[Variety] - Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is demanding President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies, like the one held at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia on Tuesday (August 21). The band’s 1993 hit "Livin’ on the Edge" was played as Trump devotees entered the venue, which has a capacity of 13,500. Tyler has in turn sent a "cease and desist" letter through his attorney Dina LaPolt to the White House accusing the President of willful infringement in broadcasting the song, which was written by Tyler, Joe Perry and Mark Hudson.
Citing the Lanham Act, which prohibits "any false designation or misleading description or representation of fact ... likely to cause confusion ... as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person," Tyler’s attorney contends that playing an Aerosmith song in a public arena gives the false impression that Tyler is endorsing Trump’s presidency.
Comic relief - here's a link to Tyler fucking up the National Anthem at the Pats / Ravens AFC Championship game back in January 2012, which the Patriots won in spite of this cock-up!
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Tyler’s attorney contends that playing an Aerosmith song in a public arena gives the false impression that Tyler is endorsing Trump’s presidency.
Yeah, that OR that the campaign paid the royalty fee to ASCAP or BMI or whoever to get the rights to play the song.
As mentioned the other day, it's like Trump has some super power that makes his enemies reveal themselves as idiots, scoundrels, whoremongers, and commies.
Via la Wiki: The Lanham (Trademark) Act is the primary federal trademark statute of law in the United States. The Act prohibits a number of activities, including trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and false advertising.
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Would the last two entertainers with balls, please stand up.
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Would the last two entertainers with balls, please stand up.
I saw a blurb the other day that Lana del Ray will be performing in Israel despite the massive pushback she was getting from the usual suspects. She may be an airhead, but she has more sand than Steven Tyler.
Wherever did we get the idea that entertainers were some sort of moral or intellectual leaders? I'd sooner get advice from the neighbor's dog.
[PJ] Yesterday’s news that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court and accused Trump of committing a federal crime by directing him to pay hush money to two women "for the principal purpose of influencing the election" was definitely shocking. According to Cohen and his attorney, Trump violated campaign finance laws by allegedly directing Cohen to make these hush money payments. This point had me confused.
For the moment, let’s put aside the obvious problems with Cohen’s credibility and assume he’s telling the truth. According to a Reuters article about the Cohen pleas:
Under U.S. election law, campaign contributions, defined as things of value given to a campaign to influence an election, must be disclosed. A payment intended to silence allegations of an affair just before an election could constitute a campaign contribution, which is limited to $2,700 per person per election, some experts said.
So, let’s review... A payment to silence someone from making potentially damaging statements "could constitute" a campaign contribution according to "some" experts? There’s clearly a significant amount of subjectivity here. But, here’s the thing: if everything went down as Cohen says it did, then why wasn’t Obama held to the same standard?
That’s right, Barack Obama also offered an individual hush money "for the principal purpose of influencing the election," but you probably never heard about it. It wasn’t to silence a mistress though, it was to silence his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Wright’s inflammatory, anti-American rhetoric caused Obama significant headaches during his first presidential campaign, and he tried to contain the damage to protect his chances of winning the White House.
Edward Klein broke the story in the New York Post on May 13, 2012‐the same year Obama was reelected‐that Obama’s team tried to buy Wright’s silence during the 2008 campaign. According to Wright, he was offered $150,000 through an Obama intermediary (one of Obama’s closest friends), and Obama himself tried to persuade him to keep quiet.
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Hush money is not illegal. Hush money that came from campaign funds would be illegal. Its much ado about nothing as far as I can tell unless Cohen has some prove the money came from the campaign funds which I can't imagine he can.
So basically Mueller gets a hollow victory, Dems get talking points, and it might be enough to influence voters in November but I doubt it.
[Forbes] While Desiree picked Bionic Woman dolls over Barbies, Dave was busy taking his toys apart and attempting to put them back together.
They both attended college in the 1980s, a time when Desiree became obsessed with computers and Dave pursued a degree in lasers and electronics. The two techies built separate careers in the IT industry.
But in 2002, they landed at an energy company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Desiree worked as a systems analyst, and Dave was the company’s senior network architect. And although they shared a common craft, it was Dave’s homegrown hobby that ultimately brought them together.
"I’ve always been a homebrewer," Dave said. "And it’s also how I introduced myself to Desiree at the office. I offered her some homebrewed beer, and she thought that was pretty cool."
[Forbes] Erik Prince is back, publicizing his plan for the Afghan war that is both heretical and worth considering. For those unfamiliar with the name, Prince founded the security company, Blackwater, which provided private security details in Iraq. He claimed never to have lost the client, but the company was accused of atrocities, particularly a 2007 incident in Baghdad where 20 people were killed. To say he is controversial would be an understatement.
Last year, Prince proposed a plan to the administration to create a "viceroy" in Afghanistan and to transfer most support activities to long-serving contractors, including the advising of Afghan forces and the conduct of air operations. This was highly controversial, both because of Prince personally and because the military opposed turning so many of its customary functions over to contractors. The plan was thought to be dead. However, it has resurfaced recently, with Prince holding a series of interviews and getting some media attention.
Why would anyone pay attention now? He has an opening because of the president’s frustration with the continued stalemate in Afghanistan and the military’ lack of a clear plan for concluding the conflict. A year ago, the president laid out his plan for Afghanistan, which included about 6,000 more troops above the Obama level of 9,000, and fewer restrictions on military operations. The president repeatedly talked about "winning". It’s now a year later, and victory looks no closer than it has in the previous 17 years of the war. Indeed, Afghan security forces recently lost and then re-took the town of Ghazni at great cost, part of the see-saw war that has been going on for years. The president had wanted to get out entirely, and now he’s probably feeling trapped.
It’s not clear that the military has a plan to "win" or even to withdraw after achieving some minimal goals, like establishing a government that will not permit terrorist attacks on the United States. Prince offers three things that could be very useful:
First, he recommends unity of command. His term "viceroy" is unfortunate because of the connotations of colonialism, but the notion that one person should be in charge of the U.S. effort makes some sense. Whether it’s possible to bring together all the elements of government, particularly the departments of Defense and State, is unclear, but it’s worth exploring.
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Military doesn't have a plan because Ozero forced out all of the real fighters and left us with a bunch of "perfumed warriors" and pencil pushers that look good in uniform.
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the company was accused of atrocities, particularly a 2007 incident in Baghdad where 20 people were killed.
From what I remember, terrorists hid among civilians -- as they tend to do -- and attacked a convoy Blackwater was guarding. They returned fire, and some civilians died. There was a war crime committed, by the terrorists, who chose to attack from the cover of non-combatants.
However, the racists that run the world cannot believe non-Europeans of being responsible for any act, so they could never place the blame on the terrorists.
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[Independent Sentinel] Potential genocide looms over South Africa and the nation’s President has begun to steal farmland. It’s a good time to remember that in early August, Barack Obama went to the country and praised the land grabbing racist President Cyril Ramaphosa.
STEALING LAND FOR ONE-TENTH OF ITS VALUE
The South African government has begun to seize white-owned farmland. He reportedly filed legal papers to expropriate two farms for one-tenth of their estimated value.
The filings, involving two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo, come as the African National Congress government is seeking to amend the country’s constitution to allow outright seizures of land with no compensation.
The ANC’s leader also has recently argued that pure expropriation is allowed anyway now "in the public interest."
The Akkerland Boerdery wants $200 million for the farm but the government wants to give them $20 million. What makes the case unique is the owners were not given the opportunity to dispute the claim in court as the law requires.
The seizures are part of a broad program of land redistribution and reparations that the post-Apartheid government claims they are entitled to have.
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It worked out so well in Southern Rhodesia that the South Africans are imitating it.
Nothing so complementary as imitation.
There is a chance they won't all starve, the Soviet Union is dead and all of those collective farm gurus and experts are no longer starving millions.
I predict this will get very ugly before it is resolved. If the current regime has not enacted and enforced gun control, there will be blood. Most of the old South African Army, the one that pot shotted a lot of Cubans was very well trained.
[The Event Chronical] While friends and admirers mourn the loss of investigative journalist Jen Moore ‐ who was found dead in a suburban D.C. hotel room Monday ‐ a haunting final interview has surfaced where Moore details the Clinton case she was working on at the time of her suspicious death.
Moore, an advocate who investigated abused and trafficked children, had been in the process of investigating allegations by a 26-year-old man that ‐ as a young boy ‐ he was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and pimped out at private sex parties attended by other D.C. elites.
Moore, who was often called "Task Force as a nickname," was interviewed about the Clinton case on July 13th by YouTube and radio journalist Farmer Jones. One month later, Moore’s she was dead, her body found by employees at the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Washington, D.C. East ‐ in Capitol Heights, Maryland. The investigation is ongoing. Autopsy results were not available on Wednesday.
During the Jones interview Moore expressed dismay and frustration that despite her sharing the details with Homeland Security agents in charge of child trafficking investigations, no one had reached out to her to follow up about the details of the alleged victim. Or the alleged suspect.
Moore died of an apparent seizure. Police said the death was not the result of suicide.
Just four weeks before her death, Moore filed details of the alleged victim’s claims with the Department of Homeland Security, detailing the allegations against Clinton. Moore contacted Homeland Security beginning on July 6th through July 9th, records show. A week later, she contacted the FBI with identical details about the victim and the shocking allegations against Clinton. Lengthy article.
1) You have to check out the picture of this place for the laugh of the day. 2) I have always regarded Salisbury, MA as one of the sleaziest cities in Mass, even with Brockton, Chelsea, Lynn & Revere in that lineup.
[Salem News] - SALISBURY ‐ Stormy Daniels, the porn star who gained international notoriety when it was revealed she was paid $130,000 to keep quiet regarding an alleged extramarital affair with President Donald Trump, is taking her national tour to Kittens Gentlemen’s Club next month.
In a Tweet, Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, confirmed she will perform at the Bridge Road adult entertainment club Sept. 7 and 8.
Trump has repeatedly denied allegations he had an affair with the adult movie actor while he was running for president.
The club began advertising the show Friday with an announcement on its Facebook page and Sunday morning on the sign outside the business. Tickets are on sale and expected to go fast, according to Kittens’ Facebook page.
"We just had Bridget the Midget there so when we took her sign down, we put her’s (Daniels) up," club owner Kevin Moury said Sunday. Yes, 'Bridget the Midget' on a brass pole. I rest my case.
About damn time!
[Virginia Military News] - The highway to the danger zone will run through Hampton Roads.
The sequel to the 1986 blockbuster "Top Gun" is being filmed aboard the Norfolk-based USS Abraham Lincoln this week, according to the Navy. The original film inspired a generation of fighter pilots and served as a recruiting bonanza for the Navy.
The much-anticipated sequel began shooting May 31, according to a photo on Tom Cruise’s Instagram account. The photo featured him in a flight suit near a fighter jet with the same helmet he wore in the original film and referenced an oft-quoted line from the original movie: "I feel the need, the need for speed." I can see the lefty movie reviews being written already - 'A paean to toxic masculinity', etc., as it rakes in serious box office. Bring it on!
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All female pilots except the metrosexual male lead and the homophobic women-hating *stupid* male senior officer that obviously comes from "Flyover country" (bonus points if he is a religious hypocrite)...
[National Review] Conditions now are fundamentally different from 2008.
George Will’s recent syndicated column, "America Is Overdue for Another Economic Disaster," puts me in the painful position of having to decide if I want to ignore a topic that should not be ignored, or if I want to take on one of the great op-ed writers of all time. I am not sure I have disagreed with even three columns George has written over the decades I’ve been reading him, and I hold him in extraordinarily high regard. But his stab at economic fearmongering warrants a response.
The article serves as a compilation of the most commonly uttered refrains from market bears about the current stock market and economy: that this bull market is the longest ever, that a Lehman Brothers‐like collapse is around the corner, that this economic expansion is long in the tooth, and that deficits and debt stand to blow us to smithereens. As is usually the case, even with many writers who are but a fraction as smart and gifted as George Will, the argument comes by blending technically accurate factoids with deceiving or poorly nuanced conclusions.
And the melodrama of appeals to the memory of Lehman Brothers ("Those who see no Lehman-like episode on the horizon did not see the last one," writes Will) manages to whip readers into a perfect frenzy of fear and usually irrational behavior.
Let’s be clear. If the basic point of the piece were merely to point out the rather obvious fact that President Trump’s claims that this is "the greatest economy we have ever had" are patently absurd, there would be no beef. The president’s boasts do fail to pass the math test, since, as Will points out, we have had 101 quarters since 1947 as strong or stronger as the one we just finished. The fact that politicians exaggerate facts and figures to their benefit is where the word "spin" comes from, even if this president seems to be particularly fond of the practice. My concern with Will’s article is not that he wants to correct the administration’s claims about the strength of the economy.
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Stick to baseball, bow-tie boy. You're getting senile and never were a conservative
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George Will used to be entertaining on the Sunday morning talk shows where he would take on 3 liberals at a time. Sad to see he holds the writings of Emily Post to be more important than those of Thomas Jefferson.
[News Biscuit] Prisoners are demanding that the Home Office formalises the long standing arrangement whereby they run all of Britain’s prisons, and pay them for labour that has hitherto been done for free. ’It’s really hard work, running a prison’ said Big Ron, currently serving 10 years for armed robbery, as de-facto acting governor of B wing of Birmington prison and a variety of recreational substances to eager customers ’But if those G4S w*nkers can manage to get paid for not running this dump, then me and my mates should get paid for doing it, even if it is a complete shit-hole. After all, we ain’t goin’ to get very rich from jus’ selling drugs to a load of fellow lags what ain’t got no money.’
’And we gets f*ck-all help from the screws. The idle bastards jus’ locks thes’ selves in their office, cowerin’ an’ wimperin’. It’s not even as though they’d come to any harm if they came out an’ tried lookin after us. Well, not much harm. If they is co-operative, know what I mean?’
’But the stress of running a prison criminals is beginnin’ to get to me’ he concluded. ’It’s enough to drive you to drink ‐ or drugs.’
NewsBiscuit was launched by John O’Farrell in September 2006 with the noble aims of eradicating global poverty, creating a lasting peace in the Middle East and providing a daily dose of humour to bored people at work. And in many respects we have already achieved so much more.
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Anyone else notice that in our own 13th Amendment, there is a "however" clause?
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Our sit for life aristocracy, the judiciary, has taken upon itself to delete that portion of the written Constitution, regardless of the Article V amending process.
[The American Conservative] Her caucus is clamoring for her head. If the Democrats lose this year, they just might get it.
Most of the commentary surrounding the 2018 midterm election season is‐surprise, surprise‐about Donald Trump. After every special election, whether a Democrat wins or a Republican, prognosticators and pundits habitually steer the conversation towards what the result says about Trump’s longevity. A loss by a Republican in a district Trump won in 2016 is packaged as a political win for the Democrats. And a GOP win in a competitive race is interpreted as a blow to the Resistance movement.
But the 2018 midterms are not all about Trump. There is another senior politico whose record is on the ballot: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The San Francisco congresswoman is everything the modern Republican Party hates. She’s West Coast, representing one of the most liberal states in the country. She helped push the Affordable Care Act across the finish line in 2010 without a single GOP vote. She raises boatloads of cash for Democratic candidates and progressive causes: a source told CNN that Pelosi has raised $91 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in this election cycle, a pile of cash that would make the Clintons envious. And she led Democrats back into the House majority in 2006 after 12 years in the political wilderness.
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Yet now the HoR is Republican it seemingly is not possible to repeal...
The thing is collapsing under its own weight and as of next year there will be no fine for nonparticipation, so actual repeal isn’t as important as it might appear, Bright Pebbles.
Think pieces mourning the fall of multiculturalism drift through the fetid pool of the media and its smaller foreign policy pond is afloat with almost as many pieces mourning the multinational order.
In these revisionist histories, the resurgence of racial tribalism among Trump voters in the heartland and explosions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe (aided by the ubiquitous vast Russian conspiracy) did in the great multinational and multicultural projects. Brexit and Trump killed the liberal order. Wealthy right-wingers and the Russians had secretly financed a campaign to undermine human progress.
Nonsense.
Trump and Brexit were responses to the collapse of liberalism. The collapse was accelerated when supposedly liberal political movements on both sides of the ocean endorsed two tribalisms. On the European side of the ocean, the EU tossed aside its post-national pose to back Muslim tribalism and its mass migration at the expense of the nation-state. On the American side, the Democrats abandoned even the pretense of believing in equality to fully embrace the pettiness of tribal identity politics.
[Barely A Blog] The Economist: "Australia is kicking Kiwis out, and New Zealand is unhappy about it."
In 2014 a conservative prime minister, Tony Abbott, tightened deportation rules. Any foreigner sentenced to a year in jail now fails a "character test" and has to leave the country. Kiwis may live and work freely in Australia. Since about 650,000 do so, the rule hits them the hardest. Since the law was changed, at least 1,200 New Zealanders have been cast back across the Tasman Sea. Oz Kiwi, an advocacy group, estimates that around 170 New Zealanders are currently in detention centres awaiting deportation, more than any other nationality.
... Australia makes no concessions for those who came as children but never changed their passports. Neither does it for juvenile offenders, or petty criminals with short sentences that cumulatively add up to 12 months, even if those were suspended. Historic crimes were once ignored, but the law now works retroactively, counting ancient infringements committed overseas as well as recent ones in Australia.
Some prior offenders are stopped at airports.
... New Zealanders of Maori or Pacific Islander descent are disproportionately affected by the changes, because they are more likely than average to have convictions. About 60% of New Zealanders who have been deported from Australia since 2014 are "brown", as Joanne Cox of Oz Kiwi puts it. Citizenship is reserved mostly for the skilled and relatively wealthy: only about 8.4% of New Zealanders who arrived in Australia in the decade after 2001 got passports. The rate for Maoris was below 3%.
Paul Hamer, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand’s capital, suggests that Australia’s souring mood has been fed by "dissatisfaction" at New Zealand’s openness to Pacific migration. It threw open its doors to the region at a time when Australia still banned all but white immigrants (today it sets annual quotas for newcomers from the Pacific). People of Pacific Islander descent are 8% of New Zealand’s population. Politicians in Canberra, the Australian capital, have complained for decades that such migrants exploit a "backdoor" to Australia.
... conservative coalition government under Malcolm Turnbull is so concerned about border control that last year it rebuffed New Zealand’s offer to resettle asylum-seekers from detention centres run for Australia’s benefit in Nauru, a tiny Pacific island state, and Manus island, part of Papua New Guinea. Almost 1,600 "boat people" remain in the controversial camps, with no idea of when they might be released. ("Australia is kicking Kiwis out, and New Zealand is unhappy about it")
Does Australia do anything about non-indigenous immigration, say from China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam? Or, is enforcement just against the Pacific Islander Maori, who are, face it, indigenous to the region, to New Zealand? What about Muslim, South-Asian migrants?
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Another comment - Trump did not say the press was the enemy of the people. He said “fake news” was the enemy. A perfect example is the news being reported that he said it was the press in general. Repeat a lie enough, everyone believes it.
There is a rational explanation for that apparent conflict - the press knows all of its' news is fake news, therefore fake news=the press=the enemy of the people. Q.E.D.!
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Press is by all indications fighting against something.
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Anyone who dissembles, lies, plays with the truth, promotes criminality and corruption, puts out propaganda, tears down the culture, cedes their 1st amendment rights to Left, tears apart the Constitution, puts out propaganda and promotes the Left is the enemy.
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Trump did not say the press was the enemy of the people. He said “fake news” was the enemy.
Oddly enough the folks complaining about attacks on the press are responsible for most of that fake news.
You say the press is the enemy, but we are not the enemy. At least I’m not. Harvey might be — I don’t really pay attention to what he’s doing. And I’m pretty sure Basil is. And I accidentally walked into the New York Times the other day and they had up on a whiteboard “How to Destroy Trump” with a bunch of doodles. But I am not the enemy.
In fact, I have a proposal for you. You should make a new branch of the military called “Blog Force.” It would be like Space Force, but for blogs. I won’t participate in it because it sounds dumb. But I have another proposal for you: Space Blog Force. That’s like Blog Force, but in space. That I will lead. And I will require one (1) nuclear weapon. And you can’t ask a lot of questions what I will use it for. Just know it will be in space, so don’t worry about it.
Please listen to my proposal, Mr. Trump. Don’t make me your enemy like the rest of the press.
Signed,
Frank J. [last name withheld for anonymity]
[Guardian] I’m exaggerating, but only slightly. Understanding how cities are put together is vital, given more than half of us live in them.
It probably says something about me that, while I retain no memory of the first time I successfully walked the 15 miles from central London to my childhood home in Essex, I remember my first failure in excruciating detail. It was late October, the week before I started my first proper job and, not then being in the habit of gainful employment, I got up late and accidentally didn’t set out until the afternoon. Then I stopped for a lengthy coffee at Mile End, a district whose very name should have been a useful clue that I’d barely got started. I eventually gave up, freezing and damp, in Ilford, a suburb that borders Romford, which, I reasoned, meant I’d nearly made it. I hadn’t.
I didn’t know it then, but that walk was an early symptom of a mania that was to gradually swallow up my free time. I’ve since done that route so often that I’ve grown bored with it ‐ there’s only so much joy to be had from a long march through Chadwell Heath ‐ but I’ve branched out, walking the Thames and the Lea rivers, various tube lines and completing the assorted routes recommended by Transport for London. Once I’d exhausted those, I took to getting trains out to far-flung stations and then simply walking back. I’ve done the same in other cities, too, walking aimlessly around the streets of Montreal and Manchester, Chicago and Coventry. I even tried walking in Doha, though I fear I may be the only person in the whole of human history to have attempted it, and I regretted it exactly as swiftly as you’d think I would.
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"I'm a walker! I'm a walker!
And it does me good like it ruddy well should!"
Seriously, though, I'll be spending most of the next chunk of my life this way, if I want to have a next chunk. Nagingrad! I love it, but wasn't that fork stuck passed 1990-ish at latest?
[Jpost] There is both good and bad news for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Gallup poll of American attitudes to six foreign leaders published on Tuesday.
The good news is that among Republicans, 64% view Netanyahu favorably, putting him at the top of the list that includes the leaders of Britain, Canada, Germany, Russia and North Korea.
The bad news is that only 17% of the Democrats view him favorably, putting him well behind Britain’s Theresa May, Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Germany’s Angela Merkel. A man is measured by his enemies
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Unlike Britain’s Theresa May, Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Germany’s Angela Merkel, there is no question that Netanyahu is looking out for his nation.
[Victory Girls] In a blow to the already on-its-knees Iranian economy, French energy giant Total today officially withdrew from their massive $5B joint project in Phase 11 of the South Pars natural gas field ‐ the largest of its kind in the world. Why did they leave such a lucrative, majority interest venture? US sanctions and no waiver.
The French energy firm had a 51% ownership stake, with the Iranian national company Petropars and China’s state-owned CNPC splitting the rest. At the time of the initial contract signing, the deal was worth $5B over 20 years. Along with production, it was going to provide a shot in the arm to badly degraded Iranian energy infrastructure.
Iran "could not afford" to update their energy infrastructure, but has all sorts of buckets of dough and troops for decades to Syria, Palestine and Iraq, eh? What’d they do with our pallets of cash? Like, where’d that go?
Mullah priorities need a serious robe yanking.
Ironically, even as the Chinese were smacking their lips at gaining an 80% controlling stake upon Total’s exit, energy sector experts were looking with a jaundiced eye at their capacity to exploit the gain. And, not surprisingly, Iran’s hard line conservative rulers have been their own enemy time and time again. And again.
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Bwah ha ha ha ha...fuck you Europe. Doing business with a functioning fascist theocracy. Giving them more money to terrorize the world with. Some gems you are.
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Well, we do have a few trillion cubic feet of spare natural gas lying around somewhere in South Texas so if the French want to make a deal...
With the continuing hysteria about Donald Trump's presidency, a few questions come to mind. The first: Can a bad man become a good president? The second: Does one's being a good man guarantee he'll be a good president? Third: Does having a good president require a good man? Is there any evidence of Lord Acton's argument that "great men are almost always bad men"?
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Mr. Carter thought he was a good man. What he actually was, and still is, is a typical bigotted Progressive wrapped in the smug and sanctimonious piety of the Church Lady.
Or read "Guests of the Ayatollah", Mark Bowden's account of the Iran hostage crisis. I guarantee that no matter what your opinion of Jimmuh is now, you will think less of him after.
[TIME Health] A third of U.S. teenagers haven’t read a book for pleasure in at least a year, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association (APA). And it’s not because they’re too busy watching TV.
The research, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, points to the continuing dominance of digital media among teenagers. Teen use of traditional media ‐ such as books, magazines and television ‐ has dropped off, while time spent texting, scrolling through social media and using other forms of digital media continues to increase, the survey says.
To reach their conclusions, APA researchers analyzed data from the Monitoring the Future study, an ongoing annual survey of around 50,000 eighth, 10th and 12th graders. The study included survey responses from 1976 to 2016.
Ivey wrote on March 13, 2016, with emphasis added:
“I’m certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.”
[Townhall] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) filed an amendment to the Senate appropriations package for Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education that would defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
"One of the top priorities for a Republican Congress that professes pro-life values on the campaign trail should be to stop taxpayer funding for abortion providers," he said in a statement Friday. "This is our chance to turn our words into action, stand up for the sanctity of life, and speak out for the most innocent among us that have no voice."
Planned Parenthood has performed 321,384 abortions over this past year, according to their latest annual report and received about $543.7 million in federal funding.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Russia is "stuck" in Syria and looking for others to fund its post-war reconstruction, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said, describing this as an opportunity for Washington to press for Iranian forces to quit the civil war-wracked country.
Bolton, speaking to Reuters while on a visit to Israel, said U.S. contacts with Russia did not include any understanding over a push by Damascus’s forces against the rebels in Idlib. But he warned against any use of chemical or biological weapons there.
Under President Donald Trump, the United States has sought to disengage from Syria, where the previous administration deployed some troops and gave limited support to rebel Kurdish forces over the objections of NATO partner Turkey.
Bolton sidestepped a question on whether these measures would continue, framing the U.S. presence as objective-based.
[Wash Times] The Justice Department has charged two Iranians with spying on Jewish and opposition groups in the U.S., and the court documents suggest Tehran’s hard-line Islamic regime is hunting for bombing and assassination targets.
Ahmadreza Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani were indicted on charges of being illegal agents of a foreign power ‐ Iran.
On a wiretap, Mr. Ghorbani, a California resident, is heard singling out an opposing figure for assassination. "M‐‐F needs one, one shot," he said.
The charges were filed as President Trump embarked on a get-tough policy toward Iran, which the State Department has designated as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Mr. Trump this spring pulled out of the 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran negotiated by the Obama administration and has embarked on a campaign to get other countries to join the U.S. in reapplying economic sanctions against Tehran.
The Justice Department charging documents say the two men specifically targeted Jewish centers in Chicago as well as an anti-regime opposition rally in New York last year and a convention in Washington this year.
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Watch the imams they talk to imams and mosques they contact. Expect that some expendable "lone wolf" jihadi" will be groomed for the attack instead of the infiltrators -- infiltrators cost money to set in place and crazies are free.
[BBC] The alternative therapist who steams women's vaginas. Claire Stone has steamed her own vagina for eight years and now offers the practice of "yoni steaming" to other women.
The Cheshire based alternative therapist says it may help with issues such as periods and fertility, although doctors say there's no evidence for the benefits.
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“The term ‘vaginal rejuvenation’ itself is problematic because most vaginas don’t need to be rejuvenated,” Lauren Streicher, MD, medical director of Northwestern University Hospital’s Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, told Health. “They’re fine the way they are.”
[Breitbart Texas] A federal judge in Houston sentenced a local man to spend more than six years in prison after he attempted to blow up a statue honoring a Civil War Confederate Army lieutenant. The man pleaded guilty to federal charges of attempting to damage property receiving financial assistance.
A federal judge in Houston sentenced 26-year-old Andrew Cecil Earhart Schneck to more than six years in prison following his guilty plea earlier this year, according to FOX26 Houston. A police officer arrested the man after he attempted to blow up a Confederate statue honoring Lt. Richard Dowling. The statue was erected to honors Dowling’s defeat of a Union invasion force at the Battle of Sabine Pass in 1863, Fox reported. The judge also imposed a $10,000 fine.
A park ranger encountered Schneck in almost one year ago after he was found attempting to plant an explosive device at the statue located at Houston’s Herman Park, Breitbart Texas reported. The attempted bombing followed a Black Lives Matter protest earlier in the day at the scene of a different Confederate statue. Protesters that included activists from Black Lives Matter, the Brown Berets, anarchists, communists and Democratic Socialists, along with others from the "Destroy the Confederacy!" movement.
Update at 7:00a.m: Heavy.com has more about Andrew Schneck, including affluent parents, a BA in chemistry, a reputation as a socially awkward loner, and a previous conviction for misbehaviour with explosives.
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The bomber couldn't have picked a worse subject. Lt. Dowling legally immigrated from Ireland as a child, moved to Houston, married well and started opening saloons. There is no record of Dowling ever owning slaves, he simply had a natural talent with artillery--ship borne and on land. He and his 48 men prevented a Union invasion up the Sabine River by a force of 5000 men and gunboats. He passed during a Houston yellow fever epidemic in 1867 at approximately 30 years of age.
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What they do believe is that it's tattoos all the way down...
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The author perhaps chooses to ignore some of the data. Suppose 'firmly believe'+'not so sure'=66% and 'firmly believe'=81%. Then the Scientific American author is just blowing smoke, choosing to ignore the 15% 'not so sure'.
How convenient!
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Now is the universe flat?
Given the 'science is settled', a big bang explosion, in the absence of gravity, would be somewhat spherical. Given in the pica-seconds afterwards, distribution should be directionally everywhere.
Given that so many people still remain within 20 to 50 miles of where they live, as the old professor said, its all sort of relative. If it was, from their perspective, how different would it be (particularly given the population that composes the not sure crowd). Work on the international space station, 'relative' has an entirely new perspective.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their air force unleashed a big assault in southern Idlib, Tuesday, targeting the jihadist rebel positions near the Hama provincial border.
Led by their 11th Tank Division, the Syrian Arab Army heavily bombarded the jihadist trenches that were raised near the towns of Sukeek and al-Taman’ah.
The Syrian Arab Army would then expand their assault to the northern countryside of Hama, where they fired several missiles and artillery shells towards the Jaish al-Izza towns of al-Lataminah, Zakat, and Kafr Zita.
While the ground troops hammered both southern Idlib and northern Hama, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) launched several Arclight airstrikes between the towns of Ma’arat al-Nu’man and Khan Sheikhoun.
The main road between Ma’arat al-Nu’man and Khan Sheikhoun is one of the most important supply routes for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in the southern countryside of Idlib.
[AlMasdar] The leadership of radical groups in Syria openly declares the preparation for an offensive against Syrian government forces and refuses to hold any sort of dialogue on political settlement, Maj. Gen. Alexei Tsygankov, head of the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, said Tuesday.
"The command of ’National Liberation Army’ [Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, formerly Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else... or the Nusra Front, a terror group outlawed in Russia] ’National Front for the Liberation of Syria’ and ’National Front for Liberation’ openly declares preparations for an offensive against government forces and rejects any dialogue on political settlement of the conflict," Tsygankov said at a briefing.
Tsygankov reiterated again that the Russian Reconciliation Center calls on commanders of Lion of Islam groups to abandon armed provocations and choose the path of a peaceful settlement in the areas under their control.
Alexei Tsygankov also said that murderous Moslems had detained more than 500 supporters of the dialogue with Damascus in Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone in the past two weeks, and that the fate of most of them was unknown.
"Arrests of supporters of political dialogue with Damascus among the local population and opposition commanders on the territory of the Idlib de-escalation zone continue. The number of citizens detained by murderous Moslems from radical groups in the last two weeks has already exceeded 500. The detainees are being taken away to an unknown destination, the fate of most of them is unknown," Tsygankov said.
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Right out of WWI and the Iraqi army's recent game plan last century and early this one. With equally horrendous results for the dinosaurs of islam.
Even better than Planned Parenthood in reducing their numbers 'cuz there will be horribly crippled and disfigured advertisements for the recruiting program. Allah willing, of course.
[AlMasdar] The jihadist rebels attempted to advance in the northern countryside of Latakia last night, a military source told al-Masdar News.
Led by Jabal al-Islam, the jihadist rebels attempted to catch the Syrian Arab Army and their allies from the National Defense Forces (NDF) off guard near the large hilltop of Tal Ziwaqiyat near the Ottoman Turkish border.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the attack would ultimately be repulsed by the Syrian Armed Forces after a short battle with the jihadist rebels last night.
The Syrian Arab Army was able to prepare for this jihadist attack after one of their reconnaissance drones captured footage of Jabal al-Islam’s movements in northern Latakia.
Jabal al-Islam has launched several attacks like this in the past, with many of them being often successful in the Jabal al-Turkmen region of Latakia.
[AlMasdar] The top jihadist leader in Syria made a rare visit to the front-lines in northern Latakia, the official media wing of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham reported today.
According to HTS’ official media wing, their leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani made a rare visit to the jihadist stronghold of Kabani in northern Latakia.
Joulani was pictured touring the front-lines in Kabani with several of his associates from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
Kabani became Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s stronghold in northern Latakia after they lost the strategic town of Salma in the Jabal al-Akrad region.
Below are the photos Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham released from northern Latakia on Tuesday:
[AlMasdar] A loud kaboom was heard across northwest Aleppo, tonight, after a powerful blast destroyed the city of Afrin.
The source of the kaboom is still unknown; however, some local activists have claimed it may have been a boom-mobileing.
Afrin city is currently under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels; it was captured by the latter during their large-scale offensive in March of 2018.
Since the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels captured the city, the entire Afrin region has been under constant attack by sleeper cells linked to the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The YPG sleeper cells have wrecked havoc in the Afrin region, as they carry out constant liquidations of Ottoman Turkish-backed commanders and attacks against their forces.
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[AlMasdar] A Chechen jihadist was given a lenient sentence by the German courts, Monday, after it was found that he had fought with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Syria.
According to a report from Kurdistan 24, Aslanbek S. (29), a Chechen jihadist who fought with the Islamic State (IS) in the Kurdish city of Kobani, was sentenced to four years and two months in a German jail.
The Chechen ISIS member was reportedly living with his wife and two children in Bremen, Germany before he was nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! by the local authorities.
The German newspaper, Weser Kurier, reported that the Chechen ISIS member would frequently visit the Islamic Cultural Center in Bremen, which was under tight surveillance by the local authorities.
The newspaper reported that he fought with a Chechen ISIS unit, Katiba Badr, from March 2014 to January 2015, when the terrorist group was defeated at Kobani.
The Chechen ISIS member would then flee to Germany, where he was eventually arrested after the German authorities raided the Islamic Cultural Center in February 2015.
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[AlMasdar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) terror organization has refused to surrender their last positions in southern Syria, despite being fully surrounded by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Over the course of 72 hours, the Islamic State has managed to repel all of the Syrian Arab Army’s attempted advances at the strategic al-Safa Mountain.
While the Syrian military has the superior numbers and air power, the Islamic State possesses the territorial advantage, which is includes the high ground over east Sweida.
As a result of the Islamic State’s territorial advantage, the Syrian Arab Army has been forced to meticulously move through this rugged terrain in east Sweida.
Below is a video from the Syrian Arab Army’s ongoing attack against the Islamic State in the Badiya al-Sham region of the Sweida Governorate:
Actually, video is at the headline link, where it is indeed below that particular bit of text.
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[AlMasdar] The Saudi military and the Hadi loyalists launched a big offensive in northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... this week that targeted several areas controlled by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces.
Backed by heavy Arclight airstrikes from the Arab Coalition, the Saudi military and Hadi loyalists stormed the Houthi positions in the Bayda region, resulting in a series of intense festivities.
While the attack was intense and had air superiority, the Saudi forces were unable to crack the Houthi lines after several hours of fighting on Monday.
According to the Houthi forces, their troops managed to destroy at least three armored vehicles and kill more than ten Death Eater in the Bayda region.
As shown in the video below, the festivities were very intense and both parties engaged in close combat:
[ARABNEWS] Iran on Tuesday unveiled what it claimed was its first domestically built, powerful fighter jet ‐ to widespread derision from defense and military experts.
State TV showed President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of the new "Kowsar fourth-generation fighter" at the National Defense Industry exhibition in Tehran.
The warplane had "advanced avionics" and multi-purpose radar, and was "100-percent indigenously made," Iranian state media said.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... suspicions were raised when live footage of the plane taxiing along a runway ended before it actually took off. Analysts were reminded of 2013, when Iran trumpeted the "domestically built Qaher 313 fighter jet" ‐ which turned out to be a plastic model that never flew.
"Iran’s so-called ’indigenous Kowsar-88’ fourth-generation fighter is not fourth-generation and is not truly indigenous," security analyst Dr. Theodore Karasik, a senior adviser to Gulf State Analytics in Washington, told Arab News.
"This jet is a Frankenstein’s monster for optics only. The aircraft’s frame is an American Northrop F-5F Tiger II slapped together with various accoutrements.
"This Iranian production is similar to the Qaher 313 a few years ago, another so-called fourth-generation fighter that could overtake America's F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"At that time, it was plainly obvious that the Qaher 313 was a slapped together mock-up for international propaganda purposes. Now we have two optical illusions."
Justin Bronk, a research fellow specializing in combat airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, also said the "new" Iranian jet was a carbon copy of an F-5 Tiger, first produced in the US in the 1960s.
"It’s a very small, lightweight fighter with very small engines," he said.
"While you might put in a modern radar, or modern avionics ‐ by Iranian standards ‐it is still going to be subject to all the limitations of the F-5 airframe."
The plane was first publicly announced on Saturday by Defense Minister Amir Hatami, who had said it would be unveiled on Wednesday.
It looks like an airplane to me, but those of you who know about such things will enjoy seeing inside the cockpit as well as the thing up in the air.
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State TV showed President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of the new "Kowsar fourth-generation fighter" at the National Defense Industry exhibition in Tehran.
I'd love to see that pic - flashback to Dukakis in a tank!
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The F5F is a single-seat version of the T-38 fighter. As such, it likely will never be flown by Iran except from an airbase in the center of the country. Reason being, a longer-range jet has to have a back seat for the Imam with the pistol...
One the wing seems to be a bit on the flat side, i'm not even sure that there is a airfoil shape there.
The wings seems to be on the small side, in order to get enough lift to fly the thing, the plane would have to go very very fast, so fast that it could run out of runway long before it could get to the V2 stage.
Does the landing gear retract at all, if so, how can it fit into the wings?
How can the turbines run (while taxing) with the turbine covers in place? (Airflow blocked?)
But most interesting is the yellow mock-up that's shown on the left side of the hanger in the video. It look to be made and shaped of expanded foam. Seems that's what the Plane seems to be is made of, fiberglass covered expanded foam.
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If this thing flies, it is a target drone for anything we fly, yes, even the flying Turkey can shoot this thing down...that is, if the Iranian "aircraft" can fly.
[Rudaw] Baghdad may soon ask the US Treasury Department to waive parts of trade sanctions 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 administration imposed on Tehran.
"The government plans to ask Washington for a waiver. It’s going to happen soon," one Iraqi central bank official said, Rooters has reported on Tuesday.
The US Department of State has scrambled to keep good diplomatic relations with partners and allies, despite Trump's sanctions complicating their work. This is especially true in Iraq, a country that is close to forming a new government.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is seen as Washington's preference to retain the position, came under fire when on August 7 he said Iraq would abide by the sanctions, despite them being a mistake. Abadi noted the negative impact US sanctions had on Iraqis under the regime of Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.
He tried to backtrack on his stance a week later, saying Iraq will continue to do business with Iran, but not in US dollars. Iran then said the Iraqi premier was not welcome to visit ‐ a response seen as a reaction to his previous remarks.
The US has supported Abadi's government and his fight against extremism in the ISIS conflict. Following Abadi's third-place finish in Iraq's parliamentary election on May 12, his Nasr list has sought to build alliances with blocs not seen to be under Iran's thumb.
"You know our concerns about Iran and about trading with Iran, and we will continue to hold countries accountable for any violation of sanctions," said US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert on August 14.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has tried to shield its business interests with Iran via a 'blocking statute.' However on Monday, French firm Total quit a multi-billion dollar gas project in Iran.
Much of Iraq's trade with Iran is already unregulated because of smugglers; Iraq and Iran do have multiple agreements in the fields of energy, commerce, and tourism which are dependent upon the US dollar.
A total embrace of US sanctions by Bagdad would back Iraq ‐ and the Kurdistan Regional Government which says it will follow the lead of Baghdad ‐ into an untenable situation at a time when Trump is slapping sanctions at the drop of a hat.
The State Department established the Iran Action Group (IAG) on Thursday to have a more "comprehensive approach to Iran."
"There is a fear that Washington will force Iraq into a ’you are with us or against us’ situation," said a Western diplomat, Rooters has reported. "They should not force Iraq to make that choice."
Standing alongside Trump on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reiterated that the trade sanctions are just the first round. Oil sanctions are expected to take effect in November.
"I’ll also just comment on the rollout of the Iran nuclear sanctions is going extremely well. We’re working closely with Secretary [Mike] Pompeo. Strongest sanctions in preventing things there."
[Jpost] Iran not only supported Yemen’s Houthis with weaponry but gave them directives to attack two Soddy Arabian oil tankers on July 25.
In a recent interview, a senior Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps officer became the first top official to confirm it is helping Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels fire rockets at Soddy Arabia
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that would be the "domestically designed and constructed missiles™", right, PRESS TV?
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His statements contradicted the official denial of responsibility by top Iranian national security official Heshmatollah "Hank Falafel" Falahatpisheh
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[AnNahar] More than two million Moslems took part in the symbolic stoning of the devil Tuesday in 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 last major ritual of the hajj pilgrimage that heralds the start of the Eid al-Adha feast.
Moslems on the annual hajj pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam, made their way across the Mina valley of the western Saudi Arabian Mecca province, many carrying pebbles in plastic bottles.
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Mecca seems like an ideal spot for a nightmarish plague breakout. Do they take precautions? I mean how hard would it be for a militant Hindi to contract smallpocks and visit Mecca? With all those folks crammed together circling around the big block I would think half the Islamic world could be infected before anyone knew it.
[CNBC] Moscow is preparing to recover a nuclear-powered missile lost at sea, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged earlier this year that the new missile had unlimited range.
The missile was tested four times between November and February, each resulting in a crash, according to sources who spoke to CNBC on the condition of anonymity.
A nuclear-powered Russian missile remains lost at sea after a failed test late last year, and Moscow is preparing to try to recover it, according to people with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Crews will attempt to recover a missile that was test launched in November and landed in the Barents Sea, which is located north of Norway and Russia. The operation will include three vessels, one of which is equipped to handle radioactive material from the weapon's nuclear core. There is no timeline for the mission, according to the people with knowledge of the report.
The U.S. intelligence report did not mention any potential health or environmental risks posed by possible damage to the missile's nuclear reactor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled the new nuclear-powered missile in March, boasting it had unlimited range. Yet, the weapon has yet to be successfully tested over multiple attempts.
Russia tested four of the missiles between November and February, each resulting in a crash, people who spoke on the condition of anonymity previously told CNBC. The U.S. assessed that the longest test flight lasted just more than two minutes, with the missile flying 22 miles before losing control and crashing. The shortest test lasted four seconds and flew for five miles. Russia has denied the missile test failures.
If the Russians are able to regain possession of the missile, U.S. intelligence analysts expect Moscow will use the procedure as a blueprint for future recovery operations. It is unclear whether the other missiles are missing at sea, too.
While the report didn't address the potential effects of possible damage to the weapon's reactor, there remain concerns that radioactive material could leak.
"It goes without saying that if you fire a missile with a nuclear engine or energy source, that nuclear material will end up wherever that missile ends up," said Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged earlier this year that the new missile had unlimited range
A nuclear-powered Russian missile remains lost at sea after a failed test late last year
It may still have unlimited range and not really 'lost'. It may just be wandering the seafloor looking for a mate.
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"It goes without saying that if you fire a missile with a nuclear engine or energy source, that nuclear material will end up wherever that missile ends up,"
I seen this movie. This giant lizard...
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Gosh,
If our CIA was worth a hot steaming pile of crap, they would already have the danged thing in some lab in Aberdeen, dismantled and reverse engineered...
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It may still have unlimited range and not really 'lost'. It may just be wandering the seafloor looking for a mate.
It is :...pining for the fjords?", eh?
[Rudaw] This past week witnessed some colorful virtue signaling by patriotic Turks and supporters of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... . As part of the continuing spat between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the United States over the imprisonment of American pastor Andrew Brunson and punitive US tariffs on Ottoman Turkish steel and aluminum, Erdogan told his people to shun US dollars and products such as the Apple iPhone.
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Well, if my enemy self-destructs, why should I mind?
Physical destruction of dollar bills that are in circulation will make dollars more scarce and cause an (infinitesimal) increase of the dollar's value against all other currencies.
If the Turks want to strengthen the Lira they should destroy Lira bills.
[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi on Tuesday stressed the need to bridge the existing trust deficit between Pakistain and the United States, as both the countries were important for each other.
He said, "There is a long history of diplomatic relations between Pakistain and America. There have been ups and downs [in bilateral ties]."
While talking to media persons in Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... , the newly appointed foreign minister recalled that the US had imposed sanctions on Pakistain at a time when "we have been the most allied of the allies".
The minister said US Secretary of State Michael Richard Pompeo would visit Pakistain soon.
"Let's see how it proceeds from there," he said, adding that the US wants peace in Afghanistan which was also Pakistain's wish.
Pakistain has sacrificed a lot in the "war against terrorism" and has always stood by the US, Qureshi maintained.
To a question about Indian ceasefire violations along the Line of Control, Qureshi said the violations were not in favour of both the countries. Confidence building measures (CBMs) existed at the LoC regarding the ceasefire, which should be observed.
"Is there any solution to issues faced by the two countries, other than holding dialogues?" he questioned. Pakistain and India were facing water, poverty and climatic changes issues which had created troubles for them.
"If we don't resolve the core issues, including Kashmire, who else will solve it," Qureshi said, adding that India should review its "aggressive policies".
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[DAWN] Information Minister Chaudhary Fawad Hussain on Tuesday announced that the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... government has "lifted all political censorship in state-run media outlets".
The minister further stated that Pakistain Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistain will now enjoy complete editorial independence over the content they produce.
Promising "visible and drastic changes" in the Ministry of Information within the next three months, the minister said new instructions ‐ "in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... " ‐ have been issued to state-run institutions for complete editorial independence.
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Y’all just keep thinking that, click your heels together and say, “There’s no place like home!”
[Al Jazeera] Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leader Ismail Haniya said an end to Israel's decade-long blockade of Gazoo was "around the corner" as talk of a possible truce deal intensifies.
Indirect negotiations between Gazoo's Hamas rulers and Israel brokered by Egyptian and UN officials have reportedly included discussion on easing the blockade, but by no means a complete lifting of it.
Speaking to thousands of Paleostinians during prayers for the Moslem Eid al-Adha holiday on Tuesday, Haniya, head of Hamas' political bureau, did not directly address the possibility of a truce, mooted in Israeli and Paleostinian media for weeks.
"Thanks to these marches and resistance, we are just around the corner from closing the page on this unjust blockade," Haniya said. "We are on our way to ending this unjust blockade of Gazoo."
Protests have taken place in Gazoo every Friday along Israel's fence since March 30 against the Israeli blockade and for UN Resolution 194, which defines Paleostinians' right to return to their homes they were expelled from in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel.
The Israeli army has responded to the protests by killing 170 Paleostinian demonstrators and wounding more than 18,000.
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[ARABNEWS] The uncovering of a terrorist cell in the Jordanian city of Salt, west of the capital Amman, two weeks ago ‐ a day after a homemade bomb went kaboom! in a police patrol car in a neighboring town, killing one policeman and injuring six others ‐ was a stark reminder that, while the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq may be entering its final chapter, the fight against extremism has a long way to go.
The storming of a building where members of the terrorist cell were entrenched resulted in the deaths of four security personnel and three suspected terrorists, whose bodies were found in the remains of a building that they blew up during the confrontation. Five suspects were also tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! . Dozens of civilians were maimed in the process.
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the fight against extremism has a long way to go
IMO, there are no moderate Muslims (or Socialists) - there are discreet Muslims and indiscreet Muslims.
[DAWN] Italia will let its coasties ship carrying 177 migrants colonists it rescued on the high seas five days ago dock in Sicily, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Monday, ending a standoff with Malta over where it should disembark.
The European Commission also said it was working on a solution to share out of the migrants colonists aboard the Diciotti with Italia’s EU partners after a request from Italia’s foreign ministry the previous day.
"The Diciotti ship will dock in Catania," Toninelli said on Twitter without specifying when. "Now Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... must hurry to do its part." Since taking office in June, Italia’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Toninelli have toughened the stance on allowing ships to dock in the country’s ports at a time of rising anti-immigration sentiment in Italia. The Diciotti picked up 190 migrants colonists on Wednesday from an overcrowded boat.
The coasties quickly evacuated 13 of them to Italia for medical treatment, but instead of bringing the rest to shore, the Diciotti stayed in international waters while Rome insisted that Malta should take them.
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Why not take the colonists back to the nearest port instead of 5 days of sailing?
You can rescue far more, otherwise it just looks like people trafficking.
[1Prime.ru] China considers it cost-effective to build a high-speed railroad line from the Chinese border city of Suifenhe to Vladivostok, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev told reporters.
According to him, the cost of the BCM with a length of 180 kilometers is estimated at 7 billion dollars.
"The Chinese company has almost completed a feasibility study, and we have now looked at it - it's enough in-depth considering the situation in both the border areas of China and the Russian Far East," Trutnev said on Tuesday, discussing results of the meeting of the Russian-Chinese intergovernmental commission.
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Russia should have upgraded the trans-Siberian railway long ago and made an effort to get in on the Pacific Rim economy in a big way.
If I were Putin I'd (1) do what I could to turn Vladivostok into a sort of Hong Kong with a minimal gov footprint and low taxes to draw in shipping, and encourage settlers from Indian and Latin-American (that have no claim to the area) to move there to counter the Chinese population in the area.
Water ice just discovered on the surface of the moon, a game-changer for the cost of Moon Base Alpha.
Here are the details on the new discovery and the conclusions from the first gathering for Moon Base Alpha — a permanent lunar settlement for under $5B: https://t.co/2dyeddYwvfpic.twitter.com/oir5FNwKry
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"Maybe we could talk Apple into investing $5B (1 wk profit per year) into building infrastructure to support humanity’s return to the moon. Sure would inspire kids to STEM."
[WSJ] The jury in the Paul Manafort trial has found the former Trump campaign chairman guilty of eight counts of fraud. The judge declared a mistrial on the other ten counts he faced.
Also...
*Of Verdicts, Manafort Found Guilty on All Five Counts of Tax Fraud
*Manafort Also Found Guilty on One Count of Failure to File a Report on a Foreign Bank Account
*Manafort Also Found Guilty on Two Counts of Bank Fraud
*Mistrial Declared on Remaining Foreign-Bank-Account Charges and Bank-Fraud Counts
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First imprisonment in the history of the U.S. of a person associated with a duly elected President, unapproved by the leftists, via an investigation based on a nothing burger conspiracy until actual dirt could be found by radicals and the corrupt DC Establishment class.
#2
The very next day after sentencing the President must pardon Manafort based on the fact that this is an unorthodoxed, politicalĺy charged witch hunt.
[KhaamaPress] At least one hundred and two turbans including some leaders of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have been killed in the Arclight airstrikes conducted in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said Monday.
According to a statement released by the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North, the turbans were killed during three airstrikes conducted in the bordering regions between Garziwan and Bulcharagh districts.
The statement further added that the turbans were targeted in the vicinity of Hamam Chashma area as they were travelling to Garziwan from Bulcharagh district.
The Shaheen Corps also added that the military commission chief of the Taliban for the North, identified as Mawlavi Matiullah, was among those killed.
The other senior Taliban leaders killed during the airstrikes have been identified as Mawlavi Abdul Baqi also famous as Omar, commander Shirzad, and Mawlavi Jabar also famous as Bilal, the statement added.
At least six Humvee armored personnel carriers, 64 cycle of violences, and five mini buses were also destroyed in the airstrikes, according to Shaheen Corps.
The security situation in Faryab province has tanked sharply during the recent years amid growing insurgency activities by the anti-government armed Death Eater groups.
[CenterForSecurity] As tens of thousands of Sharia-supremacists convene in Minneapolis/St. Paul’s Minnesota Vickings’ stadium for a two-day “show of power,” the context for such a demonstration – and its implications – is urgently needed. Fortunately, a new Center for Security Policy Occasional Paper by author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon explains how Muslims intent on fundamentally transforming America have achieved an ominous beachhead in Minnesota, thanks in large measure to that state’s long-dominant radical left.
Mr. Loudon’s “Red Minnesota: How a State’s Communist Roots Produced the Hard-Left Politics that is Enabling Its Burgeoning Sharia-supremacism” reveals a chilling reality: The “Land of Lakes” has become one of the most Islamized states in the Union because it is one of its most socialist states. A man who personifies this “Red-Green axis” is the Marxist and Muslim Brotherhood-tied Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress in 2006 who has just won the Democratic nomination for the state’s Attorney General. His candidacy has become a crucible for the further coalescing of the far-left and Sharia-supremacist movements into one great stream dedicated to undermining and eventually supplanting the traditions of political freedom, Western values and religious tolerance.
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The Left would promote anything that harms civilization.
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We all have watched the left evolve to peak evil. For them, nothing but power matters.
But they will not be so keen on #metoo when they are forced to wear burkahs and into FGM.
You keep voting democrat and you simply usher in 1000 years of darkness.
Buildings in the capital Caracas have been evacuated and shaking has been felt across the Caribbean.
Venezuela’s northern coast has been rocked by a powerful earthquake that was felt across the Caribbean and sent people rushing out into the streets hundreds of kilometres away in the capital, Caracas.
The United States Geological Survey said a 7.3-magnitude earthquake had struck off the South American country’s northern coast at 5.31pm local time on Tuesday, 38km east of the city of Carúpano. The Colombian Geological Service said it was a 7.0-magnitude quake.
The earthquake was felt more than 600km further east in Caracas, where the crisis-stricken nation’s political leaders were celebrating a new economic plan they claim will rescue Venezuela’s crumbling economy.
According to Associated Press, the confusing moments after the quake were captured on state television as Diosdado Cabello, one of Venezuela’s most powerful politicians, was delivering a speech at a march. “Quake!” those around him yelled as Cabello and others looked from side to side.
“I had never felt such a strong earthquake 😨,” tweeted María Ramírez Cabello, a Venezuelan journalist who was in Ciudad Bolívar at the time of the quake, alongside images of people running out of a supermarket.
Footage posted on social media by another Venezuelan journalist showed terrified residents racing out into the street after the quake struck.
[DAWN] Armed assailants injured several coppers in attacks in three locations in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Monday, as the bully boyIslamic 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 grabbed credit.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said it had launched probes into three separate attacks against police, including a failed suicide kaboom.
In the first attack on Monday morning, two men entered the district police department in the town of Shali and maimed a pair of coppers with knives, Sherlocks said in a statement.
The two assailants were rubbed out, Chechnya’s interior ministry said.
In the village of Mesker-Yurt north of Shali, a man with a backpack attempted a suicide kaboom near a police post but "coppers and civilians were not harmed by the blast", the Investigative Committee said.
The third incident occurred on the outskirts of the Chechen capital Grozny, where a man attempted to run over a traffic policeman in his car and subsequently hit two more officers as he was chased.
"The criminals were neutralised," the Investigative Committee said.
IS grabbed credit for the attacks, the SITE monitoring group reported, citing the jihadists’ main propaganda agency Amaq.
"Fighters from the Islamic State attacked Chechen coppers and elements in Grozny and Shali in Mesker-Yurt," Amaq said, according to SITE.
Chechnya’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who was visiting 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... on Monday, said Death Eater propaganda that "confuses the young men" was to blame for the assaults.
He said the attacks were staged on Monday to "darken" the festivities ahead of Tuesday, when Moslems begin to celebrate the Eidul Azha holiday.
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[IsraelTimes] Father praises Wa'ed Tamimi, 22, for being on 'path of resistance,' month after sister and mother released from jail in soldier-slapping incident
An Israeli military court on Monday sentenced the brother of Ahed Tamimi
...the blond, blue-eyed Arab-Israeli maiden who along with siblings and young cousins in the boisterous village of Nabi Saleh has made a hobby of being filmed screaming at and physically attacking Israeli soldiers, urged on by well-known Fatah activist Bassem Tamimi, her papa...
to 14 months behind bars for throwing stones at security forces in two festivities over the last three years.
Wa’ed Tamimi, 22, was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in May over an incident that took place the previous year, in March 2017, in which he and others from his village of Nabi Saleh hurled stones at an army jeep that had gotten stuck in the town.
According to the indictment against Tamimi, a soldier suffered a hand injury as a result of the rock throwing.
The verdict came less than a month after Tamimi’s sister Ahed Tamimi and mother Nariman Tamimi were released for prison for hitting a soldier in a case that drew international attention.
In handing down its sentence ‐ which was first reported by the Kan public broadcaster ‐ Judge Rani Amar said he took into account a similar clash in which Wa’ed Tamimi took part in January 2016. For that incident, he was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
Amar accepted the plea agreement reached between the defense and the prosecution in which Tamimi agreed to serve 14 months behind bars ‐ eight months for the 2017 incident and six months for the 2016 one.
The 22-year-old was fined NIS 7,500 ($1,914) and given another 12-month suspended sentence over the next five years where he will be expected to not participate in any festivities with IDF troops.
In a final statement after the plea agreement was announced in court, Tamimi assured Amar that "there would not be a third incident."
While the typical sentence for stone-throwing that does not cause injury is six to 18 months behind bars, a spokeswoman for Tamimi’s attorney Gaby Lasky said that the prosecution had agreed to a lighter punishment for her client after inconsistencies arose in eyewitness accounts of the clash.
[ToloNews] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , leader of Hizb-e-Islami, on Tuesday said during an Eid prayer ceremony in Kabul that any bad boy group that continues this war and refuses to accept peace, is an enemy of Islam and the Afghan people.
Hekmatyar said such groups are fighting in Afghanistan on the orders of foreigners and for the interests of foreigners but blaming it on the presence of foreign troops in the country.
Hekmatyar’s remarks come after President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s announcement on Sunday of a conditional ceasefire with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... . Ghani said the ceasefire would be upheld if the Taliban reciprocated. However the Taliban has not responded.
"Anyone who continues the war and creates problems against peace, they are the enemy of people, religion and the country and are serving the foreigners," said Hekmatyar.
Hekmatyar also criticized Taliban’s attacks on Ghazni city, especially attacks on residential areas.
Meanwhile sources said in the next two weeks Mullah Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, head of Taliban’s Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... office, will attend a meeting in Moscow to discuss the Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
According to sources, no representative from Afghanistan will attend the Moscow meeting, but representatives from Iran, Pakistain, Russia and some other central Asian countries will attend.
"We hope that in this meeting they (Taliban) not only discuss their own demands, but also discuss the demands of the Afghan people," Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, head of the New National Front of Afghanistan said.
Meanwhile sources close to Taliban confirmed that the group has been invited to the Moscow meeting and that representatives from the group will probably attend the meeting.
"I think Taliban’s meetings and visits with foreign countries is a positive sign of the group’s interest in peace talks," Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban Überstürmbannführer said.
Hekmatyar also accused circles in government of interfering in the electoral commissions affairs.
"The electoral commissions weakness, lack of independence and unfair distribution of ID cards and stickers is fraud," said Hekmatyar.
The Presidential Palace however said President Ashraf Ghani issued an order barring government interference in electoral commissions’ affairs.
[BigLeaguePolitics] Special counsel Robert Mueller’s record as FBI director is coming under fire from a coalition of whistleblowers who previously served under him and are willing to testify about his allegedly illegal activities.
As House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Goodlatte prepares to interrogate Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, husband of Fusion GPS operative Nellie Ohr, and Rep. Jim Jordan of the House Oversight Committee digs into the complex "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" plot that targeted President Donald Trump, members of Congress are growing more aware of the massive problems with Mueller’s case and with his own alleged lawbreaking.
These whistleblowers are prepared to testify under oath that Mueller committed perjury and other crimes in his effort to conceal massive off-the-books citizen surveillance programs rolled out in succession by the Bush and Obama administrations.
A former FBI special agent accuses Mueller of lying to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the scope of his surveillance programs. Another NSA and CIA whistleblower accuses Mueller of overseeing a secretive program that surveilled President Donald Trump while Trump was a private citizen ‐ an accusation that is already being heard in court. Another whistleblower claims that former FBI agents would testify with documentation that Mueller stifled their investigations into certain terrorist networks. These accusations could form the basis of a congressional investigation, or could be used by insiders close to the president as leverage in the Russia collusion case dominating Washington discourse.
Former Mueller employee Chuck Marler told Big League Politics in an exclusive statement that Mueller lied to the Senate, informing the Intelligence Committee that his surveillance programs were smaller and less wide-ranging than they really were. Mueller’s lies blocked Senate oversight of his work and allowed him to expand surveillance programs that concerned officials in his own Bureau. FBI agents who complained were punished and threatened with arrest.
Here is Chuck Marler’s statement to Big League Politics, presented in its entirety:
"I used to work for the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Robert Mueller was my Director. I have been wrestling with his disregard for my safety and his dishonesty with my and other coworkers’ concerns. That is why in 2008 I decided to quit the Bureau early and start my own business and get away from the corruption of certain members of the FBI management. I saw firsthand how dishonest some of them could be. Since Mueller has taken over as Special Counsel, I’ve been concerned about him continuing that behavior which leads me to the following. Continues.
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Blah, blah, blah. This has got to be deliberate misinformation at this point. We keep hearing justice is right around the corner. Show me people arrested or on trial and we'll talk.
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I'm pretty sure we saw a similar headline a few months ago. Nothing to see here folks, move along...
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Yes, yes, and Bat Boy™ is going to fly down in his Nazi UFO™ from that secret Fourth Reich Lunar Base™ as well... Show me some action and I will start paying attention.
#8
Vote in November against the Democratic party candidates at all levels. Vote against them even if the Republicans are far from ideal. If the margin is too big, as it was in 2016 in enough districts in key states, they won’t be able to steal the election they are trying to intimidate us into giving up without a fight.
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I suspect a lot of folks within the FBI completely disagree with Mueller and think he's a political hack, but have no actual information to testify about because their jobs in no way intersect with Mueller.
The MSM reporting is so bad on Trump. For example, it was being reported this a.m. by ABC and others that "Trump gets rebuffed in Wyoming." "The candidate Trump backs for governor loses in the primaries." There was a 5000 vote difference between the candidate Trump supported and the candidate who won. The story was all about Trump's candidate losing and the rest was about the Democrats winning. The real story is that the Pub turnout was something like 100,000. The leading Pub candidate scored 37,000+ votes. The winning Dem candidate won a little over 12,000 votes and the total turnout was around 16-17,000 for the Dems. The Pub candidate garnered 3 times as many votes as the Dem winner.
Another dishonest job in reporting is the whole business with Lanny Davis reporting on his client Michael Cohen. Also the Manafort reporting sucks.
It's no new news that the MSM is a propaganda arm for the Democratic Party and they have lost all semblance of honest reporting.
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From the Stock Propaganda Photo Department File:
Fox News shows the *usual Scary Dark Cooling Tower Water Vapor Cloud (E-vile CO2 Bad Hissss)* photo with the chyron about Trump vowing relief on EPA's anti-Coal Regulations to help West Virginia residents.
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Well, that seemed to get a little attention...
76 days from today, those of us quaintly valuing our votes will cast them, this despite headwinds.
The antithisis to confidence is hope, and hope is what many have have been exhausted to. My congresscritters' and Senators' (rhymes with Turbin) phone answerers politely take my calls and then, I'm certain, "file" the notes. Pretty sure letters have the same end. So, I can do nothing more than express my opinions at the voting booth, even as my thumb and fore-fingertips lose feeling from tightly pinching my nose.
[AnNahar] Targeted killings and kidnappings for ransom have for months rattled Syria's Idlib province, with angry residents blaming dominant rebel and jihadist forces for the chaos.
Even as the regime says it aims to retake the northwestern province on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's border, its inhabitants are falling victim to infighting between the rival groups controlling most of it.
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[ToloNews] The former Balkh governor also stated that since the end of the last ceasefire, over 7,000 Afghan cops have been killed.
It’s good to get a sense of the pace of things from time to time.
Former governor of northern Balkh province and CEO of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... party Atta Mohammad Noor on Tuesday warned that "if transparency of the elections is not guaranteed, we will boycott the elections."
Addressing Mazar-e-Sharif residents, during his Eid message, Noor said: "For the last time I am announcing to all friends, who are leaders of the government, to take my words seriously."
"If you do not bring reforms in all of Afghanistan or major parts of the country and do not accept the demands of the political parties over bringing of changes in the election system or voting system, including a biometric system, we will boycott your election," he said.
Noor said if their demands are not met and election transparency is not guaranteed the political parties will call for the resignation of government leaders and install an interim government.
He also said the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has benefited from government’s first ceasefire ‐ in June ‐ over Eid al-Fitr.
Although he welcomed efforts being made to bring peace to the country, he said that the June ceasefire enabled Taliban members to infiltrate cities.
Noor claimed that since the end of the Eid ceasefire, on June 29 "over 7,000 Afghan cops were martyred".
He said Taliban entered cities during Eid and "they brought weapons with them."
In the meantime, residents of Balkh welcomed President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. ’s conditional ceasefire announcement and also called on Taliban to renounce violence.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... the provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq Qaderi said that "all highways and mosques are under heavy protection by security forces."
Despite Mazar having been quiet on the first day of Eid-al-Adha, the same could not be said for Kabul.
At about 9am, Death Eaters launched a rocket attack on the city, also targeting the Presidential Palace, while President Ashraf Ghani was delivering his Eid message.
Officials said earlier at least 12 rockets were fired but later stated they had found the remains of at least 20 rockets. Kabul residents said they counted 22.
[AnNahar] The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said it had not seen any indication that nuclear activities in North Korea have stopped despite its pledges to denuclearize.
"The continuation and further development of the DPRK's nuclear program and related statements by the DPRK are a cause for grave concern," said a report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), referring to North Korea's official name.
The report, published late Monday, by director general Yukiya Amano is to be submitted to an IAEA board meeting in September.
In 2009 Pyongyang expelled IAEA inspectors from its Yongbyon nuclear site and has since refused to allow IAEA inspections on its territory.
The watchdog has stepped up monitoring through open source information and satellite imagery, it said.
"As the Agency remains unable to carry out verification activities in the DPRK, its knowledge of the DPRK's nuclear program is limited and, as further nuclear activities take place in the country, this knowledge is declining," it said.
Between late-April and early-May, there were indications of the operation of the steam plant that serves the radiochemical laboratory at the Yongbyon site, according to the report.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the steam plant was not operative long enough to have supported the reprocessing of a complete core from the experimental nuclear power plant reactor, it added.
The report added steam charges and the outflow of cooling water at the Yongbyon experimental nuclear power plant had also been observed "consistent with the reactor's operation."
"Since December 2015, when the current operational cycle started, there have been indications consistent with several short periods of reactor shutdown. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... none of these periods were of sufficient duration for the complete reactor core to have been discharged. The Agency's observations indicate that the current operational cycle is longer than the previous one," it said.
It also found "indications consistent with the use of the reported centrifuge enrichment facility located within the plant, including the operation of the cooling units as well as regular movements of vehicles."
North Korea's leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... and U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... held a groundbreaking summit in Singapore in June.
At the meeting the pair struck a vague agreement to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, but there has been little movement since.
Before this, Kim met South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April for their first summit. They agreed to push for a declaration of an end to the Korean War this year.
The two leaders are due to meet again in September.
The IAEA has said previously it stands ready to help verify any future agreements between the U.S. and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
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Because the UN fears and hates Trump as much as if not more than the Dems, I would say this is mostly an attempt to denigrate the ongoing dialogue between DJT and Fat Boy
[IsraelTimes] A woman in Moslem-majority Indonesia is sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for complaining about the volume of a mosque’s call to prayer ‐ the latest conviction under a controversial blasphemy law.
Meiliana, 44, an ethnic Chinese Buddhist, is found guilty of insulting Islam for asking her neighborhood mosque to lower its sound system because it was too loud and "hurt" her ears.
There are some 800,000 mosques across the archipelago, with the five-times-a-day call to prayer heard everywhere in the biggest cities and smallest towns.
Tuesday’s verdict will likely fuel fears that Indonesia’s moderate brand of Islam is coming under threat from increasingly influential radicals.
The court in the city of Medan on Sumatra island says the woman’s comments two years ago triggered riots that saw angry Moslem mobs ransack Buddhist temples.
Some ethnic Chinese in the area fled in fear.
The defendant’s lawyer says his client will appeal the decision.
[AlAhram] Hackers linked to Russia's government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft said.
The software giant said it thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute. Users were redirected to fake addresses where they were asked to enter usernames and passwords.
There was no immediate comment from Russian authorities, but the Kremlin was expected to address the report later on Tuesday. It has regularly dismissed accusations that it has used hackers to influence U.S. elections and political opinion.
Casting such allegations as part of an anti-Russian campaign designed to justify new sanctions on Russia, it says it wants to improve not worsen ties with Washington.
"We’re concerned that these and other attempts pose security threats to a broadening array of groups connected with both American political parties in the run-up to the 2018 elections," Microsoft said in a blog post overnight.
The International Republican Institute has a roster of high-profile Republican board members, including Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... of Arizona who has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's interactions with Russia, and Moscow's rights record.
The Hudson Institute, another conservative group, has hosted discussions on topics including cybersecurity, according to Microsoft. It has also examined the rise of kleptocracy, especially in Russia and has been critical of the Russian government, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
"They (the Russians) are pursuing attacks that they perceive in their own national self-interest," Eric Rosenbach, the director of the Defending Digital Democracy project at Harvard University, told the New York Times.
"It’s about disrupting and diminishing any group that challenges how Putin’s Russia is operating at home and around the world."
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Microsoft's report comes amid increasing cyber-tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of the congressional votes in November.
Microsoft said its digital crimes unit (DCU) had acted on a court order to take control of six internet domains created by a group known variously as Strontium, Fancy Bear and APT28, which it said was associated with the Russian government.
As well as the two think-tanks, other home pages had been set up to mimic the websites of the U.S. Senate and Microsoft's own Office software suite, it added.
The type of attack is known as "spear fishing," in which the hackers trick victims into entering their username and password into the fake site in order to steal their credentials.
"To be clear, we currently have no evidence these domains were used in any successful attacks before the DCU transferred control of them, nor do we have evidence to indicate the identity of the ultimate targets of any planned attack involving these domains," Microsoft said on the blog.
Facebook said late last month it had removed 32 pages and fake accounts from its platforms in a bid to combat foreign meddling ahead of the U.S. votes.
The company stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation. But members of Congress who had been briefed by Facebook on the matter said the methodology of the influence campaign suggested Russian involvement.
[IsraelTimes] The Kremlin dismisses new reports that Russia is targeting US political groups through cyberattacks ahead of midterm elections.
Microsoft said earlier Tuesday that it’s uncovered new intrusions by Russian government-linked hackers on US political groups. It said one group created fake internet domains that appeared to spoof two American conservative organizations.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov denies the allegations and says that Microsoft’s statement lacks detail and it wasn’t clear "who the hackers in question are" and how they could distort the US electoral system.
Microsoft says there is no evidence that the hackers were successful.
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The report this as if it's news. It isn't. It's been going on for years and it isn't just the Russians either. Why don't these headlines ever mention Chinese hackers who are far and away more prolific than Russians ever dreamed of being?
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Russian hacking?
Forgive me but for some reason I was thinking about the Awan bros, HRC's bathroom closet server and state secrets, Brennan's spying on Dianne Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee and lying, Benghazi and lying, fake charities for personal gain, Uranium 1, Dem election rigging, George Soros, human trafficking, MSM propaganda and walking outside for fear the sky is falling.
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Consider: (1) All of those people in Think-Tanks that still have TS Clearances, (2) General Stupidity of same, and so (3) Why not hack and see if their are crumbs to vacuum up?
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I'd wager that most "Russian hacking" claims are the result of finding .ru domains in web server error logs as a result of script kiddies playing their script kiddie games and not from foreign intel services.
Monday’s excitement accomplished two things: 1) suicide by cop, so much easier than doing the deed oneself, and 2) instead of going to Hell for the sin of homosexuality, Paradise is promised for being killed while jihading.
[IsraelTimes] A man rubbed out as he attacked a Spanish cop shoppe had come out as gay and wanted to commit suicide, a source close to the probe says Tuesday based on testimony of the assailant’s ex-wife.
Abdel Wahab Taib,
...or in the An Nahar version of his name, Abdelouahab Taib...
a 29-year-old Algerian man, invoked the name of Allah during the assault early Monday in the town of Cornella de Llobregat near Barcelona.
Authorities are treating the incident as a "terrorist attack" although the source, who refuses to be named, says "there don’t appear to be any signs of jihadism."
According to the source, Taib’s ex-wife, a Spaniard who reportedly converted to Islam after meeting him, told police he had recently told her he was homosexual.
"She said they had separated, that he had revealed his homosexuality and that he was disturbed about how that fit in with the Moslem religion," the source says.
"We’re putting this down to confusion, a suicide attempt. There are some who do it throwing themselves off a bridge, he opted for this method.
"We’re basing ourselves on his wife’s testimony, who says he had not veered towards extremism."
David Martinez, the ex-wife’s lawyer, tells news hounds the couple had signed divorce papers last Tuesday and ruled out a terror-related motivation for the attack.
Police have not found any guns or explosives in the house of a man who allegedly attacked coppers with a knife in Barcelona before being rubbed out, a bigwig in Spain’s Catalonia region said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... a front man for the Catalan police force’s largest labor group, Valentin Anadon, said in an interview with Europa Press that the policewoman told the attacker "about 10 times" to put down his knife before she opened fire.
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"instead of going to Hell for the sin of homosexuality, Paradise is promised for being killed while jihading."
I get the idea but will the virgins be male?
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Sez Allen, "Gay shaheeds, be patient:
Vacation's of endless duration.
Original virgins
No good for your urgins'?
Just wait for the next generation!"
[Al Jazeera] Serbia's air force received two Russian MiG-29 fighter jets as part of an arms purchase that could heighten tensions in the Balkans and increase Moscow's influence in the region.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic attended the ceremony on Tuesday at a military airport close to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for helping make Serbia's armed forces stronger.
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[ToloNews] ISISgrabbed credit for the drawn out rocket attack on Kabul, which injured at least six people.
As Afghans celebrated the first day of Eid-al-Adha, Kabul residents were subjected to a serious rocket attack early Tuesday morning.
The attack started at about 9am and lasted for more than half an hour. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the murderous Moslems behind the attack were quickly tracked down by security forces and a clash involving both sides lasted until about 12 noon.
According to Resolute Support front man Lt. Colonel Martin O’Donnell, nine murderous Moslems had been involved.
O’Donnell said: "Approximately 30 mortar rounds from two separate, but nearby locations in Kabul's Police District 8. Afghan forces responded swiftly to the attack with coordinated combined arms, which speaks to growing capabilities of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces under the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -led Resolute Support train, advise and assist mission.
"Afghan police cordoned off the area, while MD-530 helicopters from the Afghan Air Force destroyed one firing position and Afghan Special Security Forces destroyed the other.
"In total, four of the nine murderous Moslems were killed. The other five murderous Moslems surrendered to Afghan forces," he said.
The rocket attack started while President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. was delivering his Eid message from the Presidential Palace.
With the thud of rockets in the background, Ghani interrupted his speech and said: "If they are thinking the rocket attack will keep Afghans down, they are wrong."
O’Donnell meanwhile said: "Such an auspicious day, Eid al-Adha, should be marked with blessings, not bombs."
Afghan officials meanwhile said six people had been maimed in the attack. According to the Kabul Garrison Chief Gen. Murad Ali Murad only two murderous Moslems had been involved.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... by 6pm local time, no serious attacks or battles had taken place across the country on Tuesday ‐ except for the Kabul rocket attack.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... denied responsibility for the rocket attack early afternoon but ISIS later claimed the attack.
Residents attending Eid prayers around the country meanwhile prayed for peace and called on the Taliban to join the grinding of the peace processor.
Ministry of Interior (MoI) front man Najib Danish had earlier said the rockets fired by the gunnies have landed in the 1st, 2nd, 10th, and 16th police districts of the city.
The gunnies managed to reach close to the center of the town close to Presidential Palace despite strict security measures were in place on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.
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[DAWN] An Indian court on Tuesday sentenced two men to death for the gang-rape of an eight-year-old girl that sparked angry protests.
The sentence was one of the first ordered under a new law allowing for fast-track trials and capital punishment for child rapists.
Crowds chanted "Death to rapists!" after the brutal attack on the child in the central state of Madhya Pradesh two months ago. The victim is still in the hospital with critical injuries.
The suspects picked up the child outside her school in Mandsaur as she waited for her father.
They took her to a secluded spot where she was raped, had her neck slashed and was left to die. Her life was saved by locals who found her and rushed her to hospital.
A court in Mandsaur passed the sentence on the men, aged 20 and 24.
India in April made the rape of children aged up to eight a capital offence following widespread outrage over earlier cases.
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[ARABNEWS] Morocco’s government is moving to restore military service, with men and women between the ages of 19 and 25 expected to serve a year in the army, navy or air force.
King Mohammed VI’s ministerial council on Monday approved the draft law that is expected to comfortably win politicians’ backing when tabled for parliamentary debate in October.
The council said the aim is "to strengthen the sense of citizenship among young people."
The plan provoked an immediate outcry on social media. Critics argued that the government wants to turn young Moroccans, among the hardest hit by unemployment, into brainwashed patriots.
Refusing to serve could be punished with 1 to 3 months in prison and a fine.
Morocco abolished military service in 2006 to save money.
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[ABC] A first-degree murder charge was filed on Tuesday against a young man in the case of missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said Tuesday.
The suspect, 24-year-old Cristhian Rivera, is an undocumented immigrant who lives in the rural area where the college student vanished one month ago, according to Rick Rahn of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Some might refer to Rivera as an illegal alien.
A body recovered Tuesday morning in a farm field is believed to be Tibbetts, Rahn said, but the identity has not yet been confirmed.
Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Iowa, disappeared the evening of July 18 while jogging in the rural farming town of Brooklyn, a close-knit community of about 1,500 residents.
A critical break in the case was finding a local person with security cameras showing Tibbetts jogging, Rahn said.
"Through that we were able to identify a vehicle that we believed belonged to Mr. Rivera," Rahn said. "From that we were able to track his patterns and the routes that he took. We were also able to find Mollie running on this video and we were able to determine that he was one of the last ones to have seen Mollie running."
In an interview, Rivera told authorities he saw Tibbetts running, got out of his car and ran alongside of her, Rahn said.
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I am so f-ing tired of cow beating illegals hired on iowa dairy farms. My question is what piece of shit farmer hired him?!
We may never know. By the way, it is a crime to film -video cattle abuse there. This wet turd was clearing living in plain sight.
Four years ago I spent a wedding party weekend at Breezy Point with one of these factory farm owners. Looking back on our conversations about his illegal Mexicans. "Rough with the cattle" was an understatement. I should have beat him with own boots.
The money involved was impressive with all milk being delivered to a nearby factory frozen dairy factory.
Making Mollie's rape and murder happen for the want of cheap ice cream.
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As a construction worker in east Marietta I have plenty of tips for them besoeker.
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A sad story. Sad for the family.
The left was so hoping the guy would be a right-wing conservative loner with neo-Nazi leanings who owned lots of firearms, beat his wife, children and dog and voted for Trump.
[AlAhram] A growing number of migrants colonists are finding jobs in Germany, according to data released on Tuesday that will give heart to supporters of Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. 's decision to let in hundreds of thousands of war refugees since 2015.
Figures last week also showed that German companies have managed to attract more apprentices to on-the-job training schemes due to a surge in applications from asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Syria.
The figures will feed into a running debate in Germany on the impact of Merkel's decision in 2015 to open German borders to more than a million migrants colonists, many of them refugees from war zones in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Critics including the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have said the new arrivals will be a burden on Germany's welfare system and economy.
But the head of Germany's Labour Office, Detlef Scheele, told dpa news agency there was no reason to be overly pessimistic about the country's ability to cope with the record number of arrivals.
"This is all going pretty well," he said, adding that the numbers were slightly better than expected. "These are good numbers, also taking into account that the people came here for humanitarian reasons and not for finding a job," Scheele added.
The number of employed migrants colonists from the eight countries with the biggest numbers of asylum seekers surged by more than 100,000 to 306,574 in May compared with the same month in the previous year, data from the Labour Office showed.
SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAGE
Among those, roughly three out of four had a labour contract in which the company and the employee were paying full contributions to social insurance schemes, the data showed.
There were roughly 500,000 people from the eight main asylum seeker countries who were registered as looking for work in July, the data showed. This includes people who are currently completing an integration and language course.
Among those, nearly 197,000 people were registered as unemployed which is roughly in line with the level seen a year earlier, the data showed.
Shortages of skilled labour and a lack of young people willing to commit to on-the-job training for up to 3-1/2 years have become big concerns for managers in Europe's largest economy.
Vacancies for training positions have reached their highest level in more than 20 years with more than a third of companies unable to fill all of their training spots.
The number of new arrivals in Germany has fallen sharply this year, partly due to stricter border controls across Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... as well as tighter asylum rules in Germany and other countries.
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Invaders might be a better term. Colonists usually bring their families - women and children. I believe the vast majority of these are military-aged men - right?
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The source [AlAhram] doesn't sound promising, and the employment statistics on the numbers of these people and their kids, whether already on the dole or not, is missing.
The German culture, which was vibrant in the 1970's, will likely be entirely neutered in 20 years.
[ARABNEWS] The lira weakened against the dollar on Tuesday after 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... said he would give The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... no concessions in return for the release of a detained American pastor, the latest salvo in a worsening rift between the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies.
In an interview with Rooters on Monday, Trump criticized Ankara over the detention of the evangelical Christian pastor, Andrew Brunson, and said he was not concerned that his tough stance against Turkey could end up hurting European and emerging market economies.
Brunson, who is originally from North Carolina and has lived in Turkey for two decades, has been detained for 21 months on terrorism charges, which he denies. The pastor has become an unwitting flashpoint for the diplomatic tension, which has accelerated the crisis in the lira.
Trump said that, after he helped persuade Israel to free a detained Ottoman Turkish citizen, he thought Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan would then release Brunson.
"I think they’re making a terrible mistake. There will be no concessions," Trump said.
The lira weakened to 6.0925 against the US currency by 1111 GMT, from a close of 6.0865 on Monday, when Ottoman Turkish markets began a holiday to mark the Moslem Eid al-Adha festival that continues for the rest of this week.
Trade was thinner than usual and probably mainly offshore, with local markets closed for the holiday. The currency has lost 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... selling on Tuesday was limited due to a broadly weaker dollar.
Ottoman Turkish government officials did not comment on Trump’s remarks when they spoke after prayers to mark the start of the festival.
Devlet Bahceli, leader of a nationalist party allied with Erdogan’s AK Party, told news hounds: "We have no business with those who love Brunson more than us."
PRAYERS AND GIFTS
Erdogan, who had been expected to speak to news hounds after morning prayers, made no public statement.
He has repeatedly cast the currency crisis as an attack on Turkey but has stopped short of singling out any one country.
He prayed on Tuesday morning at a mosque near the tourist resort of Marmaris on the south coast and then handed out gifts to local children, the Milliyet newspaper reported.
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Trump: Turkey making ‘terrible mistake’
Mr. Trump, you forget that they have God on their side. Gollum says so.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] Yesterday’s news that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court and accused Trump of committing a federal crime by directing him to pay hush money to two women "for the principal purpose of influencing the election" was definitely shocking. According to Cohen and his attorney, Trump violated campaign finance laws by allegedly directing Cohen to make these hush money payments. This point had me confused.
[Independent Sentinel] Potential genocide looms over South Africa and the nation’s President has begun to steal farmland. It’s a good time to remember that in early August, Barack Obama went to the country and praised the land grabbing racist President Cyril Ramaphosa.
[National Review] Conditions now are fundamentally different from 2008.
[News Biscuit] Prisoners are demanding that the Home Office formalises the long standing arrangement whereby they run all of Britain’s prisons, and pay them for labour that has hitherto been done for free. ’It’s really hard work, running a prison’ said Big Ron, currently serving 10 years for armed robbery, as de-facto acting governor of B wing of Birmington prison and a variety of recreational substances to eager customers ’But if those G4S w*nkers can manage to get paid for not running this dump, then me and my mates should get paid for doing it, even if it is a complete shit-hole. After all, we ain’t goin’ to get very rich from jus’ selling drugs to a load of fellow lags what ain’t got no money.’
[Townhall] Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) filed an amendment to the Senate appropriations package for Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education that would defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. 
[Breitbart Texas] A federal judge in Houston sentenced a local man to spend more than six years in prison after he attempted to blow up a statue honoring a Civil War Confederate Army lieutenant. The man pleaded guilty to federal charges of attempting to damage property receiving financial assistance.
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[AnNahar] More than two million 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
Mehmood 
[ARABNEWS] The uncovering of a terrorist cell in the Jordanian city of Salt, west of the capital Amman, two weeks ago ‐ a day after a homemade bomb 
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[1Prime.ru] China considers it cost-effective to build a high-speed railroad line from the Chinese border city of Suifenhe to Vladivostok, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev told reporters.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
North Korea
John 
[DAWN] An Indian court on Tuesday sentenced two men to death for the gang-rape of an eight-year-old girl that sparked angry protests.
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
