[THEGUARDIAN] Maryland’s governor has called on the mayor of Baltimore to resign.
The state’s governor, Larry Hogan, a Republican, called on Thursday morning for Catherine Pugh to leave office "for the good of the city".
Agents with the FBI and Internal Revenue Service carried out a raid on Baltimore city hall and two homes belonging to the mayor on Thursday morning, amid widening investigations to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.
"Mayor Pugh has lost the public trust" and was "clearly not fit to lead", Hogan added.
Dave Fitz, an FBI front man, confirmed to the local paper that search warrants were being executed at those locations early on Thursday morning, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Pugh had previously stepped aside temporarily following a growing scandal involving her sales of self-published children’s books, and amid declining public confidence.
The troubled city is still embroiled in the fallout of shattered trust between many neighborhoods in the city and the police department following the death of a young African American man, Freddie Gray, after being transported in a police van in 2015.
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Reparations claw back for the taxpayers of MD if it turns out the mayor was committing fraud?
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FBI spokesman says FBI Baltimore office and IRS Criminal Division out of DC are executing search warrants at the home of Mayor Catherine Pugh, a business address, and Baltimore City Hall. About 20 agents are in City Hall
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After watching what happened to Trump for two years perhaps we should wait and see some evidence before demanding the Mayor stand down.
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Matching funds, consider matching funds.
He gets a match from his secret donors PAC (china, kid's hedge fund) then he can surrender his supporting fan body to a leading Dem candidate without surrendering the money.
[Hot Air] Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been on "sick leave" for more than a month as a growing corruption scandal has engulfed her office. But as we've discussed here before, there is no provision under the current city charter, state or municipal law allowing her to be removed from office unless she's convicted of a crime. That would allow her to just ignore all the calls for her resignation and stick it out until the next election. But now things may have changed.
This morning, with little or no public notice in advance, FBI agents, along with the IRS, raided both City Hall and the Mayor's home, carting out boxes of evidence. She's dirty as hell, and probably didn't declare all her bribeextortiongraft income
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The IRS, eh? I bet some of those agents had raging hard-ons barging into her office with badges & guns on their belts. It's the last group of wannabe brownshirt thugs I'd want to be packing.
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There is a special place in hell for people that eat dogs.
I like dogs and have had them as pets. But not everyone shares our liking for predator species as pets. For much of the world, dogs are working animals* and/or food, just like cattle. Ironically, Indonesia would be a better place if dog consumption were universal there. Because that would mean the local population were either non-Muslim or non-observant Muslims.
* Dogs are not particularly rare and they breed like rabbits. The mutts I looked after (Boxer mixes - great dogs that never ever chomped down on me, even though we were more or less the same size for a while) had multiple litters over the course of their lives.
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It would have been easier if her husband hadn’t abandoned the family after the last ones were conceived. Easier still if the woman’s family — or her husband’s family — rallied round to help, but her mother died after she was born, and then her stepmother murdered the elder siblings. Easiest of all if she’d been able to get her tubes tied or her husband had a vasectomy, but the non-wealthy in Nigeria do not have such options.
In March 2018, 18-year-old high schooler Ousmane Bah got a learner's permit to drive in the city of New York. Then, he lost it.
What follows is the unholy marriage of technology and bypassing due process
[NakedSecurity] No biggie, right? It had his name, address, date of birth, sex, height, and eye color, but it didn't have his photo. These things are just printed receipts, issued as interim permits until an official permit arrives in the mail.
As far as identity theft goes, Bah didn't worry about it. The license said on its face that it wasn't meant to serve for identification purposes. He'd get an actual permit in the mail shortly, so he didn&'t file a police report.
Unfortunately, there was more for Bah to worry about than he realized. He got a summons to appear in Boston municipal court. He had been accused of larceny over $1,200 for allegedly ripping off multiple Apple pencils, each of which retail for $99, from an Apple store in Boston.
Bah says he's never been to Boston before the 27 June arraignment. What's more, on the date of the alleged theft, he'd been at his senior prom in Manhattan. That wouldn't be the only criminal charges he'd face, either.
According to a lawsuit Bah filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, he';s been charged with similar crimes in multiple jurisdictions, including Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, all for allegedly ripping off Apple stores. Three of the cases have been dropped, the suit said, but the one in New Jersey is still pending.
Bah is suing Apple for $1 billion for what his suit says is Apple's reliance on facial recognition software to identify a suspect, who, the suit says, must have gotten his hands on Bah's photo-less interim license. That permit was never supposed to be used as identification, yet Apple allegedly failed to use anything else to verify the true suspect's identity. From the suit:
The irony here is that Defendant [Apple] relied heavily on one method of identification ‐ facial recognition software ‐ and failed to use a more labor-intensive form of verifying the true suspect's identity. The latter method is similar in many ways to multi-step authentication; it requires the use of information from various, reliable sources, such as a driver's license photograph or a government-issued identification card that contains a photograph, to confirm a particular individual's identity. Given the number of individuals who provide false identification when suspected of committing a crime, it is remarkable that Defendant blindly accepted the photograph-less learner's permit as a valid form of identification.
Does Apple really use facial recognition to identify shoplifters? As the Washington Post reports, the company declined to comment on the lawsuit itself, but it did say that it does not, in fact, use the technology in its stores.
HOW IN THE WORLD DID APPLE FINGER BAH FOR THE CRIME?
According to the lawsuit, Bah, who was arrested at his home in November, was served a warrant that had somebody else's photo on it. The suit claims that a New York detective who viewed surveillance video from the Manhattan store concluded that the alleged thief "looked nothing like" Bah.
The suspect' height, in fact, didn't match what was listed on Bah's learner's permit.
Similar to the detective's conclusion, the Boston district attorney, after looking at surveillance footage, dismissed the case against Bah.
Bah's suit claims that none of these charges should have been made against him. They were because Apple allegedly accepted an interim permit, without a photo, that never should have been used for identification purposes, as a valid form of identification.
Bah has been forced to travel to multiple states to fight these spurious charges, the suit claims, was subject to a "shocking and traumatic" arrest at his home at 4:00 am, has been shamed and humiliated, and was forced to miss multiple days at school, which has brought down his grades.
Besides the $1 billion, the suit seeks a declaration that Apple "wrongfully and baselessly damaged" Bah's reputation, and a court order compelling Apple to "address the mistake in the stored data" that links Bah's identifying information to the company's facial recognition technology.
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How about "Quit worrying about UFO's and Don't run into anybody!"
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"If you sense a mysterious blip
Or bright lights or loud sounds, here's a tip:
Glance away from your phone
And inform someone grown,
Cuz it might be some other kid's ship!"
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Soon to be sitting on the bottom of the ocean, broken and flooded.
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Officially known as Project-09852, the submarine was originally an Oscar II-class cruise missile submarine that the Russian government ran of funds to complete. The submarine hull sat unfinished until Moscow decided to complete it as a special mission submarine.
The hull was lengthened to approximately 184 meters (604 feet) and the ship’s displacement ballooned to 30,000 tons submerged--more than fifty percent greater than the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. The result of an unfinished hull the Belgorod is a one-off, and there will not be another one like it.
That big, with the huge displacement, and an old-style propulsion and signature will make sure it's only secret when it goes missing
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Oscar II subs were noisy in the 80s. If it uses the same power plant, propulsion and coatings as the Oscars... it will be like an underwater rave going on noise wise. Even updated I doubt it could stay hidden near listening posts or newer subs.
Maybe they mean for this to sit in tight areas rigged for silence and then pepper convoys with torpedoes and run like hell.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) ‐ Russian President Vladimir Putin said after his summit with Kim Jong Un Thursday that the North Korean leader is ready to proceed toward denuclearization ‐ but needs solid security guarantees to do so.
Putin said that he will be willing to share details of the summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding that "there are no secrets." He noted that Kim himself encouraged him to explain certain nuances of Pyongyang's position to Trump. "nuances". Aye, there's the rub
The summit on Russky Island, across a bridge from the far-eastern port city of Vladivostok, reflected Russia's effort to emerge as an essential player in the North Korean nuclear standoff, a role that would raise Moscow's global clout and its leverage with Washington.
Putin emphasized that the North Korean leader is ready to move toward a nuclear-free status but would only proceed when he gets solid guarantees. He did not, however, specify what those guarantees would look like. "Above all, he focuses on protecting national interests and security," Putin said.
[Conservative Review] The president has been exonerated on allegations of Russian collusion, and now, as investigators and the media pick up the pieces on the long-running hoax, more attention has turned to the major players behind the operation, including former CIA chief and current NBC "analyst" John Brennan, who played an integral role in the launch of the unprecedented surveillance operation ‐ and the smear campaign thereafter ‐ against the president, members of the Trump campaign, and Trump-connected individuals.
Brennan’s personal role in the Trump-Russia collusion saga dates back to at least the summer of 2016 (and perhaps even earlier) when he met with a top British intelligence chief to discuss Trump’s supposed ties to the Russians. Around the time of that meeting, and following its conclusion, American and foreign spies began to make contact with members of the Trump campaign, with some claiming to have access to Russian secrets involving the Hillary Clinton campaign. Brennan later seemed to take credit and defend the espionage operation, which again, relied on the dossier to legitimize spying on Americans.
Brennan, as CIA director, reportedly inserted the Clinton-funded-and-manufactured Steele dossier into a draft version of the highly scandalous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference, which was published under the auspices of Donald Trump’s political opponents in early January 2017, just two weeks before President-elect Trump took office.
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How did this guy ever become Director of the CIA?
Bush 41 was a former Director with no apparent desire for a 2nd term. 42 appeared to have some rather deep agency connections. 42 was followed by 41 Junior, then 8 years of the mysterious late sleeper and fellow traveler Barry Soetoro. Soetoro was scheduled to be followed by Slick Willie's beloved wife.
Orange Man was an unplanned anomaly. The Deep State globalists are exceedingly unhappy.
None of this answers the ques at #3 directly, but it could provide some insights into who may have been in charge of the process.
[Australian War Memorial] Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.
The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula, with both sides having suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. More than 8,000 Australian soldiers had died in the campaign. Gallipoli had a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who died in the war.
Although the Gallipoli campaign failed in its military objectives, the actions of Australian and New Zealand forces during the campaign left a powerful legacy. What became known as the "Anzac legend" became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways in which they viewed both their past and their future.
Pompeo said the sanctions "shall not apply to any ministry, department, agency, division, or other group or subgroup within any foreign government" unless that entity is covered by existing US sanctions.
In the second notice, he said the sanctions won't apply "to any business, organization, or group, whether public or private, solely based on its provision of material support to any foreign government sub-entity that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization."
And thus door jihad supplyline is wide open or Hillary is still taking bribes
Iran has, however, vowed to use its decades of experience with US bans and go around the new ones.
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[Time] Every morning, my Japanese wife Hiroko gets out of bed before dawn and boils hot water to make tea for her father. It hardly matters that he died six years ago. The household altar on which she also lays out his favorite snacks sits next to the boom box on which she’ll soon be blasting out Green Day’s "21st Century Breakdown." When she gets a day off from the Paul Smith store where she sells semipunk English fashions, she travels two hours‐each way‐by train to talk to her grandmother, who left this earth in 1979. Hiroko still remembers how whenever she kicked a chair as a little girl, her father told her to apologize. The chair had a soul and heart too, he reminded her. What had it done to harm her?
Some of this may sound strange to the fashion-mad kids in Tokyo’s Harajuku district. The ancient capitals around which Hiroko and I live, Nara and Kyoto, take Japan’s traditions more seriously than do the rebuilt cities of modern Japan. And Hiroko in her autumn years is certainly more diligent about honoring old customs than she might have been in her springtime years. Yet the fact remains: on arriving in Kyoto in 1987, from midtown Manhattan, I was struck most by the trendy girls in fishnet stockings, the ubiquitous burger joints, the sound of pinball racketing through fluorescent shopping arcades. After 32 years around my adopted home, I’m most startled by the resilience of everything that’s old.
Geopolitically, this hasn’t been a blessing. Japan regularly finishes close to the bottom in all of Asia‐far behind North Korea, Cambodia and Indonesia‐when it comes to English-language proficiency. At Princeton, where I’m teaching this month, the classrooms are full of students from Shanghai and Mumbai and Singapore; I have yet to encounter a single one from Japan. As the number of international visitors to Japan has surged, from 5 million in 2003 to 31 million last year‐the number may reach 40 million with the Tokyo Olympics next year‐the country is eager to make foreigners feel at home. Yet what draws us visitors to the island nation is not how familiar it feels but how distinct.
Many might say, in fact, that Japan has not strayed far from the hermit kingdom it remained for more than 200 years, when any citizen trying to leave the islands was executed. In recent years it’s found that marketing its past is almost its only way of fashioning a future, economically. After urbanist Richard Florida at the University of Toronto measured 45 countries for their closeness to tradition, modern-seeming Japan came out No. 1. Culturally, this makes for an evergreen advantage: the birthplace of sushi and manga and ramen is in no danger of being mistaken for anywhere else. In an age of global migration, the continuity of Japan has become selling point as well as affliction.
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[Red State] No one said anything about GCHQ, the claim was about MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. And no one said anything about "wire tapping," the charge is "spying." It would have been easier and more pointed to deny Johnson’s allegations, but they didn’t. Instead they are obfuscating the issue by trying to change the discussion from "spying" to "wire tapping."
This is a classic example of the non-denial denial.
The significant thing here, I believe, is that after two years of this nonsense, Trump undoubtedly knows a great deal of what happened. He’s going to London for a state visit in June and even Trump isn’t so gauche as to call out the Brits for their complicity in the collusion hoax without evidence. I take the tweet of Johnson’s interview as a signal that he does know and that he will want to talk to someone about it.
In the fullness of time, we are going to find that the odious toad-man, John Brennan, was the pivot man on this particular circle jerk. It is obvious that foreign intelligence services were enlisted to keep tabs on members of the Trump campaign. They were probably enlisted as plausible deniability so the NSA couldn’t be accused of surveillance of American citizens. It is equally obvious that foreign nationals, known to be intelligence assets, were aimed at members of the Trump campaign in an effort to create facts. And it serves the best interests of neither us nor the UK to pretend that this did not happen. Emphasis added.
Ninevah (IraqiNews) Military Intelligence Directorate announced, on Wednesday, apprehending two persons on charges of terrorism, in the left side of the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Alsumaria News reported that the detachments of Nineveh Operations Command’s Military Intelligence Directorate, locked away Please don't kill me! two persons on charges of terrorism in al-Rashidiya area, in the left area of the city of Mosul.
The arrested persons were referred to the competent courts to receive a fair punishment, it added.
Nineveh (IraqiNews) An official source informed, on Wednesday, that dozens of reprisal acts took place against the families of the members of the Islamic State group in Mosul.
The source said in a press statement that the incidents against the ISIS families rose recently. A few days ago, the mother and sister of one of the Islamic State members were killed by one of the radical group’s victims, he added.
The accused person broke in the victims’ house and killed them immediately, the source further explained. He was arrested later.
The source also pointed out that a person killed the mother of one of the ISIS members, after her sons executed his father, who was an Iraqi army officer, near their house in the area of al-Nour, east of Mosul. The perpetrators were also arrested.
Furthermore, one person was arrested after killing the sister of one of the ISIS members, in revenge for the killing of his wife and children by the group members, he added.
It is noteworthy that Mosul District Council issued instructions to transfer the families of the Islamic State group to camps, fearing of the rise of reprisals against them by the affected citizens, as well as rehabilitating them psychologically and intellectually after confirming their response to rehabilitation.
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[Los Alamos National Laboratory] Visualizing ocean asteroid impact
An asteroid splashing down in one of Earth’s oceans could inject billions of tons of water into the atmosphere, but the risk of a catastrophic tsunami is actually relatively small. Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory are using high performance computing to investigate how an asteroid’s kinetic energy is transferred to the atmosphere and ocean. These studies help scientists understand the consequences of asteroid impacts and assist NASA’s Office of Planetary Defense in deciding how to best track near-Earth objects (NEOs).
For their work on this project, Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team won the Best Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase award at Supercomputing 2016 for their video “Visualization and Analysis of Threats from Asteroid Ocean Impacts.” This is the second consecutive year that Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team has won this award.
Watch the award winning video here at the Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team's website.
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These studies help scientists understand the consequences of asteroid impacts and assist NASA’s Office of Planetary Defense in deciding how to best crush port facilities.
They granted exemptions on oil purchases for a bit, too — which had the dual effect of allowing favoured nations time to find new sources and keeping the Iran sanctions in the news to magnify the effect. One hopes this is the same.
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration is granting major exemptions to new US sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlines the exemptions in notices published in the Federal Register. A ban on travel to the US stemming from the designation of the Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization will not apply to officials of foreign governments or businesses that have dealings with the elite military unit or its subsidiaries.
The US designated the force as a terrorist organization earlier this month.
US law authorizes authorities to bar entry to the US by anyone found to have provided "material support" to a terrorist organization.
Pompeo says the waivers are in the interests of US national security, but they are likely to frustrate members of Congress who favor tough measures on Iran.
[ToloNews] Badghis officials claimed Wednesday that Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... cut Turkmenistan's imported power to the northwest province over the past 10 days as the group has targetted pylons and they refuse to allow technical teams to reconnect the wires.
"It is 10 days that the electricity has been cut by the armed oppositions in Juma Bazar area in Badghis and so for no coordination has bee made to allow our staff to repair the pylons," said Mohammad Tahir Azimi, the provincial head of electricity department.
The resident of Qala-e-Naw city, the capital of Badghis, said they are faced with many difficulties following the disconnection of electricity in the province.
"This act has been done by the Taliban," said Abdul Aziz Bek, head of the Badghis provincial council.
"Power outage has created many problems for the residents," said Mohammad Asif Amiri, a Badghis resident.
According to local officials, Taliban has demanded power for 20 villages under their control in Moqo district, which has been accepted but the process of connecting electricity to those areas need more time due to lack of facilities.
"Taliban want electricity for 21 villages and their demand has been accepted. But it is not possible in one day," Badghis Governor Abdul Ghafoor Malikzai said.
It is almost one year that the imported power has been connected to Badghis.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi court has sentenced an 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.... holy warrior to death over his involvement in a deadly car kaboom in the province of Diyala.
"The Diyala Criminal Court handed down a death penalty for a terrorist after he admitted booby trapping a vehicle to target a funeral ceremony in Abu Sayda district in Diyala, an kaboom which left scores of civilians dead and maimed," Alghad Press website quoted the Supreme Judicial Council media center as saying in a press statement on Wednesday.
"The court ruling was issued pursuant to article ¼ of the anti-terrorism law," added the statement.
The law empowers courts to convict people who are believed to have helped jihadists even if they are not accused of carrying out attacks.
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[THEEPOCHTIMES] 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... left Vietnam on March 2, after failing to come to a negotiation during the summit with U.S. 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... Some fascinating details have since been unveiled about Kim’s visit, highlighting the deep sense of paranoia within the communist regime.
North Korean guards spent five hours cleaning up all traces of Kim the leader might have left in the hotel, according to Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper.
Kim Jong-un left the Melia Hanoi Hotel in Vietnam at 9:30 a.m. on March 2. When a Chosun Ilbo news hound arrived at the hotel at around 2 p.m., access to the 21st and 22nd floor was still restricted with the North Korean security team guarding the stairways.
Kim stayed on the 22nd floor and had presided over meetings on the 21st floor. The security team was busy cleaning up the room and the hallway on these two levels.
Chosun Ilbo analyzed that given the timing, the security team was likely removing all "biomarkers" Kim might have left, such as strands of hair, fingerprints, or saliva. Suet Sweat is the worst
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If they get your toenails, they can make evil on you. I learned that on the Sopranos.
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In Cold War one of soviet leaders, i don't remember which one, was discovered to be unhealthy because when stayed in a western country his feces were collected and analyzed.
[DAWN] Parents in the capital’s rural and urban areas refused to vaccinate their children against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... on Tuesday, the first day of a polio vaccination campaign, after the incident in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. a day prior.
Hundreds of children were rushed to hospitals in Peshawar complaining of abdominal pain and nausea allegedly after being vaccinated on Monday. Most were released, and doctors at Lady Reading Hospital ‐ which received 300 or so children ‐ said whatever was impacting the children appeared to be psychological.
Nevertheless, rumours circulated on social media about children falling ill and even dying after being vaccinated in Peshawar.
In Islamabad, polio workers and teams faced difficulties on the first day of the vaccination campaign, officials from the capital administration said.
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Parent's mass hysteria, much like the popular gendering trend.
[DAWN] PANDEMONIUM gripped KP amidst a province-wide polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... eradication drive, threatening to stop this critical campaign in its tracks ‐ which was ultimately the agenda of those who instigated the mass hysteria.
Thousands of children were rushed to hospitals by their panic-stricken parents on Monday after malicious rumours of adverse reactions to the oral polio vaccine were disseminated over community and mosque loudspeakers, and via WhatsApp and other social media platforms, and picked up and reported, uncritically and without verification, by sections of the mainstream media.
The fake news was soon exposed as a total, wilful fabrication in footage that soon emerged, but disinformation had already been spread, precisely because it fed into misconceptions about the OPV that have persisted despite the best efforts of public officials to dispel religious and medical concerns.
And though public officials scrambled to calm the public, holding a presser within hours of the emergent crisis, by then, far too much damage had already been done.
In Mashokhel, where the rumour mill apparently originated, the local health unit was torched by rioters, and across the province, streets and hospitals were overwhelmed by a terrified public.
In the days ahead, there may be severe short- and long-term repercussions. Only yesterday, a police ASI assigned to a polio team was killed on his way to report for duty, and two new cases of the polio virus were detected in the province.
That a few malevolent individuals could hijack the vaccination drive, thus undermining the effort, dedication and courage of polio workers, is proof of how tentative the gains have been in building public confidence in vaccinations.
There are already doubts about the extent of coverage this polio drive is able to achieve in the face of what has transpired.
The government must now examine measures to anticipate the possibility of fake news proliferating via social media, which can spread like wildfire in the absence of basic digital literacy among the masses.
The mainstream media, however, should have known better. For years, it has reported on the lives lost ‐ children who succumbed to the virus, and workers to the attacks of obscurantist elements ‐ and the disease burden on the country.
There must be a wholesale adoption of strict coverage protocols recognising the sensitivity, fragility and security concerns of the anti-polio campaign. This is a dire setback, but it must not be allowed to derail the fight to eradicate this crippling, deadly disease once and for all.
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[REUTERS] The United States must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop Iran from selling oil and using the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Wednesday, while also offering to negotiate prisoner swaps with Washington.
The United States on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers which allowed Iran’s eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes.
"We believe that Iran will continue to sell its oil. We will continue to find buyers for our oil and we will continue to use the Strait of Hormuz as a safe transit passage for the sale of our oil," Zarif told an event at the Asia Society in New York.
Reinforcing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s stance, Zarif warned: "If the United States takes the crazy measure of trying to prevent us from doing that, then it should be prepared for the consequences." He did not give specifics.
Oil prices hit their highest level since November on Tuesday after Washington’s announcement.
When asked if the U.S. pressure campaign on Tehran was aimed at sparking further negotiations or regime change, Zarif said: "The B team wants regime change at the very least." He described the B Team as including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton.
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I believe the official response should be.. "Go fuck yourself"
[RT] Tehran’s appointment of a hardline new commander of its Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) could signal that Iran is preparing for conflict with the US, former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof has told RT.
Brigadier General Hossein Salami, 58, will replace Mohammad Ali Jafari as the elite unit’s commander-in-chief, Iranian state media reported Sunday. Salami served as Jafari’s deputy since 2009 and began his career in the Guards in 1981. He is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War.
"Salami is more of a hardline person," Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst at the US Department of Defense, told RT. "He’s from the ’old guard,’ if you will."
Though Tehran has recently engaged in diplomacy to keep afloat the JCPOA nuclear deal after it was abandoned by the US, Salami’s appointment could represent a dramatic shift in Iranian policy, Maloof believes.
"It really suggests they’re going to double down on confronting the US," he said. "I think we’re about ready to enter a whole new phase of confrontation." faster speedboats and more civilians killed by terrorists
I would expect it’s an indication from the Iranian leadership of a greater resistance, a greater standing-up to the Trump administration's sanctions, and an increasing likelihood for a confrontation.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The private schools and colleges of the bustling provincial capital on Tuesday refused to allow vaccinators to administer anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to students on campus citing the alleged adverse reaction by vaccination in a local school as the reason.
They urged the government to ensure the students’ vaccination at their homes to avoid any ’mishap’.
All Pakistain Private Schools Association, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , president Dr Zakir Shah and National Education Council president Nazar Hussain told news hounds at the Peshawar Press Club that they were shocked by the alleged vaccination reaction and considered it to be a very unfortunate happening.
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Before you buy into that stereotype that all older Americans are demented, helpless and lonely, check out these statistics. Not everybody is Hillary Clinton?
Ninety-seven percent of Americans over 65 are NOT in nursing homes. Here’s an even more interesting statistic ‐ ninety-one percent of Americans aged 85 and older are not in nursing homes. I am part of the 97% and hope to squeeze into the 91%.
Ninety percent of Americans aged 65 and older DO NOT have Alzheimer’s dementia. Ninety percent, folks. According to the American Medical Association, dementia rates continue to fall significantly. Interestingly, however, Americans’ anxiety about memory loss is increasing. I wonder if the media has something to do with that misconception?
Or possibly connected to the fact that more Americans have reached the age where dementia is a real possibility, even if a smaller percent actually experience it.
Over fifty percent of Americans aged 85 and older can go about their everyday activities without any help. Dressing, cooking, paying bills ‐ they are doing that just fine, thank you.
If most older Americans are not demented or helpless, surely they are at least suffering from loneliness and depression, right? Nope. Health-service company Cigna did a survey and found that the loneliest group is Generation Z, defined as ages 18 ‐ 22. The next largest group is composed of people aged 45-49; a whopping forty-three percent report being lonely. In contrast, only twenty-five percent of Americans over 70 say they are lonely. If you've been in a stable relationship for a number of years, that's a big help.
How about that secret conviction held by most that older people are an economic burden to the country and, by extension, to every one of us? Not true. People over 50 make up thirty-five percent of the population yet contribute forty-three percent of the total US GDP. That’s a $7.4 trillion contribution by that aged and decrepit over-50 group.
Workers 50-67 are generally in their peak earning years, just before they retire. The concern centers on the years after retirement, when they’re spending down their retirement savings.
If you find any of that surprising, then you might be suffering from ageism, which is the discrimination and stereotyping of people by age. Some interesting examples of late-term bloomers at link.
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"Supposed to be".
According to whom?
I'm turning 70 shortly and think that getting old really sucks in some ways. No dementia but I have way more aches and pains than ever and don't have the energy I need to do half the things I want.
Not depressed and lonely just occasionally annoyed. Of course then there are the Democrats trying to ruin everything which is the worst of it.
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"Supposed to be" according to everything else I ever read.
At least, if I remember correctly.
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On Wednesday evening at 6pm a 101 year old, soon to be 102, walks into Bible study meeting when he is not running in a national track meet for the 100-105 age group.
He just turned over his oil investment portfolio to his decendents which he created himself and managed to make enough to be sitting on $4,000,000.00.
As a WW2 trainer of pilots, yet wanting to actually fly in combat but told they needed him to be a trainer instead, they finnally gave him the honor of being one of the pilots to fly a strata-fortress over Moscow and nuke it for many years until the went with a Ballistic delivery systems, sadly.
He encounters the same symptoms as everyone else but he says he works through them. He is very shy and a very good man but I would hate to be his enemy. At 101 he came charging out of the Wednesday night Bible study like he had an important appt and I accidently got into his path and it felt like I was about to get hit by a locomotive as I quickly got out of his flight path. He just sold his Camaro and that is a shame. I will never get to race him.
A few weeks ago I saw him approach a three flight set of stairs, look at them and determindly procede to climb them. The elevator he could have taken was near the stairs but that was not on his list of options at this geographical encounter. The man could still survive on a remote island by himself. Seriously.
If you are fortunate enough to witness this 101 year old go by a time or two, you realize he will not be stopped.
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Getting old sucks, but is preferable to the alternative.
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ninety-one percent of Americans aged 85 and older are not in nursing homes.
This is a bit misleading. "Nursing Homes" (AKA skilled nursing facilities) are at the most extreme end of the eldercare spectrum. Many more people are in assisted living facilities, and even more are in independent living (55+) communities with nurses etc. on staff.
Still the headline is correct. My grandfather died at 78. My parents survived into their 90's. My mother was in independent living at age 95.
It is great to see people in their 70's and 80's playing golf and swimming. A generation earlier they would have been dead.
Al
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re: #6 - I've out lived almost all my previous generations of relatives already. If I make the end of the year I'll have surpassed both mother and father; way past all grand parents there are only a couple of Aunts or Uncles that made 80.
#18SPCS confirmed breakup of ATLAS 5 CENTAUR R/B (2018-079B, #43652) on April 6, 2019. Tracking 14 associated pieces – no indication caused by collision.
[IsraelTimes] German prosecutors say they’ve indicted a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of membership in 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.... group and of keeping three Yazidis as slaves in Syria.
Federal prosecutors say the German-Algerian woman, identified as Sarah O. for privacy reasons, traveled to Syria as a teenager in 2013, joined IS and married a fellow German IS recruit.
Both allegedly received firearms training and conducted "guard and police duties" in IS-controlled areas. They also forced a Yazidi girl and two Yazidi women to work in their household and convert to Islam.
She was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in September upon her return to Germany.
O.’s parents-in-law, 51-year-old Ahmed S. and 48-year-old Perihan S., allegedly helped their sons supply IS with equipment such as firearms magazines and scopes. They are indicted on suspicion of aiding IS.
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[Rudaw] A year and a half after construction began, Germany has officially handed over the new Peshmerga Hospital in Erbil to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a ceremony attended by German and Kurdish officials.
"It is the most important project for Peshmerga soldiers," Sarbast Lazgin, deputy minister of Peshmerga, told assembled guests and journalists.
"On behalf of the KRG, Peshmerga Ministry, and Peshmerga soldiers, we are expressing gratitude to the nation and government of Germany for their continued support and assistance to the Peshmerga in the fight against the terrorist ISIS organization in the past four years," he added, using the Arabic acronym for 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).
Lazgin attributed changes in the "balance of power" during the fight against ISIS to the German military and its logistical support for the Peshmerga.
Colonel M. Schneider, Commander of German Forces in Iraq, told the ceremony that German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen will "follow developments at the Peshmerga Hospital and Kurdistan as a whole because both have always been of a special importance for her."
Von der Leyen has been instrumental to Berlin’s support for Peshmerga during and after the ISIS conflict. She visited the site on her fifth visit to the Kurdistan Region last year.
"We all know that the Peshmerga on our behalf and that of the world, fought very well against ISIS," said von der Leyen at the time.
Up to 150 German personnel are based at the international anti-ISIS Combined Joint Operations Command Center in Erbil, where they have worked with Iraqi and Kurdish commanders, in addition to Peshmerga units through the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTTC).
The Region’s first dedicated Peshmerga military hospital took 14 months to build and was completed at the beginning of February. The facility will be used to treat members of the Kurdistan Region armed forces maimed in the ISIS war.
Lazgin called on other members of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition to "provide technical and financial support to finish the remaining unfinished parts of the Peshmerga Hospital so we can provide the best possible service to the maimed Peshmerga of the fight against ISIS."
The $4.8 million facility has 20 beds and is build across a 1,000 square-meter plot of land. The finishing touches ought to be complete by the end of the year.
"We are trying to gradually enhance the hospital’s capacity. It is a 20 bed hospital. It has two surgery halls," Dr. Rebin Zikhani, deputy manager of health affairs at the ministry, had earlier told Rudaw.
Some 772 Peshmerga maimed in the ISIS conflict have received treatment abroad to date.
More than 10,000 Peshmerga were maimed during the four-year war with ISIS and more than 1,800 killed.
[Rudaw] Iran’s oil exports have been cut by 1.7 million barrels per day (mb/d) since May 2018 when the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In just the last month, Iran exported 300,000 fewer barrels per day (bpd) compared to March, falling to around 1.1 mb/d.
"Further tightening of sanctions on Iran will have an impact on its export capacity," the IEA, a watchdog for oil consuming countries, said in a statement Tuesday.
"Iranian shipments of crude and condensates are running around 1.1 million barrels a day (mb/d) in April, 300 000 barrels a day lower than March, and 1.7 mb/d lower than May 2018," it added.
Washington imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil sector ‐ the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s main source of revenue ‐ in November 2018 after withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The US initially granted seven major importers of Iranian crude a waiver period in which to wean off Iranian oil and find alternatives. On Monday, however, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced no further waivers would be authorized after May.
Oil prices jumped by around three percent in response to the news.
"Today I am announcing that we will no longer grant any exemptions. We are going to zero. Going to zero across the board," Pompeo told news hounds in Washington.
The Secretary of State estimated US sanctions have already denied Iran more than $10 billion.
Pompeo sought to reassure markets that the shortfall created by the loss of Iranian exports would be plugged and prices would remain stable. The loss of Iranian crude on the oil market is expected to be met by US oil supplies, which the IEA expects to grow by 1.6 mb/d this year.
The large global spare production capacity of 3.3 mb/d created by recent OPEC+ supply cuts is also expected to allow 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 the United Arab Emirate (UAE) to absorb Iran’s market.
The suspension of waivers followed a US decision to list Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its extraterritorial Quds Force as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) alongside al-Qaeda, 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) and others.
The move is significant as, unlike these non-state terror groups, the IRGC is effectively a state entity. The elite guard, which answers only to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is also tightly bound up in Iran’s economy, including construction, oil and gas, and even missile technology.
The IRGC terror designation could have dire consequences for Iraq, whose armed forces have close ties with the Iranian Guards. Iraq also depends on Iranian energy exports to power homes and businesses, particularly in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where power blackouts last summer led to deadly rioting.
[Mindanao Examiner] Clashes broke out between Philippine troops and Maoist militants on the border between two towns in North Cotabato Tuesday morning, prompting thousands of civilians to flee. The battle with New People’s Army insurgents between Antipas and Magpet towns left two soldiers and a civilian slightly injured.
Arakan police chief Jose Marie Molina said the rescue vehicle that carried the injured soldiers were also ambushed by communist rebels in Sitio Anuling at about 9:30am that sparked another firefight.
Molina added that the militants have suffered many casualties as evidenced by blood stains on their escape routes. He said government agents are now on the ground and have begun providing emergency relief assistance to affected families.
[DW] The German lender has started providing files to New York authorities related to funding of Trump projects. Investigators are interested in Deutsche Bank as it is one of the few banks to lend to the Trump Organization.
Deutsche Bank has begun to provide financial documents to New York state authorities related to loans for 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... and his business.
In March, New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed the German lender for records on loans it provided to the Trump Organization.
The bank is now handing over emails and loan documents related to the financing of Trump hotels in Washington, DC, Miami, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... and a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to buy the Buffalo Bills football team in 2014, CNN and AFP reported on Wednesday.
James requested the documents from Deutsche Bank after Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that Trump inflated his assets to secure loans.
TRUMP'S BIG LENDER
Deutsche Bank has been one of the few major banks to lend to Trump and his family-owned organization, following several defaults and bankruptcies by the real-estate mogul in the 1990s. The German bank stopped lending to Trump after he entered office as US president in 2017.
A 2018 financial disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million (€115 million) in outstanding liabilities to Deutsche Bank's American unit. The bank has loaned Trump and his organization some $2 billion over the years.
MULTIPLE PROBES
The US House's Intelligence and Financial Services committees earlier this month issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and other banks seeking information about Trump's business dealings and possible Russian money laundering.
The subpoenas marked a renewed push by Democratic leaders to collect information on the president's finances and that of the Trump Organization since they gained control of the House last fall.
The House Intelligence and Financial Services committees' investigations are a part of a larger Democratic effort to dig into Trump's finances.
The powerful Boodle Central is also attempting to get access to Trump's personal and business tax returns. Trump did not release his tax documents during the 2016 campaign, as is standard for presidential candidates.
On Tuesday, the US Treasury let a deadline set by the Boodle Central to pass, signaling that the administration intends to reject the request. Trump on Wednesday said he would fight all congressional subpoenas, setting the stage for a drawn-out legal battle.
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The greatest danger to national security is an organized crime group a.k.a. the Democratic (Socialist) Party (of America). Their mission is to prosecute, neuter and depose anyone outside their party by any means necessary. From Trump to the Bernie bros. This one party is a danger to this country and to western civilization overall.
If the remnant of our great nation does not confront them vigorously they will shove their sh!t down your throats again like they did when Barack Hussein ruled.
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The bank is part of the globalist strategy. This is no real surprise...
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Didn't Obama recently visit with Merkel in early April? Do you suppose he set up this?
From what I recall, NY state (read - Andrew Cuomo) has been threatening to (or may have already) 'investigate' Trump's NY charity for quite some time. 'New York authorities' makes it a little tough to definitively determine which part of the NY state hackerama's doing it, so my money's on the AG's office at a minimum.
I wouldn't be surprised if the NY state Dept. of Taxation & finance is (still) auditing Trump's tax returns, both business and personal.
[AlAhram] The U.S. Treasury, moving to boost pressure on Hezbollah, imposed sanctions on Wednesday against two people and three firms that Washington accuses of being involved in schemes to help the armed Shi'ite group backed by Iran evade American sanctions.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it was targeting Belgium-based Wael Bazzi because he acted on behalf of his father Mohammad Bazzi, a Hezbollah financier.
OFAC also took action against two Belgian companies and a British-based firm controlled by Bazzi.
According to The Times of Israel, the companies are Belgium-based Voltra Transcor Energy and OFFISCOOP NV, and United Kingdom-based BSQRD Limited.
In addition, the U.S. Treasury designated Leb-based Hassan Tabaja, who it said had acted on behalf of his brother Adham Tabajha, also a Hezbollah financier. The U.S. action freezes their assets and property and prevents U.S. citizens and businesses from dealing with them.
The two men and three businesses were targeted for sanctions under U.S. regulations aimed at suspected Lions of Islam or those who support them, the Treasury said in a statement. Hezbollah is considered a foreign terrorist organization by the United States.
"Treasury is relentlessly pursuing Hezbollah's financial controllers by dismantling two of Hezbollah's most important financial networks," Treasury Undersecretary Sigal Mandelker said in a statement.
"By targeting Hassan Tabaja and Wael Bazzi and their European-based companies, this administration is continuing to disrupt all avenues of financial support relied upon by Hezbollah," he said.
The U.S. State Department earlier this week offered a reward of up to $10 million for information that could help disrupt Hezbollah's financing.
The move to boost pressure on the group comes at a time of growing U.S. concern about its role in the Lebanese government. Hezbollah's regional clout has expanded as it has sent fighters to Middle East conflicts, including the war in Syria, where it supported Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa...
[AnNahar] The United States Embassy in Leb has revoked the visas of several Lebanese figures with reported good relations with Iran and the Syrian government, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat said on Wednesday.
The daily said the measure has affected a Lebanese lawyer who was granted power of procuration by a Syrian businessman suspected of being linked to the Syrian regime, and another Lebanese businessmen preparing to go to Syria to discuss the establishment of companies there.
Political sources said the majority of the visas were annulled in a simple phone call the figures received from the US embassy in Beirut.
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[DAWN] NAROWAL: Three suspects were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Monday for gang-raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl.
A labourer of Kot Abdul Malik in Sheikhupura district and his family had gone to Shakargarh to attend a wedding on Sunday. After the wedding, his daughter ’Z’, 11, was going to her maternal uncle’s house in Miadian village with her cousins on the uncle’s cycle of violence.
On the way, the uncle met his neighbour near Narowal city who offered to drop one of the children home. The uncle made ’Z’ travel with the neighbour.
When the uncle reached home, he asked the family about Z, who told him she had not reached yet. He asked his neighbour about it, who told him he had dropped Z outside the house. The family informed Rayya Khas police about the incident and also searched for the minor, but in vain.
On Monday morning, police arrested the neighbour, S, and interrogated him about the girl. He told police that he, along with two of his friends, had raped Z and then strangled her to death. On the indication of the suspect, Z’s body was recovered from wheat fields.
According to police sources, Z had been raped after tying her hands and a number of scars were found on her body. Rayya Khas police took the body into custody and shifted it to the DHQ hospital for post-mortem.
After the post-mortem, police completed legal formalities and handed over Z’s body to her relatives. Her family then left for Kot Abdul Malik where she would be laid to rest.
Z’s father said: "The Rayya Khas police in connivance with the murderers has started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 365-B of the PPC and arrested them, while my minor daughter was first kidnapped and then gang-raped.
Police have not included the relevant sections in the first information report. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... should get my daughter and family justice."
According to the district police front man, all three culprits were arrested and investigation was under way.
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What a surprise. Globalist scum supporting one another. More war, more war, we must not stop starting wars. They're all on the same page, whether the present themselves as (D) or (R).
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Well on their way to the "irrelevant" section of the "They don't matter anymore" Department of the Department of "Who Cares what you think".
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They're all on the same page, whether the present themselves as (D) or (R).
This was one of the big takeaways from the last election. There are no opposite sides anymore, it's all just The Show. It's like big-time wrestling. you've got the faces (Dems) and the heels (Pubs), the good guys and the bad guys, cast as opponents, but both playing their part to advance the story line.
#BREAKING: North Korea blasts US-South Korean Air Force drills as “military provocation against the DPRK” & states “there will be corresponding response to it from our army”- KCNA statement https://t.co/q47Gx6Km95
[AnNahar] Sri Lankan security forces detained 18 new suspects in the Easter bombings that killed more than 350 people, as the government admitted Wednesday that "major" intelligence lapses had led to a failure to prevent the attacks.
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.... group's claim of responsibility for Sunday's strikes on three hotels and three churches increased pressure over ignored warnings of the bombings, and the government was expected to announce sackings in the security forces and police leadership.
The 18 new arrests were made in night-time raids using emergency powers, said police front man Ruwan Gunasekera.
Fifty-eight people are now in jug and more arrests are expected in coming days, deputy defence minister Ruwan Wijewardene told a presser.
The government has said more attacks are possible and in a sign of the heightened tensions, authorities carried out at least two controlled kabooms of a suspect package and vehicle on Wednesday.
Wijewardene also gave new details on the bombers. One had studied in Britannia and then did post-graduate studies in Australia before returning to Sri Lanka. Others were also believed to have travelled abroad, he told a presser.
"Most of them are well-educated and come from middle, upper-middle class families, so they are financially quite independent and their families are quite stable financially, that is a worrying factor in this," the minister said.
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Amid the frantic hunt for suspects, Islamic State grabbed credit for the strikes and released photos and video of the men it said were involved in the attacks. Seven of the eight men in the images had their faces covered. Islamic State group called the blasts "blessed attacks" on the "infidel holiday".
The authenticity of the images could not be independently verified but experts said the attacks bear many hallmarks of a coordinated Islamic State operation.
The government has blamed a local Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ), and said they were investigating whether the bombers had foreign help.
The deputy defence minister said it was believed the jacket wallahs came from an NTJ "splinter group" whose leader had killed himself.
In the Islamic State video, a man believed to be the leader of the NTJ, Zahran Hashim,
...also known as Mohammed Zahran and Zahran Hashmi, he became known three years ago for his fiery YouTube speeches...
directs a group in a pledge of allegiance to IS chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... Sri Lankan police sources have told AFP that two Moslem brothers, sons of a wealthy Colombo spice trader, blew themselves up at the Shangri-La and the Cinnamon Grand hotels.
Their father is now one of the 58 in jug.
The Kingsbury hotel in the capital was the last one hit. A fourth planned attack on a hotel failed, authorities said. The would-be attacker was followed back to a Colombo lodge, where he went kaboom!, killing two people.
The funerals of dozens more victims were held Wednesday but the government became embroiled in recriminations over warnings about the attacks up to two weeks before they were carried out.
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President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also defence and law and order minister, has pledged "major changes" to the security forces and police leadership.
Sri Lanka's police chief issued a warning on April 11 that NTJ suicide kabooms were possible and alerts had been given by a foreign intelligence agency. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged the information was not passed to his office or other top ministers.
"It was a major lapse in the sharing of information," the deputy defence minister said. "The government has to take responsibility."
CNN reported that Indian intelligence services had passed on "unusually specific" information in the weeks before the attacks, some of it from an IS suspect in their custody.
The US ambassador to Sri Lanka has denied that her government had prior knowledge of the planned attacks.
A US FBI team is now in Sri Lanka, Wijewardene said, and Britannia, Australia and the United Arab Emirates have all offered intelligence help.
Sri Lankan Moslem leaders said they had many several complaints to police about Hashim's activities. His whereabouts after the bombings were unknown however.
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Work was continuing to identify foreign victims in the blasts.
A Danish billionaire lost three of his children in the attacks, a front man for his company said.
Eight Britons, 10 Indians, four Americans and nationals from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , Australia, Japan and Portugal were also reported killed.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... said at least 45 children, Sri Lankans and foreigners, were among the dead.
[NEWS.SKY] Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohammed is believed to have studied in the southeast of England at some point between 2006 and 2007.
One of the nine jacket wallahs was a woman, who killed herself as police raided her home, and another - who targeted the Shangri-La hotel - has been identified as factory owner Insan Seelavan.
The woman, thought to be the wife of one of the bombers, blew herself up at the home of her father-in-law, who has been taken into custody.
[DAWN] Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off about an imminent attack by Islamist bully boyz hours before a series of suicide kabooms killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Indian intelligence officers contacted their Sri Lankan counterparts two hours before the first attack to warn of a specific threat on churches, one Sri Lankan defence source and an Indian government source said.
Another Sri Lankan defence source said a warning came "hours before" the first strike.
One of the Sri Lankan sources said a warning was also sent by the Indians on Saturday night. The Indian government source said similar messages had been given to Sri Lankan intelligence agents on April 4 and April 20.
Updated with the latest information, including IS’s claims. It seems that this was at the very least guided, if not a directed attack. IS has an exclusive picture with the attack team and now have released a video. https://t.co/99ylLblzB2
#UPDATE: Earlier Sri Lankan police confirmed that in fact 9 suicide bombers had been involved in the attacks in total. Including one female suicide bomber who blew herself & her children up when police tried to raid the home
#SriLankaAttacks IS/prominent Scholars spread this message confirming these kinds of attacks are planned by IS Central and done also for psychological tactics to boost moral of Muslims and Mujahideen. This target is worth more than the blood of 1000 innocents @StateDept@CIApic.twitter.com/oiqQ2dcDUJ
Wealthy brothers Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim, the sons of a millionaire spice trader, bombed the luxury Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday terror attack
Their attacks claimed the lives of at least 41 foreigners, including eight British holidaymakers - three of whom were children
As police raided their £1m mansion in an exclusive neighbourhood of Colombo, Ilham's pregnant wife Fatima blew herself up, killing her three children and three officers
Inshaf, a successful businessman, owned a copper factory thought to be where the suicide bombs were made
Chilling footage shows Ilham and an accomplice bomber attack the Shangri-La while guests had breakfast
Second clip earlier showed different bomber patting a girl on the head before launching attack on a church
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Sorta blows up the myth that suicide bombers come from minorities oppressed by the west.
[Rudaw] JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria - A powerful kaboom Wednesday killed 15 people including more than a dozen civilians in jihadist-held northwest Syria, a war monitor said, as rescuers searched for people trapped under the rubble.
An AFP news hound at the scene saw a building of at least four storeys that had collapsed in the town of Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib, a region controlled by Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate. One opposite had partially caved in while surrounding buildings appeared on the verge of collapse.
Thirteen civilians were among those killed in the blast, the cause of which was not immediately clear, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group.
"The kaboom hit next to the market," killing 15 people including the daughter of a Turkestani fighter, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. He earlier said the kaboom could have been the result of a boom-mobile or a vehicle carrying explosives that detonated.
The Idlib region is under the administrative control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is dominated by a faction previously known as 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 .. ... Front before renouncing its ties to al-Qaeda.
The Turkestan Islamic Party, a group of foreign jihadists from the ethnic Uighur Moslem minority, also has a large presence in Jisr al-Shughur.
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.... jihadist group has sleeper cells in the wider Idlib region.
Idlib has since September been protected from a massive regime offensive by a fragile ceasefire deal signed by Damascus ally Russia and rebel backer The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . But the region of some three million people has come under increasing bombardment since HTS took full control of it in January.
On Tuesday, regime shelling killed seven civilians, including four children, in the town of Khan Sheikhun. Increased regime shelling on Khan Sheikhun has sparked one of the largest waves of displacement since the September deal.
[Rudaw] When Ahmed Khalil ran out of work as a van driver in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... three years ago, he signed up with 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.... group’s police force, believing the salary would help keep his struggling family afloat.
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Scoop: Trump indicated in phone call with Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar last wk that US supported an assault on Tripoli to depose its UN-backed govt.
In a separate call, Bolton also left Haftar with impression of US green light, sources tell me, @margarettalev, @SameralAtrush
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No blood or treasure involved, our people were evacuated by speed boats.
Our leadership needs to cultivate capable allies around the world or the world will turn into a total shthole and their refugees will pour across our borders and unfortunately vote Democrat.
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Can't trust anything back by the UN. Forget democracy in Libya. It's not going to happen. The best hope is a strongman who can impose enough order to stop the human trafficking from Libya to Europe.
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Abu,
I couldn't agree more.
A strong leader with the resources to eliminate the militias is absolutely necessary.
You don't kill the leadership and then abandon a geopolitically significant country to the Moslem Brotherhood.
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You don't kill the leadership and then abandon a geopolitically significant country to the Moslem Brotherhood.
Which is exactly what Obama, Clinton, and McCain attempted. Succeeded in Egypt, albeit temporarily.
-Puts on foil hat-
Well, I don't think Egypt was abandoned To MoBro. I think in a bid to gain power/influence and put pressure on Israel, agents of the Obama doctrine worked with the MoBro to knock Mubarak out of power. Some NGOs were so obvious about it, the military had them arrested and expelled. After Morsi was installed, the movement could spread east to Syria/Jordan and west through Libya/Algeria to create a vast bloc in a key geopolitical location.
Efforts to expand into Syria stalled with what I think was an unexpected defense of Assad both locally and foreign, Russia specifically. Westward they went with the tomahawk chop on Daffy but didn't seem to really get much past the east Libyan border and stalled. Meanwhile, they man in Cairo Morsi starts acting the MoBro fool and threatens with with everyone from Israel to Ethiopia. The Egyptian army, worried whether this is actually fight words gets sick of his shit, removes Morsi, and installs Sisi. Meanwhile, under McCain's figurehead locals receive money, arms, training, and form ISIS.
Some Jordanian pilots get burned alive, and Hussein loses his shit and vows a whomping, then suddenly loses interest - I think Team Obama threatened Jordan with some sort of reprisals, as T.O. was still playing the overthrow Assad card. There was no real coalition willing to tackle both Syria and Russia (perhaps Iranian troops are showing up in noticeable numbers by now) so we have the great chemical weapons tragedy. UK and France were totes on board and the US was right there with McCain just banging that drum until it was so ludicrous on its head that maybe a vote to go to war with Russia needs to happen.
I think what happened there was a Bay of Pigs, where T.O. had armed and trained troops for a big push to topple Assad and install a MoBro government, the chemical weapons was a cover for NATO air cover and missile strikes and Russia said Nah Bro, first we didn't do that, and second come get some and find out. So some of T.O.s troops attacked without air cover and the others joined expedition ISIS.
Jordan would be hard pressed to not at least go along with the new Jew-Hate Bloc and Economic Transit Point. Suddenly Israel is hard pressed from all sides, T.O. agents successfully tilt the elections away from Bibi and boom, Israel under Obama's thumb with a Peace in our Time government.
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I just think that forcing Israel to accept a Paleo State is one of those Golden Apples which Obama would have loved to pluck and place on the mantel, and I cannot think of any better ploy than this move.
I point to three different major events which derailed the ploy: The installation of Morsi, the Last Stand at Kobani, and John Kerry's "The only way to avoid war is if Assad gets rid of all of his chemical weapons" which I think he got a phone call five minutes later stating "Sold! moving right now."
To be fair, I cannot quite square the subsequent uranium laundering scheme to Iran via Russia other than trying to negotiate the price from a position of strength; that is, get a better price. Maybe the mutual interest of putting pressure on Israel. Maybe T.O.'s Israel election meddling, well documented, "A vote for Bibi is a vote for Iran to obtain nukes."
I don't think the gambit would have necessarily worked like T.O. would have liked, as the MoBro didn't get politically strong west of Egypt, and once a future ISIS couldn't keep their islam in their pants with the Rape of the Yzidis, which was not really being covered until that gal got in front of the Iraqi Parliament and the flagrant executions of prisoners and the destruction of Palmyra.
What ever control T.O. thought they had evaporated with Sisi and those events; basically "You don't tell us what to do!"
Also maybe in there, is the missing footage of the final moments of Daffy. If half as bad as talking about or imagined, there would be no 'moral authority' to establish said victors into government.
Well, my shave and a hair cut, for what it is worth.
[KhaamaPress] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has reported a 23 percent reduction in civilian casualties during the first quarter of 2019, citing a reduction in suicide kabooms and harsh winter conditions as the likely causes of reduced civilian casualties.
According to a report released by UNAMA, the mission documented 1,773 civilian casualties (581 deaths and 1,192 injured), including 582 child casualties (150 deaths and 432 injured) from 1st January to 31st of March.
The report further added "UNAMA is very concerned by the continued targeting of civilians and increase in civilian casualties from the use of non-suicide IEDs by Anti-Government Elements, as well as significant increases in civilian casualties from aerial and search operations, which drove an overall increase in civilian casualties by Pro-Government Forces. Civilian deaths attributed to Pro-Government Forces surpassed those attributed to Anti-Government Elements during the first quarter of 2019."
"Ground engagements were the leading cause of civilian casualties, causing approximately one third of the total. A single mortar attack incident by ISIS/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.... Khorasan Province (ISKP) on 7 March 2019 in Kabul caused approximately one-fifth of all civilian casualties from ground engagements (see below)," the report added.
According to UNAMA, the use of IEDs was the second leading cause of civilian casualties. Contrary to 2017 and 2018 trends, the majority of IED civilian casualties were caused by nonsuicide IEDs rather than suicide IEDs.
UANAMA also added that aerial operations were the leading cause of civilian deaths and the third leading cause of civilian casualties, followed by assassinations and explosive remnants of war. Civilians living in Kabul, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , 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.. , Faryab and Kunduz provinces were most affected (in that order).
The attributed 963 civilian casualties (227 deaths and 736 injured) to anti-government armed elements, 608 civilian casualties (305 deaths and 303 injured) to pro-government forces, 228 civilian casualties (145 deaths and 83 injured) to pro-government forces Arclight airstrikes, and 219 civilian casualties (140 deaths and 79 injured) to airstrikes conducted by foreign forces.
#BREAKING: NIA carries out raids in Amroha of north-western Uttar Pradesh in connection with the module of ISIS that was busted recently. 14 people already under arrest in the case for conspiracy to carry out attacks in Delhi NCR. More details on raids likely by tomorrow.
[AnNahar] The General Security Directorate issued an alert urging vigilance from Israeli agents trying to enter Leb under the guise of "tourism excursions," it said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The Israeli enemy is trying to enter Leb by recruiting its agents in delegations under the cover of "tourist trips", in order to use them for security purposes inside Leb," said the statement.
"The Directorate urges citizens, travel and tourism offices not to fall victim to individuals or companies claiming to organize various tourist trips to Leb, or promote them by email or through social networking sites, unless they have official offices," it added.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops have tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a group member of 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior said Tuesday.
The ministry further added that the ISIS-K group member was arrested from Bagrami district of Kabul.
No further details have been given regarding the identity of the detained terrorist.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Interior in a statement said at least three Talibs were killed and four others were maimed during the operations in northern Baghlan province.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted by Special Forces of the Afghan National Police and as a result several villages were cleared in Nahrin and Bor districts of Baghlan.
The police forces also confiscated some weapons and munitions during the same operations, the Ministry of Interior added in its statement.
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[KhaamaPress] At least ten civilians were rescued from a Taliban ...Arabic for students... prison during a joint operation conducted in south-eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan the Afghan military said Tuesday.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast said a statement that the operation was conducted in Bala area of Qarabagh district.
The statement further added that the foreign forces were also accompanying the Afghan armed forces during the operation.
At least 9 forces of Evil were also killed and five others were tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! during the same operation, the 203rd Thunder Corps added in its statement.
The anti-government armed forces of Evil including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.
Ghazni is among the relatively volatile provinces in Southeast of Afghanistan. Taliban Lions of Islam are active in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] Militants affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have killed five Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters and have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four others in 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.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in a statement said an infighting erupted among Taliban and ISIS murderous Moslems in Dotesar and Zawa areas of Khogyani district on Tuesday.
The statement further added that five Talibs were killed during the clash and while ISIS murderous Moslems arrested four other Talibs during the clash.
The anti-government armed murderous Moslems including Taliban and ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the clash so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively provinces in East of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has started to deteriorated during the recent years.
Both Taliban and ISIS murderous Moslems are active in some of the restive districts of the province and often attempt to carry out terrorist related activities against the government and security institutions.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan military in the south has announced at least 79 Talibs were killed during the military operations in southern Uruzgan province last week.
205th Corps front man confirmed several joint operations between the Afghan Special Forces, the 205th Corps and Afghan Air Force which has killed 79 Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Tarin Kot, Uruzgan over the last week. The largest raid yielding the death of 24 Taliban during one operation.
Uruzgan is a heavily contested area, especially Tarin Kot, which has seen a spike in activity since the announcement of the spring offensive by the Taliban.
As part of the Ministry of Defense’s security plan, the 205th Corps recently secured the road which joins Kandahar and Uruzgan and put in new security points to help keep the road open. Part of this operation was to clear roadside kabooms which the 205th Corps has cleared over 20 IEDs since the beginning of the operation to prevent deaths to residents traveling along the route.
Challenge for both President Poroshenko, and President-elect Zelensky, as a move effectively nullifying Minsk agreements and is an act of war https://t.co/Y1UEjcHptJ
[Jpost] The news article "PLO to discuss revoking recognition of Israel" (April 23) points out one of the key problems of the "peace process."
The crux of the dispute between the Arabs and Israel is Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), to which both sides feel they have a strong historical and legal claim. While Israel has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to compromise and come to a fair and equitable agreement, the Arabs are adamant that they will not compromise on a single inch of "their" territory.
They (the Arabs and much of the world) demand that Israel retreat fully to the narrow area within the 1948 ceasefire lines and admit thousands of people ‐ several generations of "refugees" and their descendants ‐ into the small area that would be left to Israel. In return, the Arabs claim they are prepared to recognize Israel and forswear violence.
Is this a good deal for Israel? Whatever precious land Israel relinquishes is gone forever, but with the stroke of a pen ‐ for any pretext or claimed grievance whatsoever‐ the other side can "revoke" its recognition of Israel and resume violence ‐ be it stabbings, firebombs, rocks on motorists, incendiary devices, rockets, storming the border, etc., and Israel will be in a critically weakened state and worse strategic position to defend itself.
As reflected in the results of the recent election, Israelis, including those on the Left, increasingly grasp the inherit imbalance and folly of the land-for-promises concept.
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I've got a gun says the Israeli and I am sitting on it. You lose, Loser. Come and make me move. Fight like an Arab. There is a reason why you are a Loser.
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Israel should have built nice towns in the Sinai, move the Palestinians there, then given it away to Egypt. Now there is no answer except, govern yourself peacefully for a decade and we'll talk. Until they can manage that the Palestinians cannot be trusted.
[AlAhram] The founder of an outlawed Algerian opposition party that pushed for the creation of an Islamic state died Wednesday in 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... where he was living in exile, his close ally told AFP.
Abassi Madani died at the age of 88 "in a Doha hospital after a long illness", said Ali Belhadj, adding that family members had informed him of the death.
Madani, who had lived in Qatar since 2003, founded the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) with Belhadj in 1989.
He called for armed struggle in 1992 after Algeria's military scrapped the country's first multi-party legislative elections.
The FIS had been on track to win an absolute majority in the polls and the ensuing violence plunged the country into a decade of civil war that left 200,000 dead, according to official figures.
Madani "wanted to be buried in Algeria, but I don't know if it will be possible", Belhadj added.
The former head of FIS's armed wing Madani Mezrag confirmed Madani's death, telling AFP he too had been informed by family members.
[AlAhram] Damanhour Criminal Court issued Wednesday death sentences on two defrocked monks on charges of killing the head of their desert monastery last summer.
The court issued a preliminary death sentence 23 February and referred the sentences handed down on the two monks, Isaiah El-Maqary and Faltaous El-Makary, to the country’s grand mufti for his non-binding opinion, as required by Egyptian law.
Wednesday's court decision is not final and can still be appealed within 60 days.
The murder of Bishop Epiphanius sparked outrage in Coptic circles and led to serious measures by the Coptic Orthodox Church to contain the situation.
On 29 July, the 64-year-old bishop was found dead under suspicious circumstances. He had led Abu Maqar Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun, northwest of Cairo.
The prosecution charged the two men with premeditated murder.
According to the prosecution, the two men ambushed the bishop on his way from his residence to the monastery chapel, where Isaiah, now referred to by his non-monastic name, Wael Saad Tawadros, hit him on the head with a steel bar.
Following the murder, the church imposed new measures to regulate monastic life.
They include a freeze on accepting new monks, a ban on monks’ use of social media, a ban on building non-sanctioned places of worship, and a ban on monks leaving monasteries without official permission.
[BenarNews] The Philippine army said it killed four Abu Sayyaf militants in a preemptive strike on Wednesday amid suspicions they could launch attacks similar to those that hit Sri Lanka on Easter.
The four Abu Sayyaf militants were killed during an operation on Basilan. The strike targeted followers of Abu Sayyaf commander Furuji Indama, whose group worked last year with the Islamic State in plotting and carrying out a car-bomb attack that killed 11 people on Basilan.
“The focused military operation aimed at hitting Indama’s group in the hinterlands of Gipitan,” in the remote Ungkaya Pukan township of Basilan, said military spokesman Gerry Besana in nearby Zamboanga.
Wednesday’s strike, military officials said, was aimed at preventing the group from carrying out a “sympathy attack” after coordinated suicide bombings claimed by IS killed nearly 360 people in three Sri Lankan cities.
On Monday, police said they foiled a bomb attack after they recovered two improvised bombs left outside a Catholic chapel in Lambayong, a town in Sultan Kuradat province. Police chief Herman Luna said the bombs were fashioned from an 81-mm mortars and were discovered by church workers who alerted the police bomb squad. .
Luna blamed the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a group that has pledged allegiance to IS, as being behind the attempted bomb plot. He said, "It could have been a powerful explosion had the IED exploded."
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If he was a convicted felon with a firearm, I'm good with that. He also seems to be a Dem/Deep State Trophy? No protective custody? Too scared of the precedent or his "militia" of, like, 8 people?
[10 News] Authorities say the leader of a civilian group that has detained asylum-seeking migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border was injured while he was jailed in New Mexico, after being arrested on federal weapons charges.
The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday in a statement that 69-year-old Larry Hopkins was transferred Tuesday out of the county jail after suffering non-life threatening injuries Monday night.
The statement did not provide specifics on the "alleged battery" in which Hopkins was injured in Las Cruces, but Hopkins' lawyer, Kelly O'Connell, told the Albuquerque Journal that his client was hospitalized for rib injuries following an altercation.
The FBI arrested Hopkins on a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
O'Connell has said Hopkins will plead not guilty.
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a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
Reading his history, this seems like a major reach to contain him, rather than response to a criminal act.
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1. make you a felon
2. arrest you for: embarassing the govt having a firearm
3. send to prison full of the people he's trying to keep out of the country
[KoreaHerald] A senior North Korean official, who served as Pyongyang’s chief interlocutor in talks with the United States, has been replaced as head of a key espionage agency handling inter-Korean affairs, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Kim Yong-chol, chief of the United Front Department, was recently replaced by Jang Kum-chol, Rep. Lee Hye-hoon of the Bareunmirae Party, who leads the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee, said, citing a source from Seoul’s spy agency.
Jang, who is barely known to the outside world, is reportedly in his late 50s and has a career of working for civilian exchanges between the two Koreas.
Kim was the North’s top negotiator in denuclearization talks with the United States. His US counterpart was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It was unclear if his replacement as chief of the espionage agency affected his status as chief negotiator in talks with the US
Nuclear negotiations between the two countries have been stalled after February’s summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump ended without an agreement due to differences over Pyongyang’s denuclearization steps and Washington’s sanctions relief.
Kim Yong-chol’s absence in the leader’s entourage that arrived in Russia’s Far East city of Vladivostok later in the day for a summit with President Vladimir Putin raised speculation over his possible replacement from the post.
It is the first time that he has not accompanied the leader on an overseas trip.
Despite the replacement, observers say that Kim Yong-chol is expected to maintain his post as a vice chairman of the central committee of the North’s ruling party.
Recenlty, he and other nuclear negotiators, including First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui, also became members of the State Affairs Commission to which Kim Jong-un was re-elected as chairman.
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Smith Smith-smith the vice chairman of the ruling committee of the northern party is expected to replace Smith Smith-smythe the vice chairman of northern committee of the ruling party.
[IsraelTimes] 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... says the US is sending armed soldiers to the southern border after Mexican soldiers "pulled guns" on US troops.
Trump appears to be referring to an April 13 incident in which Mexican troops reportedly questioned and pointed their weapons at two US troops conducting surveillance on the border.
"Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border. Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!" Trump says on Twitter.
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Why would anyone, from anywhere, pull guns on US soldiers, and think that was going to work out well? They should all go home, and then go to church, and then burn a candle and give thanks for being alive. Or, do it again, and die maybe.
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.
[Hot Air] Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has been on "sick leave" for more than a month as a growing corruption scandal has engulfed her office. But as we've discussed here before, there is no provision under the current city charter, state or municipal law allowing her to be removed from office unless she's convicted of a crime. That would allow her to just ignore all the calls for her resignation and stick it out until the next election. But now things may have changed.
In March 2018, 18-year-old high schooler Ousmane Bah got a learner's permit to drive in the city of New York. Then, he lost it.
[Conservative Review] The president has been exonerated on allegations of Russian collusion, and now, as investigators and the media pick up the pieces on the long-running hoax, more attention has turned to the major players behind the operation, including former CIA chief and current NBC "analyst" John Brennan, who played an integral role in the launch of the unprecedented surveillance operation ‐ and the smear campaign thereafter ‐ against the president, members of the Trump campaign, and Trump-connected individuals.
[Australian War Memorial] Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
[ToloNews] Badghis officials claimed Wednesday that 
North Korea
[REUTERS] The United States must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop Iran from selling oil and using the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Wednesday, while also offering to negotiate prisoner swaps with Washington.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
If most older Americans are not demented or helpless, surely they are at least suffering from loneliness and depression, right? Nope. Health-service company Cigna did a survey and found that the loneliest group is Generation Z, defined as ages 18 ‐ 22. The next largest group is composed of people aged 45-49; a whopping forty-three percent report being lonely. In contrast, only twenty-five percent of Americans over 70 say they are lonely.
[IsraelTimes] German prosecutors say they’ve indicted a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of membership in the 
[Rudaw] A year and a half after construction began, Germany has officially handed over the new Peshmerga Hospital in Erbil to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a ceremony attended by German and Kurdish officials.
[Rudaw] Iran’s oil exports have been cut by 1.7 million barrels per day (mb/d) since May 2018 when the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In just the last month, Iran exported 300,000 fewer barrels per day (bpd) compared to March, falling to around 1.1 mb/d.
[Mindanao Examiner] Clashes broke out between Philippine troops and Maoist militants on the border between two towns in North Cotabato Tuesday morning, prompting thousands of civilians to flee. The battle with New People’s Army insurgents between Antipas and Magpet towns left two soldiers and a civilian slightly injured.
[AlAhram] The U.S. Treasury, moving to boost pressure on Hezbollah, imposed sanctions on Wednesday against two people and three firms that Washington accuses of being involved in schemes to help the armed Shi'ite group backed by Iran evade American sanctions.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] NAROWAL: Three suspects were 
[NY Post] 
[AnNahar] Sri Lankan security forces detained 18 new suspects in the Easter bombings that killed more than 350 people, as the government admitted Wednesday that "major" intelligence lapses had led to a failure to prevent the attacks. 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
[KhaamaPress] The 
[KhaamaPress] Militants affiliated with the 
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan military in the south has announced at least 79 Talibs were killed during the military operations in southern Uruzgan province last week.
...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...
[BenarNews] The Philippine army said it killed four Abu Sayyaf militants in a preemptive strike on Wednesday amid suspicions they could launch attacks similar to those that hit Sri Lanka on Easter.
[KoreaHerald] A senior North Korean official, who served as Pyongyang’s chief interlocutor in talks with the United States, has been replaced as head of a key espionage agency handling inter-Korean affairs, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
[IsraelTimes] US President 
