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If it doesn't make landfall it will be Trump's rayciss fault
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I believe it a cat 5 now
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nevermind, misread another article.
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Three days out and they are predicting (and hoping) the storm will hit a specific building. Gawd, I hate the news media and everyone associated with it. Journalists, bah!
[Reuters] The Chinese central government rejected Lam's proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters' other demands at that time, three individuals with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The extradition bill is one of the key issues that has helped drive the protests, which have drawn millions of people into the streets of Hong Kong. Lam has said the bill is "dead," but has refused to say explicitly that it has been "withdrawn."
Beijing told Lam not to withdraw the bill, or to launch an inquiry into the tumult, including allegations of excessive police force, according to the senior government official.
Another of the three individuals, who has close ties with senior officials in Hong Kong and also declined to be identified, confirmed the Hong Kong government had submitted the report.
"They said no" to all five demands, said the source. "The situation is far more complicated than most people realize." China can't back down and can't crack down without major issues either way.
[Daily Caller] Editor’s note: What follows is the second of a two-part series of adapted excerpts from decorated veteran and conservative writer James Hasson’s new book Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military (Here at Barnes and Noble). The first part covers the intense training required for most Ranger candidates, and how that training was blunted internally by bureaucrats and military officials with an agenda. The second part covers the military’s response when news began to leak, and how they tried to cover up their malfeasance.
The Department of the Army’s reaction to the allegations is more important than the allegations themselves.
The impetus for Susan Katz Keating’s bombshell story in People diagramming the concerns from Ranger Instructors (RIs) about watering down of course requirements for women was a letter sent by a member of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Steve Russell of Oklahoma, to Army Secretary John McHugh.
Russell was a highly-decorated infantry lieutenant colonel and Ranger School graduate who had a distinguished career of more than twenty years in the Army (including commanding a battalion that played a central role in capturing Saddam Hussein) before retiring and becoming a member of Congress. Russell’s letter asked the Army to provide all internal Ranger School documents related to the female candidates’ training and assessment, including "test scores, evaluations, injuries, pre-training and more."
Russell had spoken to several RIs who told him one story‐that standards had been lowered and senior Ranger Training Brigade officials had unduly influenced the outcome of the course‐while the Army was telling him another‐that everything was the same as always. "The training of our combat warriors is paramount to our national defense," Russell wrote to Secretary of the Army John McHugh. "In order to ensure that the Army retains its ability to defend the nation, we must ensure that our readiness is not sacrificed." (It’s worth noting that Russell also went out of his way to emphasize in his public statements that he did not, and would not, question the abilities or records of any of the individual candidates themselves. His concern was solely about the possibility that officials with their own agendas had improperly influenced the course and about the effects their actions would have on the Army.)
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Remember, as troo conservatives, we are required to worship anyone in a uniform because that automatically makes them a hero and not a bureaucratic careerist hack wearing a skinsuit of a gutted institution.
#3
A good friend of mine went through Ranger training and told me about it. Basically it's a rigorous multi-day course (in the swamps or the mountains depending upon the course) that most athletes with determination could complete... but the thing is done so at near starvation levels and with lack of sleep. The basic lesson if you survive is that mentally you can handle anything. For what it's worth.
I'm guessing the ladies that could finish Ranger training without a cheat are professional athletes and not the kind to join up in the Army and then fight for inclusion in Ranger School.
[Bill Moyers.com] An April 2014 interview: Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about what he calls Washington's "Deep State," in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. "It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war," Lofgren tells Moyers. 'Shadow Government' and the "gears of the hybrid state" explained.
[Babylon Bee] ATLANTA, GA‐CNN host Brian "Tater" Stelter blamed President Trump for the network's falling ratings Sunday, accusing the president of killing millions upon millions of people that otherwise might have tuned into CNN.
"If Trump weren't killing off most of America by the millions, we'd still have a pretty solid viewer base," Stelter bellowed at the three viewers watching Reliable Sources. "Airports, lobbies, waiting rooms, and gas station pumps are now playing CNN to absolutely no one, since Trump has killed them all."
A guest on Stelter's show suggested that Trump has killed more people than Hitler, Mao, and Stalin put together, and Stelter had to agree. "I'd probably put his death count at somewhere near 7.7 billion," he said after doing some simple math on one of those giant novelty calculators he keeps handy for such an occasion. "We can't overstate the damage this president has done to this once-great news station."
After the segment blaming Trump for the deaths of millions and CNN's subsequent decline, the station continued to air 24/7 Trump coverage, which mostly consisted of the hosts screaming at the sky.
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Soon their major audience will consists of poor soul stuck in airports. Same game as the old print which dumps mounds of papers at dorms, hotels, motels in order to claim a circulation number.
[France24] The World Health Organization says there has been a "dramatic resurgence" of measles in Europe, in part fueled by vaccine refusals, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019.
In a report issued Thursday, the U.N. health agency said the number of measles cases from January to June this year is double the number reported for the same period in 2018. Measles is among the world's most infectious diseases and is spread mostly by coughing, sneezing and close personal contact.
Although numerous European countries have introduced stronger vaccination policies, stubborn pockets of vaccine refusal have fueled epidemics across the continent. Last month, the German government proposed making measles immunization mandatory for children and employees at kindergartens and schools; there have been more than 400 cases of measles in Germany this year.
With more than 84,000 cases, Ukraine accounted for the vast majority of measles in Europe, followed by Kazakhstan and Georgia. In February, Ukraine's health ministry said eight people had died of measles.
[NYP] Racer and television host Jessi Combs ‐ known as the "fastest woman on four wheels" ‐ died in a fiery crash while attempting to beat her own land speed record, officials said Wednesday.
Combs, 39, was barreling through a dry lake bed in Oregon’s Alvord Desert on Tuesday afternoon inside a 56-foot-long, 52,000-horsepower "jet car" when the "horrific accident" happened, her team said.
Police officials told The Post on Wednesday that investigators were attempting to recover laptop computers that were on board the high-powered vehicle ‐ dubbed the North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger ‐ so they could determine what went wrong.
"They’re waiting for the team to recover the [engine and systems] information stored on the inboard computers," said Lt. Brian Needham of the Harney County Sheriff’s Office.
He said "there was a fire involved" but was unable to say whether Combs’ car hit something to cause the blaze.
Combs, a South Dakota native, spoke about the risks of land speed racing on social media, most recently in a post on Aug. 24.
Sung by Mick Jagger, this could become a great song. Dedicated to Jessi Combs.
There was a fire involved !
The machine was her gateway ♫
Red was the color of freedom !
There was a ♪ fiiiire... fire involved..
It was in her belly she knew,
then the gaaasket blew ♪
And to a stop she coulda rolled;
But there was a fire INVOLVED, YEAH !!
She stepped on the RED and on it sped ♫
until there was nothin' but a doll on a sled.
'Coz there was ♫ fire involved ♪
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice’s inspector general on Thursday published a damning report stating fired FBI Director James Comey broke bureau policy by leaking several memos with classified information.
"We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement," reads DOJ watchdog head Michael Horowitz’s report.
The watchdog office said Comey broke FBI rules by giving a memo containing unclassified information to his friend Daniel Richman with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. The office also said Comey failed to notify the FBI after he was fired that he had retained some of the memos in a safe at home. Comey wrote a series of memos about conversations with President Trump he said unnerved him. Comey has stated he wanted to make a record of the interactions because he was concerned President Trump might later lie about them.
Attorney General William Barr will not prosecute the fired FBI director over his wrongdoings.
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
If you what they did to the Tea Party was bad, if you thought what they tried from 2015 to now with the fake collusion scandal and harvesting was bad...you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Obviously every AG is invited to the table and initiated into the deepState, leaving us trusting schleps wondering just WTF got into them overnight.
TIME's article on Barr's inconsistencies prompted me to question; 'could William Barr too have once visited an island of some kind ?' He did throw the word 'Appalled' around in the same indignant manner as Prince Andrew. And he was as 'clueless' as a taxpaying commoner about the BOP corruption until Epstein died. I know what lawyers in power can be like. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
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Comey was simply carrying water for Brennan, Soetoro, and the onerous Clinton's. Appears to be a concerted effort to keep these issue out of the courts and protect our first entitlement POTUS and the Clinton's.... or am I parroting a conspiracy ?
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Consequences for acts? At least twice the DOJ has declined to prosecute Comey. Comey said the FBI could not find a case against Hillary. Has Congress forwarded a recommendation for prosecution for Comey for perjury? I doubt it.
We've got a friggin banana republic instead of a Constitutional Republic governed by the Rule of Law.
Probably the best response re consequences is that of POTUS:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump ~ 3 hrs ago:: The disastrous IG Report on James Comey shows, in the strongest of terms, how unfairly I, and tens of millions of great people who support me, were treated. Our rights and liberties were illegally stripped away by this dishonest fool. We should be given our stolen time back?
#8
Same old tears on a new background. Now righties (me included) can feel what lefties felt about Mueller. Anyone who thinks this crowd does not protect its own also likes skittles and rainbow farts from unicorns.
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Since Mr. Comey violated FBI rules and his employment agreement it seems appropriate that there should be some punishment for that behavior, if only to discourage such behavior by other FBI employees.
Since the Department of Justice, in its wisdom finds that prosecution is not an appropriate punishment, some other form of punishment should be investigated.
It should be appropriate to the infraction, which appears to be an attempt by Comey to overthrow a duly elected president; and should be sufficient to deter others from similar behavior with lesser victims, it should be of significant impact.
The obvious choice is withholding his pension for service in the government. He would be able to appeal this administrative penalty in the courts. And until such appeal is adjudicated in his favor, if that ever happens, it would be sufficient punishment to deter similar behavior by others.
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Play the long game. Lost this one but more rounds to come. Patience.
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Off yesterday's pile... I will curb no doggerel before its time.
"In case any body's forgotten
that Democrat hoods do not cotton
to runaway thinkin'..."
The princeling winks; Lincoln stinks.
Something in Denmark is rotten?
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Going to put an FBI man on the stand in a trial to testify as a witness or expert? Good luck. Us 'thees' don't need to believe a single utterance from their mouths.
[PJMedia] Donald Trump is the best friend the Jewish people ever had in American politics. He set off another firestorm when he declared last week:
Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel? And I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.
Like many of the president's utterance, this is crude, blunt, jarring, inaccurate on the surface but true in a deeper sense. I wish he had said it differently. I wish he'd mentioned Stockholm Syndrome
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I could be wrong but I think most western liberal Jews are Jews in name only. They tend to favor the Palestinians and think of Israel as an inconvenience. They have swilled the cool-aid.
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Madonna is not Jewish, Dron66046. She just follows kabbala mysticism, which originated in Jewish thought, along with other syncretic mystical beliefs. See more here. To become Jewish, one must formally convert, a process made deliberately difficult because, inter alia, in the Jewish view God does not require it. Also because at times in both Christendom as it was, and the Ummah, proselytizing to members of the majority religion was a capital crime.
Many liberal Jews in the West consider themselves cultural or ethnic members of the tribe, not religious, even those who belong to a synagogue whose services they attend for a few hours for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (Jewish new year and the day of atonement, the holiest days of the religious calendar), and who host a Passover Seder dinner at which they briefly address the story of the exodus from Egypt. But a quietly growing population is actively religious and conservative, so we’ll see where things are in the next generation.
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I know she's not. I meant some families are about as jewish in spirit as Maddona. Just an outward shew and social rituals. All one needs is a fear of God, and a love for justice. The rest is 'noise' I believe.
a quietly growing population is actively religious and conservative
That is good to know, TW. Although, my knowledge of the Hasidim or anything jewish is nil. I do know some jewish families, but they seldom discuss their faith or beliefs.
I recently read a book about the eschaton coming true in our times. Terrific read it was, until the author effed it up by making the islamic eschaton part of the end. Christ comes, meets the jewish messiah, and mohammed and the three of them fly away. It was almost as if he were forced to write the end at gunpoint. Alpha and Omega by Harry Turtledove The end was shit but it was a thrilling ride until then.
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“What does God want of you? To do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.” —Amos
“Teach me, O Great Hillel, the laws of Judaism while I stand on one foot,” demanded the pagan Greek, sniggering to his friends, for all the known world knew of the length and breadth of Jewish law even a century before the birth of Jesus Christ..
“Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you — that is the law,” replied Hillel. “All the rest is commentary, now go and study.”
About the Hassidim, who are the *mystics of Judaism, search for “Chabad India”, then explore website, and later join them for worship services or holiday celebrations, should you desire to pursue it that far.
...and the three of them fly away.
Not possible. The Jewish messiah is a descendant of King David down the male line, whose job is to establish the physical Jewish kingdom in Israel with Jerusalem as its capitol preparatory to expanding belief in the single God to all mankind. Jesus Christ, the Christian messiah, descended from King David down the female line (his father being God Himself), returns to bring all the faithful at once to Heaven, as I understand it. So their goals are very different. As for the Muslims, they say nothing about the Jewish messiah, but expect Jesus Christ to return in order to bring his faithful to Islam.
* All major religions have a logical side and a mystical side. Nowadays for the Jews the mystical side is owned by the Hassids, most of whom live in inwardly turned ultra-Orthodox communities. The Lubavicher Chassids (alternate spelling for the German/Hebrew/Arabic/Urdu sound that does not exist in English), who are also referred to as Chabad, are the only group that looks outward to the world. They provide meeting houses and religious support to Jewish communities around the world, financed by the generosity of their members. You may recall some years back, when whichever Pakistani sock puppet ran amok through Mumbai for several days, murdering and torturing, but especially the Chabad rabbi, his wife, children, and whatever worshippers they found there. That’s one where the details were alluded to only very, very generally in open source reports.
* cont’d: Among Sunni Muslims, the mystics are called Sufis. The Christians also have Kabbalists, they having absorbed it from the Jews during the High Middle Ages, but I am not aware of communities of mystics — I think in Christendom those of a mystic temperament were more likely to end up in philosophy or alchemy, though I could be wrong.
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I am not aware of communities of mystics — I think in Christendom those of a mystic temperament were more likely to end up in philosophy or alchemy, though I could be wrong
tw, you're thinking of what are now called either Charismatics or Pentecostalists
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Thank you, Lex. I’m sure you’re right, which means I need to look them up and see what they’re about. :-) My learning for today, which will no doubt come up in conversation soon — and then it will be because of you that I sound intelligent.
In fact, Rantburgers as a group have done incredible things for my reputation as a savant of sorts - the other reason I love hanging out here.
[PJ] Recent polls have shown that most Americans believe that homosexuals are "born that way" rather than become gay as the result of environmental factors. In fact, perpetuating the belief that sexual orientation is innate has been crucial to the gay rights movement. According to the most recent Gallup Poll on the subject, 88 percent of people who believe homosexuals are "born that way" support the legality of same-sex marriage, while only 39 percent of those who believe homosexuality is the result of environmental factors support the legality of same-sex marriage.
So, what happens when science proves that homosexuals aren’t "born that way"? Perhaps we’ll find out. A new comprehensive scientific study of the biological roots of sexual orientation released Thursday proved that there no "gay gene" and that genetic factors are insignificant in determining sexual orientation.
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So a combination of 5 different genetic areas explains between 8 and 25 percent of homosexuality. If I had ever tried to present a scientific experiment with explanatory values this low, I'd have been laughed out of the class.
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Adam Sandler copy room boy
Wasn't that [looks it up] Rob Schneider (for whom, while I wasn't watching (the last years or so) my memory has apparently been trying to substitute Norm Macdonald... couple more years and I'd have been sure it was him)?
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The study is right. There didn't have to be one, since this was proven and established in the early 20th century itself. Back then, science was about investigation, on a case by case basis. Rigorous application of logic to real subjective experiences, even if the study contained only a few hundred subjects. You may prove a truth again and again with different disciplines though.
These days, science is all about data. Some of science is statistics, but it is not all statistics.
For example, there can be 'givens' in science. Like the presence of the efferent nerve bundles in the human sex organs (of both sexes) and their absence in the ass is a given. Although the prostate features some similarity to the female para-urethral glands, to excite them doesn't require penetration into the rectal cavity, which is an excretory orifice. This is basic biology. But there are no givens in statistics, because it's concerned with changing behavior, evolving/devolving biology.
Gay parents, and those with predilections for that 'love yourself, none greater than you' culture exhibit traits and symptoms of the sickness of exhibitionist hypersexuality. In short, they are restless, insatiable and experiment. And their children witness this behavior, as a matter of fact. When the archetypes for success and achievement are conflated with selfishness and wanton hedonism, the children are bound to follow that ideal. Sexual experimentation has become part of the archetype. Over several generations the traits may even affect genetic memory.
There's no such thing as 'sexual orientation'. It is a biological orientation, designed and selected for by nature over millennia of evolution after the simple single-cell thingy. So when you meet an LGBTQer, a gender-fluid thingy, you have met an adopted cousin of the ancient amoeba.
Speaking spiritually, this phenomenon in families is seeded by the deeply ingrained narcissistic tendencies that arise when people who were once made aware of the Truth, rejected it for more social gospels and colorful theories by know-it-all preachers of human greatness over God. You know the type. Seemingly intelligent men, with a vicious hatred for faith and the unseen, because it eluded them and they couldn't own it.
"...because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man..."
"Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting..." the rest of this text is a list of faults found exclusively in the liberal milieu. It practically describes the modern blue voter. - Paul, Romans 1
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Arrested by Roman cachet
(Say what? "RSVP?"),
His little gray cells
Resonating like bells
Rung by lightning, unmarked but touché,
Was Hercule-- er, David Suchet.
[Red State] The opinion pages of the nation’s major newspapers never cease to disappoint. Just a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times announced that it has suddenly discovered that everything to do with everything in American history was a direct result of slavery. Now some twit writing at the Washington Post reveals that the whole call for civility by people on the right triggers her because it is exactly like the rhetoric of defenders of slavery in the antebellum South. (For the record, I’ve never before heard of this "Eve Fairbanks" creature and the more I learn of her the less impressed I am.)
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Harvard punk, dad was a big scholar of US-Chinese diplomatic history. Daughter didn't inherit her parents' talent or brains, so she turned to a shitty journalism career.
#6
That title is close. "South Africa is a glimpse of post Hillary America" would be right, with the corruption, the tribalism, and the attacks on the farmers/producers. We avoided that luckily, for now.
Pretty much everything the liberals say is projection but half the time they don't even realize it.
[NYP] Dairy Queen has had to oddly clarify that the store’s food does not contain "human meat" after one of its South Carolina restaurants was swarmed by federal agents last week, sparking gruesome rumors online.
"At Dairy Queen, we are very proud of our 100 percent beef hamburgers," the fast-food chain tweeted Friday. "We serve a high-quality hamburger with no additives or fillers."
The statement was in response to a news story published by the Index-Journal, of Greenwood, SC, reporting that someone complained about "human meat being inside a burger" at the local Dairy Queen.
Manager Saif Momin said that around 9:30 am on Wednesday, federal agents from the FBI and Homeland Security, as well as local South Carolina officials, appeared at the store in Greenwood. He then told the news outlet a corporate inspector told him someone complained there was "human meat" in a burger.
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Planned Parenthood sells body parts and there is no action by the GIVERnment and start a rumor about human meat in a burger and 3 departments show up at Dairy Queen. I hope they at least got a Blizzard to go.
#5
Some years back a VP at McDonald's had to explain that no, they didn't use ground earthworms in their burgers as earthworms cost much more per pound than ground beef.
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Love their ice cream, but earthworm meat would explain the taste of that one cheeseburger I ate once.
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HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
till he find it stopping a Wormburger?
HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as
thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; earth containeth worms; and why of those worms, whereto he
was converted, might they not stuff a burger?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to smithereens,
Might help the bottom line of many Dairy Queens:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should fill a sandwich to sate a gaping maw!
[Washington Examiner] Conservative commentator Mark Steyn reduced Fox News host Tucker Carlson to fits of laughter as he offered his take on Joe Biden's latest display of confusion on the campaign trail. Steyn takes Biden gaffs to a new level in this video.
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Steyn had a rant on Rush the other day about naming of hurricanes being racist since there are no Leroys, Darnells, DeShans or Trevons. I suppose the process is also anti-Semitic as well, since there are no Sheldons, Chaims, or Abrahams. Dorian is such as whitebread name.
[AnNahar] Several Syrian refugees were expected to leave Leb on Thursday on buses in the latest wave of returns to their war-torn country, the state-run National News Agency said.
NNA said the General Security agency organized the return through the crossings of Masnaa, al-Abboudieh, al-Qaa and Arsal through al-Zamarani crossing on the Syrian border.
Fifteen buses from Syria entered into Leb through the Masnaa border crossing to transport around 960 refugees to their villages in Syria, added NNA.
Five buses headed to Masnaa, 6 to Beirut and 4 to the South.
Leb hosts around 1.5 million Syrians who fled the civil war across the border.
Thousands of Syrians have headed home from Leb in such returns coordinated by the authorities in Beirut and Damascus.
[AnNahar] A French court handed six-month jail terms to three members of a far-right group for erecting a blockade on an Alps mountain pass to try keep migrants colonists out.
On April 21, 2018, several dozen members of the Generation Identitaire (Generation Identity) group marched to the Echelle pass on the French-Italian border and unrolled a fence of plastic netting in the snow.
They also displayed a sign reading: "You will not make Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... home! NO WAY. Back to your homeland."
The group, which included Germans, Italians and Austrians as well as French activists, all wore blue padded jackets marked "Defend Europe" and were backed by two rented helicopters which scoured the area for migrants colonists.
The stunt caused outrage in La Belle France, where the group was accused of vigilantism.
Reacting to the blockade, a group of around 100 pro-migrant activists escorted some 30 migrants colonists across the mountain into La Belle France, sparking scuffles with police.
On Thursday, a court in the southeastern city of Gap sentenced the 24-year-old leader of Generation Identitaire, Clement Gandelin; his front man Romain Espino, 26; and 29-year-old activist Damien Lefevre to six-month jail terms for trying to pass themselves off as police.
They were also find 2,000 euros ($2,200) and stripped of certain rights, including the right to vote, for five years while their group was fined 75,000 euros.
The trio is unlikely to serve any jail time, as in La Belle France sentences shorter than two years are usually commuted to other types of punishment, such as community service.
Reacting defiantly on Twitter, Lefevre said he would wear what he called his "political" conviction like "a medal".
"The state has decided to persecute young French people who dare to symbolically and peacefully prove that defending our borders is possible," he wrote.
The winter of 2017-18 saw a spike in the number of migrants colonists, mostly Africans who had crossed the Mediterranean to Italia before slipping over mountain passes into La Belle France to avoid being detected by border police.
Shortly after its mountain foray, Generation Identitaire claimed to have handed over four "illegals" to police while providing information which led to the arrest of seven others that winter.
Pro-migrant groups reacted furiously after several activists who came to the assistance of migrants colonists were put on trial for helping them enter the country illegally.
French politicians later softened laws on so-called acts of solidarity with illegal migrants colonists.
Helping migrants colonists illegally cross the border remains a crime, however.
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Helping migrants colonists illegally cross the border remains a crime, however.
>Reacting to the blockade, a group of around 100 pro-migrant activists escorted some 30 migrants colonists across the mountain into La Belle France, sparking scuffles with police.
#4
The globalists are right in assuming that citizens of these faux-liberal States do not value their countries anymore. In a few more generations they will win. We are probably the second or third last generation to resist the dissolution of borders, cultural integrity and legacy.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan and U.S. forces conducted separate operations in Ghazni province killing or wounding at least 33 Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement that the Afghan Air Force conducted an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Asfandi area of Ghazni city which killed 4 Talibs and destroyed an 82mm rocket launcher, a PKM machine gun and two cycle of violences.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted separate operations in Khwaja Omari district and killed 6 Talibs.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the security forces also maimed 10 Talibs during the same operations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside... the 203rd Thunder Corps said the U.S. forces also conducted an airstrike in Deh Yak district which killed 7 Talibs, maimed 6 others and destroyed 2 cycle of violences.
The Afghan forces also defused an improvised bomb in Syed Karam district of Paktiya province.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... which killed or maimed 11 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... holy warriors.
The 201st Silab Corps said in a statement that the U.S. forces conducted the airstrikes in Pech Dara, Suki and Noor Gul districts on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 5 ISIS gunnies and maimed 3 others.
Futhermore, the 201st Silab Corps said the U.S. forces conducted another airstrike in Manogi district of Kunar which maimed 3 Talibs.
The 201st Silab Corps also added that the airstrikes did not inflict casualties on local residents.
The Taliban and ISIS groups have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... has announced that he intends to keep 8,600 troops in Afghanistan.
Speaking to Fox News Radio, Trump said "We’re going down to 8,600 and then we make a determination from there as to what happens ... we’re bringing it down."
Furthermore, Trump reiterated his previous remarks that the U.S. can the war in Afghanistan in a short period of time.
President Trump said the US "could win that war so fast if I wanted to kill ten million people there ... which I don’t."
This comes as the U.S. and Taliban ...Arabic for students... representatives are busy negotiating a peace deal 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... i capital of Doha.
Trump had earlier announced that he intends to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] The operations were launched in Warduj, Yumgan and Keran Wa Manjan districts of the province.
Afghan forces have launched large-scale military operations in three districts of north-eastern Badakhshan province early Thursday morning to clear three districts of bully boys, local officials said.
The operations wer launched in Warduj, Yumgan and Keran Wa Manjan districts, provincial governor Zakaria Sawda said.
"The army, police, local police and public uprising forces are involved in the operations," he said, adding that "the Afghan Air Force will also support the operations."
"The forces launched operation from Parneyan district of Panjshir province to retake Keran Wa Manjan district. The second operation launched from Baharak district to clear Warduj and for Yumgan, the forces launched operation from Jurm district," he said.
Keran wa Manjan district had fallen to Lions of Islam more than a month ago while Warduj and Yumgan were not in control of the government forces in recent years.
[AlAhram] Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, at the centre of a dispute between Washington and Tehran, has changed course away from the Ottoman Turkish coast, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed on Thursday.
The tanker, formerly called Grace 1, was released from detention off Gibraltar in mid-August after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in violation of Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union sanctions.
A Ottoman Turkish official told Rooters earlier on Thursday that the Iranian tanker had not entered Ottoman Turkish waters. The tracking data showed the ship was currently between the coasts of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... and Cyprus, heading west.
On Monday, IRIB news agency quoted an Iranian government front man as saying that 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... had sold the oil from the Adrian Darya and the vessel's owner will decide on its next destination.
The front man did not identify who had bought the oil. After Gibraltar freed the vessel on Aug. 18, the United States said it would take every action it could to prevent it delivering oil to Syria in contravention of U.S. sanctions.
After its release by Gibraltar the vessel, laden with 2 million barrels of oil, had initially headed to southern Greece, then switched its destination to southern Turkey's Mersin port, before removing any reference to a destination.
“Round up the usual suspects, Mahmoud!”
“Yes, your gloriousness — will ten do, or should this plot be bigger?”
“No, no, ten will suffice. We don’t want to be accused of exaggerating the threat.”
[IsraelTimes] Official says 10 arrested following investigation into attack blamed on 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.... sympathizers
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group on Thursday said it had captured the cell responsible for carrying out suicide kaboom attacks that killed three policeman in 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 earlier this week.
Senior Hamas official Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzouk said 10 members of the cell had been arrested. He did not provide further details.
[BREITBART] …the highly technical policy manual used by career employees here as a reference was updated today to conform USCIS practices with the Dept. of State – that’s it. But some people are freaking out over nothing.
Here’s the statement I promised (1/3): The policy manual update today does not affect who is born a U.S. citizen, period. It only affects children who were born outside the US and were not US citizens. This does NOT impact birthright citizenship.
2/3) The policy update doesn’t deny citizenship to the children of US gov employees or members of the military born abroad. This policy aligns USCIS’ process with the Department of State’s procedures for these children – that’s it. Period.
3/3) US laws allow children to acquire US citizenship other than through birth in the US. Children born outside of the US to a US citizen parent or parents may be US citizens at birth under INA 301 or 309, or before age 18 through their US citizen parent(s) under INA 320.
It aligns the process for children adopted abroad by service members, nothing to do with children born to service members while abroad.
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[Jpost] The Hezbollah mosque in the German city of Munster posted a shocking video in December, 2018 on its Facebook page, announcing it was proud of terrorism and its allegiance to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... The Washington-based organization, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), first revealed the video and wrote on its website "Poem Recited in a Munster, Germany Shiite Mosque: We Have Pledged Allegiance to Khamenei; We Are Accused of Terrorism and Are Proud of It."
According to a MEMRI transcription of the video from the Imam Mahdi Zentrum Shiite mosque in Munster, in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, a man recited a poem with the lyrics, "We have pledged our allegiance to the Jurisprudent Ruler [Khamenei]. We are soldiers willing to sacrifice our lives for Nasrallah [’Victory of Allah’]. We belong to the party of Ruhollah [Khomeini]. We have been accused of being murderous Moslems ‐ we are proud of terrorism.
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[BREITBART] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) took another dive into the hip-hop world and sat down for an interview with rapper a longtime supporter Michael "Killer Mike" Render and said he’s challenging President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s worldview of robbing, stealing, and cheating one’s way to the top.
Sen. Sanders spoke to the Atlanta-based rapper, repeating many of his long-held talking points ‐ Medicare for All and income inequality ‐ and talked about the big picture of his campaign, which he described as taking on Trump’s erroneous worldview.
"I mean what we are taking on ‐ it’s not just Trump in his policies. It’s what he thinks human life is about. And what he thinks human life is, you rob, you steal, you cheat, you step on people ‐ ah! Then you make a billion dollars," Sanders said.
"That’s his understanding of what success is in life, and you’re talking about a very, very different success," the White House hopeful said.
Prior to that, Killer Mike told Sanders what he believes "rich" really means.
"Well rich is a long life with your children. My grandparents were never rich. They raised three successful homeowners we have never had to go back to them and ask them. That’s rich. Rich is being able to spend the time with your family," the Run the Jewels rapper said, prompting Sanders to shake his hand in agreement.
"Rich not an endless pursuit of money, and I’m a rapper right? I got a chain on and a Rolex," he added.
"You know what I’ve been trying to say that for several years and this guy just did it a lot better than I did," Sanders said.
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Surreal.
A warmed-over Castro admirer speaks with a moronic thug entertainer about scamming and stealing ones way to a fortune...
Clue for Bernie: can you guess how many billions the Castro family has stolen from their countrymen?
Does this fool have any idea how outlandish he is?
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To be a good communist, you must be willing to commit armed robbery and, if the victim resists then...well, you know. I mean, that's how redistribution works. If your conscience bothers you, just remember how Bernie said the bourgeoisie stole it from somebody else.
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[DAWN] Pakistain has successfully carried out the night training launch of Ghaznavi, a surface to surface ballistic missile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said on Thursday.
The missile "is capable of delivering multiple types of warheads up to 290 kilometres", said Maj Gen Ghafoor via a tweet, which also included a video of the launch.
According to DG ISPR, the president and prime minister "conveyed appreciation to the team and congratulations to the nation" for the successful testing of the missile.
Earlier in May, Pakistain conducted a successful training launch of Shaheen-II, a surface-to-surface ballistic missile.
[BREITBART] Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says the House of Commons will move quickly to try to block a no-deal Brexit despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament.
Corbyn told Sky News that Parliament should “legislate rapidly” to prevent a “no-deal” Brexit and that he would try to “politically stop” Johnson from pushing through a no-deal Brexit and shutting down Parliament. Corbyn says “we believe we can do it.”
The move by Johnson to suspend Parliament could make it more likely that Britain falls out of the European Union on Oct. 31 without a deal, wreaking havoc for people and businesses.
The decision was slammed by some as being dictatorial, but Brexit supporters cheered it as a decisive move to finally bring the country out of the EU three years after the 2016 referendum.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army has entered the strategic town of al-Ta’manah this afternoon, following a fierce battle with the jihadist forces in the area.
Led by the 25th Division Special Mission Forces (formerly the "Tiger Forces"), the Syrian Arab Army began their assault on al-Ta’manah last night, when their troops began storming the town’s surroundings.
Shortly after launching the attack, the Syrian Arab Army managed to score their first advances, as their troops captured the Ta’amanah Farms and the town of Khuwayn al-Kabir.
On Thursday morning, the Syrian Arab Army began their attack on the town itself; they would face heavy resistance from the jihadist rebels that were protecting al-Ta’amanah.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the main line of defense for the holy warriors would ultimately fold, paving the way for the Tiger Forces to enter the town this afternoon.
If the Syrian Army can take hold of al-Ta’manah and Khuwayn, they can ultimately secure the Hama-Idlib axis and the eastern flank of Khan Sheikhoun.
Khan Sheikhoun and northern Hama were captured during the Syrian Army’s large-scale attack last week. Since then, they have worked to secure this area in order to prevent future any future infiltration by the jihadist rebel forces.
According to reports from #Gaza this evening #Hamas has informed the #Egyptian delegation that they are ready for confrontation with #Israel. They reportedly continued by saying they have given Israel enough time to implement the understanding and its taken too long.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels have launched a counter-offensive in southern Idlib this evening after suffering some losses at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) at the Ta’manah front.
Led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the jihadist rebels began their counter-assault by launching a suicide kaboom on the Syrian Arab Army’s positions at the southern axis of Ta’manah.
According to a military source in the nearby Hama Governorate, the jihadist rebels stormed the Syrian Army’s defenses shortly after the suicide attack; this resulted in a fierce firefight that is still ongoing at this time.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force unleashed a massive wave of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the murderous Moslem-held areas in the Idlib Governorate on Thursday.
Backed by the Syrian Air Force, the Russian jets launched several airstrikes over the southern region of Idlib, hitting a number of sites inside the towns of Ma’arat al-Nu’man, al-Tah, Maar Shamshmeh, Deir Sharqi, and Jarjanaz.
A source from the army said that while the Russian jets focused on the Ma’arat al-Nu’man front, the Syrian Air Force mostly concentrated their strikes on the al-Ta’manah front.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is storming the town of al-Ta’manah after seizing several points from the jihadist rebels last night.
Among the sites captured by the Syrian Army last night include the town of Khuwayn al-Kabir and the al-Ta’manah Farms.
This latest offensive by the Syrian Arab Army comes just days after the jihadist rebels from Rouse the Believers failed to advance at the nearby Tal Maraq axis.
[BREITBART] Former FBI Director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... demanded an apology following the Justice Department’s inspector general report revealing he did violate FBI policies.
The DOJ inspector general released a report on Comey’s handling of the Russia probe ‐ which ultimately found no evidence of collusion or conspiracy ‐ and concluded he violated FBI policies by leaking 2017 memos from his conversations with President Trump. The report said Comey set a "dangerous example" and acknowledged his actions were rooted in achieving "a personally desired outcome."
"However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Comey’s own, personal conception of what was necessary was not an appropriate basis for ignoring the policies and agreements governing the use of FBI records," the report states.
"We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement."
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Strange how two narcissists like Comey and Obama could occupy the Swamp at the same time without creating a moral black hole. Oh, wait a minute, never mind....
[BREITBART] FARC terrorist and Colombian Senator "Jesús Santrich," missing for over a month after being charged with large-scale cocaine trafficking, reemerged in a video Thursday morning announcing the Marxist group would return to violence despite the 2016 peace deal that put him in Congress.
Santrich appeared alongside another terrorist leader, "Iván Márquez," and a small group of gunnies in military fatigues to announce violence against the state in retaliation for the current government of President Iván Duque not living up to the commitments of the peace deal. Márquez was also offered a senate seat but rejected it after Santrich’s arrest.
FARC gunnies typically use noms de guerre in public.
Santrich disappeared in July after authorities charged him with attempting to smuggle 10,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States, after agreeing to the peace deal with the Colombian government. Márquez, the terrorist group’s second-in-command, disappeared in 2018 after the first charges were levied against Santrich.
Santrich was arrested in April but controversially granted temporary freedom in May.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group behind most of the 260,000 dead at the hands of guerrillas in the past century, legally became a political party, the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force, following the 2016 deal. As their widespread killings, kidnappings, rapes, and forced child sacrifice abortions made them widely unpopular with the Colombian people, the FARC insisted on the government handing them unelected seats in Congress. Ten seats in the Colombian Senate currently belong to FARC terrorists, a fifth of which are now missing and engaging in terrorism
[DAWN] Former Bangladeshi students are turning to social media to detail allegations of "rampant" sex abuse at the hands of teachers and older pupils in madressahs, breaking their silence on a taboo topic in the conservative country.
Child abuse in madressahs has long gone unreported in Bangladesh, a Moslem-majority nation where hardline groups draw their support from the tens of thousands of schools across the nation of 169 million people.
But in the wake of a brutal murder of a teenage girl who was burnt to death in April after accusing her headteacher of sexual assault, such incidents have been subject to national scrutiny and debate for the first time.
In July alone, at least five madressah teachers were arrested on rape charges against boys and girls under their care.
Several senior students were also held by police over the rape and beheading of an 11-year-old orphan, while a Dhaka holy man and seminary teacher was charged with sexually assaulting a dozen boys aged between 12 and 19.
The accusations reveal how students from poorer and rural backgrounds, whose parents send them to madressahs as they are more affordable than secular schools, are disproportionately affected by the abuse.
Rights activists said the assaults ‐ which range from violent rapes to forcible kissing ‐ are so pervasive that the cases reported in the media are just the tip of the iceberg.
"For years these crimes eluded spotlight due to sensitivity of the subject," Abdus Shahid, the head of child rights' group Bangladesh Shishu Odhikar Forum, told AFP.
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It was the deepening ties with India that led to a women's lib movement of sorts in Bangladesh. The rampant corruption and islamic thuggery in Bangladesh is due to the reign of ex-PM Khalida Zia. This fake eyebrowed bitch. She was responsible for a human trafficking network to indonesia and thailand for young girls, the drug trade and incursion of militant muslims into India and Myanmar, plus a hundred other criminal enterprises within the sad excuse of a country. That's why she's in jail now. But she left a legacy of corruption and mullah rule that has taken root since then.
The new PM, Sheikh Hasina is closer to her Indian counterpart, more secular in her policies, but being a woman leader in an islamic hellhole is tough. There are a hundred or so NGOs backed by the Indian govt trying to minimize islamic assholery by combating/reforming illegal community laws and rituals like FGM, child marriage, rape and abduction marriage, forced conversions etc. UN human rights people have also posed for pictures helped in some initiatives. Some christian charities which were earlier outlawed and hounded out by mullahs have been given credible protection in an extralegal way recently. It has been seen that regular christian school and imbibed values are the most rapidly civilizing agents in any society's young.
[NYPOST] There are two ways to close the school achievement gap: lift up struggling students or push down those who are succeeding. Having failed at the former, Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... seems intent on pursuing the latter.
This week, de Blasio’s "School Diversity Advisory Group" recommended that the New York City Department of Education scrap Gifted & Talented programming. This idea is both jaw-dropping and entirely unsurprising.
At a basic level, it’s the logical next step in de Blasio’s escalating war against excellence: Oppose the most successful charter schools. Oppose all charter schools. Oppose a test for advanced opportunities. Oppose all advanced opportunities.
But at a deeper level, this is an inexorable extension of de Blasio’s ideology. De Blasio, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and their privileged fellow travelers define their politics as in opposition to "white supremacy."
But they do not define "white supremacy" as a belief in inherent racial superiority. As their recent staff training made clear, they define it as a belief in "objectivity," an aspiration toward "perfectionism," a "sense of urgency" and "worship of the written word."
If you sincerely believe that habits and traits that lead to success constitute "white supremacy," and you oppose "white supremacy," then you simply must inhibit opportunities for children to develop those qualities by dismantling advanced coursework.
That’s not, of course, the stated rationale behind the recommendation. Rather, the motivation presented is integration.
But even de Blasio’s advisers appear to understand that their proposal will not advance that cause. In the face of an education system that implicitly defines excellence as a racist social construct, middle-class parents will decamp in droves for the suburbs or stretch their pocketbooks to pay for private school.
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Idiot. Gifted & Talented programs tend to be fairly inexpensive, and also result in lots of outside awards won independently by students, leading to kudos for the school system. While ideally it takes a teacher with advanced training to challenge the 1-5% of students who demonstrate both higher intelligence and creative/lateral thinking at an early age, and a dedicated classroom in the school building, the program itself can be done using inexpensive found materials and access to the internet or the school library. If a specialized teacher is not provided, any teacher can pull aside the occasional intellectually gifted child for independent study while the rest of the class learns in the usual way, once they know what to look for. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of the thing.
The trailing daughters’ school district has an outstanding G&T program in addition to a full array of advanced (from first grade) and AP (college credit in high school) courses, one of the advantages of being a city-sized district out in the suburbs — the web page is here for those interested.
[IsraelTimes] Technology can be used to thwart attacks and gather information about UAVs.
"The system we developed can detect hostile drones at a range of up to 3.5 kilometers (2.17 miles) and take control of about 200 drones simultaneously," Asaf Lebovitz, product manager in Skylock, one of the companies, told the Haaretz daily.
Skylock demonstrated its new invention at an event some two months ago, according to the report.
Other Israeli companies are developing similar technology, the report said. Rafael recently introduced its Drone Dome anti-drone system, which is already operational and similarly takes control of potentially armed UAVs and lands them safely.
#3
The technolngy I like was developed at UT Austin that takes over ships at sea spoofïng the gps signal and steering the ship to a different destination all the while the crew thinks it is still on course.
#7
I think that was Dr. Todd Humphreys' baby. Spoof the sat signal with a relatively stronger one like it and make the GPS think the destination is somewhere else. It's easier to steer automated craft that way, which rely on GPS, and seafaring vehicles where you don't know which way is where for miles. Humphreys demonstrated that commercial drones and UAVs can be steered easily, the autopilot does the flying of course, you just fake the destination. The challenge is only acquiring the signals. Most drones will use the L2C unencrypted signals. UAVs like the raptor and US army drones will use P(Y) or encrypted precision code in the L2 band reserved for militaries, which needs the key to spoof. Getting the key would be a job for humint though.
Remember, the FBI are heroes --- they have have badges and stuff!
And Barr plays a mean set of bagpipes.
So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.
[NYP] For nearly three years now, those who promise to save us from the wicked clutches of President Donald Trump have bombarded America with lectures about the “rule of law.” Yet, over and over again, these self-styled champions of justice feel free to disregard the law whenever it suits them. The latest example is former FBI Director James Comey.
A new report by the Office of the Inspector General for the Justice Department found that Comey had written FBI memos, illicitly passed them on to a lawyer friend, who in turn leaked them to a friendly New York Times reporter who had been spreading the Russian conspiracy theory. He completely forgot to route those items through the FBI Public Affairs office. Most unfortunate, particularly when his actions were discovered.
Why? Because Comey was interested in extracting revenge on the man who had fired him, Donald Trump.
Comey, the report found, had leaked “investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.”
That outcome, as Comey had admitted to Congress, was to “prompt the appointment of a special counsel” to investigate the president’s alleged conspiracy with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. By doing this, the DOJ inspector general, who is widely considered both meticulous and unbiased, found that Comey had “set a dangerous example” and “releas[ed] sensitive information” to “create public pressure for official action.”
It worked. And by manufacturing an investigation into the president — one that he didn’t have enough evidence to pursue in an official capacity — Comey had not only abused his power but plunged the nation into two years of hysterics about Russian interference.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... on Thursday called on all Paks to take part in '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.... Hour', being observed on Friday at 12pm, to send a strong message of solidarity to Kashmiris.
"I want all Paks to come out tomorrow 12 noon-12.30pm to show solidarity with the Kashmiri people and send the Kashmiris in Indian-Indian Kashmire a clear message that the entire Pak nation stands in solidarity with them and against Indian fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... oppression, the inhumane 24-day curfew, the daily injuring and killing of Kashmiri civilians, including women & children ‐ all part of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Modi government and its illegal annexation of IoK," said the premier via Twitter.
(CNSNews.com) - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Idaho taxpayers must pay for a 31-year-old prison inmate to undergo "gender confirmation surgery" -- the opinion does not call it sex reassignment -- allowing the inmate to remove the bits that show the inmate was born a male.
Mason Dean Edmo, now called Adree Edmo, pleaded guilty in 2012 to sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy at a party.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little, frustrated by the "activist court," said his state plans to appeal once again, this time to the U.S. Supreme Court:
"Well, there have been two other courts that have ruled opposite, and we appealed this to the Ninth Circuit and we -- we're going to appeal it again," Little told Fox News Tuesday night.
"We just heartily disagree. It's a bad precedent, it's going to be expensive, and it's contrary to the health professionals that we've had reviewing inmate Edmo's record, all the things about the inmate. And it's just contrary to good practices, and it's another example of activist court getting in the middle of something and creating a precedent that's going to be expensive for the taxpayers of Idaho and potentially all the taxpayers of the United States."
Host Laura Ingraham noted that unelected judges, with lifetime tenure on the courts, are making policy that goes against "common sense" and the will of the American people.
"Well, as I said, there's two other courts, federal courts, that have ruled in very similar cases just the opposite way," Gov. Little responded. "So we're hopeful that justice will prevail and the taxpayers in Idaho and other states won't be forced to pay for what we see as a procedure that our health care professionals say is not necessary."
Ingraham predicted that the case will end up at the Supreme Court because of the split decisions from lower federal courts.
In its conclusion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote:
"We hold that where, as here, the record shows that the medically necessary treatment for a prisoner’s gender dysphoria is gender confirmation surgery, and responsible prison officials deny such treatment with full awareness of the prisoner’s suffering, those officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment."
The court found that Edmo's gender dysphoria "causes Edmo to experience persistent distress so severe it limits her ability to function. She has twice attempted self-castration to remove her male genitalia, which cause her profound anguish."
In a statement after the court released its ruling last Friday, Little said:
"The hardworking taxpayers of Idaho should not be forced to pay for a convicted sex offender’s gender reassignment surgery when it is contrary to the medical opinions of the treating physician and multiple mental health professionals. I intend to appeal this decision to the U.S Supreme Court. We cannot divert critical public dollars away from the higher priorities of keeping the public safe and rehabilitating offenders."
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Wait. So the court is actually ordering the spaying of a child molester, for whatever reasons, and you're complaining about precedence ? Can't this be taken as a 'per case basis' thing ? Sex-change allowed only for sex offenders ?
Isn't there another way to look at this, past the 'LGBTNation must not win' angle ? I'd pay an extra 1% tax for the gummint to turn every rapist into a fairy, if they have to keep them alive.
Just searched how much the damn thing costs. I see the Guv'nor's point now. I had thought something like that would be dirt cheap in the US. Thank Gawd it's not.
[BREITBART] Two surveillance cameras stationed outside the Manhattan prison cell where convicted pedophile Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... died are under examination by the FBI’s crime laboratory in Virginia, according to Rooters.
The report comes two days after the Washington Post stated that security footage from at least one camera near Epstein’s cell was deemed unusable by authorities. The Post said the reason behind the cameras faulty condition was unknown.
Earlier this month, New York City’s chief medical examiner determined that Epstein died on August 10th from hanging himself. The New York Post, citing sources familiar with the situation, reported that the disgraced financier was discovered with a bedsheet around his neck that was tied to his bunk bed. "The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose," the Post said.
The 66-year-old faced charges of sex trafficking minor girls and potentially could have named high-profile people who had sex with the girls. He was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005.
Epstein previously was on suicide watch after he was found semiconscious in his cell with marks on his neck on July 23rd. He was removed from suicide watch after roughly a week.
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Sleeping guards don't want cameras working. Tightly integrated circuits prevent a camera from being degraded unless a good electronics person purposely damages a capacitor or resistor or someone spins the lense out of focus, etc. 30+ days of video can be stored or more on commercial GeoVision Systems, depending on the hard drive size (500 meg 30 days or 1 terabyte much longer video archive?). Was the video quality poor before Epstein occupied the cell or during the brief two weeks he was there? Any of thousands of security camera techs/hnstallers can look at the above in a few minutes and deliver a verdict.
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How man prison guards did it take to break Jeffy's neck? None. Jeffy just fell...
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1) When did the camera go down?
2) Did any other hundreds to thousand cameras in the complex went down at that time?
3) How reliable were these two cameras before?
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Looks a little damaged. Let's open it up and check it out. WHACK. Hm, rather resistant, give it another one, Jim. WHACK. SHATTER. That's better - let's see, yup not looking good. Better check the solder connections on these chips. Hand me that cold chisel.
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Too many moving parts to this to think it won’t seep out. He was murdered to protect the blackmail honey trap he was running for a foreign power....far too many suspicious events for a suicide and only huge national security motives would force these clown car level Coincidences......
If I had Epstein's money, I wouldn't be running a brothel for a bunch of international movers and shakers. He and Maxwell must have had a reason, a motivation. What was it ?
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Motivation: sick motherf---er. Perv, psychopath, voyeur, fantasies about dominating others utterly (the whole "master/slave" BS), messianic delusions (cf. the weird fantasy about "seeding the world," etc).
There are probably tens of thousands such characters scurrying around, unbeknownst to their neighbors and colleagues.
Means: blackmail, extortion, repeated again and again. Like any good manipulator, he and Maxwell instantly spotted their marks' weaknesses and what those marks wanted; maneuvered them into positions of dependence; and then exploited them with nasty and vicious threats of violence, exposure, ruin.
These, too, are common traits, found in every garden-variety hustler and pimp (and not a few politicians and business execs).
Opportunity: an endless supply of weak, vulnerable (what used to be called "wayward") young girls sourced from the usual places + a smaller but still quite large supply of wealthy older men, drawn from transatlantic power circles, especially Manhattan, gulled by their lust, vanity and probably boredom into playing along with a boontime companion.
It's this last quality that puts Epstein in a league of his own.
No one is paying nearly enough attention to the man's early days, when he went from college dropout and failed nudnik-on-the-trading-desk to Friend to Bear Stearns Managing Directors and phony Master of the Universe.
That Wall Street connection is the key to this man's bizarre career.
Wall Street runs on personal relationships between the money guys - which E. pretended to be (though never actually was in any meaningful sense at all - and the sources of their money: billionaires and CEOs (Wexner: check), wealthy Old Money (Andrew: check), politicians seekign to score big money or young girls or both (Clinton and his "Foundation,", Richardson, Mitchell, et al.: check), and other Wall Streeters (cf. the Bear Stearns execs: check).
Follow the money. Find out which money guys are in those videos.
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Perv, psychopath, voyeur, fantasies about dominating others utterly (the whole "master/slave" BS), messianic delusions (cf. the weird fantasy about "seeding the world," etc). There are probably tens of thousands such characters scurrying around, unbeknownst to their neighbors and colleagues.
[BREITBART] Laredo Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of firearms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into Mexico through a port of entry. The officers seized a total of seven firearms, eight magazines, and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
Officers assigned to the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge observed a 2007 Chevrolet Impala approaching for a departure inspection. The officers referred the driver to a secondary station, according to Laredo Sector officials.
The officers conducted a K-9 search of the vehicle, followed by an intrusive physical search which revealed the cache of weapons and ammunition, CBP officials reported. Operation Slow and Slightly Disgruntled™
"This type of incident highlights the dangers our CBP officers could face on any given day," said Port Director Albert Flores, Laredo Port of Entry. "This firearms and ammunition seizure is a direct reflection of our continuing commitment in keeping our community safe."
During the physical search, CBP officers discovered one Hi-Point .45 Caliber, one Diamondback 15 multi-caliber, one SCCY 9mm, one Smith and Wesson 39, one SHE 89 Caliber, one Springfield 45 ACP Compact, one Ruger .380 Auto, eight assorted firearm magazines, and 10,000 7.62x39mm rounds of ammunition and one .40 caliber bullet, the release stated.
The officers seized the firearms and associated gear with the vehicle. Officers also detained the suspect. The report provides no information about the identity, nationality, or immigration status of the driver.
It is likely the weapons and ammunition were being smuggled to cartel members on the Mexican side of the border. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... officials did not disclose the motivation for the failed smuggling attempt. Possession of firearms or even a single round of ammunition is a serious offense in Mexico.
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Possession of firearms or even a single round of ammunition is a serious offense in Mexico.
The cartel laughs at the pols everyday on that one. You know the pols who are incapable of providing the average Mexican citizen security in their person, family and property. Allegory, See - Magnificent Seven (remake of Seven Samurai)
[DAWN] Prime Minister of Azad Jammu & 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.... Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan has said that Pakistain and AJK will not allow India to link the Kashmiri movement for freedom with terrorism.
"We will stay alert to ensure that India does not succeed in doing so," Mr Haider said at a Tuesday night news briefing at the Pakistain Embassy in Washington. "There’s no room for terrorism in our peaceful struggle."
Then his lips fell off.
At a recent briefing, a senior US official indicated that while Washington understood Pakistain’s political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir, Islamabad should prevent hard boyz from taking advantage of the situation. "It’s all the more important that Pakistain demonstrate its resolve to halt cross-border terrorism," the official said.
Mr Haider, who is currently visiting Washington to brief US officials and think-tank experts on the current situation in Kashmir, also highlighted the need for continuing a peaceful struggle for Kashmir in his address to the Pak and Kashmiri communities.
"We have a higher moral ground as the Indians are committing unprecedented atrocities in Kashmir," he said while responding to a question at his news conference. "If we also employ violent tactics, people will say both are bad. We don’t want to do that.
We will stand guard to ensure it does not happen," he said.
"Nothing is more effective than a peaceful struggle for freedom," he added. "Either we will perish or free ourselves from the Indian occupation." Asked how the people of Kashmir would react once the curfew is lifted, Mr. Haider said: "The whole world will see how upset they are. The longer the siege, the angrier they will get."
[ALMASDARNEWS] In a major development in northern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , the UAE-backed Southern Movement has withdrawn from the Saudi-led battle against the Ansarallah forces in the Sanaa, Marib, Jizan, and Hajjah governorates.
According to reports from northern Yemen, the Southern Movement made the decision to withdraw from this battle after Saudi-backed Islah forces captured Aden city in the southern part of the city on Wednesday.
Prior to the capture of Aden by the Islah forces, the Southern Movement had taken control of the city after a few days of fighting.
The Islah Party (var. al-Tajma’ al-Yemeni al-Islah) has been one of the main forces fighting the Ansarallah troops in northern Yemen; however, the Southern Movement has been providing much needed reinforcements to a number of fronts in this region of the country.
For the Ansarallah forces, this could be a turning point in several battles in northern Yemen, including the ongoing fight for the Nihm District of eastern Sana’a.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military’s elite Tiger Forces have been renamed and placed under the command of the army’s central command, a communique said on Thursday.
According to the communique, the Tiger Forces have been renamed Division 25 Special Mission Forces.
Despite being renamed and put under the command of the military, the new division will retain their commander Major General Suheil al-Hassan and their other officers.
The Tiger Forces first emerged in the Syrian War during the Hama, Aleppo, and eastern Homs battles; they would prove to be one of the most effective units in the military.
Some of their notable operations include lifting the sieges on the Aleppo Central Prison and Deir Ezzor city, along with retaking East Ghouta, Khan Sheikhoun, east Aleppo, Palmyra, and al-Sukhneh.
As of now, the Division 25 Special Mission Forces are on the offensive at the key town of Ta’manah in southern Idlib.
If they are successful in taking control of Ta’manah, the Division 25 Special Mission Forces will likely be moved to the al-Ghaab Plain front, where they will help the Elite Republican Guard retake the northern part of this rural region.
[DAWN] India on Thursday said it has 'information' that Pakistain is trying to infiltrate faceless myrmidons into the country to carry out attacks amid rising tensions over New Delhi's decision to abrogate the autonomy of Indian-occupied 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.... Indian External Affairs Ministry front man Raveesh Kumar told news hounds that Indian security forces were prepared to deal with any eventuality.
He was reacting to Indian media reports that cited unidentified Indian intelligence sources as saying Pakistain-trained commandos have allegedly entered Indian waters to attack port facilities in western Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... state.
He said Pakistain is trying to infiltrate faceless myrmidons to create 'an alarmist situation' after New Delhi imposed a lockdown and ended occupied Kashmir's autonomy early this month.
Pakistain Army spokesperson Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor rejected the Indian claim, saying Pakistain was a responsible state and "we would be insane to allow infiltration" across the Line of Control.
Kumar said Pakistain "has been using terror and cross-border terrorism as a policy. We have continued to highlight that Pakistain has an obligation to take action against terrorist and terror groups operating from its soil."
The Indian claim comes as Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... in recent days repeatedly alerted the international community that India will possibly stage a "false-flag operation" to "divert attention from massive human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations" in occupied Kashmir.
India accuses Pakistain of training and arming bully boy groups that have been fighting since 1989 for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistain, a charge Islamabad denies. Pakistain says it only provides moral and diplomatic support to these groups.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Turkey will not allow the United States impede the process of creating a safe zone to the east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria, Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said.
“The agreement on the safe zone and purging the east of the Euphrateswith the United States is a right move. A coordination centre has been created and joint patrols will begin soon. But we will not allow protracting the process [of the safe zone creation] like it happened with Manbij. It should move fast”, Erdogan told reporters on board his plane as he was returning to Turkey from Russia, cited by the NTV broadcaster.
Ankara would not allow turning Syria in a region where Kurdish groups enjoyed protection, Erdogan added.
“Now, everything is ready along our border. Everything is already there— personnel and armored equipment. We are ready to act any minute. There are no problems for us there”, Erdogan argued.
The president concluded by addressing the situation in Manbij, where the United States and Turkey had operated under a joint roadmap to withdrew Kurdish groups. Erdogan insisted that the Kurds “have allegedly left but no one is leaving; their number has slightly diminished at best”.
On Monday, Erdogan said that the Turkish military would soon enter the safe zone in northern Syria.
The president’s statement followed an agreement reached by Ankara and Washington on 7 August. In particular, the deal envisages the creation of the safe zone along Syria’s border with Turkey and the establishment of a joint US-Turkish operations centre to coordinate the efforts.
[NYPOST] It’s official — Mayor Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... will be on the sidelines for the third round of the Democratic presidential primary debates.
ABC — which is hosting the Sept. 12 affair in Houston — made the announcement on Thursday afternoon.
The network confirmed that 10 candidates — the smallest debate field yet of the 2020 campaign season — met the Democratic National Committee’s entry requirements for the next showdown.
The presidential hopefuls include former Vice President Joe Biden, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
Ten other candidates in the slowly shrinking primary field were left out.
Next month, candidates will have the opportunity to give opening statements, but unlike the first two debates, there will be no closing statements. Meaning the opening statements will go on and on, never closing...
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Tulsi Gabbard came close and would have made it if the polling requirement had allowed more polling sites to 'count'. She had over 2 dozen poll showings of 2% or greater but all but 2 didn't count per the DNC rules.
Tom Steyer also came close.
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The DNC can't stand that Tulsi devastated Harris the way she did Biden. Arbitrary rules in play. Truth is, the Harris clown car was already speeding toward the cliff...Tulsi just nudged the gas a little.
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It's hilarious listening to Tubby Flabbard fans whine. She's totally anti 2A and a full on communist. But her fans sell her as a True American(tm)
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Tulsi Gabbard is probably the most to the right of all of these ten wingnuts. And she is easy on the eyes. It looks like the DNC chairmen are trying to make this election easy for Thump by promoting the most radical lefty socialist candidates.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) air force carried out a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... on Thursday, targeting a number of sites belonging to the Saudi-backed Islah forces.
According to reports from southern Yemen, the UAE air force bombed the Islah forces in the port-city of Aden and several surrounding areas.
The UAE air force reportedly killed and maimed several members of the Islah forces during their aerial attack over the Aden District on Thursday.
This attack by the UAE air force comes just hours after the Southern Movement forces captured the town of Zanjabar in the Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... Governorate.
Tensions between the Saudi and UAE-backed forces are running high after the Islah Party captured Aden from the Southern Movement on Wednesday.
[BREITBART] George Washington University has quietly begun removing references to its "Colonials" mascot after students argued earlier this year that the mascot represents "oppression."
According to a report by the Young America’s Foundation, George Washington University has been slowly removing references to its popular "Colonials" mascot. Breitbart News reported in February that students at the university started a petition which argued that the "Colonials" mascot has a problematic "connection to colonization" and "systematic oppression."
The petition, which received over 500 student signatures, argued that the "Colonials" mascot is "extremely offensive." "We, as students of the George Washington University, believe it is of great exigence that the University changes its official mascot," the petition read, "The use of ’Colonials,’ no matter how innocent the intention, is received as extremely offensive by not only students of the University, but the nation and world on the lam."
"The historically, negatively-charged figure of Colonials has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression," the petition added, "Alternative nickname recommendations are ’Hippos,’ ’Revolutionaries,’ or ’Riverhorses.’
Breitbart News reported in April that a majority of students participated in a referendum at George Washington University voted to end the use of the "Colonials" mascot. Of the 5,000 students that voted in the referendum, 54 percent voted against the continued use of the mascot. The university initially took no action on the vote, as late as two months after the petition the university still had "no comment" on the student’s demands.
Now, George Washington University has slowly started its process of removing the mascot from campus. In one example, the student center for registration and financial services was renamed from "Colonial Central" to "Student Services Hub." A student organization that encourages students to attend university athletic events recently changed its name from "Colonial Army" to "George’s Army." However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the organization claims that the recent referendum did not influence their decision to change the name.
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Everyone who is offended should lose all government loans and be required to pay back any gov loans at the going interest rates and at accelerated time frame.
[American Thinker] With remarkably little fanfare, an enduring progressive political fairytale has been debunked by an insider. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 under progressive president Woodrow Wilson, as one of those supposedly politically neutral federal bureaucracies run by technocrats in the interest of the greater good. It was to take monetary policy decisions out of politics and put them in the hands of experts.
Donald Trump is only the most recent POTUS to discover that the Fed wields enormous political power, able to speed up or slow down the economy via its manipulation of interest rates and the money supply. He is far from the first president to complain about the Fed when he perceives it as hampering his growth agenda.
What is different is that one of the top officials of the Fed in recent years has fought back and urged the Fed to operate so as to exert political influence against Trump.
Former New York Fed President Bill Dudley is calling on the central bank not to help President Donald Trump fight his trade war with China.
In a sharply worded commentary to his one-time colleagues, Dudley urged Fed officials not to lower interest rates simply as a backstop while the president continues his tit-for-tat tariff battle with the Chinese that has escalated in recent days.
"Central bank officials face a choice: enable the Trump administration to continue down a disastrous path of trade war escalation, or send a clear signal that if the administration does so, the president, not the Fed, will bear the risks ‐ including the risk of losing the next election," he wrote in a post on the Bloomberg News site.
Dudley went so far as to suggest the Fed could ‐ and should ‐ try to influence the next election against Trump.
"After all, Trump's reelection arguably presents a threat to the U.S. and global economy, to the Fed's independence and its ability to achieve its employment and inflation objectives," he wrote. "If the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, then Fed officials should consider how their decisions will affect the political outcome in 2020."
Keep in mind that the Federal Reserve lacks any direct accountability to the people of the United States. It is only by a president appointing and the Senate confirming members of its boards that any public accountability operates. Once in office, they are autonomous. To have this corporation, technically owned by its member banks, self-consciously acting as a political force strikes at the heart of its legitimacy.
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The Fed was set up do avoid the 'crashes' of the 19th Century. Instead they presided over 2 depressions* and several recessions.
*Using the metrics of the first depression and remove all the magical bookkeeping and reporting used by the govt for the period 2008-2016, that was the second depression.
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” so said Obama on the eve of his inauguration. We learned that meant politicizing and weaponizing our government institutions against anyone who disagreed with that administration.
Oops! Allan is not pleased
[Yahoo] A rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a satellite launch criticized by the U.S. apparently exploded on its launch pad Thursday, satellite images show, suggesting the Islamic Republic suffered its third failed launch this year alone.
State media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.
However, satellite images by Planet Labs Inc. showed a black plume of smoke rising above a launch pad there, with what appeared to be the charred remains of a rocket and its launch stand. In previous days, satellite images had shown officials there repainted the launch pad blue.
On Thursday morning, half of that paint apparently had been burned away.
"Whatever happened there, it blew up and you're looking at the smoldering remains of what used to be there," said David Schmerler, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Schmerler told The Associated Press that the images of the space center suggested that the rocket either exploded during ignition or possibly briefly lifted off before crashing back down on the pad. Water runoff from the pad, likely from trying to extinguish the blaze, could be seen along with a host of vehicles parked nearby.
NPR first reported on the satellite images of the apparent failed launch at the space center, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) southeast of Iran's capital, Tehran.
Well, looks like an incident during launch prep and not a launch failure, but fuel ops gone wrong, UDHM caught fire/exploded, as I think you can see still see what is left of the transporter/erector/fuel truck and you don't leave that on the pad during launch... http://t.co/wQUlVQoCmGpic.twitter.com/cQW63xHlOG
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"It is alright, gentlemen ! The spark capacitors were not halaal. The contractor has been dealt with. These new ones are from the Ottoman. Set it up again, Haamid !"
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Are Hollyweird types tweeting the pictures and moaning about the environmental angle?
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“The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One,”
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"I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One,”
I know on the surface it sounds like a gracious thing to say, but I can't help but reading that last clause sarcastically as "good luck in finding out what happened, bitches!"
[BREITBART] A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... on Thursday, but not without a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the financier.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman took the procedural step of adding his initials to an order dismissing the indictment that charged the 66-year-old Epstein with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking of minors in the early 2000s in Florida and New York.
In requesting the action 10 days earlier, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, who is not related to the judge, noted that the law required the dismissal after Epstein killed himself in jail Aug. 10 while he was awaiting trial.
Though anticipated, Berman’s action included a reference to a Tuesday court hearing where 16 women spoke about their claims against Epstein of sexual abuse, some committed when they were under the age of consent. Statements by several other women were read by their lawyers.
The judge said he was incorporating by reference the hearing’s transcript while he "underscores the significance of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act."
Among other things, the victims’ law ensures crime victims have the right to be heard at public court proceedings regarding the accused.
At the unusual hearing, women detailed how Epstein abused them. The women said he used his financial power and connections to famous people to make them vulnerable, some as teenagers, to sexual attacks that sometimes continued for years.
The Dem Knives are out for Forgettin' Slow Joe. If not, they'd be burying this. This is Neil Kinnocks' Bio Plagiarism V2.0
[Houston Chron] Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into "godforsaken country" to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.
Some told him it was too risky, but Biden said he brushed off their concerns. "We can lose a vice president," he said. "We can't lose many more of these kids. Not a joke."
The Navy captain, Biden recalled Friday night, had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine under fire and retrieved the body of an American comrade, carrying him on his back. Now the general wanted Biden to pin a Silver Star on the American hero who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure.
"He said, 'Sir, I don't want the damn thing!' " Biden said, his jaw clenched and his voice rising to a shout. "'Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!' " The video is cringeworthy. What a tool.
The room was silent.
"This is the God's truth," Biden had said as he told the story. "My word as a Biden."
Except almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect. Based on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.
Biden visited Kunar province in 2008 as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The service member who performed the celebrated rescue that Biden described was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a much older Navy captain. And that soldier, Kyle White, never had a Silver Star, or any other medal, pinned on him by Biden. At a White House ceremony six years after Biden's visit, White stood at attention as President Barack Obama placed a Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor, around his neck.
The upshot: In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.
One element of Biden's story is rooted in an actual event: The vice president did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman, who didn't believe he deserved the award.
In a statement, Biden's campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said Workman's valor was "emblematic of the duty and sacrifice of the 9/11 generation of veterans."
The campaign did not dispute any of the facts in the Post report.
In an interview with Washington Post opinion columnist Jonathan Capehart after the report was first published, Biden suggested he was telling Workman's story in New Hampshire, although almost none of the details he offered matched what actually happened to Workman.
"I was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are, this generation of warriors, these fallen angels we've lost," he said. "I don't know what the problem is. What is it that I said wrong?"
Biden, 76, has struggled during his presidential campaign with gaffes and misstatements that hark back to his earlier political troubles and have put a spotlight on his age. In 1987, Biden dropped out of the presidential race amid charges that he had plagiarized the speeches of a British politician and others.
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Something about their 'truths' are better than our 'facts'
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Does anybody else think that this has moved from gaffes to legitimate senility? He has been making these non-stop, and they keep getting worse and worse the more of the spotlight he takes up.
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Agree with #3. This has all the hallmarks of senility. I do feel sorry for him; but he should gracefully retire to a nice assisted living facility (No sarcasm here--it would really be kinder to all concerned, including him.)
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• #UAE-backed STC forces claim to recapture Aden /Abyan • Hadi gov accuses UAE of bombing Hadi forces in Aden • #SaudiArabia Deputy Defense Minister meets Pompeo • Houthis claim missile & Qasef-2k drone attack in Najran • #Houthis meets Russian Deputy FM in #Oman
[Ynet] Iran says one of the men traveled to Israel, was in touch with Mossad in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand; Dual national woman, formerly a British Council worker, also sentenced to prison time for allegedly spying on cultural activities in Iran
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Tuesday said it sentenced three people ‐ one woman and two men ‐ to lengthy prison terms on security and spying charges. The men were convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
Judiciary front man Gholamhossein Esmaili said in remarks broadcast on state TV that the convicted woman is Aras Amiri, who had worked for the British Council while allegedly spying on cultural activities in Iran. The British Council is a non-political organization that works in education, arts and culture.
Amiri has been placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for the past year while her case was under investigation. She was sentenced to 10 years.
Esmaili identified one of the men as Anoush Ashoori, a dual British-Iranian national. He was sentenced to 12 years for ties to Mossad, as was Ali Johari. Ashoori was detained in Tehran in August 2017.
Johari allegedly passed on information about construction projects by a Revolutionary Guard-affiliated construction conglomerate, Khatam al-Anbia. Esmaili said Johari traveled to Israel and was in touch with Mossad in various countries including India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a Tuesday statement that it has been supportive of Ashoori’s family since his detention and the British Embassy in Tehran continues to request consular access.
"The treatment of all dual nationals detained in Iran is a priority and we raise their cases at the most senior levels. We urge Iran to let them be reunited with their families," the statement said.
The sentencing comes at a time of increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers, including Britannia. Though the British Embassy in Tehran has reopened, the British Council has been closed since 2009.
Another British-Iranian woman held in Tehran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly planning the "soft toppling" of Iran’s government while traveling with her young daughter.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the charity arm of Thomson Rooters, was arrested in April 2016. Her sentence has been widely criticized.
Iran does not recognize dual nationalities.
Hardliners in Iran view the country as fighting a cultural "soft war" against Westernization, which they believe is attempting to transform the country’s Islamic beliefs
[IsraelTimes] Humanity should brace itself for serious blowback over the next few centuries from oceans and Earth’s frozen zones, according to the draft of a major UN report obtained by AFP.
Our longtime habit of loading the atmosphere with planet-warming CO2 has spawned a host of consequences, starting with irreversible sea-level rise, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Special Report."
Even under optimistic scenarios in which warming is capped at two degrees Celsius, Earth will likely see more than a 100-fold increase in the damages caused by superstorms and 280 million people displaced by rising seas, the report found.
The planet’s ice- or snow-covered regions, known as the cryosphere, have also been hammered by man-made warming, with ice sheets shedding more than 400 billion tonnes in mass each year, and mountain glaciers ‐ the fresh water source for a billion people in the Andes, Himalayas and elsewhere ‐ threatened with local extinction.
A third to 99 percent of the world’s permafrost could also melt by 2100 if emissions continue unabated, potentially releasing a carbon bomb of greenhouse gases, according to the findings.
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Weren't snow and glaciers supposed to be a thing of the past now?
And yet we have them still and some that were in retreat are now growing.
If the history of accuracy of UN reports are any guide, we should be well into an ice age by 2100 with sea levels dropping due to the advancing glacier sheets.
[Epoch Times] The Mexican Navy in the Port of Cardenas discovered 52,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in a mismarked container from a Danish ship arriving from Shanghai, China.
The cargo manifest for the 40-foot ocean container stated that the powder content was 23,368 kilograms of inorganic calcium chloride, commonly used as an electrolyte in sports drinks, beverages, bottled water and as a non-sodium flavoring for pickles.
The Navy of Mexico intercepted the unloaded 40-foot container on Aug. 24, which originated from Shanghai, China and was bound for the Sinaloa Cartel home-base in Culiacan, 300 miles north of the port. According to local media, the Navy alerted customs authorities from the nearby City of Lazaro Cardenas. Samples collected from plain bulk-bags were taken to a laboratory that confirmed the powder was fentanyl.
Mexican Customs seized 931 sacks of the substance weighing about 25.75 tons. The total weight of the fentanyl powder seizure is preliminary, with authorities still evaluating the purity of fentanyl seized. But if the seizure is confirmed as pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl, it could be pressed into tens of millions of tablets.
Fentanyl synthetic-opioid was hailed as a wonder drug 50 years ago when it was approved as a more effective treatment than drip morphine for cancer patients’ pain. With four types of opioid receptors throughout the human body, pharmacological fentanyl is more effective attaching faster to all the receptors than the highest purity of illicit street-heroin.
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originated from Shanghai, China and was bound for the Sinaloa Cartel home-base in Culiacan
As buttoned down as China is, they had to be aware of this shipment. The powder is processed into pills in Mexico by the cartel and eventually smuggled into the U.S. to be distributed on the streets of the U.S. I hope the Chinese are being pressured by the U.S. to shut off their end. Is POTUS pressuring Mexico to interdict shipments and shut off the drugs coming from the cartels?
The Left, in the U.S., is pushing for "open borders" and unrestricted movement across the border. They are aggravating the problems of drugs and human trafficking. Got to wonder how the left is profiting from the movement of drugs and people. What are lefty politicians getting aside from boodle? A pox on all of them.
Iran and Hezbollah are endangering Lebanon by trying to manufacture precision guided missiles in the heart of Beirut. Lebanon should put an end to it. My interview @i24NEWS_EN here https://t.co/BHdo18bwsh
THE RUNDOWN | IDF Foreign Media Spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus spoke with Nurit Ben on the recent report of Hezbollah's missile-precision program.
More: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had new information on Hezbollah's precision missile program in Lebanon that has been further developed in recent months.
The IDF spokesperson said the Shi'ite group is housing dozens of precision missiles in Lebanon, including in densely populated areas, following six years of efforts along with Iran's elite Qud's Force.
But their efforts towards mass production of the missiles have been thwarted, the IDF assured.
The IDF nevertheless says it holds Lebanon accountable for the missiles' manufacture, after the government took issue with an attack targeting a cement-mixing site for the production of motors for the precision missiles.
Most of the missile production sites are in the south of the country were Hezbollah is active and are deliberately located in highly populated areas in order to deter enemies from targeting them.
The IDF also revealed the identities of three Iranians and one senior Hezbollah member leading the weapons project: , Commander of the Lebanon Corps in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, Technological Director of the IRGC's precision missle program Majid Nuab, Chief Logistics Officer of the IRGC Ali Asrar Nuruzi and Commander of Hezbollah's precision missile program Fuad Shukr.
[ALMASDARNEWS] "Senior Iranian commanders" and a senior associate from the Hezbollah movement have been engaged in an effort to create a secret precision guard missile program in Leb, the Israel Defence Forces have announced, citing intelligence data.
In a presser on Thursday, IDF front man Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus alleged that three Iranian officers from the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, including one Brig. Gen. Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, one col. Majid Nuab and one Brig. Gen. Ali Asrar Nuruzi, were involved in the secret project. According to the IDF, these Iranian officers were based "inside Leb, leading Hezbollah’s precision guided missile project in order to attack Israel."
The three alleged Iranians are said to be under the command of Gen. Qassem Suleimani , the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Commander believed to have engaged heavily in providing Iranian support to Syria and Iraq in their fight against the ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... (ISIS)* snuffies in recent years.
Fuad Shukr, an advisor to Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , is said to be the key Hezbollah commander involved in the missile project.
The IDF alleges that 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... had tried to transfer precision guided missiles to Hezbollah through Syria in 2013 and 2014, but was largely stopped by Israeli air strikes. Since 2016, the IDF says, Hezbollah and Iran have moved forward with another effort ‐ converting Hezbollah’s existing and substantial stocks of rockets into precision-guided missiles.
Related: The Jerusalem Post has more on the four named gentlemen and their secret plot here.
#OFAC also sanctioning , in partnership with #Oman, designated financial facilitators responsible for moving tens of millions of dollars between #Iran IRGC-Qods Force and Hamas' operational arm, the Izz-Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades in #Gaza.
Today, the U.S. sanctioned Jammal Trust Bank in Lebanon for knowingly facilitating financing for Hizballah. Individuals and entities who support Iranian-affiliated terrorist groups will continue to pay a price: there is nowhere to run from the long reach of U.S. sanctions.
In Beirut, the Association of Banks in Lebanon voiced “regret” over the US move — while insisting all funds deposited with Jammal Trust Bank were safe and stressing the ability of the country’s central bank to remedy the situation if need be.
The Treasury, in partnership with the Arab nation of Oman, also sanctioned Mohammad Sarur, Kamal Abdelrahman Aref Awad and Fawaz Mahmud Ali Nasser for supporting Hamas.
Thursday’s action blocks any property or interests in property that the targets have within US jurisdiction. It also bans Americans from engaging in transactions with them and prohibits transactions involving them from moving through the United States.
[DCClothesline] San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a large museum next to the Moscone Convention Center downtown. This non-profit is funded by the City of San Francisco, the National Endowment for the Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the James Irvine Foundation. From July 23 to August 25, YBCA screened Jonathan Garcia’s movie Why Don’t We Murder More White People? It was on an endless loop and each cycle lasted 11 minutes and 17 seconds, and is now on Youtube. Mr. Garcia produced this video as a year-long YBCA fellow, for which he got a stipend and an honorarium. YBCA identifies him as: “Community Engagement & Inclusion Associate, Chief-of-Staff of the SOCIAL CLUB, author.” If this upsets you, you are a racist.
A quote from the flick:
"I think if you're not supporting people of color and to end white supremacy, and you're neutral, or you are that person that's perpetrating it, then you shouldn't -- I think you deserve harm."
The only way to avoid being accused of being a racist is to acquiesce to your own and your children's destruction. Get crackin', cracker!
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian security officials say they arrested a suspected murderous Moslem and are pursuing 80 others in a province west of Cairo for plotting an imminent attack.
The officials say the home of 25-year-old Hammad Mohammed Shafei was raided in Senofar village in Fayoum province. They say he’s a member of the murderous Moslem Hasm group, which authorities have linked to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter with news hounds. They didn’t elaborate on the planned attack.
The Hasm group has been tied to a massive explosion earlier this month in Cairo, when a car filled with explosives crashed outside the county’s main cancer hospital, killing at least 20 people.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Reuters] The Chinese central government rejected Lam's proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters' other demands at that time, three individuals with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
[Daily Caller] Editor’s note: What follows is the second of a two-part series of adapted excerpts from decorated veteran and conservative writer James Hasson’s new book Stand Down: How Social Justice Warriors Are Sabotaging America’s Military (Here at Barnes and Noble). The first part covers the intense training required for most Ranger candidates, and how that training was blunted internally by bureaucrats and military officials with an agenda. The second part covers the military’s response when news began to leak, and how they tried to cover up their malfeasance.
[Bill Moyers.com] An April 2014 interview: Mike Lofgren, a congressional staff member for 28 years, joins Bill Moyers to talk about what he calls Washington's "Deep State," in which elected and unelected figures collude to protect and serve powerful vested interests. "It is how we had deregulation, financialization of the economy, the Wall Street bust, the erosion or our civil liberties and perpetual war," Lofgren tells Moyers.
[Babylon Bee] ATLANTA, GA‐CNN host Brian "Tater" Stelter blamed President Trump for the network's falling ratings Sunday, accusing the president of killing millions upon millions of people that otherwise might have tuned into CNN.
[France24] The World Health Organization says there has been a "dramatic resurgence" of measles in Europe, in part fueled by vaccine refusals, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019.
[NYP] Dairy Queen has had to oddly clarify that the store’s food does not contain "human meat" after one of its South Carolina restaurants was swarmed by federal agents last week, sparking gruesome rumors online.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
[AlAhram] Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, at the centre of a dispute between Washington and Tehran, has changed course away from the 
...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 
...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 
...The 
[DAWN] Pakistain has successfully carried out the night training launch of Ghaznavi, a surface to surface ballistic missile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said on Thursday.
[BREITBART] Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says the House of Commons will move quickly to try to block a no-deal Brexit despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army has entered the strategic town of al-Ta’manah this afternoon, following a fierce battle with the jihadist forces in the area.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
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The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[DAWN] Former Bangladeshi students are turning to social media to detail allegations of "rampant" sex abuse at the hands of teachers and older pupils in madressahs, breaking their silence on a taboo topic in the conservative country.
[NYPOST] There are two ways to close the school achievement gap: lift up struggling students or push down those who are succeeding. Having failed at the former, Mayor 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
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[BREITBART] Laredo Sector Customs and Border Protection officers seized a load of firearms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into Mexico through a port of entry. The officers seized a total of seven firearms, eight magazines, and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[ALMASDARNEWS] In a major development in northern 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian military’s elite Tiger Forces have been renamed and placed under the command of the army’s central command, a communique said on Thursday.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
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[BREITBART] George Washington University has quietly begun removing references to its "Colonials" mascot after students argued earlier this year that the mascot represents "oppression."
...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 
[ALMASDARNEWS] "Senior Iranian commanders" and a senior associate from the Hezbollah movement have been engaged in an effort to create a secret precision guard missile program in 
[DCClothesline] San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a large museum next to the Moscone Convention Center downtown. This non-profit is funded by the City of San Francisco, the National Endowment for the Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the James Irvine Foundation. From July 23 to August 25, YBCA screened Jonathan Garcia’s movie Why Don’t We Murder More White People? It was on an endless loop and each cycle lasted 11 minutes and 17 seconds, and is now on Youtube. Mr. Garcia produced this video as a year-long YBCA fellow, for which he got a stipend and an honorarium. YBCA identifies him as: “Community Engagement & Inclusion Associate, Chief-of-Staff of the SOCIAL CLUB, author.”
