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TTP names successor to APS mastermind Umar Mansoor
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Tucker Carlson: 'It's finally happened, we have a Russian scandal'
[Daily Caller] On "Tucker Carlson Tonight," The Daily Caller co-founder said, "It’s finally happened, we have a Russia scandal. But instead of proving collusion between the Trump campaign and the government of Vladimir Putin, this one reveals deep wrongdoing and the Obama administration, and it’s real."

"We’ve known for several years that Russian money was flowing to the Clinton family and foundation in the same period the Obama administration approved the Russian acquisition of 20 percent of this country’s strategic uranium reserves. Now, new reporting from The Hill newspaper revealed that as early as 2009, the FBI was investigating secret Russian efforts to get the deal done by bribing Americans."

He added, "At least one American businessman says he directly witnessed Russian efforts to convince the Clintons to approve that deal. The businessman says he was blocked from publicly telling Congress what he knew because he was ordered to remain silent by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. It’s a remarkable story and potentially a very significant one."

Related: Washington Times - Russia tables turn, roping Clinton, Obama, Holder, not Trump

Related: Investors Business Daily - Yes, The Russia Scandal Is Real — And It Involves Hillary Clinton

Related: Lou Dobbs - Clinton Russia Collusion Uranium One

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2017 07:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The real Russian scandal does seem to be heating up. The ball is in the red zone, but can they push the ball over the goal and score?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/19/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Betcha nothing comes from it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2017 18:27 Comments || Top||

#3  1: Betcha nothing comes from it.
Imagine the cries from the 'press' when/if Obama, Holder, and Lynch photos appear over the caption "trio indicted for treason".
Posted by: irishrageboy || 10/19/2017 19:26 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The politics of hate
[DAWN] IT was too outrageous an outburst for anyone to defend. So it is not surprising that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
distanced himself from his son-in-law’s hate speech on the floor of the National Assembly. The august house had perhaps never witnessed such bigotry targeting one of the most vulnerable religious communities in the country.

Equally troubling was the silence on both sides of the aisle, as no one found the courage to rebut Capt Safdar disrespecting national heroes because of their religious belief. If that were not enough, he led some of his supporters to raise slogans outside the hall hailing Mumtaz Qadri, a convicted assassin. But no action was taken against them for violating the sanctity of parliament.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's Hand and Iraq's Kirkuk Offensive - Gloria
Posted by: newc || 10/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Bush II is soooo lucky (in terms of legacy) to be followed by Obama.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2017 5:42 Comments || Top||

#2  If Bush were any good he wouldn't have listened so hard to the Mandarin-wannabes and he wouldn't have been followed by Obama.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/19/2017 18:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Victim Signalling and the Four Yorkshirewomyn
h/t Instapundit
...This isn’t helpful. In fact, as with the redefinitions of date rape and consent so that sex you regret sometime next week is classified as rape, it weakens the fight against the actual bad guys. It does so because it leads to trivializing the crimes at the serious end of the spectrum. When people group together wolf-whistling and rape and claim that #AllMenAreGuilty, most men look at the list and think the shrieking harpies are exaggerating the whole thing because they (or friends/coworkers etc.) are probably guilty of stuff at the low end and can see that while it is perhaps not 100% harmless, it’s a petty irritation and no more so than the petty irritations they get from women. In fact many people (of both sexes) look at this and actively object because consensual flirtatious banter, sexual innuendo, poor taste jokes etc., which are what some of #MeToo crowd are complaining about, are ways to make the humdrum workday more pleasurable. The fact that a bunch of humorless upper-class sorts are lecturing the rest of us and taking away our fun really annoys and, in fact, potentially makes us more sympathetic to the real scumbags, such as certain famous Hollywood moguls, who actually do the real abuse instead of joke about it.

In fact, as a certain FB friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, pointed out, this might be deliberate:
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2017 06:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Welcome to the Interweb, where social media commentary is democratically available to anyone with access and value weighed in mass rather than advancing the social contract or human condition with quality.

I'm guilty too!

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||


CNN's Symone Sanders: White People Aren't Allowed to Criticize the NFL Kneeling
[CNN] Symone Sanders, CNN's resident Berniecrat, says white people aren't allowed to criticize the NFL protests. What does that sound like? Maybe systemic racism??

The tactic isn't a new one for the Left, as they have made that argument about men and abortion for a long time. They've been claiming for decades that, if you don't have a uterus, you shouldn't be able to be pro-life (because, let's face it, if a man is pro-choice, they don't really have a problem with that).

So now Sanders is making it about standing for the National Anthem too. If you're white, you can't have feelings on the matter. And it's even worse if you're Vice President Mike Pence. Maybe her former boss who's white, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D/I-VT), shouldn't be able to have strong feelings on anything either?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anybody who has money is allowed to criticize the NFL kneeling.
Posted by: gorb || 10/19/2017 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I lost alomost Half of America in this war of States Rights and slavery. More than 10% of it in todays population - Black and White both. Breaking from the Crown which enslaved you, and forcing a Constitutional Order with the phony Whig party.

Had to destroy the Whig party with the Churches and the Abolitionist movement within existing political currents.

This is a Good Nation. Faults all have, ours are just the ones broadcast worldwide.

You need a good focus. This thing is greater than you or any person and I stand for it. You should too.

Have you sought more knowledge on how this place was built?


I stand for America because for the most part, it stands for me.


I have yet to find any Nation with the ability to be more Virtuous in many of it's endeavors.

The Mayflower Pact, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution got EVERYBODY KILLED.
And got you the lives you have now in this right here America. You ALL live like Kings here and I would have it no other way.

GOD shined HIS grace on Thee. The History alone is worth Standing for.


Posted by: newc || 10/19/2017 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  By the way, Most of these people standing for this Flag are also standing for you.

Some are even Police.
Posted by: newc || 10/19/2017 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Aw jeez, indeed. How do you say "Bite me!" in Ebonics?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2017 1:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Pure Black Racism.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2017 4:06 Comments || Top||

#6 
She's 28, pretty young to be a commentator. She has an opinion but little perspective. Most of her thoughts seem to center about racism.

For CNN, I bet she works for cheap.
Posted by: jvalentour || 10/19/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#7  By that tortured reasoning, it would follow that she can't comment on "white privilege since she isn't white!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/19/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  My white privilege allows me to choose not to watch/read CNN.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Shut up, Symone. I'm damn well going to criticize whatever I want and whoever I want, whenever I want and however I want. And if you don't like it you can kiss my hairy white cracker ass.

Stupid bitch...
Posted by: Dave D. || 10/19/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||

#10  But "African-Americans" are allowed to criticize Israel?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/19/2017 14:19 Comments || Top||

#11  How do you say, "Try and make me, you stupid, racist cow?" in ebonics?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||

#12  How do you say, ... in ebonics?

Talking Black in America
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||

#13  I bet she does white guys.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/19/2017 16:30 Comments || Top||

#14  Why does she have a job?
Posted by: Ebburt Clelet2024 || 10/19/2017 20:13 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ Outside of a church, you mean? Inside of a church... annnnd I yield the balance of my time to Shipman.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/19/2017 20:59 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-10-19
  TTP names successor to APS mastermind Umar Mansoor
Wed 2017-10-18
  US-Backed Forces Say Have Captured Raqa from IS
Tue 2017-10-17
  Terror leaders Hapilon (Abu Sayyaf), Maute (Maute Group) gunned down in Marawi
Mon 2017-10-16
  The "War after ISIS" begins in Iraq
Sun 2017-10-15
  Report: U.S. Coalition Cuts Islamic State Revenues over 90 Percent
Sat 2017-10-14
  Iraqi forces move to begin operations against Kurds
Fri 2017-10-13
  Iraq PM Denies Attack Plan as Tensions Rise with Kurds
Thu 2017-10-12
  British jihadi Sally Jones killed by US drone strike fleeing ISIS hell
Wed 2017-10-11
  Bangladesh arrests top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami
Tue 2017-10-10
  Nusra Front, Islamic State clash in Syria's Hama province
Mon 2017-10-09
  Syrian rebels capture ISIS HQ in Deir Ezzor
Sun 2017-10-08
  Two Saudi guards killed in attack on royal palace in Jeddah
Sat 2017-10-07
  Driver 'deliberately mows down pedestrians' outside London Museum
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