[CBSNEWS] A man drove a car through the security perimeter at Hannover Airport in northern Germany on Saturday, police said, prompting authorities to suspend flights for more than four hours. Officials said no one was injured. "Alert! Alert! Bogey on the field! Stop the takeoffs!"
Police said the man was under the influence of drugs when he drove the Poland-registered car through a gate and onto the apron, German news agency dpa reported. They said the man tried to follow a landing plane operated by Greek airline Aegean. "Mary! Mary! Come back to me, Mary!"
Police cars stopped the vehicle and officers overpowered the driver. Bomb disposal experts examined the car but found no dangerous objects. The incident took place just more than a week after police said they were tightening airport security over terrorism fears, BBC News reported. "[Sob!] I want Mary!"
"You need detox!"
"She's gone! Back to Czestokowa! I'll never see her again!"
Federal police said the man's motive was unclear but there was no indication so far the incident was terror-related. They believe he acted alone. Ah, for the days when stupidity and drink were the default for this kind of story!
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These sort of incidents are blessings as security really needs to be better if someone can drive onto the airport air side.
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Big John was a slow Polish oaf. He
Loved only the Virgin... and Sophie.
"I know it was dopey
To get ya all soapy
And carry ya off like a trophy...
But if ya leave me,
Oh, ya know it's gonna grieve me...
I'm gonna miss my big black icon
Some of these days!"
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Goodness gracious, Zenobia F — remember Humpty Dumpty, who said, “The question is which is to be master - - that's all.” You’ve let that one escape your control altogether.
[DAWN] The White House on Saturday refuted reports that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has decided to withdraw almost half of American troops stationed in Afghanistan, Bloomberg reported.
Last week, reports had surfaced that Trump was planning to withdraw 7,000 troops from Afghanistan by the summer, with an American official telling AFP on condition of anonymity "that decision has been made. There will be a significant withdrawal."
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... White House and US National Security Council spokesperson Garrett Marquis today rubbished those claims in an emailed statement, saying: "The president has not made a determination to drawdown United States (US) military presence in Afghanistan and he has not directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of withdrawing US personnel from Afghanistan."
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17 years of war. What are they going to accomplish in an 18th?
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Should have given the Taliban 24 hours to hand over bin Laden's head and then smoked it all either way. Done and done.
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There was a reason Britain called Afghanistan the graveyard of empires. Agree with Mike. Problem should have been solved from 30,000. feet.
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The pace of hunting down bad guys both at ground level and from above has accelerated, as was recently noted — and both by Coalition and Afghan forces.
Given President Trump’s preferred approach that winning is the goal, I look forward to seeing how he chooses to shake things up on this battlefield, given what he has recently done in other areas of operation.
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...The thing to keep in mind is this - we did BETTER than any of the Af's would-be conquerors, in any category you care to name...yet it still cannot be brought to anything resembling a civilized, controlled status.
Burn it all to the ground. They are neither interested in nor desire joining civilization, nor shall they ever be. Destroy the trappings of modern civilization and let them worship their death cult in isolation. They - and the rest of Mankind - shall be far happier.
Mike
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We're not fighting the Afghans, we're fighting Pakistan in Afghanistan.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group decries alleged efforts to ’embroil the Paleostinian movement into Egypt’s internal affairs,’ says its committed to non-intervention in other countries’ affairs
Gazoo-ruling terror group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, on Saturday denied an allegation by Egypt’s deposed president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... that it sent hundreds of men across the border into Sinai during the 2011 uprising.
Mubarak took to the witness stand in a Cairo court Wednesday to testify about jailbreaks allegedly orchestrated by his successor Mohammed Morsi and members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
The former president said he had received information at the time from his intelligence chief on infiltration by gunnies from the Gazoo Strip to the country’s east during the Egyptian uprising six years ago that saw him ousted from power.
"General Omar Suleiman ... Now former Vice president of Egypt. From 1993 until his appointment to that office in 2011 he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID)... informed me on January 29 (2011) that 800 armed bandidosturbans infiltrated through the border," he said, adding that fighters from Hamas, assisted by North Sinai residents, used underground tunnels to cross.
But Hamas said in a statement that it "strongly denies the claims made by Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak during his testimony in court."
"Mubarak claimed that Hamas sent 800 members to Cairo in order to release Paleostinian, Egyptian, and Arab prisoners from the Egyptian jails," it said.
"While Hamas deplores some parties’ insistence to embroil the Paleostinian movement into Egypt’s internal affairs, it reiterates its commitment to its policy of not intervening in the internal affairs of other countries."
Mubarak was pushed out after three decades at the helm, during Arab Spring inspired protests that took over Egypt’s Tahrir Square in early 2011.
In March 2017, he was acquitted of charges of killing protesters, but he remains under investigation for alleged corruption.
Morsi ruled Egypt for just a year before mass protests spurred then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to overthrow him in July 2013.
[PRESSTV] The Al Khalifah regime in Bahrain has stripped more than 800 nationals of their citizenship during the past six years, a human rights group says.
According to a new report by the UK-based NGO, SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights, cited by the Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website on Saturday, Manama has revoked the citizenship of 804 nationals from the beginning of 2012, a year after widespread anti-regime rallies began to rock the small Persian Gulf island country.
SALAM, which tries to preserve universal principles of dignity and respect by shielding democracy and human rights, detailed by the year the number of revocations per year: “2018 (298) - 2017 (156) - 2016 (90) - 2015 (208) - 2014 (21) - 2013 (0) - 2012 (31).”
It also said that the highly controversial move of revoking citizenship with an increasing rate is taken with the growing use of the judiciary for punishment despite international convictions.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Appeals stripped 25 Bahraini activists of their citizenship, accusing them of involvement in a purported terror attack.
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[DAWN] Bangladesh stepped up security on Saturday in a bid to contain violence during a general election expected to see Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. win a record fourth term.
Authorities have deployed around 600,000 police, army and other security forces ahead of Sunday's vote, a bigwig said, following a deadly campaign marred by festivities.
The forces ‐ which also include the elite Rapid Action Battalion, navy, border and coastiess and auxiliary police units ‐ are providing security to some 40,000 election booths.
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[PRESSTV] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... says new rules have taken effect to strengthen the Schengen Information System (SIS) in order to close "a critical security gap" among the bloc's member states.
The rules, adopted earlier this year, came into force on Friday to "help border guards to better monitor who is crossing the EU's borders," according to a statement by the European Commission.
The rules, proposed in December 2016, will strengthen Europe's most widely used security and border management database.
"The upgraded database, according to the statement, will also "support police and law enforcement in capturing dangerous criminals and terrorists; and offer greater protection for missing children and vulnerable adults, in line with the new data protection rules."
Europe's Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos explains that the rules are helping close "a critical security gap today in the EU."
"Member States will have an obligation to introduce terrorism alerts into the reinforced Schengen Information System," he said. "Anyone posing a threat should not go unnoticed anymore."
The system will also be alerted for illegal residents in the Schengen area; and will speed up the process for the return of these refugees to the required country.
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If you are brown, you don't have to even show papers. The more belligerent you look, the faster they will stamp your passport. If you are wearing an abaya, make sure the eye slit is almost non-existent, you will be moved right along...
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>illegal residents in the Schengen area; and will speed up the process for the return of these refugees
refugees?They are more likely to just be criminals.
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@M. Murcek
The reality in Germany is quite different.
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Can you elaborate? I have no idea how to weight the reports filtered through the media lenses. I can mostly read between the lines with US media, but I'm not sufficiently familiar with German sources.
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[DAWN] A charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants colonists plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw them spend Christmas at sea and several European nations denying the ship entry.
The migrants colonists cheered and applauded as the vessel docked in the port of Crinavis near the southern city of Algeciras and Proactiva Open Arms, the Spanish charity which runs the Open Arms vessel carrying them, feted the arrival with a "Mission accomplished" tweet.
The migrants colonists come from 19 different countries, including Somalia, Syria and the Ivory Coast. More than a third of them, 139, are minors. By early afternoon all of the migrants colonists had disembarked from the boat and received clothes and food, as well as medical tests if required, from Red Thingy officials. Women and children left the boat first.
"They are in good health in general," said Inigo Vila, who is in charge of emergencies for the Red Thingy in Spain. Police will identify the migrants colonists before moving them to shelters.
The migrants colonists were rescued on Dec 21 from three vessels but were denied entry by Italia and Malta. Libya, La Belle France and Tunisia did not respond to Proactiva Open Arms’ requests for permission to dock, Madrid said.
On Saturday, a newborn baby and his mother were helicoptered from the boat to Malta, while a 14-year-old suffering from a serious skin infection was taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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>several European nations denying the ship entry.
[DAILYCALLER] Moscow announced on Friday it would host leaders from Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... next year so the three countries can discuss how they will manage the Syrian conflict once the United States withdraws its forces. There is no clearer evidence of why Turkey is no longer worthy of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... membership.
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Worth repeating: "Turkey is not an ally of the United States and should be expelled from NATO."
The whole point of Turkey being in NATO is so that we can flank Russia and present them with two avenues of invasion. This reads like a temper tantrum. Which I've found educated people are all too frequently prone to engage in.
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We (thought we) needed bases in Turkey in 1960s for Jupiter missiles and U2 flights. Not necessary now. The question often comes up "Do we still have nukes at Incirlik?" The answer(s) are lots of hemmin and hawin and soft soap. Time to leave and take the toilet paper and door knobs when we go.
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Secular Turkey is long gone. We do not need Turkey in NATO. In fact, we don't need NATO.
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Bath House bent over backwards (and other ways too) to make sure the iranians could get nukes. Trump better make damn sure the turks can't seize any of our warheads. They could all be flown out in one hour.
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The home of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) is not in Egypt. Nor is it in Britain. Or Qatar. Its home is in Ankara and has been over the last decade. Ankara funds Hamas, which is a Brotherhood charter, and it funds the enemies of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and of course, Israel. I sense the American military leadership supports Turkey because it fears without it there will begin the fracturing of NATO, and a pillar of the Western defense network will be lost. Realistically, if NATO depends in any way on Turkey, it is lost. Ineluctably lost.
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One could say that the invasion of Cyprus should have resulting in Turkey being kicked out of NATO. In a rational world it should have.
Next one will say that refusing access to the 4th-ID in the Iraq Attack should have resulted in Turkey being kicked out of NATO.
My personal view is letting them get away with robbing Motorola and Nokia is a prime example of the State Departments of the NATO countries supporting bad behavior of a bandit rogue state just because...
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Herb, its time to update your knowledge base regarding Turkey. Neocon warmongering? What sort of stupidity is that you're spewing. Look at whats goin gon in Turkey. Go back to the original start of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the denial of entry to the 3rd ID. The clandestine support ofr ISIS, and the overt support for the Muslim Brotherhood. The catering to and use of Islamic Fundamentalism by Erdogan. The fake "coup" that allowed him to decimate the secular military, and imprison anyone politically inconvenient for him.
Wake up Herb. Its not 1987 anymore. Turkey is noot our firend. And they are of absolutely no use "flanking" Russia in the current military and political setup. They are becoming a client of Russia - where have you been? Did you not notice the purchase of S-400? Or the use by Turkey of "refugees" as a destabilizing force in south central Europe?
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The last guy who thought the Allies should march on to Moscow was Patton.
Turkey is not our "friend", but we can't allow Russia to have it.
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Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman Turkey cannot possibly give itself to Orthodox Christian Russia any more than it can keep trust with Christian/kufr NATO. Sultan President Erdogan can’t even allow equality to other Sunni rulers, however he might pretend at the moment.
Once upon a time Turkey could be trusted to see the usefulness of an alliance against the Communists of the Soviet Union, but Ataturk is long gone and forgotten in the country he created.
Mr. McCoy, if invading the USSR was warmongering, what was the Soviet Union’s plan to conquer the West along with the rest of the world?
[DAWN] A Ottoman Turkish prosecutor on Friday launched an investigation into a prominent TV news presenter less than two weeks after President 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... lambasted the journalist, local media reported.
The prosecutor's office said it was investigating The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's Fox Haber channel's Fatih Portakal for "openly inciting others to commit a crime" after the journalist speculated whether Turks could protest like those in the "Yellow Vest" movement in La Belle France, Hurriyet and Milliyet dailies said.
"Come on, let's have a peaceful protest, a protest against ... rising natural gas fees. Come on, let's do it. Would we be able to do it?" the journalist who has over six million followers on Twitter asked.
"For the love of God, tell me how many people would come out?" Portakal demanded as he speculated about the impact of Turks' fears of protesting in a news programme on December 10.
During anti-government protests in 2013, Erdogan was criticised for the police's heavy-handed crackdown against demonstrators.
Portakal's comments were interpreted by Ottoman Turkish officials as a call for protests as the country is suffering high inflation. Consumer prices reached over 25 percent in October before falling to 21.62 percent in November.
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[DAWN] Leaders of the Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... Democratic Party have said that despite knowing the fact, the opponent parties have fielded a former governor of an Afghan province during the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... era against the HDP candidate in the by-election on PB-26 in Quetta and the party has decided to defeat him by taking part in democratic process.
This was stated by HDP chairman Abdul Khaliq Hazara, secretary general Ahmed Ali Kohzad, Seema Sahar and other party leaders while speaking at a public meeting held in Hazara Town on Friday in connection with the election campaign of BAP candidate Qadir Nail.
The by-election is being held for a Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Assembly seat which has fallen vacant after Mr Kohzad, who had won the seat in the July 25 general elections, was disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistain for being an Afghan national.
The HDP leaders said that the rival parties had fielded the same candidate who had been defeated in the general elections, adding that through a conspiracy these elements were trying to deprive the Hazara community people of their political rights.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... they said that the people of the constituency were aware of the conspiracy and they would foil it through the power their vote.
The HDP leaders said that the people of the area had given their decision by attending the public meeting in a large number. They were happy to note that the participants included "tens of thousands of women" who were there to express their solidarity with the HDP candidate.
They said that the HDP had cordial and brotherly relations with Baloch, Pakhtun and other communities and always extended support to all democratic forces in the province as it believed in the supremacy of Constitution, democratic norms and traditions.
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[PRESSTV] Leader of a major political party in Iraq has said that there have been clear intelligence evidences suggesting that the United States is trying to resurrect ISIS-led militancy in the Arab country after the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group was defeated in neighboring Syria.
Humam al-Hamoudi, who chairs the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Led by Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI, formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRII, pronounced Scarey)) is not nearly as supreme as it makes out to be. The al-Hakim family business is merely another one of political parties, this one Shiite and with its power base in the south of the country. The Iranian government sponsored the party's creation in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war after the leading Iraqi Islamist group was weakened by a government crackdown. Designed as an umbrella organization to unite Iraqi Shi'a groups, the party supports Islamic government controlled by holy men. In post-Saddam Iraq ISCI has worked closely with other Shi'a organizations to provide social services and humanitarian aid. Though accused of receiving money and weapons from Iran, ISCI leaders maintain that the party is committed to democracy and peaceful cooperation. The Badr Brigade initially acted as ISCI's armed wing but later to split to form the independent Badr Organization., said on Saturday that Washington’s main strategy in Iraq has been to make the Arab country dependent on American military presence by keeping militancy alive in parts of the Iraqi territory.
Speaking to the Iranian television, Hamoudi said many ISISsnuffies fled to Syria after being defeated in Iraq over the past years. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... he said, the snuffies are mulling a comeback to Iraq with the help of the US after they lost most of their positions in Syria.
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takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
[IsraelTimes] UNRWA thanks Riyadh for ’very generous and crucial’ donation as it works to overcome US aid cuts that caused its ’worst financial crisis ever’.
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... has completed a $50 million donation to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... agency for Paleostine refugees, the organization’s leader said Friday, amid a funding shortfall following the US decision to cut all financial aid.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, signed an agreement to finalize the transfer of Saudi funds during a visit to the Gulf kingdom.
The agency said the donation was the "fulfillment of the pledge" made by King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians.... in April and brought Saudi Arabia’s total contribution for the year to $160 million.
Krahenbuhl said at the time the US cuts left UNRWA in the "worst crisis" it has ever faced, but the agency said last month it has nearly overcome the $446 million funding shortfall.
He credited the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and especially the Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and the United Arab Emirates with increasing support.
[EN.RADIOFARDA] The research center of Iran's Parliament (Majles) has warned against "uncontrollable inflation" before the end of the current Iranian year in late March.
The parliament's research attributes the looming hyperinflation to "the quantity and quality of liquidity growth in recent years, fluctuations in the forex market and price rises during recent months."
According to the report, liquidity has more than tripled between 2013 and 2018, rising from 5,063,000 trillion rials to 16,720,000 trillion, adding that during the period a large part of the cash in the market consisted of various forms of travellers cheques or quasi-money so that bank notes constituted only 15% of the money in people's hands.
If we convert these figures to U.S. dollars based on the current free market rate, it would be $500 billion and $1.5 trillion respectively; but this does not mean Iranians have actually the equivalent of so much dollars. Their money is in local currency, which is not as fungible as a hard currency, such as the U.S. dollar.
The growth in liquidity means that the government has printed money to pay salaries and bills. Then what about inflation? So much liquidity is bound to lead to loss of value for the money.
Economic hardship, signified by rising prices have led to mass protests in Iran this year. This photo shows protestors in Shiraz on August 2.
Actually, there is double digit inflation approaching hyper-inflation. But so far, it has been somewhat controlled because of very high interest rates, the parliament report says, and the fact that a lot of the money in circulation is not in the form of banknotes.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... if availability of actual money increases, hyperinflation will be unavoidable, the report concludes.
The parliament's research center has suggested three solutions for the problem of liquidity and high inflation: Reducing the volume of liquidity, managing and controlling the existing liquidity level, and managing the creation of new liquidity.
The research center has advised that banks should sell their surplus assets, control high-volume banking transactions and try to stabilize the foreign exchange and gold coin markets.
Other measures suggested by the Majles research center to control inflation include taxing capital gains on foreign currency, gold coins and real estate, facilitating long-term deposits for two years or more, and reducing the interest rate on short-term deposits.
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...From their lips to Allan's ears.
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during the period a large part of the cash in the market consisted of various forms of travellers cheques or quasi-money so that bank notes constituted only 15% of the money in people's hands.
Next, they'll demand the people cash in those "other forms" for near-worthless and failing Gubbamint issued paper
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[PRESSTV] An Israeli intelligence website has refuted Tel Aviv's claims that a recent aerial raid in Syria had targeted Iranian military advisers and Hezbollah fighters, saying the attack actually hit Syrian army positions.
The DEBKAfile cited "highly credible" US military sources as saying that Israel had decided to take advantage of the chaos generated by Washington's decision to withdraw forces from Syria and Turkey’s threat to launch an operation in the Arab country's north.
Tel Aviv's purpose of the Syria offensive was to disable the Syrian military sites, they added.
On Tuesday night, Israeli F-16 warplanes fired Delilah cruise missiles from Lebanon's air space into Syria followed by similar air raids near Damascus by F-35 stealth fighter jets.
The second phase of the attack came after the F-16 missiles failed to reach their targets, DEBKAfile reported.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that Syrian air defenses had destroyed 14 of 16 Israeli missiles launched against unspecified targets near Damascus by six Israeli F-16s.
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PRESSTV citing Debka. Salt overdose
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[PRESSTV] Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned as "heinous and deplorable" a deadly terrorist attack on foreign tourists visiting an Egyptian historic site.
Foreign Ministry front man Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday that the attack on Vietnamese tourists visiting Egypt’s famous Giza pyramids was a blind act of terror which should be condemned.
"Targeting innocent men and women who have arrived in country for sightseeing is heinous and deplorable," said Qassemi in a statement published on the Ministry’s website.
The Iranian official also expressed his sympathy with the families of the Vietnamese victims as well as the government and people of Vietnam.
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"Targeting innocent men and women who have arrived in country for sightseeing is heinous and deplorable," said Qassemi in a statement published on the Ministry’s website.
"That's OUR job!"
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"Targeting innocent men and women who have arrived in country for sightseeing is heinous and deplorable,"
However, if they are infidels, then they are fair game.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) should be allowed to keep weapons delivered to them by the US during the ISIS war in Syria, recommend US commanders asked to prepare a plan for the announced withdrawal from the country.
Three of four officials who talked to Rooters on condition of anonymity said that these recommendations were part of a US military’s withdrawal draft plan.
The Pentagon is yet to approve these recommendations which might anger its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... ally in the region, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which sees the Kurdish group as a terrorist organization and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The US president’s sudden decision to withdraw troops from Syria emboldened governments such as Damascus and Ankara to talk of filling the vacuum militarily.
Turkey has threatened to drive out Kurdish fighters from northern Syria, including Manbij.
Pentagon believes it’s too early to comment on the matter.
"Planning is ongoing, and focused on executing a deliberate and controlled withdrawal of forces while taking all measures possible to ensure our troops’ safety," Pentagon spokesperson Commander Sean Robertson told Rooters.
That’s nice. Will any action come of this, or will it be nothing, as usual?
[IsraelTimes] Peacekeepers say passage dug from inside Lebanese concrete factory, which Israel says was a Hezbollah attack tunnel, violated resolution that ended 2006 war
United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping forces on the Israeli-Lebanese border on Saturday confirmed that a tunnel filled up and destroyed by the Israeli army a day earlier had crossed the border into the Jewish state and was in "violation of resolution 1701," the UN decision that ended 2006’s Second Leb War.
It was the third such tunnel that UNIFIL forces confirmed crossed over the Blue Line, which demarcates the internationally recognized border, out of five that the Israel Defense Forces have so far said they have uncovered. UNIFIL has not confirmed Israel’s allegations they were dug by Hezbollah.
The IDF on Friday said it poured an unspecified "liquid" into the underground passage to block it, and aired footage of people in the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila reacting to an overflow of viscous material, that some media reports said was cement.
UNIFIL’s statement on Saturday said that the tunnel opening in Kafr Kila had been inside a cement factory, indicating that the material could have been a mixture of both substances.
"In the course of the ongoing investigation into the presence of tunnels along the Blue Line, UNIFIL together with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) surveyed the premises of an old concrete factory in the southern part of [Kafr Kila], after UNIFIL had observed liquified cement flowing out from the building within this facility," the peacekeepers said.
"The liquid overflowing on the Lebanese side had been injected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through a shaft drilled on their end of a tunnel that UNIFIL had previously independently confirmed to be crossing the Blue Line in the same general area. Based on this observation, UNIFIL can confirm that the old concrete factory in [the village] has an opening to the tunnel, which is crossing the Blue Line."
UNIFIL it was working with the Lebanese army to address the violation of the 2006 ceasefire agreement.
UNIFIL added that it had been informed by the IDF on Wednesday of another operation to destroy a tunnel near the Lebanese village of Ayta ash Shab, but that it had not been reported to UN forces prior to its destruction. "Therefore, it’s existence has not been independently verified by UNIFIL."
The next day "UNIFIL conducted a post-blast assessment and observed a crater in the area."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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