Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a press conference Tuesday evening to make a "dramatic statement about the Trump Administration's "Deal of the Century."
"We are on the eve of the elections. President Trump said he will present his Deal of the Century few days after the election and it is just around the corner. This presents us with a great challenge and a great opportunity to apply Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and other areas," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister announced that after the elections he would apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea area.
"There is one place that Israeli sovereignty can be applied immediately after the elections if Israeli citizens let me in. Today I announce my intention to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea," he declared.
.@netanyahu "I will annex settlements in cooperation with @realDonaldTrump's administration." "We can annex settlements immediately after the elections if I am re-elected PM," says @netanyahu
[NBC] Trump fires John Bolton as national security adviser
"I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House," Trump tweeted Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has fired National Security Adviser John Bolton after a string of disagreements between the two over how the U.S. should handle North Korea and Iran.
Trump announced on Twitter that he had asked for Bolton's resignation, which he received this morning, after the president had "disagreed with many of his suggestions."
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning,” Trump said on Twitter.
....I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2019
Ambassador Bolton sends me a text message just now: “Let’s be clear, I resigned, having offered to do so last night.”
But yes, Bolton's exit will definitely impact Trump admin's Iran policy. Trump-Rouhani summit is being considered very seriously - and I'm in fact told that it is already finalized. Bolton would have had no role in that, so from that perspective his exit makes sense.
Indian govt should be happy with Bolton's exit. Bolton was not very pro-India and he opposed India's bid for UNSC membership as well as India-US nuclear deal. Bolton was also somewhat pro-Pakistan and opposed hard stance against Pakistan. https://t.co/su2mIqlJyY
Question : now that @AmbJohnBolton is gone does that mean the President can foresee a meeting btw him and The Iranian leader later this month (at UN) @SecPompeo says "Sure. The President has made it clear he's prepared to meet with no preconditions"
• Bolton doesn’t show up • Pompeo defends Trump firing • Mnuchin announces sanctions on 15 leaders, entities include QF & Hezbollah, PIJ, others • Trump prepared to meet Rouhani with no preconditions
Let me be clear: I think many of Bolton's views are borderline dangerous. But he was the ONLY remaining member of the president's inner circle who knew anything about strategic affairs. If you think things have been chaotic to this point, just wait… https://t.co/nX6D8zvLrz
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I heard he was the one who advised against meeting the talibaners. For some reason, the idea of 'image' is more important to Bolton than actual strategy.
Gen. John Keene and Frank Gaffney are good replacements ?
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Yes, Bolton was against the Taliban, murders of many US Troops signing a "peace" agreement at Camp David when the Madrassas did not teach them to read, or write, or the proper definition of such words as Peace.
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That is something that needs to be avenged, and the best vengeance can be effected only when the troops are out of there. Bolton wanted the troops to stay.
This 'managing of expectations' is what Trump is tired of, I think. Obviously he wants to exit the hellhole completely.
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At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave in Moscow tries to make an anonymous call to the U.S. embassy. His purpose: warning the Americans of a Soviet theft of atomic secrets. But he gets a dull-witted, indifferent embassy staffer on the line, and the call goes nowhere. Or almost nowhere. The call is monitored by Soviet security. Arrested and imprisoned at the end of the novel, the diplomat’s final thought about Americans is that "prosperity breeds idiots."
Solzhenitsyn’s diplomat channels views that were clearly held by the author himself. Comfort and safety, enjoyed too long in the West, invite complacency‐and complacency leads to stupidity. As a gulag survivor, Solzhenitsyn had a barely disguised disgust for Western elites with little experience of political murder and repression. Nor could he abide the legion of fools who seemed fascinated, from a secure and prosperous distance, with socialist thought. In his foreword to The Socialist Phenomenon‐an extraordinary book by his friend Igor Shafarevich‐Solzhenitsyn noted "the mist of irrationality that surrounds socialism," and stressed that
The doctrines of socialism seethe with contradictions, its theories are at constant odds with its practice, yet due to a powerful instinct, [these contradictions] do not in the least hinder the unending propaganda of socialism. Indeed no precise, distinct socialism even exists; instead there is only a vague, rosy notion of something noble and good, of equality, of communal ownership, and justice . . .
...A Lenin Prize-winning mathematician and a Soviet math genius of global standing, Shafarevich (like his friend Solzhenitsyn) eventually turned to Russian Orthodox Christianity. He became a leading Soviet dissident, and was a vocal supporter of Andrei Sakharov. He divides his thinking in The Socialist Phenomenon into three parts.
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[PJMEDIA] In his first major motion picture since annoying and disappointing generations of Star Wars fans with The Last Jedi, writer-director-progressive Rian Johnson is poised to do the same to an even larger slice of the American public with next month's Knives Out. And lefty movie critics couldn't be more thrilled, according to the latest from Society Reviews.
SR reports that "critics at the Toronto International Film Festival gushing about the film’s shared hatred for Trump and his voters," which is about as subtle as a knife to the throat. I sure hope this'll turn out to be a case of "bringing a knife to a gun fight".
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without seeing the film its difficult to say what it is going to mean
remember the remake of Manchurian Candidate
it was supposed to be an allegory of bad Dick Cheney and his former employer
but in the actuality, Meryl Streep used Hillary mannerisms and stole the show and the intended anti Cheney anti corporate stuff didn't register with most people
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Considering on RottenTomatos it already has a 100% fresh rating from the blue check brigade, I would bet the movie is complete crap.
From the preview, the personas effected by the characters all display either characteristic liberal and bohemian delinquency or 'entitlement syndrome'. Even they include MAGA caps and dialogue about voting Trump, the audience will automatically make the mental connection to who actually exhibits these characteristics.
The liberal just can not hide his/her hatred and snobbery behind art. They stand distinct from normal people.
Keep in mind that, according to most of our media (and even more so the European media), we are supposed to regard with fear the German "ultra-right-wing" political party, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD). Also, keep in mind that we are supposed to believe that the Brexit battle pits Brits against a united Europe that is horrified at their effort to shatter the European Union.
But, in fact, the arrogant, unaccountable transnational organizations, of which the EU is a leading example, have served global elites better than ordinary citizens of their constuent countries.
Watch this speech in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, by AfD’s co-leader Alice Weidel and start to realize that populism is a global force in the highly industrialized world, and that the complaints we Anericans feel against our elites, and the complaints Brits have against ceeding controt ot he EU, are all of a piece. She does not hesitate to point her fingers at France, which is leading the resistance to a negotiated Brexit. I just can't believe that in any business run jointly by Germans & French, the French are calling the shots.
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I suspect the French can take the lead on anything the Germans don't really care about. Since Germany is the economic engine of the Eu anything they care about is going to be done their way.
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No. THIS is the best speech on Brexit (and the remainiacs in Parliament):
Cromwell to Parliament:
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the history of the British Isles, considered a regicidal dictator by historians such as David Sharp,[5] a military dictator by Winston Churchill,[6] and a hero of liberty by John Milton, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Rawson Gardiner. His tolerance of Protestant sects did not extend to Catholics; his measures against them in Ireland have been characterised by some as genocidal or near-genocidal,[7] and his record is harshly criticised in Ireland.[8] He was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll.[9]
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And yet Cromwell's status stands outside Parliament.
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Preparing the diplomatic ground for possible action against Hezbollah's precision missile program in Lebanon, Israel's mission at the UN informed the Security Council on Monday that Hezbollah is operating a facility for the production of these missiles in the Bekaa Valley.
According to a statement issued by Israel's mission at the UN, "The IDF has provided valuable information on Hezbollah's precision missile program in Lebanon, which has helped Israel advance its case in recent letters to the Security Council."
In a letter to the Security Council on Monday, Israel noted that Hezbollah "operates a site intended for the production and conversion of precision missiles near the town of Nabi Chit in the Bekaa Valley, with Iranian sponsorship, including financial and logistical support."
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Why tell these *sshats what you intend to do? It's immediately forwarded on the the Iranian proxies.
Unless you want to track the 'scurrying'.
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Israel been doing this staff for 70 year, Mullah - it's practically an art form. And Bibi is a grandmaster* - that's why he keeps getting reelected.
*Avoiding an open break with USA during the Obama era makes him the greatest Israeli statesman in my book.
[Breitbart] A website and eventbrite.com promoted rallies in Washington, DC, and other cities across the country to take place Monday to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump ‐ but no one showed up for the one at the Capitol.
The website, impeachmentaugust.org, said the protest would take place at 11:00 a.m. at 1st Street SE, which is near the House side of the Capitol. The website states that the protest is supported by several leftist and anti-Trump groups, including Indivisible, MoveOn, Need to Impeach, Stand Up America, March of Truth, By the People, Common Cause, Free Speech for People, Democracy for America, Progressive Democrats of America, Credo, and democrats.com.
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I think those are all Soros-funded groups. Imagine the shock at discovering that once again, money can’t buy everything.
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More money! We need more money to be committed to the cause!
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"The story has changed" - NY Times editor Dean Baquet.
Didn't these idiots get the memo?
Now the swarm is on to a new buzz: All RACISM!!!! All the Time.
NYT's "1619" Project.
White Supremacists!
Here a Nazi there a Nazi everywhere a Nazi Schmazi ee-ai ee-ai-oh
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Is the Soros-funding ( aka Evil Inc. LLC™ ) finally getting stretched so thin that they are running out of money to hire a Rent-A-Mob™ ? BREXIT? Global Worming/Whatever ? ? Orange Man Bad ? All of those outlays must cost a lot...
[ToloNews] Takhar governor’s front man says that at least 30 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters were killed in the festivities.
Local officials said heavy festivities are ongoing in two districts of the northern province of Takhar since Sunday evening.
Khwaja Ghar and Yangi Qala districts are located in the northwest of the province which share border with volatile district of Chah-e-Ab.
At least 30 Taliban fighters were killed in the festivities, Takhar governor’s front man Mohammad Jawad Hejri said.
"Mawlawi Osmani, a Taliban key commander is also among those killed in the festivities," Mr. Hejri said.
The Taliban claimed that they have captured the center of Khwaja Ghar district but Mr. Hejri rejected this claim.
The Afghan cops have not suffered of casualties in the festivities, according to the provincial governor’s front man.
Sources said that Taliban has also increased their attacks on Dasht-e-Archi district of the northeastern province of Kunduz which shares border with Khwaja Ghar district in Takhar.
This comes as heavy festivities are ongoing in parts of Kunduz and the center of Baghlan province in the north and northeastern regions of Afghanistan over the past week.
[ToloNews] Maidan Wardak residents called on the government to launch an investigation into the incident.
At least seven civilians bit the dust in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Burhani Khel village of Sayed Abad district of Maidan Wardak province, a number of residents claimed on Monday as Afghan government faces strong criticisms over a dramatic surge in civilian death and amid rising violence in multiple fronts across the country.
The residents said that seven people were returning from a funeral ceremony when their car was targeted by an airstrike in Burkhan Khel village in Sayed Abad district.
Some angry residents to the incident staged a protest to press the Afghan government to launch an investigation into the incident.
"They came here for a funeral ceremony. They ate food and wanted to return. Father, son, two sons-in-law, one guest and two children were among the seven people [killed in the airstrike]," said Hamed, a resident of Sayed Abad district.
"He was a driver. His son was a student, another was a laborer, another man was working in a company, one of them was his cousin and was a resident of Kabul. They all were here for a funeral ceremony," said Basir, another resident of Sayed Abad.
"Either the government take Wardak out of the Afghanistan map or announce its enmity with us or consider us as their people," said Khalil Rahman, a resident.
Previously, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense reported the killing of at least nine Taliban ...Arabic for students... members in an airstrike in Maidan Wardak.
Also last week, a number of residents of Sayed Abad district who had taken some injured children to a hospital in Kabul said that two non-combatants were killed and eight others, most of them children, were maimed in an airstrike in Qala-e-Amir village which is located in Tangi area of the province.
Back in March, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ordered the National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to abide by strict rules for preventing civilian casualties in their operations against turbans. Despite that, several incidents that targeted the civilians were reported in various regions of the country.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... said the U.S. forces in Afghanistan have been hitting the enemy in Afghanistan harder over the past four days than at any time in the last ten years.
President Trump said in a Twitter post "We have been serving as coppers in Afghanistan, and that was not meant to be the job of our Great Soldiers, the finest on earth."
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he said "Over the last four days, we have been hitting our Enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!"
President Trump on Sunday announced that he is called off peace negotiations with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group.
He said in a Twitter post on Sunday "Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday."
Furthermore, Trump said "They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great soldiers, and 11 other people."
He also added "I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they only made it worse! If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. How many more decades are they willing to fight?"
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The deliberative, inward obsessed polity of India is to blame for that. If say, Trump were to pressure India to involve ourselves overtly, a nuke on Quetta would be the inevitable result. Naturally large parts of the Pakhtunkhwa would also have to be carpet bombed later. There would be collateral too. But Islamabad would be finished. Pakistan would divide without leadership, into four warring tribal nations. It's easy if a little courage is shown by India. This is the time for such a move.
He's right in saying that if the country to which Pak is the biggest nuisance doesn't bother fighting, why should American troops be killing themselves in the desert for a thankless job.
any conventional army would have been destroyed by now
as procopius notes, the Taliban keep getting new recruits from Pakistan but the Taliban also keep getting new recruits from inside Afghanistan itself -- the recruiting is done by religious schools and religious institutions using the Koran and Haditha and various other parts of the Takfiri indoctrination system
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You cannot defeat a transnational, fanatically idealogical enemy with traditional, nation state strategies. You cannot succeed by killing in numbers that would render traditional units destroyed or incapacitated. You have to kill in such numbers and remorselessly so until even they begin to grasp that route will never work for them or you have simply weeded out the most aggressive.
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I agree, Lord Garth. About the recruitment from with the Afghan tribes. The numbers ... iffy. I would just say you're not getting enough bang for the buck.
Interestingly, the term 'takfiri indoctrination' is an entry from the legal islamist dictionary. I just thought to share the following for everyone's benefit.
The word takfiri means 'denouncer'. One who accuses others of being takfir (apostate). Conversely, it has now come to be used to describe hypocrites within the 'religion of peace' that veer to extremist practices.
Rooted in the islamic ideology of Takfir wal Hijra, preached by Sayyid Qutb Ibrahim Husayn Shadhil in Egypt, takfiris instigated mass killings of muslims by muslims in the early 60s. One of the adherents was Shukri Mustafa, a mohammed wannabe who first began to declare fatwas against 'muslims who were technically apostates' because they sided with the kafirs, or lived like them. You can guess how valuable it was to demagogues during the Arab spring.
It became a kind of theo-fascism within the islamic world, rallying the violent and the unruly to prey upon their fellow muslims who had too much money, wore western dresses, learnt english, danced or flossed. Religious warlords and hoodlums everywhere adopted the self-assumed authority to declare people as takfirs (apostates). Also, back then it was easy only to kill muslims, and maybe the occasional jewish tourist.
As a result they came to be known as takfiris.
Mind you, it is probable for a takfiri to be a wahabi. But every wahabi may not be a takfiri. There are wahabis who do not take up weapons, meaning not takfiris, but use Lawfare instead. They claim to be moderates and will call terrorists takfiris.
Among the 'Moderate Muslims', a takfiri is the equivalent of a school shooter. At least that is the claim. And this is where the islamists try to replace every term like 'islamic extremism' with what's palatable to muslims and those who believe there is a 'good islam' and 'bad islam' with words like 'Takfiri Indoctrination'.
It suggests that an otherwise good and kind fellow like Abu, falls in with the crazed crowd and becomes an extremist, because of a splinter faction of islam, the religion of peace.
Introduced into newspeak and intelligence dossiers of western analysts by their 'muslim allies against terrorism', it is a term that muslims still use to describe 'the aberrant doctrines, not really islam, extremist teaching', distancing themselves from it as 'moderates.
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At one point we had a poster from the State Department, and yes, the CIA does appear to look in on us from time to time. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld had been told about us (that was True German Ally’s doing before the dear man died), though there is no way of knowing whether he took an interest. But then the site owner, Fred Pruitt, comes out of military intelligence, so the connections are natural.
Before finding Rantburg, I worried I'll die with a lot of useful information no one wants. ☺
Rantburg is definitely where you belong, dear Dron66046.
A good many of the Pakistani madrassas feed their less illustrious graduates straight into the warring parties in Afghanistan — literally, according to some articles published here over the years, the lads are told to pack up their kit, loaded onto busses or trucks, and driven across the border to wherever the action is, at which point they are handed guns and pointed at the target. The parents are informed of their demise afterward, madrassah boys being scions of families who want their lads educated or at least fed, but lack the wherewithal to pay proper state or public (in the English sense) school fees.
The soft jihad of the law versus the hard jihad of the sword is how I’ve seen it described. We have also seen, particularly in Europe and Britain, Pakistan, ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and occasionally in Israel, the fun jihad of seduction and/or r4pe...
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I don't always agree with every opinion posted here but Rantburg definitely is a one stop site for everything WOT, islamism and general madness of the world.
And yes, it is a great forum for civil debate.
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Although everyone on Rantburg seems to be actively pro-American conservative, I don't think we have anything in common with the career alphabeteers as they are now. I think Langley would relegate Rantburg to the list of 'Neocon chat groups', just the usual NSA crawlers reporting blips of text here and there.
I imagine the most alarms go off on Skidmark's rad news posts.☺ And someone somewhere re-arrives at the conclusion that 'these neocons are crazy'.
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re: #10 Never thought about that. I'm on a list for past comments more than likely.
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I'm on a list for past comments more than likely.
That’s why we’re strict about certain kinds of language and statements. It is absolutely not ok to mess up Fred’s professional life just because someone has a whim to push the boundaries.
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Not so sure everyone here's a neocon. A lot of Jacksonian and a few (like yt) old-fashioned Kennedy-style tough-minded national security liberals.
And a besoekerberserker or two.
9 September
[ToloNews] The operation started two weeks ago and will continue in other parts of Badakhshan, the Ministry of Defense said.
Afghan cops have retaken Yumgan district in the northeastern province of Badakhshan on Monday after nearly four years, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
The operation to clear the district of Taliban ...Arabic for students... was started two weeks ago, the statement said.
"Taliban suffered heavy losses in the operation," the statement said, adding that foreigner fighters are also among the death.
The statement said that a "big number" of Taliban fighters surrendered to security forces during the operation.
According to the statement, the operation will continue to fully clear Badakhshan of Taliban.
The ministry said that the operation left no casualties to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
According to a statement released by Ministry of Defense, the security forces conducted airstrikes and ground operations during which they recaptured Yamgan district from Taliban after almost four years.
The statement further added that the security forces also inflicted heavy casualties on local and foreign Taliban militants during the operations.
This comes as the Afghan forces recaptured Wardoj district from Taliban from Taliban militants few days earlier.
9 September
[KhaamaPress] The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that the U.S. envy for Afghan peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has been recalled back to Washington after President Trump called off peace talks with Taliban ...Arabic for students... Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press, Secretary Pompeo also confirmed that peace negotiations with Taliban are dead for the time being.
President Trump on Sunday announced that he is called off peace negotiations with the Taliban group.
President Trump said in a Twitter post "Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday."
Furthermore, Trump said "They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great soldiers, and 11 other people."
He also added "I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they only made it worse! If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. How many more decades are they willing to fight?"
9 September
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed or maimed at least 49 Talibs during the operations in northern Balkh province.
The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the security forces conducted the operations in Siya Aab Village of Sholgara district and Arzankar Village of Chamtal district.
The statement further added that the security forces killed 36 Talibs and maimed 13 others during the operations.
Furthermore, the security forces destroyed a strategic compound of the turbans and four cycle of violences.
The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that the Air Forces also provided support to the ground forces during the same operations.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed dozens of bandidosmurderous Moslems including a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Maidan Wardak province.
The Special Operations Corps said in a statement that the security forces conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Nerkh district of Wardak province.
The statement further added that the airstrikes killed 23 Talibs including one of the Red Unit commanders of the group.
Furthermore, the Special Operations Corps said the airstikes also killed 15 bandidosmurderous Moslems of the Red Unit of Taliban.
The Special Corps said the airstrikes also killed the shadow district chief of Taliban for Jalrez district of Wardak province.
8 September
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces conducted multiple operations in Kabul and other provinces, killing or detaining at least 19 Talibs.
The military officials said Sunday that the Special Forces detained 6 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Jaghatu district of Wardak.
The Special Forces also destroyed another weapons cache during a similar raid in Nerkh district of Wardak.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Ghazni city of Ghazni province.
The Special Forces conducted a similar raid in Waghaz district of Ghazni and arrested 7 Talibs.
Furthermore, the Special Forces destroyed a weapons cache of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan.
The Special Forces also arrested 2 Talibs during a patrol in Kabul province, the officials added.
[Jpost] The UN accused Israel of killing and injuring "peaceful" Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border, when it opened the 42nd session of its Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
"In the vast majority of cases monitored by my office, no indication was found that the demonstrators ‐ including children who were killed or seriously injured by live fire ‐ represented an imminent threat of death or risk of serious injury to the Israeli soldiers ‐ or anyone else," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the council.
...She acknowledged that there were protesters who "damaged and breached the fence," threw petrol bombs, sound grenades and improvised explosive devices towards Israeli soldiers, injuring two, she said.
Between March and August, some "180 burning kites and incendiary balloons" were launched, she added.
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...when it opened the 42nd session of its Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
So right off the bat with this useless 'council', a UN group basically accuses Israel of war crimes. Talk about a standing headline -they can fuck right the fuck off. I can't wait until Trump pulls all US funding for these parasites.
Security Media Cell announce seizing 3 car bombs in Nineveh
5 September
Nineveh (IraqiNews) The security media cell announced on Thursday, seizing three car bombs in different areas of Nineveh, while pointed out that the car bombs were detonated on site.
In a press statement, the Cell reported that based on accurate intelligence information, joint forces from the 60th Brigade of the 20th Division and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri, managed to seize three booby-trapped vehicles, southwest of Lake Sinisla and southeast of Munayef Mount.
“It was treated and detonated without inflicting any losses,” the cell further added.
“The U.S.-led international coalition warplanes launched an airstrike, targeting a terrorist hotbed in Hamam al-Alil district in Nineveh,” the Security Media Cell said in a press statement.
“Eight Islamic State terrorists were killed in the air raid,” the statement read, adding that the operation was carried out based on intelligence information.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Huge military buildup are being deployed to northern Aleppo frontlines as a new offensive looms, pro-Syrian opposition media reported.
According to a military commander in the Ottoman Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), the military reinforcements are primarily made up of Iranian fighters and its allies.
"The majority of the weaponry are snipers, machineguns, anti-tank missiles and reconnaissance drones", the military commander said.
"In previous years, the Syrian Army and Kurdish fighters joined forces in launching several attacks against the FSA locations in northern Aleppo", he added.
Two days ago, A massive convoy of Syrian military reinforcements made their way to the northern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate today, a source from the army told al-Masdar News.
[IsraelTimes] A Syrian war monitor associated with the opposition says over 120 Christian places of worship have been damaged or destroyed by all sides in the country’s eight-year conflict.
The Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -based Syrian Network for Human Rights says in its report that the Syrian government was responsible for 60 percent of the attacks. It says the rest were done by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and other rebel groups.
In one attack, IS used bulldozers to destroy the ancient Saint Elian Monastery in 2015. Other sites were damaged by combat or shelling.
Christians made up about 10% of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million. Half the population are now either internally displaced or have left the country.
The Syrian government has no immediate comment on the report.
[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government and police swung into action on Sunday and reportedly persuaded a policewoman not to quit her job that she announced she would in protest against injustice done to her after she was allegedly humiliated and slapped by a lawyer in Ferozewala courts last week.
Earlier in the day, Constable Faiza Nawaz in a video message said: "I am really fed up with this unjust and cruel system. I am resigning from my service, that’s all."
Sheikhupura District Police Officer (DPO) Ghazi Salahuddin told Dawn that he had held a meeting with the constable after the video went viral on social media and claimed that she was not resigning now.
He said the constable was misquoted in the video by the interviewer and she was not dejected either. He said the constable’s morale was high after meeting him and police would take care of her.
Punjab chief minister’s front man Shahbaz Gill also said Faiza Nawaz was not resigning. He said the constable had released a fresh video message about her change of heart. He regretted grant of bail to the suspect by a Ferozewala judge over a minor mistake in the FIR.
[IsraelTimes] A bill that would force British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... to seek a delay to the October 31 Brexit deadline if no deal is reached has become law with approval by Queen Elizabeth II.
The royal approval is announced by Norman Fowler, the speaker of the House of Lords.
The queen’s approval is seen as a formality after the bill was approved by Parliament. It is opposed by the government.
It is designed to prevent Johnson from taking Britannia out of the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union without an agreement with the other 27 nations in the bloc.
Johnson has said he will not seek a delay to the deadline.
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Supposedly this 'Brexit delay law' is worded imprecisely in that Boris Johnson is compelled to 'seek' a delay with the EU but there's plenty of room for Johnson to half-ass it / not be entirely serious about this effort, so we'll have to wait & see what happens next. Talk about a soap opera.
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Their are already rumors that Boris and Nigel will form up s "New Majority" In which Nigel would get a cabinet position say Chancellor. And they are reputedly talking to Eastern European who are EU members who have no love for Muslims to throw spanners into the works. Get yo popcorn ready.
Boris can't work out a deal, refuses to ask for a delay and is toppled by a non confidence vote (or resigns).
The opposition appoints an interim PM (a rebel Tory) who will either seel a delay (EU consent required) or on the last day revokes Article 50 (no EU consent required) in order to save Britain from a no deal Brexit. Back to Square One.
I can see Kenneth Clarke or Amber Rudd doing this. Or maybe Jo Swinson (LibDem) who is a declared Remainer.
The last week of October will be Shakespearean.
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Shakespearean.
To be or not to be, that is the question? We do live in interesting times — I look forward to calmer days, when the most important question is whether the world will end in fire or in ice, or just go on as it has been.
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The EU is not finished, far from it. And you should not wish it were. I don't think you'd look forward to Europe being controlled by Russian and Chinese interests if the center doesn't hold.
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If it's a choice is between Russians and Muslims (with European technologist dhimmis) I know that I prefer. But it isn't, Russia barely a shadow of what it was, and USA is still around. It is their own people that EUrope's Mandarins have to fear. As I said, it's Gorbachev's way, or Ceaușescu's.
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I don't think you really understand how the EU works. In the end it's not the bureaucrats who call the shots but the leaders of the major European countries.
The EU isn't any more bureaucratic than the U.S. government.
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For one thing, people who voted LEAVE thinking Britain's problems with muslim immigrants would end will be disappointed even after Brexit. 'Enlightened liberals' on both sides shall see to that.
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I don't think you really understand how the EU works. In the end it's not the bureaucrats who call the shots but the leaders of the major European countries.
Democratically elected leaders, accountable to their people.
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EC - I've always respected your opinions and positions, but with Brexit, you seem unhinged in denying the Brits their exit? What about Hungary? Czechs? Poland?
The Bureaucratic Empire is crumbling. Punitive measures will only speed it up with resentment. Populism? You ain't seen nothing yet
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Fuck the terms just opt out.
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I'm definitely not "denying" the Brits their exit. It's entirely up to them. I do feel that people weren't aware of the consequences of a no deal Brexit when they voted on the referendum. That's why I think they should be given a choice between deal/no deal.
I don't agree with the "EUSSR" labeling. As a matter of fact Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union makes it possible to leave the European Union, no ifs and buts. Should Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic want to leave, they can do so.
If they want, they don't have to accept any terms from the EU. This means they are out, without any benefits, and will be treated like any other country not member of the EU. I don't see any punishing in that.
If they want preferential treatment from the EU, they'll have to negotiate. Switzerland or Norway have special deals with the EU.
We can talk all day long about EU bureaucracy. I still prefer Europe with the EU. We benefit from it. The company I own benefits from it. My kids benefit from it.
I hate tariffs and customs. It seems stupid to me that the Channel will become a hard customs border again. But the UK is the one deciding this.
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You don't need to decide on terms for leaving.
Just have to leave.
That was the instruction the British people gave to their Parliament. The WTO trade framework is much better than membership of the EUSSR. Due to their terrible tendencies towards establishment marxism It will be hard for the EUSSR politburo to come up with anything better for either party.
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Valdimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov's writings showing soviet infiltration was welcomed at all levels of the EU bureaucracy, is why he and I name it the EUSSR.
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Glendower:
Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command
The devil
Hotspur:
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil—
By telling the truth. Tell truth and shame the devil.
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Re: #29 - Perhaps they KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE VOTING FOR.
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The truth, coz, is that Britain cannot remain Britain and submit to the terms of full-blown EU membership.
The elites are happy to cast off British history and merge Britain into a bureaucratic superstate because it's how their bread is buttered.
The "human rights lawyers," trade lawyers, moneyfiddlers, left-wing journalists and bureaucrats have everything to lose and little to gain from preserving Britain's unique identity and historic processes for making and administering the laws of the land.
It is the people who reject the heavy handed and distinctly in-British EU who are making the morally superior, non-aggrandizing choice. Bully for them.
[DAWN] Britannia's House of Commons Speaker John Bercow, who played a key role in the three-year Brexit crisis, said on Monday he would stand down from the role, issuing a warning to the government not to "degrade" parliament.
Bercow bent parliamentary rules to give politicians the chance to challenge government policy, most recently to pass a law seeking to block a no-deal exit from the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union.
He was given a standing ovation from many members of the lower house as he announced his plan to stand down in the coming weeks.
[CNSNEWS] Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, some waving American flags, marched to the U.S. Consulate Sunday, urging Congress to quickly pass legislation providing for U.S. responses to Beijing-instigated rights abuses or attempts to erode the territory’s autonomy.
“President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong,” read a large blue banner and numerous posters held by demonstrators, some of whom also sang along to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” piped through loudspeakers.
“Resist Beijing! Liberate Hong Kong! Democracy Now!” protesters chanted, alluding to concerns about an erosion of freedoms in the former British colony, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 with guarantees it would continue to enjoy a “high degree” of autonomy for at least 50 years.
[NYPOST] President Trump on Monday went after the latest longshot to challenge him in the 2020 Republican primary, mocking former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford for his extramarital affair with a "Flaming Dancer."
"When the former Governor of the Great State of South Carolina, @MarkSanford, was reported missing, only to then say he was away hiking on the Appalachian Trail, then was found in Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... with his Flaming Dancer friend, it sounded like his political career was over," Trump posted on Twitter.
"It was, but then he ran for Congress and won, only to lose his re-elect after I Tweeted my endorsement, on Election Day, for his opponent. But now take heart, he is back, and running for President of the United States," the president continued.
He concluded by referring to his challengers as "The Three Stooges" who are "badly failed candidates."
Sanford announced he would run against Trump during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," joining former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh seeking the Republican nomination.
[PAGESIX] The defense attorney who initially represented rapper A$AP Rocky in his Swedish assault case was shot Friday morning while leaving his home in Stockholm ‐ and a former lawyer with a rap sheet was busted in connection with the crime.
Henrik Olsson Lilja was in a stairwell of the apartment building in central Stockholm when he was blasted multiple times in the head and chest at around 9 a.m. local time, TMZ reported.
The shooter jumped into a waiting SUV, which then sped off, according to the site, which reported that the maimed lawyer called the police himself.
Lilja was rushed to a local hospital where he was listed in serious, but stable, condition, according to the site.
Swedish Police said it is treating the case as an attempted murder, and authorities called it "an isolated incident with no known connection to recent violent crimes."
A woman, who is a former senior lawyer and ex-con, was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in connection to the incident, according to the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
The woman, who was not identified, was previously convicted of a violent crime, according to the newspaper.
Police said they have taken several people into custody for questioning.
[DAWN] The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police has banned the use of cellphones by officers while on duty and barred them from capturing videos of other police personnel on duty, it emerged on Monday. Tell us again how people are being mistreated in Kashmire.
The regulation comes after several cases came to light in recent days of suspects dying in the custody of Punjab police due to alleged torture.
A communiqué sent to all Punjab coppers by the additional inspector general on behalf of the Punjab IG, seen by Dawn.com, stated that it had been observed that police officials were using mobile phones while on duty even though "clear directions in this regard have already been conveyed to all field formations".
"Frequent violations of these directions/SOPs reflect badly on the performance of supervising officers," it said, stressing that it was the responsibility of the field formations to get the instructions implemented "in letter and spirit".
"In future, no officer below the rank of SHO (Station House Officer) or in-charge of a deployed duty will use cellphone while on duty," the letter decreed.
It also said that it was "strictly forbidden" to make a video of coppers on duty or upload a video of coppers performing their duty.
Any violations of the order will entail "severe departmental action" against the police personnel involved and their supervisory officer, it added.
At least three cases had come to light last week of deaths caused by alleged police torture, and videos had gone viral on social media of some suspects in a distressed state while in police custody. On September 1, Salahuddin Ayubi, a man who was said to be mentally disabled, had died in police custody in Rahim Yar Khan. On the same day, a middle-aged man had passed away in Lahore after allegedly being tortured by Gujjarpura police in an illegal torture cell that was unearthed last month.
Video of the speech, showing the prime minister’s Power Point slides, including ground level and overhead photos of the sites in question, can be watched at the link.
[IsraelTimes] At a brief news conference in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu begins by noting that uranium traces were found at a facility at Turquzabad flagged by the premier last year. He says the UN’s IAEA watchdog has confirmed the find.
More dramatically, he then reveals the existence of another "secret" Iranian facility, which he terms a "nuclear weapons development site," in Abadeh, south of Isafhan.
He shows how Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has tried to hide the traces of nuclear activity at the sites in question. At Turquzubad, the site has been razed and covered with gravel since he outed it last year ‐ "literally covered up," he says.
Likewise at Abadeh, once the Iranians realized that Israel knew what they were up to, they quickly moved to cover it up. He shows before and after Abadeh photographs from June and July of this year. And he adds: "It’s incredible. Every time we reveal, they try to cover up their tracks."
Addressing Tehran, Netanyahu says: "We know what you’re doing, when you’re doing it, where you’re doing it, and we will continue exposing your lies and violations."
Netanyahu calls on the international community to employ "pressure, pressure and more pressure" on Iran and join US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s sanctions.
He delivers his remarks in Hebrew and then in English.
7 September
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Two Iraqi citizens were maimed Saturday in a bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad, a security source was quoted as saying.
"A roadside kaboom went off Saturday in al-Baladiyat district, east of Baghdad, leaving two civilians maimed," the source told Iraqi TV channel Alsumaria News.
"The security forces cordoned off the blast scene, and carried the maimed into a nearby hospital for treatment," the source added.
4 September
Dhi Qar (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi security forces arrested on Wednesday two Iraqi youths for praising late president Saddam Hussein and commending his once-ruling Baath Party, a security source said.
"The pair, under 20s, were arrested by intelligence forces in Dhi Qar governorate for glorifying Saddam Hussein’s regime on social networking websites," the source told Alghad Press.
They were arrested pending investigations under the provisions of a law banning the Baath party and similar entities, he added.
The Iraqi parliament passes a bill banning the Baath Party from any political activity in the country in 2016.
The bill also outlawed any entities that profess or promote racism, terrorism, sectarianism or sectarian cleansing, as well as any political group that promotes ideas that contradict democracy and peaceful transition of power.
It seems awfully odd that this is being revealed now...
Story's bullshit. CIA denies it this AM. CNN gets (willingly) played
[IsraelTimes] The United States in 2017 successfully pulled one of its top spies inside the Russian government from the country, after US intelligence officials were alarmed by 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... discussing highly classified information on a secret Israeli mission in Syria with Russian officials, CNN reports, citing multiple Trump administration officials.
The report says the then-CIA director told other officials that too much information was being shared by Trump regarding the covert source. The spy was extracted in a complex mission after it was determined he was in danger.
That was done after Trump in May 2017 met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office.
A Vanity Fair report from November of that year said during the meeting, Trump discussed details of a daring top-secret mission into northern Syria by Israel’s Mossad spy agency and elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit to prevent Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... attacks, sticking a dagger into the robust Israeli-American intelligence-sharing apparatus.
Though Trump didn’t reveal information on the US asset in Moscow, intelligence officials decided to pull him out, in part out of fear that Trump would reveal details on that as well, CNN says.
At what point post-disappearance do you suppose the Russians figured out that the spy in question (spies are by definition not gentlemen, of course) was more than he appeared, dear Reader?
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Fake news from the coup plotters. If you read the linked article (CNN) to the end it says:
Those concerns grew in early 2017 after the US intelligence community released its public report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which said Putin himself ordered the operation. The intelligence community also shared a classified version of the report with the incoming Trump administration, and it included highly protected details on the sources behind the intelligence. Senior US intelligence officials considered extracting at least one Russian asset at the time but did not do so, according to the former senior intelligence official.
I.e. It was the intel agencies' attempts to discredit the new President that endangered the asset.
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Not the first time CNN has been caught in peddling a fable. On 7 June 1998 a controversial version of the above events was broadcast during the premiere of the Cable News Network's NewsStand CNN & Time in a report entitled "Valley of Death". The segment alleged that Operation Tailwind had been devised simply to eliminate a group of Americans who had defected to the enemy and were holed up in a Laotian village.(Wiki: Operation Tailwind)
#6
Obvious BS. Trump is Putin's nightmare. Trump has:
pulled out of the ABM Treaty - a massive strategic defeat for Russia.
Under Trump, we've sold our most potent missile defense system to both Poland and Sweden. He reversed Obama's policy of refusing lethal military aid to Ukraine. He reversed Obama's Syria policy and directly confronted Russia on the ground, killing scores of Russian mercenaries and soldiers in Syria.
He tripled defense initiatives to deter Russian aggression in Europe, staged maneuvers on Russia's borders, increased the anti-Russian defense budget by ~50%.
Trump sanctioned ~40 oligarchs and Russian officials, expanded the Magnitsky sanctions list, closed consulates & diplomatic annexes, expelled 60 diplomats.
For this idiotic Trump = Putin's Puppet narrative to be true, Putin would have to be either suicidal or a completely incompetent fool or a traitor to his own country.
“Intelligence forces, in coordination with the Nineveh Operations Command, killed nine IS terrorists hiding inside a tunnel in al-Sahaji village, southwest of Mosul,” Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, said in a press statement.
The troops were backed by warplanes of the U.S.-led international coalition, the spokesman added.
“A bomb placed inside a house at al Adnanya district in southeastern Mosul went off Saturday morning, leaving two explosive experts killed,” the ministry said in a press statement.
A security operation was launched to put an end to the threat of the leftover bombs in Mosul city.
Mosul has seen almost daily bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary troops and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake Islamic State-occupied areas in 2016. Though most of the daily bombings go without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State is expected to be behind many.
Mortar attack hurts U.S. soldier in Mosul
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) – A U.S. soldier was wounded Saturday in a mortar attack on a military base sheltering American troops in Mosul city, a security source said.
“A mortar attack targeted the military base of presidential palaces, which houses American troops, east of Mosul city, leaving a U.S. solider wounded,” the source told privately-owned Almaalomah news website on Saturday.
“Another mortar shell fell on the Andalus district in Mosul, leaving no casualties,” the source added.
The United States has an estimated 5,200 troops in Iraq as part of a security agreement with the Iraqi government to advise, assist, and support the Iraqi army in the fight against the Islamic State.
“Military intelligence forces stormed a terrorist hotbed at the Nineveh island, west of Mosul city, leaving an Islamic State terrorist dead,” Alsumaria News quoted the directorate as saying.
The troops destroyed the hideout and all its contents, the statement read.
Meanwhile, the directorate said that its forces arrested another Islamic State member in Ramadi city.
The militant, according to the statement, “was responsible for booby trapping vehicles in order to be used later in terrorist attacks by the Islamic State group.”
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Shortly after 12:30 A.M. (local time), unconfirmed reports surfaced of unidentified warplanes targeting the Iranian forces in the eastern Syria city of Albukamal.
According to reports, a number of explosions were heard inside Albukamal city in the Deir Ezzor Governorate after these unidentified warplanes targeted the Iranian military’s positions.
Opposition activists in the area allege that the warplanes were targeting the Iranian forces; however, no government sources have confirmed these reports as of yet.
Al-Masdar is awaiting a response from the Syrian military about these allegations.
[NYPOST] Liked his video games, liked dressing up like a real soldier, told people he was a nut. Everybody believed him but administration (the guys who're paid the big bucks to take charge.)
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[LAWANDCRIME] The owner of right-leaning cable news channel One America News Network (OANN) has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow and others claiming that the 46-year-old liberal commentator "maliciously and recklessly" smeared the network as a Russian state propaganda outlet.
In a blurb obtained by Law&Crime, attorneys for OANN’s owner Herrring Networks, Inc. said they filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal and MSNBC in a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, federal court.
The lawsuit tracks a series of longstanding grievances between OANN and Comcast.
According to the blurb, the complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry the right-wing network because OANN "counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC." One week after that, OANN’s founder Charles Herring sent an open email to Comcast deriding their alleged "anti-competitive censorship."
Maddow apparently responded in turn, defending her own network’s owners by blasting OANN and telling her own audience the right-wing network "really literally is paid Russian propaganda."
OANN’s lawsuit asserts that Maddow‐as well as the other named corporate defendants‐knew the liberal host’s statement was false and that Maddow acted both maliciously and recklessly when she made it. This language mirrors the legal definition of defamation under California statutory and case law.
The lawsuit further alleges that Maddow’s xenophobic broadside against OANN was intended to damage the conservative network’s business and reputation. Additionally, the lawsuit claims that Maddow targeted the competing network for retaliation over their allegations that Comcast was acting in an anti-competitive manner.
Attorney Skip Miller is a partner with Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles.
In comments obtained by Law&Crime, Miller reiterated the anti-factual nature of Maddow’s Russian jab at the right-wing network.
"One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego," Miller said. "They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government. This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law."
[DAWN] Pakistain’s Ambassador to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Maleeha Lodhi has called for action on part of the UN to deal with the crisis-like situation stemming from India's "illegal" annexation of Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e and to push for the implementation of the Security Council resolutions that pledged the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people.
In an interview with Consortium News, an independent American media outlet, she highlighted the gravity of the situation in the disputed region where people have been suffering under a military lockdown for over a month, and urged UN Secretary General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... to take steps to prevent a bigger crisis in South Asia.
"What has happened in occupied Jammu and Kashmir is certainly a flashpoint," Ambassador Lodhi said, noting that the secretary general and other UN officials have made statements in the wake of the ongoing crisis that called for a settlement of the Kashmir dispute through dialogue between India and Pakistain in accordance with Security Council resolutions and UN Charter provisions.
[THESUN.CO.UK] Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has sensationally lost a THIRD of its seats in Moscow in a local election bloodbath.
Sunday’s poll was one of the most closely watched regional elections in years after many opposition candidates were excluded triggering the capital’s biggest protests in nearly a decade.
Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's United Russia lost a third of its seats in Moscow's local electionsCredit: AFP or licensors
The vote was seen by outspoken opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his allies as an opportunity to make inroads against United Russia ahead of the 2021 national election.
Protests erupted in mid-July after the Central Election Commission refused to register a large number of opposition candidates, saying they had failed to collect enough signatures from genuine backers.
The excluded candidates, including allies of Navalny, slammed the move claiming it was designed to stop them winning seats in Moscow’s parliament.
Navalny advised his supporters to vote tactically across Russia for the candidate with the best chance of defeating Putin’s party.
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Typical UK journalists. Intentionally misleading headline and the word 'Bloodbath' sewn in insidiously, giving it the KЯemlin tinge.
I wouldn't want anybody but Vlad in Russia if I was a russkie. There are several anti-establishment types, russkie versions of AOC and even secular, diversity loving islamophile globalists trying to play 'fearless quixotic leader' there. Gotta be held in check or they'll turn back whatever progress Russia has made with Putin.
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Putin has destroyed his nation's chance at success. Whatever few good policies he has had have come completely by accident as he faces off against his southern Islamic neighbors in Chechnya. He has nearly destroyed the Ukraine, prevented any real economic, social, or political progress from occurring in Russia, and kept himself and his chosen few oligarchs incredibly wealthy and isolated from the troubles that Russia faces.
[DAWN] At least 22 pro-independence activists were taken into custody by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (AJK) police in Hajira subdivision of Poonch district overnight for alleged rioting while a sit-in continued in Tetrinote village on the second consecutive day on Sunday.
On Saturday, police had stopped thousands of participants of a "Freedom Long March" called by Sardar Mohammad Saghir-led faction of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) in Dawarandi village of the Hajira area, when they were insisting to move ahead towards Tetrinote that lies in the closest proximity of the restive Line of Control (LoC).
DIG of Poonch Tahir Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... told Dawn that the decision to stop the marchers was taken in the interest of their safety and that "their leaders had given an undertaking to the administration that they would not go beyond a designated spot to avoid the risk of Indian shelling".
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Walk into any roadside tavern and loudly state those sentiments out loud along highway 51 in Tennessee....and see what it gets you. Then when your face heals up, drive South to Georgia and do it again for a free funeral, The best place to go first would be the road going to Alabama through Powder Springs from Atlanta. Just any bar from Mableton going West toward central Alabama. And those people are the salt of the Earth Americans.
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Turn it over? Yah, but only to check that the bipod is securely fastened. Then you can have it...muzzle first... did I mention the circa 1917 German "Butcher" bayonet?
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I see three things happening. (1) Some folks give up their guns rather than fight the system (2) Some folks declare their weapons stolen. Fill out a police report and basically hide their guns, police don't ask too many questions. (3) Some folks start shooting.
I don't know the percentages of each but I bet any kind of turn over your guns is made voluntary hoping to capture (1) and pretend its a big success.
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As I understand it, ruprecht, 3% of the population were actively involved in American Revolution.
Debated the percentage that actually took up arms. The percentage is much higher when you take into account those that supplied, supported and worked against Tories. Based on known events and modern day conflicts, some 35% supported the revolution. 30-35% were Tories and the rest just wanted to be left alone.
[DAWN] Authorities on Sunday tightened a month-long security lockdown in occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s main city of Srinagar after breaking up processions by Shias who defied a ban.
A military clampdown was imposed on the disputed Himalayan region on Aug 5 to prevent unrest as New Delhi revoked its autonomy. On Sunday mobile phone networks and the internet were still cut off in all but a few pockets of the city.
Police drove around the city from early morning, announcing through loudspeakers that "residents are informed not to venture out of their homes".
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"residents are informed not to venture out of their homes".
"Anyone so inclined, may self-flagellate in the comfort of their own home. Also, blood banks will be closed and ambulances and clinics reserve the right to deny service to self inflicted wounds."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The mayor of al-Qa’im in Iraq’s al-Anbar Governorate told the Sputnik News Agency on Friday, September 6th that his country’s government was preparing to reopen their border with Syria after several weeks of construction.
Speaking to Sputnik, Ahmad Jidyan, al-Qa’im’s mayor, said that 90 percent of the Iraqi-Syrian border at Albukamal has been rehabilitated.
Despite previously setting the reopening date on September 7th, Jidyan said the border crossing will actually be reopened on a later date, as the project’s construction continues on both sides of the border.
Jidyan said the last 10 percent of the construction has to do with logistical work, in particular, the restoration of electricity at the crossing.
For Syria, the reopening of their border crossing with Iraq will be a major boost for their economy as trade and commerce between both countries should be increased substantially.
Furthermore, once the border is reopened, Syria will benefit greatly from Iran’s ground transportation of oil.
As of now, Syria relies on Iran’s transportation of oil via sea; however, with the new land bridge from Iraq, they will be able to avoid such travel routes.
At the same time, a new land bridge between Iraq and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is nearly complete in the northeastern part of the Diyala Governorate, another Iraqi official told Sputnik.
The new crossing will be opened in the town of al-Munzhiriyah and will allow up to 1,200 people to pass through the border each day.
[IsraelTimes] Satellite images show large-scale destruction after attack on base that reportedly served as a major component in Tehran’s plans to build a ’land bridge’ from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to Leb.
A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s attributed to Israel that targeted a base belonging to a pro-Iranian Shiite militia in Syria near the border with Iraq on Monday completely destroyed at least eight storehouses in the compound, according to satellite images released by a private Israeli intelligence firm.
The pre-dawn attack caused a great deal of damage to the base, known as the Imam Ali compound, which Israel reportedly believes was a key element in Tehran’s effort to develop a so-called "land bridge" that would allow the Islamic Theocratic Republic to easily move weapons, fighters, and war materiel from Iran through Iraq, Syria and Leb.
The compound, which is located approximately five kilometers (three miles) from the Iraqi border in Syria’s Albu Kamal region, was first publicly identified as an Iranian-controlled base earlier this month by Fox News, citing unnamed Western intelligence sources.
"If indeed it is an Iranian base, it is probable that the strike is part of the struggle with Tehran to prevent its effort of establishing the land corridor to its allies in Syria and Hezbollah in Leb," according to the Israeli satellite imagery analysis company ImageSat International.
Pro-Iranian news outlets attributed the bombardment to the Israel Defense Forces. There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Shortly after the strike, members of a Shiite militia in Syria fired a number of rockets toward Mount Hermon on the Israeli Golan Heights from the outskirts of Damascus, according to the Israeli military.
The projectiles fell short of the border and landed inside Syrian territory.
The highly irregular reprisal attack by a pro-Iranian militia appeared to indicate that Tehran saw the strike as a serious blow to its efforts in the region.
According to a Britian-based Syrian war monitor, at least 21 people were killed in the airstrike on the Imam Ali base, which was reportedly constructed under the direction of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force.
The base belonged to the Popular Mobilization Force, an umbrella group of Iraqi Shiite militias, which are funded in large part by Iran.
According to ImageSat, the eight storehouses that were destroyed in the strike appeared to be either newly built or still in the process of being built. Several other structures remained intact following the strike.
The Israeli intelligence firm said that the storehouses appeared to have been holding ammunition and weaponry when they were attacked.
According to the Fox News report, once completed, the Albu Kamal base could house thousands of soldiers and storage facilities for advanced weapons. The US cable network said the base’s construction is being overseen by the powerful Quds Force and its commander Qassem Soleimani , who are responsible for the IRGC’s activities abroad.
Satellite photos of the base, released by ImageSat International last week, showed what appeared to be five recently constructed buildings that can store precision-guided missiles.
[NYPOST] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... on Sunday said that President Trump’s decision to call off a secret meeting that he had scheduled with the terror group’s leaders at Camp David "will lead to more losses to the US."
"Now that US President Trump has announced the suspension of negotiations with the Islamic Emirate, this would not harm anyone else but the Americans themselves," the Taliban said in a statement. "This will further harm their credibility and will show their anti-peace stance in more clear way."
Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said that the US "anti-peace stance will be exposed to the world" and that "losses to lives and assets will increase" now that the talks with the terror leaders are off.
"This will lead to more losses to the US," Mujahid said.
The failed talks ‐ which were planned to take place at Camp David on Sunday ‐ were first announced by Trump in a tweet Saturday night and were then confirmed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as being officially off.
"For the time being they are," Pompeo said on "Fox News Sunday."
Pompeo added that Zalmay Khalilzad, special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation at the State Department, had been ordered home in the wake of the decision. It comes following a suicide kaboom in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday that left a US Army sergeant dead.
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Tactical retreat may be hooted and heckled by the enemy and your detractors, but it's the best thing to do right now. Trump hasn't yet mustered 'the bad' it'll take to win this.
A pull out and denial of Afghan territory to CIA officials will also have other advantages back home. I say that in light of this.
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I think it is not uncommon to blow the living hell out of an enemy as a cover for a retreat. Just saying i'd be up for a few rolling thunder runs around the taliban headquarters as we pull out.
And what 3dc said. Deny them the opium cash that we should have denied them a decade ago.
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians... on Sunday replaced the energy minister with one of his sons, state media said, in a major shakeup as the OPEC kingpin reels from low oil prices.
The appointment of Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, half-brother to de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , marks the first time a royal family member has been put in charge of the all-important energy ministry.
He replaces veteran official Khalid al-Falih as the world’s top crude exporter accelerates preparations for a much-anticipated stock listing of state-owned oil giant Aramco, expected to be the world’s biggest.
A bunch of Americans are on a Syrian regime-sponsored propaganda tour of Damascus. They include the usual suspects—Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, Anya Parampil, Ajamu Baraka. The photos are posted by a woman named Yasemin. Can someone help identify the rest? pic.twitter.com/m8O8XOXhPS
[DAWN] Kuwait’s 90-year-old ruling emir has cancelled a visit on Thursday with President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... at the White House after being admitted to a US hospital following an earlier health scare last month.
Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah will undergo unspecified tests during his hospitalisation, the state-run Kuwait News Agency (Kuna) reported late Sunday, without elaborating.
It quoted Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah, the minister of the emir’s diwan council, as saying Sheikh Sabah would reschedule his visit with Trump.
"Sheikh Ali prayed to Allah the Almighty to bestow His Highness the Emir with good health," Kuna said.
A White House statement said Trump was aware of the emir being hospitalised.
"The president wishes his friend, the Emir, a speedy recovery and looks forward to welcoming him back to Washington as soon as he is feeling better," the statement said. "The Emir is a well-respected leader and has been a tremendous partner of the United States in tackling challenges in the region."
On August 18, Kuwait acknowledged the emir suffered an unspecified medical "setback".
That came after visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on Twitter that he was "praying for emir’s speedy recovery".
[IsraelTimes] The UN’s nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... was installing advanced centrifuges as the troubled 2015 deal with world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program threatens to fall apart.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that on September 7 it had "verified that the following centrifuges were either installed or being installed...: 22 IR-4, one IR-5, 30 IR-6 and three IR-6s."
The IAEA’s confirmation comes a day after Tehran hit out at Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an powers, saying they had left Iran little option but to scale back its commitments under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The IAEA added in its statement that the centrifuges had been installed at Iran’s Natanz facility and said "all of the installed centrifuges had been prepared for testing with UF6 (uranium hexafluoride), although none of them were being tested with UF6 on 7 and 8 September 2019."
"In addition, in a letter to the Agency dated 8 September, Iran informed the Agency that it would reinstall the piping at two R&D lines to accommodate a cascade of 164 IR-4 centrifuges and a cascade of 164 IR-2m centrifuges," the agency’s statement said.
Iran has said that notwithstanding its reduction of commitments under the JCPOA, it will continue to allow access to IAEA inspectors who monitor its nuclear program.
After the IAEA assessment was released on Monday, Foreign Minister Israel Katz called on the remaining signatories of the 2015 deal to follow the US example by abandoning the accord and re-imposing sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Also on Monday, China ‐ which along with La Belle France, Germany, Britannia and Russia is also a signatory to the JCPOA ‐ called on the US to "give up its wrong approach such as unilateral sanctions and extreme pressure against Iran."
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It’s easy for those countries to criticize our approach to Iran’s nuke program. After all they know they are not the target. They know only the US, Israel, and KSA are the targets
[IsraelTimes] Terror group contends interlocutors have not succeeded in securing Mohammed al-Khoudari’s release yet; it asserts Gulf kingdom also arrested several other Paleostinians.
The Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group said Monday that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... earlier this year arrested a Paleostinian man who used to manage its relations with Riyadh.
Hamas claimed in a statement that Saudi Arabia, "in a strange and unacceptable move," collared 81-year-old Mohammed al-Khoudari, who it noted has also held high-ranking leadership positions in the terror group, on April 4.
Hamas, which has vowed to destroy Israel, has seldom made public criticisms explicitly directed at Saudi Arabia.
The terror group also contended that Khoudari, who it said has lived in Jedda for three decades, was suffering from an incurable illness Islam and said Riyadh also nabbed his son Hani "without justification," along with other Paleostinians based in the Gulf kingdom.
Hamas’s statement did not state whether Hani or the other Paleostinians it said were arrested belong to its ranks.
"Hamas has kept silent for over five months to allow for interlocutors to undertake efforts [to release the Paleostinians], but they have not led to any results as of yet," the terror group said.
"Therefore, the movement found itself compelled to issue an announcement, demanding the Saudi authorities release Khoudari, his son and all other Paleostinian detainees," it added.
Hamas is backed by Iran, which Saudi officials, similar to the Israeli government, consider a regional foe.
In 2017, then-Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir told news hounds in La Belle France that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... should stop supporting Hamas, which later slammed his remark.
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After a lengthy investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller charged Russia made "multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election" and said the incursion "deserves the attention of every American."
But former FBI Sherlocks say their old boss didn’t feel the same concern when they uncovered multiple, systemic efforts by the Saudi government to assist the hijackers in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks ‐ a far more consequential, to say nothing of deadly, foreign influence operation on America.
As the head of the FBI at the time, they say Mueller was not nearly as interested in investigating that espionage conspiracy, which also involved foreign intelligence officers. Far from it, the record shows he covered up evidence pointing back to the Saudi Embassy and Riyadh ‐ and may have even misled Congress about what he knew.
9/11 victims agree. "He was the master when it came to covering up the kingdom’s role in 9/11," said survivor Sharon Premoli, who was pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center 18 years ago.
"In October of 2001, Mueller shut down the government’s investigation after only three weeks, and then took part in the Bush [administration’s] campaign to block, obfuscate and generally stop anything about Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... from being released," added Premoli, now a plaintiff in the 9/11 lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.
In fact, Mueller threw up roadblocks in the path of his own Sherlocks working the 9/11 case, while making it easier for Saudi suspects to escape questioning, multiple case agents told me. Then he deep-sixed what evidence his agents did manage to uncover, according to the 9/11 lawsuit against the Saudis.
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So, is there a way to see if he has numbered Swiss accounts?
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Did he do so under orders from the White House? If he acted independently he's a traitor. If he followed orders (as I suspect) then... well we already knew Bush let the Saudi's off so this isn't really anything new, we just know the footsoldier who dutifully carries out orders despite the moral issues involved.
[NYPOST] British leader Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... has confirmed he will shut down Parliament Monday night after a second attempt to force a snap general election.
"Parliament will be prorogued at close of business today," the Prime Minister’s front man said, using the parliamentary term for the suspension of business.
It starts Monday night, after Johnson tries for the second time to try to force a general election in the hopes of gaining enough support to force through his plans for a no-deal Brexit by Oct. 31.
Lasting until Oct. 14, the suspension, which limits politicians’ ability to block Johnson’s plans, will happen regardless of the outcome of his election bid, his front man said.
The suspension comes as Johnson insisted to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that a new Brexit deal could be reached by the Halloween deadline.
The two leaders met in Dublin on Monday, with Johnson saying an "alternative arrangements" could also be met on the so-called Irish backstop provision. Johnson wants the bloc to scrap the controversial backstop mechanism that would keep the Ireland-Northern Ireland border open in all circumstances after Brexit.
[DAWN] United States President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... on Monday said that US peace talks with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... are over and announced that the US military has dramatically scaled up attacks on the gunnies in Afghanistan.
"They are dead. As far as I am concerned, they are dead," Trump said at the White House about the long-running attempt to reach an agreement with the Taliban and extricate US troops from the country after 18 years of war.
The announcement followed Trump's dramatic cancelation of a secret plan to fly Taliban leaders in for direct talks at the Camp David presidential retreat over the weekend.
Driving another nail into the coffin of what had appeared to be nearly completed negotiations, Trump said that a US military onslaught on the guerrillas was now at its fiercest in a decade.
"Over the last four days, we have been hitting our enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!" he said in a tweet.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that "we've killed over a thousand Taliban in just the last 10 days."
Goodness. Kudos all around, including to the Taliban for waiting like sitting ducks.
Trump angrily denied that the whiplash effect of his sudden shifts on Afghanistan was causing turmoil.
Until this weekend, there had been steadily mounting expectations of a deal that would see the US draw down troop levels in Afghanistan. In return, the Taliban would offer security guarantees to keep Death Eater groups out.
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I would say so by the body counts in above articles.
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Iraqi security forces apprehend Islamic State militant in Diyala
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces arrested on Wednesday an Islamic State member during a security operation in the northeastern province of Diyala, the Interior Ministry said.
“Acting on intelligence information, a security force from Diyala intelligence and counter-terrorism directorate arrested an Islamic State militant, who served as a member of the so-called Diyala province in the terrorist group,” Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry spokesman, said in a press statement.
The suspect confessed to carrying out several terrorist attacks against civilians, as well as providing aid supplies for the Islamic State militants, the spokesman added.
“An explosive charge went off Wednesday morning near a farm in al-Abbara district, northeast of Baqubah, leaving a farmer wounded,” the source told the privately-owned Alghad Press website.
“The wounded civilian was moved to a nearby hospital for treatment,” added the source.
“An explosive charge targeted an army force in al-Islah village in Jalawla district, leaving two soldiers wounded,” the source told the privately-owned Almaalomah news website.
“Security forces cordoned off the blast scene, and the wounded were moved to hospital,” added the source.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State (IS) militant group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.
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[IsraelTimes] Report indicates drone was in area at time of explosion in western Anbar Province, day after alleged strike on group on Syrian side of border and failed missile attack.
Loud explosions were reported early Tuesday at a warehouse in Iraq apparently used by an Shiite militia, seemingly the latest of a string of attacks targeting Iranian-backed groups in western Iraq and eastern Syria.
The explosions were reported near the city of Hit in Anbar Province, northwest of Baghdad.
According to al-Arabiya, an Iraqi officer said there was a drone in the area at the time of the blasts.
It was not clear what the warehouse was storing, but Sky News Arabic reported that after the blast, shells were launched into neighboring areas, indicating an arms depot may have been hit.
There were reports of casualties from the blasts, though it was unclear how many there were.
The warehouse reportedly belonged to the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iran-backed militia which has blamed both Israel and the US for a recent string of blasts and drone sightings at its bases.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hezbollah announced that their forces had shot down an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that entered Lebanese airspace from the Upper Galilee region.
"The Mujahids of the Islamic Resistance countered an Israeli drone with appropriate weapons as it crossed the Paleostinian-Lebanese border towards the town of Ramiah," the Hezbollah statement began.
"The drone was downed on Monday 09/09/2019 at the outskirts of the town and is now in the hands of the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, but in the U.S. it's used by anti-Trumplings... ," they added.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syria’s Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... ordered the immediate release of five Jordanian nationals detained in Syria, a Jordanian MP stated.
Tareq Khouri, a member of the Jordanian Parliament, said that he has been invited to Damascus in order to take over five Jordanians who had been imprisoned for a while.
Up to 30 Jordanians have been detained by the Syrian authorities since Syria and Jordan re-opened Nassib border crossing in October 2018; of which 12 of them released till now.
[DAWN] The daughter of an Afghan national in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and the grandson of a South Wazoo resident, known for his strong opposition to polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccine, are the latest victims of the deadly virus, it emerged on Sunday. Innocent child victimized by Granpa's ignorance and Karma
Both the children are yet to see their first birthday. With the addition of these cases ‐ one each from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh ‐ this year’s total number of victims of the crippling disease has reached 62, the highest since 2015.
Twelve cases were reported in 2018, while only eight children had been tested positive for the virus in 2017.
About the latest case from KP, an official of polio virology laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, requesting anonymity said: "It was a clear case of refusal."
The victim was a 10-month-old boy. The case was detected in South Waziristan.
"The child’s grandfather was against polio vaccine," the official explained, adding that his father was said to be a labourer in Dubai.
[IsraelTimes] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... says it’s willing to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States in late September.
But First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui says that the United States must come to the negotiating table with proposals that satisfy North Korea, or dealings between the two countries will come to an end.
Oh dear. How simply dreadful.
Talks between the countries on North Korean nuclear disarmament fell apart in February when US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... rejected North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament at their second summit in Vietnam. The two leaders met again at the Korean border in late June and agreed to restart diplomacy.
Choe says North Korea has given the US enough time to map out new proposals to salvage the nuclear negotiations.
[BREITBART] The Jerusalem Post reports: The German police said that a group of BDS activists violently assaulted visitors at the Israeli Seret International film festival on Sunday in Berlin, causing injuries and disrupting a podium discussion. An estimated 10-12 BDS activists participated in the disruption and attacks.
According to the police notice reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, the BDS activists punched two women, who filed criminal complaints against the BDS supporters. BDS is the abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state. The German parliament classified BDS as antisemitic in May.
The police report said after the screening of the documentary film "King Bibi," a question and answer discussion was planned with the director and a 42-year-old started to scream. At the same time, a second 42-year-old man and a third unknown person held a poster in front of the film screen. It is unclear what was written on the poster. The discussion could not continue after the disruption.
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SENTIMENT. About two years old, We cling to it nevertheless. One of the first times ( and only ) a Frenchman absolutely gushes, and we lap it up with a spoon.
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Now that I have a moment, I traced the links back to the original French piece, which was posted here on 18 September, 2008. The comments also appear to be interesting, though admittedly French is not one of my languages.
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I remember this article. I didn't take it as so much as sentiment, but an indictment of how France does not support its warriors as well as the United States.
Comments are supportive and positive, though no personal affidavits such as, "No merde, there I was with the 173rd..." type of things.
The French (Gallic) soldier is storied and well documented, and there was a reason why the French symbol was a Fighting Cock until recently, much like the venerable 67th Fighter Squad.
That thing they did in Central African Republic (CAR) a few years back, where the French dropped in and built an airstrip overnight, was no small deal.
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France has plenty of casses-couilles, just as we have plenty of ball-breaker / shit-kicker tough guys - rugby is hugely popular in France - but France's entertainment-media-academic classes have an even tighter and more thorough control over French culture and public discourse than ours do here.
France has its own "flyover" provinces - basically, everything south of Paris and west of Strasbourg - but you never hear about them in the French media, French films or in the stupid things uttered by French politicians and intellectuals.
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More evidence of the reality vs the image of France: Opposition to gay marriage was/is much higher in France than here.
PC speech and memes are a joke to the French.
Support for the death penalty in France is about as high as it is in the US.
Moral: today the really important cultural differences in the West are not between nations but within them.
The big divide is between the globalists and their virtue-signaling PC identity politics " global citizen" BS, and normal people for whom place, family, tradition and history matter more than abstract obligations involving strangers.
Please don’t hurt us! We’re totally separate from those Iranian devils you hate, whoever you are, we promise.
9 September
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi authorities decided to postpone the opening of a border crossing with Syria until further notice following an overnight attack on Iraqi militias in the Syrian side, a security source said.
"The aerial bombardment that targeted Iraqi murderous Moslems in the Syrian town of Albu Kamal will delay the inauguration of Al Qae’m border crossing, which was scheduled to be opened today or Tuesday," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told RT channel.
"It’s unclear when the border crossing would be opened," the source added.
Warplanes have struck positions of Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq, activists told BBC.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said at least 18 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters were killed.
It was not clear who carried out the overnight strikes in and around the town of Albu Kamal.
But Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks on Iranian-linked targets in Syria during the country’s civil war.
It has sought to thwart what it calls Iran’s "military entrenchment" in Syria and shipments of Iranian weapons to holy warrior groups such as Hezbollah in Leb.
[DAWN] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. chief on Monday said she was "deeply concerned about the impact of recent actions" by the Indian government on the human rights of Kashmiris.
In her introductory address for the start of the Human Rights Council's latest session, Michelle Bachelet aired concerns over India's actions against Kashmiris as well as unlawful killings and injuries of Paleostinians by Israeli security forces.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... left for Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... today on a three-day visit to represent Pakistain at the 42nd session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The foreign minister is expected to address the session and present the case of Kashmiris before the delegates attending the forum from across the world, Radio Pakistain reported.
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[DAWN] China lashed out at the United States on Monday after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Beijing's treatment of the country's ethnic Uighur minority among "the worst stains on the world".
Speaking at Kansas State University last week, Pompeo said Washington would use this month's UN General Assembly to rally support for the Uighurs, a mostly Moslem minority that has seen mass incarceration under the Chinese government.
"The lies of American politicians can't trick people around the world and will only further expose the purpose of their hidden political motives," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
"We express our strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to these US officials who disregard the facts... and seriously interfere in China's internal affairs," she told news hounds at a press briefing in Beijing.
China has come under international scrutiny over its policies in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where as many as one million Uighurs and other mostly Moslem minorities are being held in re-education camps, according to the 2018 findings of an independent UN panel.
After initially denying their existence, Beijing now defends the camps, which it calls "vocational education centres", as a necessary measure to counter religious extremism and terrorism.
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Thank God China doesn't give a fuck for international screwtiny.
Those bastards in Xinjiang are not human. If they wanted to live peacefully they could have converted to ... Taoism or whatever the heck it is they allow there.
Anybody who exhibits an adherence to islam strong enough to defy a police state, is a potential jihadi.
Daniel Alejandro Alvarado Cuellar, 21, was stabbed to death in July, police said
Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez, 20, Marlon Fabian-Flores, 20, and Edwin Edgardo Garcia-Martir, 18, were arrested in connection to Cuellar's death
Hugo Portillo-Chavez, 31, Jose Fausto Rivera-Coreas, 19, and 20-year-old Odaliz Rosas-Yanez were also arrested and charged with first-degree murder
Detectives said they also arrested Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernadez, 16, who has been charged as an adult, over Cuellar's murder
Six were identified as illegal immigrants and MS-13 members, ICE officials said
Motive for Cuellar's murder is under investigation but police believe victim was killed due to a war between rival Latino street gangs, the 18th Street and MS-13
[NYPost] High-profile victims’ rights attorney Lisa Bloom
...only child of civil rights attorney Gloria Allred...
you misspelled "attention whore"
once offered to plant disparaging stories about Rose McGowan in order to discredit the actress’ sexual assault accusation against Harvey Weinstein, according to a new book.
In a December 2016 memo, Bloom told the pervy producer she could “help you against the Roses of the world, because I have represented so many of them,” according to excerpts of “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” published Sunday by The New York Times.
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Will Rose McGowan ever learn that her side of the spectrum is filled with horrible people and liars and thus maybe what they say about Conservatives cannot be trusted....
[NYPOST] A 23-year-old Wisconsin high school teacher allegedly raped a 15-year-old student at her home and exchanged inappropriate Snapchat messages with him for about two months, authorities said.
Talia Jo Warner, who taught health at Somerset High School, could face up to 40 years behind bars for her illicit relationship with the boy, RiverTowns.net reported.
The sophomore told authorities that between October and December of last year, he’d received about 10 photos and videos from Warner ‐ including one that showed her performing a sex act on herself, according to the report.
Police reviewed Snapchat records between the two and found messages that escalated to "sexual talk and behavior" over the months. The pair also discussed exchanging nude photos, though none of the alleged illicit images could be found, the outlet reported.
Warner and the teen had two sexual encounters, including one in the car down the street from his house, police said.
The second allegedly happened on Dec. 14, when authorities say Warner picked the student up from a sporting event and drove him back to her former home in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where they had sex in her bedroom, the outlet reported.
The student initially denied any inappropriate contact with Warner during an interview with the school but later admitted to law enforcement, according to the report.
Students and a teacher alerted the local school district about the allegations and Warner later resigned, according to the report.
Warner was charged Aug. 28 with second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, child enticement, causing a child older than 13 to view sexual activity, two counts of exposing genitals, pubic area or intimate parts to a child and exposing a child to harmful material.
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They kept males out of the lower grades because of 'fears'. If the proportion of male to female teachers were reversed any place out, there would be demands for all sort of programs and administrative counting to get the numbers closer to the general population. It's never been about fairness or justice, it's always been about power.
And let's not forget the gross variance in punishment for the crime between one group and another.
I'll bet it was his mother who messed it up for him, and all he can do now is nod in court. Some mothers will drive that castration anxiety to the max where the poor fucker can't even get it up again.
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#2 Don't know about you Dron, but I wouldn't care at 15
Truth. Junior here sure didn't mind fetching that pail of water a few times.
Obviously she is in the wrong, and should no longer be left alone with children...40 years seems a bit steep, especially considering Junior's enthusiasm. Money on the chip he outed the deal by bragging to someone.
“A force of the 6th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces managed to kill four Islamic State militants during a security operation in the Makhoul mountains, northeast of Salahuddin province,” the media center of the Popular Mobilization Forces said in a press statement Sunday.
According to the statement, a manhunt was launched for other IS militants in the area.
Iraqi troops kill 15 Islamic State jihadists in Salahuddin
9 September
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service announced on Monday that 15 Islamic Sate militants were killed during a security operation in Salahuddin province.
“Acting on intelligence information, the Counter-Terrorism Service, in coordination with the U.S.-led international coalition, carried out a security operation in Mutaibijah and desert areas in Salahuddin, leaving 15 terrorists dead, including suicide bombers,” the spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service said in a statement.
“The troops also arrested nine terrorists and destroyed several hotbeds and tunnels that were used by Islamic State militants,” the statement read.
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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.
Trump fires John Bolton as national security adviser
A website and eventbrite.com promoted rallies in Washington, DC, and other cities across the country to take place Monday to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump ‐ but no one showed up for the one at the Capitol. 
...Arabic for 
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...Arabic for 
...Arabic for 
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...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[DAWN] 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
The owner of right-leaning cable news channel One America News Network (OANN) has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow and others claiming that the 46-year-old liberal commentator "maliciously and recklessly" smeared the network as a Russian state propaganda outlet.
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Arabic for 
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
