-humanitarian US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying terrorists and their families.
"Radical Islamic terrorists shouldn’t be rewarded for killing innocent people, and banks should be held responsible for processing any sort of ’martyr payments.’ Our bill will build upon the Taylor Force Act to ensure Palestinian terrorists don’t benefit financially for committing these senseless murders," Cotton said.
"In the years since our son Taylor was killed in 2016, we have been dedicated to making certain that at least some good emerges from our loss," said Stuart Force, Taylor Force's father, at the press conference. "Our first mission was the enactment of the Taylor Force Act in 2018, which limits the US aid to the Palestinian Authority while it continues its reprehensible Pay for Slay program of compensating terrorists and their families," he said.
"We've recently come to the realization that the job is half done and the truth is the payments have continued and those responsible have not been held accountable," Force continued. "The Taylor Force martyr payment prevention act seeks to finish the job by providing the US government with an important new tool to disincentivize banks from being part of the martyr payment program and deny them access to the US financial system until they stop doing it."
He went on to say: "Speaking from personal experience, we can tell you, this is not a theoretical problem. The family of the Hamas terrorist who murder Taylor and celebrated as a hero by Hamas has been receiving martyr payments as reward for his despicable act."
[KhaamaPress] Spokesman of the Pentagon John Kirby said that there are still 34,000 Afghan evacuees who are living in seven US military bases now after three months of evacuation.
Initially, there were 53,150 Afghan refugees housed in eight military bases of the US among them Fort Lee stopped operations and now left only seven of those bases.
As per information, nearly 20,000 Afghan evacuees have so far been processed and are now living in different states of the US.
"We now have we have fewer Afghans on military bases than ever before, and more now have processed out than we have waiting to get processed," Kirby said.
John Kirby said that majority of the Afghans who had come to the US have now been processed out of camps but did not say anything about how long the mission in military camps will continue and which camp will be the next to end its refugee support operation.
In the meantime, there are still thousands of SIV, P1, and P2 applicants left in Afghanistan. Most of them have been processed but are stuck in the country due to a lack of flights.
The US has lately announced that they do not plan another round of evacuation but will take the people in regular flights out of Afghanistan.
The US airlifted about 82,000 Afghans out of Kabul in the days leading up to Aug. 30 as the Taliban encroached on the city
The 34,000 figure is down from six weeks ago on Oct. 26 when 53,150 evacuees were still living on military bases
So far the US has pledged about $13.3 billion to Afghan settlement efforts
The seven military bases still participating in Operation Allies Welcome are: Fort Bliss in Texas (where an approximate 3,500 refugees are housed), Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey (11,000), Fort McCoy in Wisconsin (7,100), Camp Atterbury in Indiana (3,500), Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico (2,900), and Fort Pickett (5,100) and Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia (1,300).
[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against on Mohammad Nakeem Khan of Poonch district, 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.... , following the recovery of arms and ammunition, explosive substances and heroin.
The probe revealed that these substances belonged to the terror group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen
...one of Pakistan’s ISI’s catspaws in Kashmir, TuM was founded in 1990. By the end of the decade they were on their fourth emir, and subsequently their limited membership has mainly been visiting Paks with a few locals for local flavour. They’ve been seen in the Kashmir Valley in the Beeru belt of Budgam district, Ganderbal, and parts of Srinagar, Anantnag and Pulwama, and gotten funding from the Saudi Arabian Harmain Islamic Foundation — one of the financiers of 9/11, among other little projects — as well as the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba...
and its off-shoot Jammu Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF). The probe also revealed that the accused Nakeem along with the other accused and handlers or the terror group had facilitated the transportation of arms and ammunition along with explosives and narcotics from the Line of Control to the interior areas of Poonch.
The NIA had earlier charged 7 accused persons in connection with the same case. Further investigations are on, the NIA said in a note.
[Rudaw] The United States said it will continue to support the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in their fight against terror in a letter received by the Kurdish prime minister on Tuesday as America’s mission in the country formally shifts away from combat into an advisory role.
Sent by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, the letter comes at a time where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attacks on the Peshmerga forces are on the rise, especially in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad with 22 Kurdish soldiers killed in the past two weeks.
America will continue to assist the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces in confronting ISIS, particularly in the fields of "consulting, information exchange and intelligence," read a statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that was sent to Rudaw.
Austin also emphasized the importance of maintaining the strong relation the Kurdistan Region and America share, as well as America’s cooperation in confronting ISIS, it added.
Washington has maintained a strong relationship with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. The US has provided the Kurdish Peshmerga with several rounds of military aid over the years, namely in the fight against ISIS beginning in 2014. The coalition gave over 200 vehicles, including Humvees, water tankers and transport trucks to the Kurdish fighters in July and September.
Who knew — walls work?
[IsraelTimes] IDF chief Aviv Kohavi says new 40-mile above- and below-ground fence is changing the reality along the restive border, where subterranean attacks have dogged the military for years.
Standing in the shadow of a 30-foot-high concrete wall, top defense officials announced Tuesday that Israel had completed construction of a massive barrier running the length of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Continued on Page 49
[An Nahar] There are "no positivities" that indicate that the Cabinet will convene soon and the political rift has become deeper regarding the file of the Beirut port blast probe, al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted "credible sources" as saying."The Shiite duo is still maintaining its inflexible stance regarding investigative judge Tarek Bitar and its decision is final as to the Shiite ministers’ boycott of Cabinet sessions until a final decision is taken on Judge Bitar’s fate," the sources said, in remarks published Tuesday.
The sources noted that 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 the Amal Movement are not calling for Bitar’s removal but rather for restricting his jurisdiction to the questioning of employees and referring the accused ex-PM and former ministers to the Higher Council for Trial of Presidents and Ministers.
Parliament has meanwhile distanced itself from any solution, because it considers that "the better solution for this crisis is in the hands of the relevant authorities, specifically the Justice Minister (Henri Khoury) and the judicial authority," the sources added.
"The bet remains on the exit that the Justice Minister is working on, which is based on forming a judicial accusatory body comprised of three judges so that it becomes the authority that receives appeals against the investigative judge’s decisions, a move that would allow defendants to submit their defenses to several judicial authorities," the sources said.
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... has decried that "today, more than ever, we are living in another Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch... .""The Lebanese decision has been completely usurped by a party that extends from here to the Islamic Theocratic Republic" of Iran, Jumblat said in an interview with the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal, referring to 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... "At the same time, there is the enormous economic crisis, which is the result of bad behavior, or the exacerbation of the class of bankers and traders and those in the political class who are benefitting from the discrepancy in the exchange rate," Jumblat added.
He accordingly called for "a new political system that emerges from a new electoral system."
"The current system is a system of splitting shares between the Shiite duo and the Christian duo, and the biggest loser in this system was al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement chief 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.... as well as us as a minority party and the general and national parties that call for abolishing political sectarianism," Jumblat explained.
He, however, said that it is not possible to build a new electoral system under the current political equation.
As for the controversy over the port blast investigations, the PSP leader said recusing Judge Tarek Bitar from interrogating former ministers is "not the appropriate solution," seeing as it would fragment the investigation.
He added that Bitar "should have questioned the judge who ordered the confiscation of the ship and the unloading of its cargo, seeing as the ship was full of ammonium nitrate."
Separately, Jumblat said "regaining Lebanon from the Iranian axis requires international circumstances that would allow the country to be present."
As for the upcoming presidential election and the possibility of extending the term of President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , the PSP leader said: "Constitutionally, President Michel Aoun cannot have his term extended. This matter contradicts with the constitution and he must hand over his post when the final moment comes."
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As Israel has been saying since former president Barack Obama started talking about his nuclear deal with Iran over a decade ago.
[IsraelTimes] Proposals submitted by Iran ...The nation is 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... at talks in Vienna last week aimed at reviving the 2015 deal on its nuclear program fall short of what is needed, La Belle France says.
"The proposals presented by Iran last week do not constitute a reasonable basis that is compatible with the objective of a rapid conclusion while respecting the interests of all," the French foreign ministry says in a statement, expressing "disappointment" that the talks failed to move forward.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...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 
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady days of human sacrifice to Baal Moloch...
...The nation is noted for 
