The Navy is accelerating and increasing design support for the development and construction of its new Columbia-Class nuclear armed ballistic missile submarines -- to ensure progress toward the goal of engineering the most lethal, high-tech and advanced ballistic missile submarines the world has ever seen.
Designed to serve well into the 2080s and beyond, Navy and General Dynamics Electric Boat developers are hoping to leverage years of science and technology development to best position the new submarine to enter service by 2031. Apparently the Navy thinks we'll be around that long. And North Korea won't be a problem. Nor Iran.
The increased support was announced by the Department of Defense as a $203 million modification to an existing deal between the Navy and General Dynamics Electric Boat to begin manufacture of 17 new tactical missile tubes able to fire nuclear-armed Trident II D5 missiles.
A prior 95-million modification to a Naval Sea Systems Command deal with Electric Boat, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, is a key part of the Navy's broader deterrence strategy to ensure a second-strike nuclear ability from beneath the ocean around the world in the event of a catastrophic first-strike on the continental US.
The effort, which has been preceded by "tube and hull" forging work underway for several years, is part of a collaborative US-UK Common Missile Compartment program.
The US and UK are together immersed in a common missile compartment effort. In fact, the US and UK have been buying parts together for the common missile compartment and working on a $770 million contract with General Dynamics’ Electric Boat. This recent contract modification includes foreign military sales to the United Kingdom. Work will be performed in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and is expected to be completed by December 2023. United Kingdom foreign military sales funding in the amount of $22,957,933 will be obligated at the time of award, a Pentagon statement said.
The US plans to build 12 new Columbia-Class Submarines, each with 16 missile tubes, and the UK plans to build four nuclear-armed ballistic submarines, each with 12 missile tubes.
Earlier this year, ship specifications for the new Columbia-Class submarines were completed and the program is now in detailed design phase and initial production contract, service officials said.
In acquisition terms, development of the new submarines have passed what's termed "Milestone B," clearing the way beyond early development toward ultimate production. Production decisions are known as "Milestone C."
"The program was approved to proceed to Milestone B Jan. 4, authorizing it to enter into the engineering and manufacturing development phase and permitting the transition from preliminary design to detail design," William Couch, spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command, told Scout Warrior earlier this year.
Ultimately, the Navy hopes to build and operate as many as 12 new nuclear-armed submarines, to be in service by the early 2040s and serve well into the 2080s.
The Navy has begun early construction and prototyping on a new class of nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines designed to help ensure global peace by deploying massive destructive power under the sea.
Columbia-Class submarines are scheduled to begin construction by 2021. Requirements work, technical specifications and early prototyping have already been underway at General Dynamics Electric Boat.
Designed to be 560-feet‐ long and house 16 Trident II D5 missiles fired from 44-foot-long missile tubes, ORP will be engineered as a stealthy, high-tech nuclear deterrent able to quietly patrol the global undersea domain.
The new submarines are being designed for 42 years of service life.
Construction on the first submarine in this new class is slated to be finished up by 2028, with initial combat patrols beginning in 2031, service officials said.
Strategic Nuclear Deterrence
Detailed design for the first Columbia-Class submarine is happening now. The new submarines are being engineered to quietly patrol the undersea domain and function as a crucial strategic deterrent, assuring a second strike or retaliatory nuclear capability in the event of nuclear attack.
The Navy is only building 12 Columbia-Class submarines to replace 14 existing Ohio-class nuclear-armed boats because the new submarines are being built with an improved nuclear core reactor that will better sustain the submarines, Navy officials have said.
As a result, the Columbia-Class submarines will be able to serve a greater number of deployments than the ships they are replacing and not need a mid-life refueling in order to complete 42 years of service.
With the life of ship reactor core, there is not a need for mid-life refueling, Navy developers explained.
By engineering a "life-of-ship" reactor core, the service is able to build 12 SSBNs able to have the same at sea presence as the current fleet of 14 ballistic missile submarines. The plan is intended to save the program 40 billion savings in acquisition and life-cycle cost, Navy developers said.
Electric Boat and the Navy are already progressing on early prototype work connecting missile tubes to portions of the hull, officials said. Called integrated tube and hull forging, the effort is designed to weld parts of the boat together and assess the ability to manufacture key parts of the submarine before final integration.
In 2012, General Dynamics Electric Boat was awarded a five-year research and development deal for the Ohio Replacement submarines with a value up to $1.85 billion. The contract contains specific incentives for lowering cost and increasing manufacturing efficiency, Navy and Electric Boat officials said.
Next-Generation Technology
Columbia-Class submarines are being designed with a series of next-generation technologies, many of them from the Virginia-Class attack submarine. Leveraging existing systems from current attack submarines allows the Columbia-Class program to integrate the most current technologies and systems while, at the same time, saving the developmental costs of beginning a new effort, officials said.
The Columbia-Class will utilize Virginia-class’s fly-by-wire joystick control system and large-aperture bow array sonar. The automated control fly-by-wire navigation system is also a technology that is on the Virginia-Class attack submarines. A computer built-into the ship's control system uses algorithms to maintain course and depth by sending a signal to the rudder and the stern.
Sonar technology work by sending out an acoustic ping and then analyzing the return signal in order to discern shape, location or dimensions of an undersea threat.
Navy experts explained that the large aperture bow array is water backed with no dome and very small hydrophones able to last for the life of the ship; the new submarines do not have an air-backed array, preventing the need to replace transducers every 10-years.
The submarines combat systems from Virginia-class attack submarines, consisting of electronic surveillance measures, periscopes, radios and computer systems, are also being integrated into the new submarines.
The shafts of the new submarines are being built to last up to 10 or 12 years in order to synchronize with the ships maintenance schedule. Existing shafts only last six to eight years, developers said.
The Columbia-Class will also use Virginia-class’s next-generation communications system, antennas and mast. For instance, what used to be a periscope is now a camera mast connected to fiber-optic cable, enabling crew members in the submarine to see images without needing to stand beneath the periscope. This allows designers to move command and control areas to larger parts of the ship and still have access to images from the camera mast, Electric Boat and Navy officials said.
The Columbia-Class submarine are also engineering a new electric motor for the submarine which will turn the shaft and the rotor for the propulsion system. The new motor will make propulsion more efficient and potentially bring tactical advantages as well.
In total, the Navy hopes to buy 12 of the new submarines to serve into 2085 and beyond.
Production for the lead ship in a planned fleet of 12 Ohio Replacement submarines is expected to cost $12.4 billion -- $4.8 billion in non-recurring engineering or development costs and $7.6 billion in ship construction, Navy officials have said.
The Navy hopes to build Ohio Replacement submarine numbers two through 12 for $4.9 billion each in 2010 dollars.
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Yeah, according to the contractor, it'll be awesome, with an ice cream maker to boot.
Kinda like the F35... and the B2... and the LCS... and the CVX Gerald Ford (Catapults are a serious problem. As in break aircraft, and all shut down together.)
I'm thinking the contractors have too many salesmen and not enough engineers. But that's just me.
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Iraqi forces opened exit routes this weekend for hundreds of civilians to escape Mosul. Iraqi forces backed by the U.S. military are making a final push to drive ISIS out of a city now in ruins. It will give the Iraqis plenty of work to have their ISIS slaves do after this is all over.
U.S.-backed Iraqi special forces said Sunday they've retaken two-thirds of the Old City, but it's come at a cost. Well, yeah. That's the whole idea if you're ISIS trying to defend yourself.
Commanders finally decided that the suffering of tens of thousands of civilians still trapped inside this brutal battle outweighed of any hope of leaving the Old City intact -- especially after ISIS robbed Iraqi forces of a symbolic victory by blowing up the al-Nuri mosque, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the creation of the so-called caliphate more than three years ago. As sad as it is, it seems to me that generally there are fewer overall casualties if you break them with an overwhelmingly violent first strike.
CBS News entered the Old City with Iraqi special forces, the very forces that broke through ISIS defenses and started advancing toward the mosque.
CBS News and the special forces drove until the streets got so narrow we had leave the protection our humvees behind and get out on foot as gunfire and mortars rang out in every direction. Looks like the Iraqi forces learned a lesson or two from the US Marines during the operation to take Falluja.
The stench of death from the bodies of ISIS fighters rotting in the sweltering heat filled the air. Smells like . . . victory!
As you walk around the streets of the Old City, you just get an indication of the damage and destruction. Whole neighborhoods have ceased to exist after eight months of fighting - and it's not over yet.
General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi said they're starting to face female ISIS fighters on the battlefield for the first time. Great. Bomb them, too.
"It's their ultimate point of weakness now," he said. "But they're also the women of ISIS, so they have the same ideology, that's why they're fighting." And that's exactly why ISIS families don't need to be given any quarter now or after this is all over.
The Iraqi military has begun opening exit routes for shell-shocked residents to flee the Old City, with the U.N. warning of a rising civilian death toll and the "unimaginable" risks facing those trapped inside. Especially if you're an ISIS wife.
As the battle enters its final phase, Iraqi soldiers are not locked in a fight against ISIS holdouts -- but a fight against time. Before civilians are killed, die of disease or starve to death, I assume.
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I just spoke with a guy from Iraq. He claims the Shia soldiers are destroying the city way more than they need to because Sunni have been hard on them in the past. He doesn't really like either side in the battle.
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Yah, a classic 'can't both sides lose?' situation.
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When I first read the headline, I thought it was a Harley Quinn Suicide Squad quote.
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I just spoke with a guy from Iraq. He claims the Shia soldiers are destroying the city way more than they need to because Sunni have been hard on them in the past.
[Rooters] Motorists logged 1.2 percent more miles on U.S. roads and highways in April compared with the same month last year, according to U.S. government data released on Tuesday, keeping pace to break last year's record volumes. 1.2% April '16 compared to April '17.
Motorists have traveled 1.01 trillion miles on U.S. roads and highways this year through April, a 1.5 percent increase over the same stretch last year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. But 1.5% for the first four months of this year, compared to last year.
The sustained strength in driving volumes is a good sign for refiners as the U.S. driving season kicks off in earnest. This in spite of all the Rooshin troubles and Trump miss-steps and chaos in his organization, Antifa protests, resistance movements, xenophobia, homophobia, anti-gender-selection bias, racists, etc.
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Population increase. Gas price decrease. Airline pain-in-the-@$$ factor increase. Optimism increase. Yeah, totally unexpected.
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I've been laying up a lot of road miles, rather than stand in one big 'boom' target of the backed up TSA screening lines at airports. From the 'entrainment' news, I've also avoided the notable performance of crews and passengers.
A U.S. warship struck by a container vessel in Japanese waters failed to respond to warning signals or take evasive action before a collision that killed seven of its crew, according to a report of the incident by the Philippine cargo ship's captain.
Multiple U.S. and Japanese investigations are under way into how the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the much larger ACX Crystal container ship collided in clear weather south of Tokyo Bay in the early hours of June 17.
In the first detailed account from one of those directly involved, the cargo ship's captain said the ACX Crystal had signalled with flashing lights after the Fitzgerald "suddenly" steamed on to a course to cross its path. So why does the subsequent course the ship took appear to be that of an autopilot?
The container ship steered hard to starboard (right) to avoid the warship, but hit the Fitzgerald 10 minutes later at 1:30 a.m., according to a copy of Captain Ronald Advincula's report to Japanese ship owner Dainichi Investment Corporation that was seen by Reuters.
The U.S. Navy declined to comment and Reuters was not able to independently verify the account.
The collision tore a gash below the Fitzgerald's waterline, killing seven sailors in what was the greatest loss of life on a U.S. Navy vessel since the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen's Aden harbour in 2000.
Those who died were in their berthing compartments, while the Fitzgerald's commander was injured in his cabin, suggesting that no alarm warning of an imminent collision was sounded.
A spokesman for the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet in Yokosuka, the Fitzgerald's home port, said he was unable to comment on an ongoing investigation.
The incident has spurred six investigations, including two internal hearings by the U.S. Navy and a probe by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) on behalf of the National Transportation Safety Board. The Japan Transport Safety Board, the JCG and the Philippines government are also conducting separate investigations.
Spokesmen from the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), U.S. Coast Guard and ship owner, Dainichi Invest, also declined to comment. Reuters was not able to contact Advincula, who was no longer in Japan.
The investigations will examine witness testimony and electronic data to determine how a naval destroyer fitted with sophisticated radar could be struck by a vessel more than three times its size.
Another focus of the probes has been the length of time it took the ACX Crystal to report the collision. The JCG says it was first notified at 2:25 a.m., nearly an hour after the accident.
In his report, the ACX Crystal's captain said there was "confusion" on his ship's bridge, and that it turned around and returned to the collision site after continuing for 6 nautical miles (11 km).
Shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon shows that the ACX Crystal, chartered by Japan's Nippon Yusen KK, made a complete U-turn between 12:58 a.m. and 2:46 a.m.
This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.
Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a Collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.[2]
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Guy driving the container boat says the other guy was at fault. Big shocker there.
Just as an aside, why is everyone suprised that a DDG that's semi-stealthy, to visible and radar, is hard to see on visible, in the dark, and on radar.
I thought that was the point.
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Note to Skid: Yeah, they have the OOD, officer of the deck, who's basically in charge of driving the boat. Even when the captain comes on the bridge, he has to assume control, hence the statement "Captain has the deck".
US Navy captains have in their stateroom a monitor screen, usually set to duplicate of the main nav screen on the bridge.
What I don't know is the status of DDG radar for ordinary navigation; you can't use those big phased array SPY's for that, you'd fry everything between you and the horizon, or so it would seem.
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According to Wikipedia, the Fitzgerald has two surface search/navigation radars for exactly this sort of thing. The Fitzgerald should have been tracking the ACX Crystal for a long time before the collision.
As I understand the nautical rules of the road, it was the Fitzgerald's responsibility to avoid the Crystal, since the container ship was approaching from starboard.
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[WAPO] WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.
The action Monday is a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
The court did leave one category of foreigners protected, those "with a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States," the court said in an unsigned opinion.
The justices will hear arguments in the case in October.
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From a USA Today article - Through all the defeats, Trump was forced to play on what amounts to his opponents' home turf: The 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, is dominated by President Bill Clinton's nominees. The 4th Circuit, based in Richmond, is dominated by President Barack Obama's nominees. All 13 judges on those two courts who voted to strike down the revised travel ban were appointed by Democratic presidents.
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The justices will hear arguments in the case in October.
July, August, September. 90 days. It will be OBE by then. The court can dismiss. Oh, don't think they didn't know that. Thus not saying yes, not saying no. Avoiding a constitutional crisis posed by the lower judiciary.
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Power by importing votes by any means necessary regardless of what will happen to the American people is the goal of a debased Democratic party bosses in this country.
In an interview on "CBS This Morning," the California Democrat said while the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has not yet released its cost estimate of the measure, she can already predict one major effect.
"We do know that many more people, hundreds of thousands of people, will die if this bill passes," Pelosi said. But everyone will live forever if we defeat it!
Pelosi, 77, said there's no room to fix the legislation and instead Democrats and Republicans should focus on improving Obamacare, "instead of sabotaging it," she said. Reducing the burden on taxpayers is sabotage of Obamacare - I get it.
"These bills, systemically, structurally, they are very, very harmful to the American people," she said. "They will raise costs, with fewer benefits, have an age tax...they will undermine Medicare, they will throw millions of people, tens of millions of people, off." Throw them off? A cliff, Madame Speaker? Have you read the bill yet? Can't the Pubs pass it to read what's in it?
Democrats, she said, have to "fight for our lives and the lives of many people" in the U.S. this week to defeat the Senate bill. Just not fight for the taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Pelosi dismissed calls by a select few House Democrats who said last week that she should step aside from her leadership position in the wake of two more special election losses last week.
"I'm a master legislator," she said. "I'm experienced in terms of knowing the institutional memory of the Congress. If Hillary Clinton had won, I might have gone home. But with Donald Trump in the White House, with a Republican majority in Congress, no way." Institutional memory of Congress? The mind boggles.
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Nice violent rhetoric, bitch.
Republicans are evil and will kill you all.
I really can't wait for the day she kicks her oxygen addiction.
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If this were the good ol' sexist days, we might say "Pantsy le Nosy," but it isn't, so we don't... and that's the difference between us and them, amiright?
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Things changed when Trump hired a rabid bulldog personal attorney, helps to be the guy picking judges too, if only lies and slander were criminal offenses then he could install cameras so we could watch CNN execs languish in their prison cells.
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3 resignations: Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN
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An at this very moment, crack squads of CNN Disciplinarians are out looking for some Trump voters to discipline. Or maybe just some Republicans, they can't be too choosy.
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Anat this very moment, crack squads of CNN Disciplinarians are out looking for some Trump voters to discipline.
Sexist remarks such as this could.... trigger someone.
Failure? What failure? Befehl ist Befehl mein herr!
[TPM] This morning former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House committee investigating Russia’s 2016 election subversion campaign. In the course of the hearing we heard the jarring information that Johnson only heard about the initial hacking into the DNC network sometime in 2016, months after the FBI first learned of the intrusion in the summer of 2015. Johnson said he was told that the FBI had contacted the DNC about the intrusion but was told "they don’t want our help."
Moving down a bit:
As a flabbergasted Podesta explained two days later, it is astonishing that the FBI had learned that Russia had compromised the computer networks of one of the country’s two main political parties and was content to have a single agent leave messages with someone at the DNC’s tech support help line to try to sound the alarm. It’s simply astonishing, and even more so since the FBI, as late as December was still in CYA mode spinning the story to reporters as the DNC’s fail. Ah yes, the "flabbergasted Podesta."
As I said above, it’s not clear to me that this is more than a mix of incompetence and indifference on the part of the FBI and just an unfortunate chain of events. But it’s a critical part of the story, a major ball the FBI dropped – while devoting vast resources to the Clinton email probe – which gave the Russian subversion campaign critical months to do its work before the US government took real cognizance of what was happening. Emphasis added
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But it’s a critical part of the story, a major ball the FBI dropped – while devoting vast resources to the Clinton email probe
No 'ball was dropped.' The Russian hacking would have been discreetly handled in the early months of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Absolutely no need to fuel the dangers of her homebrew server and criminal mismandling of classified documents at such a critial, pre-inaugural moment.
The DNC wanted no part of an investigation which would highlight Clinton's misdeeds, and neither did that man some call Soetoro.
Director Comey and the FBI were dutifully compliant. They checked the 'given fair warnings' notifications box, and quietly exited the Kabuki stage as instructed.
A bit strange the Russians would not have been interested in hacking Republicans as well. Of course if one were hacking under the guise of a dastardly, evil Russian, perhaps that activity should be left alone. No need to terminate those useful feeds.
The Russian hacking meme was to come in handy much later as a key component of the Deep State 'regime change' strategy.
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Russians (or whoever) tried to access RNC servers, Besoeker. Difference was that their network security was much better and they didn't get too far.
Otherwise, I believe you are correct in your assumptions.
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while devoting vast resources to the Clinton email probe
Conveniently ineffectual resources, I might add. And I do.
[Hanson Papers] The ’Resistance’ is using any and all means -- lies, leaks, lawbreaking, and violence -- to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
The problem with the election of President Donald J. Trump was not just that he presented a roadblock to an ongoing progressive revolution. Instead, unlike recent Republican presidential nominees, he was indifferent to the cultural and political restraints on conservative pushback -- ironic given how checkered Trump’s own prior conservative credentials are. Trump brawled in a way McCain or Romney did not. He certainly did not prefer losing nobly to winning ugly.
Even more ominously, Trump found a seam in the supposedly invincible new progressive electoral paradigm of Barack Obama. He then blew it apart -- by showing the nation that Obama’s identity-politics voting bloc was not transferrable to most other Democratic candidates, while the downside of his polarization of the now proverbial clingers most assuredly was. To her regret, Hillary Clinton learned that paradox when the deplorables and irredeemables of the formerly blue-wall states rose up to cost her the presidency.
And now?
We are witnessing a desperate putsch to remove Trump before he can do any more damage to the Obama project. Political, journalistic, and cultural elites of a progressive coastal culture aim at destroying the Trump presidency before it can finish its full four-year term.
The branches of this insidious coup d’état are quite unlike anything our generation has ever witnessed.
But a coup d’état or 'regime change' strategy widely used throughout Latin America, Africa, and the ME for many decades.
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The branches of this insidious coup d’état are quite unlike anything our generation has ever witnessed.
Once one starts looking into this, there is the realization that the tentacles of the network reach far and wide. It may be that the Battle of Athens (sometime called the McMinn County War will become widespread if things don't change.
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Anyone, celebrities included, who talks of maiming or killing the president of the United States should be put on a terrorist no-fly list for six months.
I really like that idea! But for a lot longer than six months.
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[NY Post] European countries are "paying the price" for their failure to coordinate with each other to stop terror attacks, former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said on Sunday.
Kelly called the attacks "the new normal in Europe now" during an interview on "The Cat’s Roundtable" on AM 970 radio.
"They don’t communicate with each other on the level that they should," he said. "They are paying the price for that."
Kelly said many European nations remain hostile toward one another due to historical tensions. "They are not willing to give up information about sources and methods to other countries in the European Union," he said.
[LI] With the House having passed a healthcare bill, and the Senate close to passing a version, there is a lot of debate over the specifics of the bills.
Shameless Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders portray Republicans as setting out to kill tens of thousands of Americans. In the wake of the shooting of Republican Congressmen by a Sanders-supporter spouting similar talking points, the false death claims are nothing short of incitement to violence
Republican politicians are falling all over themselves to portray the bills as repeal and replace, but the Republican effort more fairly is an attempt to alter Obamacare. The law has had almost 7 years to work its way into the fabric of the economy and health care system and to expand its reach. Understanding how politically painful true repeal will be, Republicans are shying away, as Yuval Levin correctly assesses in National Review:
The case for repeal was strongest in the three or four years between the enactment and implementation of Obamacare. As more time passes since the beginning of implementation three and a half years ago, and more people’s lives become intertwined with the program for good and bad, the case for addressing Obamacare’s immense deficiencies by repeal weakens as a practical matter in favor of a case for taking them on by alteration.
The essence of Obamacare, that government has to provide healthcare for all and that all have right to look first and foremost to government for healthcare, is so deeply entrenched at this point, that Republicans don’t have the stomach to unwind that paradigm.
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Don't forget, literally, the poster children pushed by the Left media to rationalize unending expenditures of other peoples money (either directly or by the effects of inflation from printing unbacked currency to pay for it all). Sorry, we all can't spend other peoples' money like little pharaohs seeking immortality.
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Actually, one of the best solutions is maybe to rein in the high cost of medicine. There are so many people and companies gouging the public. If congress would quit taking kickbacks and actually force medical providers to charge reasonable rates, and even to post their rates publicly, it may help in actually giving everybody decent healthcare at affordable prices.
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In 1986, I could buy a vial of human insulin for $12. Now it's $300 and made in France. I've nothing against the French here, but I'm wondering what the money is going towards.
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Shameless Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders portray Republicans as setting out to kill tens of thousands of Americans
Americans don't need to be on the Washington, D.C. teat. We lived without it before the Dems hatched it up and we can live without it now. So far as I can tell, government health care has inflated the cost of everything.
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Ain't gonna happen though.
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Now it's $300 and made in France. I've nothing against the French here, but I'm wondering what the money is going towards. Finding out how much the same kind of insulin costs for French patients (or the French gubmint) will go far in answering your question.
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One of the reasons is the system overcharges knowing the government will underpay. It's like those auto dealers, five thousand off the (inflated) sticker price. Gaming the system.
Let's tack on expected legal (insurance) costs (aka court Lotto), administrative overhead to comply with operating and bureaucratic procedures, long extended clinical trials for FDA approval, etc.
[Townhall] JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military on Sunday said it attacked a series of targets belonging to the Syrian military, after several projectiles from neighboring Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for a second day.
The military said it targeted two Syrian artillery positions and an ammunitions truck. There were no immediate reports of casualties. But as an added precaution, the military instructed Israeli civilians from gathering in open areas in the border area.
It was the second straight day that Israel responded to what it has described as errant fire from Syria. Israel has tried to stay out of the six-year civil war in Syria and refrained from taking sides, but has responded to spillover fire on numerous occasions.
Israel also is believed to have carried out airstrikes on suspected weapons shipments to its archenemy Hezbollah, whose fighters are in Syria backing government forces.
"Our policy is clear: We will not tolerate any spillover or trickle whatsoever -- neither mortars nor rockets, from any front," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday. "We will respond strongly to any attack on our territory or our citizens."
Nahal infantry soldier dozes off during exercise, only to wake up when a tank bomb goes off near him; he is saved after alerting police to his whereabouts; an officer and three soldiers are sent to jail as a result. Golden youth
[Michelle Malkin] The response to this should simply be "OK, good luck with that":
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced -- and that won’t be good for America or for the world.
Guterres made clear to reporters at his first press conference here since taking the reins of the United Nations on Jan. 1 that proposed cuts in U.S. funding for the U.N. would be disastrous and create "an unsolvable problem to the management of the U.N."
But the U.N. chief stressed that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. He said the mobilization of U.S. business and civil society in support or the climate deal is "a signal of hope that we very much encourage."
Nothin’ like a stern "responsibility" lecture from a global body that lets Iran sit on a women’s rights board. And I’m quite certain that the one thing that has never been and never will be uttered by a U.N. leader in any serious fashion is "your money’s no good here anymore."
I’ll start to believe the empty threats the day moving vans are spotted in front of UN headquarters in New York City, but they won’t be. Why? Because, to quote a famous saying, "that’s where the money is."
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But the U.N. chief stressed that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. He said the mobilization of U.S. business and civil society in support or the climate deal is "a signal of hope that we very much encourage."
How cute -- he thinks he is negotiating. But nobody is even pretending to abide by the unenforceable Paris Agreement now, as far as I am aware, despite the posturing. And with the US a permanent member with veto power of the UN Security Council, the possibility of replacing Mr. Guterres less than six months into his five year tenure would be interesting to explore.
Or we could take our 20% of the UN budget and walk away, which would no doubt cause the thing to collapse.
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IIRC the land was ceased to them for the Headquarters. However, the support system for the staff (living facilities, subsistence, diplomatic head counts, et al) and the representatives was not. If they want to break with the US, it kills the diplomatic protocol of recognizing the credentials of those sent there. No more 5 star restaurants for you. Maybe they can convince NYC to secede. Please, please.
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The US should start sending unpaid UN Parking tickets to Mr Antonio Guterres suggestion that payment will be expected if the US is tossed out of the UN or evictions will begin. Just to tweek them.
[Olympian] Arizona is no stranger to heat waves. But even by natives’ own high standards, the past week has been scorching.
The Guinness World Record for hottest temperature ever recorded is 134 degrees Fahrenheit. In Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, it’s touched 119 degrees and just barely gone below 90 at any point over the past week, according to the National Weather Service.
It’s been so hot that regional flights in Phoenix have been canceled, because some planes cannot be operated in the excessive heat, according to the Washington Post.
And according to social media users, the heat has made some strange things happen on the ground, including melting mailboxes, actual cookies baked in a car and drivers busting out oven mitts just to grab the steering wheel.
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But its a "dry heat". I know one person who used to be a aircraft maintenence boss at O'Hare. He told me the pbolem is the tires on the aircraft can't handle the heat on take offs
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I lived there 20 years ago - no, make that 30 - and 115 was not uncommon. My kid's plastic squirt gun deformed (not melted) on the dashboard while we were shopping. [yawn] More 'death by global warming'.
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One very hot day in South Alabama a friend and I took almost all the runway to land a piper cub. Too much hot air creating up-draft.
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It doesn't need to be nearly that hot to disrupt air travel. I was flying White Plains to Charlotte a few years ago on a regional jet, which needed a full fuel load for the trip; temperature was about 90, and significantly hotter than predicted; they had to convince/coerce 6 people to get off so the plane would be light enough to have enough lift from the hotter air to take off.
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There are a lot of reasons why they cant fly. But For the airlines it is usually a flight manual issue at these temps. The performance charts on most of the older regional aircraft only show operations at under 120 degrees. You cant operate the aircraft outside of the performance charts. The aircraft might be well within its capability, but if the performance charts don't go that high they cant legally fly. The asking passengers to get off the plane have more to do with trading weight for fuel, so it depends more on the leg of the flight and the temp.
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"It’s so damn hot, I saw little guys, their orange robes burst into flames."
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One hot summer afternoon in ABQ I left my hiking boots in my trunk, when i retrieved them, some of the boots' glue had melted & my boots lost their soles.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on Saturday sent warm greetings" to Moslems celebrating the end of Ramadan, after his administration broke with the tradition of hosting a White House event to recognize the holy month.
"On behalf of the American people, Melania and I send our warm greetings to Moslems as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr," Trump said in a statement. "During this holiday, we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill."
"With Moslems around the world, the United States renews our commitment to honor these values."
Since the Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... administration, the White House has each year hosted either an event to mark the Eid al-Fitr feast -- which ends the fasting month of Ramadan -- or a meal breaking the dawn-til-dusk fast, known as an iftar.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly rejected a request by his department's office of religion and global affairs to hold an event for the holiday.
Trump has come under fire for his history of anti-Moslem rhetoric on the campaign trail, that included calls for surveillance of US mosques and an outright ban on Moslems entering the country in the name of national security.
A week after becoming president he issued a ban on travelers from several predominantly Moslem countries, which has been frozen by the U.S. courts after sparking global chaos and outrage.
Yet during a visit to 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... last month, Trump softened his tone on Islam, rejecting the idea of a battle between religions in an address before dozens of leaders of Moslem countries.
And so the narrative hits another major stumbling block, the poor darlings.
[DAWN] A woman and her alleged paramour were tortured to death in the village of Kakepota near Tando Allahyar on Sunday, police told DawnNews.
Aman Jamali, 21, and Aijaz Ahmed Arain, 25, were strangled to death after being tortured in their house, Station House Officer (SHO) Sultanabad cop shoppe Mumtaz Ahmed Khoso said.
Suspects Talib Jamali and his son Asif Jamali surrendered themselves before the Sultanabad police and confessed to killing the two victims. They claimed that they had no remorse for the double murder.
SHO Khoso confirmed that an FIR had been registered on the complaint of assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Abdul Rehman on behalf of the state against the locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! murderers under Sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
He added that the bodies had been handed over their families after a post-mortem was conducted.
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[Al Jazeera] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has welcomed 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... 's stand on a list of demands from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and its allies, saying that the ultimatum is "against international law".
Qatar has rejected the accusations and said the measures are "unjustified".
"We welcome [Qatar's position] because we consider the 13-point list against international law," Erdogan was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on Sunday.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has offered support to Qatar after Saudi Arabia and several other countries severed ties with Qatar over accusations of funding terrorism and fomenting regional instability.
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Another quiet step toward the way things ought to be, while not at all coincidentally reducing government spending. Long section about the defunded groups can be read at the link.
[Breitbart] Administration officials have eliminated 2016 plans to fund Islamic groups allied to former President Barack Obama teachable moment... , and declined to schedule a 2017 Islamic ’Iftar’ dinner where those groups were able to show their political influence to the ambassadors of wealthy Islamic countries.
The turnaround was made public on Friday when the Department of Homeland Security announced a revised list of the organizations which are getting DHS funds to help revent young Moslems from becoming jihadis. The new list replaced an Obama list announced January 13, 2017, and it dropped a $800,000 grant for an Islamic seminary in Los Angeles, and a $393,000 grant for a linked organization, the Moslem Public Affairs Council Foundation.
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Why did the DHS even consider granting $800,000 to an Islamic seminary?? Can you imagine the outrage if the government gave a grant to a Catholic seminary?
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced, on Sunday, that 30 members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group were killed, and an explosives workshop was destroyed by air strikes, west of Anbar Province.
The WMC said that Iraqi Air Force carried out air strikes, destroying a hideout that was used by the Islamic State foreign Lions of Islam and killing 20 Lions of Islam inside it, as well as destroying a workshop used for explosives’ manufacturing and killing 10 Lions of Islam inside it, in Rawa District, west of Anbar.
The Arclight airstrikes were carried out based on accurate intelligence information, the War Media Cell added.
It is noteworthy, International coalition and Iraqi air force continue targeting the Islamic State in the areas of Anah, Rawa, Qaim and the western desert of Rutba.
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Said it before: Whenever this happens, to a "hideout", they have to be wondering how the Iraqis got the accurate intel.
Them trying to find out, and to fix whatever they find, is counterproductive, since it's likely wrong.
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wondering how the Iraqis got the accurate intel.
Tipped off my the highest ranking survivor, of course.
[DAWN] A bomb resembling a toy killed at least six children on Sunday in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The bomb went kaboom! while the children were playing with it in Speenmark village in the South Wazoo tribal district.
"Six children aged between six to 12 years, all boys, were killed by a toy bomb and two others maimed critically," a local government official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another local security official confirmed the incident and casualties. The origin of the bomb was unclear.
Dozens of children, mostly in northwest Pakistain, have bit the dust in the past when playing with "toys" that turned out to be bombs.
"Toy" bombs were airdropped in neighbouring Afghanistan by Soviet forces during the 1980s as weapons against those who opposed their invasion.
South Waziristan is also one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal areas, where the army has for more than a decade been battling bandidosgunnies linked to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and al-Qaeda.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces have liberated two thirds of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ’s Old City District over the last two weeks, the commander of the federal police, Ra’ed Shaker Joudat claimed on Saturday.
With the army and federal police intensifying their military operations in this district, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has been forced to consolidate their positions in the last neighborhoods they control inside Mosul’s Old City.
Despite their rapid advance, the Iraqi Armed Forces are expected to face stiff resistance in the last neighborhoods under ISIS control, as the terrorist group clings onto these final buildings in their former stronghold.
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(IraqiNews) If Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... is confirmed dead, he is likely to be succeeded by one of his top two lieutenants, both of whom were Iraqi army officers under late dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Kirkuk Province revealed that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... hard boyz slaughtered seven civilians after Islam’s Eid al-Fitr prayer, southwest of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday.
The source said that the so-called Sharia court of the Islamic State group in Hawija District sentenced seven civilians to death, on charges of cooperation with Iraqi security forces, while added that the terrorist group slaughtered the civilians, this morning, after Eid al-Fitr prayers in public.
Furthermore, Islamic State hard boyz cut the bodies of the civilians into small pieces, then put the flesh in plastic bags and threw them in the southern suburb of Hawija, the source added on condition of anonymity.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic State is still controlling Hawija District and the areas of al-Rashad, al-Abbasi, al-Zab and al-Riyad that considered the strongholds of the terrorist group, from where it launches attacks on Salahuddin Province and the outskirts of Kirkuk.
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[TheLocal.se] The Spanish Civil Guard tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... a Danish-Moroccan man on Friday in Spain’s African enclave of Melilla over suspicions that he helped to finance terrorist groups like Isis.
The Spanish Interior Ministry reported that the 40-year-old Danish national of Moroccan heritage had been linked to a network that recruited for groups like Isis and AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb).
The man, identified only by the initials M.E.M.,
...at least one and possibly both of those names is a variant on Mohammed....
had used a network of shell companies to hide large sums of money in order to help finance a recruitment network for terror groups, according to Sherlocks.
The Civil Guard had been looking into various residents of Melilla since 2012 who lacked basic economic training, but somehow reported holding high-ranking positions of responsibility at companies registered in Denmark.
This investigation led the agents to M.E.M., and ultimately to the discovery that the recruitment network he was helping to finance had international reach and was "probably the most active network broken up" in Spain, according to the ministry’s report. The group had sent at least ten recruits to conflict zones, including people from Germany, Denmark and Spain.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Anbar Province informed that a number of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... leaders were either killed or maimed, when a jacket wallah belonging to the group blew up himself amid their meeting in Qaim District, west of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday.
The source said that a member of the Islamic State blew up himself amid a gathering of the group’s leaders in al-Qaim District, on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, while added that the suicide bomber let 'er rip after the significant defeat of the group in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and the approaching battles to libetare areas west of Anbar.
It is noteworthy, cities of Qaim, Anah and Rawa in al-Anbar Province are still under the control of the Islamic State that captured them three years ago, while security forces are preparing to launch an assault to liberate these cities.
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One suicide bomber who may actually deserve his virgins in Heaven.
...who first appeared in our pages in 2002 as the leader of Abu Sayyaf, forcibly marrying someone's captive mother. He has not improved upon acquaintance...
a veteran Filipino holy warrior said to be the leader of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) in Southeast Asia, has not been seen in the battle zone in Marawi City, said Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, head of the military’s Western Mindanao Command.
An attempt by government troops to arrest Hapilon in Marawi on May 23 triggered a rampage by Islamist murderous Moslems flying black IS flags and backed by some imported muscle who seized parts of the mainly Moslem city.
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This article starring:
Isnilon Hapilon
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I thought this guy had been rubbed out several times in the past (at least according to 'government spokespersons' at the time).
Another 'Dread Pirate Roberts'?
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has declared war on Talibs in Afghanistan as it called the latter "hypocrites and stooges of the unbelievers".
An ISIS commander, in a statement, said Talibs are betraying Islam and that they should be killed everywhere and their properties should be seized, reports Tasnim news agency.
Molon labe, dude. Let's you and them fight.
Last year in August, Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the group is resolved to target ISIS members.
Afghanistan has long been facing instability due to continued fighting between the government forces and the Taliban, which seized vast territories in the Afghan rural areas. Also, recently the presence of ISIS forces in Afghanistan even though limited to a small area has further added to its problems.
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Great! Make sure neither side runs out of ammo.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) rebels, backed up by the Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist group, have foiled a large ISIS offensive in the western countryside of Daraa Governonate. ISIS had launched their assault on the rebel-held town of Hait beginning on midnight and festivities lasted until today afternoon. In a fashion quite untypical of past festivities between ISIS and rebel militias, ISIS has suffered a heavy defeat, losing a considerable number of its attacking forces as well as failing to seize its objective (this representing both a tactical and operational defeat).
For their part, rebels managed to destroy two (2) tanks, one (1) Toyota pickup fitted with a 23 mm ZU-23-2 gun and a vehicle-borne improvised bomb (VBIED) belonging to ISIS. Furthermore, rebels also captured a BMP-1 from ISIS (in the picture above).
According to local sources, ISIS manpower losses came to a total of at least 20 fighters as a result of the failed attack whilst rebels and HTS suffered around 10 men dead and maimed.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi land forces backed by coalition aircrafts were able to foil an attempted attack by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias on Sunday morning to breach the borders near Jazan and Najran.
Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported that Houthi militias started two simultaneous attacks in both border regions by firing Katyusha rockets at Saudi security posts in the village of al-Qarn in Jazan and al-Shorfa in Najran.
Saudi forces were quickly to stop the attempt by targeting the Houthi militias stationed near the front lines of the border through artillery attacks that targeted them at a distance of 25 km, while the rest of the militias who tried to breach the border where targeted with direct fire.
A coalition aircraft supported the military operation by destroying a number of mobile military vehicles carrying Houthi militias near the Saudi border.
Military sources confirmed the killing of a Houthi commander and scores of fighters, with the destruction of military vehicles and vehicles carrying militias.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Ministry of Defence released footage on Sunday showing its Kalibr cruise missiles hitting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) targets in Syria’s Hama region.
The bombardment took place on Friday, as Russia’s Krasnodar submarine and naval vessels Admiral Essen and Admiral Grigorovich launched missiles at the targets from the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to the Defence Ministry, the missiles destroyed IS command and control centres, as well as ammunition depots close to the town of Aqerbat.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as well as Israel was reportedly informed about the attacks using military communication channels.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The commander of Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) said on Sunday that one of their missiles hit the target and a gas tank that caused a huge fire.
Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on the June 18 missile attack on ISIS hit the target but "caused a huge fire that surprised us; and later we found out that the fire was because of the kaboom of a gas tanker parked next to the base."
Hajizadeh added, "80 million Iranians unanimously welcomed the attacks; the welcome wasn’t limited to Iran, though. It was not just the Dire Revenge of Iranian deaders; Yemen, Leb, Syria, and Bahrain were delighted, too."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Protesters in Bani Walid rallied on Saturday night calling for Saif al-Islam Qadaffy, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... , to lead the country.
"We call on the son of Libya Mujahid Saif al-Islam Qadaffy to lead the national movement to resolve the forms in Libya and to get Libya out from civil war," al-Sayan tribe spokesperson Ahmad al-Shalahli said.
British-educated Saif al-Islam is a prominent member of Qadaffy’s remaining family.
After his father’s killing, he attempted to flee to Niger but was captured by a rebel group in November 2011. Saif al-Islam was released in the beginning of June, after spending five years in prison.
Despite his release, he is still on the wanted list by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. His current location is unknown.
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What could go wrong?
AND with any luck Life in Libya could be happy and prosperous ( again ). Moslems seem to have a winning plan. it seems.
Let's watch.
[Ynet] Iranian authorities have rounded up at least 50 people suspected of links to krazed killer groups in a Western province, a prosecutor said on Sunday, the latest in a wave of arrests following twin bomb and gun attacks in Tehran in early June.
"Since the terrorist attacks in Tehran, more than 50 supporters and elements linked to terror groups have been jugged You have the right to remain silent... in Kermanshah province," provincial prosecutor Nemat Sadeqi told the state news agency IRNA.
"An appreciable number of suicide belts, electronic detonators, and weapons have been seized from the detainees," IRNA quoted Sadeqi as saying.
One wonders if this is a new arrest of fifty plus materiel, or the accumulated proceeds of all the raids since the early June attacks... and how many of those picked up are guilty of anything at all.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed on Sunday as a trick a reported U.S. promise that weapons supplied to the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria would be returned after the defeat of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... "The ones who think they are tricking The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... by saying they are going to get back the weapons that are being given to this terrorist organization will realise that they are making a mistake eventually," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.
He said Ankara would hold to account any party which supplied arms to the YPG if "any bullet is fired into Turkey".
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This man really has a problem , he really thinks anyone gives a damn what he thinks.
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[Al Jazeera] At least 153 people have been burnt alive and dozens of others injured after a fuel tanker overturned and went kaboom! outside the eastern city of Bahawalpur in Pakistain's 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.... province.
The incident occurred on Sunday morning as a large number of people gathered to collect petrol from the vehicle, according to rescue services.
Residents could be seen walking past blackened and twisted bodies piled by the side of the road.
Earlier, television footage showed shooting flames and a thick plume of smoke as firefighters battled to extinguish the blaze.
The charred wreckage of dozens of cycle of violences and cars could be seen scattered on the highway, along with kitchen utensils, pots, water coolers, jerrycans and buckets which victims had brought to collect the petrol.
Local sources told Al Jazeera that most of the victims were residents of nearby areas who were collecting fuel from the oil tanker, which had overturned after skidding off a national highway in Ahmedpur East.
Analysts said the reaction of the crowds is not surprising, given the problem of fuel shortages and poverty.
"If you go to these areas of Bahawalpur ... the poverty level here rises up to 65 percent at times," Sabir Shah, a journalist at GEO TV in Lahore, told Al Jazeera.
"In these conditions, with these figures, how can you expect people not to collect cooking fuel for themselves? This petrol is being used as cooking fuel by many people in nearby fields."
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[Ynet] An Israeli Arab was indicted Sunday for sympathizing with ISIS and making preparations to join the terror organization's ranks.
Muhammad Ahmed Azzam from Kfar Manda was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in a joint operation of the Shin Bet and Israel Police earlier this month.
Azzam was allegedly in contact with ISIS snuffies and supporters, followed ISIS propaganda online and recently made "tangible preparations to leave for the combat zone in order to join the ranks of ISIS fighters," the Shin Bet said in a statement.
[Ynet] Three teens from east Jerusalem have been indicted for attacking Jewish worshippers while they were leaving a synagogue in the city last week. The investigation revealed that the three youths threw rocks at the worshippers before fleeing the area.
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[Ynet] Analysis: While Assad’s army was well aware of the fact its direct tank fire on rebel forces would spill over into Israeli territory and lead to retaliation, it had to stop the rebels from approaching the road to Damascus. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... it remains unclear whether the unusually severe IDF response will be met with a Syrian counterattack.
Probably not. Israel was sent a Stern Warning, which is almost as severe as a stiff diplomatic note The SDN is impossible, of course, because Syria does not have diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity.
The Syrian army in the Quneitra area was in a state of panic Saturday. A number of Syrian rebel organizations, based in villages near the Israeli-Syrian border, launched an offensive on the City of Baath, a town controlled by the Syrian army. The villages and towns around it are part of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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A shot across the bow after the smaller than expected Quds Day march?
[IsraelTimes] A British politician is reportedly considering cancelling of the largest Paleostinian cultural events in Europe over the organizers’ alleged links to the terrorist groups Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Hezbollah.
According to a report in The Guardian, Community Secretary Sajid Javid informed "Friends of al-Aqsa" earlier this month that he was considering their two-day event in London over "concerns that your organization and those connected with it have expressed public support for a proscribed organization, namely Hamas, and that you have supported events at which Hamas and Hezbollah ‐ also proscribed ‐ have been praised."
Javid was expected to make a final decision on the matter on Friday, but his office said the politician was busy attending events in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
[DAWN] Iraqi forces opened exit routes for hundreds of civilians to flee the Old City of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Saturday as they battled to retake the quarter from the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group mounting a last stand in what was the de facto capital of their self-declared caliphate.
US-trained urban warfare units were channelling their onslaught along two perpendicular streets that converge in the heart of the Old City, aiming to isolate the jihadist bandidos Death Eaters in four pockets.
The week-old battle in the Old City is turning into the deadliest of the eight-month US-backed campaign to take back the northern city, which fell to the bandidosbandidos Death Eaters in June 2014.
A correspondent saw a maiden with facial injuries walking dazed and shocked across the frontline out of heavily-populated district with a group of neighbours. All her family was killed when their house collapsed, they said.
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... voiced alarm on Saturday at the rising corpse count among civilians in the fighting, saying as many as 12 were killed and hundreds injured on Friday.
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[IsraelTimes] Regime says three Syrian soldiers killed, maintains it will hold Jewish state responsible for hostilities.
The Syrian army on Sunday issued a warning to Israel, following two IDF retaliatory strikes on its territory in as many days for spillover fire from the war-torn country.
The regime also said that three Syrian soldiers had been killed by Israeli fire.
Around 10 mortar shells from Syria struck the Golan Heights on Saturday, prompting an Israeli response that reportedly killed two Syrian soldiers. On Sunday, several more projectiles hit Israel, in what the army said was spillover fire.
The IDF on Sunday again responded to the errant fire, confirming it targeted a Syrian military vehicle. Arab media reports said five people were maimed in the Israeli raid.
"The general staff of the Syrian army warns of the dangers of these aggressive actions and holds the Israeli enemy responsible for the grave consequences of these repeated actions, despite any excuse there may be," the Ynet news site quoted the Syrian military as saying.
The Syrian general staff also published photos of at least three men it said were Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strikes. It did not provide a date or any other information on when they were killed.
Also on Sunday, Syrian Defense Minister Fahd Jassem al-Freij visited troops in southern Syria to mark the end of the Ramadan monthlong fast where he vowed the regime would continue fighting until it conquers "every morsel of the homeland."
In Sunday’s strike, the IDF "targeted two artillery positions and an ammunitions truck belonging to the Syrian regime," an Israeli military statement read, noting the army had also ordered Israelis to keep away from open areas along the border near Quneitra, where internal fighting was heavy.
Sunday’s mortar fire was the seventh such incident in a week and came as fighting between Assad’s regime and the numerous rebel groups in southern Syria has been escalating.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned Saturday night that the regime would continue to "suffer the consequences" of any attack on Israel emanating from its territory.
Israel, he said, had "no intention of accepting challenges to our illusory sovereignty and threats to our security, even if they are caused by ’spillover’" from Syrian infighting.
"We will respond strongly, resolutely and with levelheadedness to any such case," he said. "As far as we are concerned the Assad regime is responsible for what occurs in its territory and will continue to suffer the consequences if such events recur."
Israel has tried to stay out of the six-year civil war in Syria and refrained from taking sides, but has responded to spillover fire on numerous occasions.
[IsraelTimes] At least 22 incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! as Istanbul LGBT activists try to press ahead with event, despite threats and ban from authorities.
Turkish police on Sunday thwarted an attempt by Gay Pride activists to hold a parade in the country’s largest city, Istanbul, in defiance of an official ban from the local authorities.
Police fired rubber bullets at a group of around 40 activists, an AFP journalist reported, a day after the city governor’s office banned the march, citing safety and public order concerns.
Small groups gathered at Taksim Square, but witnesses said a heavy police presence outnumbered the activists, and at least 22 people were detained.
It is the third year in a row that the march has been banned, and organizers denounced the move.
"We are not scared, we are here, we will not change," the Pride Committee said in a statement on Sunday. "You are scared, you will change and you will get used to it.
"We are here again to show that we will fight in a determined fashion for our pride."
'Governors change, we stay’
In one of the biggest LGBT events in the mainly Moslem region, the 2014 Gay Pride parade in Istanbul drew tens of thousands of people.
Last year, with the city on the edge after bombings blamed on the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and Kurdish murderous Moslems, organizers were denied permission to march.
Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who defied the ban.
Eleven activists went on trial in Istanbul this week for defying last year’s ban on the Gay Pride march, but they were all acquitted.
This year, the parade coincided with the first day of Eid, the festival marking the end of the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
City authorities banned the parade after threats from far-right and conservative groups.
Critics accuse President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... of having overseen a creeping Islamization since he came to power, first as prime minister in 2003, and then president in 2014.
“We are not alone, we are not wrong, we have not given up,” the Pride Committee’s statement said Sunday.
“Governors, governments, states change and we stay. Threats, bans, pressures will not deter us…We will not give up on,” it added.
At least 44 people were detained during a march for LGBT rights that the governor of Istanbul had banned, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... reported Monday, while Europe's top human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organization criticized the country for barring the event for a third year running.
Anadolu Agency said 20 people who "reacted against" the march were among those detained Sunday. Ultranationalist and religious groups had threatened the 15th Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride March in the week leading up to it.
Organizers said 25 people who tried to go on with the banned event were also detained, including two minors and a Danish activist. They were released after questioning.
[DAWN] Investigators probing Friday’s assassination on four coppers in the SITE area on Saturday suspected that the snuffies who returned from Syria were involved in the deadly attack on the law enforcers.
Four coppers were bumped off when armed pillion riders opened indiscriminate fire when they were sitting at a roadside eatery to break their fast.
The Counter-Terrorism Department of the Sindh police had launched a probe into the assassination'>assassination after a case was registered against unknown men under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 at the CTD cop shoppe, Garden.
The police Sherlocks had collected around 28 spent bullet casings fired from two 9mm pistols from the scene of the crime. The empties were sent for a forensic analysis to ascertain whether the same weapon was used in any previous killings.
"The forensic report revealed that one of the 9mm pistols was also used in assassination'>assassinations of two coppers within the remit of the New Town cop shoppe on May 20," DIG CTD Amir Farooqi told Dawn.
He said that a spokesperson of a previously unknown Lion of Islam outfit, Jamaat-ul-Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... Pakistain, had grabbed credit for the killing of the four coppers as the assailant had thrown a pamphlet there. The same outfit had also claimed the responsibility of the assassination'>assassination of a retired army colonel, Tahir Zia Nagi, in Baloch Colony area in April.
He said that this newly established Lion of Islam outfit had declared that they would target law enforcers.
The DIG said as per the CTD’s initial assessment this newly created group appeared to be inspired by the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
"It [the outfit] has evolved recently and the CTD apprehended that it was formed by some snuffies who had earlier gone to fight in Syria and [had] now returned," said DIG Farooqi.
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[DAWN] China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula should be "complete, verifiable and irreversible", Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week.
"Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula," a consensus document released by the official Xinhua news agency said.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had said on Thursday that the United States pressed China to ramp up economic and political pressure on North Korea, during his meeting with top Chinese diplomats and defence chiefs.
China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi and General Fang Fenghui met Tillerson and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis during the talks. Yang later met with U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in the White House, where they also discussed North Korea, Xinhua reported.
The consensus document also highlighted the need to fully and strictly hold to UN Security Council resolutions and push for dialogue and negotiation, which has long been China’s position on the issue.
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Vee shall see, said the Blind Man, vee shall see.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition Forces, on Sunday, managed to carry out a qualitative intelligence operation, targeting the meeting headquarters of prominent Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... leaders in Marib on Sunday.
According to local sources, the meeting included a large number of prominent leaders of the militias, including Mubarak al-Mashn, a Houthi leader and a member of the so-called Political Council of the coup, he was responsible for the Srwah front, and Nasser al-Zabli, one of the prominent leaders.
Military sources said on Saturday, the National Army, backed by coalition forces, controlled vast areas of the front in Marib under heavy cover from air and artillery fire.
A military source said that the legitimate forces supported by the Arab coalition forces managed to control sites of strategic importance, most notably al-Mkhdra area and mountains overlooking the market of Srwah from the north-west.
The Houthi and the ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... suffered heavy losses in lives and equipment amid the escape of the remaining elements of the militias as a result of fierce fighting on this front, according to the source.
The source added "the legitimate forces continued to advance in a number of axes, especially the Helan and al-Mashgah and controlled the black hill, the red hill and al-Mkhdra axis to 11 kilometers deep."
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[NY Post] A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.
The Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month threatened to subpoena the firm, Fusion GPS, after it refused to answer questions and provide records to the panel identifying who financed the error-ridden dossier, which was circulated during the election and has sparked much of the Russia scandal now engulfing the White House.
What is the company hiding? Fusion GPS describes itself as a "research and strategic intelligence firm" founded by "three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters." But congressional sources say it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda.
"These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns," a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. "These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House."
Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Clinton when it hired a long-retired British spy to dig up dirt on Trump. In 2012, Democrats hired Fusion GPS to uncover dirt on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And in 2015, Democrat ally Planned Parenthood retained Fusion GPS to investigate pro-life activists protesting the abortion group.
More, federal records show a key co-founder and partner in the firm was a Hillary Clinton donor and supporter of her presidential campaign.
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The dossier, a complex and intricate work of fiction authored by Christopher Steele but basically a red herring or disinformation--a lie. "The Rothschild-Khordorkovsky-Scheunemann alliance, quietly supported by George Soros, is emerging as the prime suspect in commissioning the Company Intelligence Report drafted by Orbis Business Intelligence and Fusion GPS. It seems that Fusion GPS was hired by Pubs to collect oppositional research against Trump during the primaries. The effort was dropped by the Pubs after Trump won the nomination. It was then continued by the Dems after Trump became the nominee. The Swamp is indeed deep and also wide.
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The most obvious offenders should be arrested for contempt of congress with possible charges of treason for stalling investigators. The rest will either play ball of follow suit. Either way the problem resolves itself.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham launched a fresh assault this afternoon in the Golan Heights region, following another Arclight airstrike by the Israeli Air Force.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their allies reportedly began their assault after an Israeli warplane struck the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the Old Government building.
The Israeli attack would pave the way for the forces of Evil to strike several points around al-Ba’ath City, including the Bemo Bank and Fire Station.
According to a military source, no gains have been made by the jihadist rebels; however, intense festivities are still ongoing near the al-Samdaniyah al-Gharbiyah axis.
Today’s attack by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham comes just hours after the Syrian Arab Army reversed the jihadist gains around al-Ba’ath City in the Golan Heights
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[BREITBART] Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the ruler of 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... , has started enlisting the help of Hezbollah fighters from Leb to secure his family and his rule, according to a report in Youm7 ("Seventh Day"), an Egyptian newspaper aligned with President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
The newspaper cited Qatari opposition sources who claimed that the reason Qatar recently decided to allow the entrance of Lebanese citizens without an entry visa was to legitimize the entry of Hezbollah fighters into the prince’s service, bypassing international restrictions imposed on the terrorist militia.
The newspaper reported that Hezbollah’s fighters are to join Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Turkish forces that are already present in the Qatari capital, Doha.
A member of the Egyptian parliament’s human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... committee, Yusri Asyouti, said that the step indicates "that Tamim has lost his head and started to feel the danger hovering over him and so began to import guards to secure the ruling family in light of the growing opposition to Qatar."
Hisham Najar, a researcher of Islamic movements, also referred to the import of Hezbollah fighters to Qatar. He told the newspaper, "Qatar is playing with fire. It’s acting as an organization and not as a state."
Concerning Qatar’s relations with Hezbollah and other myrmidon organizations in Leb, a Saudi news site reported that during 2007, the Qatari charity Id Alt’ani supported and funded the jihadist organization Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. , a Salafist group that fought in the Paleostinian refugee camp Nahr Albared. The site also noted that documents showed the charity supported Hezbollah institutions as they led the construction of terrorist infrastructure in southern Leb after the last war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.
The site said that the Qataris insisted on funneling their aide through Hezbollah and its institutions and not through the Lebanese state as 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... , Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates did.
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Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of the anti-Trump "pussy march", made it clear in the days following the inauguration that those who are pro-choice or pro-Israel cannot be members of the Progressive left because intersectionality.
[IsraelTimes] Organizers of ’anti-Zionist’ event say rainbow banners held by Jewish participants ’made people feel unsafe’.
A parade in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... celebrating the lesbian community banned three Jewish women carrying Jewish Pride flags.
Organizers of the 21st annual Chicago Dyke March told the women that the rainbow flags with a white Star of David in the center would be a trigger to people who found it offensive.
A Dyke March collective member told the Windy City Times that the women were told to leave because the flags "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Paleostinian."
More than 1,500 LGBTQ individuals and their supporters participated in Saturday’s march. The march was protested at one point by Christian bad boys, according to the Windy City Times.
One of the Jewish marchers, Laurel Grauer, Midwest manager of A Wider Bridge, a group that forges ties between LGBT Jews in Israel and North America, told the publication that she has carried her Jewish Pride flag in the same parade for more than a decade, and said that it "celebrates my queer, Jewish identity." She also said she lost count of the number of people who harassed her over the flag on Saturday.
"People asked me if I was a Zionist and I said ’yes, I do care about the state of Israel but I also believe in a two-state solution and an independent Paleostine,’" Grauer said. "It’s hard to swallow the idea of inclusion when you are excluding people from that. People are saying ’You can be gay, but not in this way.’ We do not feel welcomed. We do not feel included."
That is because you were summarily expelled, my dear. This is not about feelings, but about that single fact. Update from Ynet at 3:45:
National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt called on reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown LGBTQ March organizers to apologize after Jewish participants were ejected from the march for carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with the Jewish Star of David.
A quixotic demand. After all, they still won't get to march with the others.
"It is outrageous that while celebrating LGBTQ pride, Jewish participants carrying a rainbow Star of David flag were asked to leave the Chicago Dyke March. The community of LGBTQ supporters is diverse and that is part of its tremendous strength," said Greenblatt. "Both the act and the explanation were anti-Semitic, plain and simple.
Yes. Intentionally so.
"We stand with A Wider Bridge and others in demanding an apology. We appreciate the Human Rights Campaign’s support and we call on other leaders from LGBTQ and progressive communities to join us in condemning this exclusion."
Perhaps by underlining this other Jewish progressives will start to notice how entirely unwanted they are by those who otherwise share the same objectives.
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Its ironic that the LGBT community prefers Islamics, who like to throw homosexuals off tall buildings or yank them up with cranes by their necks; over Jews, who do not.
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Yea Borgboy, nothing says American liberalism like revenge against Judeo Christian ethics... Sarcasm off.
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So Juice cooties is still a thing. Who knew?
As to CF's comment #1, this is an instance of SteveS' Theorem:
For any two warring parties, A and B, there is a third party C that A and B hate even more and will join forces to fight against.
In this case, we have A = LGBTQWERTY, B = Muslims, C = Juice (or more generically, Western Civ)
See the Turkish police disperse Gay Pride march article for a situation where parties A and B indulge their inherent B-ness and A-ness.
[Iran Press TV] Iran has blamed a recent rise in US oil production for the plunge in global prices of crude oil.
Yep, we dunnit. And we're going to continue doing it, too.
Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh told news hounds on Wednesday that the US had increased its oil production by 900,000 barrels per day. This, he said, was way beyond what the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had estimated.
Zanganeh said he was already discussing the role of high US oil production in the decline of prices. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... he said it would be difficult to prepare the member states for any collective action on such issues.
The Iranian minister further spoke highly of OPEC’s performance in arriving at a consensus to cut output and help prop up prices.
He said the output cut plan was just to show its effects, adding that it was still too soon to judge its effectiveness.
OPEC in a meeting in May agreed to extend until March 2018 an oil output cut deal that was sealed last year to help shore up prices.
The cuts would lower the collective production of producers by 1.8 million barrels per day (mb/d).
A dozen non-members led by top oil producer Russia, which reduced output in tandem with OPEC, would also join the scheme.
OPEC members Nigeria and Libya would still be excluded from cuts as their output remained curbed by unrest.
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Americans have "Pizza IDF", maybe Israel needs "Pizza Fracker" (do frackers eat pizza?).
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ValJar blew sushine and adoration up where the sun don't shine everyday and he hardly noticed how much a sock puppet he was for her and her true Masters.
[DAWN] Indian police incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! one Hindu for suspected involvement in the killing of a Moslem man who was attacked with a knife on a running train near the Indian capital.
The arrested man told news hounds late Saturday that he was drunk when he attacked four men on the train Friday after he was told by his friends that they were "beef-eaters." Eating beef is taboo for many Hindus.
Police said another three Moslems were maimed in the attack by about 20 Hindus.
The Moslems were travelling back to their village in Haryana after shopping in New Delhi ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Police officer Kamal Deep Goyal said an altercation over seat space between the two groups triggered the attack.
"They started fighting over seats in the compartment. Then there are also allegations that some words which hurt religious sentiments were said after which things got out of hand," said Goyal.
Attacks on minority Moslems by Hindu fringe groups have been on the rise, apparently emboldened since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government came to power in 2014.
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Deplorable! I cannot find terms strong enough to condemn that dastardly act! How dare they treat Muslims the way Muslims treat everybody else!
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Yes, grom. However, I must confess. I too am a beef eater.
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They do make good gin.
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Meanwhile, in the UK...
"I wonder how many they'll send us?" Collision! The mess was tremendous.
Twas cold and anomic...
Now, "New! More Islamic!"
Is cleansing Newcastle on Indus.
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I wouldn't quite say it's in error,
Just backwards. Graffiti! The Mirror.
The murderous lady
They blame it on? Katie,
Reflecting a flare-up of terror!
[Hokpins with mustache pic here]
Random (just a "hey, that can't be a word" moment... on a Sunday; no offense intended to Chitle, church, or deity)...
Forgive us, for we have been frivolous.
O Lord of us vermin, deliver us,
We beg Thee contritely
While squirming politely,
From Heaven's detritivorivorous.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Extremists and leaders of terrorist outfits have insulted the countries that severed ties with 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... while praising the regime in Doha.
[Breitbart] Islamic extremists killed more than 1,620 people during this year’s holiest month for Muslims, marking one of the deadliest Ramadans in modern history, reveals a Breitbart News tally.
The large majority of Ramadan violence victims are Muslims.
At the end of Ramadan on Saturday, the total number of casualties across the world for the entire holy month had reached 3,451 (1,627 murders and 1,824 injuries), more than tripling the 1,150 (421 deaths and 729 injuries) that took place in 2016, considered the deadliest holy month in recent memory.
The 1,627 fatalities this year nearly quadrupled the estimated 421 deaths last year. There were an estimated 160 terror incidents in nearly thirty predominantly Muslim countries during Ramadan 2017. Breitbart article is dated June 7 but contains data thru June 24. It also lists the various attacks. Since ISIS contributed about 40% of the total, I labeled it that way
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[IsraelTimes] Opium still ranks as most heavily consumed narcotic in Islamic Theocratic Republic due to proximity to poppy powerhouse Afghanistan.
The number of drug addicts in Iran has more than doubled in six years, with opium the country’s most popular narcotic, local media reported Sunday.
"There are about 2.8 million people regularly consuming drugs" in the country of 80 million people, Drug Control Organization front man Parviz Afshar told the ISNA news agency.
Citing experts from the health ministry, Iran’s Welfare Organization and his own agency, Afshar said the number of drug users was up from 1.3 million six years ago.
He said opium made up 67 percent of consumption, with marijuana and its derivatives accounting for 12 percent and methamphetamine around 8 percent of the total.
"Opium is still the most popular (drug) and methamphetamine use has dropped significantly," he said.
Iran’s neighbor Afghanistan produces some 90 percent of the world’s opium, which is extracted from poppy resin and refined to make heroin.
Iran is a major transit point for Afghan-produced opiates heading to Europe and beyond.
Opium production surged significantly after the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and overthrew the ruling Taliban ...Arabic for students... By its last year in power, the Taliban had slashed opium output to just 185 tons a year, according to United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... estimates.
But the UN says Afghan production has since rocketed, hitting between 4,800 and 6,000 tons in 2016.
Last year’s bumper crop, aided by better weather, pushed world opium output up by a third on the previous year and helped fund an intensifying Taliban insurgency.
That is despite a decade of international efforts to stabilize the country and billions of dollars spent on persuading Afghan farmers to grow other crops.
The UN’s crime and drugs agency said Thursday that the global narcotics market is "thriving" with opiates causing tens of thousands of avoidable deaths a year.
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In a population of approx. 70 million it used to be one in every sixteen iranians was buying and using cheap narcotics. Grown in Afghanistan and refined in pakistan and smuggled into the two southern border provinces of Iran. You mean to say that the figure has improved ( is that the right term ?) to one in eight Iranians?
You could get dope for the price of a pint of milk ten years ago.
And the whores were a problem using the graveyard out side the Moslem seminary. ( flat tomb lid stones were as good as beds although a bit hard on the back ) But that was only in the town of Qom. I don't know how serious the other towns were. Just the seminary towns was all I heard. Between prostitution and dope Islamic Values are a caution.
[AnNahar] Tattooed and wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with a wolf paw, Patrick Beaudry admits being in the second year of a political movement "that is perhaps more radical" than others.
La Meute, a far-right group in Quebec of which he is a founder, does not promote bully boy or racist views, he insists, while confessing a liking for the French National Front of Marine Le Pen.
His motivation, however, is unequivocal.
"Our fight is with radical Islam," Beaudry told AFP.
La Meute is not a lone actor in Quebec. Other groups seeking independence or opposing immigration include Soldiers of Oden and the Federation of Native Quebecers (FQS).
They are all close or affiliated to the far-right. Engaged by issues such as secularism or the veiling of Moslem women, they are no longer shy to speak out to try and influence political debate.
"What I hear from the National Front charms me," says Beaudry, who also agrees with the position of the FQS, which welcomed Le Pen's recent visit to Quebec, which proved fertile ground.
About 20 percent of expatriates in the province voted for Le Pen in French presidential elections in April -- twice the rate of support of French citizens residing throughout Canada.
Membership of groups such as La Meute -- some of which are interlaced and affiliated with international organizations -- range from a few dozen to thousands. Most are held together by the charisma of their leader.
"A group can disappear overnight because of an internal schism or a decision by its members to self-dissolve or go underground," said Aurelie Campana, a far-right specialist in Canada.
But the movements are undoubtedly coming out of the woodwork.
- Refugee tensions -
"Until very recently, these extreme right-wing groups refused to be part of political debates and public discourse," said the professor at Laval University in Quebec City.
"Many associate the extreme right with racism and, to say racist is to be stigmatized. These groups want to seen as legitimate," Campana added.
Tensions, however, have run high.
Last fall, 50 far right sympathizers protested outside the Quebec legislature waving placards that read: "Death to Terrorists, Islam out."
And in March, nearly 200 demonstrated against a motion in Canada's parliament condemning Islamaphobia. The motion was adopted after a shooting rampage at a mosque in Quebec City killed six worshippers.
The far right quickly distanced itself from the action of the young attacker seemingly inspired by their rhetoric who is now in jug awaiting prosecution.
A refugee group also noted that shooter Alexandre Bissonnette espoused in online posts positions taken by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , Le Pen and a Quebec group that rejects multiculturalism.
But, like their brethren in Europe, the far-right groups in Canada have taken a firm stand against immigration, seizing on problems arising from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's welcoming of 40,000 Syrian refugees.
"Extreme right-wing groups in Quebec have a number of objectives," said Maxime Fiset, a former FQS member.
They are "anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist or neo-fascist," and see secularism as a means to combat radical Islam, he said.
La Meute and its contemporaries hope to make a breakthrough in next year's elections in the French-speaking province where liberals now rule.
Horizon Quebec Actuel, another party affiliated with La Belle France's National Front, contested a by-election in late May in Montreal.
Its campaign posters featured the split image of a young woman wearing a blue bonnet on one side and a black veil (niqab) on the other.
"We ask immigrants colonists to adopt the customs of the people of Quebec, it has nothing to do with racism," said its leader Alexandre Cormier-Denis.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Iraqi forces opened exit routes this weekend for hundreds of civilians to escape Mosul. Iraqi forces backed by the U.S. military are making a final push to drive ISIS out of a city now in ruins.
[Rooters] Motorists logged 1.2 percent more miles on U.S. roads and highways in April compared with the same month last year, according to U.S. government data released on Tuesday, keeping pace to break last year's record volumes.
[WAPO] WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration mostly enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.
[Townhall] JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military on Sunday said it attacked a series of targets belonging to the Syrian military, after several projectiles from neighboring Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for a second day.
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If you have suddenly arrived at the conclusion that few within the beltway party WANT to actually 'drain the swamp'.... you may be correct. 
