WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.
The 86-year old justice, who has had previous cancer scares, tolerated the therapy well and no further treatment is required, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.
An abnormality was first detected in July, and the tumor was identified following a biopsy performed on July 31 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
"She canceled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule," Arberg said.
"The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the spokeswoman added.
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Reminds me of the happy things they said about her health earlier this year, right before she missed oral arguments to have tumors removed from her lungs.
Anyone know what kind of reputation MSK has? Wikipedia mentions that they treat a lot of cancer, and Google seems to think that this particular radiation treatment is experimental.
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The Soviets, with their rudimentary medical technology, could keep their leaders alive (even if comatose) for a long time. Guess we will find out just how long modern medical technology can keep a body alive.
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The cancer, the accidents, the still semi-rigorous schedule... I honestly can see her making it past 2020 election season (which is not that far away, honestly), but how much longer? She is not in good health. I really hope for her sake that if she is still alive after the elections she resigns. There is no way she survives to see 2024 pass.
[FinancialExpress] Sheikh Rashid Ahmad who had earlier called India's decision to revoke special status to Jammu and Kashmir a 'blunder'. He also said that "India was unable to confront Pakistan as it knew that any war between the two Asian countries would not be a conventional war."
Pakistan Railways minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad was on Tuesday pelted with eggs and beaten up by two officials of the Pakistan People's Party in London. The incident took place when Rashid came out of a hotel after attending an awards ceremony in London. Following the incident, two PPP officials in UK - Asif Ali Khan and Samah Namaz - released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack.
The officials said that they assaulted Rashid because he had been using 'abusive language' for PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Pakistan-based Geo TV cited their statement in which they said: "He (Sheikh Rashid) has been using abusive and bad language during interviews against our Chairman Mr Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. He should be thankful we only used eggs as a British way of dealing with such uncivilised politician. He started this we ended it." I suppose he should be glad they didn't know about the leather sap.
What could go wrong?
[Yahoo] Moscow (AFP) - Russia will launch the world's first floating nuclear reactor and send it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday, despite environmentalists warning of serious risks to the region.
Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov will leave the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000 kilometre (3,000-mile) voyage to northeastern Siberia.
Nuclear agency Rosatom says the reactor is a simpler alternative to building a conventional plant on ground that is frozen all year round, and it intends to sell such reactors abroad.
But environmental groups have long warned of the dangers of the project, dubbing it a potential "Chernobyl on ice" and a "nuclear Titanic."
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Chinese hacker groups are targeting U.S. cancer research institutes as the regime looks to solve the problem of increasing cancer deaths in the country, according to a report released on Aug. 21.
In recent years, Chinese hackers linked to the regime have attacked organizations involved in cancer research on multiple occasions, according to the report by California-based cybersecurity firm FireEye.
The cyberattacks, the report stated, likely flow from the regime's desire to find a cure for the disease‐the country's No. 1 killer‐and, in turn, stave off its attendant social costs.
"It is likely that an area of unique interest is cancer-related research, reflective of China's growing concern over increasing cancer and mortality rates, and the accompanying national health care costs," the report stated.
[CNN] Camps across Europe are teaching people how to protest over the climate crisis.
My abject apologies, Dron66046 — I accidentally deleted the article you went to such pains to submit. I did solve the width problem, though: I deleted the quotations around the numbers you had for the first image. For some reason that sometimes works.
At any rate, I did manage to salvage the link and the comments, though not your thoughtful in-line about Antifa highlighted in bright yellow, which 84 Rantburgers have already seen and pondered as of 8:30 a.m. EDT.
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#1 I wonder how they'll react to counter protestors?
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#2 2,500 years since Aesop and Chicken Little still runs amok. Humans have not changed.
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Climate emergency, me arse. One day in the future, probably in the depths of the next ice age, Global Warming will be recognized as the biggest scientific fraud in the history of forever.
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I wonder how the protestors will deal if it becomes a Federal Law that they can't wear masks and If they violate that law, Martial law will be imposed. If local law enforcement tries to oppose they will be met with extreme prejudice.
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I don't know how it does that by itself. Previews fine.
I believe you, Dron66046. It was doubly frustrating because Rantburg got to enjoy the Platonic ideal version of your article for about ten seconds before I hit Delete instead of Edit a second time — I wanted to respond to to your in-line comment in the article — multiple highlighters are so pretty! ;-)
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[Forbes] British Royal couple Prince Harry and Princess Meghan Markle triggered widespread outrage recently after lecturing the world about climate change while flying around the world in private jets.
...But was the couple’s ostentatious display of climate hypocrisy really accidental? After all, celebrities have been hypocritically moralizing about climate change and other environmental issues for decades. And, now, a growing number of celebrities are getting into the act.
...A simpler explanation for the hypocrisy of celebrities who moralize about climate change is that it is a way of flaunting their special status.
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people. Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.
Such displays work because, unlike wealth, status is inherently subjective. The more of it you are perceived to have, the more of it you actually have.
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Also notice who's not going to Balmoral to see the Queen.
Princess Yacht-girl not managed to make many friends with royals. Perhaps she can chat to Andrew again as they likely bumped into each other in the past.
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If the syllabus consists of racial mathematics, pan-sexual chemistry, transsexual friendly engineering etc. with equal outcome grading systems - thanks.
Intelligent people are better off not going to politicized classrooms.
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Now identity politics is f---ing up the hard sciences, threatening to make them into the same kind of affirmative action shitshow that has destroyed the humanities and social sciences.
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Reality does not recognize gender (all 57 of them). A bridge works or it doesn't - it doesn't care who designed or built it.
This sort of thing could lead to disasters.
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I read it all. Depressing, infuriating and frustrating. MacDonald exposes it beautifully. Her article should be nailed to the UCLA doors.
Project Wakanda. Take over the institutions, agencies and administrations built over centuries of struggle with nature and adversity by the white man. Then use them to indulge in your tribal fantasies and nursing your inferiority issues.
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This is why they're pushing STEAM (STEM with Arts) to get that sweet sweet funding for unemployable majors
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We need too have a purge, like a Stalinistic purge of all these nitwits who will never contribute too society.
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We need all the smart, hardworking people we can get to help invent the future. But a women-only program or special treatment like the extra time on exams as some professor proposed seems like a great way to permanently brand someone as Not The Real Deal when it comes to doing the job.
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My favorite bit of BS are the "Engineering Education" idiots. Think rejects from the Education schools coming into the engineering schools to tell the profs they're teaching all wrong.
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[Jpost] A teenage girl was killed and her father and brother were seriously injured on Friday after a grenade was thrown at them from a car near a natural spring near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in the West Bank in what the military is calling a serious terror attack.
Rina Schnerb, 17, of Lod, was critically wounded in the attack at Ein Bubin spring and was treated at the scene before succumbing to her wounds. Her funeral was scheduled for 3.30PM in the Lod cemetery. A great victory for Ilhan Omar's friends
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They do have an inferiority complex. That's why they make their women cover up head too toe, can't go out with another man and such shit comes into place. It's called lil dick syndrome.
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Put em on an involuntary hunger strike for...say.. a year?
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Vegetarianism, Veganism in particular, is a moral choice if you will, not a natural choice.
Until a person becomes self-aware and is able to make moral choices, a natural diet should be used.
I'd wager that studies linking birth weight and development natural vs. vegetarian vs. vegan pregnant mothers is obvious and well buried.
In fact, I wonder if this malnourishment-chic is a contributor to all these abnormal birth conditions, such as down syndrome, which seem to be increasing.
In short, to take away necessary growth ingredients such as meat protein before a child ends puberty is taking the Monarch Butterfly off the milkweed before the pupal stage.
[Freedom Wire] Since June, millions of Hong Kong residents have flocked to the streets of the city to protest the ruling Hong Kong government and China.
They have cried out for change and a restoration of democracy that the city-state once enjoyed under British colonial rule. In 1997, the British turned Hong Kong over to the Chinese and their freedoms have been steadily eroded ever since.
The citizens of Hong Kong are not going to take it anymore, and they are letting their displeasure be known to the Chinese.
At many of the demonstrations, the protestors are waving flags, and, surprisingly, it isn’t a Chinese or Hong Kong flag. Instead, the flag they are waving as a symbol of their fight for freedom in none other than our own American flag.
America represents a country built on liberty and the dignity of the individual. That is something most of the world has never known, and that is why you see our flag used as a powerful symbol to those yearning for freedom.
For as much as the world likes to complain about America, they change their tune when their personal safety is threatened.
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I'm reading that Taiwan is offering to take in the Hong Kong people and Trump has pissed off Xi by opening arm sales to Taiwan that includes anti-aircraft and ship devices.
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Keep us out of this. Best idea so far is trade HK for CA, then PR for GL. If they are dumb enough to take PR for Greenland, then that is a wonderful deal! I'm afraid we are probably stuck (pun intended) with California.
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If the Chicoms move violently on Hong Kong our role should be to stand by while all of red china's neighbors freak.
The F16V sale to Taiwan is a start. But we might trade weapons for Cahm Ran Bay or Subic/Clark. Likewise with Japan. They might sell some of their highly capable diesel subs to Taiwan.
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Imagine if the populations of Hong Kong and Puerto Rico suddenly swapped. I think the corrupt leaders of Puerto Rico would find themselves at home in the PRC and Puerto Rico might start making money instead of being a money pit.
Damn shame. Especially if their intransigence on stopping illegals led to a border shutdown
[Yahoo] Economists expect Mexico's second-quarter gross domestic product to be revised slightly down on Friday, with some going as far as to predict a negative number that would mean Latin America's second-largest economy slipped into technical recession this year.
The median estimate of economists in a Bloomberg survey is for the final GDP reading to show no growth from the previous quarter. That would mean a negative revision to the 0.1% expansion preliminarily reported July 31. The national statistics institute Inegi will release the final figure at 6am on Friday.
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Germany too looking like recession...
That idiot Trump's economy must be looking awful compared to genius merkel.
[TheNews] KARACHI: Expressing concerns over the recent surge in cases of rabies in the country, a recommendation entailing export of stray dogs to China and Philippines was presented before the Sindh Assembly by Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani. No Shit !
The recommendation came in light of a resolution filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislator Dr Seema Zia based on the alarming rise of rabies' cases in the country which was unanimously approved by the provincial members of the government and opposition.
Zia stated there exists a deficit of anti-rabies vaccines in hospitals.
PTI member Zaman highlighted how Sindh government had earlier vowed to introduce vaccines to curb the reproduction of dogs, however none of that has been implemented as yet.
Chemical castration? The idea has been bandied about over here, but I’m not aware that anyone has actually put it into practice on a mass scale yet.
Zaman went on to state Karachi alone has around 100,000 stray dogs at present.
Taking the resolution of exporting dogs to China and Philippines into consideration, Provincial Minister of Sindh for Health Dr. Azra Pechuho said that the number of rabies cases reported in the entire province is 59, and that the government is already working on introducing anti-rabies vaccines.
Tainted pigs and a rice shortage in China, and Pakistain the no.1 exporter of 'dirty dogs!'
The chinese are the world's largest consumers of dog meat. In Duterte country it's becoming rarer. The House of Han consumes like 10-20 million dogs a year ! And Pakistain has like an uncountable number of the poor mutts. It's a trade made in hell.
For food? Ick — I can’t imagine that meat would pass even a Third World inspection.
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I would rather have the stray dogs than a pakistani.
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I'm by no means an animal control expert, but this strikes me as an incredibly stupid idea.
So, they start rounding up stray dogs for transport to China. Before they can be shipped, they will need to be contained somehow. If even one one of those dogs is rabid, it will infect other dogs, who will go on to infect others.
By the time they reach China, most of the dogs will be rabid.
What happens if you eat a rabid dog?
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To a communist, not much apparently.
The thousands of dogs eaten in China everyday are not all vaccinated. Because the major cities can insist on the detail, but in the interior, and suburbs, where's the control ? I'm sure they ingest a rabid or diseased one now and then.
I think this is still in the proposal stage though, and when the guys from China hear it they may just turn red and storm out the room. I'll bet even they won't eat a paki dog.
(Bloomberg) -- Amid a growing shortfall of qualified nurses in the U.K., students and professors at Imperial College London are developing a robot with dexterous 3D-printed fingers to assist the elderly or physically-challenged. Will it speak Tagalog?
A modified version of a robot nicknamed Baxter, the machine has two mechanical arms, an animated face, as well as sensors to help it analyze patterns and detect if a human user is struggling to lift or move a limb.
"There’s an increasing need for technologies that will allow people to maintain their independence, and through that, satisfy their fundamental human desire for privacy and dignity," Yiannis Demiris, the director of the personal robotic laboratory at Imperial, said in an interview.
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I though up a complete character like Douglas Adams used to make. A robo nurse with a faulty circuit that insults her patients compulsively. But I was too busy to write it.
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I know several Phillipina nurses, Beso - brother-in-law married one- good people and good nurses, IMO. Still, they tend to be small and American invalids tend to be quite large, so I can see the need for some robotic assistance...
BEIJING (AP) ‐ China "will not sit idly by" if the U.S. proceeds with a sale of advanced F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan, a Chinese general said, while warning of other potential countermeasures in addition to punishing foreign firms involved in the deal.
Beijing considered the sale a violation of previous U.S. commitments to China regarding the island it considers its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary, Maj. Gen. Chen Rongdi, chief of the Institute of War Studies at the Academy of Military Sciences, said. He did not elaborate on what additional measures China might take.
"China will not sit idly by," Chen said Thursday at a forum sponsored by China’s official journalists’ association. "Of course, we don’t rule out additional measures."
Beijing has repeatedly said it will levy sanctions against U.S. companies linked to a planned $8 billion sale and demanded Washington cancel it immediately. China has made such threats regarding previous arms sales by the U.S., but they’ve had limited effect because the companies involved are either important to China’s own nascent commercial aviation industry or have little or no business with the country.
When I die, and the medical students dissect my corpse to find out where all the bits go in their future patients, they’ll find those words engraved in gold on my heart.
LONDON (AP) ‐ A cheap daily pill that combines four drugs cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart failure in a large study, suggesting it could be a good way to help prevent heart problems especially in poor countries.
The pills contained two blood pressure drugs, a cholesterol medicine and aspirin. Many people can’t afford or don’t stick with taking so many medicines separately, so doctors think a polypill might help. A previous study testing one in India found it lowered cholesterol and blood pressure. The new study is much larger and gives stronger evidence because it tracked heart attacks, strokes and other problems ‐ not just risk factors.
It involved about 6,800 people in Iran, ages 50-75, some with previous heart problems and others without them. All got advice on healthy lifestyles and half also were given polypills. After five years, 6% of those in the pill group had suffered a heart attack, stroke or heart failure versus 9% of the others. That worked out to a 34% lower risk with the polypill, and a 22% lower risk after researchers took into account other heart drugs that participants were taking.
People who took the polypill most faithfully, at least 70% of the time, had even bigger reductions in heart risks.
The benefit mostly seemed to come from lowering cholesterol; blood pressure didn’t significantly change. Side effects were similar in both groups. Some who developed a cough while on the polypill were switched to another version that substituted one of the four drugs. All of the drugs are cheap generic medicines now.
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A friend told me that in 1968 he was advised by a senior NIH official to take an aspirin a day for good health. He did. More than a half century later his carotids are as healthy as an 18 year old.
Polypills, or fixed dose combination medications from some Indian companies were banned in the US a few years ago. There was some question about the quality of the constituents used.
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The polypill combines a variety of fixed-dose drugs, including at least one blood-pressure-lowering compound, a statin, and often aspirin, each of those being useful in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Research has proposed that the combination of a statin, one of three things for the treatment of blood pressure (each at half-standard dose), folic acid and aspirin in a “poly-pill” can reduce IHD events by 88% and stroke by 80%. People taking this formulation would benefit from an additional average of 11 years free of these conditions.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.
"We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby - congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. ... It’s frankly ridiculous," Trump told reporters outside the White House.
Trump has made cracking down on immigration a central plank of his presidency and re-election campaign, but many of the administration’s sweeping rule changes and executive orders have been stymied by the courts.
The Republican president had told Axios news website in October 2018 that he would end "birthright citizenship" through an executive order. Experts have said such a move would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
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Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 14th Amendment
The intent was that certain states could not declare newly liberated slaves as non-citizens and thus denied the rights of citizens. Everything else is 'judicial interpretation'.
This was before we ended up in the latter half of the 20th Century with a million troops and families deployed across the world birthing in Germany, Japan, Italy, etc. There is no logic to those born 'over there' not to be classified as foreign by this definition. If bloodline is not the consideration in births here, then bloodline is not a consideration over there. It's all rationalization, no principle.
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I think the key is "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof". The children born to diplomatic personnel assigned to the US do not become American citizens. Because their parents are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof. By that logic neither are people in this country illegally, so their children should not become citizens at birth. I think Trump is going to do this to force a SCOTUS decision once and for all.
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With Roberts on the bench, it might be wise to wait until RBG can be replaced.
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"By that logic neither are people in this country illegally,"
No, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means that U.S. law applies to you, that you can be prosecuted and tried. Diplomats (and their children born in the U.S.) can't be (they can only be declared persona non grata and forced to leave the country), but of course illegal immigrants can (and are) be prosecuted for violating U.S. law.
Every other interpretation is just absurd and even the most conservative Supreme Court would reject it.
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AFAIK, no other country grant citizenship to just because they happen to be born there.
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Thanks, Cooch. Any of those grant welfare and other benefits equal to the US?
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Dunno. Canada? But that was not what SACFI was asserting.
(I figure a fellow who calls himself "Seeking a Cure for Ignorance", yet exhibits ignorance on a topic -- especially a topic so easily researched -- ought to be able to withstand a certain amount of ribbing.)
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I did answer it: I don't know. You made an assertion, and asked to be enlightened if you were wrong. So I did. You want to know about welfare, look it up yourself.
You and Frank seem to think I posted a comment to make a political point, but I did not.
A while back I was talking with a colleague who thought that ALL countries granted birthright citizenship. I sent him the same link.
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Actually, I think my question was tied more to motive, not the facts you showed (and thanks for that). Anchor babies are dropped for family life improvements (if not just an accident of timing)
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As a lifetime resident of San Diego, I'm well aware of the practice
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[Americans for Tax Reform] Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said he’d like to raise the capital gains tax rate to 39.6 percent, a near doubling of the current 20 percent.
Biden made the remarks on Wednesday, August 21 during an interview with Iowa Public Television:
"I believe we should, in fact, the capital gains tax should be at what the highest minimum tax should be, we should raise the tax back to 39.6 percent instead of 20 percent," Biden said yesterday.
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That's mostly a tax on inflation - a tax on the money the government printed. I suggest making dividends tax-free - they have already been taxed as income to the corporation, why tax them again as income to the corporation owners?
[Washington Insider] Will the demonstrations in Hong Kong come to be seen as the end of a 30-year period, beginning with the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, of the American-Chinese economic engagement and entanglement christened "Chimerica" by historian Niall Ferguson?
Quite possibly, and without regard to what happens in Hong Kong. President Trump’s on-and-off tariff threats to China have shown his willingness to upend U.S.-China economic ties. Unlike his predecessors, he regards imports from China as harmful. In his view, they provide cheap clothes and toys to American consumers, but they also have destroyed more American manufacturing jobs than expected.
In any case, China's economic growth has been flagging, and its work force has essentially stopped growing. Post-Tiananmen annual growth, unparalleled in history, ranged from 8% to 14% from 1991 to 2013, but has tailed off, probably below the official 6% level.
Thanks to China’s longtime one-child policy, its working-age population has been declining, down 3% since 2011. For years, one big question about China was whether it would get old before it got rich. The answer seems to be that it has gotten old about halfway up the path. Poverty is way down, but incomes significantly lag those in North America, Western Europe and East Asia, including Taiwan and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, just as the United States once lost low-skill manufacturing jobs, so China is losing them now.
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Building up China's economic and military might and destroying our manufacturing class will be seen by future historians as one of many insanely self-destructive policies foisted on this country by its foolish political class.
Right up there with importing 20 million semi-literate illegal entrants from Mexico and Central America.
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You'd have to be of a certain age to recognize your graphic, B.
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Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far....
....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..
....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....
....all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didn’t. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!
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The moral of the story is: When you enable evil, it does not reform. It only gets more powerful and more dangerous.
We should have been dealing with the Chinese the same way we did with the USSR. If we had they might have collapsed by now the same way the USSR did. Trump gave them more of a chance than I would have but he is not naive and stupid the way jimmuh carter was. Nor is he as greedy and unscrupulous as Henry Kissinger. I hope he's not too late.
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Ref #5: Parking in the back row, near the ditch. Nobody walks past your car for popcorn or soft drinks.
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President Trump on Friday announced plans to increase tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese goods in a sweeping response to duties announced by Beijing earlier in the day.
Trump tweeted that a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion in Chinese goods set to go into effect on Sept. 1 would increase to 15 percent, and that an additional $250 billion being tariffed at 25 percent will be hit with a 30 percent tariff starting Oct. 1.
"China should not have put new Tariffs on 75 BILLION DOLLARS of United States product (politically motivated!)" Trump tweeted.
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We should have been dealing with the Chinese the same way we did with the USSR.
Unfortunately, America's policy towards China has always been driven by dreams of what its population could be -- an unparalleled mass of customers, an unparalleled source of new converts. It's never been about what the Chinese want or need, but always about what influential Americans can get out of it.
(For example, for the Clinton's, it was about trading US defense secrets for cash.)
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Truth be told, if I were playing one of them world games, and the blurb came up, "Would you like to make this trade?" Yes, yes I would. Especially after this last event "Hurricane Strikes Your Territory! Would you like to pay for repairs?"
-> Yes
(doom music)
"Repairs Unsuccessful! Would you like to try again for 2x cost?"
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The absurdity of buying Greenland is not the idea of buying it but trying to buy something that is not for sale and then reacting childish if told so.
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SteveS - might be able to (carefully) tow Guam, but I think PR is attached.
[American Thinker] This spring, visiting professor Ryszard Legutko was prevented from speaking at Vermont's prestigious Middlebury College due to strident opposition by extremist and intolerant students. This was the second such embarrassment for the college: writer Charles Murray and a Middlebury professor were insulted and assaulted there in 2016.
Professor Legutko recently related his perspective on the experience, revealing that the college not only caved to the disruptive and disrespectful students, but legitimized their conduct! Further, the students have set out to proscribe future discourse that might again ignite their sociopathic anarchy.
Last year, our nation's children walked out of high schools to complain about school shootings. Encouraged by teachers and principals, these students proclaimed that they would finally end school violence by effecting changes to national gun laws. Many have praised these optimistic youths; others have condemned them. Both approaches are wrong.
Addressing the rebellion of America's youth in the 1960s, writer Wendell Berry remarked that "this generation is as subject as any other to intelligent scrutiny and judgment, and as deserving of honest criticism. It has received much approbation and condemnation, very little criticism" ("Discipline and Hope," 1970). Mr. Berry argued that the '60s youths correctly criticized their parents' world but that without guidance, they eventually embraced those same values in new forms. Thus, the Flower Children took root in Silicon Valley, where they now grow bald while the military complex and industrial waste flourish.
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on Monday boycott classes to protest racism
on Tuesday boycott classes to protest global warming
on Wednesday boycott classes to protest corporate profits
on Thursday boycott classes to protest animal abuse
on Friday boycott classes to protest voting ID laws
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On saturday attend the 'how to protest' workshop.
On sunday see the state appointed shrink.
Just a note to the kiddies, the authorities sent the PLA in to finish them off. Keep it up. We don't have a PLA, but once the leash breaks, we have a militia. If history says anything, they'll be as concerned about 'due process' as you are.
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When I was a kid in VT - it was all sawmill workers and other yankee rednecks.... then NYC and Boston hippies decided VT was a beautiful thing.... so they spoiled it.
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Is Overstock a federal contractor?
Is Byrne a national security risk?
Hillary's people actually worked with GRU agents to try to dig up dirt on her opponent, and created and ran with complete lies which their media friends amplified - for years.
Why the f--- is this private citizen being punished for a non-crime?
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He talks a whole heckuva lot without saying much, drops a few names but offers no details. I would say that he should probably avoid Fort Marcy Park.
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This could be a publicity stunt to support his emerging block chain biz.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan government reacted to artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line on the Afghan soil.
Presidential spokesperson Sediq Sediqqi said "Government of Afghanistan strongly condemns Pakistain’s recent missile shelling onto the Afghan soil."
Sediqqi further added "We believe this act runs counter to all international principles and is an indication of Pakistain’s lack of commitment towards Afghan, and regional peace and instability."
The local officials in Kunar have said the Pak military have fired hundreds of rounds of artillery shells on various districts of the province during the recent days.
Kunar governor Abdul Satar Mirzakwal has said the shells landed in Dangam, Shaltan and Nari districts of Kunar in the past three days.
Mirzakwal further added that the shellings did not inflict casualties on local residents but the incursion has damaged the houses and properties of some residents of the province.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces conducted various Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and special operations across the country in the past 24 hours killing at least 14 Talibs and destroying multiple caches of weapons.
The informed military sources said Thursday that the Afghan Special Forces destroyed a weapons cache of Taliban ...Arabic for students... during a raid in Kharwar district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
The sources further added that the Special Forces destroyed another weapons cache and killed 2 Talibs during a similar raid in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
Furthermore, the security forces conducted multiple airstrikes in Ghazni district of Ghazni province which killed 6 Talibs and destroyed a large cache of weapons.
The Special Forces also conducted separate operations in Pusht-e Rod district of Farah and Almar district of Faryab killing a Taliban krazed killer and destroying a weapons cache.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck slipped the habañero into the roasted jalapeño... an airstrike destroyed a small weapons cache in Maiwand district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and a similar raid killed a Taliban fighter in Kajaki district of Helmand.
An airstrike also destroyed a weapons cache in Khash Rod district of Nimroz while the Special Forces killed a Taliban krazed killer and destroyed a small weapons cache during a patrol in Bermal district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... .
[KhaamaPress] A group of 13 bully boyz affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group surrendered to Afghan forces in Kunar.
The 201st Silab Corps said in a statement the ISIS bully boyz surrnedered to Afghan forces on Thursday.
The statement did not disclose further information regarding the exact location where the ISIS bully boyz surrendered.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the 201st Silab Corps said the Afghan forces will continue suppressing the foreign Lions of Islam including ISIS bully boyz inside the Afghan soil.
The ISIS sympathizers have not commented regarding the surrender of 13 ISIS bully boyz so far.
The security situation in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... has tanked during the recent years.
Talibs, ISIS Lions of Islam and bully boyz of the other groups are active in some districts of Kunar where they often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard... the Afghan forces routinely conduct counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in this province.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in restive parts of the country to suppress the bully boy groups.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces stormed a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... compound during a night raid in south-eastern Ghazni province killing at least 9 Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Crops said in a statement that the security forces conducted the raid in the outskirts of Ghazni city.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 9 Taliban and confiscated a PKM machine gun, 2 Ak-47 rifles, a pistol, a radio set, 2 binoculars and some other military kits.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the raid so far.
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces conducted night raids in Ghazni province on Wednesday triggering heavy clashes which continued until 1:30 am on Thursday.
The Provincial Governor’s Office said in a statement that the Special Forces conducted the raids in Nogha, Qarabaghi and Dagha areas located in the outskirts of Ghazni city, close to Gabru area of Andar district.
The statement further added that the Special Forces killed 21 Taliban militants including Qari Esmat alias Saif-ul-Jihad, the shadow economic commission chief of Taliban.
Furthermore, the Ghazni Govenror’s Office said the security forces and local residents did not suffer casualties during the operations.
The Special Forces also confiscated 8 motorcycles and various weapons and munitions during the operations.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the raids so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed at least 20 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... during an operation in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan.
The 205th Atal Corps said in a statement that the security forces led by the Special Forces conducted the operation in Charchinoo district.
The statement further added that the security forces killed at least 20 bandidosLions of Islam and destroyed two caches of weapons and munitions.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the raid so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s target a gathering of Taliban ...Arabic for students... and their fighting positions in Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the security forces conducted the airstrikes in Zara district of Balkh.
The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 20 Talibs and maimed several others.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the airstrikes also destroyed an explosives and weapons cache, a Dshk heavy machine gun and several Improvised Explosive Devices.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[ToloNews] Balkh Police Chief said the Taliban will be prevented from infiltrating in any district of the province.
Balkh which was relatively calm compared to other provinces in the north has been faced with rising threats over the past few months as officials said the Taliban militants are trying to infiltrate the northern province from neighboring regions.
The Taliban fighters have flocked to Balkh from neighboring Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz and Jawzjan provinces, Balkh Police Chief Gen. Mohammad Afzal Faez told reporters on Thursday.
Mr. Faez said that at least 40 Taliban fighters were killed in clashes with Afghan security forces in Zari district of the province over the past two days.
At least 12 security force members have lost their lives while battling the insurgents, Mr. Faez said.
“The enemy has the plan to overrun one or two districts of Balkh at any cost to show to their bosses that they have a presence here,” Mr. Faez said.
Zari, Sholagara and Chahar Kant are among the key districts in Balkh which have witnessed security threats over the past few months.
“No area has collapsed to the Taliban and will not in the future,” the Commander of Afghan Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps, Gen. Mohammad Wali Ahmadzai, said.
“Despite consecutive calls by MPs, Balkh Provincial Council, local officials, and the police headquarters, the Ministry of Interior did not send us arms,” head of Balkh Provincial Council, Mohammad Afzal Hadid, said.
In recent months, violence also reported on some key highways connecting to other provinces.
Reports say the Taliban often establish checkpoints along the highway which has made it difficult for government employees to commute on these highways.
This comes despite efforts by senior negotiators from the US and the Taliban who preparing for a ninth round of peace talks in Doha aimed at finding a political settlement to the current turmoil in the country.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... commander and his comrades in western Farah province of Afghanistan, the Special Operations Corps said.
According to a statement released by Special Operations, the security forces conducted the airstrike in Todanak area of Bala Bolok district.
The statement further added that the airstrike killed Hafiz Qudrat, one of the commanders of Taliban in Farah province.
Furthermore, the Special Operations Corps said the airstrike also killed five comrades fo Hafiz Qudrat.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the airstrike so far.
[Rudaw] A senior commander of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG), the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Tuesday, according to a PKK statement.
Helin Halana, also known as Layla Karabash, was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday in Qandil in the Kurdistan Region on the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... -Iraq-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... border, according to an HPG statement published by the PKK-affiliated Roj News on Thursday.
"Ottoman Turkish warplanes bombarded...the Zape area on August 20, martyring Helin Helena," read the group’s statement.
Another PKK-affiliated outlet ANF News published the statement as well.
Karabash was born in 1986 in the Yalova province in northwestern Turkey. She joined the PKK in 2001.
Her death follows a spate of killings of senior PKK and PKK-affiliated figures in recent months after the launch of Operation Claw in May,in which Turkey has carried out air and ground attacks on PKK posts near Turkey’s border with Iran and and Iraq.
On July 5, Diyar Ghareeb, a senior Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) official, was killed alongside two others in a Ottoman Turkish airstrike on the Qandil Mountains on July 5, the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) confirmed in a statement on July 7.
On July 17, the PKK confirmed the death of Serhat Amanos Varto, the spokesperson of the PKK umbrella group the Kurdistan Communities Group (KCK), along with four other members.
Ottoman Turkish forces have "neutralized" ‐ a term Ottoman Turkish forces used to describe anyone killed injured or captured in their operations - 635 of PKK fighters in 2019, according to a tweet by the state-run Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
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[IsraelTimes] Mark Esper confirms reports the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... ’s 15th son and heir as head of jihadist group was killed in the past two years in US-aided operation.
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has confirmed the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.
"That’s my understanding," Esper said in an interview late Wednesday with Fox News, when asked if Hamza bin Laden was dead.
"I don’t have the details on that. And if I did I’m not sure how much I could share with you," he added.
A pretty tepid confirmation...
US media reported at the beginning of August that bin Laden was killed during the last two years in an operation that involved the United States, citing US intelligence officials.
But US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... and other bigwigs have refused to confirm or deny it publicly.
"I don’t want to comment on it," Trump told news hounds when asked.
The 15th of Osama bin Laden’s 20 children and a son of his third wife, Hamza, thought to be about 30 years old, was "emerging as a leader in the al-Qaeda franchise," the State Department has said.
Sometimes dubbed the "crown prince of jihad," he had put out audio and video messages calling for attacks on the United States and other countries, especially to avenge his father’s killing by US forces in Pakistain in May 2011, the department has said.
That work made him important in attracting a new generation of followers to the hard boy group which carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US which left some 3,000 dead.
His father’s death in 2011 and the rise of the more virulent Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group saw al-Qaeda lose currency with younger jihadists, but the group appears to have been plotting a stealthy comeback under leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... .
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"We have his nose, and not a lot more that we can share with you"
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The Bin Laden family which has for decades received the protection of the Saudi royal family has recently been hammered by a change in leadership. It appears its role as a major economic force is now over.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army scored a new advance along the Hama-Idlib axis on Thursday, seizing several sites from the last jihadist rebels in the area.
According to a field report from this front, the Syrian Army began the day by capturing the hilltop of Tal Sayyed and the nearby village of Sayyed.
Following this advance, the Syrian Army would capture several other areas along the Idlib-Hama axis, including Tal Huwayz, al-Bashir Driving School, and Wadi al-Anz.
A source near the front-lines told al-Masdar News that most of the Death Eaters that once controlled this area fled north before the Syrian Arab Army closed the pocket.
He added that several Death Eaters are still in the pocket, but most are situated near the Ottoman Turkish Armed Forces at the observation post in the town of Morek.
Since the start of the week, the jihadist rebels have suffered several setbacks at the hands of the Syrian Army; this includes the loss of the strategic city of Khan Sheikhoun.
[IsraelTimes] Damascus says it is opening a corridor for civilians to leave the rebel-held northwestern region of Idlib, where government bombardment has killed hundreds since late April.
The announcement came a day after government forces recaptured the strategic Idlib province town of Khan Sheikhun from jihadists and allied rebels.
Damascus has opened such corridors out of other rebel bastions in the past as a prelude to retaking them either by force or through negotiated surrenders.
The Idlib region, which sits on the Ottoman Turkish border, is now the last major stronghold of opposition to the Russia-backed government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ...
Wednesday's advance saw government forces cutting of a pocket of territory stretching from the south of Idlib province into neighboring Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
"The Syrian government announces the opening of a humanitarian corridor in Souran in the northern countryside of Hama province," state news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying Thursday.
The corridor will be used to evacuate "civilians who want to leave areas controlled by terrorists in northern Hama and the southern countryside of Idlib.
Breaking News: Libyan Airforce attacks Haftar’s armed groups in Kazirmah near #Tripoli International Airport as heavy fighting renewed in south Tripoli today pic.twitter.com/dBKaI3EH5i
[Breitbart] Renowned Yale computer scientist David Gelernter claims that he is abandoning Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Gelernter, who formerly served as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, published a column earlier this year detailing his move away from evolutionary theory. The column, which was titled "Giving Up Darwin," provides Gelernter’s arguments against Darwinism.
Darwin’s theory predicts that new life forms evolve gradually from old ones in a constantly branching, spreading tree of life. Those brave new Cambrian creatures must therefore have had Precambrian predecessors, similar but not quite as fancy and sophisticated. They could not have all blown out suddenly, like a bunch of geysers. Each must have had a closely related predecessor, which must have had its own predecessors: Darwinian evolution is gradual, step-by-step. All those predecessors must have come together, further back, into a series of branches leading down to the (long ago) trunk.
But those predecessors of the Cambrian creatures are missing. Darwin himself was disturbed by their absence from the fossil record. He believed they would turn up eventually. Some of his contemporaries (such as the eminent Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz) held that the fossil record was clear enough already, and showed that Darwin’s theory was wrong. Perhaps only a few sites had been searched for fossils, but they had been searched straight down. The Cambrian explosion had been unearthed, and beneath those Cambrian creatures their Precambrian predecessors should have been waiting‐and weren’t. In fact, the fossil record as a whole lacked the upward-branching structure Darwin predicted.
A group of scientists, including Gelernter and Meyer, sat down to discuss evolution this summer in a conversation that was hosted by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
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@...They could not have all blown out suddenly...@
actually, the normative view is that in about a 10 million year period early in the Cambrian (about 500M years ago) there was such a 'blow up' and that's why it is called the Cambrian Explosion
there are no accepted causal theories of why this happened and for this to have happened the rate of successful mutation would have to have been at least 4 orders of magnitude greater than anything measured -- those problems make the 'explosion' a tough one to accept for many
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He's got a point. There is no trace of Trump in Republican fossils, for example. But, sometimes there is random skip-a-step evolution, when the 'gamma ray' hits a cell harder than normal. I guess. Evolution never took Algebra I and tried to get a passing grade. It probably never will.
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In the last decade the availability of cheap genetic mapping has caused a reshuffling of the Tree of Life™. Things that looked alike tended to have far different ancestors ( Evolution in Action, eh?) .... so fossil evidence? :Meh:
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Saying your "abandoning Darwin" makes as much sense as saying you're "abandoning Democritus" and his model of atoms -- there's been a hell of a lot of other work since then, and that phrasing just makes you sound ignorant. Frankly, coming from an over-inflated Ivy Leaguer, it's what I expect.
It's not just finches and fossils.
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When someone, like my elder Brother, says "I don't believe in Evolution!" then my response is "Define what you mean by that statement ... then we'll talk."
[DAWN] Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call "Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... " as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts slogans of liberation.
In an act of defiance against New Delhi's controversial decision to withdraw occupied Kashmir's special status and integrate it fully into India, Soura neighbourhood on the outskirts of Srinagar has sealed itself off from security forces.
Since early August, residents have erected ramshackle barricades of tin sheets, wooden logs, oil tanks and concrete pillars, and dug trenches to keep soldiers at bay amid daily protests against India.
"They can only enter Soura over our bodies. We won't give even an inch of land to India," Mufeed, a resident who volunteers to guard the neighbourhood at night, told AFP.
"Just like Gaza is resisting Israel, we will fight for our motherland with all our might," Mufeed added.
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If I understand correctly when partition happened the leadership of Kashmir wanted India but the bulk of the population was/is Muslim. Is that correct? I favor India and think Kashmir is better off as part of India but it seems their claim isn't all that great.
Long ago India should have granted Kashmir and Punjab as independent/allies to act as buffer states between Pakistan and India.
If they did that Baluchistan would have wanted to join up as well and the Punjab in Pakistan might have preferred joining Punjab state. Pakistan would have spent all her time keeping things together and India would have had a number of small states on their border.
Of course the risk is that some other parts of India might have wanted to go independent as well but I *think* the rest of India is pretty solid.
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Ruprecht, at the time of partition even Pakistan was 24% hindus. The kingdom of Kashmir, ruled by a hindu Rajah was never formally colonized and retained it's status. There were as many hindus in Kashmir as muslims. Besides, the culture of the region was more on the lines of the Sufi mysticism and a peaceful cohesion of hinduism and islam Yes. Unbelievable but it was just so.
During partition, most of the sunni muslims from northern Indian states (not Kashmir) were the ones who went and settled in Pakistain. There was a genocide and the exodus of millions of non-muslims from the new islamic republic.
Kashmir was yet independent and did not wish to cede to either nation, but Pakistain attacked them to annex it in the first Kashmir War . India had to assist and hold the bloody place without any final resolution until the tiresome king was dead. After that there were more hindus and sikhs in Kashmir than muslims for a while.
It wasn't until the late 70s and through the 80s that Pakistain, well funded and emboldened by the CIA's largesse during Op Cyclone a poorly written love affair which started with Carter began their adventure with supporting jihad outside their shithole. They began a bloodbath and covert replacement of the population of Kashmir, killing and chasing out hindus, christians and sikhs they infiltrated salafi muslims and militant clans in the valley.
By 1989, there were no more non-muslims in Kashmir. By the late 90s there were burnt christian schools, shariah enforcers, terror schools, the works. The aim of Pakistain was to try to destabilize and take India piecemeal, using means and resources achieved through the never-ending western aid supply. Lest you wonder what we were doing with our thumbs up our asses all this while, India was under weak leftist, liberal Govts all those years - the same jig of diversity, appeasement, corruption, incompetence.
So that's the concise history of the current demographic.
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Glenmore, I believe the problem herein lies in the leftist liberal model of diplomacy and domestic power. It is not based on fraternity or global brotherhood or welcoming all or some shit like that. It's a lazy strategy of building supports by appeasing minorities like muslims. They think that the poor fucker from the third world can be always be controlled. Just why they were the party to feature black slavery.
To their way of thinking, these things can be weaponized, to wreak havoc on classical conservative edifices, for them to move in and change status quo on everything hard working people have worked for. A fresh start after sacking Alexandria by unleashing sasquatches on it. They partner up with such things only for convenience's sake. And good men and women have to pay the price for their follies. Islamic jihad wouldn't be jack-shit today if not for the American deepState actors repeatedly putting their trust behind such things. If it were not for traitors in exceedingly liberal societies, an idiot entity like islam wouldn't stand a chance in the modern world.
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It's only Pakistain that obsesses about India. It has no hopes of anything beyond savage survival and murdering Indians if it can. I believe we shall see the dissolution of Pakistain in our lifetimes now. It's nothing.
The real danger is the deeply infected EU islamists, salafists and anti-semites in the UN. And muslims in the US Government. Everybody knows if the US falls, everything else is easy from there.
[IsraelTimes] IDF’s Arabic-language front man says Iran-backed terror group will suffer the consequences of any failure to implement conditions of ceasefire agreements.
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday blamed the Iran-backed Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... for the recent increase in violence from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and called for Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,, the de facto ruler of the enclave, to rein in the terror group.
"We do not plan to accept terror attacks and rocket fire against our citizens," the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee tweeted.
Adraee was referring to a number of rocket and mortar attacks directed against southern Israel and infiltration attempts along the border in recent days.
Rockets were fired at Israel from the enclave late Wednesday and early Thursday, prompting Israeli reprisal attacks.
There were no injuries in the Paleostinian rocket attacks.
The Islamic Jihad is the second most powerful terror group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas. Israel has routinely accused the Iran-backed group of seeking to derail its unofficial ceasefire agreements with Hamas by carrying out attacks from Gaza.
"Hamas, as the ruler of the Strip, must enforce its authority over Islamic Jihad and prevent these terror attacks and plots," Adraee said.
...except that it was recently announced that Hamas and PIJ are best buddies partnering on important projects, so why would they interfere merely to please the Juices?
The front man said Islamic Jihad is responsible for any failure to implement the conditions of the ceasefire agreements and that it will "suffer the consequences" for these activities.
Hamas has sought to distance itself from a series of cross-border attacks over the past month, painting the perpetrators as young lone-wolf Paleostinian attackers exasperated by the humanitarian situation in the enclave. On Monday, Hamas leaders expressed concern that popular anger could snowball into another war with Israel.
Last week, Hamas reportedly deployed extra security forces to the border area to stop the cross border attacks. Nonetheless, on Saturday Israel said it identified a group of armed Paleostinian approaching the fence to carry out a cross border attack and killed them with tank and helicopter fire.
Egypt, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... have recently played key roles in brokering informal ceasefires between Israel and Gaza, which have largely entailed Hamas and other terror groups halting violence in the border area in exchange for the Jewish state scaling back some of the restrictions it has imposed on the coastal enclave.
person Friday riots, the riots are smaller but little assassination teams are sent through the wire to kill Juices in their beds. The fact that thus far all have been quickly caught is immaterial to the fact of the effort.
[Libya Observer] The Volcano of Rage Operation forces under western military zone of the Presidential Council launched an attack Wednesday on Sabea frontline (45 km to southeast Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ) and seized "new strategic positions" from Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces.
Heavy artillery shelling was reported coupled with Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s from both sides leading to casualties from both warring parties.
"Libyan Army forces achieved significant advances in Sabea which would tighten our grip on the remaining Haftar's forces in Qasir Benghashir since the only supply line left for them in this area is Qasir Benghashir-Sabea." Spokesman for Volcano of Rage Operation Mustafa al-Majea said.
He said the forces seized control of Sabea hospital, aviation Institute and other vital areas, adding that they were combing through the area toward Souq al-Khamis then Tarhouna.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... the media office of the operations room of Khalifa Haftar's forces said they had thwarted an attack by "Government of National Accord's forces" on Sabea and caused them heavy losses of both equipment and fighters.
In the meantime, several pro-Haftar loyalists on social media admitted the defeat in Sabea, accusing a group from Wershiffana of betrayal and surrendering their positions in retaliation for the killing of five persons from their district by Haftar's forces.
Not keen on being forced into a war with Israel, no doubt. See here for details.
[IsraelTimes] Head of Popular Mobilization Forces says his deputy was voicing his own opinion in blaming Jerusalem and DC for recent attacks on its bases.
The head of Iraq’s paramilitary Shiite forces, supported by Iran, appeared Thursday to walk back a statement made by his deputy, who blamed Israeli drones and said the US was responsible for a series of attacks on bases run by the militia.
Faleh al-Fayyadh said that the Wednesday statement by his deputy, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, didn’t represent the view of the mainly Shiite paramilitary group known as Popular Mobilization Forces ‐ or that of the Iraqi government.
Al-Fayyadh’s statement alleged the attacks on the bases over the past weeks "were the result of an act organized by a foreign side," without naming that side.
The statement highlighted divisions within the Popular Mobilization Forces, which is mostly run by the deputy, al-Muhandis, a military commander known for his anti-American sentiments.
The rare statement by al-Muhandis had said the group had accurate information showing the US brought in four Israeli drones this year to work as part of the US fleet in Iraq and target militia positions in Iraq.
"We announce that the United States is ultimately responsible for what happened and we will hold it responsible for what will happen as of today. We have no choice but to defend ourselves and our bases with the weapons at our disposal," said the statement.
The conflicting statements came after an Iraqi government report obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Wednesday said a massive explosion at a munitions depot run by an Iranian-backed militia near Baghdad last week was caused by a dronezap. The report outlined the conclusions of a fact-finding committee ordered by the government to investigate the August 12 explosion at the al-Saqr military base.
It said the blast was caused by a dronezap that sparked a huge fire and ruled out earlier suggestions that it was caused by an electrical short circuit or faulty storage of munitions that allowed them to overheat in sweltering summer temperatures.
The blast at the al-Saqr, or "Falcon," base killed one civilian, maimed 28 and damaged nearby homes, echoing across Baghdad. The base houses a weapons depot for the Iraqi federal police and the mainly Shiite militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. The state-sanctioned militias, most of which receive backing from Iran, have fought alongside Iraq’s regular armed forces against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The report did not say who the drone belonged to.
Al-Saqr was among a string of explosions that hit militia bases and munitions depots over the past several weeks. The deadliest, a July 19 blast, was blamed on a drone that hit a base in Amirli, northern Iraq, killing two Iranians and causing a huge fire. The most recent explosion came on Tuesday night, at a base north of Baghdad.
Speculation among media and officials as to who is behind the earth-shattering kabooms has ranged among a number of possible perpetrators, including Israel, the United States or rival Iraqi factions.
An American official said the US has no evidence or credible intelligence that Israel was behind the two most recent blasts ‐ on Tuesday or on August 12. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the issue.
Faleh al-Fayyadh, who also serves as the government's national security adviser, issued the statement after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi late on Wednesday.
"Preliminary investigations" found the incidents were "an external, premeditated act," he said.
"The investigations will continue until the responsible entities are accurately identified to be able to take the appropriate stances."
Just hours earlier, the Hashed's deputy commander Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis, whose virulent anti-Americanism as a militia leader earned him a U.S. terror blacklisting, had been unequivocal in blaming Washington.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... will maintain its presence at the ninth observation post in the Syrian town of Morek despite the Syrian army regaining control over the city of Khan Sheikhoun, located in the country’s northwestern Idlib province, Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry front man said on Thursday.
"The ninth observation post in the town of Morek remains in its initial point despite the city’s fall. The Syrian army regained control of the city of Khan Sheikhoun," Aksoy said.
He refused to comment when asked how the observation post was supposed to continue functioning after the city moved under Damascus’ control.
A local military source said on Wednesday that Syrian troops had now completely surrounded the towns of Latmenah, Kafr Zita, Latmeen and Morek in the north of Hama province, which borders Idlib to the southwest.
The Idlib province has remained the last turban stronghold in Syria. Being under control of the Nusra Front since 2015, the province has been accepting holy warriors from other regions which were already liberated by the Syrian army.
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Life imitates The Princess Bride(1987): “You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.” ― Vizzini the Sicilian
[DAWN] South Korea will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid an intensifying dispute over history and trade, South Korea's presidential office said on Thursday.
The decision was made after a meeting of the presidential National Security Council. The deal was due to be automatically renewed on Saturday, unless either side decided to cancel it.
Japan created a "grave change" in the environment for bilateral security cooperation by removing South Korea's fast-track export status, said Kim You-geun, a deputy director of the National Security Council.
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Blaming China? There is plenty of bad blood between Korea and Japan without having to blame foreign bogeyman. It was suppressed for a long time and now things are going back to normal. Both Japan and Korea think of themselves as the best race on the planet. When they had it out, Japan got the better of Korea and this is the consequences.
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Defending China? Uh huh
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There are a few Korans still alive today who were real slaves under the Japanese. You think the 'slave' circus here many generations later is out of hand, multiply that 10 fold there.
A Korean acquiescence asked me once why only two bombs?
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Historically, there has always been animosity between China, Korea and Japan. No love lost between any of them. Koreans and Chinese like to pretend that it's all Japan's fault but the history goes a lot further back than WWII so I find that difficult to believe and we all know how the Chinese like to keep the pot boiling.
Is Herb really a Chinaman?
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I'm seeing a baby getting tossed out with the bathwater here. Come on guys, are things really so hunky dory over there it is a good time for Japan and SK to get into a spat? You may have been played.
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Not hunky dory. It's just that the SORKs need to get over it.
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Herb was stuck somewhere in HK methinks.
Everyone will agree that Japan had really been a summbitch all up to their meeting with Fatman. Before that, they just didn't know the meaning of co-existence.
[IsraelTimes] Alaa Sheikhi, 24, whose murder of Daniel Hillig on August 26, 2018, led to bad boy rallies against Moslem immigration, gets 9.5 years in prison.
A 24-year-old Syrian man was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail Thursday for a knife killing that sparked racist street violence and far-right protests in the eastern German city of Chemnitz.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] OPEC’s share of the global oil market has sunk to 30%, the lowest in years, as a result of supply restraint and involuntary losses in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... , and there is little sign yet producers are wavering on their output-cut strategy.
Crude oil from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries made up 30% of world oil supply in July 2019, down from more than 34% a decade ago and a peak of 35% in 2012, according to OPEC data.
Despite OPEC-led supply cuts, oil LCOc1 has tumbled from April’s 2019 peak above $75 a barrel to $60, pressured by slowing economic activity amid concerns about the U.S.-China trade dispute and Brexit.
The decline in prices, should it persist, and erosion of market share could raise the question of whether continued supply restraint is serving producers’ best interests.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A group of forty politicians in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... are working on a motion to force family members of high-level babus government employees to return from abroad and live in Iran.
Based on the "double-urgency" motion, all immediate relatives of the Iranian officials residing abroad, including their spouses and children, should return to Iran, the front man of parliament’s influential Commission for National Security and Foreign policy, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said.
"Iranian officials with family abroad will be given three months to bring back their immediate relatives to the country. Otherwise, they should step down from their positions," the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)-run Tasnim news agency cited Naqavi Hosseini as saying on Sunday, August 18.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... according to Naqavi Hosseini, the students and university lecturers with the Ministry of Science scholarship, as well as foreign-based babus government employees will be excluded from the new restriction.
The case of top Iranian managers with dual citizenship and their immediate relatives living abroad initially emerged in 2011 when the Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of Bank Melli, Mahmoud Reza Khavari fled Iran after being allegedly involved in a $2.6 billion embezzlement scandal. Khavari joined his family, who were already living in Canada.
Furthermore, the chairman of the Nuclear Subcommittee of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of parliament, Mojtaba Zonnour claimed in July 2018 that President Hassan Rouhani's son had British and Canadian nationality. A Rouhani aide immediately dismissed the claim as unfounded and "disgraceful."
[IsraelTimes] Suspects charged with conspiring to murder one of their cousins who served in US military, spreading terror group’s propaganda and training videos.
Israeli forces last month arrested two Arab Israeli men suspected of joining Islamic State and helping the terror group spread its propaganda, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.
The two men — medical student Amin Yassin, 22, and Ali Armush, 28 — were arrested on July 16, but a court-issued gag order was placed on the case. This order was removed Thursday when the two were indicted in a Northern District Court.
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[DAWN] French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. He is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... on Thursday that there was not enough time to wholly rewrite Britannia's Brexit divorce deal before an October 31 deadline.
Johnson met Macron at the Elysee Palace a day after talks in Berlin with German 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 Moslem colonists... , who challenged Britannia to come up with acceptable alternatives to the agreed safety net provision for the UK-Irish land border.
More than three years after the United Kingdom voted to quit the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union, it is still unclear on what terms ‐ or indeed whether ‐ the bloc's second largest economy will leave the club it joined in 1973.
Talks over lunch were constructive, a French official said.
Macron left the door open to Britannia seeking a solution to the Irish "backstop", but said any alternative must respect both the integrity of the EU single market and stability on the divided island of Ireland.
"I want to be very clear," he said. "In the month ahead, we will not find a new withdrawal agreement that deviates far from the original."
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I am getting the impression that state-level actors (France and Germany) have their thumbs on the scale, and maybe not so much the EUcrats. France/Macron says too late suckers. Germany/hag whatshername says come up with a plan. Not coordinated, but if it is the EU, why state involvement at all? Not so deeply repressed resentment of Britain? Wasn't the idea of the EU the dissolution of the states and the rise of a single super-state? Vote until the voters 'get it right' then no more votes "thanks, this is my stop, I'll get off here"? Rotten smells predominate.
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Resurrect the Open Skies US-UK free trade deal.
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(#3) I am getting the impression that state-level actors (France and Germany) have their thumbs on the scale, and maybe not so much the EUcrats. -- Whiskey Mike
IMO, the FR/BEL/GER Troika that was running the EU ran into the problem that all would-be empire builders run into: $ Money $. The Swiss Bankers would laugh in their faces, the German Financiers have spent all they care to, so who's next to pillage? Name the remaining country with prosperous finances in Europe ... Tick-Tock-Tick ... Great Britain. England was soon to be plucked, roasted and devoured by their EU Masters.
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I just read that German banks are looking at negative interest rates for loans and mortgages — so they will pay the buyer rather than the other way round. And of course, if they’re losing money on every loan, they aren’t going to be handing out interest for savings accounts and bonds, nor dividends either. The discussion was around why that inverted thingy doesn’t matter — American returns are better and safer than anywhere else in the world, so international investors will continue sending us their money.
[FT] Sudan’s new prime minister has vowed to make peace with the country’s rebel factions and rebuild its battered economy as he seeks to bring an end to the uncertainty that followed the military overthrow of dictator Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... in April after months of anti-government protests.
Abdalla Hamdok, a respected former official of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, was sworn in on Wednesday under a transitional agreement that will see the military share power with civilian administrators until elections are held in three years’ time.
"The government’s top priorities are to stop the war, build sustainable peace, address the severe economic crisis and build a balanced foreign policy," he said.
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[DAWN] The United States and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... officials resumed talks in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... on Thursday to firm up a deal enabling the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban security guarantees, the Taliban and senior US official said.
After 18 years of war and months of direct talks with the Taliban leaders, the US appears to be at the cusp of reaching a deal that could allow a pullout of foreign forces followed by a ceasefire between the warring sides.
Two Taliban spokesmen said the ninth round of talks between the US and the Taliban representatives started on Thursday evening, and a senior US official privy to the peace negotiations said the "crucial meeting iron out smaller details had begun" in Qatar's capital city, Doha.
[DAILYCALLER] The nephew of Cenk Uygur, founder of the progressive commentary program The Young Turks, said the U.S. deserved 9/11 and praised the "brave f*cking soldier" who injured Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw.
Crenshaw appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, published Tuesday, and discussed the representative’s views on U.S. foreign policy in the middle east. Young Turks employee Hasan Piker reacted angrily while watching an internet live stream of the episode.
"This guy has the understanding of foreign policy of, like, a 12-year-old. What the f-ck. What the f-ck is wrong with this dude?" Piker said while reacting to Crenshaw’s appearance with Rogan. "Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen ‐ a brave f-cking soldier ‐ f-cked his eye hole with their d-ck?"
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Uygurrrrr was born in Turkistan, so these people are like Somali Omar. They are here because they escaped the strife but are too stupid to rise above it, thus should be sent back via Afghanistan to get the ultimate return on their hate America investment.
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P.S. Dan is a nice guy but there are a whole bunch of Seals he had better keep a look out for. And that may be why late today he is suddenly saying what he said was taken out of context.
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I can't understand why anyone pays Hasan Piker for his tasteless, rude, crude and classless comments. Do something useful. I doubt that Rep. Crenshaw lost any sleep over this POS.
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It's unacceptable. Common folks should fight to censor them. There should be an extralegal conservative arm, ordered and protected by the Republicans. The left has to only pick what flavor it wants - antifa, BLM, muslims... the Right has nothing. Just uncoordinated, frustrated people who want to see something done but have to trust and wait by the system, until they lose patience and get themselves in trouble.
The left forcibly censors activists, christians, academics, journalists. Why are they not being accosted in the car park, beaten into a coma ? How dare he say that 9/11 was deserved ?
If even a high minister in India would say 26/11 was deserved, there won't be enough cops to save him from being lynched. 3000 people died. That used to mean something. I'm not American and my blood boils thinking it. People shall have to get together to make these fuckers afraid of opening their mouths. Maybe somebody is already out there, trying, failing. God be with them.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Two soldiers were killed, while two others were maimed as an ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... krazed killer, wearing an boom belt, attacked an outpost of the Iraqi army in Diyala province on Thursday.
In remarks, a police officer said the jihadist went kaboom! outside the outpost in Qaratappa, near Khanaqin district of Diyala province.
They have been rushed to a hospital for medical treatment.
Preliminary investigations showed that an unknown number of jihadists were maimed during the fire exchange, a source added.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash with Kurdish "militants" in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... near the borders with Syria and Iraq, the local governor's office said on Thursday.
Three holy warriors from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were "neutralized" in the fighting, the Sirnak governor's office said in a written statement.
It said the soldiers were maintaining security for state energy company Ottoman Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) near the town of Silopi in Sirnak when the clash broke out on Wednesday.
The holy warriors had previously been spotted by a drone in the same area, it said.
[DAILYCALLER] Federal arrests of non-citizens has increased exponentially over the past two decades, and account for the majority of all federal arrests, data released by the Justice Department revealed.
Non-citizens made up 64% of all federal arrests in 2018 despite making up 7% of the U.S. population, according to Justice Department data released Thursday and reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Between 1998 and 2018, federal arrests of non-citizens grew by 234%, while federal arrests of U.S. citizens climbed 10%.
While the numbers provide credence to 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 argument that illegal immigration results in increased crime, immigration experts also pointed out that migrant apprehensions make up a significant portion of current federal arrests.
"Experience has taught the immigration agencies and DOJ that this works to reduce recidivism ‐ in other words, when illegal crossers face some more severe consequence than just being sent back home, they don’t keep doing it," Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies told the Washington Examiner.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli satellite imaging firm releases images of an Iraqi munitions depot that was targeted by a mystery explosion that was blamed on an Israel dronezap.
The before and after images analyzed and distributed by ImageSat International show heavy damage at the Balad airbase north of Baghdad.
ISI says the base appeared to have been targeted in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , triggering a kaboom. A second blast was triggered when the munitions storage rooms caught on fire
[DW] There are 356 migrants colonists on the Ocean Viking ship, which has not been allowed to dock by Italian and Maltese authorities for two weeks. The vessel picked up several groups of migrants colonists but is running out of food.
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity group said Thursday that its rescue ship is running out of food supplies for 356 migrants colonists.
The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking ship, which MSF operates with another aid group, SOS Mediterranee, has picked up several groups of migrants colonists since it set sail in early August.
"Only five days of standard food rations left," said MSF logistician onboard the Ocean Viking. "Our medical team is increasingly concerned about a rapid deterioration in the state of people's mental health," the group said on Twitter. Then cut back. They're "starving refugees", amirite? Let them do the status quo
"356 survivors stranded for 13 days. Still no place of safety assigned," it added.
The vessel has a crew of 31 and is equipped with a clinic and four high-speed rescue boats, with a capacity to take in up to 200 migrants colonists, according to MSF.
That’s almost 80% over capacity. Any halfway decent safety inspector would shut down their operation.
The Ocean Viking has stranded between Malta and the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Sicily for more than two weeks.
Y’all might want to consider the possibility that you’re going to have to return them to sender before they turn pirate or cannibal.
Most of the migrants colonists on the ship are reportedly from Sudan. They include more than 100 children ‐ around 90 of them unaccompanied, MSF said. Three children are under the age of five, it added.
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You can't just take any ship anywhere and dock ! There is maritime law. The shipping licenses should be cancelled and all these do-gooders jailed for trafficking and abetting criminal trespass of ports and infiltration by just whoever can make pathetic faces at a camera and give a sob story.
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I suspect it's not legal to take on passengers without being able to provide for them; if lifeboats are a requirement, food and water are, too. MSF should be shut down for operating an unsafe passenger line. Or for slave-taking; their motives aren't clear.
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It should be normal procedure for all journeys to know that you'll be welcome at the end of it.
That's why they won't return them to Libya, it has been deemed unsafe, although it was safe enough for the sub-Saharan migrants colonists to disembark for Europe there. Indeed, the do gooders should be arrested, charged with human trafficking and their ships impounded, scuttled or sold at auction.
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What?! Work for their living?! They're "refugees"!
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[IsraelTimes] Local officials say that thousands are fleeing Gubio in northern Nigeria after Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bully boyz took over.
Gubio Local Council Chairman Zanna Modu says that soldiers repelled the bully boyz on August 11 in the town north of Maiduguri, but withdrew last week. He said bully boyz took over Wednesday, setting houses and public buildings on fire. No casualty toll was yet available.
Another local official Usman Zannah said Boko Haram also took over Magumeri which is also north of Maiduguri. Zannah said bully boyz are taking advantage of troop withdrawals from strategic locations.
Nigerian military authorities have not given comment on these latest attacks.
Boko Haram’s 10-year insurgency has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
[israelTimes] No reported injuries to Israelis; incident comes amid an uptick in violence in south.
Israeli soldiers maimed a Paleostinian man who attacked them with grenades on the northern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border Thursday night.
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How embarrassing it would be when Iraq lost yet another war to Israel, after having been thoroughly drubbed by the Americans — twice — then needing American help to drive off ISIS. But this posturing would explain why the head of the PMF walked back his deputy’s claim that Israel dunnit. See here.
[ALMASDARNEWS] An alleged Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on an ammunition depot in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, belonging to the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), is a declaration of war against Iraq, and Baghdad should openly respond to violations of its illusory sovereignty, Iraqi politician and a PMF official, Ahmed Asadi, said on Thursday.
"Israel’s intervention into the sphere of our national interests is a declaration of war against Iraq, its people, illusory sovereignty. The silence on the aggression is not a rational position ... We must take measures at the regional and international levels to resist the destruction of our airspace and military capabilities," Asadi said in a statement.
He added that Iraq may respond to Israeli actions, since "they wanted an open war, and our national duty is to stop this war in the form of an open response."
The remarks came after a blast hit the ammo depot in Baghdad on Monday, killing one civilian and leaving dozens of others injured. Though the causes of the earth-shattering kaboom remain unknown, the incident has given rise to a number of theories, including that Israel might have been behind the airstrike.
These explosions at the facilities, which belong to Iran-backed militias, are fueling speculations that Iraq is gradually being sucked into the escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Abu Mahdi Mohandes, deputy chairman of PMF, said earlier this week, citing leaked intelligence data, that the United States had allowed four Israeli drones to operate in Iraqi airspace and target facilities belonging to Shia militias.
The United States and Israel did not provide any official comments in this regard, but the Israeli prime minister said on Monday "Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has no immunity, anywhere," adding that actions against Tehran continued wherever it was necessary.
Principles are expensive. The PA, which doesn’t get donations from generous terror-supporting entities like Iran, simply can’t afford them anymore.
[IsraelTimes] PA to take in around NIS 2 billion in money from fuel taxes while Ramallah attempts to deal with shortfalls amid dispute over terror payouts.
The Paleostinian Authority, in deep financial trouble since February over a tax crisis, said Thursday it had accepted a partial payment of just over half a billion dollars after reaching an agreement with Israel.
"An agreement was reached a few days ago with the Israeli side for transferring duties on oil and fuel which the Paleostinian Authority bought in Israel to the amount of around two billion shekels ($568 million)," Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh told AFP.
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“They aren’t going to pay us what they owe anyway, so let’s call it goodwill.”
[IsraelTimes] Israel and the Paleostinian Authority agreed to exempt the Paleostinians from paying taxes on fuel, senior PA official Hussein al-Sheikh tweets.
The agreement, if implemented, is likely to give the PA considerable economic relief as it confronts a major financial crisis.
Sheikh, however, says that the deal does not mark the conclusion of the PA’s current financial woes.
"This does not mean the financial crisis is over. Billions that belong to us are still being held by Israel," Sheikh says.
JUST IN: Pakistan Army violates ceasefire along the LoC in the Keri Battal area of Sundarbani sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Army is retaliating strongly and effectively. Intel Sources indicate, Pakistan is now trying hard to infiltrate fresh group of terrorists into J&K.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] The Appeals Court has upheld a preliminary court verdict against a former supporter of the Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for disseminating dissident information.
Based on the new ruling, the civil activist and retired university lecturer in the city of Mashhad, Kamal Jafari Yazdi, should serve a minimum of ten years of his thirteen-year sentence.
A judge in the northeastern city of Mashhad had initially sentenced Jafari Yazdi in April to ten years in prison for "forming an illegal group against national security," two years for "insulting the Supreme Leader," and one year for "propaganda against the regime."
In an interview with radio Farda August 20, Mr. Yazdi confirmed the Appeals Court decision about his sentence. He read out the charges that include interviews with foreign based "hostile media". This term applies to Persian-language broadcasters such as Radio Farda and the BBC.
In July, Jafari Yazdi joined thirteen other Iranian activists who signed a letter calling on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down and pave the way for a new political order to replace Iran.
On August 10 the co-signatories of the letter showed up at the court in Mashhad to express solidarity with Yazdi and they were arrested. There are now on hunger strike.
Iranian law allows courts to sentence citizens to prison for the simple act of creating online groups, pages or channels, as well as for their personal online posts.
[Libya Observer] Military sources have disclosed that pro-Khalifa Haftar gang killed Khalid al-Wershiffani and three of his lovers companions - including Kamal Lembarki - in Souq al-Sabit area that is under the control of al-Kani militia which is loyal to Haftar.
The gang killed al-Wershiffani by five gunshots and the bodies of him and his lover companions are at the Bani Walid hospital's morgue.
According to the source, al-Habotat gang from Wershiffana and is loyal to al-Kani militia carried out the murder.
Al-Wershiffani is one of the founders of the Tribes Army that is loyal to Muammar Qadaffy's ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... regime and has taken part in many conflicts with special notoriety of kidnap, banditry and other crimes on the road linking Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to mountain cities between 2014 and 2017.
Since the start of Haftar's offensive on Tripoli, al-Wershiffani and his lover companions joined the attacking forces before being murdered in what seems to be an internal conflict among the forces under Haftar's command, especially that the ones killed were loyal to Qadaffy's regime.
Last May, al-Kani militia carried out a similar murder against former regime loyalists such as Brigadier General Masoud al-Dawi and in last June Mohammed Eshtiwi - prominent leader at Tribes Army.
Haftar has also tried to assassinate Saif al-Islam Qadaffy by bribing the brigade that was guarding him in Zintan, where he was detained since 2011.
[DAWN] A trial court in Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... on Thursday rejected a request by the parents of slain social media star Qandeel Baloch to pardon her brothers, who are accused of killing her.
Baloch's brother Waseem had strangled her to death in the name of "honour" at their house in 2016. He later confessed to have killed her because she allegedly "brought dishonour to the Baloch name" with her risque videos and statements posted on social media. Her brother Aslam Shaheen was also nominated in the case.
The social media celebrity's parents, Muhammad Azeem and Anwar Bibi, had on Wednesday submitted an affidavit in the local trial court, saying they had forgiven the killers and the case against their sons should be thrown out.
They had argued that since the Anti-Honour Killing Laws (Criminal Amendment Bill), 2015 ‐ which bars pardoning killers in such cases ‐ was passed several months after the murder of their daughter, it could not be applied in this case. They had also denied the allegation that Baloch was killed for the sake of honour.
As the affidavit was taken up by the model court today, Baloch's parents informed District and Sessions Judge Imran Shafi that they had forgiven their sons "in the name of Allah".
The judge asked them whether they were only pardoning their sons and not all the accused in the murder case, to which the parents responded in affirmative.
Judge Shafi informed them that he would decide their request after examining whether law grants them the right to pardon the killers or not.
"Do you realise what impact your pardon will have on the other accused in the case?" the judge went on to ask, addressing Baloch's parents.
The court later dismissed Baloch's parents' application to pardon their sons, with the judge saying the case regarding murder in the name of 'honour' would be decided once the testimonies of all witnesses have been recorded.
The accused in the case, including holy man Mufti Abdul Qavi, were present in the hearing today. After Qavi informed the court that he leads prayers in Jhang on Fridays, the court adjourned the hearing of the case until August 24, when the statements of more witnesses will be recorded.
In January 2017, the Muzaffarabad (Multan) police had lodged a First Information Report under Section 213 of the Pakistain Penal Code against Baloch's parents on the complaint of assistant sub-inspector Allah Ditta, the investigation officer, in which it was stated that Baloch's parents recorded their statements in court on Jan 19 and a few days later, on Jan 25, they submitted an affidavit. He said they had retracted their earlier statement against their elder son Aslam and there was a likelihood that they would do so in the case of the main accused Waseem, Baloch's younger brother, as well.
The IO further stated that he had seen Baloch's parents receiving an envelope (allegedly containing cash) from Aslam Shaheen outside the court. Aslam was quoted as saying at the time: "I have fulfilled their demand. Now they should record their statement in the court in my favour."
[DAWN] Iran's president struck a muscular tone on dealings with the US, saying Thursday that "talks are useless" as Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers crumbles further.
President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... made the comment in a speech in Tehran during the unveiling of the Bavar-373, a long-range surface-to-air missile system that he described as an improvement to the Russian S-300.
"Now that our enemies do not accept logic, we cannot respond with logic," Rouhani said in the televised speech.
He added: "When the enemy launches a missile against us, we cannot give a speech and say: 'Mr. Rocket, please do not hit our country and our innocent people. Rocket-launching sir, if you can please hit a button and self-destroy the missile in the air.'"
On Wednesday, Iran's state TV reported that the Bavar-373 is able to recognise up to 100 targets at a same time and confront them with six different weapons.
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Hardliners on both sides, no surprise talks are fruitless. US wants regime change in Iran, which will surely fix the problem. Just like it did when the US endorsed regime change in 1979, and the CIA coup that overthrew Iran's democratic government in the 1950s. One more regime change will surely do it!
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