[NYPost] Two unidentified men shot and killed a 35-year-old Palestinian man in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday morning, Malaysian and Palestinian authorities said.
The Islamist group Hamas, which exercises de facto control over Gaza, said one of its members was "assassinated" in Malaysia but stopped short of accusing Israel's secret service for carrying out the killing. "Could have been anybody. He was Paleo - not well liked"
The two men on a motorcycle fired ten shots at the victim, killing him on the spot, Kuala Lumpur police chief Mazlan Lazim said in statement.
"Preliminary investigations found four gunshot wounds on the victim's body. Two bullet slugs were found at the scene of the incident," Mazlan said.
Palestine’s ambassador to Malaysia Anwar Al Agha later identified the victim as Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, an engineering lecturer, but declined to say if he was a member of Hamas. Witnesses at the scene had told him that the two suspects had "European features", the ambassador told Al-Rooters. that's raaaaaycis!
When contacted by Reuters, Mazlan declined to comment on reports that al-Batsh was a member of Hamas or had been targeted by hitmen. "It's too early to say, we are still investigating all aspects." A Hamas statement said al-Batsh was "assassinated at treacherous hands on Saturday…as he walked for the dawn prayers."
Officials in Israel declined to comment. "We can say no more"
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[Townhall] It was one week ago today that the Department of Justice Inspector General [OIG] issued a scathing report depicting fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as a serial liar.
According to OIG, McCabe lied under oath to FBI and inspector general investigators three times. The report also showed McCabe lied to former FBI Director James Comey about leaking sensitive information the press. As a result, McCabe has been referred to the U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C. for criminal prosecution.
But McCabe, whose statements from his attorneys show he has little concern over potential prosecution, is undeterred and appears to be cashing in on the situation.
"Mr. McCabe also quietly shopped a book proposal recently to publishing houses. He received offers from multiple publishers, according to several industry executives, and came to an agreement to publish the book with one of the major houses. His literary agent, Todd Shuster, declined to comment," the New York Times reports. "Mr. McCabe is said to have recently sold the rights to his own book about his time at the F.B.I., which is likely to excoriate Mr. Trump."
[Townhall] I was interviewed by a mainstream media reporter yesterday. I thought he wanted to talk tech issues, but we actually spent almost the entire conversation discussing the feeling that many conservatives have that America has gone off the tracks and is headed toward dissolution or alternately, a civil war one day. Obviously, this would be a terrible thing and ironically, twenty years ago, it would have been laughable. Today, the joke isn’t so funny because we are a deeply unhealthy society with a dysfunctional government and for all our money, success and storied history, we seem to be on an increasingly dangerous trajectory.
1) A Post-Constitutional Era: Liberals don’t believe in the Constitution. Typically they deny this, but that’s exactly what a "living" Constitution means. You make it up as you go along. The Founders foresaw the instability and danger that would be created by this approach, which is why they wanted us to be a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Unfortunately, America has in many ways already become a post-constitutional democracy and we’re one liberal judge away from abandoning the Constitution altogether. Once we get to that point, America just becomes the representation of that old saying, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner." Of course people are not lambs and when large numbers of them believe they aren’t being treated fairly, they do have the option of getting away from the wolves.
2) Tribalism: The "you only have to listen to people you already agree with" nature of social media has dramatically ramped up the level of tribalism in the United States. The Right has gotten much more tribal since Donald Trump rose to prominence and the Left has taken tribalism into hyper-drive. Increasingly, liberals treat a range of opinion between Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton as legitimate while everyone else is viewed as a white supremacist Nazi primitive that must be driven down into the gutter for society to move forward. This makes any sort of dialogue or cooperation nearly impossible. When every issue is a zero sum war where one tribe must win or lose, a lot of people quite understandably ask, "What do we gain by staying allied to this other tribe?" Five more follow:
[The Intercept] Later this year, Amazon will begin accepting grocery orders from customers using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal anti-poverty program formerly known as food stamps. As the nation’s largest e-commerce grocer, Amazon stands to profit more than any other retailer when the $70 billion program goes online after an initial eight-state pilot.
But this new revenue will effectively function as a double subsidy for the company: In Arizona, new data suggests that one in three of the company’s own employees depend on SNAP to put food on the table. In Pennsylvania and Ohio, the figure appears to be around one in 10. Overall, of five states that responded to a public records request for a list of their top employers of SNAP recipients, Amazon cracked the top 20 in four.
By 2021, Amazon is projected to handle 50 percent of all online sales in the United States. To accomplish this, it must add to the dozens of fulfillment centers that ensure the swift delivery of cheap televisions and shampoo bottles to nearly every corner of the nation. And to finance this expansion, the company will doubtless continue to leverage the promise of full-time jobs with benefits that it has used to win more than $1.2 billion in incentives from state and local governments so far.
Popped off handcuffs and leg restraints did he? Grabs soft drink, ham sammich, boards MARTA for parts unknown. If you see this man, it's probably not worth the bother of calling Atlanta law enforcement authorities.
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Claims have been made that 420 increases traffic fatalities by 12% across the country. However, haven't been able to find the research that generated that number.
An E. coli outbreak traced to romaine from Yuma, Arizona has sickened at least 60 people
The Yuma area grows 90 percent of the leafy greens Americans eat in winter
The CDC and has advised people to throw out romaine or lettuce mixes that may contain romaine if it could have come from Arizona or they don't know its source
One expert says that it may be years before the E. coli is killed off from the contaminated fields
(1) farmer plants crop in poor soil
(2) because it's supposed to grow 'organic' crop, use of liquid manure from nearby feedlots is encouraged; can't use chemical fertilizer (it would be sterile)
(3) there's little natural rainfall in the area (Yuma, AZ) so what gets on the plants stays on the plants
(4) crops are harvested with bacteria built in
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I think his departure would have an overall positive effect. As far as I can tell, he has been quite passive in the role, going after second order problems. It hints at him being constrained by an outside force. Or maybe he is just out of his depth.
Get someone else in there. And note that this article comes from the Wapo. I always have to look at the source to judge the merit of their stance.
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Well, bye.
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Thank me for an iceberg-sized grain of salt. From the article:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.
As leaked by anonymities? Be still, my beating heart.
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I have long believed that Sessions and Trump sit in a room and dream up these releases to distract the press and get them spinning. As long as the press think Trump is after Sessions, anything he does, to include prosecuting Comey and Mueller, will be supported by the left....
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TheClassical world is an endless source of events that mirror current events and thus can sagely inform the student. The one that comes to mind here is how the Praetorian Guard in Rome crossed the threshold from defending the emperor to replacing him. DOJ/FBI/CIA play the modern role of the Praetorian Guard.
Autocorrupt strikes again. I recently somehow approved it on my iPhone, and hopefully have now fixed the problem. But how the above was translated from Take with, I could not possibly say.
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That's why I noted it was from Wapo. I never go to stories sourced from Wapo or the NYT (and a few others like the LATimes etc) because I don't want to give them another 'pageview'.
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Various Roman emperors "abolished" the Pretorian Guard more than once, but still had to be surrounded by bodyguards known by another name. Once the Empire dwindled down to a pitiful remnant and the pay packets stop coming, there was neither a real Caesar nor a real Pretorian Guard. The era of warlords turning into medieval kings began.
[Breitbart] In newly-released personal memos, ex-FBI Director James Comey wrote that he briefed President Donald Trump on unverified claims about an alleged escapade with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013 because "media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook."
In actuality, Comey’s very briefing, which was subsequently leaked to CNN, provided the network with the hook to publish a story on the controversial dossier containing the infamous "Russian prostitute" claims as well as unsubstantiated charges of collusion between Russia and members of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. CNN’s report resulted in worldwide coverage of the dossier charges.
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^ Opens fine here (w. aggressive adblocking, etc.). Was it them that recently cut back to 2 freebies? I think it was the Post... but I could be wrong... between them and the Times and the Globe (or did they roll theirs back?), cookie-clearing's become a reflex lately. What a mess.
[Bus Insider] It was March 4, 2002. American special operations forces were fighting to establish observation posts high above Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley, as conventional troops continued their push through the valley floor below.
One of those men, Air Force Technical Sgt. John Chapman, was alone in the pitch-black, wounded and slowly regaining his consciousness in the thigh-deep snow of a 10,469-foot peak known as Takur Ghar, as scores of Al Qaeda fighters closed in.
For his actions earlier in the battle and for his incredible bravery on that peak, according to sources familiar with the matter, Chapman will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor later this year.
And "Chappy" — as he was known by his teammates — will be the first Air Force service-member to receive the nation's highest award for valor since the Vietnam War.
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And its heros like this that make puppet reenlistments an automatic discharge/ firing offense. Thank you for your service, sir and God’s love and continued comfort on your family.
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Sixyears ago, the technology was only an idea presented at a TEDx talk. Boyan Slat, the 18-year-old presenter, had learned that cleaning up the tiny particles of plastic in the ocean could take nearly 80,000 years.
But, golly gee whiz, if you build an entire fleet of ships it could only take 4 to 5 years. Maybe. For varying assumptions on what the meaning of the word 'fleet' is.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An improvised bombkaboom left several civilians dead or maimed in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan earlier today.
The incident took place in the vicinity of Haska Mina district after a civilian vehicle struck with an improvised bomb planted on a roadside.
The provincial government media office in a statement said at least five civilians including a child were killed and nine others were maimed.
The statement further added that four children and two women were among those maimed in the kaboom.
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[AlAhram] The United States is offering a reward of $1 million for information about Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria since 2012.
The FBI announced the reward this week, without any explanation on the timing.
"The timing of this reward is unrelated to any specific event," an FBI spokeswoman said.
Tice, 36, is believed to the only American journalist currently held in Syria, one of the most dangerous countries for the news media in recent years.
A freelance journalist working for McClatchy News, the Washington Post, CBS, AFP and other news organizations, Tice was kidnapped in August 2012 near Damascus.
Tice's family has launched several appeals for information about his whereabouts, saying they believe he is still alive.
In 2016, a #FreeAustinTice banner was attached to the facade of the Newseum, a museum focused on news media and located on the street linking the US Capitol and the White House.
An FBI statement on its website said it would offer the reward "for information leading directly to the safe location, recovery, and return" of Tice.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The security forces of the northern breakaway region of Somaliland have detained a leading Somali traditional elder in the state’s capital, Hargeisa city on Thursday.
King Osman Aw Mohamud, known as Boqor Burmadow has been enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! from a hotel in Hargeisa and taken to police custody last night at around 8:30 p.m. local time.
Burmadow, who is an outspoken elder was detained day after attending the crowning of Beeldaaje Mohammed in Carmo, a small town in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region.
Speaking to the news hounds in Hargeisa, Somaliland Police front man, Feisal Hiis Dirie said the elder’s arrest came following a court warrant accusing him of Crimes against the State.
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[NYPOST] Gunmen on water scooters shot at a roving vendor on a beach in Cancun’s glittering hotel zone Thursday, an incident believed to be unprecedented for the Caribbean city. Nobody was maimed.
According to a police report, the afternoon shooting happened in front of a hotel in the heart of Cancun’s resort-studded strip.
The vendor ran for safety inside a restaurant and was not hurt. Tourist police cordoned off the area and recovered four bullets but were not able to locate the intended target.
Cancun ‐ especially its tourist areas ‐ has largely been spared the worst of the cartel-fueled violence afflicting many other parts of Mexico.
But there have been a number of eye-catching incidents of late as gangs fight for control of local drug dealing, and the city has registered 130 murders so far this year.
Also Thursday, police reported that three people were slain outside a bar located away from the hotel zone.
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Detroit or Baltimore not exotic enough if you want to experience this kind of tourism?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior local leader of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group was killed during the ongoing operations in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan.
The First Brigade of the 207th Zafar Corps in the West said Mullah Nusrat was killed along with seven others during the ongoing Zarb-e-Momin operations.
The source further added that the operations are being conducted in Chesht-e-Sharif district and as a result several villages including Jartolak, Rabtak, Dahn-e-Hamwar, Jar Orma, Sher Khaj Bala, Seya Jojagak, Sang Doroya, Dara Sang, and Margha have been cleared so far.
At least seven Taliban turbans were also maimed during the same operations, the First Brigade of the Zafar Corps said.
According to reports, Mullah Nusrat was the commander of Sheikh Karim Badghesi Group and was killed after he reached to the area to support the Taliban Überstürmbannführer Abdul Rahman Maldar.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four Talibs were killed in a night raid conducted by the Special Operations Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the raid was conducted late on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Wazir area in Khogyani district.
The statement further added that a local commander of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group identified as Abdullah alias Mazlumyar was among those killed.
A large number of weapons, ammunition, and explosives belonging to the Taliban Lions of Islam were also destroyed during the operation, the statement added.
According to the provincial government, at least suspects were also rounded during the operation and are in jug of the NDS Special Forces for further interrogation.
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[DAWN] Acting on the directives of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, Sindh Inspector General Police A.D Khowaja on Friday ordered the immediate withdrawal of security protocol provided to influential individuals not entitled to official security.
This order will see around 4,000 coppers returning to actual police duty in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... only, which to some extent will help control street crimes, officials said.
The provincial police chief directed Additional IGs of Karachi, Special Branch, CTD, Traffic, Crime Branch and DIGs of Karachi’s East, West and South Zone and CIA, DIGs of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad ranges, DIGs of SRP and SRR, the Commandant of SSU, Karachi, and all District SSPs in Sindh to withdraw the police security from those persons who are not legally entitled.
"The police security provided to all unauthorised persons shall immediately be withdrawn," reads the order issued by Khowaja.
An officer of Karachi police told Dawn that following this order around 4,000 coppers would be withdrawn from security duty in Karachi only, "which would help police immensely in terms of overcoming the shortcoming of manpower".
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[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman, who was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother over a marriage dispute one month ago, and was locked in the house to hide the incident, breathed her last without any treatment in her house on Thursday.
The Kamalia city police registered the first information report with the sub-inspector Syed Inayat Ali as complainant, that the residents of Saran Dogran locality of Kamalia alerted them that Sobia Perveen, was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother Muhammad Tahir one month ago and the family did not take her to any hospital to conceal the incident.
When she died on Thursday, residents alerted the police, which got the body examined at the Kamalia Tehsil Headquarters hospital. The autopsy confirmed Sobia died due to bullet wounds. The family is on the lam.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS) leadership agreed to surrender their positions in the southern districts of Damascus, today, following an unprecedented amount of air and rocket strikes on their defenses last night.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... while the Islamic State’s leadership agreed to surrender their positions, several rogue Death Eaters have refused to give up their fight in southern Damascus.
In response to these terrorists, the Syrian Army’s Elite Republican Guard and their Paleostinian allies have kicked off ground operations in the Yarmouk Camp and al-Qadam districts.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army’s elite Tiger Forces are likely to be redeployed to the southwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate, a military source told al-Masdar News.
According to the source, the Tiger Forces will lead the offensive to retake the strategic town of Jisr al-Shughour, which has been under the control of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else... , Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ) and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP).
Similar to their other offensives in northern Syria, the Tiger Forces will be backed by local militias and the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The Russian military has reportedly been given the green light by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... to launch this offensive, since the town is currently under the control of terrorist groups.
While nothing is official yet, the Tiger Forces to the Jisr al-Shughour front would make the most sense for their next deployment because the Russian military wants to secure the Hmaymim Airbase.
As long as the jihadist rebels maintain a presence in the al-Ghaab Plain and Jisr al-Shughour District, their rockets will be able to reach the Hmaymim Airbase and densely populated areas of the Latakia Governorate.
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The E. Qalamoun Pocket and the Ghouta Pocket are being reduced currently. The next will, probably?, be the Homs Pocket. As each infestation is 'cleansed' it frees up most of the forces besieging them.
The Jisr al-Shugour District is on the Turkish border. Is Assad ready to send in the SAA against Turkey's puppets?
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Security troops have killed the right-hand man of the supreme leader of Islamic State in Diyala, the security committee announced on Friday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of Diyala provincial council, said. “The airstrike targeted a rest house by Islamic State members in al-Zor basin, northeast of Baquba, which left two Islamic State members, one of whom was a leader. Preliminary information showed that the leader was the right-hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the so-called Diyala State.”
“The targeted rest house was an important headquarter for IS, from which the group’s dormant cells are run,” Husseini added.
Earlier today, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of Diyala Operations, said shelling the rest house by Iraqi fighter jets left two IS members killed.
News reports said security troops shot dead Abu Walid al-Shishany, one of Baghdadi’s closest aides, while he was in a desert area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, earlier in April.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and injured in a bomb blast in northeast of Diyala, an informed security source from the province said on Friday.
“An Islamic State haven was destroyed by the U.S.-led Coalition jets near Muqdadiya region, northeast of Diyala,” the source told Alghad Press. “Army troops then advanced to check the haven.”
“A bomb, planted near the haven, went off as the troops advanced, leaving a soldier killed and three others, including an officer, wounded, according to the official estimates of the hospital.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Eighteen Islamic State members were killed as Iraqi troops repulsed an attack by the militant group on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, west of Nineveh, military sources said on Friday.
“Iraqi troops foiled a fierce attack by IS on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, near Rabei’a town, northwest of Mosul. All the attackers were killed immediately, while their weapons were confiscated,” Lt. Gen. Ali al-Aaraji, of the army the 15th division, told BasNews.
The forces, according to Aaraji, “repelled the attack and were deployed along the borders between Iraq and Syria in al-Yaarabiya region, fearing infiltration by more militants.”
Moreover, “the troops launched operations at the nearby villages in search for IS members,” he added.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians say four killed, including a 15-year-old boy; Israel urges UN to condemn Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, for 'despicable exploitation of women and kiddies'
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... envoy to the region on Friday slammed Israel’s response to the Gazoo protests as "outrageous" and called on the IDF to stop shooting children after four Paleostinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during festivities along the Gazoo border fence.
"It is OUTRAGEOUS to shoot at children!" tweeted UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov.
"How does the killing of a child in #Gazoo today help #peace? It doesn’t! It fuels anger and breeds more killing. #Children must be protected from #violence, not exposed to it, not killed! This tragic incident must be investigated," he wrote.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon called on the international body to condemn Hamas’ use of children as a cover for their terror activities.
"Hamas continues to encourage violence against Israel while rioters use Molotov Cocktails and other means to damage the border fence and try and return to Israeli territory," Danon said.
"I call on the UN representatives to condemn Hamas for encouraging violence, continuing to strive to create instability and the despicable exploitation of women and kiddies by placing them in harm’s way," Danon said.
Some 3,000 Paleostinians protested along the Gazoo border with Israel on Friday,
...Week 1 had 30,000, Week 2 had 20,000, Week 3 had 10,000, and this was the fourth Friday protest...
burning tires and flying flaming kites across the frontier to set Israeli fields ablaze, witnesses and the army said. Soldiers responded with tear gas and live fire, killing four Paleostinians, including the 15-year-old, according to the Hamas run-health ministry.
Israel’s army said it was looking into the incidents.
In all the Gazoo ministry said that some 445 people were maimed, including 96 from live fire.
These brought to 39 the number of fatalities from the border demonstrations and festivities dubbed the March of Return, which took place for the fourth time Friday, according to the health ministry figures. The numbers could not be verified by Israel.
Hamas has acknowledged that several of those killed were its members, and Israel has identified other fatalities as members of terrorist groups.
Huge black plumes of smoke from the blazing tires engulfed the area, as Israeli troops fired tear gas and live bullets, witnesses said.
Israel accuses Hamas of using civilian shields, including women and kiddies, as cover for carrying out attacks along the border.
Hundreds were clashing with Israeli forces, an AFP correspondent said.
The Gazoo Health Ministry says 445 Paleostinians have been maimed in protests on the Gazoo-Israel border, including 96 who were maimed by Israeli army fire.
The officials say that of those injured Friday, 174 were transferred to hospitals and 271 treated in field clinics. Some of the injured were overcome by tear gas, hit with rubber-coated steel pellets or hit by shrapnel.
The Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run health ministry in Gazoo says 729 Paleostinians were maimed in festivities with Israeli troops on the border Friday, including 156 from live fire. It does not provide details on the circumstances of their injuries.
Gazooks also flew dozens of kites near the border fence, in some cases carrying Molotov cocktails and one with a swastika painted on it, in a new tactic that sparked at least two small fires in Israeli territory this week.
Israel says it has only opened fire when necessary to guard its border and prevent violence, but no Israelis have been maimed and its open-fire rules have come under scrutiny.
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Queenie is prolly just trying to get him out of the house palace and out of her hair so she can have a little peace and quiet. He seems a bit thick and annoying.
Also, who knew there was still a Commonwealth? Raise your hand!
[BREITBART] Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar has requested leave from her teaching duties this spring, according to her Twitter account and information provided to Breitbart News by the university.
Jarrar, a professor of English at Fresno State, is facing quite the backlash after she published several tweets celebrating the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush.
"Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F**k outta here with your nice words," Jarrar tweeted on Tuesday.
In a separate tweet, Jarrar said that the news made her "happy" because Barbara Bush’s death likely made George W. Bush upset.
After Jarrar’s tweet invoked a tidal wave of responses, the professor bragged that she could never be fired because she had tenure.
"Sweetie i work as a tenured professor," she tweeted at one user. "I make 100K a year doing that. i will never be fired. i will always have people wanting to hear what i have to say. even you are one of them!"
"Sweetie i work as a tenured professor," she tweeted at one user. "I make 100K a year doing that. i will never be fired. i will always have people wanting to hear what i have to say. even you are one of them!"
Following the backlash, Jarrar set her Twitter account to private. She edited her Twitter biography to add the line: "currently on leave from Fresno State."
In a comment to Breitbart News, Fresno State said that Professor Jarrar has "requested a leave" for the spring semester and will not be teaching classes.
In a public statement, Fresno State President Joseph Castro said that he was concerned by the remarks Jarrar made about Bush on Twitter.
On behalf of Fresno State, I extend my deepest condolences to the Bush family on the loss of our former First Lady, Barbara Bush. We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State.
Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative at Fresno State.
Professor Jarrar’s expressed personal views and commentary are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view, and a sincere commitment to mutual understanding and progress.
This is not the first incident at Fresno State featuring a crazed professor. In November, Fresno State Professor Gregory Thatcher was forced by a court to pay a $17,000 fine after he was caught on camera erasing the chalk messages of a pro-life student group.
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"she was named one of the most gifted writers of Arab origin under the age of 40"
Have you noticed that when the ball game is going slowly, the radio announcers regale us with statistics like "He has struck out more left-handed second basemen than any pitcher since 2005"?
From her website: "Adultery was the last Muslim taboo I hadn’t broken. When I finally did cheat, it helped me see that my marriage needed to end."
I think I've read enough.
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Does anyone know whether a 'gifted tenured Arab writer' can get a massive pay cut, say back to $50K? Because that seems to be the remedy here.
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...Fresno State's response is in welcome contrast to University of Missouri's a couple years ago - where they allowed the Usual Suspects to run rampant without so much as a whisper.
And took a 25% enrollment cut the following year.
Mike
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Have you noticed that when the ball game is going slowly, the radio announcers regale us with statistics like "He has struck out more left-handed second basemen than any pitcher since 2005"?
Then there are those on the big sports channels who do this as their primary coverage.
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SDSU College of Engineering and Alumni Association have no problem pitching me for $. My oldest son is due to graduate next month and they're already pitching him for Alumni $.
She'd be on every "I decline because"
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I recently saw Clinton's immigration speech from 20+ years ago, which might have been written by Trump last week. Someone had also added one of Obama's similar speeches, following Clinton's. Mixed in are clips of Trump's facial expressions at the historical views of two former (D) presidents.
[WASHINGTONPOST] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... has declared that he will suspend nuclear and missile tests starting Saturday and that he will shut down the site where the previous six nuclear tests were conducted.
The surprising announcement comes just six days before Kim is set to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a precursor to a historic summit between Kim and President Trump. The U.S. president is set to meet Kim at the end of May or beginning of June, although a location has not yet been set.
Both Moon and Trump have been saying that North Korea is now willing to "denuclearize," a term that means different things to the two sides.
"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," Trump tweeted shortly after the announcement from Pyongyang. "This is very good news for North Korea and the World ‐ big progress! Look forward to our Summit."
But Kim’s statement on Saturday made no mention of North Korea giving up its program. It simply signaled a freeze, apparently because the leader is satisfied with the rapid progress the country made last year, developing what it said was a "super large heavy warhead" and a missile capable of carrying it to the U.S. mainland.
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...he will shut down the site where the previous six nuclear tests were conducted.
Wasn't it reported that this site had become unusable due to massive collapse of the overlying mountain? If they currently don't have a test site, they might as well get some good PR out of it.
[The Peninsula] Saudi air defenses on Friday intercepted what they described as a "ballistic missile" fired into the kingdom’s Jizan region by Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebel group, according to Saudi media reports.
Yemen’s Houthi-run al-Masira television channel appeared to confirm the report, saying Houthi fighters had targeted the Jizan Airport with a "ballistic missile" fired from Yemeni territory.
According to official Saudi statements, the kingdom’s air defenses have intercepted 18 such missiles within the past 25 days.
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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has been wracked by violence and chaos since 2014, when Shia Houthi rebels overran much of the country, including capital Sanaa.
The conflict escalated in 2015 when 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... and its Sunni-Arab allies -- who accuse the Houthis of serving as Iranian proxies -- launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at rolling back Houthi gains.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The leader of Somaliland’s opposition party Abdirahman Irro has called on the state’s President Muse Bihi to immediately step down on treason charges.
Speaking at a presser in Hargeisa on Thursday, Irro has accused the serving President of hiding the truth of the UAE deals over Berbera port from the public.
Irro who leads the opposition Waddani party has run for the presidency last year and lost to Muse Bihi Abdi from the ruling Kulmiye party.
The breakaway Somaliland inked multi-million agreements with the United Arab Arab Emirates [UAE] during the last government under former president Ahmed Mohammed Siilaanyo.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] With Inspector General Michael Horowitz submitting a criminal referral for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; and with knowledge of federal prosecutor John Huber paralleling Horowitz for months within the investigation; it might be worthwhile going through the names of some officials likely to surface in the next few days/weeks.
The most interesting people in the ongoing investigation are those principals who clearly were in/around the center of 2015/2016 activity; were caught in 2017, yet remain inside the FBI and DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) ie. Main Justice. Names and bios follow.
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Trump - Build a better mouse trap and the World will beat a path to your door!.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] 'This scoping process begins the first step in developing a responsible path forward. I look forward to personally visiting the communities most affected by this process and hearing their concerns'
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[DAWN] Couples and alleged sex workers found guilty of breaking Islamic law were publicly whipped in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors.
More than a thousand people, including dozens of tourists from neighbouring Malaysia, jeered and screamed abuse at the group as they were flogged outside a mosque in the capital Banda Aceh.
The three men and five women ‐ who included several college students ‐ were found guilty of violating religious law by either showing affection in public or for offering sexual services online, officials said.
Aceh is the only province in the world's most populous Moslem-majority country that imposes Islamic law and flogging is a common punishment for a range of offences ‐ from gambling to drinking alcohol to having gay sex or relations outside of marriage.
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A statement issued by the ministry said that al-Sudani met with Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami. During the meeting, he signed a cooperation agreement in the field of technology transfer, localization of products for various military and civilian products and exchange of experiences through additional meetings of experts of the two parties to improve and expand future cooperation in military and civilian industrial projects. "
Al-Sudani appreciated the Iranian government's stance in supporting Iraq to combat terrorism and counter criminal gangs, which stresses the strategic relationship between Iraq and Iran and the real and serious desire of the two countries to cooperate in various other fields, especially the economic field, building campaigns and reconstruction of liberated cities.
He added, "There is a series of meetings, understandings and visits already held between the two sides at all levels and it is time to move to practical steps in light of Iraq's possession of enormous resources, human resources, expertise, competencies and infrastructure."
He pointed out that "the ministry tends towards the military industries through a competent body linked to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and prepare a law of its own will be published soon," pointing out that" the possession of the Ministry of Military Industries and companies and the support of the factories affiliated to it and the possibilities enjoyed by the competencies available in it, for future joint work, showing readiness and willingness to cooperate and work together. "
Sudani stressed "The need for quick steps to meet the requirements of the Iraqi side in the implementation of military industrial projects and the manufacture of part of the military equipment, such as light and medium equipment, ammunition, mortars, artillery, light weapons, drones and communications."
For his part, the Iranian Minister of Defense confirmed, "his country's continued support for Iraq and its serious desire to contribute to the campaigns of reconstruction after the great damage suffered in the cities and areas raided by Daesh gangs," reviewing" the possibilities of his country in the field of military industries and communications and manufacturing of military equipment, expressing full readiness to provide support and invest the potential of Iraq.
He called for "moving quickly to identify projects that can be implemented to achieve economic action with positive effects and results for the two countries."
This article starring:
Amir Hatami
Mohammad Shiaa al-Sudani
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But for comedy relief, let us look into a bit of satire involving Hogg, courtesy of Rantburg.com's resident book reviewer, swksvolFF:
Mein Kampf 1/5
David Hogg
Normally, the salutation of Mister is applied, but as the young male has not earned that accomplishment as of yet, we will work with the prepubescent honor of Davy.
Davy does spend some time letting you get to know him; his inner thoughts which do not show through his television personality.
Page 438:
Cindy didn't look at me today. In fact, I think she looks around me. Even the camera only adds 2 pounds. I mean, I try to gain weight but I can only meditate so much. That is OK, because if angst were an animal, I'd be a butterfly.
Later on, he intimately teaches the finer points of education, and shows his grasp on both the humanities and debate. This is a family site, so inappropriate words will be substituted with $.
Page 680:
I then I told the $ $ mother $ loser of a $ $ (lady) that I don't like ice cream anymore. Only $ NRA $ fascists put $ sprinkles on anyways. I $ grew out of that after $ leaving California. I $ hate you mom and dad. $ loved the beach.
Davy goes on to explain why today's educational system has failed to keep up with their generation.
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I mean, its so totaly ovious that collages just dont understand how advanced me and my classmates our. Who does gym anyways, and my grade point suffers for not making baskets? Total $ $.
All in all, a real page turner. Interesting reinterpretation of the reference section, instead substituting a very clever paper doll presentation. Also, the fifteen pages of hashtags are helpful. Grab your favorite gallon and a half of cheap vodka, a pitcher of kool-aid, and two days of sick leave bracketing the week end; you will have a time you will never forget. As I say, Moar Hogg!
One commenter associated with Ace O'Spades said on Facebook (No link, as this was from a closed group):
Had not thought of this angle. Explains why dsg had such a long lag time from pulling the guns from the shelves and announcing their destruction of their inventory.
My guess is that the manufacturers told this DB where to go when he tried to return them for refund (he just created a huge shortage they now have the opportunity to fill) and that he KNEW that, because we are watching him very, very carefully, if he sold them on he would be absolutely filleted in the press and personal media.
In response I said:
The gun manufacturers could have taken the rifles back, re-marked the AR as something like "American Revolution II", sold them to Dick's competitors at a premium. Just refusing to take them back is very dumb, IMMHO.
But thinking about it, this was my last thought on the issue:
Not even with a heavy restocking fee? I think wholesalers and gun manufacturers are running scared now that the money people are threatening their businesses. They think they will be the last ones to be destroyed when in fact they are in the express lane to be destroyed.
It's all going south for gun ownership free from governmental interference.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were mostly lower.
New Lows:
None
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.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: East Carlina Trading, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, Reloads .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Wideners, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Prvi Patizan, RNL, Brass Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .31 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each )
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.50 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Cabelas, Prvi Partizan, FMJ, Brass Casing, 2.80 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Winchester, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
[NOLA] A 41-year-old Slidell woman faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stealing another woman's identity via social media and using fake credentials to obtain a high paying job at the spice company founded by the late entrepreneur Al Copeland.
Cindy T. White, who was found guilty this week by a St. Tammany Gay Pareeh jury of theft of identity over $1,000, will be sentenced Tuesday (April 24) by Judge Scott Gardner of the 22nd Judicial District, North Shore District Attorney Warren Montgomery's office reported.
During her opening statement in White's trial, Assistant District Attorney Casey Dieck described the credentials that White had listed on her resume, including a bachelor's degree from Tulane University and a master's degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Pointing to the defendant in the courtroom, Dieck said, "That's not this person. This person stole the victim's hard work and used it to get a six-figure salary and benefits to boot," the District Attorney's Office reported in a news release issued Friday.
The crime came to light in April of 2016 when a Diversified Foods employee contacted the St. Tammany Gay Pareeh Sheriff's Office regarding White, who had provided a resume with fraudulent social security and driver's license numbers to obtain an executive level job. White had been hired in September 2015 as a human resources manager at the company's Covington office at a salary of $95,000 per year. Five months later, she was promoted to senior human resources director and her annual pay was raised to $105,000, the District Attorney's Office reported.
After a closer inspection of White's personnel file, Sherlocks found several discrepancies and determined that White did not possess the educational background listed on her resume. The investigation revealed that she had copied the credentials directly from the Linked In account of someone with a similar name and had obtained that woman's Social Security and driver's license numbers through an unspecified online site, Montgomery's office reported.
When authorities traced White's actual Social Security number, they learned she had been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in New Orleans in February 1997 for theft, forgery and malfeasance in office. At the time, White worked for the Orleans Gay Pareeh Sheriff's Office and was accused of assuming a co-worker's identity and emptying the victim's bank account, before being identified by surveillance photos, according to the news release.
White pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery on Sept. 27, 1997, and was placed on probation. But court records indicate her probation was terminated in 1999 because the court received information that she was deceased. White also had pleaded guilty in Jefferson Gay Pareeh to attempted theft of goods on December 4, 1998, authorities said.
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In other GNO news, Wilborn P. Nobles III is suspected of having a good p0ker face:
"Lusher Charter School 8th grader Sarah Pigg said she and her classmates were horrified last year when one of their classmates threatened to shoot up the campus one day in mid-December."
Meanwhile, out on the coast, a seemingly endless trickle of little screechers practically stormed my shanty: "Hey, hey, ho, ho. NRA has got to go." Looked like high schoolers, sounded like middle schoolers. Dunno. Maybe they spontaneously joined forces. Distressing amount of supportive honking for a disproportionately military area. Helicopter overhead. Multiple news trucks.
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She had been hired as a human resources manager at a salary of $95,000 per year. Five months later, she was promoted to senior human resources director and her annual pay was raised to $105,000. Sound like she could do the job well, if so what is the problem?
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From the article:
Company officials became suspicious when White had trouble "performing duties within the educational level and experience listed on her resume" and when she began delegating many tasks assigned to her, according to the DA's news release.
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Leaving aside the question of whether job requirements and performance expectations are patriarchal and racist, what the heck does a human resources manager do that is worth $100,000 a year?
[All Africa] Swaziland's King Mswati III said Thursday that he was officially changing the African kingdom's name to eSwatini. Thereby showing he's hip and with it in the digital age.
Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III announced the changes at celebrations marking 50 years of Swazi independence from Britannia and his 50th birthday. Somebody else had already called dibs on "Wakanda."
"I would like to announce that from today onwards, our country will be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini," the king said at Golden Jubilee celebrations in the second city of Manzini . Now they gotta change all the road signs, all the money, official documents... It'll give them something to do for the next few years.
eSwatini means "land of the Swazis" in the local Swati language. "Swaziland," of course, means... ummm... something else.
Unlike some countries, the landlocked nation between South Africa and Mozambique did not change its name after winning independence from Britannia in 1968. They'd have had to change all the road signs, and the money, and all the official documents...
"African countries on getting independence reverted to their ancient names before they were colonized. So from now on the country will be officially be known as the Kingdom of eSwatini," the king said. But if "Swaziland" means the same thing as "eSwatine," why bother? I mean Cambodia decided to be Kampuchea, both of which are pronounced approximately the same, and look what happened. And then there's the matter of Dahomey. Nobody knows where it went.
He also said many people abroad confused the country with Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... ."Harriet, are you sure this is Geneva? It don't look like the postcards."
"Stop worrying, Bob! Quick! Take my picture with the king! Woo! He goosed me!"
"Whoa! My wife! Goosed by the king of Switzerland!"
"Whenever we go abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland," the king said. "They expect us to yodel!"
Known for his lavish lifestyle in a nation with crushing poverty and an HIV/AIDS rate of 27 percent, King Mswati III has ruled by decree over his 1.3 million people since taking over the throne from his father at the age of 18 in 1986. Royal decree number 578: All left-handed people are required to move to the left hand side of the country. Any leftists living on the right side of the country will be executed, effective May 8th."
One of his father's more than 60 sons, King Mswati III has 15 wives and more than two dozen children. "Hey, you! The comely young maiden! Yeah, you! You wanna be wife number 16?"
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And then there's the matter of Dahomey.
Beware of the Bight of Dahomey!
Its mouth is all funky and foamy
And roiled by a river
Just boiling with fever...
Oh, wait. I'm mistaken. That's Comey.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A former Liberian warlord known as 'Jungle Jabbah' was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison on Thursday
Mohammed Jabbateh was convicted of lying to gain asylum to the U.S.
During the height of Liberia's first civil war from 1992 to 1995, Jabbateh is said to have ordered or committed rapes, cannibalism, mutilation, and other crimes
Jabbateh had one town chief murdered and then ordered his widow to cook her husband´s heart
Two dozen witnesses, including 17 Liberian victims, testified in the trial
The 51-year-old has lived in East Landsdowne, Pennsylvania since the late 1990s
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[FOX] Smallville" actress Allison Mack has been arrested for her alleged role in a sex slave cult, multiple reports revealed Friday.
The 35-year-old was last seen in March running after cult leader Keith Raniere as police hauled him away from a $10,000-a-week Mexican villa where the pair had reportedly been hiding out.
Raniere, co-founder of violent sex cult Nxivm, allegedly kept women as slaves and branded his initials into their skin. He was charged by federal prosecutors with running the notorious group.
Journalist Frank Parlato, who first broke the story about the cult, told the New York Post that Mack came up with the idea of branding initiates' skin, near their groin area.
"She started as a slave and she became a slave master," Parlato alleged. "Her nickname among defectors is 'Pimp Mack.'"
Mack's fellow "Smallville" co-star Kristin Kreuk was also accused of helping to recruit women as sex slaves into Nxivm. She has denied the allegations.
[BBC] The "Angel of Dieppe" has died at age 103 - more than 75 years after she helped save the lives of many Canadian and British soldiers.
Sister Agnès-Marie Valois became a Canadian military legend for treating soldiers captured by German forces after the failed Dieppe landing.
She has received honours from both her native country of France and Canada.
More than 3,000 of about 6,000 Allied soldiers were captured or killed - the majority of them Canadian.
Sister Agnès was born in 1914 in Rouen Seine-Inferior, France and became an Augustinian nun at the convent of the Hôtel-Dieu in her hometown in the 1936. A trained nurse, she was one of about 10 Augustinian nurses who received the wounded and dead from the bloody battle of Dieppe.
On 19 August 1942, about 6,100 Allied soldiers tried to storm the beach at the port town of Dieppe, France. The operation was considered a total disaster. Troops found themselves blocked from access points by concrete obstacles and overwhelmed by German firepower.
Within 10 hours, some 3,367 soldiers were killed or captured.
[The Peninsula] Israeli-American Hollywood actress Natalie Portman has refused to attend a ceremony in Israel to accept a million-dollar prize because of "distressing" events in the country, the organisers said, announcing the prizegiving had been cancelled.
Israel has drawn international criticism in recent weeks for lethal tactics used during festivities with Paleostinians along the border with Gazoo. Thirty-one Paleostinians have been killed and hundreds more maimed. Israel says it is doing what it must to defend its border.
In a statement on its website, the foundation that awards the Genesis Prize quoted a representative for Portman as saying: "Recent events in Israel have been extremely distressing to her and she does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel."
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[Washington Examiner] Former FBI agent Terry Albury is likely to receive between three and five years in prison when he’s sentenced for giving classified information to reporters, raising questions of a double standard benefiting the men who led the bureau at the time of his leaks.
Albury’s illegal activities, which his attorneys call "an act of conscience," began in February 2016, when the bureau was led by Director James Comey, and continued until August 2017, when FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s three-month stint as acting director ended.
Albury, allegedly motivated by discrimination as the only African-American agent in Minneapolis, is believed to have sent The Intercept a guide to informant recruitment and rules for seizing records from journalists. Albury pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony counts, and prosecutors want 4-5 years in prison. Albury’s attorneys say 3-4 years would be appropriate.
Comey and McCabe, meanwhile, face no criminal charges, though Republicans in Congress are clamoring for action in response to their interactions with the media.
Comey admittedly leaked memos about his conversations with President Trump. Some of the memos reportedly contained classified information. McCabe, meanwhile, authorized a self-serving 2016 leak to reporters about an investigation of the Clinton Foundation, before allegedly lying about it to Comey, FBI agents, and Justice Department inspector general employees.
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...raising questions of a double standard benefiting the men who led the bureau at the time of his leaks.
Um, no. The question of a double standard has not been raised; it's irrefutable fact, looking at ya right there, staring you in the face. Now apply that standard evenly, from the top down.
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“Mr. Albury was entrusted by the F.B.I. with a security clearance, which included a responsibility to protect classified national defense information,” Bill Priestap, assistant director of the bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Instead, he knowingly disclosed that material to someone not authorized to receive it.”
Over at The Conservative Treehouse it was pointed out that something major is being telegraphed here. Bill Priestap is back in the public eye and being used to front a message that the law regarding disclosing classified information will be upheld.
[NYPOST] Two sheriff’s deputies have been killed in Florida Thursday‐ bumped off in broad daylight ‐ during a suspected ambush, according to authorities.
The cops were eating at a Chinese restaurant in the city of Trenton, about 35 miles west of Gainesville, when the shooter walked up and started blasting through a window, officials said in a statement.
The gunman shot both deputies dead and then took his own life. Officials said no one else was injured. The incident happened around 3 p.m.
The cops involved were identified Thursday night as Sergeant Noel Ramirez, 30, and Deputy Sheriff Taylor Lindsey, 25, of the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office.
The cops involved were deputies with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office.
"As fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter deceased outside the business, and both Deputy Sheriffs where they died of their wounds," officials said.
The sheriff’s office had initially released a statement on their social media pages Thursday, saying there were "no suspects on the lam." While they didn’t offer any other details, the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office was able to provide some information on their Facebook page.
"About an hour ago, two deputies with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office were shot and killed in a suspected ambush," officials said. "Please keep the families of these deputies, Sheriff Bobby Schultz, and the rest of their law enforcement family in your prayers."
Other law enforcement agencies in the surrounding area and across Florida were also offering their condolences on Thursday evening as word spread about the shooting.
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Strange. Twp law enforcement officers murdered in public in broad daylight and no description of the perpetrator.
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He's dead and had a non-Arabic/Ebonics name. Sounds like white trash criminality:
"Deputies responding to the scene found the suspected shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his car, officials said. The suspect was later identified as 59-year-old John Hubert Highnote of Bell, a town in Gilchrist County. "
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Wild Bill Hickok taught you to sit in the back of the room facing the door. Doesn't anyone teach history any more? /rhet question
[DAWN] A Bahrain court sentenced 24 Shia citizens to prison and stripped them of their nationality after finding them guilty of forming a "terrorist group", a Bahraini judicial source said on Thursday.
Other charges included travelling to Iraq and Iran for "weapons and explosives training" and attempted murder of coppers.
The High Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced 10 of the defendants to life in prison, 10 to a decade behind bars and the other four to jail terms ranging from three to five years.
The Sunni-ruled, Shia-majority kingdom has stripped hundreds of its citizens of their nationality and tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! dozens of high-profile activists and religious holy mans since protests demanding an elected government erupted in early 2011.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) ruled over most of southern Damascus for over three years; however, their reign would come to an abrupt end, today, after they were forced to endure a night of nonstop strikes from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian Aerospace Forces.
Backed by their Paleostinian and Russian allies, the Syrian Arab Army kicked off their offensive in southern Damascus at 7 P.M. (Damascus Time), yesterday, marking the first time in years that their forces had launched an operation of this magnitude in southern Damascus.
The Syrian military attack would last for over 15 hours, with the Islamic State suffering heavy casualties as a result of the nonstop Arclight airstrikes and missiles.
By dawn on Friday, the Islamic State was far more receptive to the Syrian Arab Army’s terms and later accepted a deal that would have their forces transferred to the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
While ISIS’s leadership in southern Damascus accepted the terms of deal, a small batch of fighters in Yarmouk Camp refused to comply with this agreement.
The Syrian Army is now heavily shelling these Lions of Islam in order to eliminate them and restore order to al-Qadam, Tadamon, Yarmouk Camp, and Hajar al-Aswad.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Jaish Thuwar al-Sham’s resistance in the eastern Qalamoun was short-lived, as they agreed to surrender their last positions to the Syrian government on Friday. Allied with the YPG...
According to a military source in Damascus city, the last towns under Jaish Thuwar al-Sham’s control in the eastern Qalamoun region will be handed over to the government on Saturday, along with their heavy weapons.
Evacuations in the towns of Ruhaybah، Jayroud, and al-Nassiryah will begin on Saturday morning, following the entrance of Russian and Syrian military police and buses.
Once the last members of Jaish Thuwar al-Sham leave these three towns, the entire eastern Qalamoun region will be under Syrian government control for the first time since the advent of this conflict.
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[REUTERS] George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... ’ Open Society Foundations will close their office in Budapest and move their eastern European operations to Berlin, Austria’s Die Presse newspaper reported on Thursday.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed Soros, a Hungarian-born U.S. financier, for a host of ills and pushed through legislation cracking down on non-governmental organizations called the "Stop Soros" laws which drew international criticism.
The Hungarian news web site 444.hu said the Open Society Foundations office would shut by Aug. 31 and move first to Vienna then on to Berlin.
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Look how much effort it took to un-seat Satan.
It is about time and Hungary owes me lots of money. But we all know it is not about the money. This is priceless so it is even.
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.
[NYPost] Two unidentified men shot and killed a 35-year-old Palestinian man in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday morning, Malaysian and Palestinian authorities said.
[Townhall] It was one week ago today that the Department of Justice Inspector General [OIG] issued a scathing report depicting fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as a serial liar.
A book by English author Elys Dolan. I thought this might be useful if you are monitoring the Burg today Andrew. 
[DAWN] TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman, who was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother over a marriage dispute one month ago, and was locked in the house to hide the incident, breathed her last without any treatment in her house on Thursday.
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else...
No worries Jarrar, Rantburg has found a match. 
North Korea
...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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[DAWN] Couples and alleged sex workers found guilty of breaking Islamic law were publicly whipped in Indonesia's Aceh on Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors.
[NINA] 
[NOLA] A 41-year-old Slidell woman faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of stealing another woman's identity via social media and using fake credentials to obtain a high paying job at the spice company founded by the late entrepreneur Al Copeland.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
[FOX] Smallville" actress Allison Mack has been arrested for her alleged role in a sex slave cult, multiple reports revealed Friday.
either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
