I believe Iran attacked the drone because it was causing them problems. There were only four of them in the world before yesterday, now there are only three. Of course, they had to attack the drone under false or deniable pretenses. Not exactly the Gulf of Tonkin, but should be along the lines of things that Herb likes to discuss.
A "flying object" which flew over a Japanese tanker before it was rocked by a blast in strategic Gulf waters last week could have been a reconnaissance drone, experts have told AFP.
The owner of the Kokuka Courageous said the tanker's Japanese and Filipino crew saw a "flying object", just before a blast that caused a fire on board the vessel, sparking a crisis between Washington and Iran.
"The crew members are saying that they were hit by a flying object. They saw it with their own eyes," Yutaka Katada, head of Kokuka Sangyo shipping company, said the day after the mysterious June 13 attack.
"We have received a report saying that something seems to have flew in, there was an explosion and it created a hole in the body of the ship," he told reporters in Tokyo.
Katada said the unidentified object flew over the methanol-laden tanker a first time -- and returned a second time three hours later, when the blast went off.
The Kokuka Courageous was hit around the same time as another tanker in the area, the Norwegian-owned Front Altair, which was hit by three explosions, according to the Norwegian Maritime Authority.
They were transiting through the strategic Strait of Hormuz towards the Indian Ocean.
The United States -- as well as Britain and Saudi Arabia -- have accused Iran of being behind the attacks but Tehran has denied any involvement.
The US navy says limpet mines, classic maritime weapons used during World War II, were placed above the water level on the hull of the Kokuka Courageous, and caused the blast. Experts agree.
They point to evidence found after the attack of explosives linked to the cone-shaped devices that can be nailed or magnetically attached to the metal hull of a vessel.
"When we observe the evidence, it is not something caused by an object impacting the vessel," says Jean-Louis Vichot, a former director of the French Naval Academy and retired vice admiral.
"It is in fact a footprint of a limpet mine, one that has not exploded," he said.
"The crew spoke of a drone... maybe a device sent on a reconnaissance mission," Vichot added.
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The possibility that an observation drone was launched to track a future target, formally identify it and monitor its surroundings, is also shared by the former head of a French intelligence service who declined to be named.
"One or several drones could have been used to surveil the most vulnerable vessels," he told AFP.
"It is a classic technique of asymmetrical warfare," the expert added.
Shortly after the drone's initial flight, the assailants must have approached the tanker from behind -- to avoid being spotted by the crew who were on deck -- and discreetly planted the mines before disappearing, experts said.
This would mean that the crew on board the ill-fated tanker could have, in all good faith, thought that the "flying object" they had seen overhead had indeed hit their vessel.
But the former intelligence chief said drones could in the long term be a key device used by assailants to carry out attacks, which will prompt the adoption of a series of security and defensive measures to protect shipping.
He also noted that Iran "considers itself among the world's top five drone powers".
Systems to detect and neutralise drones exist but their performance has yet to be tested efficiently, and their cost for civilian shipping is exorbitant, experts say.
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Firefighters were working to bring under control a massive fire at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc's refinery on Friday that has resulted in damage that could keep the affected unit shut for an extended period, according to Philadelphia city officials and company sources.
Philadelphia fire officials said several explosions sent a massive fireball into the sky, engulfing the surrounding areas in smoke after 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT), following the ignition of a fire that started in a butane vat at the 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refining complex, the largest and oldest on the U.S. East Coast; there has been a plant on the site since 1870.
There were four injuries reported, according to a company statement, and all workers were treated on-site. The extent of the damage is unknown, but appears to be more serious than a previous fire less than two weeks ago in a different unit at the complex. Emphasis added.
A veteran refinery worker who was at the plant when the fire broke out said, "It was the worst I've ever experienced," he said. "It looked like a nuclear bomb went off. I thought we were all going to die."
City health officials said there is no immediate danger to the surrounding community, and said there is no need to evacuate or shelter-in-place.
PES said in a statement that there were three explosions at the refinery, which affected an alkylation unit, they said. PES said they believe the product that was burning was "mostly propane."
The complex is still running at a reduced rate, PES said in a statement.
A source familiar with plant operations said one explosion occurred at a 30,000 bpd alkylation unit that uses hydrofluoric acid, one of the deadliest chemicals in the refining business and a source of controversy.
In the past, refinery workers have called for refineries to stop using hydrofluoric acid in refining due to the harm it can do to the eyes, skin and lungs when released into the atmosphere following explosions.
Preliminary testing at the refinery and the adjacent community shows no "ambient carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons (combustibles), or hydrogen sulfide," said Philadelphia Department of Public Health spokesman James Garrow in a statement.
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, similarly, said back-up support is not currently needed as air quality is not hazardous.
The incident comes after years of financial struggles for the refinery, slashing worker benefits and scaling back capital projects to save cash, and went through a bankruptcy process last year to reduce its debt.
However, the company emerged from bankruptcy in 2018 with $148 million in cash, only to see that fall to $87.7 million just three months later.
Depending on the extent of the damage, there will be questions as to whether the company has enough money to rebuild. It comes just after a June 10 fire at the same refinery, which according to a source familiar with operations, affected a 50,000 bpd catalytic cracking unit.
That cracker, which is in the Point Breeze section of the refinery, remains shut. It was expected to restart this week but ran into issues, according to a source familiar with plant operations.
News of the explosion caused gasoline futures traded on NYMEX to spike 3.2%.
Analysts said gasoline supply in the Northeast could be affected due to the outage.
The region already experiences high retail gasoline costs, and is likely to boost fuel imports from Europe and "likely to result in a short-term spike" in East Coast gasoline prices, analysts at FGE Energy said in a note.
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Intermarriage makes that a non-issue in a generation or two. Not to mention that “Hispanic” is an ethnicity rather than a race — it’s as meaningful as fussing about Italians or Irish. And as such was only separated as a category in the 1970s or thereabouts — before they were only looked at in terms of being black or white, just like the rest of us.
The problem is opening the borders, not an artificial pseudo-racial characterization.
Anybody have any further information about this?
[Jpost] Iran refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the downed drone in the Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday.
Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency: "With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 plane with 35 people on board. This plane also entered our airspace and we could have shot it down, but we did not."
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We are so virtuous! Gives us back our Obama-Deal!
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How about when we do respond, don't do a measured response, don't build a nation... JUST BURN THE SHITHOUSE DOWN.
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Since they're not shooting down passenger planes, perhaps we should send one over with Schumer and Pelosi and crew so they could see for themselves?
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#7 - absolutely. Kill Americans in Int'l space = an ass whooping. I'd target every economic target owned by the Ayatollahs and Military/IRGC. Hit THEIR pocketbooks first
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Iran Says It Refrained From Committing National Suicide.
9/11 wasn't national suicide, neither for Afghanistan nor for the Pashtuns nor for the Taliban as a political movement.
Precedent is more important than rhetoric and threats.
[NYPOST] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... refrained from blowing up an American plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the unmanned drone the Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down, an Iranian commander said Friday.
"With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 plane with 35 people on board," Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Guard’s Aerospace Force, was quoted as saying by the Tasnim news agency.
"This plane also entered our airspace and we could have shot it down, but we did not," he said.
The P-8 Poseidon ‐ based on Boeing’s 737-800 airframe ‐ carries anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare equipment, as well as shipping interdiction and electronic support measures.
Hajizadeh said his forces shot down the RQ-4A Global Hawk drone 10 minutes after issuing a final warning.
Iranian state media on Friday released images of what the Revolutionary Guard said are pieces from the obliterated drone.
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[DailyWire] Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) repeatedly advocated for Iran — the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism — on Thursday, tweeting multiple times that the United States should not take action against Iran, even as Iran has repeatedly attacked cargo ships in the area and shot down a U.S. military drone this week.
"'To carry out such wars, American leaders have contrived pretexts to justify American aggression," Omar said in a tweet that included a link to a news article. "That’s what Donald Trump’s administration—and especially its national security adviser, John Bolton—is doing now with Iran.'"
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Yes Ethel, they're that stupid. They'll be doxxed in return in a state with 'family' who will put anyone of them in hurt if anything happened to their kids.
[PJ] WASHINGTON -- Burgess Owens, an author and former NFL Player who was a witness at a congressional subcommittee hearing on reparations, suggested that the Democratic Party should pay "restitution" for the "misery" it brought to his race in the past.
Burgess was referring to members of the Democratic Party who supported slavery in the Civil War era and voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Burgess, who opposes reparations, explained that he was a registered Democrat until he learned more about its history.
"I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the misery that that party brought to my race," Burgess said at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearing on Wednesday focused on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. "Lets point to the party that was part of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, that has killed over 40 percent of our black babies, 20 million of them."
[BesaCenter] Countless articles discrediting Israel (as well as many other better-intentioned articles) ask how it is that a country as small as Israel receives the bulk of US military aid. Israel receives 55%, or $US3.1 billion per year, followed by Egypt, which receives 23%. This largesse comes at the expense, so it is claimed, of other equal or more important allies, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea. The complaint conjures the specter of an all-powerful Israel lobby that has turned the US Congress into its pawn.
The response to the charge is simple: Israel is not even a major beneficiary of American military aid. The numerical figure reflects official direct US military aid, but is almost meaningless compared to the real costs and benefits of US military aid ‐ which include, above all, American boots on the ground in the host states.
Why are we giving aid payments to a developed first world nation? They are well capable of paying for themselves.
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Because the CIA's 'A's are not better than the Mossad's 'B's.
One of the most significant contributions Israel has made to U.S. security has been shared intelligence. In post-revolutionary Iran, the CIA no longer had a presence and the CIA's Lebanon station was virtually wiped out in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. The United States relies on the Mossad and other Israeli agencies for information about terrorism, radical Islamic movements, weapons proliferation and other Middle East-related events. For many years, Israel played a key role in assisting U.S. intelligence through the capture and transfer of Soviet weapons systems. For example, Israel supplied the United States with valuable intelligence about Soviet fighters and their avionics.
Remember Russkie Metrojet 9268 ? Israel provided the intel on the bomb. Democrat senators in 2014 themselves reported that Israel has been assisting in the fight against ISIS by providing the US with intel, including lists of Americans and Brits who have joined ISIS. Israel has also provided vital intelligence support in the form of drones flying over ISIS territory.
NATO expenses in 2017 cost the US some $680Bn. An organization to which the other countries contribute nothing. US aid to Israel for '17-'18 cost $35Bn, and renewed a robust intel sharing partnership with fair and mutually beneficial contracts with Elbit and other companies.
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"This largesse comes at the expense, so it is claimed, of other equal or more important allies, such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea."
These days, I don't know if I would include Germany as an ally. Japan is probably strong enough to stand on its own. South Korea has quite a number of troops on the ground.
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Not to be an OPSEC nazi, but #3 may be cutting it a little close. We have... shall I say, a rather diverse readership.
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If we didn't meddle in the middle east, we wouldn't need any intelligence.
I'm not a leftist. STFU about that. I believe we need to mind our own goddamned business and stop bombing other countries. Something that was non controversial until I guess recently? Endless war, endless cost, and the American people pick up the ruinous cost. If we quit starting new wars, the problem would fix itself. Did you know we created the Islamic Republic of Iran? Who here doesn't know?
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So the USA government and business entities should cease using the Suez Canal?
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We stopped minding our own business when President Jefferson sent the Marines to Tripoli in 1801, Herb, because he had realized that the nasties of the world don’t care that we want to remain pure and unencumbered by foreign entanglements. Like the scorpion, they will sting us anyway.
Suppose we were to pull completely out of the Middle East. We would still have to deal with IRGC, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda entanglements with various drug gangs throughout the Americas, including their United States subsidiaries. We would have to deal with Al Shabaab among our Somali immigrants, Iranian agents among our Iranian immigrants, the Moslem Brotherhood in its various forms among our Moslem Arab immigrants and Moslem university students, Al Qaeda and allies among our Pakistani immigrants, ISIS among those who spend time on the internet... How on earth did you imagine we were able to ensure that almost all the wannabe jihadis in this country end up plotting with FBI informants, Herb?
For that matter, how do you think America could have prevented the overthrow of the Shah of Iran during the presidency of the odious Jimmy Carter?
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America didn't prevent the overthrow of the Shah. They actively participated in it.
Hey, quick question, why did Osama bin Laden make war on us? Was it due to meddling? Just imagine, no Osama, no 9/11, and we'd have our six trillion dollars back, to spend on nice things for ourselves. What a horrible dystopia that would be!
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You're right. You aren't a leftist, Islamist, anti-Israel or any other alliance. You're just a "Anti-NeoCon" questioning, right?
Nice try. Nobody's fooled. Foreign IP.
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Busted, Herb.
The we-created-Osama conspiracy hoax gave away the game.
Fwiw, I don't support endless wars, either. But I don't buy the notion that we're "meddling" in the Middle East.
We're the sole responsible superpower on the planet. Exit the Middle East, and kiss goodbye any hope of global stability.
Also, to Dron's point: We are literally flying blind in the Middle East now, and have been at least since the time of COA Chief Buckley's murder by Hezbollah in the '80s. We cannot have any chance of being effective there without a close alliance with Israel, and without cooperation with the Magic Kingdom as well.
Your fond hope is that we can somehow, as the old Puritans had it, be "in the world but not of it."
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Back when I lived in People Town, I met survivors who would throat punch a person who said this to their face.
I also met people who make these same time travel left handed cigarette theories. What if, man, if the Romans had just not got involved with the Etruscans' business, then the Mongols would never had come from the Steppes therefore peace. Or that wars in the Middle East had been going on since before the first laws were chiseled into clay.
Fact is we have been meddling in the affairs of others since before we were a gleam in Paul Revere's eye.
Even the 'Isolationist Years' leading to our entry into WWI, the USA was conducting trade with both blocs to the point that the winners would have had legitimate grievances with the USA.
Thing is, there are plenty of people like me who for various reasons would prefer to be as isolationist as realistically possible who consider arguments like Herb's to be false flags in their own sense, with their garbage macros and false thinking these lazy Emersons blow chaff in the eyes of those who would listen and cause us to check our math.
[Feral Jundi] I haven’t posted a MarSec deal in awhile, and I thought this was relevant. Basically tankers have been getting attacked in the Gulf of Oman, and this is really freaking out the shipping industry. The various MarSec companies are getting bombarded with calls for security, and it is reminiscent of the days when the Somali Pirates was the big problem.
The difference here is Iran, and/or it’s proxies are the attackers. So this is a case of private security defending vessels against state sponsored actions. Crazy.... Kind of like defending merchant ships against Germany’s U-boats during WW 1 and 2.
The article also delves into what has happened to the MarSec industry over the years. Salaries have decreased, and cheaper guards have been used to fill the need for armed guards on boats. The problem with this is that they may be cheap, but you get what you pay for. Some Indian or Eastern European guard is definitely not the equivalent to a highly trained Royal Marine or Navy SEAL... Just saying. But that is where the industry has gone over the years. There have also been incidents where guards have been imprisoned by states, which is an interesting thought for this deal with Iran.
Iran might view the ships as targets to not only blow up, but to also take hostages. You never know with this stuff and everything has to be considered with this type of enemy. Just look at the historic examples of what Iran has done. 52 American hostages were held for 444 days back in the late seventies as a means of attacking the west. So a guard force is definitely important for these vessels.
In the case of these recent attacks, limpet mines were attached to the vessels. Any guard force assigned to a vessel will have to have the means to look for these things. I would say SEALs or similar former military types, with a diving background and naval special warfare experience would be the optimum resource for this type of threat.
Other types of attacks might include missiles or armed UAVs, like what the Houthis have been using in Yemen. Do shipping companies have a counter-UAV capability? Or a counter-missile battery? Good question, but if munitions like this are launched at ships, shipping companies will have to re-calibrate.
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Might turn out to be a good thing. More jobs for retired personnel and contractors if specialized security is needed. Bad news for those somali monkeys.
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...Just make it clear that if they're going after civilian shipping going about its lawful business, then they AIN'T Revolutionary Guard, they AIN'T 'state actors' - they're pirates and will be treated as such.
Bullies tend to get very careful very quick when it's clear that they only stand a 50/50 chance of coming home alive.
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Iran will just claim that the tanker "violated their territorial waters", and capture them. That's what they did when a US Navy boat wandered to close to their territorial limit.
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...During the past week I've spoken to a number of skilled and experienced observers of the region, and every one them is hard put to make sense of Iranian motives.
In the absence of a rational explanation, let me offer this one: The mullahs are nuts. I don't mean that they are nuts in the way that a power-mad tinpot dictator is nuts, but rather that they are world-historically, existentially, and metaphysically nuts. Their character and circumstances, that is to say, impel them toward actions that would be irrational for another character under other circumstances.
Iran is dying, as I argued in my 2011 book How Civilizations Die. In a February 2017 analysis for Asia Times, I summarized the reasons for Iran's likely demise:
Iran may well become the first country in the world that will get old before it gets rich. Its fertility rate (the number of live births over the lifetime of an average woman) fell from 7 in 1979 to perhaps 1.7 today.
That produced an enormous generation of people now in their 20s to 40s who have very few children. As this generation ages, the proportion of Iranians over the age of 60 will soar from about 7% today to around 40% by mid-century.
Other countries face an aging crisis, but with ten times the per capita income: Iran’s nominal GDP per capita is only US$5,300, compared with US$56,000 for the United States, for example.No poor country can care for an elderly population comprising two-fifths of the total. Iran will undergo an economic disaster unprecedented in history. That is baked in the cake, and nothing its government can do will make much different at this late stage.
Iranians know their world is coming to an end and behave as if there is no tomorrow (which, in their case, there isn’t)...The number of marriages has fallen by 20% since 2012. In Iran, the customary marriage age range is 20-34 for men and 15-29 for women ... 46% of men and 48% of women in those age ranges remain unmarried,"according to the national statistics agency.
...Alongside the decline in marriage, a quarter of Iran’s married couples report that they cannot conceive children. A possible factor aggravating the infertility could be epidemic rates of untreated venereal disease, according to Iranian researchers, pointing to a deeper shift in social customs. Iran’s government believes that the Shia practice of "temporary marriage" is the culprit.
...The mullahs are nuts, but they aren't stupid. They know that if Iran is bottled up for the next twenty years, it will undergo an internal collapse. The alternative is to take desperate risks. The Obama administration (and, sadly, the George. W. Bush administraiton under the council of Condoleezza Rice) let Iran get away with murder--literally. The experience of the Iranian leaders teaches them that the West will back down before their threats. This time they will learn differently.
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A lot of the economy is now controlled either directly or indirectly by either military or religious 'corporations'. The corruption is breathtaking and there are also problems with water shortages and pollution. The currency is debased also.
If the military and religious corporations were rational, they would overthrow the govt themselves and reform the economy so their businesses would be worth more. But that's easy to say and hard to do.
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Crazy belligerence is not a losing strategy if the adversary is a pathological masochist.
[AmGreatness] In May 2018, the Donald Trump Administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal.
The United States then ramped up sanctions on the Iranian theocracy to try to ensure that it stopped nuclear enrichment. The Trump administration also hoped a strapped Iran would become less capable of funding terrorist operations in the Middle East and beyond, proxy wars in the Persian Gulf, and the opportune harassment of ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The sanctions are clearly destroying an already weak Iranian economy. Iran is now suffering from negative economic growth, massive unemployment and record inflation.
A desperate Iranian government is using surrogates to send missiles into Saudi Arabia while its forces attack ships in the Gulf of Oman.
...Iran hopes to provoke and embarrass its nemesis into overreacting‐or not reacting at all. If Trump does nothing, he looks weak to this Jacksonian base of supporters. But do too much, and he appears a neoconservative, globalist nation-builder. Either way, the Iranians think Trump loses. Betcha Iranians have hundreds hours of green helmet guy footage prepared
[Babylon Bee] On Wednesday, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez somehow got her head stuck inside a bucket. She was heard yelling, "Who turned out the lights?" while repeatedly running full speed into walls. Republicans immediately pounced, using this as proof that Ocasio-Cortez is "kind of a dummy." Many journalists, on the other hand, leaped to Ocasio-Cortez's defense, saying her getting her head firmly wedged inside of a plastic bucket was further proof of her being an intelligent and dynamic politician.
"Most people don't have her scientific curiosity and intelligence," said MSNBC pundit Chris Hayes. "Someone incurious like Trump would never look at a bucket and ask ‘Could my head fit inside that?' But Ocasio-Cortez dives into such questions head first."
"She is making a bold statement," said CNN's Chris Cuomo. "The bucket on her head is from Walmart, and she is saying loud and clear that corporations have blinded us all."
Many activists also defended Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, though they seemed confused about exactly how to defend her, some talking about how buckets are important to society and others calling for the destruction of all buckets.
As for Ocasio-Cortez, she is doubling down and refusing to apologize, even though the incident caused a huge delay for the Capitol janitorial staff.
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Illegal aliens. They sure the hell aren't "migrating". Migration involves two way traffic from seasonal living locations. Just another example to dishonestly rename crap.
War is not "conflict", IEDs are bombs not devices (see the cold war atomic bombs renamed "devices"). Islamic horde jihadist are sure the hell not militants or fighters. They are Muslim terrorists. Following Muhamhead's pure example of bloodthirsty quest for "booty" and sex.
Then there is the hateful Christaphobics renaming BC ( BC used to be known as "a.C.n.", an abbreviation of "Ante Christum Natum", which is Latin for "before the birth of Christ".) and AD (abbreviation of anno Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, Latin for "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ"). Christ, western civilization (historical) changed to some bullshit BCE/CE.
Crossdressers with their unpruned original equipment, taking hormones are not transexuals. LGPQPMS-PBS or whatever.
All in an attempt to avoid some fake offended badly educated union teacher brainwashed poorly parented children, from crying with their crayons in fluffy bunny safe spaces. Orwellian PC will be the death of this nation.
I apologize for nothing and thank Skid for another informative link. I just think we need to be honest and honor our great western culture, traditions and history. With love and deepest respect to all Burgers.
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I always wondered what the BCE was. Before Christian Era, I thought. It's Before Common Era. Bastards. Yes, it began with the 'doctrine of white guilt'. Taught in colleges, churches, in schools, television and then became a creed. Enjoined with this new sodomite creed, it's a weapon. With it, the socialist knows he can guilt Americans into destroying their own republic.
What people need is not a skinny, pink-shirted self-pity trip but real character, which only comes from a judeo-christian upbringing and which they want to obliterate.
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competing with Impossible Foods whose Impossible burger is already being sold by Burger King and other places; they also sell unformed product that can be made into kebabs
I've had some of the Impossible Burger and also the Impossible kebab. It wasn't quite as good as meat (and it was more expensive). The product is likely to improve over time and come down in cost because of free market competition (what will vegan Bernie fans think about that I wonder).
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I believe they will get a note from the FDA for labeling anything that isn't meat as meat.
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Years ago I was a bystander when the inspector from the local State Dept of Ag informed the plant manager that: "No, you Can't label a product as 'Nonfat French Vanilla Ice Cream™'!?! (1) It doesn't have butterfat in it so and (2) it is artificially flavored and any 'French Ice Cream' must contain egg custard..." They ended up destroying all of the unused paper cartons and withdrew the product.
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The product is likely to improve over time and come down in cost because of free market competition (what will vegan Bernie fans think about that I wonder).
So, one of the ingredients is irony?
Speaking of ingredients, one of the reasons for eating meat is the nutritional content - vitamins and such you can't get from eating plants.
(not to mention that if no one ate them, we would be up to our knees in animals)
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I clicked on that link and got locked up on the site. I had to restart my computer to get out of it.
Frankly I think animals are more efficient at making meat.
[jsonline] ATF agents across the country have been working to track down thousands of guns and firearms parts that had been seized by law enforcement and were supposed to be destroyed but were stolen first, according to sources familiar with the effort.
The agents are searching for some of their own retired service weapons as well as guns from other federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DEA.
All of the weapons had been sent to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be shredded, according to court documents and congressional letters.
A longtime guard at the ATF facility has admitted to carting off thousands of firearms, gun parts and ammunition and selling them over several years.
Christopher Yates, 52, a guard who worked as a contract employee for ATF for 16 years, was charged in federal court in West Virginia. He pleaded guilty in April to possession of a stolen gun and stealing government property.
[NCNBC] Stocks rallied on Thursday, led by strong gains in tech and energy shares, as Wall Street cheered the possibility that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month.
The S&P 500 surged 1% to 2,954.18, a record close. The broad index also hit an intraday record of 2,958.06. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 249.17 points higher at 26,753.17. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8% to end the day at 8,051.34.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell below 2% for the first time since November 2016. Investors cheered the decline in the benchmark for mortgage rates and corporate bonds.
The energy sector rose more than 2% to lead all 11 S&P 500 sectors higher as oil prices jumped. Tech gained 1.4% after shares of Oracle surged more than 8% on stronger-than-forecast earnings. General Electric’s 2.8% rise pushed the industrials sector up more than 1.6% on the day.
"Markets are based on numbers and perception. If the perception is rates are getting cut, that’s going to drive markets higher," said Kathy Entwistle, senior vice president of wealth management at UBS. "UBS’ stance up until yesterday was we wouldn’t see any rate cuts this year. Now we see a much larger chance of a 50-basis-point cut."
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ‐ The U.S. on Friday barred American-registered aircraft from flying over Iranian-administered airspace in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman over the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a U.S. military surveillance drone, affecting a region crucial to global air travel.
The Federal Aviation Administration warned of a "potential for miscalculation or misidentification" in the region after an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday brought down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 jetliner and costing over $100 million. The U.S. said it made plans for limited strikes on Iran in response, but then called them off.
The FAA previously warned of a risk in the region, but Friday’s warning threw into stark relief a danger both it and analysts warned was real after the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine in 2014. That could further imperil the bottom lines of Gulf long-haul carriers, which already have faced challenges under the Trump administration.
"The threat of a civil aircraft shoot-down in southern Iran is real," warned OPSGROUP, a company that provides guidance to global airlines.
The FAA made a similar warning in May to commercial airliners of the possibility of Iranian anti-aircraft gunners mistaking them for military aircraft, something dismissed by Tehran some 30 years after the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian passenger jet.
Iran had no immediate reaction to the U.S. announcement.
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[PJ] On Thursday morning Dominik Tarczynski, who is a member of Parliament in Poland, invited AOC to visit my ancestral homeland and "study the concentration camps" so that she can learn how they differ from the detention centers.
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She take Dominik Tarczynski's offer. Then she should go to our border and spend some time with the BP and then ICE. Maybe she won't sound like such a blithering idiot although I doubt it.
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Possibly too generous, EC, like so many modern Germans. But not me. ;-)
Loves Salem and smallpox and Attucks,
Swaps tips on Applied App-o-Matics,
And given the coven
That's rubbin' her nubbin,
An expert in oven mathematics.
No diss to Crispus -- tea with the brother and his pals would be a notch or two down from dinner with Jesus in my book -- just needed a rhyme.
[Free Beacon] A Minnesota man applied for and then received government food stamps for well over a year, even though he is a millionaire, in an effort to prove his belief that the eligibility requirements for the benefits in his state were too loose.
Rob Undersander’s story will be told in a Thursday House agriculture subcommittee meeting. The meeting will examine broad-based categorical eligibility requirements (BBCEs), which the Minnesota engineer exploited, for the nation’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)‐commonly referred to as food stamps.
[The Federalist] In a 7-2 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross that has stood on public land in Maryland for 94 years does not violate the First Amendment. Writing the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito said the memorial, also known as the "Peace Cross," has become a prominent community landmark and should be upheld.
"After the First World War, the picture of row after row of plain white crosses marking the overseas graves of soldiers who had lost their lives in that horrible conflict was emblazoned on the minds of Americans at home, and the adoption of the cross as the Bladensburg memorial must be viewed in that historical context," Alito wrote. "Its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of ’a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions.'"
In the concurring opinions, justices agreed that religious expression in the public square has been common throughout U.S. history and doesn’t need to be purged. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the two dissenters, arguing that displaying the Peace Cross on a public highway is implying that the government elevates Christianity over other faiths.
"As I see it, when a cross is displayed on public property, the government may be presumed to endorse its religious content. The venue is surely associated with the State; the symbol and its meaning are just as surely associated exclusively with Christianity," Ginsburg wrote.
Kelly Shackelford, the chief counsel to First Liberty, representead the plaintiff The American Legion in the case.
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Allot of history there. Passed it many times. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the many sculptors of the Iwo Jima memorial.Very skinny Italian fellow. Within one thousand yards of the Peace Cross. The topmost hand is his. Look closely and you'll see it is the hand of an old man. Drawing of the memorial on his wall not framed and curled on the ends. He slept on an old canvas cot. He didn't speak much. I came, I went but I saw and remember. I have looked for his name but I understand 100 people were involved in this project.So he is lost to history.
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Ginsburg seems to forget, if you strip the civil rights of the majority in the name of minorities it isn't a republic anymore. Christianity is a culture as much as a religion in the West. You can't separate them without dire and destructive consequence as demonstrated by numerous atheist peoples democratic republics of the 20th and 21st century.
[Breitbart] A federal appeals court held Thursday that the Trump administration’s rule that ends taxpayer family planning funding of abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood may take effect.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration’s request to lift national injunctions, ordered in Oregon and Washington, and a statewide injunction in California, Politico reported.
The Protect Life Rule may take effect while court cases continue.
"Absent a stay, HHS will be forced to allow taxpayer dollars to be spent in a manner that it has concluded violates the law, as well as the Government’s important policy interest in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not go to fund or subsidize abortions," the judges wrote.
In February, the Trump Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the new rule that could block about $60 million in family planning funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers who refer girls and women for abortions.
The new regulation, which governs Title X, the federal grant program that provides funding for family planning services, prohibits the use of the funds to "perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning."
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It would be good if the Judiciary got straightened out and followed the law. The cult of personality and progressivism seemed to be the guiding principles for appointing judges to this court as well (as many courts) in the recent past. It is telling that most of the 9th circuit decisions are overturned on appeal--they were acting as a bunch of rubber-stamping ciphers.
[DW] Three men have been convicted for supporting the 2015 Garissa University terrorist attack in Kenya. Though they were not among the button men, the trio knew the al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... assault would happen.
Three members of the bad boy Somali group al-Shabaab were found guilty by a Nairobi court on Wednesday of conspiracy to commit a terror attack in the 2015 assault at Garissa University in northeast Kenya that killed 148 people.
Kenyans Mohammed Ali Abikar, Hassan Edin Hassan and Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian, "were members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group whose members carried out the attack," Judge Francis Andayi said. The men knew the attack would happen and did not inform authorities, the judge added.
A fourth defendant was acquitted. A fifth accused was acquitted earlier this year. The guilty will be sentenced in July.
Four button men from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group rampaged through Garissa University on April 2, 2015, before being killed by security forces the same day.
The snuffies separated the victims according to religion, letting Moslems free while killing Christians. Most of those killed were students.
The operation's suspected planner, Mohammed Mohamud, also named "Kuno," was killed in a joint US-Somali military operation in southwestern Somalia in 2016. al-Shabaab said he as killed by "US Crusaders."
Al-Shabaab is fighting to overthrow the government of Somalia, but regularly carries out attacks in Kenya, which has troops in its neighbor as part of an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force.
The Garissa University attack was the second-deadliest terror attack in Kenya after the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998. The al-Qaeda attack killed 213 people.
In 2013, al-Shabaab snuffies killed 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. In January 2016, al-Shabaab attacked a Kenyan army outpost in southern Somalia, killing as many as 180 soldiers.
Earlier this year, another al-Shabaab attack on a Nairobi hotel killed more than 20 people.
US special forces are supporting Somali government forces and African Union troops fight al-Shabaab, with regular drone and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the bad boys.
[AlAhram] India's navy has deployed two ships in the Gulf of Oman to ensure safe passage for Indian-flagged vessels, the country's defence ministry said late on Thursday, a week after two oil tankers were attacked in the region.
The United States has blamed Iran for the attacks on a Norwegian-owned and a Japanese-owned tanker, raising concerns about further U.S.-Iranian confrontation.
Tehran has denied the allegation.
Indian naval ships named Chennai and Sunayna have been "deployed in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf to undertake maritime security operations," the defence ministry said in a statement, adding that the navy is also conducting aerial surveillance of the area.
[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish court on Thursday gave life sentences to 151 people including senior military officers in one of the biggest trials over the 2016 failed bid to overthrow President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... The judge handed 128 of those convicted between one and 141 aggravated life terms each over the deaths of 139 people, for "violating the constitution" and "attempting to assassinate the president," the private DHA news agency reported.
Such sentences carry harsher prison conditions.
A further 23 individuals were given customary life sentences, the agency said, while 27 suspects received prison sentences of up to 20 years.
Among the suspects was US-based Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... , whom The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... accuses of ordering the attempted putsch in which left hundreds were killed and thousands more injured.
Gulen strongly denies the claims. Turkey has failed to secure his extradition.
Former air force chief Akin Ozturk and Mehmet Disli, the brother of former ruling party politician Saban Disli, who since September has served as Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands, were among those convicted.
Lieutenant Colonel Levent Turkkan, who was the aide to then Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, was given one aggravated life sentence, state news agency Anadolu reported. Akar was appointed defence minister in July 2018.
Thirty-three suspects were acquitted.
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The trial began in May 2017 in the country's largest courtroom inside a prison complex in Sincan, outside the capital Ankara.
The court also handed down an aggravated life sentence for "violating the constitution" to Colonel Ali Yazici, Erdogan's former military aide, Anadolu reported.
Yazici was already sentenced to 18 years in jail in 2017 after a trial of dozens who plotted to assassinate Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during the coup attempt.
Former brigadier general Gokhan Sahin Sonmezates, who was suspected of leading an liquidation attempt against Erdogan on the night of the coup bid, was given 137 aggravated life sentences and a 540-year prison sentence, Anadolu said.
The judge ordered the case of 13 runaways including Gulen to be separated from the main coup ringleaders' trial.
The failed overthrow left 248 people dead, according to the Ottoman Turkish presidency, not including 24 coup-plotters killed on the night.
Dozens of those on trial were accused of being members of the "Peace At Home Council", the name the plotters apparently gave themselves on the night of the coup attempt.
Since July 2016, tens of thousands of people have been arrested over alleged links to the coup bid under a two-year state of emergency which ended last year.
But nationwide raids by police have continued and there are almost daily reports of public prosecutors issuing detention warrants for suspects over Gulen ties.
Nearly 290 coup-linked court cases have been launched, 261 of which ended with 3,239 defendants convicted, according to justice ministry figures given to AFP before the verdicts.
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I wonder how many people are left out of prison in Turkey ?
[AnNahar] Eighteen members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the Greater Sahara were killed in a joint operation by U.S., French and Niger troops near Niger's border with Mali, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
The June 8-18 operation took place "in the northern border region of Tongo Tongo targeting a gang of ISGS hard boyz implicated in an ambush on May 14," in which 28 Nigerien soldiers were killed, it said.
"The toll on the enemy side is: 18 hard boyz neutralised, five terrorists, of whom three are Nigerien, taken prisoner."
There were "no human or material losses" during the operation, which was codenamed ACONIT, it said.
"Important materiel was recovered including equipment belonging to the Niger armed forces which were taken by the attackers after the ambush," the statement said.
In October 2017, the ISGS grabbed credit for a raid which killed four U.S. soldiers and five Nigerien troops in the same region, a mere 20 kilometres from the Malian border.
On June 8, a U.S. army vehicle hit a landmine near the town of Ouallam, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the capital Niamey, but there were no casualties.
The area is near a major training camp where Nigerien soldiers are trained to serve in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali.
Late Tuesday, button men attacked a cop shoppe on the northern edge of the Niger capital Niamey, killing two coppers.
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[AnNahar] Sri Lankan authorities Thursday ordered the first criminal charges against security personnel for "lapses" before the Easter Sunday suicide kabooms that killed 258 people.
Nine coppers will face "criminal investigations" for failing to act on warnings ahead of the April 21 bombings on three churches and three hotels carried out by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -backed jihadists.
In a notice ordering the probe, Attorney General Dappula de Livera said an inquiry commission appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena had found the officers liable for criminal negligence.
All nine were senior officers in the districts where the attacks were carried out.
Authorities have admitted that warnings sent by neighbouring India of an impending attack by a local group, the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) were ignored.
Forty-five foreign nationals were among the dead and 500 people were maimed in the attacks. The tourist hotspot has been under a state of emergency since.
Sri Lanka's State Intelligence Service (SIS) has been criticized for failing to act on the Indian warnings.
Sirisena, who is also defence minister and law and order minister, has also faced allegations that he could have prevented the attacks.
The president has objected to a parliamentary investigation into the attacks and ordered police not to cooperate. But the hearings have gone ahead and police have testified before politicians.
Earlier this month, Sirisena sacked national intelligence chief Sisira Mendis after he testified that the attacks could have been prevented.
Mendis said the president had failed to hold regular security meetings to assess security threats.
Defence secretary Hemasiri Fernando and police chief Pujith Jayasundara also suggested Sirisena did not follow proper protocol in dealing with the intelligence warnings from India.
Fernando was forced to resign, while Jayasundara has been suspended from duty.
Indian intelligence shared information about the targets -- gleaned from a jihadist in Indian custody -- as early as April 4.
[Rudaw] Naveen Rasho, a 24-year-old Yezidi journalist, has been reunited with her family after five years held captive by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group.
Naveen was kidnapped in 2014 when ISIS seized vast swathes of northern Iraq, including the Yezidi homeland of Shingal. ISIS committed genocide against the ethnoreligious minority, and thousands of women were sold into sexual slavery.
Some 6,417 Yezidis were kidnapped by ISIS in summer 2014. According to the most recent data from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s Yezidi Affairs Office, the fate of 2,992 Yezidis is still unknown.
Naveen says she made five unsuccessful attempts to escape ISIS captivity.
Alongside 13 others rescued from al-Hol camp in northern Syria, she was returned to Shingal in July 2019 by Yezidi House ‐ a shelter run by the Kurdish-led authority of northern Syria in Hasakah province.
The House acts as a transitional location for rescued Yezidis before they are transferred back to their families in northern Iraq.
Before she was captured, Naveen worked for two years as a radio journalist and presenter for Voice of Shingal Mountain.
"I couldn’t tell them I was a journalist because I feared they might kill me. If they were to find out that I would write about them in a newspaper or talk about them on the radio, they surely would have killed me," she told Rudaw.
Naveen showed Rudaw pictures taken during her time in captivity, donning the all-black niqab women, including Yezidi captives, wore under ISIS rule.
On the day ISIS swept into Shingal, Naveen was captured along with her mother and two nieces on the outskirts of town as they fled to nearby Snune.
None of her fellow journalist fell into ISIS hands, she said.
Asked how she was found in al-Hol Camp, she said: "After two and a half months I revealed my identity as a Yezidi to two journalists, a Kurd and a foreigner, when they came to al-Hol Camp a few times."
The journalists then helped her leave the camp.
Al-Hol has been divided into three sections, dividing Syrians, Iraqis, and foreigners, she explained.
"I was among the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... ans where there was no electricity, TV, phones at all," she said. I was "very afraid of revealing that I am a Yezidi," she added.
When ISIS captured her, they "took me to Syria and I stayed there for one week. They later took me back to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and several different places around Mosul. They finally took me back to Syria where I was put in Raqqa and its surroundings and finally to Baghouz before I ended up in al-Hol camp."
Naveen’s father says her return has brought joy back to the family. He described the moment he received her phone call on May 19.
"When she called me, telling me ’Dad I am free and have reached the Yezidi House’, I was very happy, and I was elated by her call," Rasho Darwesh told Rudaw.
Now living in Ba’adrah, Duhok province, Naveen describes how it feels to be free after her long captivity.
"It is like when you break a walnut shell and the walnut is out. This is what happened to me after five years. I have come to the world anew. It is a very joyful life that I have come out of a prison after five years," she added.
After a period of rest, she plans to return to her job as a journalist. She someday hopes to write an autobiography.
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[DAWN] La Belle France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... is to go on trial facing charges of corruption and influence peddling after losing his final bid to avert appearing in the dock, sources close to the case said on Wednesday.
The Court of Cassation, which rules on questions of law, said that a trial was justified for Sarkozy as well as his lawyer Thierry Herzog and former judge Gilbert Azibert.
The ruling was Sarkozy’s last hope of preventing the trial coming to court and the French judicial authorities have now approved sending the case to a criminal tribunal, according to a source close to the case.
The trial will begin in the next months in Gay Paree although a date has yet to be set, added the source who asked not to be named.
Sarkozy, 64, is not the first ex-president to be prosecuted ‐ his predecessor Jacques Chirac was given a two-year suspended sentence in 2011 for embezzlement and misuse of public funds during his time as mayor of Gay Paree.
But it is the first time in the history of modern La Belle France that a former leader will face explicit corruption charges in court.
The influence-peddling case centres on conversations between Herzog and Azibert that were tapped by Sherlocks looking into claims that Sarkozy accepted illicit payments from the L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign.
They suspect Sarkozy and his lawyer were seeking information on developments in the case, with Sarkozy offering Azibert a plum job in Monaco in exchange.
The inquiry also revealed that Sarkozy and Herzog often communicated via mobile phones obtained under false identities ‐ with Sarkozy using the name Paul Bismuth.
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[DAWN] Egypt's foreign minister on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" accusations by Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... that his ousted Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Morsi had been killed.
In a statement, Sameh Shoukry strongly condemned the "repeated, irresponsible accusations by the Ottoman Turkish president about Egypt," following Morsi's death on Monday after falling ill during a court hearing.
Erdogan was a close ally of Morsi during the Islamist's turbulent single year in office and since the military overthrew him in 2013, relations between Ankara and Cairo have deteriorated sharply.
On Wednesday, Erdogan accused Egyptian authorities of failing to take action to save Morsi's life after his collapse in a Cairo courtroom.
"Morsi was struggling on the floor in the courtroom for 20 minutes.
Authorities unfortunately did not intervene to save him," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Istanbul.
"Morsi was killed. He did not die of natural causes."
Since Morsi's overthrow, former army chief, now President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has pressed ahead with a sweeping a crackdown on dissent that has seen thousands of Islamists placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and hundreds facing death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s.
Egypt has accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... of giving refuge to runaways from the crackdown.
There has been widespread criticism of the conditions of Morsi's detention during his nearly six years in jug, much of it in solitary confinement.
The UN human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. office has called for an "independent inquiry" into Morsi's death that would "encompass all aspects of the authorities' treatment ... to examine whether the conditions of his detention had an impact on his death."
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[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has said the United States will refrain from imposing sanctions on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... over Ankara's planned purchase of a missile defence system from Russia. But he pledged to retaliate if the punitive measures do materialise.
Speaking at a rare news conference for foreign media in Istanbul, Erdogan repeated on Thursday that the purchase of Russian S-400 systems was a "done deal" and said the US should think carefully before imposing sanctions on Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ).
"I say this very openly and sincerely, our relations with [US President Donald] Trump are at a place that I can call really good," Erdogan said. "In the event of any issues, we immediately work the phones."
"I do not see any possibility of these sanctions happening," Erdogan added. But he said Turkey would respond proportionately. "The US has to think about this very carefully. We will have sanctions of our own."
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... some experts say Trump will have no choice but to slap sanctions on Turkey under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), a 2017 Congressional bill penalising any entity that has purchased military equipment from an American foe.
"If Turkey takes delivery of the S-400, the CAATSA legislation directs the president to impose sanctions on Turkey for buying defence articles from Russia," said Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The legislation gives the president the option of choosing five of 12 areas where he 'shall' apply sanctions."
But Cook told Al Jazeera that "the president can apply sanctions and immediately suspend [them] for 180 days for an unlimited amount of times...There may be sanctions and no sanctions all at the same time".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he will use his "good" relationship with U.S. leader Donald Trump ...Oh, noze!... to try to defuse a crisis between the NATO allies over Ankara's purchase of Russian missiles.
Erdogan and Trump are due to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, at the end of June, a month before a US deadline to Turkey to renounce its deal with Moscow for the S-400s.
During a rare foreign media briefing in Istanbul, Erdogan insisted on his affinity with Trump, and drew a distinction between the US president and the administration.
How terribly, terribly clever of him, to be sure.
Erdogan said his close relationship with Trump could allow for a favourable outcome to reduce tensions that have poisoned relations between the allies for several months.
"Our relations with Trump are at a level that I would describe as good. We discuss matters when there is a problem, we conduct telephone diplomacy," Erdogan said.
The Turkish head of state said he would ask Trump during their meeting at the G-20 whether he felt sanctions against Turkey were suitable.
"I am sure he does not believe this," Erdogan said, add that he did "not see such sanctions happening".
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"The US has to think about this very carefully. We will have sanctions of our own."
Riiiiiight.... Remember, you need us a hell of a lot more than we need you.
Among the machines, apprehension!
A robot would fight for the menschen!
Its plan was creative:
Oil up and go native,
Fall flat and collect a fat pension.
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I remember a story where they tested something like this and it kept getting tossed in a drainage ditch. The program was finally canceled because of it.
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I think what needs AI badly is adjudication and bureaucracy. The rest of the work we are good at. Arbitrary interpretations of the constitution, unfaithful application of service rules and regulations are the primary causes for corruption. Eliminate that and you clean up the most of law enforcement. You don't need to develop mobility or dexterity, or even great vision or armament. Robo judge and robo servant don't even need to have a face. Least of all a blue and white dildo with wheels for a body.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... forces have launched another ballistic missile into southern 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... this week, targeting a Coalition camp in the Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... . It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved.... Province.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their rocket battalion fired a Badr-F ballistic missile at Saudi Coalition camp in the al-Souh area near the Yemeni border.
The group did not say whether or not the missile hit the Saudi Coalition camp.
Since Monday, the Houthi forces have launched ballistic missiles into Saudi Arabia on at least three occasions
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed four Talibs including one of their key commanders during the operations in Farah province.
The Police Headquarters of Farah in a statement said the Afghan Special Forces killed a key Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... commander and his fighter during an operation in Khak-e-Safid district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces also maimed another Taliban Death Eater during the same operation.
The Special Forces also confiscated 50,000 kilograms of opium, 4400 rounds of amunition, 5 weapons, 7 motorycles and 4 vehicles during the operation.
The Police Headquarters of Farah also added that Special Forces destroyed the confiscated opium and munitions together with two compounds of Taliban and drug lab of the group.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... the Police Headquarters of Farah said a coalition Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed two Death Eaters of Taliban commander Mawlavi Esmat in Qala-e-Nasrullah area of Bala Bolok district.
The airstrike also destroyed a vehicle packed with explosives and weapon, the statement added.
The anti-government armed elements have not commented regarding the operations so far.
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Rule of thumb: 13 kgs. of opium are harvested from one hectare of poppy.
Processed morphine hydrochloride is usually pressed into small brick-sized blocks in a press and wrapped in paper or cloth. The most common block size weighs about 1.3 kilograms (1 1/4 lbs). They are then transported to heroin labs.
[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Jalalabad city of 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 killed one person and injured at least 17 others.
The incident took place earlier today after a magnetic bomb planted in a vehicle went off.
Local officials confirmed that the bomb was planted in a Toyota Hilux type vehicle.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... reports indicate the blast killed one person and maimed at least 20 others.
[DallasNews] A relative of the man who opened fire outside downtown Dallas’ federal building this week warned the FBI in 2016 that he shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun because he was depressed and suicidal, his mother said Thursday.
Brian Clyde’s half-brother called the FBI about his concerns, their mother Nubia Brede Solis said. Clyde was in the Army at the time.
On Monday, Clyde opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle at the Earle Cabell Federal Building. He was fatally shot by federal law enforcement. No one else was seriously injured. His family believes that Clyde wanted to be killed.
An FBI official confirmed that the half-brother called a national hotline on July 1, 2016, leaving a message to report that Clyde was suicidal and had a fascination with guns.
But the official said the half-brother didn’t report a threat against an entity or individual, so the FBI had no legal reason to pursue an investigation and no further action was taken. "Unlike when we receive a dossier composed of fake agitprop from sketchy foreign sources and paid for by Democrats"
The half-brother declined to comment Thursday.
Public records show Clyde had no history of violence. Mental health struggles do not automatically prevent someone from owning a gun.
Federal policy was changed after a gunman killed 17 people in February 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Now, warnings like the one about Clyde are routed to police departments where the calls originated so local officers can follow up and ask the caller for more details. Today, the half-brother’s call would be sent to officers in Washington state, where he lives.
Brede Solis said the FBI never spoke to her about the warning call. She said the half-brother told her about it when she called to tell him Clyde had been killed.
"He felt Brian couldn’t have a gun because he was institutionalized for two weeks and because he was in the Army," Brede Solis said Thursday from her home in Corpus Christi.
Clyde, who had enlisted in the Army right out of high school, had been placed in a mental health facility for two weeks in the summer of 2016, said Brede Solis, 59.
Clyde's father, Paul, told the Dallas newspaper Wednesday that he suspects his son "went down there purely for suicide by cop." He called it a gut feeling and said he didn't know what might've driven his boy "over the edge."
"We had discussions of suicide thoughts in the past," he told the paper, explaining the most recent conversation came Saturday.
Bryan Clyde, who had struggled with depression, always told him, "Dad, I will never do it. I will never hurt anybody. I'm good. I'm fine," the father said.
When Clyde was in the Army, where he served as an infantryman, he was placed for two weeks in a mental institution at a civilian hospital in Louisiana during a Fort Polk training exercise that employed simulated combat conditions, his mother, Nubia Brede Solis, told The Morning News.
He was discharged from the Army five or six months later, in 2017, his mother told the paper.
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A used crack pipe, credit cards, a Delaware Attorney General badge, US Secret Service business cards, two ID’s belonging to Hunter Biden, son of former VP Joe Biden were found in a Hertz rental car in Arizona.
A 28-year-old Arkansas woman is claiming that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden is the father of her 10-month-old child — and she’s suing to prove it.
Lunden Alexis Roberts claims Hunter Biden fathered her child while he was in a relationship with his own late brother’s wife (former sister-in-law), Hallie Biden.
Inbreds meet the inbreds, we're a screw our own family la la la. Even money as to Bill Clinton being Hunter's real father. But then again in Hillary's own words, "does it really matter"?
[THEHILL] A Florida city has agreed to pay hackers who incapacitated their computer system nearly $600,000 in ransom.
The Riviera Beach, Fla., City Council voted unanimously Monday night to have its insurer pay a hacker’s demand for 65 bitcoin, valued at $592,000. The city will pay an addition $25,000 to cover its deductible, according to The Palm Beach Post.
The attack began on May 29, when a police department employee in Riviera Beach, a city of 35,000 people north of West Palm Beach, downloaded an infected email attachment, The Palm Beach Post reported.
The virus paralyzed the city’s online system, including email, phones and water utility pump stations. Utility bills to the city could only be paid in person or by mail, and only in check or cash, according to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... "Anything that was done online, we did not have access to," Rose Anne Brown, a city spokesperson, told The New York Times. "We were able to make payroll and make vendor payments."
City finance department staffers were paid overtime because they had to print paychecks that were supposed to be direct deposited into employee’s bank accounts. City law enforcement had to write residents paper traffic citations.
Interim Information Technology Manager Justin Williams told the City Council on Monday that city email and websites are back up, as well as the finance department and water utility pump stations, The Palm Beach Post reported. Til the hackers come back for Round II
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And of course, the taxpayer will be on the hook for the incompetence of municipal officials paid with taxpayer dollars in the first place. Also factor in there will be no accountability nor employment consequences for anyone involved.
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#4, bottom line. Oh for the want of Malwarebytes etc.
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"Prime suspect is Peggy the Hacker,
The dread Russian cyber-attacker."
"So, who squeezed this goose?"
"Surely someone with juice
Poached the egg..." "Someone yeggy?" "A cracker."
Schumer asking that @senatemajldr allow vote on amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that "would require Congressional approval of any funding for a conflict in Iran."
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Schumer just being an attention ‘ho and trying to obstruct the President. The Dems like to cause trouble like this rather do responsible work in the Congress.
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Sure.
Introduce a bill that says that the President may authorize military action against Iran if needed to prevent harm to US forces.
Let's let Bernie and a few others vote against it.
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Who were the idiots who let Iran blackmail us
just to get a worthless JCPOA agreement.
Before the JCPOA Iran was under heavy sanctions from the Bush administration just as they are now with Trump so that Iran is bleeding money.
Obama did the JCPOA so that Iran could blackmail us to remove the hard hitting sanctions and so Europe would not have to enforce sanctions, but could trade with Iran so Iran could profit and spend more money to develop nuclear and non-nuclear weapons systems that are threatening us, the US, now and international trade through the Strait of Hormuz.
Then Obama paid Iran billions of dollars so Iran could subvert more countries like Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.
Now that Trump has Iran bottled up again with sanctions like it should be Schumer and Kerry (I saved the Viet Cong you know) want to throw a lifeline to Iran so they can breakout and obtain a nuclear weapon.
Then these miscreants will tell us they are the only ones who know how to deal with Iran now that Iran has nuclear weapons.
Then they will use the resulting chaos to create their socialist empire just like Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela with the help of Cuba and Iran.
Why should we listen to Democrats when our failure to do the right thing and achieve the best outcome for our country would benefit them to usurp power for their socialist agenda.
We should not let up on Iran or Cuba or North Korea, or Venezuela till they are all allowed to fail like they should.
Of course, John Kerry and all bleeding liberals would throw a lifeline to these countries to achieve there goals.
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Schumer (and Nancy) are putting themselves at the mercy of actions now by Iran. If something 'blows up' they're included (not to mention being tagged as unregistered lobbyists for a foreign power).
#FAA Statement: The FAA has issued a Notice to Airmen (#NOTAM) prohibiting U.S.-registered aircraft from operating over the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. The NOTAM applies to all U.S. air carriers and commercial operators. pic.twitter.com/Z5eVX6hyOx
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#1 Clearing for action?
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...If we have any sense, we're s@rewing with them.
During Operation Desert Shield, we would assemble huge formations of planes, fly them straight at the Iraqi border, and then turn them around at the last moment. We'd also jam their radars and comms at odd intervals, and we did both of those for months. The result was that both of those things came to be seen by the Iraqis as routine.
Until it wasn't.
Let the Iranians monitor the comm channels and the radars and the Moron Press(TM) who will tell them that we werethisclose to coming after them last night, and let all of that happen over and over.
Until it's routine.
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As an added bonus it will cause drooling insanity among the "hate America always" commenter cohort at ZeroHedge.
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Kinda like the bad booze in the Dominican Republic.
Who would want to go there?
[KFIam640] It only took long enough, but Los Angeles residents are working together to recall none other than Mayor Eric Garcetti.
What's the reason?
Well the different possibilities are endless.
Specifically though, these group of residents are upset over the increase in the city's homeless population.
Why wouldn't they be though?
Just this month the news came out the homelessness has increased in Los Angeles by 16%.
The leader of this recall effort is Alexandra Datig and she needs nearly 315,000 registered Los Angeles voters to sign n her petition in order for the effort to be certified.
Datig has put together a website filled with news clip, audio bites and more highlighting the homeless crisis in the city. In detail, she goes over why she believes there's no option left rather than recalling Eric Garcetti.
You don't have to ask John and Ken how they feel about this. For years, they've wanted Mayor Yoga Pants out of office and this finally might the fight pushed in the right direction.
What did Garcetti think?
That his beloved Angelenos were going to continue to let their city be take over by the homeless? Think again, people are finally starting to fight back. Check out the link for an audio interview of Datig by KFI's John and Ken, some rather disturbing pictures and a link to a YouTube video of a six-minute TV report on LA's Paradise Lost by Seattle's KOMO.
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There is a simple solution to Los Angeles' homeless problem. Bus them to San Francisco (or Portland) and give them $100 a month as long as they stay there.
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When you surrendered powers to a judiciary which chose to ignore the hard lessons learned about public health and sanitation to flash their virtue in the name of 'social justice', this is what it all degenerates to. It's not free speech, it's not free and peaceful assembly.
[DAWN] 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.... Inspector General of Police Arif Nawaz Khan ordered suspension of four personnel of the Dolphin Squad on the allegation of unprovoked firing on a 20-year-old motorcyclist on M.M Alam Road, Gulberg on Wednesday.
The motorcyclist suffered bullet injury in the leg and was said to be stable in hospital. Raza, a resident of Gurumangat Road, was going to buy medicine for his ailing mother when a team of the Dolphin Squad signalled him to stop on M.M Alam Road. The youngster did not notice the signal over which the officials opened fire on him. He suffered bullet wound in the leg and fell on the road.
The officials took the injured to Liberty Market where they tortured him and asked him to confess that he was a robber. Later, they took him to a nearby private hospital from where he was taken to another health facility.
Raza’s mother while speaking to the media demanded that Chief Minister Usman Buzdar take notice of the incident. She said the mothers of all other people who had suffered injuries at the hands of the Dolphin Squad official should be given justice.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... IGP Arif Nawaz Khan took notice of the incident and sought a report from the CCPO Lahore. He also directed the CCPO to take action against the officials. On the basis of initial report, SP Dolphin Bilal Zafar suspended four officials involved in opening fire and injuring the citizen and also initiated an inquiry against them.
Further departmental and legal action would be taken against the officials in the light of the inquiry report.
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Thought for a moment it was in Miami...or SeaWorld.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Pentagon will send Patriot missile systems, drones and surveillance planes in the Middle East as part of its planned deployment of additional 1,000 servicemen in the region amid tensions with Iran, the US Department of Defense said.
The Pentagon said in a statement that following a request from US CENTCOM, it will send a Patriot missile regiment, manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft and "other deterrence capabilities."
"The United States does not seek conflict with Iran, but we are postured and ready to defend U.S. forces and interests in the region," the statement reads.
Two tankers caught fire in the Gulf of Oman last Thursday, the causes of the incident are being investigated now. The crewmembers, including Russian nationals, were evacuated by the Iranian emergency services and transferred to the Iranian port of Jask. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed fingers at Iran, his statement was supported by the United Kingdom and 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... . The Iranian Foreign Ministry has denied these accusations.
On Monday, Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan approved sending additional 1,000 American servicemen to the Middle East "for defensive purposes" amid the situation around Iran.
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said earlier this week the United States kept all options of countering Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on the table, including a military confrontation.
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Unfortunately the cause and effect of lots of small preventing a large is not proven. Maybe it's Nature's way of telling us to move all the homeless in CA to the San Andreas fault as a solution. In 10 million years, SF and LA will be adjacent so get in on the land boom early.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy festivities broke out in the eastern Aleppo city of al-Bab on Thursday when two Ottoman Turkish-backed rebel groups exchanged hostilities.
According to a report from the Aleppo countryside, several members of the al-Hamza Divison and Sultan Murad Brigade were involved in a heavy exchange of gunfire in al-Bab, resulting in a number of casualties within the ranks of both rebel groups.
The reason for the infighting is still unknown at this time; however, the two groups have clashed in the past.
The Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels have been in control of al-Bab since 2016; they captured the city from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) following a short campaign to establish a presence in the area.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The Arab Parliament ...At the Arab League Summit of 2001-Amman, the Arab states came up with a resolution to have the Secretary General create a Parliament. Since throughout the Arab world rights accrue to the states, not to the people, each member state sends four members and nobody gets to vote on whom. The headquarters was in Damascus until in 2012 the sessions were suspended and transferred to Cairo. The League is now preparing to move the headquarters of the parliament to Baghdad, from whence it will issue Pronouncements of Grave Import.... on Thursday cautioned the Kenyan government against interfering with the territorial borders of neighbouring Somalia.
The Arab body rejected Kenya’s threats to meddle in Somalia’s internal affairs, arguing that the move violates neighbourly principles.
The decision by the Arab Parliament is now thought to pose a new hurdle to Kenya’s efforts to lobby for support in resolving the dispute. By the time of going to press, the Kenyan authorities had not issued a statement regarding the new development.
The Kenya-Somalia tussle began in August 2014 after the latter filed a suit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over alleged unlawful operations within her maritime territory. You know, the one that all the pirates were operating with impunity from - til the world's navies kicked their skinny asses?
Over the past few weeks, the tussle has taken a fresh twist after Kenya closed her border points in Lamu as tension escalates. This comes after Kenya deported several Somalia high profile officials who had just landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) for failing to meet immigration requirements.
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[Rudaw] Iran’s political and economic relations with Iraq are in their best possible condition despite US pressure, a senior Iranian economic official working to develop ties with Iraq and Syria said on Wednesday.
"Since 2003, we have experienced a noticeable growth in goods export to Iraq, to an extent that 33% of all our non-oil exports is to Iraq," Hassan Danaeifar, secretary of the Committee to Develop Iranian Economic Ties with Iraq and Syria said in the western province of Lorestan.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... exported just over 790 million dollars’ worth of goods and services to Iraq in 2006, Danaeifar said. That figure has now soared to 12 billion dollars.
Washington re-imposed crippling sanctions on Iran in November 2018 after withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, in May of that year.
Iran’s dealings with its western neighbor have since come under increased scrutiny from the American Treasury officials in charge of implementing economic sanctions on Iran.
Suffering from a long-term lack of investment in its national grid and increasing demand, Iraq’s southern provinces have relied on Iran’s supply of electricity and natural gas for more than a decade.
While the US has pressured Iraq to cut its energy ties with Iran, it has been forced to grant Iraq short-term exceptions. Four energy waivers have been offered to Baghdad since 2018 to allow continued imports of natural gas and electricity from Iran.
"Currently, our exchange with Iraq is in the fields of engineering, energy and tourism, and we are ushering in a new phase of cooperation and exports to Iraq," Danaeifar said. "Today Iraq is in a post-ISIS era and needs $300 billion for reconstruction. We believe that we have overcome the phase of exporting goods to Iraq; we need to think about joint production."
Danaeifar, an architect of Iran-Iraq relations following the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003, is a towering Iranian figure of influence in Iraq. He is a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, and former Iran ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2017.
US Treasury officials have frequented both Baghdad and Erbil in recent months to put pressure on Iraq to cut their ties with on Iran as part of the US maximum pressure on Tehran.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... given Iran’s long term relations with the main political forces in Iraq over the last four decades, Tehran hopes to turn this challenge into an undermining of sanctions and an opportunity for trade.
An Iranian parliament analysis of US economic pressure said this week that while Iran is under pressure from US allies in the region, including 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... , UAE , Kuwait and Bahrain, Iran "is using its close ties to the Shiite government of Iraq to circumvent the sanctions."
[Rudaw] A series of attacks on oil tankers near the Persian Gulf has ratcheted up tensions between the U.S. and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... ‐ and raised fears over the safety of one of Asia’s most vital energy trade routes, where about a fifth of the world’s oil passes through its narrowest at the Strait of Hormuz.
The attacks have jolted the shipping industry, with some of the 2,000 companies operating ships in the region on high alert and ordering their vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz only during the daylight hours and at high speed.
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[DAWN] A sessions court in Lahore sentenced a man to death in a three-year-old blasphemy case and fined him Rs200,000.
In 2016, police had filed a first information report against a man identified as Saleem under Section 295-C of the Pakistain Penal Code after he had uttered blasphemous remarks in a public place in the Lohari Gate area.
According to Deputy Prosecutor General Muhammad Amjad,12 witnesses had recorded testimonies against Saleem. Six of the testimonies had been recorded in court, while the other half were recorded via video link due to security concerns.
Half the trial had been conducted in court, and the other half via video link while the accused remained in Camp Jail for security purposes. Additional sessions judge Faizul Hassan read the verdict out to Saleem over video link.
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Death and a 200k fine ? Trial via 4G video link for blasphemy. Technology really modernized adjudication in the 'Stain.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces arrested an alleged Iranian spy earlier this year who had been operating in the West Bank, the Shin Bet security service reveals, amid escalating tensions with the Islamic Theocratic Republic over the collapsing nuclear deal.
According to the Shin Bet, a Jordanian national, Thaer Shafut, was sent into the West Bank last year "on behalf of Iranian intelligence to carry out missions that were meant to establish a network in Israel and the West Bank, which would be used for covert operations for the Iranians."
He entered Israeli territory in July-August 2018, after receiving instruction from Iranian operatives in Leb and Syria, the Shin Bet says.
He was told to establish business ties in Israel and the West Bank in order to form a base for this Iranian intelligence infrastructure.
Shafut was arrested in April, though this was kept gagged under the military censor until Thursday.
Just before his arrest, Shafut began making contact with people inside the West Bank with the goal of establishing this spy network, the Shin Bet says.
He was indicted on June 10 on charges of contacting a foreign agent, contacting an enemy organization and attempting to bring enemy funds into the region.
The end of the gag order comes hours after an American drone was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile in what the US military says was international airspace.
The Shin Bet (Israeli security agency) arrested a Jordanian citizen, originally from Hebron, under the suspicion that he was acting as an Iranian spy.
The 32-year-old Thaar Shafout was arrested and, under interrogation, confessed that he was a Jordanian businessman carrying out missions to promote the establishment of infrastructure in Israel, as well as Judea and Samaria, which would serve clandestine Iranian activities.
Shafout originally met two representatives of Iranian intelligence in Jordan ‐ who acted under the aliases Abu Tsadek and Abu Jaafar ‐ and had several more meetings met with them throughout 2018 in Leb and Syria.
Tsadek and Jaafar instructed the Shafout to establish a business infrastructure in Israel as a cover for future Iranian activity, as well as to recruit more spies within the country to assist in gathering intelligence. He was then instructed to make business connections in Israel and in Judea and Samaria.
Shafout made several contacts "in the field" so that they could assist him in his mission. He initiated the creation of a plant in Jordan that would hire Shi’ite workers and serve as an anchor for future Iranian activity over the border in Israel. The Iranian contacts agreed to give an initial investment of $500,000 to create the plant, as well as more later to establish operations in the field. The contacts also gave him encrypted means of communication in order to contact them.
Iranian intelligence, according to Shafout, intended to use him to transfer funds to terrorist contacts throughout Israel. They wished for him ‐ once he finished carrying out all of the tasks for them in Israel ‐ to come to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and finish his training as a spy.
The Shin Bet’s capture of Shafout thwarted all of these plans by the Iranian intelligence.
[FREEBEACON] Gov. Steve Bullock (D., Mont.) was one of the last random white dudes to announce their candidacy for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. He didn't even make the cut for the first round of debates next week in Miami, and he's struggling to stay relevant, or to at least pull even with Beto O'Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... , an aspiration that is becoming less significant with each passing day.
Bullock is doing what most Democratic candidates do when their campaigns desperately need an injection of cash and/or cachet: He's going to Hollywood. The governor will be in Los Angeles later this week to attend a fundraiser hosted by "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, the former celebrity actress best known for gallivanting with enemy troops during the Vietnam War, who recently said she was no longer "proud" of America following the election of Donald J. Trump.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports:
The Academy Award-winning actress, activist and fitness guru is among a handful of Los Angeles agents, producers and lawyers hosting the event at the home of model and professional golfer Anna Chervin and her talent-agent husband, Ted, according to an invitation obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Bullock, a cowboy-boot-wearing executive from a rural state won by President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , may seem like an unusual benefactor of campaign cash from members of the Hollywood elite often associated with far-left causes. But his success enacting some progressive priorities such as expanding Medicaid, combined with his distinction as the only White House contender to get reelected at the same time his state broke for Trump, has led some donors to take a closer look.
Bullock has received financial backing from other Hollywood celebs, including Jeff Bridges, the Academy Award-winning actor best known for his role as Dr. Mark Powell in K-PAX.
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I literally can't count the number of VFWs we have been in that have that's bitch's face as plastic splash piss guards in bathroom urinals. Guessing it's not just a Minnesota thing.
[AnNahar] A U.S. spy drone was some 34 kilometers (21 miles) from the nearest point in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... when it was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian surface-to-air missile Thursday, a U.S. general said.
"This dangerous and escalatory attack was irresponsible and occurred in the vicinity of established air corridors between Dubai, UAE, and Oman, possibly endangering innocent civilians," said Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella, who commands U.S. air forces in the region.
The Pentagon released a graphic pinpointing the position of the drone on a map of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic passage through which much of the world's oil passes.
Guastella said the drone, a Navy variant of a high-flying Global Hawk, was over the Strait when it was hit and it fell into international waters.
"At the time of the intercept the RQ-4 was at high altitude, approximately 34 kilometers from the nearest point of land on the Iranian coast," he said, over a video to the Pentagon press briefing room.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said the drone was shot down with a missile over the waters of Hormozgan province, which borders the north side of the Strait of Hormuz.
It said the drone departed Wednesday from a U.S. base on the south side of the Gulf, passed through the Strait of Hormuz and headed east toward the Iranian port of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman.
On its return, according to the Guard, the drone was shot down at 1944 GMT Wednesday in a coastal area near Badar-e Jask on the Gulf of Oman.
"Iranian reports that this aircraft was shot down over Iran are categorically false," Guardella said. US Central Command said the drone was shot down at approximately 2335 GMT.
The Pentagon released a video showing the fall of a brilliant object trailed by a streak of black smoke.
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via Instapundit:
“Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced: ‘Shooting down the American spy drone had a clear, decisive, firm and accurate message,’
“Cap’n, I’ve got the spy squirrels ready, and the “dragonflies” and “bee” swarms are loaded with their cameras and tiny flechette missiles, so we can send them out as soon as you pass the word. The sharks with frikkin’ lasers on their heads have been cruising the Gulf for weeks — they’re getting hungry, so we’re going to need some Iranian sailors dumped into the drink sooner rather than later. Just so you know for your meeting with the brass, sir.”
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian forces and their allied paramilitary groups are on high alert in eastern Syria, a source from the Syrian military told al-Masdar News from Damascus.
According to the Syrian military source, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and several allied paramilitary units have increased their security measures around the border city of Albukamal as they anticipate a potential response from the U.S. over the downing of their drone near the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC is primarily based in two locations in Syria: al-Safira (southern Aleppo) and Albukamal (eastern Deir Ezzor).
While Iran’s downing of a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz has made headlines across the world, this is not the first time that they have targeted American unmanned aerial vehicles.
In February, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... hacked a U.S. drone in eastern Syria, forcing the American forces to destroy the UAV.
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[DAWN] VEHARI: Two minors died at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the children’s ward at DHQ hospital here on Wednesday evening allegedly due to suspension of oxygen supply.
The minors aged four and five years were under treatment at the ICU. According to their fathers, Allah Rakha and Arshad, oxygen supply to the ICU was suspended for half an hour, as a result of which both the minors went titzup.
The parents alleged that the deaths occurred due to negligence of the staff deputed in the children’s ward of the ICU. They alleged that the staff did not ensure provision of oxygen on time after its suspension that resulted in the deaths of their children.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Dr Fazal, the medical superintendent, told Dawn that allegations of suspension of oxygen in the children’s ward were baseless. He claimed there was no shortage of oxygen in the hospital.
He further said that he was in Lahore for a meeting however he would inquire into the matter after returning to Vehari. He also stated that a couple of deaths in the children’s ward was a routine matter.
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[Breitbart] President Donald Trump unveiled a plane model on Thursday demonstrating the new color scheme for Air Force One.
The model was spotted on a table in the Oval Office during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"I would say the plane basically is an upgrade over that model. We actually are getting things that they didn’t get. We’re saving about $1.5 billion. So it’s going to be terrific," Trump told reporters.
The new Air Force One will go into service in 2024.
Despite some critics lamenting the loss of the baby blue and gold paint scheme, Trump is ready for a change.
"You know what? It’s been a long time and it fits the plane better ... and I like the concept of red white and blue, and the classic," he said in an interview with Fox and Friends on Friday. "I think it’s going to look much better actually."
He said the new colors were inspired by first lady Melania Trump’s fashion style, just as the old colors were inspired by former first lady Jackie Kennedy.
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...The new design doesn't look too bad - a lot more dignified than I'd expected - but to me it resembles a British Airways color scheme, and I think AF1 should be more distinctive than that.
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Should give it the shark's mouth of the Flying Tigers. That would be distinctive, no?
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops conducted 11 joint operations and 74 Special Operations in various provinces in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said Wednesday that the Afghan Air Force also conducted 10 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the hideouts of the terror groups.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Faryab, 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.. , Kandahar, Zabul, Maidan Wardak, Kunar, Kunduz, Takhar, Badakhshan, Balkh, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , Ghor, Ghazni and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces.
The Ministry of Defense also added that the security forces killed more than 20 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS bully boyz during the same operations.
The anti-government armed bully boyz have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[FrontPageMag] Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister who was in Tehran meeting with “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei earlier this week, insisted Thursday that the footage of the IRGC crew removing the unexploded mine from the Kokuka Courageous was insufficient.
“The video is not enough,” he said. “We understand what is begin shown, sure, but to make a final assessment, that is not enough for me.”
The European Union similarly refuses to lay the blame on Iran. It released a statement saying, “While we are gathering additional information and evidence and consolidating the elements available, we will refrain from speculations and premature conclusions.”
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This article starring:
Ali Khamenei
Hassan Rouhani
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Because Iran bribed a bunch of European officials with that big pile of cash courtesy of 0bumhole, and they have proof?
They learned their lesson following America into Iraq.forgot the lesson of blitz into Poland and so on. Not doing it again because of appeasement is easier, very French. And very profitable.
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Let's face it - the US could produce a video of an Iranian speed boat, with the Iranian battle flag flying, attacking a tanker in international waters, and the Europeans would still not accuse Iran of the attack.
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You'd think the government that faked the Moon Landing and blew up the Twin Towers could come up with a better fake Iranian attack than the one we got now.
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I didn't mean that the US would PRODUCE a video in the sense of making a Hollywood movie. I meant we could present a a video we had captured of an Iranian boat attacking a tanker.
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[KhaamaPress] A group of 24 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and ISIS snuffies renounced violence and joined grinding of the peace processor 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 Governor’s Office of Nangarhar in a statement said Wednesday the Taliban and ISIS snuffies renounced violence due to the efforts of provincial intelligence officials.
The statement further added that snuffies have vowed not to return to the battlefield again.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... the governor of Nangarhar Shah Mahmood Mia Khel said 7 ISIS snuffies and 17 Taliban fighters renounced violence and joined grinding of the peace processor.
Mia Khel further added that the snuffies also handed over their weapons to security forces.
He also added that the snuffies were involved in destructive activities in Surkh Rod, Chaparhar, Khogyani, Momandara, Lalpur and Ghani Khel districts.
According to Mia Khel, around 550 ISIS and Talibs have renounced violence in Nangarhar province since the start of the year.
If they all permanently retired from jihad, that’s impressive. If they’re just taking a little holiday, that’s impressive in a different way.
Both Taliban and Nangarhar are active in some remote districts of Nangarhar and often conduct terrorist related activities.
[DAWN] The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a "total lack of interest" in determining why intelligence reports were ignored.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith spoke of his frustrations just hours before he was due to meet Pope Francis and show the pontiff a video with graphic images of the April 21 attacks on three churches and four hotels. The attacks were claimed by krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
"There was a serious lack of responsibility on the part of the government," Ranjith told news hounds. "Now they have appointed all kinds of committees and commissions and there is bickering going on between the sides, you know, (about) who is responsible."
President Maithripala Sirisena has criticised a parliamentary investigation, where some have accused him of mishandling national security.
Ranjith, 71, said Indian intelligence services first notified Sri Lanka on April 4 of an impending attack and then three times more, including a phone call at 6.45am on the day of the blasts.
"But nobody took serious note. This disaster could have been prevented because if I knew that there was an attack planned I would have closed the churches and told the people to go home," he said in answer to a question.
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Just like Clinton and Bush over 9-11 and priors.
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Beating about the bush after the fact. Why does the pope not clearly distance 'the church' from the progressive 'diversity' doctrine if he's so concerned about catholics ?
[DAWN] China recently played host to a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... delegation as part of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Representatives of the Taliban, who have been fighting for years to expel foreign forces and defeat the US-backed government in Kabul, have been holding talks with US diplomats for months.
The focus has been the Taliban demand for the withdrawal of US and other foreign forces, in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan will not be used as a base for Death Eater attacks.
Taliban negotiators have also met senior Afghan politicians and civil society representatives, including in Moscow recently, as part of so-called intra-Afghan dialogue to discuss their country's future.
Chinese foreign ministry front man Lu Kang told a daily news briefing that Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban representative 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... , and some of his colleagues had recently visited China, though he did not say exactly when.
Chinese officials met them to discuss the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and counter-terror issues, Lu told the briefing, without saying who met the delegation.
"China pays great attention to the evolving situation in Afghanistan in recent years. We have always played a positive role in the Afghan peace and reconciliation process," Lu said.
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[DAWN] Three people were killed and several others injured when a passenger train, the Jinnah Express, hit a freight car near Hyderabad on Thursday.
One of the dear departed was identified by a colleague as the driver of the Jinnah Express, Aslam Chandio. The other two were identified as Syed Noman Ali and Yasir Bashir.
The injured were shifted to Liaquat University Hospital's city branch for treatment.
Earlier, at 7pm, locomotive traffic remained suspended on the up- and down-country tracks as the tracks had not been completely cleared of the wreckage and debris.
Passengers remained stranded at the Hyderabad and Kotri railway stations due to the delay.
Later that evening, in a video statement to address the incident, Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said that the tracks had been cleared for traffic and the passengers had been sent on their way.
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Didn't they have a fire in the dining car yesterday? Why, yes, yes they did
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 24 Talibs during an operation Faryab province.
The Special Forces conducted the operation in Ghormach district of Faryab.
The informed military sources said Thursday that the Special Forces also maimed 2 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters.
The Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons and improvised bomb during the same operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his other leg...... the Afghan Special Forces destroyed 2 improvised bombs, several pressure plates and a small cache of explosives in Kunduz province.
The military sources said the operation was conducted in Chahar Darah district of Kunduz.
The anti-government armed gunnies have not commented regarding the operations so far.
The far-left CNN’s ratings death spiral marched into last week as the fake news network lost one-third of its primetime audience and a breathtaking 55 percent of its demo viewers.
When compared to this same week last year, CNN also lost 21 percent of its total day viewers.
How bad is this?
Well, you can’t blame a slow news week because not only was President Trump on an overseas trip, but as you will see, CNN stands completely alone with this massive audience implosion.
By comparison, in primetime, MSNBC and Fox News only lost four percent of their viewers compared to last year and seven and five percent of their total day viewers, respectively.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... alleged on Wednesday that their group hit a Syrian military jet with an anti-aircraft missile (i.e. MANPADS) in the Hama countryside.
According to the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham claim, they hit the Syrian jet as it was flying back to its home base in the Hama Governorate.
After the missile hit the jet, the Syrian Air Force pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at the nearby Hama Military Airport.
Al-Masdar has reached out to the Syrian military this morning to confirm this claim by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham; they have yet to respond.
If this report proves true, this will mark the second time this month that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their allies have struck a Syrian jet with an anti-aircraft missile.
The first attack was confirmed by the Syrian military, who said their veteran pilot was able to return safely to his home base after the missile strike.
While it is not necessarily clear what kind of MANPADS the jihadist forces are using, they have captured a number of these missiles from the Syrian military over the years.
Furthermore, there have been reports of the Ottoman Turkish military providing these anti-aircraft missiles to the Death Eaters in northwestern Syria; however, these claims have not been confirmed.
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[Al Jazeera] Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Thursday sent out the armed forces to impose order after protests against his embattled administration turned violent overnight in parts of the capital, claiming two lives.
Speaking at the presidential palace after meeting security bigshots, Hernandez said he had ordered the military to keep roads open as well as to protect private property and the public in the troubled Central American country.
"So the armed forces, the national police and the other defence and security forces are being deployed nationwide and will remain so," said Hernandez.
Earlier in the day, the president said he had reached a deal with truck operators, whose strikes in pursuit of higher rates for moving freight had sparked fuel shortages.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... demonstrations against Hernandez persisted.
There was widespread unrest on Wednesday evening in Tegucigalpa after members of a Honduran riot police force tasked with keeping order withdrew to their quarters to pressure the government for improved benefits.
Protests against Hernandez have been building in recent weeks over planned reforms that his critics argue will lead to the privatisation of public health and education services.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 12 Talibs and detained two others during the operations in three provinces.
The military officials in a statement said Thursday the Afghan Special Forces detained two Talibs in Kharwar district of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
The officials further added that an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed one Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... bully boy in Chak-e Wardak district of Wardak province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the security forces conducted airstrikes in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan which killed 11 Taliban fighters.
The Talibs have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Diyala (IraqiNews) Iraqi Intelligence Directorate announced, on Thursday, apprehending three gunnies in Diyala. It also indicated that one of them participated in a terrorist attack during the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... offensive on the province.
In a press statement, the directorate said, "Iraqi Intelligence forces (Diyala Operations Command), backed by the intelligence forces from the 74th brigade, managed to apprehend three gunnies in Jalawla ‐ Klar Road, in Diyala Province."
Yesterday, two Islamic State holy warriors were killed by an Iraqi warplane’s Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , in the eastern province of Diyala.
Diyala witnessed months of escalating fighting between Iraqi troops and IS bad boys, especially in Jalawla and Saadiyah areas, north of the province, in addition to some areas near the town of Muqdadiyah.
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Lunden Roberts, 28, claims she had a relationship with Biden in 2017 and that she gave birth to his baby in August last year
She filed a petition in court in Batesville, Alabama, last month asking for child support
Biden was dating his brother Beau's widow, Hallie, at the time of their affair
They split in April this year and a month later, he married South African woman Melissa Cohen
Lunden does not say how long their relationship lasted or how serious it was
Her attorney says she is not politically motivated and that she only wants what is fair for 'their' baby
Tut, tut. Dreadful, simply dreadful. Does the DNA test agree that he is the father and she is the mother of the little tot? More to the point, why should we, the voters, care about the adventures — true or imaginary — of an adult child of a has-been politician?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched two attacks on the strategic hilltop of Tal Malah, Thursday, in a bid to reopen the main road from Sqaylabiyeh and Mhardeh.
Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Army’s first attack on Tal Malah was quickly repelled by the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and their allies from the National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much beloved has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... Following the first failed attack, the Syrian Arab Army regrouped to make another push to capture Tal Malah and the nearby town of Jibeen.
The Syrian Arab Army was able to score an initial advance in northwestern Hama on Thursday afternoon, paving the way for their forces to reach the outskirts of Jibeen.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... not long after making this advance, the Syrian Arab Army was forced to withdraw from the Jibeen outskirts after suffering a number of casualties.
Thursday’s attack by the Syrian Army on Tal Malah marked the first time in a week that they have stormed this imperative site in northwestern Hama.
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Anbar (IraqiNews) Anabr Operations Command of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Paramilitary forces) announced, on Thursday, killing an IS krazed killer, and wounding 2 others in the province. It also revealed that its forces foiled an attempt to attack area, west of Anbar.
Commander of Anbar Operations, Qassim Musleh, said in a press statement that al-Hashd al-Shaabi’s 13th and 18th brigades carried out a large-scale security operations in the western desert of Anbar.
He also added that the operation resulted in the killing of one of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killers, as well as wounding two others.
Furthermore, Musleh revealed that four warehouses and three vehicles belonging to the Islamic State, in addition to seizing another booby-trapped vehicle in Jagaifa Villages.
"The operation has helped to end the planned attacks on a number of western areas of Anbar, such as Qaim and Akashat Districts," Musleh said.
Musleh pointed out that the security forces will continue the operation to eliminate the presence of the Islamic State group in the area.
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[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed 3 Talibs and detained 2 others during the operations in Balkh and Kunduz provinces.
The informed military sources said Wednesday that an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed 3 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters in Char Bolak district of Balkh province.
The sources further added that the Special Forces detained 2 Talibs during an operation in Qal’ah-ye Zal district of Kunduz province.
The security situation in some districts of Balkh and Kunduz provinces has tanked during the recent months.
Talibs are active in some districts of the two provinces and often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in the two provinces.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular airstrikes in restive parts of the country to suppress Taliban and other anti-government holy warriors.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor... ’s primary aircraft design bureau put forward at the air show Ankara’s answer to the loss of the F-35, a plane Turkey had once hoped to buy 100 of from the US. Washington recently put that deal on hold over its continued objection to Ankara’s purchasing of S-400 air defense systems from Russia.
On the tarmac at Gay Paree-Le Bourget Airport, the dramatic unveiling showed the world a twin-engine, canted-vertical-tail fighter that looks a bit like an F-35, but with a narrower
The resemblance should come as little surprise.
"On the F-35, actually, my company is building the center fuselage," TAI President and CEO Temel Kotil said at the ceremony. TAI served as a secondary supplier to US-based contractor Northrop Grumman, which builds the majority of F-35 center fuselages, Defense News noted.
"So this means, in terms of manufacturing, Ottoman Turkish Aerospace has enough strength to build this fighter," Kotil said. "Our machine is a mock-up, but in 2023 there will be a real machine, and first flight is in 2025, and [it will be in] service in 2028."
According to Defense News, the TF-X will have a top speed of Mach 2, a range of 600 miles, and will be capable of lifting 60,000 pounds upon takeoff. Its engines will provide the jet with 20,000 pounds of thrust each, making it roughly comparable to the Joint Strike Fighter, although a tad faster. although a tad faster...auguring into the ground
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the reason small countries don't usually build these kind of premium jet fighters is that theu
- cost a lot
- tie up enormous amounts of capital and high quality engineering personnel
- require a lot of testing over years before completing
Turkey will probably not finish this project.
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Got a ways to go...after all:
"the sins of the fathers will fall on the backs of their children, yea unto the seventh generation"
#4
in 2023 there will be a real machine, and first flight is in 2025, and in ...
Dates pulled out of a fez cap. Shows what they know about the dev cycle of a fighter jet. Any remotely competent engineering company can make a fuselage from design and material specs.
#6
^^Think of all the problems the Russians, Chinese and lately the Indians have had trying to get a high performance jet engine that they can produce locally...!
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels launched an assault on several towns in northwestern Hama on Tuesday, targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions near the Idlib Governorate’s border.
Led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and Jaish al-Izza, the holy warriors began their attack by storming the Syrian Army’s positions at Qasabiyah, Jamleh, and Kafr Houd in the Hama and Idlib countrysides.
These attacks in northwestern Syria would ultimately fail after the jihadist rebels suffered a large number of casualties. and heavy losses to their military equipment.
According to a military source in northwestern Hama, the Syrian Army killed an estimated 25-35 bully boys, while the Tiger Forces’ media wing put the corpse count as high as 65.
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[DAWN] Sudan's military ruler on Thursday sacked the country's prosecutor general, days after charges of corruption were brought against ousted leader Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. as new protests got underway.
The dismissal came as General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's deputy in the ruling military council announced that the criminal mastermind behind a deadly raid on a protest camp on June 3 had been identified.
Abdallah Ahmed will replace al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed as prosecutor general, the official SUNA news agency reported, without giving any reason for the sacking.
Bashir appeared on Sunday in front of another prosecutor to face charges of corruption and illegal possession of foreign currency.
Thursday's sacking also comes weeks after protesters were violently dispersed on June 3 by men in military uniforms who, according to witnesses, shot and beat demonstrators who had take part in a weeks-long sit-in outside the military headquarters.
The military council has steadfastly denied it had ordered the dispersal, but clarified it had ordered a purge of a nearby area notorious for "criminals" selling drugs.
The council has said that the purge of the area called Colombia was carried out only after a meeting of legal and security chiefs, which was attended by al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed.
Last week he told news hounds he had attended the meeting but had left by the time the purge operation was discussed, saying: "In our presence, the dispersal of the sit-in was not even remotely discussed."
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Firefighters were working to bring under control a massive fire at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc's refinery on Friday that has resulted in damage that could keep the affected unit shut for an extended period, according to Philadelphia city officials and company sources.
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[PJ] WASHINGTON -- Burgess Owens, an author and former NFL Player who was a witness at a congressional subcommittee hearing on reparations, suggested that the Democratic Party should pay "restitution" for the "misery" it brought to his race in the past.
[NCNBC] Stocks rallied on Thursday, led by strong gains in tech and energy shares, as Wall Street cheered the possibility that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month.
[Free Beacon] A Minnesota man applied for and then received government food stamps for well over a year, even though he is a millionaire, in an effort to prove his belief that the eligibility requirements for the benefits in his state were too loose.
[The Federalist] In a 7-2 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross that has stood on public land in Maryland for 94 years does not violate the First Amendment. Writing the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito said the memorial, also known as the "Peace Cross," has become a prominent community landmark and should be upheld.
[Breitbart] A federal appeals court held Thursday that the Trump administration’s rule that ends taxpayer family planning funding of abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood may take effect.
...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[DAWN] Egypt's foreign minister on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" accusations by 
...Oh, noze!...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...
[DallasNews] A relative of the man who opened fire outside downtown Dallas’ federal building this week warned the FBI in 2016 that he shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun because he was depressed and suicidal, his mother said Thursday.
[DailyMail]
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...At the Arab League Summit of 2001-Amman, the Arab states came up with a resolution to have the Secretary General create a Parliament. Since throughout the Arab world rights accrue to the states, not to the people, each member state sends four members and nobody gets to vote on whom. The headquarters was in Damascus until in 2012 the sessions were suspended and transferred to Cairo. The League is now preparing to move the headquarters of the parliament to Baghdad, from whence it will issue Pronouncements of Grave Import....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[DAWN] A sessions court in Lahore sentenced a man to death in a three-year-old blasphemy case and fined him Rs200,000.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces arrested an alleged Iranian spy earlier this year who had been operating in the West Bank, the Shin Bet security service reveals, amid escalating tensions with the 
[FREEBEACON] Gov. Steve Bullock (D., Mont.) was one of the last random white dudes to announce their candidacy for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. He didn't even make the cut for the first round of debates next week in Miami, and he's struggling to stay relevant, or to at least pull even with Beto O'
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[DAWN] VEHARI: Two minors died at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the children’s ward at DHQ hospital here on Wednesday evening allegedly due to suspension of oxygen supply.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump unveiled a plane model on Thursday demonstrating the new color scheme for Air Force One.
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
handed over their weapons
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...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...
[DAWN] Three people were killed and several others injured when a passenger train, the Jinnah Express, hit a freight car near Hyderabad on Thursday.
...Arabic for 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
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