[PJMedia] National Security Advisor John Bolton threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court, which Bolton opposed long before joining the Trump administration, and hailed the State Department announcement that the D.C. office of the Palestine Liberation Organization would be shut down.
Speaking at a Federalist Society event at the Mayflower Hotel this morning, Bolton slammed the Hague-based ICC as an effort by "self-styled 'global governance' advocates" to override national sovereignty through its investigations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Those indicted by the ICC, which was formed in 2002 by the Rome Statute, have included Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his son Saif Al-Islam for crimes against humanity, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, and Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony for crimes against humanity and war crimes. The African Union has urged a mass withdrawal from the ICC over the court's focus on the continent.
"In theory, the ICC holds perpetrators of the most egregious atrocities accountable for their crimes, provides justice to the victims, and deters future abuses. In practice, however, the court has been ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed, outright dangerous," Bolton said. "Moreover, the largely unspoken, but always central, aim of its most vigorous supporters was to constrain the United States. The objective was not limited to targeting individual U.S. servicemembers, but rather America's senior political leadership, and its relentless determination to keep our country secure."
Bolton said the ICC "was created as a free-wheeling global organization claiming jurisdiction over individuals without their consent" and stressed longstanding concerns that American servicemembers could be indicted by the court.
Last November, the ICC prosecutor requested authorization to investigate war crimes and detainee abuse allegations against U.S. servicemembers and intelligence professionals in Afghanistan.
"Today, on the eve of Sept. 11, I want to deliver a clear and unambiguous message on behalf of the president of the United States. The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court," Bolton continued. "We will not cooperate with the ICC. We will provide no assistance to the ICC. We will not join the ICC. We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us."
Bolton also criticized "a suggestion that the ICC will investigate Israeli construction of housing projects on the West Bank."
"The United States will always stand with our friend and ally, Israel. And, today, reflecting congressional concerns with Palestinian attempts to prompt an ICC investigation of Israel, the State Department will announce the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office here in Washington, D.C. As President Reagan recognized in this context, the executive has 'the right to decide the kind of foreign relations, if any, the United States will maintain,' and the Trump administration will not keep the office open when the Palestinians refuse to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel," he said. "The United States supports a direct and robust peace process, and we will not allow the ICC, or any other organization, to constrain Israel's right to self-defense."
The State Department said it had allowed the PLO to continue D.C. operations since their waiver expired last November in hope of furthering a Mideast peace process.
"PLO leadership has condemned a U.S. peace plan they have not yet seen and refused to engage with the U.S. government with respect to peace efforts and otherwise," press secretary Heather Nauert said in a statement. "As such, and reflecting congressional concerns, the administration has decided that the PLO office in Washington will close at this point."
Palestinian outlets branded the move retribution for Palestinian attempts to push the ICC to open an investigation into Israel.
Husam Zomlot, head of the PLO delegation to the U.S., said in a statement that Trump was "blindly executing Israel's 'wish list'" and said the administration aims to "protect Israel from unlawful acts, and provide it with full immunity to kill the two state-solution."
Steering back to the ICC, Bolton wrapped up his address by vowing that "if the court comes after us, Israel or other U.S. allies, we will not sit quietly."
"We will negotiate even more binding, bilateral agreements to prohibit nations from surrendering U.S. persons to the ICC. And we will ensure that those we have already entered are honored by our counterpart governments," he said. "We will respond against the ICC and its personnel to the extent permitted by U.S. law. We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and, we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans."
"We will take note if any countries cooperate with ICC investigations of the United States and its allies, and we will remember that cooperation when setting U.S. foreign assistance, military assistance, and intelligence sharing levels," Bolton added. "We will consider taking steps in the UN Security Council to constrain the Court's sweeping powers, including ensuring that the ICC does not exercise jurisdiction over Americans and the nationals of our allies that have not ratified the Rome Statute."
[Commercial Appeal] Police are investigating after multiple people were shot Monday morning at a downtown nightclub.
Officers responded to a shooting call at Purple Haze located at South 2nd Street and Lt. George West Lee Avenue around 3:25 a.m., according to the Memphis Fire Department.
The Memphis Police Department tweeted that four people were shot and taken to a nearby hospital. One victim was in critical condition, and the other three were in non-critical condition.
No further information is available regarding suspects or how the incident occurred.
It isn't the first time the downtown venue has been in headlines. In April, a well-known peace activist died after being shot outside of the club. In Dec. 2017, a man was critically injured during an early morning shooting at Purple Haze on Christmas Day.
[BBC] Just over half a century ago, the world's best-loved steam engine was destined for scrap. That it was saved was down to the efforts of one man - a true British eccentric. But his love for the locomotive he called the "old girl" cost him his fortune - and nearly saw Flying Scotsman stranded in the United States.
Alan Pegler was four when he was taken by his parents to the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
As he walked through pavilions full of exhibits, one left the young boy dazzled: LNER 4472 Flying Scotsman.
"I was lifted into its cab," he said in an interview with the Railway Magazine.
"I remember being impressed at how clean it was, compared with the grimier engines we saw at home, and how marvellous its apple-green paint was.
"I was spellbound and couldn't stop thinking about it all the way home."
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired seven missiles in an attack on Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish dissidents that killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the elite military unit was reported as saying by Iranian news agencies on Sunday.
Iraqi Kurdish officials said Iran attacked the base of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding scores more.
"In a successful operation, the Guards’ aerospace unit, along with the army’s drone unit ... targeted a criminal group’s meeting and a terrorist training center with seven short-range surface-to-surface missiles," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official news agency Fars.
The statement said the attack was prompted by a decision of "group leaders to ignore serious warnings by officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government about Iran’s determination to dismantle their bases ... and the need for an end to terrorist and aggressive actions against Iran".
Armed Iranian Kurdish groups operate in remote and mountainous Iran-Iraq border regions. Despite sporadic clashes between Iranian forces and militants, there is little coordination between Iranian and Iraqi forces over security of an area that has also been used by Islamic State to enter Iran.
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, an armed opposition group fighting for greater autonomy for Iran’s Kurdish community, posted on Twitter pictures and video of explosions, as well as of the wounded, at its headquarters in Koya, in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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[BBC] An armed group has stormed the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya's capital, Tripoli.
Security forces clashed with the armed men at the landmark building in the centre of the city, and blasts and gunfire could be heard, witnesses say.
Last week, the UN announced a truce between warring militias had been agreed in the capital. A UN-backed government is nominally in power in Tripoli. However, militias occupy much of the rest of the country.
An NOC member of staff, who said he had jumped out of a window to flee, told Reuters news agency three or five gunmen were shooting inside the building and several people had been shot.
The NOC chairman, Mustafa Sanallah, has been safely evacuated, a witness quoted by Reuters added. Rescue services are at the scene to treat the wounded coming out of the building.
It is not yet clear who carried out the attack.
Libya's oil sector, which is central to the economy, has been repeatedly disrupted by violence since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in 2011.
Earlier this month, there were clashes between rival armed groups, and Tripoli has also seen occasional militant attacks. The recent violence has forced thousands of people to flee to nearby towns or seek shelter in other parts of the capital, while many more remain trapped inside their homes.
In May, the Islamic State group claimed a deadly attack on the national election commission offices in the capital.
[WSJ] Get on the bus or get left behind. Not playing around
The Trump administration is expected to announce Monday that it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, administration officials said Sunday night, widening a U.S. campaign of pressure amid stalled Middle East peace efforts.
"The United States will always stand with our friend and ally, Israel," national security adviser John "Darth" Bolton is planned to say in prepared remarks he is scheduled to deliver Monday, according a draft reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
"The Trump administration will not keep the office open when the Palestinians refuse to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel," he is planned to add.
Senior Palestinian officials strongly condemned the Trump administration decision and described it as a "reckless escalation."
Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian representative to Washington, said in an interview that the State Department informed the Palestine Liberation Organization of the U.S. decision to shutter its Washington office in a move that he said is part of the Trump administration's efforts to begin enacting its so-called "deal of the century."
"We don't think this is just about bullying...we believe this is about the implementing of Israel's grocery list, they are implementing it rather than pressuring us," Mr. Zomlot said in a interview on Monday, adding that relations between the Palestinians and Washington "are a historic low." Oh, they can go lower. Keep it up
He said the Trump administration's move to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in bilateral Define 'bilateral' for me. I just slipped in from an alternate universe. It means something different where I come from.
assistance to the Palestinians and to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency; its criticisms of the way Palestinian refugees are defined at the United Nations; the Jerusalem move and its policy on settlements are evidence that the Trump administration is pressing ahead with its yet-to-be-revealed peace plan.
"All of this is making sure the U.S. will never ever play the role of the peacemaker," Mr. Zomlot said. "peace" is not a goal of the Paleos
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But...but..but...where will Congress send the checks?
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All of this is making sure the U.S. will never ever play the role of the peacemaker
Israel is perfectly able to make peace with "Palestinians" on it's own. All is needed is to pull the teeth of Antisemites who masquerade as "defenders of Palestinian rights". And Trump is doing it for his MAGA reasons.
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^ This! He is following through as I had hoped.
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Next on the agenda is declaring CAIR a terrorist organization and declaring all members persona non grata in the US. If it takes revoking the citizenship of a few hundred Muslims, go for it. Anyone associated with the Muslim Brotherhood is guilty of terrorism, and CAIR is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Best of luck with #7. I seem to recall the Haqqani network not gaining official terrorist status by the U.S. until.... hmmmm, what was it, 2012 or so ?
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ‐ Taliban insurgents have launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north, killing at least 37, provincial officials said Monday.
Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the provincial council in Kunduz province, said that at least 13 security forces were killed in an attack on a checkpoint they were manning in Dashti Archi district, with another 15 security forces wounded there. The firefight began late Sunday and continued into Monday morning.
Meanwhile in Jawzjan province, Provincial Police Chief Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani said the Taliban attacked Khamyab district from different directions, forcing Afghan forces to withdraw from the district headquarters to avoid civilian causalities.
"There was intense fighting and we didn't want civilian houses destroyed, or any civilian casualties," said Jawzjani. He said that at least eight policemen were killed and three other police were wounded. Seven Taliban were killed and eight were wounded during the gun battle, he added.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the group for the attacks in Kunduz and Jawzjan provinces.
The Taliban also killed another 14 local Afghan policemen and pro-government militiamen in the Dara Suf district of Samangan province, provincial spokesman Sediq Azizi said, adding that six others were also wounded.
[St. Louis Post Dispatch] CHICAGO • Deadly blood infections persist in Illinois' understaffed nursing homes, according to a joint news investigation.
The Chicago Tribune and Kaiser Health News found that about 6,000 Illinois nursing home residents a year who were hospitalized had sepsis, a bloodstream infection that can quickly turn fatal if not if not cared for properly. About 1 in 5 didn't survive, according to an analysis conducted for KHN by Definitive Healthcare, a private health care data firm.
Sepsis is developed in bedridden patients with pneumonia, urinary tract infections and other conditions, including pressure sores. Sepsis can be prevented by turning immobile people every two hours and taking other precautions, patient advocates said.
But nursing homes around the country have failed to prevent bedsores and other infections that can lead to sepsis, and both advocates and regulators blame poor staffing levels.
Illinois nursing homes have among the lowest staffing levels for nurses and aides in the country. Staffing levels at about 78 percent of the facilities in the Chicago area fall below the national average, according to an analysis of government data.
Illinois nursing homes also fall below national norms for risks of pressure sores or failure to properly treat them. About 60 percent of Illinois nursing homes have been cited by inspectors for this deficiency, records show. Only three other states were cited more frequently.
The Times-Picayune - Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn has apparently issued a memorandum demanding that the city recreation department and any booster clubs operating at its facilities no longer purchase or accept delivery of Nike athletic products or any apparel that features the company's famous logo.
The Sept. 5 memo to Recreation Director Chad Pitfield, which is being circulated on social media, was not made public by City Hall. A spokesman for the city said Sunday (Sept. 9) that he had no comment. Zahn could not be reached.
Kenner booster club president Owen Rey told WWL the policy "shouldn't be that way."
"If we have something that we feel that we want that's going to benefit our kids," Rey said, "it shouldn't matter what logo, what brand -- as long as it helps the kids and what we're trying to accomplish at the park."
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Wonder if Owen Rey thinks its keen for foreign Nike sweat shop workers to make pennies an hour while their advertising front man makes millions. One can even smell the o'plantation from here.
h/t Instapundit
No one expected Naomi Osaka to win the US Open yesterday. Everyone favoured her opponent. The crowd was solidly with Serena Williams, as were the bookies. But the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who became the first player representing Japan to win a Grand Slam, prevailed against all the odds.
Victory, however, was bittersweet. The crowd booed her. The announcers were in shock. ’Perhaps it’s not the finish we were looking for today,’ said one prominent commentator, adding ’This mama is a role model and respected by all.’ Muted kudos at best for Naomi.
’It’s not fair,’ wailed Hillary Williams, after the umpire issued a warning when her coach was caught signalling her from the stand. Under questioning after the game, the coach admitted that he had done so but said the penalty was hypocritical: ’Everybody does it,’ he said.
After smashing her racket onto the court, another violation for which the umpire docked her a point, Serena Clinton accused the judges of stealing the match from her. ’Apologise,’ she screamed at the umpire. ’You are the liar. You owe me an apology.’ ’You will never, ever, ever be on another court of mine as long as you live.’
’Men have said much worse without penalty,’ said the establishment’s choice after the umpire docked her a game for the verbal abuse. ’They get away with it because they are men.’
Serena Williams' temper has also triggered embarrassing headlines and record-breaking fines. In November 2009, she was fined a then-unheard of $82,500 and risked being suspended from the U.S. Open after she went nuts on a lineswoman over a foot-fault call that led to match point for rival Kim Clijsters at the tournament.
"I swear to God, I'll f****** take this ball and shove it down your f****** throat," Williams allegedly yelled, according to the New York Daily News. Serena, who'd received a warning for racket abuse earlier in the match, received a point penalty for her outbust, thus ending the match altogether. The jaw-dropping encounter, which elicited boos from the crowd, should have been enough for Williams to learn her lesson, but at the same tournament two years later, she had a tense confrontation with a chair umpire that resulted in a $2,000 fine. "If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way because you're out of control," Williams reportedly yelled. "You're a hater and you're unattractive inside…"
At the Wimbledon tournament in 2016, she was fined $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct after smashing her racket and throwing her equipment following a dropped set in the second round. She wound up winning the match, but…yeah. Not cool.
She's probably correct but that doesn't make it right. Once upon a time tennis was as civilized as golf, then came Conners, Nastase & McEnroe. And now Williams claims women are and should be as uncivilized as the men.
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She should be banned from the US Open. Since this will not happen, all I can hope for is that she gets beaten by the younger, more decent players in all future major tournaments.
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And now Williams claims women are and should be as uncivilized as the men.
They already grunt like primates with every hit
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I heard that they made a new rule banning the grunt, I guess because it had become so obnoxious. The current players were grandfathered in.
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So frisky, if old, was the primate,
To Frisco he rolled... for the climate.
He wallowed (the waters!)
With all the see oughters,
And grunted like... bugger, can't rhyme it.
Sigh. Off I scampered -- to cheat, of course -- and back I slink. Had no idea of a place called Blorenge. Had in fact forgotten that The Auld Orange Rhyme was so notorious (sadly, I find a lot of old stuff novel lately). Never knew about the "Rhymes with Orange" comic. Pretty good, isn't she, for a commie?
If I'm ever going to get good at this limerick thing, looks like I'd better 1) cheat more, 2) start reading other people's stuff, 3) get competitive. And maybe retire in the meantime?
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Just the day before at the men's US Open semi final, Novak Djokovic (very much a man) was penalized for taking too long to set up his serves (which just this year started to be timed). His facial expression showed that he thought it was unfair but he took the penalty like a gentlemen and without a word. He was penalized again for the same thing in the final on Sunday. Again, a gentlemen.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shed approximately 1,200 jobs as roughly 1,600 employees departed and fewer than 400 new employees were hired during President Donald Trump’s first year and a half in office.
Departing employees included "at least 260 scientists, 185 ’environmental protection specialists’ and 106 engineers," according to the Washington Post.
The EPA’s workforce is now down 8 percent to a size it has not been since former president Ronald Reagan was in office, reported the WaPo.
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I'm willing to bet that at least half of The Departed went to state-equivalent EPA-type hackeramas, to get that sweet, sweet second pension. Probably not in Illinois, though.
New York, Spanish Harlem, I think. 1950's, maybe 1960's. The days before universal air conditioning anyway. I think it was originally in Life magazine. They'd send the kids out to the fire escape to sleep, where it was a little cooler.
It's September 10th. Sleep well tonight.
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One of the constant themes of the "Resistance" ‐ most recently restated in the New York Times’ anonymous op-ed Wednesday ‐ is that President Donald Trump is "amoral" because he is interested in cultivating good relations with dictators.
In the words of the anonymous op-ed author: "In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations."
Notably, this is the same line used by the Israeli left and by Israel’s many critics in the West against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy.
There are two aspects of this criticism that are worth pointing out.
First, the criticisms are utterly hypocritical.
The same "Resistance" howling about Trump’s desire to forge a détente with Russia based on a shared interest in fighting Islamic terrorists and preventing Iran from becoming the nuclear hegemon of the Middle East once bent over backwards to empower Iran. They gave the ayatollahs a clear path to a nuclear weapon, as well as $150 billion to finance their wars in Syria and Yemen, and their global terror attacks.
The same Never Trump Republicans attacking Trump for his efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula without war happily supported then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceas she cut a deal that only empowered Pyonyang.
The Obama administration alumni who now insist that Putin is America’s number-one enemy did everything they could to appease him ‐ in exchange for nothing ‐ for years.
As for Israel, the Israeli Left, and its American and European supporters, they have been attacking Netanyahu relentlessly for fostering close ties with the leaders of Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Rwanda, Kenya, and the Philippines. At the same time, they insist that Israel must cough up its capital city and its heartland to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and its terrorist regime.
Just last week, a delegation of leftist lawmakers and political activists made a pilgrimage to Ramallah, where they met with PLO chief and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. They cooed and purred about his great visionary leadership, and insisted forcefully that Israel and the Trump administration must recognize his greatness.
This would be the same Abbas who spends hundreds of millions of donor-transferred dollars every year to pay the salaries of terrorists. This is the same Abbas that continues to reject Israel’s right to exist, who wrote a dissertation arguing that the Holocaust is a Zionist fabrication; who has spent the past fifty years waging a political war to delegitimize Israel’s very existence.
Beyond the rank hypocrisy of these critics and their criticism, their "morality" card ignores the key fact that Trump’s policies, like Netanyahu’s policies, are succeeding in making the U.S. and Israel stronger, and making the world safer. In contrast, the "moral" policies of their opponents made the world more threatening and dangerous to the U.S. and to Israel.
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Trump's Policies seem to produce results an actually work, in the Real world.
Obama and the democrats ( who seem to benefit from Trump's removal...I mean..who are the"Resistance" actually working FOR?.)...had a policy for years of smooching butt in return for a big bag of nothing.
I'll Take Trump. And the Democrats can wear Lipstick.
Like many other world cities, Tel Aviv is notorious for the scarcity of its parking spots. You make a ten-minute drive in the city only to find there is no parking space in sight and end up searching for another 30 minutes at best, or parking at a long distance. Fed up with the experience, two Israeli entrepreneurs‐mechanical engineer Asaf Formoza and nanophysicist Udi Meridor‐founded City Transformer Ltd. in 2014.
Based in Kfar Netter, a village in central Israel, City Transformer develops an ultra-light electrical vehicle capable of folding its chassis at a push of a button, to a width of just 1 meter, similar to that of a large motorcycle. When folded, up to five City Transformer vehicles can fit into a single traditional parking space.
[IsraelTimes] 2,500 march in far-right demonstration Sunday after a local man dies after fight with two Afghans; doctors say death ’not directly’ related to brawl.
Around 2,500 people marched in a far-right demonstration in eastern Germany Sunday after a man died following a fight with two Afghans, as officials pleaded for calm to avoid the anti-foreigner unrest that has shaken Chemnitz.
Local police and prosecutors said the 22-year-old victim had suffered acute heart failure after coming to blows with the Afghan suspects during a dispute on a playground in the town of Koethen late Saturday.
The German man’s death was "not directly" linked to the injuries suffered in the brawl, they said in a statement, and media reports said he died in hospital and that he had a pre-existing heart condition.
Prosecutors said one of the Afghan suspects, aged 18, stands accused of causing grievous bodily harm. The other, aged 20, faces charges of causing bodily harm with fatal consequences.
The incident was expected to inflame anti-migrant tensions, coming just two weeks after the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old German man in the city of Chemnitz, allegedly by two asylum seekers.
"With emotions running high, we have to resist any attempt to turn Koethen into a second Chemnitz," the state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, told DPA news agency.
Chemnitz, also located in Germany’s former Communist east, has been rocked by a series of far-right demonstrations that saw participants assault foreign-looking people and shout anti-immigration slurs while some flashed the illegal Nazi salute.
Immediately after news of the latest incident broke, right-wing groups called on social media for a "mourning march" in Koethen from 7:00 pm.
Police estimated the turnout at some 2,500 people, and reported no major disturbances. Many of the demonstrators waved the German flag and shouted "Resistance! Resistance!"
A counter-demo by far-left protesters at Koethen’s rail station drew 200 people, according to police.
"KEEP CALM"
Mayor Bernd Hauschild, in a Facebook message, urged locals to shun the right-wing demo because he had "information that people prepared to use violence were planning to travel to Koethen in large numbers."
Bild newspaper said around 100 federal coppers had been sent to Koethen to help keep the peace, after police were criticised for underestimating the scale of the Chemnitz demostrations.
According to local media the latest incident started when three Afghan men were arguing with a pregnant woman over who was the father of her unborn child.
Two German men then approached the group and the row escalated into a brawl.
The third Afghan was not jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! as he was not believed to have been involved in the fighting.
Local residents and politicians on Sunday placed flowers and candles at the scene.
State interior minister Holger Stahlknecht said on Twitter that he deeply regretted "the tragic death" and understood citizens’ concerns.
But he urged residents to "keep calm" and let justice run its course.
It also emerged at the weekend that a Jewish restaurant was attacked on the sidelines of the Chemnitz protests on August 27.
The owner told AFP that around a dozen masked neo-Nazis shouted: "Jewish pig, get out of Germany!" and hurled rocks, bottles and a metal pipe at the Schalom restaurant.
The head of the New York-based World Jewish Congress slammed the "reprehensible" attack.
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"With emotions running high, we have to resist any attempt to turn Koethen into a second Chemnitz," the state premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, told DPA news agency.
It's like the policy makers want to make Nazis popular
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This article in German has some additional information:
The victim, Markus B wore a pacemaker and the article implies that he was mentally handicapped though this isn's stated explicitly.
On the evening of 9/8 Markus B. attended a courtyard party together with friend and siblings.
In the immediate neighborhood, on a playground there was a very loud verbal altercation involving a group of several Afghans and a pregnant German woman. The dispute concerned the unborn child's paternity.
Markus B. left the party. He intended to calm down the volatile situation but ended up in a physical fight with the Afghans. He was repeatedly kicked in the head. He was heard screaming "Stop, I can't breathe!"
When other guests of the courtyard party went to his aid the Afghans fled. Later, two Afghans were arrested.
Some of the other saluters might have been genuine neo Nazis, and some others might have been smarter agents provocateurs.
To keep this in perspective, thousands participated in demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. The police is investigating 10 Hitler salute incidents.
The above mentioned 'verbal altercation' had turned physical when the victim arrived at the scene.
One Afghan has repeatedly hit one woman in the face and was holding her by the collar when the victim pulled her free.
Three Afghans then attacked the victim, he was held by two while a third one punched him in the head three times.
When he was released he collapsed to the ground. The three Afghans then repeatedly kicked his head and torso "as if playing soccer."
When the victims friends arrived the Afghans fled and the witness checked on his vitals but found no pulse. She performed CPR until the police arrived.
I haven't found any MSM confirmation for this testimony. The witness' accent and vocabulary is that of a working class resident of the region.
The 2,500 demonstrators were about 2,000 citizens of Koethen, some members of the and about 400-500 members of the far-right scene.
One of the Afghans who is now under arrest should have been deported earlier this year but the prosecutor's office requested a stay because he was a suspect in a case of aggravated assault that was still under investigation.
[AlAhram] Clashes and air strikes have left 84 people dead around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks, hospital sources said Sunday.
The sources in Hodeida province, controlled by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels, said 11 soldiers and 73 gunnies had been killed since the talks were abandoned on Saturday.
Dozens of rebels and at least 17 soldiers had been injured.
[ARABNEWS] The discovery of four bodies dumped in a street in central Basra on Saturday morning sent shockwaves through the city.
The four men were identified as followers of Moqtada 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... , the powerful Iraqi holy man who has criminal masterminded an anti-Iranian coalition poised to take control of the country’s Parliament.
Two of the dead had participated in the protests that started as a new wave of demonstrations against woeful services and corruption in the province that provides most of Iraq’s oil.
But the demonstrations spiraled into a chaotic week of festivities that killed at least 15 people, left the Iranian consulate and other political buildings ablaze and Iraq facing its latest political and security crisis as the country struggles to regain its feet after the war with ISIS.
Security officials and prominent figures in Basra told Arab News that the protests have been hijacked to provide cover for political and armed conflict between the pro and anti-Iranian rivals competing to control the next administration.
Security sources also accused Iran of attempting to sow chaos, disrupt oil exports and pave the way for an administration in Baghdad that supports Tehran.
A second wave of US sanctions will come into effect in November targeting Iranian oil exports and dealing another blow to the country’s ailing economy.
Shiite leaders and security officials suggest Tehran is attempting to encourage fighting between factions to destabilize Basra because the province could be the source of crude that would make up the shortfall on global markets left when Iranian exports are disrupted.
The discovery of the four bodies was reminiscent of the violence that erupted in the country after the 2003 US invasion. Except this time the conflict lines are not Sunni and Shiite, but between the Shiite factions that divide along the lines of pro and anti-Iran. The pro-Iran groups were significantly bolstered during the ISIS occupation when thousands of fighters were mobilized to help the military halt the holy warriors’ advance.
Tehran poured in money and weapons, leaving the groups as some of the country’s strongest military and political forces. Now they have become a key tool in the battle between the US and Iran, which has played out in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
Those Iran-backed groups contested the parliamentary election in May as part of the al-Fattah alliance, which has been desperately trying to put together a coalition of MPs that would be able to form the next government.
But al-Sadr, who is backed by the US, has been in the stronger position after his Sairoon alliance won the most seats.
Both coalitions claimed they had formed the largest bloc last week and asked to be registered at the first session of the Parliament on Monday. The matter was sent to the supreme federal court to be settled.
In June, soon after the election, demonstrations started in Basra to protest against the lack of electricity and clean drinking water and a lack of jobs. They spread across southern Iraq and even reached Baghdad.
But they lost momentum and turned into small, scattered sit-ins. The situation suddenly erupted on Monday when hundreds of demonstrators, some using Molotov cocktails, tried to storm the local government building in Basra. Police responded with live bullets and tear gas, seriously injuring two. One of the injured died of his wounds hours later.
The next day, the situation became more serious when a demonstrator attacked a group of police with a grenade, killing one of the officers and injuring eight others. Other groups attacked troops stationed near the local government building and by the end of the day, nine demonstrators were rubbed out and scores maimed, including many members of the security forces. A number of governmental buildings were also set on fire.
On Thursday, troops deployed in Basra received orders not to clash with protesters as long as they remained away from oil facilities. This encouraged the demonstrators to attack and burn more than 20 buildings acting as headquarters to various political groups and their associated media stations.
The next day, the burning continued, and ended with the torching of the Iranian consulate building in south-eastern Basra.
The attack has been seen by many as anger finally boiling over at Iranian interference in their country.
Most of the heads of tribes, local activists and politicians called for people to withdraw from the demonstrations after they turned violent.
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[ABC] Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumor was too advanced, they said ‐ even though Goudge had a friend ready to donate, no matter those odds.
"I have a living donor ‐ I'm not taking away from anyone. I'm trying to save my own life," she pleaded. Finally, the Los Angeles woman found a hospital on the other side of the country that let the pair try.
People lucky enough to receive a kidney or part of a liver from a living donor not only cut years off their wait for a transplant, but those organs also tend to survive longer. Yet living donors make up a fraction of transplants, and their numbers have plateaued amid barriers that can block otherwise willing people from giving. Among them: varying hospital policies on who qualifies and the surprising financial costs that some donors bear.
[Townhall] We all remember it. That hot, glorious day in June 2015 when billionaire real estate developer and reality TV host Donald Trump grandly descended that Trump Tower escalator and announced the beginning of his history-making journey to the most powerful office in the world.
"I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively," Trump told the cheering crowd. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall."
Sure, maybe a few of us looked quizzically at our television screens and wondered how exactly a President Trump would make Mexico "pay for that wall," but that wasn’t the point. For the first time in a long time, a politician was speaking common sense to an issue that has long plagued our country by proposing a simple, cost-effective solution to the mostly uncontrolled wave of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders seemingly at will.
Could it be done? Of course! This is still America, the country that build the Empire State Building in a little more than a year. Would it be done? Or the real question - why hasn’t it been done yet? Reagan and Bush I didn’t have the vision or the foreknowledge about how big a problem it would become. Although George W. Bush had six years of a GOP Congress, he barely lifted a finger because "compassionate conservatism" always meant letting the Third World enter America en masse, not protecting the likes of Mollie Tibbetts. In 2016 we knew squishies like Jeb Bush and John Kasich weren’t about to do anything substantive to deal with the problem, so we elected Donald Trump.
And now, almost two years in, we still don’t have a wall - not because President Trump doesn’t want to do it, but rather because the will doesn’t exist in Congress.
[Federalist] Devin Nunes is precisely why we know anything about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee's dishonest and bizarre activities. No wonder he’s a huge Democrat target.
More than 200 miles south of Sacramento, the seat of California politics, lies the city of Tulare. Home to 60,000 Californians, it’s nestled in the San Joaquin Valley, a division of the Central Valley below the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
With its economy focused mostly on agriculture and dairy and its location smack between northern and southern California, Tulare prides itself on being the "core" of California’s agricultural industry.
Another aspect of Tulare lends it additional significance. It is the hometown to California Rep. Devin Nunes, the current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the author of the "Nunes memo," a four-page document released in February detailing alleged surveillance abuses committed by the U.S. government.
Before the release of the memo, Nunes had been vocal in his skepticism towards federal agencies and their handling of potential election interference during the 2016 election. His criticisms earned him a litany of nicknames from those opposed to his attacks on federal agencies, such as "Trump’s political stooge" who is simply "doing dirty work" to shield Trump, or simply a "presidential fig-leaf holder."
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One EXPECTS Democrats to behave like Democrats. They hate having someone shine a flashlight on them. It hurts their little eyes. And it makes them scurry about from the pain.
[Right Scoop] So the other day Obama was mocking people over the Benghazi attack, which he called a conspiracy theory.
That’s when one of the guys who WAS AT THE BENGHAZI ATTACK slapped him down for the audacity of his stupidity:
Benghazi is a conspiracy @BarackObama ?! How bout we do this,let’s put your cowardly ass on the top of a roof with 6 of your buddies&shoot rpg’s&Ak47’s at you while terrorists lob 81mm mortars killing 2 of your buddies all while waiting for US support that you never sent🖕🏼#scum
‐ Kris Paronto (@KrisParonto) September 7, 2018
[Daily Caller] Thousands of Afghan men rushed through the streets of Kabul on Sunday carrying knives and shooting small arms into the air, a demonstration that turned deadly when an unidentified suicide bomber drove a motorcycle into a crowd in the center of the city and detonated a bomb. The attack killed at least seven and left another 24 wounded, according to a report from Agence France Presse.
The violence marked the 17th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, a famous anti-Taliban military commander who was assassinated by al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan two days before the September 11 attacks in the U.S.
The indiscriminate gunfire also wounded more than a dozen residents of Kabul, according to an Afghan Public Health official speaking to the Washington Post.
In addition to the violence in Kabul, insurgents attacked Afghan government forces across the country throughout the weekend, leaving around 20 security force personnel dead and several more wounded. According to the Associated Press, the Taliban launched an attack against a district headquarters for Afghan security forces west of Kabul on Saturday. 10 of the security personnel at the base, including a high ranking chief, were killed.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Lofven says ’moral responsibility’ to combat anti-immigration party with neo-Nazi roots that won nearly 18% of the vote.
After a campaign dominated by debates over immigration, the center-left Social Democratic Party emerged with the greatest share of the vote ‐ 28.4 percent as the count neared completion ‐ yet looking at holding fewer parliament seats and having its mandate to govern questioned.
The potential for an immigration backlash to result in a big boost for the far-right Sweden Democrats inspired fear among many Swedes before the election. It received a little more than one in six votes, or 17.6 percent. Its showing was not as strong as the one-in-five polls had predicted, but good for a third-place finish that had the party’s leader telling supporters, "We won."
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who brought the Social Democrats to power in 2014, said he intended to remain in the job. The leader of the Moderates party that came in second, Ulf Kristersson, already had called on Lofven to resign and claimed the right to form Sweden’s next government.
Final election returns were expected later in the week. The preliminary results made it unlikely any party would secure a majority of 175 seats in the 349-seat Riksdag, Sweden’s parliament. It could take weeks or months of coalition talks before the next government is formed.
Both the left-leaning bloc led by the Social Democrats and the center-right bloc in which the Moderates is largest of four parties have said they would refuse to consider the Sweden Democrats as a coalition partner.
The area being discussed was occupied by Finnish soldiers during WWII.
Sandarmokh forest was considered a Memorial site for how a number of political prisoners were executed in 1937. Now Russians are saying it wasn't political prisoners who perished in 1937, but Soviet soldiers at the hands of the Finns.
The Russian military-historical society conducted excavations in the tract Sandarmokh. As a result of the excavations, the remains of the Red Army were found. And, apparently, the RKKA soldier was shot by the Finns.
As a result of this information, a loud squeal was raised by the liberal media and, of course, by the false organization "Memorial", which the historical facts on the results of excavations in the tract of Sandarmokh thoroughly break "evidence" about the bloody Stalin, the mass executions of the NKVD.
As a result of the excavations it was determined that all the Soviet soldiers found had a bullet hole at the back of the head. His hands were tied behind his back.
Do not lag behind the false "Memorial" and the Finnish "scientists". Evidence from Finnish scientists is just highly likely: "Finns do not shoot like this, it's the style of the NKVD. If in Finland the lawful execution of a prisoner of war was carried out, he looked at the shooter in the face.
Illegal shooting was usually carried out in this way: a prisoner of war was shot in the back and said that he tried, for example, to escape, "says Antti Kujala, assistant professor of Helsinki University.
September 7 in the press center of the MIA "Russia" held a press conference of the RIOO on the results of excavations in the tract Sandarmokh. And this overexcited the Russian liberals and their Western patrons to the extreme. According to the liberal media and the false organization "Memorial", the tract Sandarmokh is the place of NKVD executions.
At the same time, the liberals diligently try to get around the fact that the Karelian-Finnish SSR was occupied by the Finnish army and parts of the German Wehrmacht in 1941-1944. The Finnish troops were defeated in Karelia only in the summer of 1944 as a result of the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation.
How during this period the NKVD shot the Red Army soldiers in the territory controlled by the Wehrmacht and the Finnish troops, the "Memorial" defenders prefer not to explain.
But they tried to organize an information campaign against the excavations themselves, so that the unpleasant liberals would not open historical and archaeological evidence. It even went so far that the liberals bribed the relatives of the deceased to appeal to the authorities and government against the excavations.
Lying and juggling, which the false organization "Memorial" has been practicing since 1989, gradually disintegrate. The lies of Solzhenitsyn and the like go away in the past.
And therefore, it is not surprising that liberals are in collective hysteria. They have less and less strength. And why? Because the power is in truth, as the main character of the movie "Brother-2" Danil Bagrov said. Who has the truth - he is stronger. And no grants, no "highly likely" Western patrons false advocates will not help.
Dmitry Dzygobrodsky
PS: We must understand that since 1997 in this tract the excavations were carried out by Russian grantees financed from abroad, who consciously distorted the history according to the wishes of foreign customers. In the years of rampant Yeltsin's kleptocracy, the state did not care until the truth about mass graves in the Sandarmokh tract was established. But it was worthwhile to take this case seriously and to conduct the first examinations, as it immediately became clear - grantees for more than 20 years lied about the fact that in the tract lie the victims of the so-called. "political repression." In fact, it turned out - victims of war crimes of Hitler's Finnish allies. Hence the cries of liberals-foreign agents, and the subsequent dirty fuss to induce the relatives of the victims to prohibit further excavations in order to hide the truth and leave a canonical lie.
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I think the subtext here is that Russian historians and academics are being very frank about the Russian/Soviet past, and in so doing are insisting that the historical record reflect the truth, not just what western academics say it is.
You'll read in the text a direct reference to Solzhenitsyn, whom many Russians claim flat out lied about the Soviet historical record. It is worth pointing out that a tiny fraction of Solzhenitsyn's works have been translated into English, and I s'pect there's a very good reason for that.
Most of you probably missed it, but also there is a subtle reference to the Soviet journalist Vasily Grossman, a personal favorite Russian writer, who did suffer greatly under the Soviets for his written works.
As I have said this on Facebook, but some amazing, positive things are happening in Russia, and this bit of research is part of the cost of moving those things forward.
[IsraelTimes] IDF searches for button men after attack near Kochav Yaakov settlement; separately, 6 Paleostinian tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
An Israeli car came under fire Saturday overnight near the West Bank settlement of Kochav Yaakov, the military said Sunday.
There were no injuries, though the car was damaged, and the army said it was searching for the shooters.
Separately, in the West Bank over the weekend, the army, along with the Shin Bet security service and Border Police, arrested six Paleostinians who it said were suspected of involvement in terror activities, or taking part in violent protests.
Additionally, troops hunting for illegal weapons found a pistol in the West Bank city of Nablus.
In the Jalazone refugee camp, near Ramallah, soldiers confiscated thousands of shekels that they suspect were to be used to fund terror activities.
A classic smear by the Daily Mail
It’s an all-too-familiar scene of war… an Afghan home reduced to rubble by an explosion. Yet this recreation of the horrors of battle is being marketed as a toy by Airfix.
British veterans of the Afghanistan campaign have described the model – which includes a pile of debris left by a bomb blast – as ‘sick’ and MPs too have expressed disbelief over the product.
The model is described by Airfix as ‘a typical single storey house found in Afghanistan used for both living space and storage. The collapsed wall and rubble adds to the diorama possibilities’.
Basra (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraq’s southern oil hub Basra has restored a state of calm after a week of bloody protests over unemployment and poor public services.
According to Al Ekhbariya news website, municipality workers, aided by staffers from the Ministry of Oil and the civil defense department, were seen removing debris from the streets of the oil-rich region.
[AlMasdar] The Arclight airstrikes carried out by the US F-15s have caused major fires in Deir ez-Zor province, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement, noting that information about "people killed and injured due to the strikes is being clarified."
Two US F-15 jets on September 8 carried out strikes using banned phosphorus bombs in Deir ez-Zor province, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said in a statement.
"In Deir ez-Zor province on September 8, 2018, two F-15 aircraft of the US Air Force carried out strikes on the settlement of Hadjin with the use of phosphorus incendiary munitions. As a result of the strikes, major fires were observed. Information on victims and injured is being clarified," Major-General Vladimir Savchenko stated, stressing that the use of weapons with white phosphorus is prohibited by an additional protocol to the 1949 Geneva Convention.
The US-led coalition, consisting of more than 70 countries, is conducting military operations against ISIS* in Syria and Iraq without UN or Syrian permission.
Esmer reportedly stated that the Pentagon was preparing to set up a missile defense shield in Syria’s northeastern cities of Al Hasakah and Rmelan.
In April, media reported that ISIS had succeeded in seizing the oil fields in the province of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria, which was its former key stronghold, with the group using the oil fields to raise funds for its terror state.
This is not the first time that the US-led coalition is accused of conducting airstrikes on Deir ez-Zor.
In June, the US-led coalition reportedly hit positions of the Syrian Armed Forces in the Al Bukamal area, killing multiple Syrian servicemen and injuring several others.
In 2017, US airstrikes claimed the lives of six civilians, including three children, leading to Damascus’ accusations of the US-led coalition of using white phosphorus, prohibited by international convention, to damage infrastructure and kill civilians.
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F-14s when their wings are retracted look a bit like F-15s from a distance...at twilight (when this supposedly took place). Doesn't Iran still have a couple F-14s?
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[All Africa] Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos stepped down as head of the ruling MPLA party on Saturday. He handed over power to President Joao Lourenco after dominating politics for nearly four decades.
"Today, with my head up, I leave and pass on the baton to comrade Joao Lourenco," dos Santos told crowds at the ruling party headquarters in Luanda.
As his rule comes to an end, dos Santos says he wants to be remembered for his dignified exit from a position he has held since 1979.
The 76-year-old liberation war veteran did not stand for re-election in the August 2017 polls and handed over the reins of power to his defense minister Lourenco, 64.
But he remained at the helm of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party, where much of the real power is seen to be vested.
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Hypothetical: Someone stole, *ahem*, acquired" financial documents off of the desk Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger and published it in the WSJ. Would the NYT be in a thundering dudgeon and demanding legal action? ...But that's different because it was done to ... the Government?
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Woodward sells a book full of lies to rubes looking for confirmation on what they already believe. The world goes on except in the long run Woodwards reputation is tarnished and his bank account if inflated.
[IsraelTimes] In Rosh Hashanah toast with IDF soldiers, defense minister says Israelis will be able to celebrate holiday with confidence and security following army’s recent operations
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that the IDF has thwarted several terror attacks in recent days meant to disrupt Rosh Hashanah celebrations.
"In recent days, too, we have enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... suspects and prevented terror attacks," Liberman said, addressing a company from the Armoured Corps at a toast for the Jewish New Year that starts Sunday evening.
"The people of Israel will be able to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with confidence and quiet thanks to IDF soldiers and security forces who will continue to tour and protect us all during the holiday," he said, without divulging further details.
The defense minister also thanked the company of Armoured corps soldiers, who are also responsible for guarding the West Bank settlement of Nokdim, where he lives.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered similar praise of the Shin Bet security service at a new year’s toast last week where he claimed that "not a day goes by in which there is no thwarting" of an attack.
Netanyahu credited the work of the security agency with helping Israel to avoid much of the violence that has engulfed other countries in the Middle East.
"The Shin Bet deters, thwarts, and defeats on a daily and hourly basis those who want us dead," Netanyahu said at a toast with security chiefs for the upcoming Jewish new year.
Israeli security services documented 255 attacks last month, including 11 in Jerusalem, the Shin Bet security service said in its monthly report published earlier this month. The June tally was 220 incidents.
Despite the increase, the figures in July were well below those of May, when 365 incidents were documented ‐ the highest number in over two years.
Nearly two-thirds of the attacks recorded in July involved Molotov cocktails. Incidents involving the hurling of rocks at Israelis and their cars are not included in Shin Bet reports.
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And ask yourself, what is this concocted five-alarm Constitutional crisis built on?
If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that it is built on only one thing... Grade-A, 100 percent horseshit.
Even if everything Woodward’s anonymous sources say is true... So what?
Even if everything the New York Times narcissist says is true... So what?
Look at what these failures and liars and grifters are trying to con you with... Because it has nothing to do with illegality, nothing to do with substance, and everything to do with style.
The corrupt establishment is colluding to head fake America into freaking out over Trump’s style while Trump delivers and delivers and delivers on the substance, on things that actually matter.
Trump has an erratic management style. So what? I’m supposed to care he burns people out, dresses them down, demands they do crazy stuff like at long last win one of these endless neocon wars?
So what?
I don’t care how Trump makes his decisions, I care about the end result of those decisions.
All this long con over Trump’s "fitness" is based on is his management style; which is meaningless inside-inside gossip for the stupid and shallow to masturbate over ‐ a hoax, a con, a carnival barker’s sideshow.
How about if we focus on the substance for just a moment...
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I thought about this a week after I made the call Trump was gonna win it (roughly mid-September of 2016) - how many people were full fledged CEO's for a number of years before they became President? Two, to my knowledge - Ike and Trump. If anything, both of them were more 'fit' than any Democrat ever was.
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#1 You got it put well.
Woodward has always been a tool of the Democrats. Watergate was handed to him and he did their bidding. Now being used again as a tool he is resurrected as with a person holding a high security clearance similar to 9-11 days. Having been obviously retired in the backwaters of media life. He tries to show relevance in a time when he is unknown to the younger generation. Next we will hear Dan Rather bob up and down from the bottom feeding.
[ARABNEWS] In the early days of the Arab uprisings, when hope still mingled with smoke on the streets of Cairo, a prominent Egyptian investor, Ahmed Heikal, said that "if we get things right, we could be The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... in 10 years. If we get them wrong, we could be Pakistain in 18 months."
Everyone understood what he meant. After all, Turkey spent much of the first decade of the Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... era, beginning in 2003, as a darling of the emerging markets. During Erdogan’s first decade, Turkey’s economy was well on its way to tripling in size and growth rates were, at times, sizzling. Investors, including many from the Arab world, flocked to Turkey. Some outside investors even breathlessly compared Turkey to the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, which were the flavor of the time.
There was truth to some of the hype. Turkey’s Anatolian Tigers and other manufacturers across the country became consumer goods powerhouses, exporting precision machines to Germany, televisions across Europe, and food products around the world. Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... Ottoman Turkish soft power was on the rise as its soap operas were all the rage in Arab living rooms and far beyond. It seemed that Turkey’s moment had arrived.
Fast forward to today and Turkey’s economy is battered by rising deficits, a deteriorating currency, and erratic leadership by the man who seemed to once have the golden touch. President Erdogan is no longer seen as the successful leader that brought growth and stability to Turkey. He is seen as a more traditional crony capitalist autocrat with a deep paranoid streak. Ottoman Turkish companies and the broader economy are also facing a post-binge crash as their excessive borrowing of foreign capital is coming back to haunt them as the lira falls and their debts become unsustainable.
ERDOGAN SHOULD REMEMBER THE LESSONS OF HIS FIRST DECADE IN POWER: MEASURED, PRAGMATIC POLICIES MAY NOT WIN YOU APPLAUSE, BUT THEY SERVE YOUR PEOPLE BETTER IN THE LONG RUN.
AFSHIN MOLAVI
When Turkey comes up in the conversation among emerging markets investors, it is not to tout its opportunity, but rather to discuss its problems. Many analysts see Turkey headed for, as one put it, "a very hard landing." Turkey, according to JP Morgan Asset Management, faces "a perfect storm" of rising debt, a falling currency and unsustainable fiscal and current account deficits.
Erdogan’s massive purge of government and military officials, combined with his tirades against "the interest rate lobby" and finger-pointing at what he calls "economic forces of Evil on social media," have contributed to a sense in the investor community that Turkey is no longer a reliable place to invest and do business. While this may not be true (Turkey’s private sector remains sophisticated and it has a large middle class), Erdogan’s actions have spooked foreign investors.
A nation’s politics inevitably color the investment outlook, whether fairly or not. When the leader looks erratic and paranoid, you had better have a very appetizing economic story to tell. Consider the US. Even the most ardent supporters 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... would admit to his erratic nature and his paranoia (only fueled by last week’s anonymous New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... op-ed suggesting that officials in the White House are ignoring his wishes). Still, the $19 trillion US economy can absorb Trump’s unconventional style. There are simply too many opportunities, too many innovative companies, and too deep and liquid capital markets for any global investor to give the US "a pass" because they find its politics erratic.
This brings us back to Turkey and Erdogan’s leadership. During his first decade in power, Erdogan won grudging respect even from his opponents because he seemed to set aside his firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... instincts from his days as an opposition leader ‐ which once landed him in jail ‐in favor of a more measured, focused, technocratic approach to delivering the economic goods for his people.
It is worth remembering that Erdogan’s AKP party swept to power in 2002 in response to an economic crisis. Today, as Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... once again wonders if Turkey has become "the sick man of Europe," as Tsar Nicholas I of Russia dubbed the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century, Erdogan would do well to remember the lessons from his own first decade in power: Measured, pragmatic policies may not win you applause from the cheap seats in the gallery, but they serve your people better in the long run.
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As far as economy is concerned, Islamism = Socialism?
[TheBlackSphere] The entitled Senator Chuck Schumer believes the rules don’t apply to him. Thankfully we don’t need Omarosa to validate that Schumer is a self-entitled scumbag.
When a female flight attendant asked him to follow the rules like every one else on the plane, Holy Mother of Weinstein did Schumer lash out.
According to the New York Post,
Sen. Chuck Schumer apologized today after word got out that he called a flight attendant a "bitch" for ordering him to follow the rules and turn off his cellphone before takeoff.
And his political protégé, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, initially provided him with public cover.
Before I continue, understand that Chuck Schumer called a woman doing her job a bitch, and the Queen of #MeToo didn’t do a thing.
And it’s not like they were the only two who heard Schumer say this. No, Schumer’s outburst was overheard aboard a US Airways flight from LaGuardia Airport to Washington recently.
Schumer and his seatmate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), were chatting on their cellphones when the plane’s captain told passengers to turn them off. However, the two Democratic senators ignored the order and kept talking. Because the two elitists believe themselves to be above the rules and regulations for peons, they figured nobody would bother them.
A flight attendant did. She returned to the pair and asked them to follow Federal Aviation Administration rules, this according to a House Republican aide who was seated nearby.
Schumer asked if he could finish his call. The attendant replied "No", because the plane was prevented from taking off if they didn’t hang up.
The state’s senior senator ended his call.
Next however, he launched into an argument with the flight attendant, claiming he was entitled to continue his chat until the cabin door was closed.
"She said she doesn’t make the rules, she just followed them," the aide said, according to Politco.com.
"Bitch!" Schumer remarked to Gillibrand after the attendant walked away.
Gillibrand’s office initially gave Schumer cover, telling Politico.com that the senior senator was "polite" and that "he turned off his phone when asked to." That was not the case, and proves that Gillibrand was willing to toss the female flight attendant on the "casting couch" to protect her boss.
Republicans seized on the slip to slam Schumer. They circulating copies of news stories about the incident, knowing that the spin was in.
Once word spread that Schumer had been less than friendly, Gillibrand’s office offered a second statement, issued through her aide, Glen Caplin.
"Chuck did the right thing by apologizing."
He criticized Republicans for "trying to score cheap political points" from the incident.
I’d love to know what Schumer would do if Trump had called a flight attendant a bitch? Think he and the Democrats wouldn’t make political hay from it?
We all know how much press such an incident involving Trump would have generated. I’d say at least a week of media, where they would call Trump a misogynist at least. Next we would hear that he tried to grab the flight attendant by the p*ssy.
In the aftermath, the flight attendant would get a 7-figure book deal, and a made-for-TV movie about her incident with Trump. But because it was Schumer, few people even know the incident took place.
After the flare-up was reported, Schumer officially apologized. No big public hoopla, just a terse "apology".
Knowing Democrats as I do, I suggest that flight attendant lay low for a bit. You know Schumer now schemes to ruin her.
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Should be moved to "and water is wet". I hate that self-entitled scumbag.
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Schumer is having that "John McCain Moment" where he has decided that it is His Turn for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination and he discovers that it just ain't gonna happen?
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So many bad reasons to be in a call on a plane taking off. Also, as a guy steeped in cellular practice, protocols and theory since almost day one, it is really terroristic to fly through cellular carrier,sector pie slices at air speeds. You are only in a slice for seconds at most. If 40 or so people on just one plane did it they would be crashing cellular all across their flight path. Add more planes doing the same and kiss cellular service goodbye!
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraq condemned on Sunday an Iranian artillery shelling on Erbil’s Koy Sanjaq district, in northern the country, stressing that it will not allow any country to violate its own illusory sovereignty.
"The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses its rejection of the artillery shelling that targeted Koy Sanjaq district in Erbil on Saturday, leaving scores dead and maimed," Sputnik quoted the ministry’s front man Ahmed Mahjoob as saying.
"The ministry strongly refuses the breaching of Iraqi illusory sovereignty without prior coordination with Iraqi military authorities to avoid the fall of civilian victims," added the front man.
Earlier in the day, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards grabbed credit for the attack, which targeted Iranian Kurdish dissidents in Koy Sanjaq district on Saturday.
"In a successful operation, the Guards’ aerospace unit, along with the army’s drone unit ... targeted a criminal group’s meeting and a terrorist training center with seven short-range surface-to-surface missiles," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official news agency Fars.
The statement said the attack was prompted by a decision of "group leaders to ignore serious warnings by officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government about Iran’s determination to dismantle their bases ... and the need for an end to terrorist and aggressive actions against Iran".
[AlMasdar] Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched a missile attack against an Iranian Kurdish opposition group based near the northern Iraqi city of Koya on Sunday, Iranian state media claimed.
Footage shows missiles being fired from mobile launchers, followed by aerial footage of targets being hit.
The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) reported on their twitter account that 11 people were killed, and approximately 50 others wounded in the attacks on their bases and nearby refugee camps.
Koya is located the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq.
[AlMasdar] A non-stop, fierce aerial campaign has hit rebel stronghold of Lataminah in northern Hama as part of a wider offensive aimed at restoring the jihadi-held areas in central and northern Syria.
At least 5 Syrian attack helicopters and 4 Russian fighter jets launched a wide-scale Arclight airstrikes against the town which is considered the heartland of the FSA-affiliated Jaish Izza rebel group.
Russian jets used 2000-pound bunker buster bombs to destroy the underground hideouts dug by jihadi groups in the rocks.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that its troops captured three 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.... holy warriors, including the group’s cook, in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... city.
"Military intelligence forces carried out a specific operation in Hamam al-Alil district in Mosul, managing to arrest three Lions of Islam belonging to Islamic State group," Sputnik quoted the Iraqi Security Media Center as saying.
"One of those incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! was working as a chef for the terrorist group’s commanders," the center added.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – A terrorist cell was arrested Sunday on terror charges in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk, a police chief was quoted as saying.
“A five-strong terrorist cell was arrested over planting explosive charges in Arab Koi area in Kirkuk,” commander of the Iraqi Federal Police Raed Shaker Jawdat told Iraqi website Alghad Press.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An oil pipeline has been exploded, on Saturday evening, causing huge fire, which has not been controlled yet, a Kurdish security official said on Sunday.
Speaking to BasNews, Idris Refaat, of the security troops in Kirkuk, said “Islamic State blew up a pipeline used for transferring crude oil in west of Kirkuk, late on Saturday, using two bombs.”
The fire, according to Idris, “has not be put off yet.”
Idris blamed the Iraqi troops for not being able to control the region, which was previously under control of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, which allows Islamic State members to attack oil establishments and troops.
news reports quoted sources as saying that seven people were killed as Islamic State members attacked al-Bu Shaher village, near Yayji town, west of Kirkuk.
“The arrestees were handed over to the bodies concerned for interrogation,” he added.
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[ARABNEWS] Seven people including two British tourists were maimed Sunday in Gay Paree after they were attacked by a man armed with a knife and an iron bar, according to police and other sources.
A source close to the inquiry said the suspect has been nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and is believed to be an Afghan national.
"Nothing at this stage shows signs of a terrorist nature in these assaults," the sources said, adding that the attacker had targeted "strangers in the street."
Of the seven maimed, four are in a critical condition, police said.
The incident took place just after 11:00pm (2100 GMT) on the banks of a canal in the northeast of the capital.
A security guard at one of two cinemas on either side of the Canal de l’Ourcq said he saw a man who had already assaulted people being chased by two other men who tried to stop him.
"He had an iron bar in his hand which he threw at the men chasing him, then he took out a knife," he told AFP.
A police investigation has been launched for attempted murder, according to a judicial source.
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"Nothing at this stage shows signs of a terrorist nature in these assaults,"
[IsraelTimes] Tehran releases footage of strike on Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan base said to have killed 11 and injured 50 in response to resumption of PDKI hit-and-run attacks in Iran.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Sunday grabbed credit for a missile attack targeting an Iraqi base of a Kurdish separatist group.
Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired footage of surface-to-surface missiles launching Saturday toward the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan base in Iraq, as well as drone footage of the base in the aftermath of the strike, which the separatists say killed at least 11 people and maimed 50.
The footage’s release appeared to be a stark warning by the Guard to the separatist group, known by the acronym PDKI, which has resumed hit-and-run attacks in Iran after some two decades of uneasy peace. A Kurdish attack in July killed at least 10 Iranian border guards, likely sparking the Guard’s show of force.
Video aired by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
showed the short-range missiles being fired from mobile launchers in a field in an undisclosed location. The semi-official Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the paramilitary Guard, identified the missiles fired as Fateh 110-Bs. Those missiles are believed to have a range of up to 300 kilometers (185 miles), according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Tasnim said the missiles traveled some 220 kilometers (135 miles) to reach the base in Koya, in northern Iraq.
The Kurdish satellite news channel Rudaw reported that the secretary-general of the PDKI, Mustafa Mawludi, and his predecessor, Khalid Azizi, were maimed in the strike.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement criticizing Iran’s attack, saying it "rejects the violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty by bombing any target within Iraqi territory without prior coordination with the Iraqi authorities to spare civilians the effects of such operations."
[AlMasdar] Battles continue to rage in east Swaida countryside as the Syrian Army resumes offensive to uproot 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.... Lions of Islam from its last stronghold.
Backed by the National Defense Forces, the Syrian Army advanced for 350 meters deep into the rocky cliffs to the north of Safa hilltops.
The recent advance, even though important, has proved costly for the government troops. Three Syrian Army soldiers were killed, 22 others injured during the bloody festivities.
According to a military source, the difficulty of the battle lies in the rocky cliffs surrounding the Hilltops. "Once penetrated, the entire area will fall in no time", the source commented.
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[AlMasdar] More Ottoman Turkish-backed turbans are assassinated by Kurdish fire in northern Syria in hit-and-run operations.
The YPG press office released an official statement declaring two The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -trained rebel fighters killed across Afrin region.
On September 7, YPG button men ambushed Abdurrahman al-Zaher; a fighter in the FSA-affiliated al-Hamza Brigades (originally from Azaz city) on the road leading to Afrin’s Shera district.
The next day, YPG members carried out an operation where they killed a myrmidon fighting for Ahrar al-Sharqiyah faction.
Scores of Ottoman Turkish-backed turbans have been killed since the Syrian rebels ‐ backed by Ottoman Turkish military- took over Afrin region on March 2018.
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says it also incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... three suspects attempting to cross into Israel with a pair of knives; dozens converge on Erez crossing in latest coastal enclave protest
IDF soldiers on Sunday shot and killed a Paleostinian who repeatedly tried to sabotage the Gazoo Strip border fence, the army said.
"Troops recognised a suspect who approached the security fence and attempted to sabotage it," an English-language army statement said, adding that they shot up the man.
He was given medical treatment but "later on, the suspect succumbed to his wounds," it added.
Paleostinian security officials said that the dead man was Atef Mohammed Saleh, 32, from Jabaliya in the northern Gazoo Strip, near the border with Israel.
Earlier Sunday, the army said soldiers had identified three Gazooks attempting to cross the fence surrounding the northern Gazoo Strip. The Israeli troops uncovered a pair of knives on the suspects upon their apprehension.
The IDF was unable to confirm whether the three suspects were the same ones that Paleostinian media reported had been shot and maimed after approaching the northern Gazoo border fence near the Erez crossing.
The Shihab Paleostinian news agency reported that two residents of Beit Hanoun on Gazoo’s northeastern edge were shot by IDF troops.
Dozens of Paleostinians were protesting and attempting to approach the border fence near the Erez border crossing in the north of the enclave.
There were no immediate reports of further casualties at the protest, nor any more information immediately available on the condition of the protesters.
On Saturday, the IDF said it would investigate the events surrounding the recent deaths of two Paleostinians at the Gazoo border, including that of a 16-year-old who was shot on Friday during protests and who succumbed to his wounds on Saturday.
Paleostinian media outlets released a video clip which they said showed the incident and appeared to show the teen throwing an object before waving and clapping, with his hands in the air at the time he was shot. (Warning: Graphic content.)
He was named as Ahmad Abu Tuyur.
"In the violent disturbances along the fence, IDF soldiers responded with riot control measures and acted in accordance with open-fire regulations," said the military in a statement Saturday. "It is claimed that two people died in the violent disturbances. The events will be reviewed by the relevant command echelons."
[ARABNEWS] An kaboom in Kabul on Sunday killed seven people in a convoy of mostly gunnies marking the death anniversary of Ahmad Shah Masood, one of Afghanistan’s legendary figures. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... scores of security forces bit the dust in a spate of attacks by Taliban ...Arabic for students... combatants elsewhere in the country.
Police said the blast was caused by a jacket wallah who had mingled in one of the long convoys of vehicles and cycle of violences in which the gunnies drove for hours in Kabul’s streets. He opened fire into the air in a sustained manner and created panic among tens of thousands of people in the city.
The incident caused lawlessness, disorder and disrupted businesses and people’s lives, and the blast led to the drastic reduction of firing and disbursement of the button men, residents said.
Before the blast, security forces early in the day said they shot and maimed another suicide bomber who wanted to detonate explosives on his body among another crowd of marchers near the monument of Masood outside the US embassy.
The protracted firing, mostly into the air by the marchers, left behind 13 people maimed, public health ministry front man Waheed Majorh told news hounds.
The Emergency Hospital said it had received 34 injured patients.
Kabul police front man Hashmat Stanekzai, in a message, said seven people were killed and 20 maimed in the blast.
The chaos lasted for more than eight hours and showed the inability of security forces and government to block it.
"There were lots of young men and kids who drove in vehicles without number plates, wielding knives and guns. We were all shocked," Said Sameer, a Kabul resident, told Arab News.
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[AlMasdar] Russia is helping Syria restore and modernized its air defense system, Russia’s Ambassador to that country, Alexander Kinshchak, told TASS on Friday.
"We are helping our Syrian partners to restore, modernize and boost the efficiency of the integrated air defense system," he said when asked how well Syria is protected against possible Arclight airstrikes by Western nations.
"Much is yet to be done because everything was in utter devastation, but certain results can already be seen," he said.
In late April, chief of the main operations directorate of the Russian General Staff, Sergei Rudskoi, said that Syria would soon receive new air defense systems and promised that Russian specialists would help the Syrian military to master them. He refrained from details of the systems, saying only that the S-125, Osa and Kvadrat systems used by the Syrian army had been restored and modernized with Russia’s assistance.
In late August, the Russian Defense Ministry warned about a possible provocation plotted in the Syrian Idlib governorate by gunnies under supervision of British special services.
Thus, according to the ministry, gunnies were planning to simulate the use of chemical weapons against civilians by Syrian government troops to furnish the United States, the United Kingdom and La Belle France with a pretext to deliver an airstrike on Syrian government and economic facilities.
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In late August, the Russian Defense Ministry warned about a possible provocation plotted in the Syrian Idlib governorate by gunnies under supervision of British special services
Something is going on with Brits. The Steele dossier, the wild Novichok accusations.
Russian president Vladimir Putin's political coalition retained a weakened hold on their seats in the legislative assemply in elections in Transbaikal Sunday, according to data supplied by regnum.ru.
Transbaikal is a territory in far eastern Russian, near Lake Bailkal. Its southern borders are adjacent to Mongolia and China.
While the results still are preliminary, United Russia managed to hold on to a weakened plurality of 28 percent. Their closest rivals, the communist associated Liberal Democratic Party of Russia gained 24 percent of the vote, winning seven seats.
The results give United Russia an eight seat plurality.
Other political parties including "Fair Russia " (8.94%), " Party of Pensioners " (6.05%) and " Patriots of Russia" (3.38%), wound up with a total of nine seats.
The news article goes on to note that turnout was lighter at 20 percent versus 28 percent in the last election.
Says regnum.ru:
In accordance with the Charter of the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Legislative Assembly of the Trans-Baikal Territory includes 50 deputies, they are elected for a period of five years. One half will be determined by a single regional electoral district, the other will be elected in single-mandate electoral districts. A total of 806,800 voters were registered on the territory of the Trans-Baikal Territory, and five years ago there were 824,900 people.
In other Russian election news, United Russia deputy elections in Irkutsk were defeated by Communist Party candidates 34 percent to 27 percent.
Runoffs for governors were scheduled in Khabarovsk, Samara and Primorsky Krai, in United Russia versus Communist Party or communist part coalitions, when United Russia failed to win a majority of votes.
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Personally, I find Russia confusing. I like almost all of the Russians I have met, I am saddened by the terrible things visited upon the Russian people over the ages, and yet it is if Russia has multiple personalities.
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[All Africa] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... button men on Friday night carried out another attack on a military base in Borno State, an official said.
The Deputy Governor of Borno State, Usman Durkwa, who confirmed the incident to journalists in Maiduguri on Saturday said the troops and neighbouring communities were attacked in Guzamala Local Government Area of the state.
It was in Gudumbali, the headquarters of Guzamala Local Government Area that the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, in July this year, inaugurated a cenotaph to commemorate the killing of about 144 soldiers in an attack by Boko Haram in 2014.
The inauguration was done at the time persons displaced from the liberated community were returning to it.
The deputy governor however said he has no idea of the casualties from Friday's attack.
"It is unfortunate to confirm to you that there was an attack by Boko Haram turbans in a military base and other communities of Gudumbali," he said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMedia] National Security Advisor John Bolton threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court, which Bolton opposed long before joining the Trump administration, and hailed the State Department announcement that the D.C. office of the Palestine Liberation Organization would be shut down.
Moqtada 
[Townhall] We all remember it. That hot, glorious day in June 2015 when billionaire real estate developer and reality TV host Donald Trump grandly descended that Trump Tower escalator and announced the beginning of his history-making journey to the most powerful office in the world. 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Gillibrand’s office initially gave Schumer cover, telling Politico.com that the senior senator was "polite" and that "he turned off his phone when asked to." That was not the case, and proves that Gillibrand was willing to toss the female flight attendant on the "casting couch" to protect her boss.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraq condemned on Sunday an Iranian artillery shelling on Erbil’s Koy Sanjaq district, in northern the country, stressing that it will not allow any country to violate its own 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
