Jon Kyl, once one of the most powerful Republicans in the U.S. Senate, will return to Capitol Hill to succeed the late Sen. John McCain, The Arizona Republic has learned.
Gov. Doug Ducey is scheduled to unveil the 76-year-old as McCain’s successor at a 10 a.m. news conference at the Arizona Capitol, after notifying McCain’s wife, Cindy, and other key political figures of his decision.
Kyl, who served alongside McCain during his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, will fly to Washington, D.C., following Ducey’s announcement. He retired in 2013 after rising to become the second-highest-ranking Republican senator.
Kyl has agreed to serve at least through the end of the year, a representative for Ducey said. If he opts to step down after the end of the session, the Republican governor would be required to appoint another replacement, the aide said.
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Long enough to see which way the wind blows in November. Punt.
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As I noted below: No Senator Cindy to join up with Murky and Droopy to hose conservatism.
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...I'm impressed. They named a Republican to the seat.
And I have got to believe that the McCain family is furious right now. Cindy and Megan were the frontrunners for the job.
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Going to guess Ducey worked out some sweet concessions for himself by not naming Cindy or Meggie Moo. Hopefully nothing that will come back on him in a Blago kinda way.
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mini? The pictures I've seen of Cindy show a skinny broad taller than her hubby. Meggie Moo is the Large Party as they say in Dallas strip clubs...
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I'm actually impressed by the governor. He told McCain he wouldn't put his wife on the seat and McStain got pissed and held onto the seat until death ripped it from his fingers.
Now McStain's wife is out on the curb and as Frank said, the time for her to get it is now. Much much harder in later years.
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I am still pi$$ed on the fact that Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa to the US Senate. I do not care how talented the relative is---it is not appropriate to appoint your relative. More trouble than its worth.
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...In the South Carolina primary, George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, for example, used push polling to circulate the (false) rumor that McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child.
...In 2008, with McCain running for president again, the New York Times ran an unsubstantiated claim that McCain was having an affair with a female lobbyist
...Obama surrogate Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) invoked Alabama racist George Wallace in talking about McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin. Jonathan Martin noted in Politico that McCain was being called racist without basis, simply because it was helpful to the Democrats. The Nation weighed in on McCain’s wartime use of the term "gook" as evidence of his racism.
Then-famous music star Madonna opened her concert tour by calling McCain Hitler and encouraging people to vote for Obama. And the popular Democratic blog DailyKos, not to be outdone, published a comparison of McCain to both Hitler and Stalin.
Welfare bureaucrats are putting the scream on, with news that President Trump's efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law are incentivizing illegal immigrants to drop out of assorted welfare programs.
Now that going to hurt him with his voters😢
...The leftist "narrative" up until now is that illegals never take welfare. That looks rather tattered with this report about illegals dropping out of welfare. Actually, it confirms what conservatives have noticed all along: that illegals do take taxpayer-financed welfare, in large numbers, and come here with skills so low their capacity to succeed in a Western economy is compromised. Meanwhile, the very existence of that welfare, open to all comers, is acting as a "magnet" for more of them to head to el norte, kids in tow.
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It is interesting that the news report and other references to the children being separated from their "parents" are part of a human trafficking/child abuse racket in the US.
[American Thinker] In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual. After catching a Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents, the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from the office vending machine.
On October 28, 2005, another curious event took place in those same halls of justice: an allegedly Republican special prosecutor indicted a White House advisor of his own party for a series of process crimes unrelated to the original intent of his investigation.
As will become clear, this double injustice not only foreshadowed future injustices, but it also served as a practice run of sorts for the players involved. Several of these players would come center stage once again in the long-running political drama that debuted in 2016.
The Democratic operative on that barely warm seat in 2005 was former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, since deceased. The attorney general at the time, the feckless Alberto Gonzales, had been on the job less than two months when the Berger deal went down.
Gonzales’s deputy attorney general, James Comey, however, had been on the job for more than a year. It was under Comey’s supervision that the DoJ reviewed the case against Berger. It was a doozy.
In the nerviest of his criminal acts, Berger stole highly classified documents and stashed them under a trailer at a construction site during a break. He retrieved the documents at the end of the day and admittedly used scissors to cut them into little pieces before throwing them away. He then lied to investigators about what he had done.
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The ideologues are in it for the power, the careerists for the pensions, and the opportunists for the applause. Working together with their media partners, they follow the path of least resistance, which is almost inevitably to the left.
Read that again. Some things never change.
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"If not, maybe it should be," I thought after reading about the University of Kansas's latest foray into indoctrinating parents and their children with the idea that gender doesn't matter:
...I have heard of kids whose parents (mainly mothers) confused them so much with gender issues and social justice theories that they ended up with severe emotional problems. This brain-washing is troubling to say the least and forcing kids not to acknowledge gender or to act in politically correct ways may just backfire.
Our children are not social experiments and any parent willing to toy with their kids mental health like this needs to ask themselves why they would sacrifice their own child's well being to fulfill the political satisfaction of a PC university. Personally, I used anime to educate Grom Jr on the subject of gender.
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What I wouldn't give to travel back in time and see the face of my young self as I told me, without a trace of irony, "First they came for the nazis (the world is seething with 'em, by the way)... and the Islamophobes (ditto)... and the upskirters (who knows... but they're apparently going to be a huge problem too)."
[Guardian] Donald Trump has mounted another extraordinary attack on his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, blaming him for charges against two congressmen that he said jeopardised Republican chances in the forthcoming midterm elections.
On Monday afternoon, the president tweeted: "Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......
"....The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now."
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...Radiating rapidly from campuses into the larger polity, the noble defence of an infinitely multiplying list of ’marginalised groups’ is a predatory movement. Prowling the cultural veldt for givers of ’offence’ is a blood sport, and its pleasures are those of hunting: spotting your prey, stalking, going in for the kill. Any source of umbrage thus presents an exulting opportunity to score a trophy, stuff it, and hang it on your (Facebook) wall. Mainstream institutions straining to be with-it give credence to this pretence of injury and vulnerability, when no one’s feelings actually have been hurt. So the victory is two-pronged. You take down the sinner, and you humiliate the editors of the Nation by forcing them to participate in an emotional theatre that every-one knows is fake.
I don’t buy into the notion that the ’snowflake’ generation is all that sensitive, either. Antifa protestors in balaclavas can be quite violent for little specks that melt. ’Snowflakes’ may have induced institutions to employ the language of fragility, but I think a lot of these kids are tough as old boots.
...The students cowering in ’safe spaces’ don’t feel endangered; they’re claiming territory. In protecting the faux-helpless from noxious opinions via no-platforming, they’re exercising power. The experience of exercising power isn’t scary, except on the receiving end; it’s supremely gratifying. These people aren’t frightened. They want you to be frightened of them.
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Antifa protestors in balaclavas can be quite violent for little specks that melt.
Who have they gone against that weren't restrained. It the old story of the little girl pestering her older brother, but always within retreat distance to mom's skirt. They have the blind commitment to the 'way' that the Hitler Youth or Red Guard had, both of which fell before trained troops.
[Guardian] The Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of Afghanistan’s Haqqani militant group ‐ one of the most powerful and feared affiliates of the insurgency.
The Taliban said he died after "a long struggle with a disease", according to the monitoring group Site.
According to the statement, Haqqani has been buried in Afghanistan.
Haqqani originally founded the group to fight Soviet occupation in the 1970s, and was once funded by the CIA and lionised by some in the US.
Haqqani relinquished operational leadership of the group some years ago to his son Sirajuddin Haqqani, now deputy leader of the Afghan Taliban.
Haqqani joined the Taliban government as minister for tribal affairs after they captured Kabul in 1996, fleeing after they were ousted in late 2001 and taking up arms again.
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But since it did not, DooDahMan, the thought of a long and painful struggle with an embarrassing disease is quite comforting — sometimes justice is achieved in this world as well as the next.
[Breitbart] At least 21 people were shot, four fatally, Friday through Sunday in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s (D) Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the carnage began Friday night, with a total of two people shot between 5 p.m. and midnight. Eight people were shot Saturday, including a 30-year-old woman who was shot in the back of the head while standing in an alley. Police arrived on scene and pronounced her dead.
No arrests have been made in the woman’s murder and a second murder occurred in the same area roughly 20 minutes later.
On Sunday alone ten people were shot and two were killed. The wounded included an 11-year-old girl who was shot while standing outside with a 17-year-old girl Sunday just before 11 p.m. They were standing in the West Pullman neighborhood when someone drove by and opened fire.
The 11-year-old was shot in the chest.
Breitbart News reported at least 28 were shot last weekend in Emanuel’s Chicago. Over 50 were shot in Emanuel’s Chicago over the weekend of August 18-21 and six people were killed. The shooting victims include three who were shot during a "peace picnic" Saturday, August 19. At least 33 people were shot in Chicago during the weekend of August 10 through the morning of August 13.
Over 70 were shot August 3 through the morning of August 6, and 11 of them died from their wounds.
[USNEWS] A small town in Virginia is trying to recover its image after The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The Roanoke Times reported Sunday that a regional tourism board is pulling together emergency funds to boost its digital marketing campaign.
Normally that money is saved. But officials agreed the region is in desperate need of positive coverage.
The tourism board serves Lexington, where The Red Hen is located, and other communities that are about three hours from Washington.
The Red Hen incident in June prompted thousands of a calls and emails to the tourism office. They're still coming in. The office received a letter on Thursday from a Georgia family that wrote to say it would never return because of what happened.
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...That is the part of VA I want so very much to retire to - and it is solidly conservative. A shame she managed to hurt so many other people - but hey, she Stuck It To The Man(TM), didn't she?
Mike
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To paraphrase Amotz Zahavi: virtue signaling should be costly.
Personal disclosure: not an adherent of handicap theory
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It's pretty country down there, Mike, (spent a lot of time in Hot Springs myself) but it's completely a vassal state to the beltway area. There's pretty country nearby in Kentucky and North Carolina too but the same problem applies though to a slightly lesser extent.
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And having fled the commontheft of PeeAye myself I advise against living in any commontheft if you can at all avoid it.
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Interesting but irrelevant fact: there is a Lexington in three of the four commonwealths in the US.
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FMC Lexington was the "narco farm" for addicts in the federal prison system back in the day.
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Lexington, MA - a town doesn't get much more moonbat than that.
[KhaamaPress] A U.S. soldier was killed and another soldier sustained injuries in an apparent insider attack in East of Afghanistan.
"One U.S. service member was killed and another maimed during an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, Sept. 3," the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led Resolute Support Mission said in a statement.
"The sacrifice of our service member, who volunteered for a mission to Afghanistan to protect his country, is a tragic loss for all who knew and all who will now never know him," said Resolute Support and U.S. Forces ‐ Afghanistan Commanding General Scott Miller. "Our duty now is to honor him, care for his family and continue our mission."
No further details have been given regarding the exact location of the incident but the alliance added that the maimed service member is in stable condition..
The U.S. forces are engaged in counter-terrorism operations against the ISIS and other terrorist groups in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and some other eastern provinces.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ A new Iraqi alliance grouping Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that it managed to form the biggest parliamentary bloc, a move which will give it the power to make up the new government.
"The Alliance of Reform and Building, which consists of Sadr’s Sairoon, Abadi’s Victory and 16 other political groups, has been registered as the biggest bloc in the parliament," Baghdad Today quoted Jassem al-Helfy, a big shot in the Sairoon alliance, as saying on Monday.
According to al-Helfy, "the parliament will officially name the biggest parliamentary bloc later today after all alliances reveal names of their affiliated MPs".
The Sadr-Abadi alliance also includes the blocs of Vice President Ayad Allawi and Shiite Moslemholy man Ammar al-Hakim, as well as several Sunni Moslempoliticians and ones representing Turkmen, Yazidi, Mandaean and Christian minorities.
It does not include Kurdish groups.
The Iraqi parliament held its first session early Monday in its new formation after the final results were endorsed by the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court two weeks ago.
[PRESSTV] Former secretary of state John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... has censured Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's claim that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was the "worst ever", saying the US president makes things up and does not often make decisions based on fact or advice.
"Unfortunately ‐ and I say this sadly ‐ more often than not, he really just doesn't know what he's talking about," said Kerry, who led the American team in nuclear negotiations with Iran.
"He makes things up. And he's making that up, as he has other things," the former top diplomat said in an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation" aired Sunday.
Kerry angered Trump in May after reports said he had secretly met with world leaders in a bid to salvage the Iran nuclear deal ahead of Trump’s withdrawal of the US from the agreement.
Trump slammed the ex-diplomat on Twitter, saying "John Kerry can’t get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it! Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!"
Commenting on the attack and whether he wanted "to say something at the time, tweet back at him," the former State Department head said, "I haven't yet."
"I think America and our democracy are more thoughtful than dishonest tweets," he added.
Kerry also denied Trump's claim that the Iran agreement is weak and harmful to the US, saying the allegation is false and disruptive to the possibilities of international nuclear policy.
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Former secretary of state John F. Kerry, noted expert on... something. I really do hope he runs for Prez next go-round. Maybe with Maxine Waters as Veep.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: A lady health worker, who was a mother of two children, was bumped off at her house by her sister’s husband over "honour" at Chakrian village in Kunjah police precincts on Sunday.
Police said the suspect, Khawar Imran, who fled soon after the incident was a vice-chairman of the Lungey union council. He allegedly had suspicion about the character of the victim, Bushra Parveen (35), who worked as a lady health worker. She had two children -- a daughter and a son.
According to police, the suspect entered the house of Bushra and shot up her with a Kalashnikov, killing her on spot.
A case has been lodged against the suspect under section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) on the report of Mazhar Iqbal, the husband of the dear departed woman.
The dead body was handed over to the relatives of the dear departed after autopsy conducted at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital.
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[PRESSTV] Israel’s minister for military affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, says negotiations with Paleostinian authorities on the situation in both besieged Gazoo Strip and the occupied west Bank are pointless and that Tel Aviv should act on the Paleostinian issue in both regions "unilaterally."
The Israeli minister for military affairs is speaking hypothetically about a subject for which he does not hold the portfolio, making it perfect for the Iranian government mouthpiece to wax indignant upon.
"I’m aware of all the negotiations and all the mediators and everything going on there. The negotiations, regardless of whether they’re on Ramallah or Gazoo [City], won't lead us anywhere," he said at a presser at Jerusalem al-Quds on Monday, referring to the capital cities of the West bank and Gazoo Strip, respectively.
Lieberman’s comments came as Egypt and the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... are working to hammer out a lasting ceasefire between the Paleostinian Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, resistance movement, which has been running the Gazoo Strip since 2006, and the Israeli regime after months of tensions and violence in the occupied territories.
"All the negotiations have led us to a dead end, therefore we need to act on the Paleostinian issue -- regarding Ramallah and Gazoo -- unilaterally, and define the reality unilaterally, according to our understanding," Lieberman added.
Tensions have been running high along the Gazoo fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests, dubbed "The Great March of Return," demanding the right to return for those driven out of their homeland by Israel.
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The Israeli minister for military affairs is speaking hypothetically about a subject for which he does not hold the portfolio
Lieberman is Minister for Defense and Paleostinians ARE in his area of authority - as experience shows that you can't negotiate with them, only stop them by force.
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, while presiding over the provincial cabinet meeting at CM House on Monday, directed the health department to make necessary arrangements for the treatment of the eight-year-old boy whose both arms had to be amputated due to severe burns he sustained after an 11,000-Volt electrical wire fell on him in the street where he was playing on Aug 25.
The incident took place in Ahsanabad Sector-4 off Superhighway. As a result of the electric shock, both of Umar’s arms were badly burnt and doctors had to amputate them in order to save his life.
"I want to rehabilitate him at any cost and the provincial government would bear all the treatment expenses wherever it is possible," he said.
The provincial cabinet also took up the issue of overhead cables hanging everywhere in the city. The chief minister, on the recommendation of the cabinet, constituted a committee under the local government secretary to talk to the relevant quarters to remove all overhead cables of internet, telephone, TV cables and others.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed in an explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, but the cause of the incident was still unknown, a fire and rescue official said on Monday.
The blast occurred at Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) depot, a joint venture between Germany’s Rheinmetall Defence and South Africa’s state-owned arms maker Denel.
"I can confirm that eight people are dead," said Theo Layne, a fire and rescue spokesman.
The cause of the blast was not known, he said.
Police could not be reached to comment.
RDM said in a statement that an explosion occurred at one of its buildings, but it could not confirm whether there were any injuries or fatalities.
"We are currently investigating the matter," it said.
RDM manufactures and supplies selected munitions and explosive related products for armed and police forces in South Africa and around the world.
Rheinmetall holds a 51 percent stake and Denel has a 49 percent shareholding.
[EuromaidanPress] Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network” that the East German intelligence service set up in the West during the Cold War not only to achieve specific foreign policy goals like the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline but also to set the tone in German discussions about Russia.
Despite the received opinion, he tells US-based Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova that the Stasi network “was not unmasked after the end of the Cold War. Yes, the archives were opened, but their information concerned mostly the Stasi agent network in East Germany.” Much more at the link
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Well, IMO, West Europeans demonstrated that they're incapable of self-rule. And USA too busy dealing with the same type of people as ruined Europe to save them again (also, just a bit, pissed off from all the ankle biting). So, it's either Muslim or Russian rule in EU future.
[PRESSTV] The US Army has received an advanced air defense radar system it bought from Ukraine, after a firm allegedly linked to Russia tried to block the sale.
The US Army Contracting Command center in Orlando, Florida received the 3D mobile radar system from through the Ukrainian state company SFTC "Progress," according to the ImportGenius, an Arizona-based company which tracks import/export activity at various shipping docks.
The 36D6M1-1 radar, developed by Ukraine’s state-owned Scientific and Production Complex "Iskra," is a designed to be used in modern automated air defense system and anti-aircraft missile systems.
The 3D radar’s main function is to detect low flying air targets under active and passive jamming. It can also be used to control military and civilian air traffic.
Defense Blog, the first website to report the story, wrote Monday that the US Army was going to analyze the system and probably use it to simulate opposition force (OPFOR) equipment in training.
Dubbed "Tin Shield" by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... , the highly mobile radar system has been used in variants of the Russian air defense system S300.
Many countries including Iran, China and Russia are currently operating different iterations of the air defense system.
Defense Blog wrote that a company "associated with Russia" had tried to block Iskra from selling the system to the US, on the grounds that it had failed to pay royalties for using patented technologies.
Russia is known to have developed sophisticated radar technologies for its air defense systems, enabling them to detect and target aircraft and missiles of various types in lower and higher altitudes.
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[DailyCaller] Hillary Clinton is hiring a batch of unpaid interns for the fall to work in her New York City office, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Applications are currently being accepted on a rolling basis and will "run from September to mid-December." The internship requires "a minimum of three days per week," and undergrads "of all majors are encouraged to apply."
While the amount of hours per day aren’t specified, the "internship is unpaid."
"Interns will provide support to our staff, assisting our work on a wide range of projects. Work will include but will not be limited to: compiling press clips, monitoring social media, conducting research, drafting correspondence, and assisting with office management," the job posting states.
Clinton’s office is looking for applicants who have "a high level of professionalism and discretion," "strong research and writing skills," "the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team," "strong interpersonal communication skills," "a diligent work ethic and a sense of conscientiousness," as well as "enthusiasm, dedication, and a positive attitude."
The job posting does not offer any alternative ways of compensation like school credit or a stipend.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton was criticized for asking the Federal Election Commission to allow some campaign workers to accept college credit and a modest stipend for compensation.
Other candidates, like Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, paid his campaign interns $10.10 an hour for their work.
From 2001 to 2016, both Hillary and Bill Clinton made over a combined $240 million from writing books, giving speeches and consulting work.
A request for comment to Clinton’s office was not returned.
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Not every kid is athletically inclined, so people who can't be "tennis parents" need a long-shot retirement plan too...
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No pay but it'll look good on their resumes.
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Just another example of how in love with slavery the Demonrats are. Seriously. When you look at everything they do, especially in regards to illegals, it all leads back to their desire for slaves.
[AMGREATNESS] For all the op-eds condemning a polarizing Trump who has wrecked American foreign policy, there are also more silent concessions among many analysts that the team of Mike Pompeo, Jim Mattis, John Bolton, and Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... is impressive. They are more likely than imagined alternatives to stop any more Iranian nonsense on the seas of the Persian Gulf, or tune out the periodic ultimatums of the Paleostinians, or take seriously the nuclear threats of North Korea, or get tough when Putin deserves tough treatment‐and they have the will and, increasingly, the means to do what they say. The policy is to be ready for a fight, but neither to prompt nor to welcome one. For Trump, who values ratings and money most of all, wars can quickly lose viewers and cost too much.
In sum, we are witnessing one of the great ironies of the modern age. Minorities who are not Trump supporters are doing better under Trump than any past president, liberal or conservative. Environmentalists who despise him know that America has become more effective than its green European critics in reducing carbon emissions, largely through the breakneck production of natural gas. Diplomats who loathe Trump find their good cop talk and soft power has more resonance once it is backed up by a better military, a better national security team, and an unpredictable commander-in-chief who might just be capable of doing anything at any time to anyone anywhere in the defense of American interests and illusory sovereignty.
NeverTrump legal scholars are perplexed that never has a Republican president appointed so many qualified judges and seen them confirmed so quickly. They wonder how that could be so, without at least one David Souter or Harriet Miers. They despair that it might become true that a president who enlists the best and brightest of the "you can’t dare do that" administrative state and the revolving Washington and New York diplomatic and financial elite, is a president who will be rendered inert.
How can things be getting concretely better than they were during the Obama years when expert opinion insists things are getting worse?
The simple answer is that for half the country Trump’s crudity trumps his cunning on the economy and foreign policy. That irony prompts the essential question of this presidency: could crudity have been the accelerant that pushed his agenda forward? And if so, what does that say about those who led us who were far less crude and far less competent‐and far less worried about the consequences of their policies upon those whom they rarely ever saw? Or rather what is crudity when mellifluousness did such damage? And what is morality when a lot of ruin was done by those who claimed by birth, education, reputation, ZIP code, or influence to be so much better than those they hurt?
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[Jpost] Two flights carried out by Qeshm Fars Air took unusual routs to get to Leb, arousing concern they were used to deliver weapons to Hezbollah.
Iranian aviation company Qeshm Fars Air is suspected of smuggling weapons into Leb, Fox News reports on Monday.
Citing a western intelligence sources, Fox News revealed that they were able to unmask the methods Iran is using to deliver weapons into Leb.
The first flight involved a Boeing 747 and took place on July 9'th and departed from a military airbase in Tehran to Beirut, but not before stopping in Damascus for a lay-over.
The flight route went over northern Leb and is not one usually used.
"The Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East", reported Fox News citing an anonymous regional intelligence expert,"testing and defying the West’s abilities to track them down."
The US, Israel, and other Western nations have ample evidence that Iran is operating weapons factories in Yemen, Syria and Leb.
The second flight took place on August 2'd and flew from Tehran to Beirut while flying over northern Syria.
Qeshm Fars Air is regarded as one of the aviation companies used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to smuggle arms. Three IRGC members currently serve on the board of Qeshm Fars Air.
A report by Rooters over the weekend stated that Iran had already transferred ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq over the course of several months and that it is developing the capacity to build more there.
The missiles include the Fateh-110, Zolfaqar and Zelzal types, which have ranges of 200-700 km., allowing them to be able to threaten both Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Israel.
A bigwig in the IRGC stated that "We have bases in many places, and Iraq is one of them."
He further stated that should the US decide to strike Iranian targets, these bases outside the country are expected to allow Iran to strike back.
[DETROITNEWS] Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is following through on her commitment to stand up for the due process rights of all students on U.S. college campuses. From what we’ve seen of a new framework, it would go a long way to restoring constitutional protection in campus sexual assault investigations.
That’s a long-overdue change. Last September, DeVos began this work, rescinding overzealous Obama-era guidelines that pushed university administrators to investigate and adjudicate serious accusations and even crimes.
Using the threat of withheld funding if schools didn’t comply, the former administration instructed universities to lower the burden of proof and create a framework to give alleged victims the upper hand. Title IX, the law preventing sex discrimination in schools that take federal funds, has been expanded greatly in recent years to apply to cases of sexual misconduct.
All this led to accused students with little recourse to defend themselves, with serious repercussions as a result, including expulsion.
It amounted to a lack of due process ‐ a right guaranteed in the Constitution.
The proposed changes were leaked to The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... this week, and the final blueprint isn’t expected to be released for several more weeks. The White House must first review the guidelines and then they will be put up for a period of public comment.
The Education Department told The bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... News editorial board that what has been reported so far is on the mark.
As reported by the Times, the new rules would allow both the accused and the complainant to request evidence and to cross-examine each other ‐ something that was discouraged previously. Also, universities could apply other avenues for solving complaints such as mediation and restorative justice, as long as the individuals involved mutually agreed.
The Education Department also seeks to define sexual harassment in a much more specific way: "Unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies a person access to the school's education program or activity."
Previously, universities were told to handle any unwelcome sexual conduct.
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[KhaamaPress] The coalition forces in Afghanistan have confirmed the killing of ISIS Khurasan Emir in a U.S. Arclight airstrike in Afghanistan.
"United States forces in Afghanistan conducted a strike against the leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ‐ Khorasan group, known as Abu Saad Orakzai, in the eastern area of the Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, August 25. The strike resulted in his death," a statement by the Resolute Support stated.
"America and her allies are in Afghanistan to maintain pressure on the networked, trans-regional turbans attempting to plot, resource and direct attacks from here," said U.S. Army General Scott Miller, commander of U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces in Afghanistan. "This is only part of the coalition’s work towards and Afghan security solution, but it is a vital part."
The statement further added that the death of Abu Saad Orakzai marks the third time U.S. forces have successfully targeted a self-proclaimed emir of Islamic State ‐ Khorasan group since July 2016.
Sources in the Afghan intelligence last week confirmed that the ISIS Khurasan Emir has been killed along with his nine butt buddieslovers comrades in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province.
The provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said Abu Saad Orakzai was originally a resident of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... of Pakistain and was appointed ISIS Emir after the killing of Haseeb Logari. Neither of them are currently residents of anywhere.
This article starring:
ABU SAAD ORAKZAI
ISIS Khurasan
HASIB LOGARI
ISIS Khurasan
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The octagon of starving Pakistans terror exchange unit, the killing of this guy, an maybe a shore up could get US out, but knowing US, we are never out.
We Love these people too much. They showed US Lots.
I doubt Our interest in it's continuance but I would give it another shot if it keeps you from getting shot in the back when you leave.
It really is time to apply pressure here right now.
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hmmmm....recognize China's sovereignty (via the Mongol Yuan Dynasty) to the place, much like a lot of 'historic' claims, and point out how they treat troublesome Islamics as in their Western (now Middle) provinces.
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Better, in the comment section -
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force as if a million dudebros suddenly cried out in dismay and were suddenly silenced."
[BREITBART] Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš has condemned the past approach of Merkel’s Germany and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to illegal immigration, branding it a "threat to European civilisation".
Andrej Babiš, a Slovak-origin populist and billionaire tycoon sometimes described as the ’Czech Trump’, told national television: "We do not want to live here in Africa or the Middle East. We have to stop [immigration from these places]."
He predicted that if immigration was not brought under control, public anger and disillusionment would grow, warning "Chemnitz is around the corner" ‐ a reference to the large-scale public protests against Germany’s migrant policy following the fatal stabbing of a local man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi with a string of previous convictions.
"We have 1.5 million illegal migrants colonists here. Our return policy is bad," added the ANO leader, referring to the EU’s weak record on returning bogus asylum seekers, including the aforementioned Iraqi in Chemnitz, and killers like Anis Amri, who should not have been in Germany at all when he drove a stolen lorry into a packed Christmas market, having lied about his nationality, used multiple false identities, and been scheduled for deportation but was not detained while it was arranged.
As the leader of one of the Visegrád group of Central European nations opposed to mass migration and multiculturalism, now allied with Austria’s new conservative-nationalist coalition government and Italia’s murderous Moslem populist coalition, Babiš was blunt on those Western European countries still pushing open borders policies.
"If they want to have more Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... supporters in La Belle France, the Netherlands or Belgium than they have now, that’s up to them," he said.
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‘Illegal Immigration Is a Threat to European Civilisation’
Which is why Brussels with Angela's support promotes it.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch prosecutors say Afghan asylum seeker Jawed S. was motivated by ’insults to Islam,’ mentioned far-right MP Geert Wilders
A 19-year-old Afghan man suspected in last week’s stabbing of two US tourists at Amsterdam Central Station said Monday he was motivated by insults to Islam, prosecutors said.
"The man is of the opinion that in the Netherlands ’the Prophet Mohammad, the Koran, the Islam and Allah have often been insulted,'" the Dutch prosecution service said in a statement.
The suspect, identified as "Jawed S.," had a terrorist motive and traveled to the Netherlands with that aim," the statement added.
The Afghan teenager mentioned far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The suspect, identified as "Jawed S.," had a terrorist motive and traveled to the Netherlands with that aim," the statement added.
Friday’s attack came a day after an announcement by anti-Islam politician Wilders that he was cancelling moves to stage a cartoon competition to caricature the Prophet Mohammad, a plan that had angered many Moslems.
Known for his virulent anti-Islamic views, Wilders on Thursday said he was nixing plans to stage the competition to "avoid the risk of making people victims of Islamist violence."
Suspect behind bars
Earlier Monday, Jawed S. appeared before a Dutch judge in connection with the case.
He was remanded in jug and will appear again before judges in two weeks, while police continue their probe.
He remains behind bars under maximum security and is only allowed visits by his lawyer.
Two American tourists were seriously injured when a knife-wielding man attacked bystanders around noon on Friday at the busy train station next to Amsterdam’s historic city center.
Police reacted quickly and shot the man in the lower body. He and the injured tourists, both men aged 38, were taken to hospital.
The US State Department on Sunday condemned what it called an "unprovoked, horrifying attack," and offered full support to Dutch authorities, both in their investigation and "in our common fight against terrorism in all forms."
Both of the maimed American men remained in a satisfactory condition in hospital Monday, according to Dutch media.
German police on Saturday raided the suspect’s home, which Dutch newspapers said was located in the western Rhineland-Palatinate state.
A German foreign ministry official Monday confirmed the suspect is an asylum seeker who was appealing a decision to reject his claim. The man had a German residency permit.
German police had no information linking the alleged attacker to any terror groups, the official said.
The Netherlands has been largely spared the kind of terror attacks that have rocked its closest European neighbors in the past few years.
But amid a number of scares and reports that people linked to some of those attacks may have crossed briefly into the country, top Dutch security and intelligence officials have stressed that the threat level is substantial.
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Can we request extradition? That would give the Dutch government an excuse for avoiding fumbling this. I believe since the Klinghoffer affair, there's something on the books to ritualistically deal with it.
[Jpost] On Saturday "unknown forces" fired toward a US-led anti-ISIS Coalition base at Tanf in Syria. The Tanf Garrison "received fire" but "there are no reported damages or injuries."
The US-led Coalition disputed claims by Syrian sources that there were festivities near Tanf in Syria over the weekend.
On Saturday "unknown forces" fired toward a US-led anti-ISIS Coalition base at Tanf in Syria. The Tanf Garrison "received fire" but "there are no reported damages or injuries, and Coalition forces did not fire back," according to a statement from the Coalition.
Yet the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday that 8 Iranian-backed forces were killed and 11 injured in a battle in eastern Homs province near the border with Jordan and Iraq. "A column of Iranian Forces and their loyal button men of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities were hit by warplanes that were not known if they belong to the International Coalition, as they pass near al-Tanf area which is controlled by forces of the International Coalition," the SOHR wrote.
The Tanf base is an anomaly in Syria. It was established in 2016 to train anti-ISIS Syrian fighters. However the base soon became cut off from ISIS-held areas as the Syrian regime surrounded the area and retook the border area with Iraq east of the base, and with Jordan west of the base. So the garrison consists of a 55km radius, a kind of giant half circle, stretching out from where the Jordan-Iraq-Syria borders meet. In this lonely desert outpost are anti-ISIS Syrian fighters and their Coalition trainers and supporters.
In May 2017 when a Syrian regime-backed column advanced toward Tanf, the Coalition struck it with warplanes. In June this year the US shot down a drone near Tanf.
Russia and the Syrian regime have both pressured the US to leave Tanf. In March, Russia’s official TASS News Agency notes that a Russian diplomat "finds worrisome the activities of the US-led coalition in the area of Syria’s al-Tanf." Pro-regime social media have sought to accuse US forces at Tanf of harboring Lion of Islams, Lions of Islam and being involved in Arclight airstrikes.
Most recently the Syrian regime allowed ISIS fighters evacuated from Damascus to move to an area between Tanf and Suwayda. Then when the ISIS attacked the Druze area of Suwayda regime supporters blamed the US for "coordinating" with them. Over the last two days the pro-regime sources and Russia-based RT also claimed that US-backed rebels from Tanf sought to attack Palmyra. It was in this context that the SOHR then claimed airstrikes had hit Iranian-backed forces.
The presence of Iranian forces in Syria is opposed by both the US and Israel. Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif was in Syria on Sunday to discuss the upcoming Idlib offensive in northern Syria. The airstrikes near Tanf also came a day after reports of a massive kaboom at the Mezzeh military area in Damascus. The Syrian regime claimed the kaboom was an electrical fault that blew up ammunition. As with the Tanf incident, the full story remains clouded in mystery and denials.
[BREITBART] The New York Post mocked Meghan McCain as "The Meg" on its Sunday cover after she used the opportunity of her father’s funeral to attack President Trump.
"The Meg" is a reference to a plus-sized shark in the late-summer hit movie The Meg, starring Jason Staham.
The New York Post cover is just one part of a brewing backlash against McCain and the overall funeral service for Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... (R-AZ), which turned into an unseemly partisan rally Saturday with speakers like former Presidents Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... and even George W. Bush trashing President Trump, who Sen. McCain refused to invite to his own funeral.
Also not invited was former Alaskan Governor Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... , John McCain’s unfailingly loyal 2008 vice presidential running mate.
What made Saturday’s shocking display all the more crass was that Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared were invited to the funeral and were forced to sit there and be humiliated, which might have been the plan. The McCains are infamous for holding petty grudges.
In an obvious shot at Trump, Meghan McCain used her eulogy to describe the death of her father as the passing of "American greatness. The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."
For good measure, she added, "The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great."
Obama was also not subtle. He ripped into those who traffic in "bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage."
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Just furthering her father's wishes by prostituting his death even more. At least she wasn't ogling or groping Arianna.
Actually plants don't do well in a vacuum so some mechanical method is needed until there is sufficient atmosphere to sustain plant life.
In this case I suspect NASA may know what issues they're facing and already thought of using organic solutions. The problem is doing the conversion on a large scale.
Have you ever tried growing a tree in a spaceship?
The solution can be used in many other applications where access to external atmosphere to refresh the air is limited, like submarines, etc.
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Well IIRC a large percentage of the Earth's oxygen comes from plants that use chlorophyll to break down CO2 into oxygen and carbon. Algae is one of the top producers IIRC. Basically pond scum . If that is the case you can ship most of Washington DC to Mars, they have an overabundance of scum there.
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Cycle some into the habitat and let me breathe it in. I'll turn it straight into methane and we can release that back into the Martian atmosphere. Methane is a better greenhouse gas anyway!
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There you go, DV!
GenMod some gut bacteria to break the C-O2 bond and digest the carbon. Then you can gulp atmosphere and vent the O2 into containment.
Fantastic! Pay the man.
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I don't think I could count the number of science fiction books I've read that involved the protagonist sneaking in and out of the domed cities of Mars. The were all airtight, until the hero or the villain, depending on who wrote it, broke the glass.
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Prescient movie.
Exploding robot heads, full body airport scanners, spywife Sharon Stone...prob tough to find giant ancient race air generators though.
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"Adult? No, judge, not to my knowledge. He
Rejects un-Islamic chronology.
Please free him and polish
His knob, pay for college,
And offer the lad an apology!"
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Chicago's violent Labor Day weekend leaves at least 6 dead; more than 1,000 shot since Memorial Day
Is there a consensus among parts of the Chicago population that these shootings were fundamentally legitimate, that the shootings restored justice where injustice would have prevailed?
That might be the case for the core gang member subculture, but not for any significant parts of the general populace (I hope.)
My point was that the 'murder' of this German girl isn't seen as murder at all by ordinary law abiding and decent Afghans. She was the lawbreaker and she was punished as she deserved.
The perpetrators are not outlaws, defying authority. The see themselves as executors and executioners acting in the name of legitimate authority.
This is why this conflict is so serious and dangerous.
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A state that will not provide security in one's person, family or property has no legitimacy, neither does one that offers rituals rather than justice.
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It's not a matter of arbitration. Enforce the laws of the land. If you don't like them, change them. If you can't, then you can revolt, and let's sort it out with bullets.
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That might be the case for the core gang member subculture, but not for any significant parts of the general populace (I hope.)
We would all like to hope that.
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Elmerert Hupens2660
It's actually 10 years if the defendant is under 18.
If he is over 18 but under 21, he can be tried as a juvenile. In that case the maximum penalty for murder (with particular severity of guilt) is 15 years.
If he's tried as an adult, the maximum penalty is life. If you get life without particular severity of guilt, parole is possible (but not guaranteed) after 15 years.
Life with particular severity of guilt means that parole hearings will start later. Very few people serve more than 25 years.
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[WACH] New York Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo announced Sunday that the state will file a lawsuit against President Trump and the federal government in light of the damage from Hurricane Maria that struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.
The Governor's Office says the lawsuit will be filed against the federal government for failing to provide assistance to Puerto Rico and having an inadequate response to Hurricane Maria.
"President Trump never tried to help Puerto Rico. Florida got attention, Texas got attention, and Puerto Rico got the short end of the stick. That is not just wrong and unethical and despicable, it is also illegal," Governor Cuomo said. "We're going to work with Puerto Rican families and sue the President of the United States because New York is standing with Puerto Rico the way we said we would.
Governor Cuomo announced that a committee will lead the effort to file the lawsuit against the president and the federal government.
The main concerns are the three-week wait for federal helicopters to fly above Puerto Rico, along with the lack of funding, food, and water sent.
The Governor's Office also referred to relief time as unacceptable, comparing the 39 percent of federal applications for relief from victims of Harvey to the 28 percent for Maria, both after 87 days.
According to updated figures, nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which makes Hurricane Maria one of the deadliest disasters to to hit the United States.
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That is not just wrong and unethical and despicable, it is also illegal
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No standing. "<$$$>"Third world extortion through demonization allied with domestic socialist confederates pushing for undeserved entitlements from the Treasury "".
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He's playing to the Puerto Ricans living in NY for some reason. Covering for that horrible gov they have down there for some reason.
It would be nice if this somehow opened up the Haiti + Clinton Foundation can of worms. I'd like to see some light spread on that to very publicly separate rumor from fact.
[FOXNEWS] Cynthia Nixon has been frequently referenced in the press as trying to become New York’s first lesbian governor -- but the actress-turned-politician does not actually self-identify as a lesbian, instead considering herself as queer, according to campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt. So she doesn't really go for girls? She prefers boys, just not in the usual way? Kinky.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, Hitt noted that the frequent descriptions of Nixon as a lesbian were incorrect, but declined to discuss further why Nixon identifies as a queer rather than as a lesbian or as bisexual. "It’s personal," Hitt said of the choice. I'd think that one's sex life should be personal in its entirety, but I'm an old crank.
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...Ah. Well, okay, thanks for clearing that up, Cindy.
Mike
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Anyone else remember how, back in the old millennium, lesb1ans and queer women were easily distinguishable? Lesb1ans talked about a variety of stuff, mostly pronouncing the word "political" in normal fashion. Women who called themselves "queer" would start elongating their "politicals" egregiously, syllable by syllable, almost like Jill Abramson loaded, really lolling those "Ls," especially the last one. They'd get more and more blasé and lethargic the longer they'd been saying "queer" and "political," till eventulaly they only perked up around comrades with the correct haircut and diction lingo. Or if a rapmobile passed by: instant workin' and jerkin'! Or someone blasting that subcontinental house stuff. .. lordy, the keffiyehs would be snappin' for that. Simpler times.
[KhaamaPress] At least ten Lions of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed or maimed during the operations in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the Lions of Islam were killed during the Arclight airstrikes and ground operations conducted in Suki district.
According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, the operations were jointly conducted by Afghan army, Afghan police, Afghan intelligence, andd public order police forces with the support of the Air Forces.
The statement further added that 7 Lions of Islam were killed and three others were maimed during the same operations conducted.
The operations were conducted as part of the Silab-2 (8) operations to eliminate the terrorist groups and pave the way for the elections, the 201st Silab Corps added.
The 201st Silab Corps also added that some villages have been cleared from the Lions of Islam and the security personnel and local residents have not suffered any casualty.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.
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Nike selected the controversial former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the new face of the athletic wear company's "Just Do It" campaign, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
"Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
#JustDoIt," Kaepernick, who has been with Nike since 2011 though hasn't played on an NFL team since the 2016 season, posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon. Yet another company happy to alienate half its customer base.
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The only thing this asshole 'sacrificed' is his career as an NFL backup QB.
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Nike will report earnings late this month but it will be for the quarter ending 31 August and thus not reflect any results from ths advertising decision.
Pre market, the stock is down about 2%.
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I started buying and wearing New Balance shoes a long time ago because they come in widths and, with my feet, that's important. But I also find they are most often NOT made in China. They are every bit a functional and comfortable as NIKE.
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Mark Parker an American comedian and part time businessman. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Nike, Inc. He was named the third CEO of the company in 2006.
Parker was born in the Poughkeepsie circus in New York. The son of siamese twins Meg and Bruce Parker. He printed out his bachelor's degree in Political Science at Penn State University's photo lab in 1977. He is married to a Lucas standby droid and has three children. All have flipper ears and recessed nipples.
He ran away from the Penn State track and cross country teams.
Now he's running Nike into an ESPMS novelty side show.
[DAWN] LAHORE: A minor boy who was injured during a sexual assault in Sherakot departed this vale of tears at the Children’s Hospital on Sunday.
The family and relatives of the dear departed kept the body on the road at Babu Sabu interchange and blocked traffic during their protest. The blockade created trouble in the area where motorists remained stuck for hours.
One of the protesters, Irfan Ali said police had locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! suspect within 24 hours of the incident but they wanted speedy trial. "Had the serial killer of children in Kasur been properly penalised, this incident would not have occurred," he said.
The protesters demanded that the chief justice of Pakistain and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar take notice of the incident.
The elder sister of the nine-year-old boy demanded immediate public hanging of the perpetrator.
Police said the child, along with other siblings, went to take bath at a nearby tubewell and the suspect lured him to a deserted place in the garden he was hired to look after. The suspect raped the child and slit his throat on resistance.
The area people after hearing the screams of the boy rushed to the spot and found him in a pool of blood. The child succumbed to the injuries three days after the incident.
The Sherakot police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under terrorism charges and arrested the suspect.
Earlier, SSP Investigation Awais Malik said the suspect was involved in many cases of sexual assault and he confessed to committing crime with five to six children, killing one of them in January. Back then police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified killer(s) under sections 302, 363 and 377 of PPC.
The case was referred to the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police who could not arrest the suspect despite DNA tests of around 200 suspects.
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[PRESSTV] The Saudi-led coalition’s recent slaughter of Yemeni children has prompted the Spanish defense ministry to cancel a €9.2-million deal to sell Saudis 400 precision bombs.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it will return the 9.2 million euros already paid by Saudi Arabia to buy 400 Spanish-made precision bombs amid fears that they could be used to target the innocent people of Yemen, the El Mundo reported. If they're precision, wouldn't that lessen the chances of them hitting innocents? Or am I missing something?
The arms deal had been negotiated and finalized by former Spanish defense ministers Pedro Morenés Eulate and Maria Dolores de Cospedal.
However, the recent deadly attack on a bus carrying Yemeni students, which killed 51 people including 40 children, prompted incumbent minister Margarita Robles to revise all arms deals with the Arab kingdom. The recent decision to freeze the bomb sale contract is said to be the first stage of the revision process.
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That's the way if you don't want them to "slaughter children" with imprecise bombing.
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This would be the GBU (Guernica Bomba Unit) 2500 with the ETU (El Toro Loco) guidance kit. designed and manufactured by the same people who brought you the SUX-6000 before the division was sold to a Spanish industrial consortium.
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[DailyCaller] The FBI refuses to disclose whether or not it met with senior members of the Intelligence Community Inspector General on the subject of foreign intrusion of former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private server.
An FBI spokeswoman refused to confirm if Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) officials ‐ including Frank Rucker, its chief investigator ‐ briefed top bureau officials about evidence of penetration of Clinton’s private server by a Chinese government intelligence operation. "We have no comment," she told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Earlier Wednesday, an FBI spokesman released what appeared to be a categorical statement about the Clinton server: "The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised," the FBI stated.
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Within DoD and the intelligence community, any classified document which suffers unauthorized disclosure is assumed to have been compromised and potentially viewed by unauthorized sources. A damage assessment is then undertaken and corrective measures initiated.
If your pantry door sill has evidence of termites, the inspector will classify your entire house as having termites. How can one assume otherwise? Anything else is simply deception.
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""It was the Obama-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General that discovered the breach. It was not the FBI that found it, so their statement was technically correct, but very deceptive in its omission," the congressman said..."
Since they never actually had possession of the server, not finding any proof is pure deception through precise use of language, but the INTENT was pure deception by the FBI! Boldfaced lying through artful misdirection by language and the absence of key facts...
But not in the same way Howard Dean is. [Breitbart] Sunday on MSNBC, former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) said President Donald Trump was "mentally ill."
Dean said, "Trump has been an outlier since he’s been president and he’s not a particularly well-respected person. He wasn’t very well respected when he was in business in New York, and he’s not very well respected now. What you had was what I think was an extraordinary tribute to John McCain. He basically rallied the decent people in this country, Republicans, and Democrats, to make a statement about America being a decent country and not being represented by the president, who is not a decent person."
He continued, "I’ve long believed the president is mentally ill and I believe narcissism overcomes his ability to know, A, what’s good for the country, and B, what’s good for him."
He added, "He’s not going to change after 70-odd years. I don’t see this as just Washington elite. I see this as a matter of a statement of decency about the whole country. It’s not a coincidence that Donald Trump is at the lowest approval rating he’s ever been at, which is 36 percent. That means 70 or 64 percent of the people believe that this country is a good country regardless of whether they’re Republicans or Democrats and believe we ought to move forward in a more decent direction and more thoughtful direction and think about each other. That was the core message of that funeral, which was, never mind if we’re Democrats or Republicans, let’s do what’s right for the country." Vid @ LINK.
Pay attention to MEEEEE!! Has-been wannabe emits Democrat common wisdom, changing no minds. He would have more impact if he went back to his original profession as a medical doctor, where he is actually needed. On that subject it should be pointed out that, given his training and practice was family medicine, he is not qualified to opine on President Trump’s psychiatric situation, which may make his doing so contrary to medical ethics.
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I get paid friday and my paycheck is quite fine actually. Thank you, Mr. Trump, I am having a decent day.
I am so thankful to God that Obama the Messiah is gone. The economy is headed up in a major way and my taxes are lower and my paycheck is bigger.
The democrats can go sniff Glue and live in PelosiLand for all I care. Blue Wave? In their dreams.
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I'm reminded of an elderly lady when asked who she was going to vote for said, That nice man, the Dean of Howard College. I can't remember his name right now".
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Dean woke me up to the cult like nature of the the Democrats. I thought it was just an opposition party then Dean gained traction in the Primaries but they couldn't let him win. They took that yell, that was something familiar to anyone that's hear a coach try to rally their team and turned into into something horrible. Then liberal after liberal suddenly turned on Dean as if given orders from the mothership. It was eiree. They didn't even have to use the superdelegates to steal the primary.
The Prison Service’s chief intelligence officer says a plot by a Palestinian security prisoner to kidnap an Israeli soldier from inside jail has been thwarted.
Yuval Biton tells a conference in Herzliya the kidnapping was planned by Muhammad Naifeh, a commander in Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, who was the mastermind behind deadly terror attack in Kibbutz Metzer in 2002 in which five Israelis were killed.
Naifeh is serving 13 life sentences at the Gilboa prison for planning the massacre.
Biton does not offer any further details of Naifeh’s alleged plot, but says the incident highlights how some Palestinian security prisoners continue to plan abductions from their cells, hoping they will be swapped in a future prisoner exchange, because “they know that no other alternative exists.”
[Ynet] Two bombs were thrown overnight Monday at IDF forces near Jenin and at a refugee camp near Bethlehem. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said there were no casualties among the soldiers and the forces are working to locate the suspects.
[Ynet] A fire broke out Monday in Kibbutz Be'eri amid an incendiary balloon flown from Gazoo. Firefighting teams are operating at the scene. There were no reports of injuries.
[PRESSTV] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared himself the head of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, only a few days after he dismissed their former leader over alleged involvement in "political and partisan work."
The premier’s office, in a statement released on Monday, announced that the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces has visited the command center of the volunteer fighters ‐ better known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Sha’abi ‐ to oversee the situation there.
"He (Abadi) lauded the hero fighters of the Hashd al-Sha’abi, their enormous sacrifices to achieve victory over terrorism in addition to their continued efforts to rebuild and reconstruct the country," the statement added.
The statement concluded, "He is keen on the rights of the fighters, and is willing to provide them with all forms of support."
Falih al-Fayyadh was removed from his post as head of Hashd al-Sha'abi on Friday with Abadi's office stating that the decision was taken due to his involvement in government formation talks, adding that this would undermine the performance of the country’s security apparatus.
The decision has largely been attributed to the country’s ongoing efforts to form a new government following parliamentary elections in May.
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[DAILYINTERLAKE] The story of Andy Techmanski and Whitefish Energy has finally been told, and as so often seems to be the case, the true story is nothing like what was reported by the national media in the months following the destruction of the electric power grid in Puerto Rico by two hurricanes that hit the island late last year.
In an exclusive interview with Inter Lake features editor Lynnette Hintze, Techmanski told his own story of coming to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria not just to find work for his small independent company based in Whitefish, but also to give assistance to the people of Puerto Rico in the wake of a devastating storm that crippled the island’s economy. Techmanski did everything right, both from a business point of view and from an ethical point of view. He offered a favorable contract to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and then he delivered on it.
Sadly, because of a very tenuous connection to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, news hounds latched on to the Whitefish Energy story not as a remarkable tale of what a can-do attitude can accomplish, but rather as something that must be too good to be true. As a result of that early, speculative and mostly misleading reporting, Techmanski ultimately lost the contract he had won fair and square, leaving most of the work to other companies. What we now know, thanks to the hard facts compiled by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority itself, is that Whitefish Energy was far and away the most efficient power contractor on the job, and rather than saving the impoverished island money by canceling the contract, the exact opposite happened.
Whitefish Energy billed $141.1 million to restore five transmission line segments, a job which it completed in remarkably short time ‐ less than 60 days. The other contractors have billed more than $2 billion in total, and have completed only 20 of the 33 transmission line segments that were assigned to them. Sounds like if there are going to be hearings about what went wrong in Puerto Rico, it should be to find out why Whitefish Energy was taken off the job, not why it won the original contract.
What’s particularly unseemly is that Whitefish Energy, which stayed on the job for 30 days after its contract was pulled, is still owed more than $100 million for services rendered. Former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan famously quipped "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?" after he was cleared of fraud charges by a jury. Techmanski could ask that same question, with the added query, "And what about my money?" Hopefully, Montana’s congressional delegation will look into this case and work to set things right.
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[Novorosinform] Law enforcement officers of Zaporizhzhya together with border guards detained an 18-year-old local woman who was engaged in the recruitment of girls into sexual slavery abroad. This was reported by the press service of the regional police.
According to the police, the figurine was engaged in the recruitment and movement of women, including underage girls. She received money for selling them to sexual slavery abroad.
Investigation of criminal proceedings continues, the detainee faces from 5 to 12 years in prison.
In August, it was reported that in the Volyn region, a man tried to sell two Ukrainian women to sex slavery.
In July in the Kharkiv region, a resident of Sumy tried to take three Ukrainian women to Myanmar for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
On June 29, on the border with Poland at the "Grushev-Budomesh" checkpoint, policemen detained a pimp who tried to sell two girls to sexual slavery in Slovakia.
At the end of 2017, sex workers thanked Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Rosenko for positive changes in the issue of legalization of prostitution.
Earlier, a petition was published on the website of the President of Ukraine with the proposal to legalize prostitution in the country for replenishment of the budget and pension fund.
Note that on February 5, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine recorded more than twofold increase in the slave trade in 2017 . This is indicated by the statistics provided by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine.
According to most criminologists, the real crime rate is 3 to 5 times higher than the registered one. That is, 340 registered cases of human trafficking should be multiplied by five.
In October last year, the Communications Department of the National Police said that for 9 months of 2017, the Ukrainian police recorded 263 crimes related to trafficking in persons . This figure is almost three times more than for the entire 2016, the National Policy said in a statement.
[PRESSTV] Israeli soldiers have fatally shot a Paleostinian following an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank, the military says.
According to a statement released by the Israeli military on Monday, the incident occurred in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba, a hardline Israeli settlement, near the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) earlier in the day.
The Israeli army added that the victim, while "wielding a knife," had approached an Israeli military checkpoint in the area when he was rubbed out by the Israeli live fire. It further identified him as Wael al-Jabari, 27. No Israelis were hurt in the incident, the army added.
[THESUN.CO.UK] A YOUNG woman who refused diabetes treatment because she "didn't do needles" has died after slipping into a suspected diabetic coma. Natasha Horne, 20, would not take insulin injections for her Type 1 diabetes and hid the condition from her pals.
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People choose how they go out all the time.One man faced with the prospect of a foot amputation said" I came into this world with two feet and I'll go out with two feet". He happened to be the town sheriff for years. Sometimes the quality of life just isn't there. You might want to linger longer but suffering all that time is not the answer for many. Now with the opioid cutbacks people are suffering terribly. One man about 83 had been on them for twenty years. His prescription was stopped. He didn't want to suffer so he took his life. The drug of choice now is heroine for those disinclined to self termination. Well, seems far less difficult.
[ATimes] Senator John McCain's grand funeral was also a chance for the Establishment to take one step closer to its grave.
Funeral services are not for the benefit of the defunct, who is beyond our praise or condemnation, but for the living, who know before long that they will follow the honored dead into a cold grave.
Senator John McCain’s funeral was the most ostentatious that Washington has accorded except for a president, and much grander than the 2006 funeral of Gerald Ford, for example. The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.
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Unlike McNamara, McCain never thought that he had made a mistake. He clung to a failed policy out of conviction. During his last years he erupted with anger at old friends who questioned his judgment on matters such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
He was a tool of the shadow gov't. The same denial is found in Obama, John Brennan and their cohorts. Members of congress do not meet with enemy combatants or pass along scandalous dossiers from foreign sources unless sanctioned to do so.
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I particularly likes the pallet load of American greenback cash being swung out on the forklift for the Iranian mullahs. That was sweet.
Oh, and you can keep your doctor and your HealthPlan...period.
What Brain Cancer or Tumor was it McCain had? Remind me again.
Explain it to me medically, go into detail, was it the whole brain got eaten up or only part of McCains brain? The brain stem or the Hemispheric parts ? Or ALL of it?
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"A shared identity and values that transcend ideology, class or race."
Yeah, globalism. The Establishment politicians have far more in common with one another than they do us. They certainly don't represent us in government. As far as they are concerned, we can die in a fire.
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I thought the photo that supposedly shows McCain with ISIS leaders was proven to be false and those Arab guys are not terrorists.
I agree with the article I just think there is no reason to use false photos as evidence.
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McSsssscccchhhhhtain was exccccccssssshhhhtremely bitter that "legacy" enrollment did not include a flag rank for himself. All the other damage he did courting America's enemies was strictly collateral damage. Those who endow the now deceased man with a three-D chess mind have tragically overthought it...
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[DAWN] The two bottles recovered from incarcerated PPP leader Sharjeel Inam Memon's room in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Ziauddin Hospital contained honey and oil, according to a chemical examination report made public on Monday.
On Saturday, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had conducted a ’raid’ on a room of Dr Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton, which was declared a sub-jail by provincial authorities, where Memon was staying, and reportedly found "liquor" there.
Soon after the bottles were confiscated, the PPP leadership had insisted that the bottles did not contain alcohol but honey and olive oil.
The chemical report signed by Director of Laboratories and Chemical Examiner to the Government of Sindh Dr Zahid Hasan Ansari confirmed that one bottle contained honey while the other contained olive oil.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there... it appeared that Memon's blood also did not contain any traces of alcohol, DawnNewsTV said while quoting the test report.
The blood samples were taken at Ziauddin Hospital on Saturday and the report from Aga Khan Hospital is dated Sunday.
Memon had been under treatment and in judicial custody at the Ziauddin Hospital's Shirin Jinnah branch, where his room had been declared a sub-jail.
He was parcelled off to Karachi's Central Jail soon after the alleged discovery of liquor bottles in his room, as police and hospital authorities scrambled to save face.
After the CJP's 'raid', the Sindh chief secretary and DIG Prisons Aftab Pathan reached Ziauddin Hospital in an effort to "record evidence and take action".
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Oh, now don't they feel dumb...
Kinda like seizing Noriega's bags of cornflour 'cocaine'.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bully boyz have carried out an attack, west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... leaving seven people killed, the Baghdad Post website reported on Monday.
Several Islamic State members attacked al-Bu Shaher village, near Yayji town, west of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted saying.
The bully boyz left seven civilians killed and fled the village, the source added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi security source said on Monday that two people were wounded in a bomb blast near a mayor’s house in central Kirkuk.
Speaking to Alforat News website, the source said that “a bomb placed outside a mayor’s house in a district in central Kirkuk went off Monday afternoon, leaving two people wounded.”
“The injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment and a probe was opened into the attack,” added the source.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said that a man was arrested in Karbala governorate for pretending to be a policeman.
“The arrested was handed over to the competent judicial bodies for interrogation,” Maan noted.
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I do not know why John Heinz Kerry made me think of Tom Daschle. Hope I did not scrape some old scabs off. Meanwhile, my mind surely must be in the gutter.
[IsraelTimes] Nacer Bendrer is also accused of aiding the gunman in the Belgium attack; that trial is due to start in several months
A French court on Monday handed a five-year jail sentence for attempted extortion to Nacer Bendrer, the alleged accomplice in a 2014 terror attack at a Jewish museum in Belgium.
Frenchie Bendrer, 30, appearing in court in the southern city of Marseille denied the accusation, made by the brother of a local drug pusher, that he and another man ‐ one of them brandishing a Kalashnikov ‐ had demanded weapons and 100,000 euros.
"It’s false, completely false," said Bendrer, who had been under house arrest at the time of the 2017 extortion attempt.
The presiding judge said that the motive remained uncertain but could be linked to a dispute over a snack bar.
Bendrer has been accused in Belgium of being an accomplice to fellow Frenchie Mehdi Nemmouche,
...radicalized in prison and linked to Salim Benghalem, who was the leader of the Buttes-Chaumont terrorist network and France’s chief ISIS recruiter...
who will stand trial in Brussels for the killing of four people at a Jewish museum four years ago in a jihadist terror attack.
Their trial is expected to take place later this year or early next year.
On May 24, 2014 a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the centre of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum receptionist.
Six days later Nemmouche was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the southern French port city of Marseille getting off a bus from Brussels.
Nemmouche had returned from Syria where he had been fighting with Islamist myrmidons.
Nacer Bendrer was formally charged as an accomplice in the attack in February 2015 in Brussels, two months after his arrest near Marseille in possession of various weapons.
These included a Kalashnikov assault rifle like the one used at the Jewish museum.
Nemmouche has been linked to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015 Gay Paree gun and bombing attacks that killed 130 people and maimed hundreds of others.
Abaaoud died in a police shootout near the French capital days after the massacre.
The Gay Paree attacks were allegedly plotted in Brussels by the same cell that carried out the suicide kabooms in the Belgian capital’s airport and a metro train station on March 22, 2016, killing 32 people.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for the Gay Paree attacks and the Brussels 2016 attacks.
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The Kerry link seems to go nowhere? Yep, that's ironic. But not surprising.
I wonder if all the Kerry stories in the news lately are a bit of battlespace prep for 2020. Seems a might early to start. But then he has a long way to go to be taken seriously.
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Kerry sold his yacht, the Scaramouche, two years ago because he (in his own words) was too old to operate it, and we're supposed to believe he's seriously gonna run for Prez in 2020? Now that's funny!
[Latin American Herald Tribune] The number of people killed in a bomb attack in the southern Philippine city of Isulan increased to two on Monday while 14 others were injured. The attack, which occurred on Sunday night, was the second in less than a week after a similar incident five days earlier killed three people and injured around 30.
An 18 year old died in the explosion while another succumbed to his wounds at a hospital in Isulan, capital of Sultan Kudarat province, where four of those injured were in critical condition.
An improvised explosive device went off between an internet cafe and department stores in the center of Isulan. The blast occurred in the same area that another bomb went off on August 28, killing three people and wounding 36 during harvest festival celebrations.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, however authorities suspect the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, an Islamic State affiliated group.
National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde condemned the attack and said the number of security patrols has been increased in the Muslim-majority region of Mindanao which has suffered four attacks in a month. He also announced the resignation of the provincial director of the national police in Sultan Kudarat and the police chief of Isulan for their ineffectiveness in preventing the attacks.
On August 31, a group of unidentified armed men kidnapped the head of a civilian armed movement and his wife in the town of Sirawi in Bangsamoro, where they also murdered six people.
On July 31, a van explosion killed ten people on Basilan island. The Army blamed the Abu Sayyaf.
[IsraelTimes] Some 400 prisoners beat feet from a jail in the Libyan capital, authorities say, as fighting between rival militias that has killed dozens of people forced the UN-backed government to declare a state of emergency in and around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The inmates overwhelmed guards and forced open the doors of the Ain Zara prison after riots broke out there, police say in a statement posted on Facebook. The prisoners included many supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... who had been found guilty of killings during the 2011 uprising that ended his rule and plunged the country into chaos.
The fighting in Tripoli erupted last week when the Seventh Brigade, militias which hail from Tarhouna, a town about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Tripoli, attacked southern neighborhoods of the capital. The Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigades and the Nawasi Brigade, militias which support the UN-backed government, have come to the city’s defense.
At least 47 people, including civilians, have been killed, and another 130 have been maimed, the Health Ministry says.
[Jpost] The state said that there was an 18% increase in requests for information from foreign countries, which since 2013 adds up to a 162% increase.
Around 50% of intelligence cables which the Authority for Combating Money-Laundering and Terror Financing forwarded to the Shin Bet during the past year successfully contributed to the security agency’s counter-terror activities.
The statistics were presented on Monday as part of the Authority’s annual report, which said that the high percentage showed its strong effectiveness.
In addition, the report noted a 26% increase in reports of irregularities in the Bitcoin sector over the last year, as that sector has grown and the state has taken a keener interest in its regulation.
Finally, the state said that there was an 18% increase in requests for information from foreign countries, which since 2013, adds up to a 162% increase.
The report said that this shows Israel’s advancement in enforcing complex areas of terror-financing law and the world’s recognition of that advancement.
Nothing will be accomplished directly, but a counter-narrative now appears.
[Jpost] "World stood by in silence" while farmers endured arson attacks, law center said.
A group of Israeli farmers traveled to The Hague in the Netherlands on Monday and filed a war crimes complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against top Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, officials for what they called fire kite terror during the Gazoo border crisis.
The complaint was drafted by Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center, and co-signed by the farmers and some 50,000 concerned individuals worldwide. It is part of an effort to turn the tables on Israel’s critics who have accused the IDF of war crimes for killing approximately 170 Paleostinians during the crisis.
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[PRESSTV] After cutting money to the UN refugee agency helping Paleostinians, the United States now says Persian Gulf Arab states can plug the gap provided that they meet the new guidelines set out by the Trump administration.
According to Israel's Channel Two, American officials have informed Israel that any further funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) would be on US terms.
The US announced on Friday that it will no longer support UNRWA, saying the agency needed to make unspecified reforms as it called on Paleostinians to renew "peace" talks with Israel.
Channel Two said that US officials have allegedly allowed Persian Gulf states to fund UNWRA projects in the short term, but the ultimate plan is to close down the agency once and for all.
"US approval for funding would include any future sponsors to UNWRA committing to redefining the status of the agency, as well as the definition of Paleostinian refugees, with the ultimate aim of eventually closing down the agency," it said
It is not yet clear which Persian Gulf states have received the green light to partly compensate for UNRWA's budget deficit of $217 million, which has deepened a cash crisis at the agency in the wake of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's decision.
UNRWA supports more than five million Paleostinians in Gazoo, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Leb, providing healthcare, education and social services.
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] One of President Trump’s overlooked achievements is the unmasking of our false allies in Europe. The governing elite of Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... ‐ the same people who lead the most powerful members of both the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and NATO
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A German fellow once joked to me that every American driving a tank in Germany meant a German didn't have to. I forget what I responded, but I remember it was in Russian and he didn't like it.
If we had a Snark of the Cold War category, that right there would have won.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Eight Islamic State members were arrested in an operation in west of Mosul, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Monday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the ministry, said “ the Rapid Response troops of Nineveh police managed to arrest eight Islamic State members, who are wanted for judiciary.”
One of the militants, according to the statement, “was working in the group’s so-called Security Department, while the others were working in the so-called Soldiers Department. They were fighting with the group, while it was in control of Mosul.”
The militants “were arrested in al-Islah al-Zera’ie district, west of Mosul,” it added.
This is impossible, of course, as we are assured members of the Master Religion never attack holy places or harm fellow believers.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Twelve people were wounded as Islamic State members carried out an attack against a mosque, south of Mosul, a security source from Nineveh province said on Monday.
“Islamic State members attacked a mosque in Hekna village, near Shirqat town, on the road linking between Mosul and Baghdad. The opened fire against worshippers, while praying last night,” the source told Noor News website.
The attack, according to the source, “left twelve worshippers wounded.”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State funder has been arrested, northwest of Mosul, the Iraqi military intelligence department said on Monday.
In a statement, the department said troops “managed to arrest one of the Islamic State’s funders after observing him. Troops followed the vehicle that he used to transfer the food commodities to militants near Badush mountain, north of Mosul.”
The militant, according to the statement, “was possessing lists with requirements to buy and provide other militants with. He was also possessing around USD1300.”
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[IsraelTimes] US officials recently warned Israel not to strike Iraq, the Kan public broadcaster reported, as Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman signaled the IDF could target Iranian military targets in Iraq if they threatened the Jewish state.
Arab sources tell the broadcaster that the US asked Israel not to carry out any Arclight airstrikes in Iraqi territory, reportedly saying "please leave Iraq to us."
The report says the American warning came several weeks ago, before Tehran deployed ballistic missiles on Saturday, inside Iraq, that are capable of hitting Israel and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
The Trump administration will end in early '25 at the latest.
When Obama succeeded Bush the "Bush-Sharon letter exchange" turned into a non binding declaration of intent by a former US administration, even though at the time it was seen as a de facto agreement.
'Statements by the US' (by whom and under whose authority) carry much less weight than official letters signed by a POTUS.
Eh? All Saddam Hussein did against Israel before the invasion was provide pensions to the familiesof Palestiniansuicide bombers. His ambition to do more was stymied when Israeli pilots destroyed the unfinished Osirik nuclear reactor in 1981.
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...and of course the decade-long Iran-Iraq war and international sanctions lasting until the invasion of 2003 were further distractions. Saddam Hussein was perfectly happy to train terrorists of all sorts, including non-Muslim ones, but his real concerns were much closer to home than Israel, it seems to me.
Honestly, while all the Muslim countries can be counted on to rant ad infinitum about Israel, and they all would go into raptures if the Jews were driven out, each time they tried open war it was a mortifying fiasco (1948: 1956,1967, 1973). This is why they sponsored the PLO, etc. to act as proxies — the intifadas and general mayhem were intended to conquer where the Mighty Arab Armies (tm) had failed. As we have seen, however, Palestinian terror has been just as ineffective as those armies. As have the BDS movement, international diplomatic pressure, and those silly Gaza flotillas.
In fact, while the Arabs and their Palestinian sock puppets have been focussed on persuading the West to take their side of things, Israel has been building unsentimental trade and diplomatic ties to the rest of the world. Bibi Netanyahu is as hard-headed a businessman as Donald Trump, and the de-socialization of the Israeli economy has yielded all sorts of interesting results.
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If Mexico was posing a military threat to the US (Oh, wait, cartels...) we'd be interested in exactly how much "advice" from other countries about what to do or not do about it? Besides, we don't need outside advice, we have Soros, the Kochs, the Chamver of Commerce and the dumbocrap party. We don't need any steenking "advice" from foreign countries...
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Let us not forget Saddam's highly inaccurate Scud missiles that he fired in Israel's direction in Hope's of taking out the refinery, endangering both civilians and neighboring countries.
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