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Home Front: Culture Wars
What if We Have Been Invaded by Aliens?
h/t Instapundit
There is a joke about world-building in science fiction. Many writers simply don’t know how to introduce their past history, and therefore have ridiculous lines of dialogue like "As you know, Bob, we were invaded by aliens in 1945."

My question is ‐ how do we know we haven’t been?

No, I’m serious, look around you.

Those of us who read history can see this perhaps more clearly than others. When a culture is invaded and occupied, the first thing the occupiers do is take over the education of children (sometimes by force), the means of disseminating news (there is a reason we joke about invaders taking radio and TV stations first), the cultural life of the country including entertainment.

All of these mechanisms are turned to giving the children of the occupied land the idea that their occupiers are in fact redeemers, and that the old culture was not only weaker but objectively worse than that of the occupiers.

...Look around you ‐ if we in the West and we humans, in general, had been invaded by aliens, what would be different?

Our schools in America teach that the system under which America lives, from constitutional protections to (relatively...very relatively) free markets are evil and the cause of all evils in the world.

Our schools further teach that all the problems in the world at large are the fault of "Imperialists" to include not just America, but the West which is America’s mother culture. They ignore the sins of other nations, many of which, still today, commit female mutilation and slavery, to concentrate ONLY on the West and the sins of the West, thereby obviating any possible pride the students might have in their own culture.

Further, the schools, under the guise of environmentalism, promote the view that humanity is the worst plague on the planet. Without pointing out that any species can drive others to extinction, or that humans are the only species capable of self-regulating their impact on the environment, they concentrate on those extinctions humans have caused and fantasize that without humans the world would be a paradise.
Without pointing out the difficulty of global censuses or that in fact we don’t and can’t know how large the world population is, our learning institutions, our cultural institutions, even our entertainment continually scare us with the idea of overpopulation. Without taking into account that there are more trees now in North America than when the colonists arrived, they picture humanity as creating deserts. Schools push middle schoolers to sign agreements never to reproduce.

As if this weren't enough, feminists picture women ‐ in Western, well off, more or less equalitarian (at least before the law as it existed before feminist tampering made it take sides with women most of the time) systems ‐ as perpetual victims, stoke a sense of outrage and anger at any and all males, and encourage women to consider normal intercourse "rape" and marriage a prison.

As if this weren’t enough, the insanity has descended to preaching that there is no such thing as biological sex, and that one’s gender is a sort of "mood" which can be determined before a child is even fully developed. Parents giving hormones to children, to change their sex before the age of reason (let alone physical or emotional maturity) and effectively encouraging castration/neutering and precluding future generations aren’t considered deranged abusers. In fact, educational and medical establishments will encourage parents to thus destroy their progeny and will take the children away if the parents don’t do it, on the flimsiest of pretexts based on stereotypes, such as a boy who disdains male toys, or a girl who doesn’t like dolls. The rich panoply of human expression is ignored in a ‐ dare we say it ‐ alien attempt to make individual people fit stereotypes.

Three generations into this, our leading lights in intellectual life, be it fiction, non-fiction, academia or even research, get plaudits and advancement ONLY from conclusions and policies that objectively hurt humans and prevent humans from reproducing. A subset of this is hate of the West, the most successful culture in the world, ever, in terms of extending life, preventing early death, preventing or curing disease and preventing and curing famine. Another and even more vociferous subset is the hatred of America, which took all of Western virtues and made them more so.

If aliens, hostile to the very idea of humanity and wanting to prevent us from prospering, let alone going into space (another cause that all so called "progressives" hate with a burning passion and try to prevent by all means possible, from telling us that there is still need on Earth so we shouldn’t spend money on going to space, to telling us that we must first learn to "take care of this planet" to just sustained screaming that the human plague shouldn’t propagate) had managed to take control of our culture, what would they do differently?

The sad thing is that it’s not even aliens ‐ at least, Marx was probably not an alien, though his hair could, after all, be a tentacle creature from Alpha Centauri ‐ doing this to us, but our own people.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 13:21 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again, Ancient Alien theorists say "Yes!"
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#2  If Youtube is any indicator, there seems to be a lot of people who think aliens are living in Antarctica.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/22/2017 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Many are hoping for validation of the Alien so they can no longer be blamed for consequences of their (lack of?) actions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The movie "Men In Black" and part II 'splained it all to us. AKA Dennis Rodman.
Posted by: texhooey || 07/22/2017 23:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
More anti-Trump nonsense by the media
[American Thinker] A suspect [Ali Charaf Damache] in the plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Mohammed has been extradited from Spain to be tried in US federal court.

More anti-Trump nonsense by the media on this issue. It would have been more trouble to halt extradition of the suspect to federal court and petition the Spanish government to transfer Damache to Guantanamo - with no guarantee Madrid would acquiesce.

Also, Damache is a minor player in AQ and it is likely that most of the evidence against him is not classified. One of the major reasons to try terrorism suspects at Guantanamo is that the highly classified evidence gathered against the suspects would put intelligence sources and methods at risk if the trial took place in a civilian court. The argument that judges and prosecutors would be able to keep that intel secret is unconvincing.

There is also the possibility that terrorists would look to attack venues where suspects were being tried. Even Democrats were extremely reluctant to support civilian trials for terrorists in American cities given the threat.

The Trump administration bowed to logic in this case, not the Obama administration policy of bringing terrorists to the US for trial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 08:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Europe
A New Look at the Death of Europe - Lack of Euro 'Pushback' and why
Excerpt: [American Thinker] - Murray addresses the puzzling question: why there has been so little pushback from Europeans as they have been inundated by millions committed to ideologies anathema to their own? One reason is that the penalties for speaking out are high. Murray writes that those who have shouted fire over the years have been treated as arsonists. They have been "ignored, defamed, prosecuted or killed." The media has been swift to silence those among them who dared to so much as raise the issue.

Murray cites the fate of Erik Mansson, editor-in-chief of the Swedish paper Expressen, who as far back as 1993 published the results of an opinion poll showing 63% of Swedes wanted immigrants to return to their countries of origin. Noting the difference between those in power and public opinion, Mansson said he thought the subject should be discussed. The only result was that the paper’s owners promptly fired Mansson.

When you loose 'Free Speech'... game over.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 08:47 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the past, Europeans found ways to push back against oppressive regimes - but it wasn't done with words.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Once you have been taught to hate yourself, it is game over. My motto is: You can hate me, you can hate yourself, but you are incapable of making me hate myself.

It really pisses a lot of people off...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  It occasionally comes up that refugee home fire is a regular, if mostly unreported, item on police blotters. And refugees complain that they are ignored when they complain that the locals are not kind.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  The peelers being relieved that the immigrants are whacking each other is "not kind." Well, OK...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Europeans may eventually rouse themselves. If they do, and if it's not too late, the next holocaust is likely to be a helluva lot worse than the last one.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Look at the 'betas' that move aside as you pass on the sidewalk, and the pseudo 'alphas' that charge ahead regardless of their surroundings. European culture is/was polite, not subjugated to popular cultural intimacy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 15:00 Comments || Top||

#7  for much of Europe, the tipping point is past, and one of the bulwarks against massive land migration, Turkey, is losing any pretense of a secular state as ErdoWon reveals increasing Islamization and a tilt to the east in return for regional power sharing with Iran. Hungary may again be the last best hope of Euripe to avoid decimating colonization by the Religion of Peace.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/22/2017 17:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Making Russia great again
[Wisconsin Public Radio] Leaving federal government service after decades can be, well, liberating.

Just ask James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, the former leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. They unloaded on President Trump and the "baffling" way he's embraced Russia while criticizing his own intelligence apparatus during a session at the Aspen Security Forum Friday.

Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

That remark drew laughter and gasps from an audience of current and former government officials and the business executives who work collude with them. But underlying the humor was a tone of deep concern about the morale of people responsible for protecting the nation's security -- and dismay about where the country may be headed.

"In some respects, we're a nation in crisis right now," Brennan said.

Then, for the next hour, they counted the ways.

The veteran spies expressed surprise that Trump campaign officials including then-chairman Paul Manafort, son Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner would take a meeting in New York last year with a Russian lawyer who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 06:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

John Brennan's 'Deep State' road tour and canned question from the audience.

Let there be no doubt. These people are well organized, well funded, and totally dedicated to the removal of our elected president. 'Regime Change'.... it's what they do.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 7:10 Comments || Top||


#3  Just plain envy. Putin spies on his citizens and laughs about it. Clappers crowd did it and he has to make excuses, embarrassing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Pompeo was also at the Aspen conference.

That's one way to note who is in the Deep State camp, and what they're saying to whom.

I notice that Target is one of the sponsors, which seems an odd choice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  TW, if you shop at Target and have occasion to walk past the 'mens' section, you may see pink safari shirts, flowered pants and pastel neck scarves. Please also remember the 'gender free' rest rooms. Target is in merchandising. They have identified with a voting block.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#6  SSCI/HPSCI sniveling puke staffers were a bad lot 25-30 years ago. Their bosses were reported to be worse. I never paid much attention to either committee after I retired, then Congressman Mike Rogers came along.

I suspect we'd better keep an eye on Pompeo. Guilt by association is still a relevant concept.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Given the greatest threat to Russia is American frackers and that Trump has left them alone while Hillary threatened to shut'em down, Clapper Inc's own contributions to Making Russia Great Again seems to have hit a road block.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian President freezes all relations with Israel
[Ynet] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday declared a freeze on all relations with Israel in response to the Temple Mount crisis. "Relations with Israel will be frozen at all levels until Israel commits itself to canceling all its steps against the Palestinian people as a whole and against the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular, and to committing itself to preserving the historical and legal situation in Al-Aqsa," he said in his statement.
Does it means they not taking our money anymore?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 04:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the day workers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Now about that electrical bill...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  And what about the potable water, sustaining life in the Gaza cesspit?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/22/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#4  So they're throwing a hissy fit until terrorists can bring guns into Temple Mount again?
Posted by: gorb || 07/22/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  gorb nailed it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  It's just an act by Abbas to show he is relevant.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/22/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Two Hasm members killed in shootout with police in Fayoum: Egypt's interior ministry
[AlAhram] Two members of the Hasm murderous Moslem group were killed in a shootout with police after a raid on their hideout in Fayoum governorate, Egypt’s interior ministry has said.

The two men are "two of most prominent cadres of the armed wing of the Moslem Brüderbund...and were charged with planning and training in order to launch a number of terrorist attacks," a statement released by the ministry on Friday read.

Egypt's interior ministry searching for gunmen who killed policeman near Fayoum

[AlAhram] Egypt’s interior ministry is searching for the assailants who attacked police vehicles near the city of Fayoum on Thursday night, killing a policeman and injuring three police conscripts, state news agency MENA reported.

Unidentified gunnies fired "heavily and randomly" at three police vehicles driving on the Cairo-Fayoum ring road on Thursday, the ministry said in a statement late on Thursday.
Based on the first article, it seems safe to assume these are the Hasm miscreants subsequently caught in the shootout.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 02:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood


Europe
Berlin freezes arms shipments to Turkey: Report
[AlAhram] Germany has frozen all arms deliveries to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, a newspaper reported Friday, amid a row between the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
partners that has sharply worsened since Ankara tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
several human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists.

Berlin stepped up its travel advisory for Turkey on Thursday and warned it would review state guarantees for foreign investment there -- measures which Ankara labelled "blackmail and threats".

As part of a sweeping overhaul of bilateral ties, Germany is also "freezing all planned and ongoing arms deliveries to Turkey," the top-circulation Bild newspaper reported without citing a source.

Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
's right-hand man, Peter Altmaier, did not confirm or deny the report in a ZDF television interview but warned that "we will at any time consider whether further measures are necessary".

Relations between Turkey and Germany, home to three million ethnic Turks, have been badly strained, particularly since a failed coup a year ago against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
In the months after the July 2016 coup attempt, Germany already blocked 11 separate arms export shipments to Turkey, including handguns, ammunition or weapons components, according to media reports.

Relations sharply deteriorated after a Ottoman Turkish court Tuesday ordered six rights activists should remain in jug for allegedly aiding a "terror" group, among them German citizen Peter Steudtner.

In the war of words, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble compared Erdogan's Turkey with the former communist German Democratic Republic (GDR).

"Turkey is arresting people arbitrarily and not respecting even minimal consular standards," said Schaeuble.

"It reminds me of the way it was in the GDR. When you travelled there, you knew, if something happens to you, nobody can help you."

Altmaier also confirmed that Berlin would urge Brussels to freeze 4.45 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in EU funds theoretically earmarked until end-2020 for Turkey, a long-term aspirant for membership to the bloc.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 02:22 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas asks Jared Kushner to force Israel to remove metal detectors
[IsraelTimes] IDF arrests 10 Fatah leaders overnight in bid to stave off protests

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
spoke by phone late Thursday with Jared Kushner, senior adviser to 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...
, reportedly to ask that the White House pressure Israel to remove metal detectors installed at the Temple Mount following last Friday’s deadly terror attack.

According to Hebrew-language media, Abbas told Kushner that tensions over the holy site were a serious concern, and that they threatened to get out of control if Israel did not back down.

Abbas spoke on Thursday with Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
, asking him to pressure Israel to remove the metal detectors. He reportedly also contacted other regional leaders and a United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
committee in a bid to force Israel’s hand.

Early on Friday morning, Israel Police forces tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
at least 10 Fatah officials in Jerusalem who were suspected of inciting violence in the city, including Hatem Abd al-Qader, who holds Fatah’s Jerusalem portfolio, and Adnan Gaith, the head of Fatah’s Tanzim wing in Jerusalem.

Right-wing Jewish groups also filed a complaint against the Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein, accusing him of inciting violence. According to the complaint, while Hussein stood at the Lions Gate on Thursday, he exhorted his followers that "Al-Aqsa is worth more than [the Jews’] blood and is more valuable than their souls."

Ofer Golan, a right-wing activist, complained to police that this was "clear incitement to murder Jews."

"The police must arrest the mufti immediately before the next attack on civilians and coppers," he said.
Of course he did, but will it be politically possible to arrest him now?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 01:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Since when were metal detectors haram?
Posted by: phil_b || 07/22/2017 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "How can we worship with this oppression? I need my AK!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Do you know how difficult it is to get a dozen of these through the metal detectors ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Sure.
Right after we remove your apostate asses from Israel.
Posted by: newc || 07/22/2017 12:18 Comments || Top||


Palestinian Breaks Into Home, Stabs Three Israelis To Death
[Daily Caller] A Palestinian stabbed three Israelis to death and wounded a third in a West Bank settlement on Friday.

The attacker broke into the victims’ home, located in a West Bank settlement near Halamish, before stabbing them, according to the Times of Israel. The victims included a man in his 40s, another in his 60s and a woman in her 40s, according to paramedics. A fourth woman was also reported to be in serious condition on the way to a nearby medical center in Jerusalem.

A neighbor shot the Palestinian attacker, though reports are conflicted as to whether he is dead or alive.

"When we went into the house we saw four casualties lying [on the floor] with stab wounds," Ohad Amitoun, a rescue worker with Israel Maden David Odom emergency service told the Times of Israel. "Another 60-year-old woman was conscious and suffered stab wounds to her upper body. She was treated at the scene and was evacuated by an MDA intensive care ambulance. She was in moderate-serious condition."

The deadly attack followed a series of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, which left three Palestinians dead and more than 190 injured. The clashes were a response to Israeli’s installation of new metal detectors outside the Temple Mount compound, which houses the al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli security forces installed the metal detectors after a group of Palestinian terrorists shot and killed three Israeli police near the compound.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 01:03 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rev up the D9s!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Yup. Israel to raze home of Palestinian who killed 3 Israelis
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I want to raze all their homes, with them inside.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Several non-Israeli news services apparently reported the two parts of this story - 3 Israelis stabbed to death, 3 Palestinians killed in violent clashes - as if the deaths were equivalent.

They are obviously not equivalent - the Israelis were murdered. The Palestinians were shot while rioting.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/22/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  1. These are almost the most worthless people on the planet.
2. They are all apostate heritics.
3. There is no such thing as a "Palestinian"
Posted by: newc || 07/22/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#6  3. There is no such thing as a "Palestinian"

Could someone please point me to sources of information to support this statement. Personally, I agree with it. I was having a conversation with a colleague about this very thing, and my argument was weak and my information to back it up was weak as well. Thanks you.
Posted by: Omilet Gonque2971 || 07/22/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  There has never been a State of Palestine.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 12:44 Comments || Top||

#8  If you interested in historical facts Omilet Gonque2971, From time immemorial is your best bet. However, an average "anti-zionist" is not really interested in historical facts. So, you might point out that Israel has very advanced tech and - if they persist with their Holocaust by proxy efforts, might get MAD.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  There has never been a State of Palestine.

Saw a guy who crapped himself after passing out in a beer joint restroom, leaving him in a complete state of Palestine.

(smiles that the computer wanted to capitalize that word)
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2017 20:59 Comments || Top||

#10  g(r)omgoru, an excellent suggestion! Thank You, for the reference.
Posted by: Omilet Gonque2971 || 07/22/2017 22:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Scaramucci Tames The Media In ‘Smooth' First Press Conference
[Daily Caller] Anthony Scaramucci made a positive impression with the media in his first press conference as White House communications director.

Scaramucci spoke confidently from the podium and made an effort to call on as many reporters as possible, before ending the press conference with an air kiss to the media. Many reporters described Scaramucci’s performance as "smooth," while others praised his comfortable speaking style.

"Anthony Scaramucci is showing here why President Trump picked him," The Boston Globe’s DC bureau chief Matt Viser noted. "Smooth and soft-spoken. Lighthearted and optimistic."

CNN anchor Dana Bash described Scaramucci as "smooth as silk as a talker."

"A very polished performance behind the podium from Scaramucci," observed the Washington Examiner’s chief political correspondent Byron York. "Rare in first 6 months of this [White House]."

US News and World Report senior politics writer David Catanese said, "IF Scaramucci is this calm and smooth six months from now, it’ll serve him, the president and the press very well."

"Anthony Scaramucci is having a very good, very smooth on-camera debut," said Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:53 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because he went after the NYT with lawyers swinging sledgehammers. The rest of the scribblers feel like maybe they'll wait and see what happens to the next guy that crosses him. Even a flatworm turns away from pain.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  But can he do the fandango?
Posted by: JHH || 07/22/2017 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  He can buy and sell the entire press corps, and some of their employers besides. He won't give the deep pocket lawyers a chance in hell to come after him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Tames the media? I dunno. Last night, Levin described this bunch of yapping dogs [the media] as acting like a bunch of "Dogs in heat."
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||


Gingrich: Mueller's Law Firm 'Gave 99.81% of Its Donations to Hillary Clinton'
[PJ] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thinks something is fishy with Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's Russia ties. On the same day that Mueller asked the White House to preserve all documents pertaining to Don Jr.'s Russian lawyer meeting, Gingrich alleged that there are major conflicts of interest at play here. He told Fox News, "The law firm he comes from gave 99.81 percent of its donations to Hillary Clinton last year." And he said this seems like, "a deliberate effort to go after the president and the president’s team."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems like?
Posted by: Raj || 07/22/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I assume 0.19% went to Sanders?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Deep-six the Special Counsel witch hunt. Take the fallout or it will be death by a thousand cuts.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Meddlesome muckrakers! Give them 60 days to arrive at a finding. Nothing substantial to report. Close it down. Send'em home.

Nobody needs a Gestapo agent following them and their family around every day. This is still America, right ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 15:14 Comments || Top||


Government
Labor Department Whistleblower: Agency Officials Intentionally Denied or Delayed Pay-Outs to Nuclear Workers in Hopes They Would Die
[Free Beacon] A senior attorney at the Labor Department is accusing agency officials of writing and manipulating regulations to intentionally delay and deny congressionally mandated compensation to nuclear-weapons workers who suffered from sicknesses--and in some cases died--as a result of their work building the nation's Cold War nuclear arsenal.

The attorney, Stephen Silbiger, says Labor Department leadership under former Labor Secretary Tom Perez ignored years of his complaints about the "open hostility" he said some officials exhibited toward claimants, many of whom are too poor and sick to fight the agency's denials and red tape in federal court.

When Congress passed the law creating the compensation program in 2000, a bipartisan group of lawmakers promised these nuclear workers a claimant-friendly path to compensating them or their families for illnesses related to the country's nuclear build-up and their exposure to toxins at bombing-making facilities.

Under the law, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA), qualified workers or their survivors who were diagnosed with certain types of cancer or other diseases from exposure to toxic substances at covered facilities are entitled to between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to help pay medical bills and loss of wages due to their illnesses, with a cap of $400,000.
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#1  'Delayed Payouts'...., rediculous. The workers had simply not reached the EEOICPA.... Full Retirement Benefits Age.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Tom Perez, asshole
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Where did the money go then?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/22/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  The attorney, Stephen Silbiger, says Labor Department leadership under former Labor Secretary Tom Perez ignored years of his complaints

How is the current Labour secretary doing on this issue, or is this the first he's hearing about it?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Arizona Senate Candidate: McCain Should ‘Step Away as Quickly as Possible'
[Free Beacon] The last Republican to run against Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) called on him to step down "as quickly as possible" following his Wednesday cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Kelli Ward is running against Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) in the 2018 Republican primary and made her comments about McCain on an Indiana talk radio show Thursday, CNN reports. A surgeon and former state senator, Ward argued that advancing the federal government's business and President Donald Trump's agenda gave McCain reason to step aside.

"I hope that Senator McCain is going to look long and hard at this, that his family and his advisers are going to look at this, and they're going to advise him to step away as quickly as possible, so that the business of the country and the business of Arizona being represented at the federal level can move forward," she said.
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#1  To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee! - Khan quoting Melville's Moby Dick. Seems fitting.

BTW, Benedict Arnold was a war hero too, even a prisoner of war, till that little misunderstanding of joining the other side.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ... Senator McCain will be literally carried from his post feet first. When Strom Thurmond finally quit he was IIRC 100 and the decision was made more by his family than him.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/22/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  No, Arizona will consider the execrable Jeff Flake to the conservative Senator from Arizona and elect the incomprehensible Kristin Sinema (Enema) to be the loosey goosey frosh left wing Senator. Just watch...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Must be the narcotic effect of power. McCain has been hooked on it for a long, long time and even a malignant brain tumor won't make him quit. I can't say that Arizona deserves better because they kept reelecting him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Foggy Bottom Unsure Why Palestinians Terrorists Kill Israelis
[Free Beacon] Officials in the Trump administration’s State Department are standing by a recent report criticized by Congress that blamed Israel for terror attacks and claimed Palestinians rarely incite violence, telling the Washington Free Beacon that it remains unclear why terrorists engage in violent acts.

Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.), co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, criticized the State Department Thursday for releasing a report portraying Israel as the culprit in terrorism and downplaying Palestinian incitement of violent acts against the Jewish state, the Free Beacon first reported.

Roskam demanded the State Department alter its report to bring it more in line with what he believes are the facts on the ground--that Palestinian leaders routinely incite violence against Israel, which has been forced to defend itself against a growing wave of terror attacks on Jewish citizens.

A State Department official, speaking on background, defended the report's conclusions and said that it cannot precisely pinpoint the motivations behind Palestinian terror attacks on Israel.

"We recognize that in any community, a combination of risk factors can come together to create a higher risk of radicalization to violence," the official said. "There is no one single pathway to violence--each individual's path to terrorism is personalized, with certain commonalities. Therefore, it is difficult to pinpoint precisely what the sources of radicalization to violence are. What could drive someone to violence in one instance could vary significantly with someone else who is similarly situated."

The State Department's response prompted a fierce backlash among U.S. officials and Trump administration insiders, who said the State Department under the leadership of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has gone rogue and is out of line with the White House's position on a range of sensitive diplomatic issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian impasse.
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#1  Fat girls gotta eat,
Haters gotta hate.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  State department is also befuddled about why water is wet and the sky is up.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/22/2017 9:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mueller Probe Team Starts Leaking Special Counsel Investigation Details to Press
[Breitbart] The team charged with investigating whether there was any collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia now appears to be leaking details of the probe to damage him.

"A person familiar with the probe" told Bloomberg that the special counsel is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump and his associates’ businesses.

The leak comes the day after Trump told the New York Times in an interview that delving into his business matters would be outside the bounds of the Russia investigation.

"The Special Counsel’s Office has undertaken stringent controls to prohibit unauthorized disclosures that deal severely with any member who engages in this conduct," Joshua Stueve, spokesman for the Special Counsel’s Office told Breitbart News in an email response.

The team is led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and four of the six attorneys on the team donated to the Democratic National Committee or Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to Axios.

James Quarles donated almost $33,000 to Democrats, including Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Jeannie Rhee donated more than $16,000 since 2008 to Democrats, including the maximum donation possible to Clinton in both 2015 and 2016. She has also donated to Obama. Andrew Weissmann donated more than $4,000 to Obama in 2008 and $2,000 to the DNC in 2006, and Elizabeth Prelogar donated $250 each to Clinton in 2016 and Obama in 2012.

Trump and Republican lawmakers have questioned the impartiality of Mueller and the probe, which was created after former FBI Director James Comey leaked a memo to the media for the purpose of prompting a special counsel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why would anyone think the leaks would stop with the special prosecutor?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2017 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Mueller won't find any impeachable offenses but every time he finds some little tidbit that he thinks the MSM can spin to make Trump look bad he'll leak it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm beginning to think FBI means Funny Business Incorporated or Fame Beats Insecurity. Comey was a leaker and now Mueller? Seems like most of this [Hillary] team has conflicts of interest; this doesn't bode well for the POTUS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Leaks! That's an fire-able offense! Please leak some more!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/22/2017 16:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Special Counsels appointed to investigate Obama/Clinton scandals would be leaking as well.
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Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/22/2017 16:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Hawaii seeks to prepare residents for threat of nuclear missile strike from NORKS
[HI News Now] HONOLULU - The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is kicking off an educational campaign aimed at helping residents and visitors figure out what to do if the state is the target of a nuclear missile attack from North Korea.

Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike.

The state's emergency management agency said the threat to the islands from the rogue nation is "currently assessed to be low."

But officials added ongoing North Korean missile tests -- and growing public concern -- have prompted officials to work on preparedness and disaster management plans.

Vern Miyagi, administrator of the emergency management agency, stressed that the public shouldn't be alarmed by the planning.

Rather, he said, the public should see the preparation and education much like the work being done to prepare the public for hurricane and tsunami, which pose a greater risk to the state.

"We need to tell the public what the state is doing," Miyagi said. "We do not want to cause any undue stress for the public; however, we have a responsibility to plan for all hazards."

Earlier this month, North Korea tested an ICBM missile, drawing condemnation from the US and other countries. Experts say an ICBM like the one North Korea launched could reach Alaska and possibly even Hawaii.
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#1  I'm sorry, I don't understand. I have been told repeatedly over the last thirty to forty years that there is no point in preparing to defend against a nuclear attack, that the living will envy the dead, that the only possible course is to rid our world of the cursed things.

Of course, it's always possible that when you're up against a lunatic who believes that going out in the glow of nuclear fission is a Good Way To Die, you come to understand that platitudes might not convince him otherwise.

I mean, even the Soviets had the good sense to understand that they didn't want to rule a graveyard. They might - might - listen to reason. The good people of Hawaii are discovering that sometimes the other side doesn't want to listen.

And won't.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/22/2017 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Well said MK
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that this is the home state of Barack or the Iranian deal, I assume that the majority of money left after the graft for this effort will be spent on white flags.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/22/2017 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Judge Derrick Watson will protect them. Issue an Order!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, let them have their glow in the dark muzz abuelas...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||


Economy
Boom: Mining +21.6% in Q1; Construction +5.6%; Manufacturing +4.7%; Bust: Finance and Insurance -2.1%
[CNSNews] The real value added to the U.S economy by the mining, construction and manufacturing sectors boomed in the first quarter of 2017, while the real value added by the financial and insurance sector dropped, according to data released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Overall, the U.S. economy grew at an annual pace of only 1.4 percent in the first quarter. But the value added by mining grew by a booming annual rate of 21.6 percent, while construction grew 5.6 percent and manufacturing grew 4.7%.

The BEA says that the value added by an industry--which equals the market value of the goods, services and structures it produces minus the values of the goods and services it consumes in production--is "a measure of an industry’s contribution to GDP."

"Mining increased by 21.6 percent, after increasing 5.2 percent [in the fourth quarter of last year]," said BEA. "The first quarter growth primarily reflected increases in oil and gas extraction, as well as support activities for mining. This was the largest increase since the fourth quarter of 2014."

The overall 4.7 percent growth in manufacturing reflected 5.0 percent growth in manufacturing of nondurable goods (i.e. products such as clothing and food) and 4.4 percent growth in the manufacturing of durable goods.

"Durable goods manufacturing increased 4.4 percent, after increasing 0.7 percent," said BEA. "The first quarter growth primarily reflected increases in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing, as well as machinery manufacturing."

At the same time that mining, construction and manufacturing were booming, the finance and insurance sector declined by 2.1 percent.

Among other industries that declined during the quarter, according to the BEA data, were agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (-39.8%); utilities (-6.4%); retail trade (-3.6%); and arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services (-0.9%).
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#1  Trump could make the blind see again, make the lame walk again, raise the dead, but they will still do everything they can to crucify him.

The DNC is broke to the tune of millions because people on the left are tired of pouring money into elections that never result in wins. And the Democrats keep doing what they do.

There is another America and it is disgusted with the bare knuckle politics of the DNC Mob.
Posted by: Deadeye Pelosi7075 || 07/22/2017 1:39 Comments || Top||


#3  And the Dems apparently like to mutilate little children.

Make America safe again!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/22/2017 4:29 Comments || Top||

#4  And I should believe gov't statistics why?

The letter after the name of the president will determine the direction of fudge applied.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/22/2017 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  "MAGANOMICS" (Make America Great Again Economics)

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump could make the blind see again, make the lame walk again, raise the dead, but they will still do everything they can to crucify him.

That's what they did to the last guy who did that.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
MP: Somali Parliament will not approve the controversial media law
[SHABELLENEWS] A member of Somali federal parliament Mohamud Abdullahi Ahmed known as "Mohamud Abukate" said the national assembly will not pass the controversial media law passed by the council of ministers last week.

"The Parliament will never pass media bill that threatens press freedom and the rights of the local journalists in Somalia," said Ahmed, during an interview with Radio Shabelle.

The MP said, the the Parliamentary Media and Communications Committee calls for an inclusive full review on the Bill and ensure it is amended in order to comply with international freedom of expression standards.

"The review must meet progressive global practices to ensure the best possible protection for the right to freedom of expression," said Somali politician Mohamud Abukaate.

Some politicians believe that the media bill passed by the Federal cabinet in July 13, is unconstitutional as it fails to ensure that media is free from government, commercial or political control and interference.
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India-Pakistan
Sepoy martyred in IED blast during Khyber-4 operation: ISPR
[DAWN] A soldier embraced martyrdom in an improvised bomb (IED) during Operation Khyber-4 in Khyber Agency
... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday.

Sepoy Mohammad Yasir embraced martyrdom in Rajgal valley of Khyber Agency during a clearance operation, said the military's media wing.

"Ground troops have established posts on important heights in Rajgal valley of Khyber Agency," said the ISPR, adding that IEDs were being neutralised by the advancing troops with the support of army engineers during the operation.

The Operation Khyber-4, launched under Operation Raddul Fasaad (RuF) is progressing as planned, said ISPR.

Funeral prayers of the soldier were offered at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Garrison on Friday.

Khyber 4 seeks to target terrorist hideouts in what the DG ISPR called "the most critical area in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)".

Since the launch of Operation RuF, the army has launched 46 major operations in the country and over 9,000 intelligence-based operations (IBOs).

About 1,760 joint check-posts have been established in coordination with police and other law enforcement agencies.

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Government
Mueller 'Mission Creeps' Probe to POTUS Business Transactions Decades Ago
[Bloomberg] The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.

FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.

The investigation also has absorbed a money-laundering probe begun by federal prosecutors in New York into Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

John Dowd, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on Thursday that he was unaware of the inquiry into Trump’s businesses by the two-months-old investigation and considered it beyond the scope of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be examining.

"Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the Special counsel; are unrelated to the election of 2016 or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and most importantly, are well beyond any Statute of Limitation imposed by the United States Code," he wrote in an email.
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#1  Can we have all of Mueller's public and private correspondence checked to see if he is colluding with the Democratic Party? Since he entered government employment, just to be sure, you see? And all of his top aides as well?
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2017 1:57 Comments || Top||



Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Six dead in worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed for years
[REUTERS] Six people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Paleostinian violence for years, prompted by new security Israeli measures at Jerusalem's holiest site.

Three Israelis were stabbed to death in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after three Paleostinians were killed in violence prompted by Israel's installation of metal detectors at entry points to the Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's walled Old City.

Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
ordered the suspension of all official contact with Israel until it removed the metal detectors. He gave no details, but current contacts are largely limited to security cooperation.

"I declare the suspension of all contacts with the Israeli side on all levels until it cancels its measures at al Aqsa mosque and preserves the status quo," Abbas said in a brief televised speech.
AA.TR adds:
Security measures by Israel trigger protests, with 3 Paleostinians killed and nearly 400 injured.

Abbas went on to confirm that "we will continue to support the steadfastness of [people in] Jerusalem and we decided to allocate $25 million for that.”
The view of events from Israel:
Gazans riot, throw stones at IDF troops along border fence

[IsraelTimes] Army investigating reports of Paleostinians injured in festivities; three killed, over 200 hurt in earlier riots in Jerusalem, West Bank according to Red Islamic Thingy
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Home Front: Politix
Intel Agency Leaks: Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador
[WAPO] Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions -- then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump -- were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.

One U.S. official said that Sessions -- who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter -- has provided "misleading" statements that are "contradicted by other evidence." A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had "substantive" discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.

Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. senator that he met with Kislyak.

Related from Breitbart: Deep State Attacks Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Fresh Leaks on Meetings with Russian Ambassador

Related from The Hill: Intercepts suggest Sessions discussed Trump campaign matters with Russia envoy: report
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One U.S. official said that Sessions -- who testified that he has no recollection of an April encounter -- has provided "misleading" statements that are "contradicted by other evidence." A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had "substantive" discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.

The vagueness of the above phrase is overwhelming. Some U.S. official said something about something substantive. Nothing is ever said; all just vague emptiness. " matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration" seems perfectly appropriate for a candidate or an incoming POTUS or a U.S. Senator acting as one of his surrogates.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pentagon blocks $50m Coalition Support Fund payment to Pakistan
[DAWN] The US Defense Department withheld $50 million in Pakistain military payments after Pentagon chief Jim Mattis accused Islamabad of not doing enough to counter the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-affiliated Haqqani network, an official said Friday.

"Secretary Mattis told congressional defense committees that he was not able to certify that Pakistain took sufficient actions against the Haqqani network to permit full reimbursement of the fiscal year 2016 Coalition Support Funds," Pentagon Spokesman Adam Stump said.

The United States had allotted $900mn in military aid to Pakistain through the special fund. The country has already received $550mn of that, but Mattis's decision means $50mn will be withheld. The remaining $300mn was rescinded by Congress as part of a broader appropriations act.
$350 million here, $350 million there, soon you're talking about real money.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Some Pakistani General's retirement fund just took a beating.
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2017 2:13 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Deadly clash erupts among ISIS militants and local residents in East of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A deadly clash erupted among the murderous Moslems of ISIS terrorist group and local residents in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province of Afghanistan, leaving several people dead.

According to the local officials in Nangarhar, the incident took place on Thursday in the vicinity of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province.

The provincial government media office also confirmed the incident and said at least twenty four ISIS loyalists were killed during the festivities.

The statement further added that the festivities took place in Tangi, Anarkhel, and Sulaiman Khel areas of Khogyani.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
holy warriors also intervened in the clash and jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
at least five ISIS murderous Moslems and took place them to an unknown location, the statement added.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.

Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups have recently increased their insurgency activities in some parts of the province during the recent years.

Both the Afghan and US forces conducted regular strikes against the loyalists of the terror group in this province.

The US forces in Afghanistan dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS hideouts in Achin districtlate in April this year that resulted into the elimination of the largest tunnels network of the terror group besides leaving nearly 100 ISIS murderous Moslems dead, including some of their big shots.

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#1  The locals are killing ISIS? About time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They probably wanted a cut on the local opium profits.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/22/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Private school head confesses to sexually abusing women
[DAWN] The principal of a private school, incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on charges of sexually abusing several women and making their objectionable videos, has confessed to his crime before the court of a local magistrate.

Magistrate Asghar Khan recorded statement of the suspect, Attaullah Khan Marwat, under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, following which he was sent to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Central Prison on judicial remand.

The suspect, who is also owner of the school, was arrested after a case was registered against him on July 14, 2017, at Hayatabad cop shoppe on complaint of a student. The student had levelled serious allegations against him of sexually exploiting students and women and making their objectionable videos by installing secret cameras in different parts of the school.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
a police officer privy to the investigation in the case, told Dawn that so far the charge of sexually abusing students by the principal could not be proved.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should've restricted his activities to boys like everybody else.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 4:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Then he could have abused boys, like everybody else does in Pak.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#3  They abuse girls, too. In this case he had blackmail videos to shut up those who thought they weren't vulnerable -- honour killing is called for, even if the female is an unwilling victim, after all. But note that while someone accused him to the police and the miscreant confessed in court, nonetheless the police believe the charge cannot be proved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rebel ambush kills 28 pro-govt fighters near Damascus
[DAWN] At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed on Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said on Thursday.

The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of al-Rihan, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Eastern Ghouta region is a major rebel stronghold near the capital, and it has been the frequent target of government military operations.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said rebels opened fire on the government troops as they entered an area where the opposition fighters had planted mines.

He said the ambush was the deadliest incident for government fighters in Eastern Ghouta since February 2016, when 76 regime troops were killed in Tal Sawane.

Eastern Ghouta is in one of the four proposed "de-escalation zones" designated in an agreement reached by government allies Iran and Russia and rebel backer The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in May.

But the deal has yet to be fully implemented over disagreements on the monitoring mechanism for the safe zones. In recent weeks, government warplanes have bombed the Ain Terma area that links Eastern Ghouta to the rebel-held parts of the Damascus neighbourhood of Jobar.

More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since its conflict broke out in March 2011 with anti-government protests.

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Arabia
Saudi source gives more detail on crown prince's dismissal
[REUTERS] A source close 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...
's rulers has given further details of how Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince, was summarily removed from his post last month.

MbN, as he is known, was dismissed by the royal family "in the higher interests of the state" because he was incapacitated by morphine and cocaine addiction, often falling asleep at public events after he became crown prince in 2015, the source told Rooters in an interview.

His addiction was a legacy of an Al Qaeda liquidation attempt in 2009 that left shrapnel in his body.

"MbN has a lot of respect among us as a crown prince and as interior minister but there are higher interests for the state which are more important than social position or status," the source told Rooters.

Rooters was unable to reach MbN for comment. Sources close to him said he would not comment and has remained in his palace in Jeddah since he was removed in June. The sources acknowledged MbN's addiction to morphine but said it was used as a pretext to speed up the elevation of Mohammed bin Salman, the king's 32-year-old son, to be next in line to the throne.

Rooters was unable to confirm independently the specific drugs MbN used to treat his health problems.

The source, who has knowledge of palace thinking, expanded on an account by Rooters earlier this week saying MbN was pushed aside because of his drug addiction.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NY Times reporter accuses white women of racism on city sidewalks
[THEHILL] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
is facing blowback on social media after publishing an essay by an African-American news hound who accused white women of racism for not ceding space on city sidewalks to black men.
Nothing to do with color, bub. Common good manners sez gents give way to ladies. I guess if you're not a gent that wouldn't apply, but how're the ladies to tell? Lots of black men are gents, even if you're not.
In a Wednesday essay titled "Was That Racist," news hound Greg Howard singled out white women for forcing him "off the sidewalk completely" when walking toward him, not allowing a straight path.

"In seven years of living and walking here, I’ve found that most people walk courteously -- but that white women, at least when I’m in their path, do not," Howard writes.

"Sometimes they’re buried in their phones. Other times, they’re in pairs and groups, and in conversation. But often, they’re looking ahead, through me, if not quite at me," he continues.

"When white women are in my path, they almost always continue straight, forcing me to one side without changing their course. This happens several times a day; and a couple of times a week, white women force me off the sidewalk completely. In these instances, when I’m standing in the street or in the dirt as a white woman strides past, broad-shouldered and blissful, I turn furious," Howard said.

"After these encounters, I’m always left with questions. Why only and specifically white women? Do they refuse to acknowledge me because they’ve been taught that they should fear black men, and that any acknowledgment of black men can invite danger? Do they refuse to acknowledge me because to alter their route would be to show their fear? Do they not see me? Can they not see me?" he asks later in the essay.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought a man (as distinct from a male) would yield the right of way to women?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  And in the old days, males exhibiting such behavior were sometimes bump/pushed out of the way.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  G(rom), that's when there were (and still are some) ladies. Too many people elected for tribalism over civilization. Now days, you have to discern the difference before acting. General classifications no longer apply.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps they are all feminists, not racists. Or both. Could be both.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2017 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Because civilized men will make way for ladies. Feral men, not so much.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/22/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Twenty years ago the controversy was over "driving while black".
Now we're supposed to get worked up over "walking while white".
His complaint is that they didn't get out of his way.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  I just wonder how well he does with 'black" women.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  I move to the right when people are walking toward me on the sidewalk and expect those approaching me to do the same, allowing us all to get past one another without collision. But a) I am not from New York City, and b) I grew up American.

My darling mother-in-law tells of being shouldered off the sidewalk in Lackawanna (outside of Buffalo, NY) by giggling pairs of Yemeni colonists of the moving black object variety, who were clearly very pleased with themselves for having done so.

The question our black New York Times journalist did not ask is whether the women who shouldered him off the sidewalk do this just to black men or to everybody. It would take no more than following the women for a block or two after each encounter, ticking off in a little notebook who was pushed aside and who wasn't. It could be great fun -- and perhaps even garner a Pulitzer -- to follow a few of them to their destinations and interview them about his observations. But that's the difference between old fashioned reporters and Columbia School of Journalism-educated journalists, I s'pose.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  If algebra is racist TW, why wast time?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 11:26 Comments || Top||

#10  From g(r)omgoru's article:

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree ? particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads.
It is also the single most failed course in community colleges across the country. So if you're not a STEM major (science, technology, engineering, math), why even study algebra?


That again. It's not about race or immigration status, but the education level of the parents. The single best predictor of student success is parental involvement. Parents who did not learn algebra are not likely to either help their children with algebra homework or drive them to learn it. Another question would be whether students who do poorly in algebra also do poorly in other subjects; but that would mean allowing students to leave after sixth grade, which isn't to be thought of.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 11:39 Comments || Top||

#11  but that would mean allowing students to leave after sixth grade, which isn't to be thought of

Word TW. IMO, every other problem in education derives from this one.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/22/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#12  walking on the sidewalk in NYC is a different kind of crowding than is normal, its dog eat dog.....
Posted by: 746 || 07/22/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||

#13  I hate the left. Everything in their minds, everything that comes out of their mouths, and all of their plans are nothing but shit.

Fake Humans, all of them.
Posted by: newc || 07/22/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#14  What pisses me off, is the constant declarations of people being racists with no proof of real actual racism. What the effect will be is "Yeah well, f- you then, I will be a racist you stupid *****." And when they get their race war, they can live (Or most likely die hanging from a tree after being castrated and flayed.) And the creation of the monster will be their fault
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/22/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Parents who did not learn algebra

Could very well have not been ABLE to learn algebra and other abstract spatial constructs. This (recessive?) trait will have then been passed on to the children like brown dominating over blue eyes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 14:53 Comments || Top||

#16  Could very well have not been ABLE to learn algebra and other abstract spatial constructs.

Geometry is about spatial constructs, and that ability is likely inborn because I tested in the bottom 5th percentile for that kind of intelligence, whereas I do fine for other kinds of abstract thinking. But algebra in its simplest form is just the kind of quantified logic one uses to compare two packages of laundry detergent of different sizes to determine which is a better value. My darling sister-in-law, who according to her mother struggled to master single digit addition and subtraction in first grade, can comparison shop in her head with terrifying acuity, considerably faster and better than I; this suggests that algebra is taught in a way that makes sense to STEM types rather than ordinary people, not that ordinary people cannot learn it. And that's where having someone translate the lessons into understandable forms comes in. When I was in high school I tutored the kid up the street in 9th grade math (algebra I), in one quarter bringing her up from a D to an A, so I know it's true. I just kept trying different explanations until one made sense, and then gave her lots of problems to practice each new understanding until she nailed it home. I also made her memorize all the things kids haven't had to memorize for generations -- multiplication tables through 20, squares and square roots, a couple of cube roots, fraction-decimal equivalents -- so she would have the tools she needed to quickly set up and solve her algebra problems rather than having to figure things out each time, with the additional chance for errors. I did the same thing with the trailing daughters, only I started them on such things as soon as they could count to ten on their fingers.

So while I'm sure some students of color and first-generation undergrads lack the intelligence to do high school math, like some of their colourless and multigeneration American classmates -- in which case they all ought to be learn trades that don't need such skills rather than trying to get into college -- for many it is simply that they can't decode the information.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 18:11 Comments || Top||

#17  they can't decode the information

Yes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 22:10 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chief to recommend charges against Florida teens who recorded drowning
[CNN] A Florida police chief said he will recommend criminal charges be filed against five teenagers who taunted a drowning man while recording his death from afar.

Stressing that the state attorney will ultimately decide whether to file charges, Cocoa Police Chief Michael Cantaloupe told CNN on Friday afternoon that he will recommend the teens be prosecuted under a statute that requires the reporting of a death to a medical examiner.

The chief's statement was a shift. In previous days, authorities said the teens wouldn't be charged because Florida does not have a law that obligates a citizen to render aid or call for help for anyone in distress.

On Friday, the office of State Attorney Phil Archer issued a statement, though not in response to the chief's comments about recommending charges.

"We were asked to make a preliminary review of the video regarding any potential charges for failure to provide aid," the state attorney's office said. "Unfortunately, there is currently no statute in Florida law that compels an individual to render, request or seek aid for a person in distress. We are, however, continuing to research whether any other statute may apply to the facts of this case."

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#1  Certainly trespassing with malicious intent and a hate crime of negligent homicide are candidate charges.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
323 people arrested on various criminal charges in Kabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three hundred and twenty three people were enjugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on various criminal charges over a period of almost one month from capital Kabul.

The Kabul police chief and head of the Criminal Investigation Department informed regarding the latest developments during a presser.

The officials further added that 15 of those arrested had links in armed robberies and were arrested from different parts of the city.

At least six others were arrested in connection to the murder and inflicting injuries to the civilians, the officials added.

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Africa Horn
President calls for ‘immediate end’ to clan fighting in Herale
[SHABELLENEWS] Somali President HE Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo has called for an immediate cessation of the ongoing inter-clan fighting in Harale area in central region of Galgaduud.

According to a statement from Villa Somalia, President Farmajo urged both brotherly warring sides to stop the bloodshed swiftly, and opt for peace talks ending the dispute.

The President stressed the need for immediate intervention in the conflict by the federal government, and subsequent mediation process.

"My government is ready to take any measures to end the hostility and will send a fact-finding team to Harale, to investigate the cause of the inter-clan festivities," said Farmajo.

Finally, Somali President has sent a heartfelt condolences to the family and friends who lost their loved ones in the unfortunate fighting between the two clans in Harale village.

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International-UN-NGOs
UNSC sanctions individuals, entities linked to IS, Al Qaeda
[ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES] The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to impose sanction measures on two gangs, two entities and four individuals linked to 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....
(IS) and Al Qaeda.

Two gangs are the Al Qaeda-linked Jund al Aqsa and the IS-linked Jaish Khalid ibn al-Waleed, both fighting in Syria, reports Xinhua news agency.

Two money exchange businesses based in Syria -- Hanifa Money Exchange Office and Selselat al Thabab -- are believed to have financial relations with the terrorist groups and were put on the sanction list.

Muhammad Bahrum Naim Anggih Tamtomo, Ornaa Rochman, Murad Irakfievich Margoshvili and Malik Ruslanovich Barkhanoev were added to the list because of their participation in terrorist attacks associated with IS and Al Qaeda.

The sanction measures include asset freeze, a global travel ban and an arms embargo which prevents direct or indirect supply of arms or related materials to the individuals and entities, according to the resolution.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


India-Pakistan
Four killed in attack on police van in Karachi's Korangi area
[DAWN] Three police personnel and a 12-year-old boy were killed after six unidentified individuals opened fire on a police van parked near Korangi's Darul Uloom in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Friday.

Superintendent Police (SP) Landhi Arif Aslam confirmed that an Awami Colony Police mobile was the target of the attack.

The dead personnel were identified as Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Qamar Din and Constable Babar Ali. Constable Amjad, who was injured in the incident, departed this vale of tears after being taken to the hospital. The identity of the boy is still not known.

Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College Director Dr Seemi Jamali has said that all four victims received multiple bullet wounds, while a passerby Abid, 15, who was injured in the incident is now out of danger.

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Africa Subsaharan
Gambians remember 22 years of dictatorship
[AA.TR] Victims of former Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
n dictator Yahya Jammeh and activists converged at a local hotel on Friday night to remember the regime, which cost the small West African nation hundreds of lives, ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the autocrat’s rise to power.

Saturday will be the 23rd anniversary of the military coup that brought Jammeh to his decades of rule, before he was finally pressured to step down this January and go into exile.

Sheriff Kijera, a senior member of the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations, an institution that was recently established to ensure justice for Jammeh’s victims, said July 22 marks a "dark page in the history of Gambia".

"The Centre for Victims has begun the campaign for justice, and it is in our resolve to see to it that the government provides justice for the victims of Jammeh," Kijera told the gathering.

The evening symposium was chaired by a former minister under Jammeh, Dr. Scatter Janneh, who was convicted of treason and locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
for 15 months for distributing T-shirts saying, "Coalition for change, Gambia end dictatorship now".

In previous years Jammeh celebrated July 22 as a national day, but Gambian authorities this year denied his party a permit to celebrate the day.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dictators Who Love America - The Atlantic, 6 Feb 2016.

Authoritarian leaders like the Gambia's Yahya Jammeh seem to relish the West's wealth. Why doesn’t the United States use that against them?

Excerpt: The Gambia’s leader encases his rule in a pan-African, anti-Western veneer. But he also portrays himself as a friend of America.
Yet on the other hand, Jammeh portrays himself as a friend of America. After attending the 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., he returned to the Gambia to be greeted by supporters in T-shirts bearing the photograph, taken days earlier, of a beaming Barack Obama shaking his hand.


Link
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  But Besoeker, Obama is anti Western too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 13:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary
[NYTIMES]
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scaramucci = sycophant

How many legs can a rich sycophant hump? I ask hypothetically...quite a few apparently answer below.

In 2008, Scaramucci served as a fundraiser for President Barack Obama...later served as a National Finance Co-Chair for Mitt Romney for President in 2012...During the 2016 presidential election, Scaramucci first endorsed Scott Walker and...later Jeb Bush...after both Walker and Bush had withdrawn from the race...he signed on to Donald Trump's political campaign...and bingo the suck hit the jackpot.

Posted by: Tennessee || 07/22/2017 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  He actually does bear a striking resemblance to Joe Isuzu.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Trumps Chief of Staff is Priebus. I assume he is the one who is responsible for all of this.
Posted by: Deadeye Pelosi7075 || 07/22/2017 1:44 Comments || Top||

#4  sycophant - any of millions of Hillary voters. So what?

Seems to have been a lot of people who pulled the Trump lever, not because they liked him, but what the alternative would have been.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Commenting on the article, I quit reading it when it degenerated into a People magazine article - "Mr. A didn't like B, but C was against the whole thing from the beginning, which irritated D, who complained about E two years ago [deep breath] all of which continues to proved what we said millennia ago, that Trump is a moron."
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2017 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Re #5, the NYT always complains about White House offices being 'disorganized', which translates as "doesn't take us to lunch and gossip".
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Lest we forget:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/22/2017 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Why aren't we 50 points ahead? Because you were a lying, crooked, unlikable scary witch then and you are now. ...And people around you tend to die.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Gonna miss Sean Spicier.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2017 21:13 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
This Week in Guns, July 22nd, 2017


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Housekeeping Note: See below about the new value level of used AR-15s.

A young man, a young patriot from Louisiana posted link to a Fort Piece, Florida bust of a 25 year old with a home build, short barreled AR-15. The lesson should be that the kops are watching Armslist for potential customers for the justice industry.

Also in Florida, a retired firefighter decides he has had enough. He brings out a hand cannon and shoots at two telephone company vehicles. The fella doesn't even look angry and, leaving aside for the moment the stupidity of punctuating your displeasure on unarmed individuals with a firearm, he was a pretty good shot.

The main problem is, of course, he apparently doesn't know there's a new product out, called earplugs.

Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Pistol ammunition prices were steady. Rifle ammunition prices were steady.

Prices for used pistols were higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.

For the first time, every AR-15 pattern semiautomatic rifle in every state I follow is listed at or below $450, with three listing below $400. The downward pricing trend of AR-15 continues, this time with a vengeance. The nationwide average price for a used AR-15 semiautomatic rifle plummeted below $400 to $387, for a total of $50 per unit.

None of the states listed were above their 2Q, 2017 high for the numbers of guns available for sale, which would indicate the price declines are more for the value of the platform (which is declining) rather than a reflection of price against demand (which is also declining). It could easily be said that AR-15s are being dumped onto the free private market, except the sellers are disparate individuals, a group not known for price fixing.

Understanding what it takes in terms of parts pricing, I fail to see how much further down the average price will go. But then, I said that three weeks ago at the start of 3Q, 2017.

New Lows:

Arizona: .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic): Bushmaster: $350
Arizona: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic): Taurus PT111: $200

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Fedarm, Own brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)

.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Highland Lakes Ammo, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, CCI Blazer, RNL, Aluminum Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammomen, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))

7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))

.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .82 per round (From Last Week: -.05 Each After Unchanged (5 Weeks))

.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Federal Eagle, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds: Wholesale Hunter, Federal American Eagle, Brass Casing, HP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $387 Last Week Avg: $438(-) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $387 (CA: $435 (5 Weeks))
Arizona (191, 3Q, 2017)(182, 179): Bushmaster: $350 ($600 (25 Weeks), $350 (CA: $450 (19 Weeks)))
Texas (469, 3Q, 2017)(453, 436): Bushmaster: $350 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (234, 3Q, 2017)(233, 215): Delton: $385 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (282, 3Q, 2017)(247, 253): Smith & Wesson: $450 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $400 (6 Weeks))
Florida (679, 3Q, 2017)(621, 593): Smith and Wesson Sport II M&P15: $400 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $380 (1Q, 2015))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $815 Last Week Avg: $800(+) ($1,359 (2Q, 2015), $766 (8 Weeks))
Arizona (34, 3Q, 2017)(34, 32): Palmetto State Armory: $1,000 ($2,300 (6 Weeks)), $650 (29 Weeks))
Texas (178, 3Q, 2017)(168, 166): DPMS LR-308: $800 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $700 (50 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (54, 3Q, 2017)(52, 49): DPMS: $775 ($1,600 (37 Weeks), $700 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (86, 3Q, 2017)(86, 83): Mixed Build: $800 ($2,750 (1Q, 2016), $750 (22 Weeks))
Florida (124, 3Q, 2017)(116, 117): DPMS: $700 ($1,950 (2Q, 1016), $500 (3Q, 2015))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $490 Last Week Avg: $535(-) ($668 (45 Weeks), $450 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (28, 3Q, 2017)(26, 25): Unknown Make: $650 ($900 (7 Weeks), $400 (12 Weeks))
Texas (141, 3Q, 2017)(123, 137): RAS-47: $500 ($800 (1Q, 2016), $350 (3Q, 2014))
Pennsylvania (75, 3Q, 2017)(60, 61): Yugo NPAP M70: $400 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $375 (1Q, 2015))
Virginia (72, 3Q, 2017)(59, 57): IO: $450 ($700 (2Q, 2016), $350 (1Q, 2015))
Florida (146, 3Q, 2017)(133, 126): IO: $450 ($700 (1Q, 2016), $300 (4Q, 2014))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $365 Last Week Avg: $365(=) ($495 (41 Weeks), $296 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (14, 3Q, 2017)(10, 12): Mossberg 464: $400 ($500 (26 Weeks), $200 (11 Weeks))
Texas (32, 3Q, 2017)(25, 26): Winchester Model 94: $325 ($550 (1Q, 2015), $295 (11 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (23, 3Q, 2017)(18, 19): Marlin: $350 ($450 (1Q, 2015), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Virginia (17, 3Q, 2017)(12, 12): Winchester Model 94: $450 ($670 (2Q, 2016), $250 (4Q, 2015))
Florida (34, 3Q, 2017)(26, 27): Marlin: $300 ($500 (1Q, 2015), $250 (2Q, 2015))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $391 Last Week Avg: $388(+) ($525 (47 Weeks), $350 (4Q, 2015))
Arizona (124, 3Q, 2017)(115, 114): Viking Tactical: $450 ($700 (12 Weeks), $380 (5 Weeks))
Texas (358, 3Q, 2017)(350, 336): Llama: $350 ($600 (4Q, 2014), $300 (33 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (178, 3Q, 2017)(159, 157): American Tactical Imports: $400 ($585 (11 Weeks), $300 (2Q, 2015))
Virginia (197, 3Q, 2017)(192, 197): American Tactical Imports: $350 ($600 (25 Weeks), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Florida (440, 3Q, 2017)(391, 396): Rock Island Armory: $405 ($500 (1Q, 2016), $250 (1Q, 2015))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $227 Last Week Avg: $220(+) ($358 (1Q, 2016), $207 (11 Weeks))
Arizona (238, 3Q, 2017)(223, 227): Taurus PT111: $200 ($400 (17 Weeks), $200 (CA: $240 (12 Weeks))
Texas (575, 3Q, 2017)(575, 532): Hungarian FEG : $260 ($355 (1Q, 2015), $199 (13 Weeks))
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Used Gun of the Week: (Nebraska)
Baikal MP161K chambered in .22 LR
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#1  Crazy low prices.
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Iraq
ISIS snuffie in escape bid dressed as GIRL
[DAILYSTAR.CO.UK] AN Islamic State fighter disguised as a woman was caught – when Iraqi troops spotted his beard.
One of the more brilliant ISIS bad boyz, eh?
The desperate jihadi dressed in drag as he tried to flee the liberated Iraqi city of Mosul. He had slapped on lipstick, plucked his eyebrows and painted his eyelids in vibrant eyeshadow. But he only trimmed his beard – keeping a moustache and goatee.
I've always wondered if there's not a non-religious reason Moslems cover their wimmin like that. I mean, there's gotta be some reason they're not proud of them.
Liberating troops rumbled him, and slapped him in handcuffs before snapping his mugshot.
"Jest keep yer hands in the air where we can see 'em, missy!"
Hordes of Isis fighters are desperate to dodge capture after the city was freed from the brutal terror group. They have been resorting to all kinds of tricks to slide past the authorities and many have taken to dressing-up as women to elude detection.
"What're you doin' after the indictment, cutie pie?"
One painted his face with thick make-up and wore a padded bra to give himself feminine curves. But his thick carpet of chest hair was clearly visible through his vest.
"He looks kinda like me sister, back in old Sadr City!"
Another was scooped up wearing a striking red velvet ladies’ suit. His beard had tipped-off the troops who arrested him.
"Step over here, if y'don't mind, missy! Yeah, you, the one with the braids in yer beard!"
And three young warlords were snared trying to pass themselves off as a family group. They caught the attention of Iraqi troops because the “mother” of the family was wearing an eye-catching electric blue outfit.
"Oh, honey! Where did you get that dress?"
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#1  Whichever mod did the heavy lifting... Outstanding!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2  He certainly made an effort to improve his appearance, poor thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The mod was Fred Pruitt, MM.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Stone him her!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I think one takeaway is pancake is poor at covering power burns or abrasions or whatever is going on over that one side of the just slightly modified monobrow...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I think the gentleman -- or his partner in cosmetics -- drew the brow too thick, then tried to cover it up by slapping more foundation on it instead of starting over again with clean skin, MM. And, upon seeing the mess he'd made, left alone the other brow and the dirty fingerprints on the forehead.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I always tell my girlfriend that if I had to deal with makeup, I'd cry. Then I remind her she does not need any...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2017 13:06 Comments || Top||

#8  It wasn't a disguise, xie was ready for a date.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#9  RuPaul's having a really bad day...
Posted by: Raj || 07/22/2017 16:27 Comments || Top||

#10  This is what happens when young boys grow up without ever seein' a lady up close.
Posted by: Dron66 || 07/22/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US General confirms ending of program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria
[CNN] A senior US general has confirmed that the US has ended a classified CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria.

Appearing at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, General Raymond Thomas, head of US Special Operations Command, said the decision was not made to appease Russia which supports Assad.

"From at least what I know about that program and the decision to end it, absolutely not a sop to the Russians," Thomas said. "It was I think based on an assessment of the nature of the program, what we're trying to accomplish, the viability of it going forward and it was a tough tough decision."

John Brennan, who served as director of the CIA under President Barack Obama was also asked about the decision at Aspen by CNN's Elise Labott. He did not talk about the specifics of the program, but he said the anti-Assad rebels deserve US support.

Thomas went on to offer extended comments on a number of national security and military matters at Aspen.
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China-Japan-Koreas
USS Fitzgerald 'at fault': Crew failed to react to approaching cargo ship in devastating crash that killed seven American sailors off the coast of Japan, investigation suggests
[DailyMail] - USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine cargo ship crashed on June 17, killing seven

- Preliminary findings suggest crew on Fitzgerald failed to avoid collision in time

- They 'did nothing until the last second', according to a Defense official to CNN

- Fitzgerald's captain, Bryce Benson, was asleep at the time of the collision and it remains unclear whether the crew called the commanding officer to the bridge

- Investigators are looking into possibility Fitzgerald was moving at high speeds

- The collision tore a hole in the Fitzgerald's hull and water poured into the berthing area while sailors slept; authorities said the $1.5bn could have sank

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See? Even the Navy leaks.

[pun intended]
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't matter that the Captain was on the bridge, he usually isn't. That's what the Officer of the Deck is for. (Both of these guys need to be checking Craiglist for their next jobs, they're toast.) Basically they'll be at fault if they let somebody else run into them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  The CO is ultimately responsible - he was the one who signed off that the OOD was qualified.

As ed in texas said, the CO will likely be relieved for cause. Depending on the outcome of the investigation by the Navy, several others could be in trouble - the OOD, the CIC watch officer, and any lookouts.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/22/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||


Economy
Here's a Really Good Sign the Economy Is Rebounding
[Fortune] Residential construction rebounded from a three month decline in June with housing starts increasing to 1.22 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The number of housing projects started last month shows an 8.3% increase from the May figures and a 2.1% increase from June of last year.

Homebuilders still have the rising cost of lumber and a skilled labor shortage to contend with while they're trying to gain momentum. But it's not for nothing that housing starts outperformed economist estimates by about 60,000, or 5%.
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#1  So banks are lending money again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Banks are desperate to push money out the door as long as there is a reposessable asset in play and you can fog a mirror.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Car sales are down. Light duty PUs have offset the decline in autos which probably means more people are going to work. Car and truck sales over time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The nail roll companies that make the nails for the nail guns and screws for the screw guns have not had a good year. That's a far more accurate number than any from a banker or economist.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2017 17:41 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran accuses US of nuclear deal 'sabotage'
[DAWN] Iran on Friday strongly criticised the US over the fresh sanctions which it says "violate" the terms of a 2015 landmark nuclear deal, raising its concerns at a meeting with major world powers in Vienna.

"We talked in detail about the sanctions and the instances that the Americans had delayed in fulfilling their commitments, the instances where they violated the deal," Tehran's lead nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi told news hounds.

"We showed one by one the instances where the American side in the last year and a half acted without the good will and even acted with ill intention," he said.

Araqchi said the United States was "trying to sabotage the situation, to threaten or scare off foreign companies to invest in Iran". The regular quarterly meeting to review the deal heard, as Washington already confirmed earlier this week, that Iran is sticking to its side of the pact with the United States, Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And so we are, if they mean the deal whereby we (the party of the second part, firmly bound by what were essentially the private actions of President Obama against the clear will of Congress and the nation) allow Iran (the party of the first part, of course, because they are Allah's favouritest believers in the whole, wide world!) to proceed unmolested in their pursuit of nuclear devices while periodically paying hella amounts of jizya and pretending -- not too hard, of course -- to continue to support Israel. We've broken that deal wide open, and are in the process of stomping it into the dust.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 10:49 Comments || Top||

#2  There ought to be sabotage of this misbegotten bummer of a deal.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we make it blow up? (The deal...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 19:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
One killed in held Kashmir as Indian troops open fire on protesters
[DAWN] The Indian Army opened fire on a group of protesters Friday, killing one youth and injuring another in India-held Kashmire, police said.

The demonstrators had gathered in the town of Beerwah after senior separatist leaders called for a strike against the Indian rule in Kashmire.

Soldiers opened fire after mistaking a firecracker for a grenade kaboom, police claimed. A statement, issued by police claimed that someone among the protesters hurled a firecracker towards the army men. The army personnel mistook the cracker as a grenade and they opened fire, it added.

Indian authorities have imposed a curfew in parts of the main city Srinagar where separatists had called for a march to the office of a UN military observer group to protest against recent civilian killings and arrest of dozens of political activists.

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-War on Police-
Minneapolis police chief resigns in wake of fatal shooting of bride-to-be
[ABC] Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced that she is resigning in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of an Australian bride-to-be.

"[L]ast Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to engage in deep reflection," Harteau said in part in a statement posted on the police department's Facebook page.

She continued: "The recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a Department. Despite the MPD’s many accomplishments under my leadership over these years and my love for the City, I have to put the communities we serve first. I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be."

Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who went by her fiancé Don Damond's last name, was killed by a police officer on July 15 after she called 911 to report what she believed was a sexual assault occurring near her home.

Authorities said officers Matthew Harrity and Mohammed Noor responded to Ruszczyk's 911 call, but never found a suspect. They were startled by a loud noise and then Ruszczyk approached the driver's side of the car and Noor, who was on the passenger side, fired his gun through the open driver's side window, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

Related: Protesters Disrupt MN Mayor's Presser on Woman Shot By Cop
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The protesters taking over the (D) Mayor's presser announcing her accepting the resignation of a Female Police Chief who believed hiring a Somalian was "The Answer."

Hypothesis: (Affirmative Action)Cubed = Anarchy.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/22/2017 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  First Female Police Chief™ (L3sbian, part Indian) < Somali Cop and BLM.

"Under the bus wit you!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I have been waiting to see when BLM came out to protest in support of Somalian Mohammed Noor, the shooter.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  According to the Daily Telegraph, Officer Noor is nervous and jumpy, and doesn't like African-Americans. Scroll down for the defails.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 21:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Trump administration transfers al Qaeda suspect to the U.S. to face terrorism charges
[CBSNEWS] The Trump administration has transferred an al Qaeda suspect from Spain to the U.S. to face trial in federal court for terrorism charges, CBS News has confirmed.

Ali Charaf Damache
...the dual national Algerian Irishman who was such great friends with Pennsylvania native Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted...
was charged with helping to plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons, according to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, which first reported the transfer.

Damache was scheduled to appear in federal court Friday in Philadelphia, which the report says makes him the first foreigner brought to the U.S. to face terrorism charges under President Trump.

Mr. Trump and members of his administration, like Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have previously advocated using the prison at Guantanamo Bay to hold and prosecute terrorism suspects, the report notes.

Former President B.O. sought to close the detention facility, but was unsuccessful, with Congress blocking him from fulfilling that promise. Instead, he transferred 161 detainees from the prison. Mr. Trump made clear on the 2016 campaign trail that he opposed Mr. Obama's efforts and called on him before the inauguration to stop releasing detainees.
This article starring:
Ali Charaf Damache
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Arabia
Qatar's ruler says time to resolve differences in talks
[REUTERS] 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 emir called on Friday for dialogue to resolve a political crisis pitting his country against four Arab states, saying any talks must respect national illusory sovereignty, but the call was unlikely to end the rift.

In his first speech since four Arab countries severed ties with Doha, a defiant Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said life was continuing as normal despite what he described as an unjust "siege".

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed sanctions on Qatar last month, accusing it of financing turban groups and supporting terrorism, which the emir denied.

"Qatar is fighting terrorism relentlessly and without compromise, and the international community recognises this," Sheikh Tamim said in the televised speech.

He spoke hours after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was satisfied with Qatar's efforts to implement an agreement aimed at combating terror financing, and urged the four states to lift their "land blockade".

It also comes days before Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who had supported Qatar in the crisis, was due to visit Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to try to resolve the rift.

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China-Japan-Koreas
U.S. State Department to clamp ban on travel to North Korea
[REUTERS] The U.S. government on Friday said it will bar Americans from travelling to North Korea due to the risk of "long-term detention" in the country, where a U.S. student was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
while on a tour last year and later died.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has authorized a "Geographical Travel Restriction" on Americans to forbid them from entering North Korea, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.

"Once in effect, U.S. passports will be invalid for travel to, through and in North Korea, and individuals will be required to obtain a passport with a special validation in order to travel to or within North Korea," Nauert said.

The move was due to "mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea's system of law enforcement," she said.

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Prediction: Dennis Rodman will visit North Korea soon and absolutely nothing will be done about it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  "Americans", B. That also assumes they're human. Rodman isn't covered
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Dang! And I was so hoping to go to Pyongyang for the annual Bark Harvest.

As for Rodman, rumor has it he will be returning to his homeworld.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Police arrest AJK 'faith healer' accused of raping, blackmailing women followers
[DAWN] A fake pir (faith healer), who is accused of blackmailing numerous women after raping and filming them, was on Friday remanded to police custody till July 29 by a trial court in the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).

The accused, Mian Mohammad Tanzeem, 55, had reportedly been running his extortion racket in a densely-populated area of Muzaffarabad for more than a decade. He was finally netted by the police after an informant tipped off City Police SHO Rashid Habib Masoodi with evidence of his reprehensible activities. The police secretly surveilled the accused for two days before finally raiding the three-room "Aastana Aaliya", his den, on Thursday afternoon after securing permission from sub-divisional magistrate Asim Khalid Awan.

The aastana was part of the accused's house, but his family seems to have disassociated themselves from him due to his activities, SHO Masoodi told Dawn.

The first room of the aastana was a reception and waiting room; the second room was where the accused met his victims, while the third was a luxurious bedroom where the accused had installed three hidden cameras.

The accused, who would also practice quackery and black magic, would lure female followers into visiting him alone, administer sedatives to them and then rape them in the bedroom, SHO Masoodi said.

He would film his victims with the hidden cameras installed in the room and then blackmail them on their next visit. He would ask for money and gold in return for his silence, the police official added.

Police said the fake pir would avoid targeting local followers and instead would prey on women from other districts. "Most of his victims were therefore from other districts, such as Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Attock and Mirpur," the SHO said. The accused would force his victims, with the threat of releasing their videos, to lure more women to his place.

SHO Masoodi said that the fake pir did not offer much resistance when the police raided his place.

"Initially he asked us why we were raiding his place. When he was told that the police possessed substantial evidence about his abhorrent practices, he instantly confessed to his crimes," he said.

The fake pir also handed over a laptop which carried substantial incriminating evidence of his activities.

Police have booked the man for violation of Sections 419, 420 and 354-A of the Azad Kashmire Penal Code and Sections 6 and 10 of the Zina Hudood Ordinance. The last three crimes are punishable with lifetime imprisonment.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Sold by IS in Raqa, Yazidi Female Fighters Back for Revenge
[AnNahar] She was trafficked into Raqa as a sex slave by 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 but managed to escape. Now Yazidi fighter Heza is back to avenge the horrors she and thousands of others suffered.

Her hair tucked under a tightly wrapped forest green shawl embroidered with flowers, Heza says battling IS in its Syrian bastion has helped relieve some of her trauma.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


-Lurid Crime Tales-
U.S. immigration raids to target teenaged suspected gang members
[REUTERS] U.S. immigration agents are planning nationwide raids next week to arrest, among others, teenagers who entered the country without guardians and are suspected gang members, in a widening of 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...
's crackdown on illegal immigrants colonists.

The raids are set to begin on Sunday and continue through Wednesday, according to an internal memo seen by Rooters. The teenagers targeted will be 16- and 17-years-old.

The raids represent a sharp departure from practices during the presidency of Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
. Under Obama, minors could be targeted for deportation if they had been convicted of crimes, but were not jugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
simply for suspected gang activity or membership.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that a person can be identified as a gang member if they meet two or more criteria, including having gang tattoos, frequenting an area notorious for gangs and wearing gang apparel.

The agency said it does not comment on plans for future law enforcement operations, but that it focuses on individuals who pose a threat to national security and public safety.

The memo instructing field offices to prepare for the raids was dated June 30. A Department of Homeland Security official speaking on background confirmed on Friday the raids were still scheduled to take place, though ICE could still change its plans.

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#1  gang tattoos. MS-13 are notorious for elaborate ink. Beat their asses on the plane back
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Great!
Just a little armed resistance should bring the hammer down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/22/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Leaks from ICE ahead of events? Interesting.

I would expect the miscreants to choose disappearing rather than fighting, now that plans have been reported, with some unknown portion choosing to leave the country, either to the north or back south.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  So, yeah, let's all tell 'em about it before it happens so they can escape capture. Thanks, Rooters. Now, who showed you leaked that memo?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 13:13 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
U.S. airstrike kills at least 9 Afghan police
[WASHINGTONPOST] A U.S. Arclight airstrike killed at least nine "local security personnel aligned with Afghan Government forces," a front man for the U.S. military confirmed late Friday.

U.S. forces apparently mistook the police for the Talibs the U.S. and Afghan forces were fighting.
Luncheon Shura? Retirement ceremony? Pay-day activities ?
The Arclight airstrike took place in the Gereshk district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, where U.S. and Afghan forces have been locked in fierce fighting with the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
. Local media reports put the number of dead at 17. A U.S. military statement said that an investigation would be conducted "to determine the specific circumstances that led to this incident."

Helmand’s governor, Hayatullah Hayat, said that two commanders of the national police were among those killed and that many bodies were still under rubble, making an exact toll hard to determine.

According to Hayat, the Taliban had recently seized a number of police posts and captured Humvees stationed there, making it easier for aircraft to confuse the two groups.

"The police had recaptured a post from the enemy, and it was hit by mistake with the belief that the Taliban fighters were still dug in there after they took the post on Thursday," said Hayat, who was reached by phone. He claimed that 70 Taliban fighters had also been killed in the offensive, which took place around midday Friday.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because official details about the strike had yet to be released, said that U.S. Marines in Helmand had helped coordinate the strike with Afghan cops. The official said that the area had recently been taken over by the Taliban and that their Afghan counterparts indicated that the positions were not friendly or manned by government forces.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Remove Jerusalem metal detectors, demands Erdogan
[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
on Thursday urged his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin to swiftly remove metal detectors that have outraged Moslem Paleostinian worshippers at a sensitive holy site in annexed east Jerusalem.

Paleostinians have been refusing to enter the Haram al-Sharif compound in annexed east Jerusalem since Sunday, when Israel began installing metal detectors at entrances to the site following an attack that killed two coppers.

"Within the framework of freedom of religion and worship there can be no impediment for Moslems" entering the holy site, the Anadolu news agency quoted Erdogan as telling Rivlin. "Given the importance that Haram al-Sharif carries for the whole Islamic world, the metal detectors put in place by Israel should be removed in the shortest possible time and an end put to the tension," Erdogan added.

The Ottoman Turkish leader had earlier held telephone talks with Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, telling him the measures imposed by Israel were "unacceptable".

Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  ...And the horse you rode in on, Yippee.

The insanity of these demands mirror the insanity of the feminazis, BLMers and eco-freaks.

Blair's law strikes again - 'the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/22/2017 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Be funny if Mossad left a severed goats head in his bed one night, as a hint.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/22/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali Intelligence Official shot dead in Galkayo, killers escape
[SHABELLENEWS] A senior Somali Intelligence officer was reported to have been rubbed out in Galkayo, the capital of Mudug region in central Somalia on Friday, July 21.

Residents confirmed to Radio Shabelle the unknown gunnies murdered Hassan Ali Geelle, the officer working for Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA).

The killers managed to escape the scene before the arrival of the security forces, who later launched in investigation into the incident. No group claimed credit for the liquidation.

In a separate incident, assailants hurled a grenade bomb at a cop shoppe in northern Galkayo under Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
administration.

Local officials said gunnies tried to storm the Police post following the grenade blast, but the security forces repulsed them during a brief confrontation.

No casualties was reported, as a result of the attack, according to the official who spoke to Radio Shabelle on condition of anonymity.
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Southeast Asia
Philippines scraps peace talks after attacks on troops
[AA.TR] President Rodrigo Duterte has scrapped peace talks with communist rebels after they allegedly conducted a series of attacks on security forces.

"Let us renew the fighting for another 50 years. It's what you want," Duterte was quoted as saying by the Rappler at Davos City investment forum on Friday.

The backchannel talks between the government and Communist Party of Philippines (CPP) were supposed to resume within the next few days.

Previously, the talks were suspended in May after the president imposed martial law in the southern island of Mindanao following the siege laid by the ISIS-linked Maute group in Marawi City.

On Thursday, the president visited the Marawi City and told soldiers that New People’s Army (NPA), armed wing of the CPP, would be their next target.

"They owe us a lot. I no longer want to talk to them. They have killed many of my troops," Duterte told soldiers.

His announcement came after five members of his Presidential Security Group (PSG) were maimed in an attack claimed by the NPA in North Cotabato province Wednesday.

Also, police chief of Guihulngan city in Negros Oriental province and four others were killed, in an attack allegedly staged by suspected communist rebels Friday.

According to a report by inquirer, the coppers responded to a call from a provincial board member, who claimed that gunnies tried to ambush him and his driver.

The rebels attacked the responding coppers and a firefight ensued between them.

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Deep State Intelligence officials criticize Trump's stance on Russia
[PalmBeachPost.com] ASPEN, Colo. Two former top intelligence officials harshly criticized President Donald Trump on Friday for not standing up to Russia for meddling in the presidential election, one of them wondering aloud whether the president's real aim is to make "Russia great again."

Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan didn't hold back their anger about Trump's past disparaging comments about the intelligence agencies and their assessment that Moscow deliberately interfered in the election and tried to sow discord in the United States.

Asked if he thinks Trump takes the threat from Russia seriously enough, Clapper said he wonders sometimes if the White House agenda is about "making Russia great again." The comment played off Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

In a wide-ranging discussion at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Clapper and Brennan said that Trump advisers should have been more wary of meeting with a Russian lawyer and others. In June, in the heat of the campaign, the president's son, his campaign manager and his son-in-law met a group at Trump Tower in New York that included a Russian lawyer and Russian lobbyist. Emails about the meeting showed that Donald Trump Jr., attended on the premise of obtaining damaging material the Russian government had on Hillary Clinton

"It would have been a really good idea to have vetted whomever they were meeting with. I think the Russian objective here was to explore to see if there was interest in having such a discussion on offering up dirt on Hillary Clinton," Clapper said. He said the meeting reminds him of standard Russian spy craft.

Brennan called the meeting "profoundly baffling" and wondered why Trump advisers would "jump at the opportunity" to meet with individuals about getting information on Clinton. "The Russians operate in a very cunning manner and they will take and exploit any opportunity they get," he said.

Clapper also suggested that the security clearance held by Jared Kushner, a Trump adviser and the president's son-in-law, should at least be suspended until it can be determined why he failed to disclose all the meetings he's had with Russians.
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#1  The word 'former' intentionally deleted from article heading.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2017 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Former intel officials for good reason.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Clapper and Brennan, both suspect and a part of the Clinton Deep Swamp. If one thinks about the various presidents who ran as Pubs starting with Nixon and going up through Trump, there has been a concerted effort by the Left/Donks/Rinos//Beltway Party to take down every one of them. Today, they would have a field day with Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. I doubt that Reagan would survive today.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
2 missing after Abu Sayyaf rebels torch Basilan sawmill
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] Two persons went missing when Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
gunnies stormed a sawmill in Maluso, Basilan
...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts...
on Thursday, authorities said Friday.

Maluso Mayor Hanie Bud told the Inquirer that Dodong Divinagracia, 50; and his son, Ily, 25, were manning the sawmill when Abu Sayyaf gunnies came and set the place on fire.

"We are waiting for updates as the military and barangay (village) officials concerned are still in the area," Bud said.

Supt. Nickson Muksan, the Basilan police chief, said a civilian had reported that the gunnies included Abu Sayyaf members Pasil Bayali and a certain Otoh Dobol and that the Divinagracias were taken as hostages.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
New US troops and weapons arrive for Raqqa assault plus map of US bases in Syria
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#1  Such a happy story! Except for the Turkish map of American bases, I mean.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2017 10:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Four factory workers die after falling into chemical tank in Karachi
[DAWN] Four labourers died after falling into an underground chemical tank of an industrial unit one after another in the Bin Qasim area on Thursday.

The incident came as a grim reminder of last year’s tragedy that had left five people dead in a Korangi factory, indicating gross violation of safety measures and the Sindh social security rules, officials said.

SHO of Bin Qasim cop shoppe Dhani Bux told Dawn that the labourers died after ostensibly inhaling chemical fumes inside the tank of the under-construction Scada chemical factory near Ghaggar Phatak.

The officer said one of the labourers had been apparently trying to fix the tank’s ventilator when he slipped and fell into it. Three other workers died while trying to save their colleague. A fifth worker was, however, rescued and later hospitalised.

The dear departed were identified as Zahoor Ahmed, Tanveer Ahmed, Faizan and Faisal while Ali Shah was rescued.

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#1  What, they didn't become superheroes and get a Marvel/Disney movie deal? Because that's all it takes in the comics...
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/22/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  gross violation of safety measures and the Sindh social security rules

In a country where men regularly throw acid in a woman's face. Whoda thunk it, Pakland?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||


Man and woman brutally killed for 'honour' in Karachi
[DAWN] A young man and woman were killed in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, allegedly in the name of honour, Superintendent of Police Gulberg Bashir Ahmed Brohi said on Friday.

According to the police, 22-year-old Sajid Bahadur and 20-year-old Kalsoom were stabbed to death in the early hours of Friday in Nazimabad, police said.

According to SP Brohi, the two were murdered allegedly by Kalsoom's father and brother using meat cleavers.

The incident took place at the woman's house, and the suspects as well as the rest of the girl's family managed to escape the scene, police said.

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