h/t Instapundit
[BroBible] Today’s Florida Woman is Mary Liane Fritz, 30, who was arrested by High Springs police on charges of stalking.
According to an arrest report obtained by Gainesville.com, Fritz followed a woman who claimed she was being stalked to the High Springs Police Station on Monday afternoon.
For some reason, despite already being at the police station, officers handcuffed Fritz’s hands behind her back and placed her in the back seat of a patrol car... alone. Big mistake.
The arrest report states Fritz then somehow got out of her cuffs, climbed through the partition in the vehicle to the front seat, STARTED THE CAR (WHY WERE THE KEYS IN THE CAR?), and drove off!
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Patrol units often are kept running until EOW because the radios and onboard electronic gear would drain the battery In minutes if the engine were shut down. Since the back seat is normally isolated from the front by a screen and/or plexiglass and the doors don’t open from the inside, I’m curious how she got out?
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[Rooters] China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on U.S. goods, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-U.S. tensions before a new rounds of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. Or an admission they can't find alternate sources and can't produce their own
...An outbreak of deadly African swine fever, which has cut China’s pig herd by a third since mid-2018, has propelled Chinese pork prices to record levels and left the country in need of replacement supplies from overseas.
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Not only doubled but rationed now at 10X smaller then the usual amount a pork a Chinese eats.
So if they had it one meal a day they now have it 1 meal every 10 days.
#9
Export tariffs are completely unconstitutional. The Export Clause bans taxes or duties on articles exported from any state. So I suppose they could be imposed on items leaving from Puerto Rico or Guam, if we really wanted to, but that's hardly a big deal economically, and neither raise pigs for export, as far as I know.
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The heathen Chinee, he is trips.
Though not quite as proud as the Nips,
His mysterious race
Is at pains to save face:
Be he bigger than Lee
Or as twiggy as [pfffft] me,
Though at Schwegmann's he stint
He will cheerfully squint
With a scant smear of fat for his lips.
[Jpost] Israeli officials are strongly denying allegations that Israel planted surveillance devices in the proximity of the White House.
US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... said on Thursday he does not believe Israel is spying on the United States after a published report said Israel was most likely behind cellphone surveillance devices found near the White House and elsewhere in Washington.
Politico reported the miniature surveillance devices, colloquially known as "StingRays," were discovered and that they were most likely linked to the Israelis. Israel has denied the report.
Israeli officials are strongly denying allegations that Israel planted surveillance devices in the proximity of the White House and in other sensitive locations in Washington, as was reported by Politico on Thursday.
"A blatant lie," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement. "There is a longstanding commitment, and a directive from the Israeli government, not to engage in any intelligence operations in the US. This directive is strictly enforced without exception."
Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who is also intelligence minister, also categorically denied the report.
"Israel does not conduct any spying operation in the US," he said in a statement. "The US and Israel share a great deal of intelligence information and act together to prevent threats and to strengthen the security of both countries.”
[Jpost] Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, the executive director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies and former head of IDF Military Intelligence claimed that "Nobody is going to invest intelligence resources in a country where you can make a phone call to its president. I regard this as fake news."
According to Politico, a US government investigation concluded that Israel was behind several devices that were uncovered in the past two years, most likely aimed at spying on US 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... , his closest circle and other government officials.
The American paper added that the FBI and other agencies working on the case believe that Israel is to be blamed because of the high level of know-how and budget needed for the operation.
"You can often, depending upon the tradecraft of the people who put them in place, figure out who's been accessing them to pull the data off the devices," a former senior US intelligence official told Politico.
"It was pretty clear that the Israelis were responsible," another former senior intelligence official said.
According to the paper, a number of so-called "StingRays" were found in DC. StingRays are phone trackers designed to track phones even when they are not being used to make a call.
The report added that the Trump administration chose not to hold the Israeli government accountable.
"The reaction... was very different than it would have been in the last administration," an official told Politico. "With the current administration, there are a different set of calculations in regard to addressing this."
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This is the Politico story that started this shit. They claim three top officials from HS and the white house are their sources.
I say investigate this claim, subpoena these sources and have them explain why they're declaring sensitive information to hacks. Then prosecute Politico and set precedent for MSM bribing officials for the two-way flow of biased information to create news.
#5
There's an old saying that goes, "Gentlemen don't read other gentlemen's mail."
It's attributed to President Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, who in 1929 shut down the office in the U.S. State Department responsible for breaking codes to read messages sent between embassies of other countries and their capitals.
Then December 7th happens. We were reading it but no one made an effort (See - Flash Override) to act on it.
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But not in this particular case - that effort is just plain stupid. You'd do better to look to these who spied on Trump before. And I don't mean Russians.
#9
Mark Levin on Hannity last night nailed it. Gantz advisor from Obama camp and former Obama era intel appointees in last minute dirty tricks. Quite a rant.
[AnNahar] The United States Department of the Treasury issued new sanctions against four members of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , a statement issued by the State Department said Thursday.
It said that US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... has signed on Tuesday an executive order "modernizing sanctions to combat terrorism."
It announced a wide range of new terrorist designations against leaders or operatives of organizations with close ties to Tehran, among them Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force and Hizbullah.
The US also designated leaders of groups within 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.... and al-Qaeda, and the operational arm of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
Hizbullah senior members subject to sanctions were named as follows: Ali Karaki, Mohammed Haider, Fouad Shokr and Ibrahim Aqil.
According to the U.S. statement, Karaki is a leader of Hizbullah’s Jihad Group and is responsible for military operations within southern Leb.
Aqil is a senior member of "Jihad Group" and is responsible for Hizbullah’s military operations.
Mohammed Haider, it said, runs Hizbullah’s networks outside Leb, while Fouad Shokr is "the supervisor of Hizbullah’s weapons and missile units in Syria, and is the military adviser close to Hizbullah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... ," according to the US statement.
[AlAhram] Future US sanctions could target allies of Hezbollah in Leb, extending beyond direct affiliates of the Iran-backed Shia Moslem group, a US envoy said on Thursday.
"In the future we will designate, because we have to, individuals in Leb who are aiding and assisting Hezbollah, regardless of their sect or religion," the new US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs David Schenker said in an interview with Leb's LBCI television.
When asked by the interviewer if this means sanctions will target allies of Hezbollah, Schenker said "absolutely", adding that the United States is constantly reviewing its sanctions lists.
The proposed targeting of allies of Hezbollah has been a sensitive subject for Leb in the past.
In 2017 a draft copy of proposed, tighter US sanctions on Hezbollah caused disquiet in Leb because the wording, seen by Rooters, implied the legislation could target the Shia Amal movement of parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... sock puppet... for investigation.
Leb's Maronite Christian President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... is also a political ally of Hezbollah.
Targeting both Amal and Hezbollah and their associates - the two parties representing Leb's Shia population - risked marginalising a large section of society, banking and political sources said at the time.
The legislation that was eventually enacted did not mention the phrase "Hezbollah, Amal, or other associated entities" as contained in the draft section on who would be the focus of the regulations.
[AmericanThinker] ...As Chicago's longest serving alderman faces prison time, his spouse will become the state's most powerful judge.
The state's high court justices on Sept. 10 elected Justice Anne Burke to chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, succeeding former Chief Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier. (snip)
Burke's rise to chief justice comes while her husband, 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke, faces a 14-count indictment on federal corruption charges. In January, federal prosecutors accused the alderman of attempting to extort the owners of a Burger King franchise in his ward by withholding a remodeling permit in order to pressure them to hire his private law firm to handle their property tax appeals.
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The problem with rats is that they look like, well, rats. Turn them into cute and cuddly looking prairie dogs and people forget that they're prime plague carriers. Master Splinter could not be reached for comment.
We had a rat problem at one time that came about from feeding birds. Birdseed fell to the ground around the feeder and attracted rats. While Mrs. JohnQC and I deliberated what to do, our German Shepard went quietly about catching them and stacking them up. End of problem.
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Sacramento's historic Old Town by the river is pretty cool. Other side of the freeway starts the shithole
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I'm not a cat fan, but wouldn't releasing feral cats help take care of the rats.
On the other hand, terriers were, IIRC, specifcally bred to kill rats.
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Dogs are actually more effective ratcatchers than cats.
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I think my dog was notorious among the rats in my building. It was a government allotted house in Delhi and shabby on the upkeep, so there were rats. A neighbor actually saw a rat die of fright on seeing him coming. It just skipped in the air and fell down dead. Once, a big rat simply ran off a ledge and preferred to fall seven stories below.
He was a bull terrier, 36 kilos of just muscle. He killed one huge monkey, two dogs, some cats and I don't know how many other small things. The monkey he ripped in two. I still remember, I had to pay the local temple to take it away, since it was a symbol of their deity... ohh those days.
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More than 50 years ago I had to do a paper in my Poli Sci seminar on Rat Control Legislation. (not my choice of topic, we got assigned at random)
All I remember is that there were upwards of 75 anti-rat programs from the Feds and they all were a waste of money. Most of them were agricultural but a fair number were for slums....ahhhh DC at work.
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Google shows:
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Why have we chosen it? The product contains the active ingredient Diphacinone that is more toxic to rats than other slow-acting compounds. Still, it requires multiple dose treatment. As a rule, the solution works within a week. The product comes in convenient blocks and is flavored with peanut to attract rodents.
[AnNahar] Mexico said Thursday it disagrees with President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... 's decision to restrict the right of Central Americans to seek asylum in the United States, a day after the Supreme Court allowed it to go ahead.
The U.S. high court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can declare migrants colonists ineligible for asylum if they enter the country from the southern border without first seeking asylum in one of the countries they crossed to get to there.
The decision, which stayed a lower court's temporary injunction, will be in effect while a broader case against the policy plays out in the courts.
Mexico could see asylum requests soar under the measure, which dramatically changes the rules for the thousands of Central Americans fleeing poverty and gang violence in their home countries in hopes of reaching the United States.
"Of course we disagree" with the restrictions, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told a news conference, speaking alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
"We have a very different policy in Mexico, and we are not going to change it. Mexico's refugee and asylum policy is a tradition here," Ebrard said.
"What we need to do is create alternatives so that people don't have to take these risks ... (because) of the lack of options" in their home countries.
Saying that U.S. migration policy was already "very tough," he called the decision "unprecedented."
"It certainly draws one's attention. But it's their decision," he added.
He said Mexican officials would hold a series of meetings Thursday to evaluate the impact for Mexico.
Opponents argue the policy violates international law by forcing people fleeing for their lives to seek refuge in countries where they may also be in danger.
Despite his comments, Ebrard sought to send an upbeat message on U.S.-Mexican relations, saying he had positive meetings in Washington Tuesday with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to review Mexico's progress in implementing a deal to reduce irregular migration.
Under the deal -- signed in June to avoid Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexican goods -- U.S. migrant detentions on the southern border have fallen 58.7 percent.
Lopez Obrador, who spoke with Trump by phone Wednesday, said relations were "on very good terms."
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"Mexico's refugee and asylum policy is a tradition here"
La tradicion in Mexico is to shunt to El Norte all of the millions of miserable peasants whose demands for a decent and secure life have been ignored by the corrupt, brutal and incompetent Mexican elite for nearly a century.
The Mexican elite bear the most blame for this mess. They do it because
1) they're enabled by American idiot lefties and Koch Bros.-style greedheads and
2) it pays enormous dividends in the form of literally billions of repatriated dollars that help to hide the failures and economic incompetence of Mexico's governing class.
Without the repatriations of millions of illegals, Mexico's GDP growth would be significantly lower than it is.
Cynical bastards. Finally, a US president is calling them out on their BS and rank opportunism.
[AnNahar] With a little help from the Supreme Court and Mexico, U.S. 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...... 's fitful crackdown on immigration is finally gaining traction.
Trump has spent his entire presidency promising to stop illegal immigration, shut out asylum seekers and wall off the Mexican border.
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The language echoed his long-term characterization of Central American migrants colonists as potential rapists and gang members.
Not to be confused with the Left's characterization of America's largest ethnic population group as white supremacists. Bets on which is bigger, the number of immigrants arrested and convicted of rape and gang related crime and the number of actual (circa 1950s context) white supremacists?
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Bets on which is bigger, the number of immigrants arrested and convicted of rape and gang related crime and the number of actual (circa 1950s context) white supremacists?
Even factoring in multiple rapes, it's probably as much as a 10x difference. Look at data from Texas: thousands of illegal alien rapists booked over a 7-year period, vs probably not more than 500-600 white supremacists total in that state.
As reported by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), 251,000 criminal aliens have been booked into local Texas jails between June 1st of 2011 and April 30th of 2018, according to DHS status indicators.
These criminal aliens were charged with:
More than 663,000 criminal offenses.
1,351 homicides.
7,156 sexual assaults.
9,938 weapons charges.
79,049 assaults.
18,685 burglaries.
79,900 drug charges.
815 kidnappings.
44,882 thefts.
4,292 robberies.
Nb. These numbers are only from Texas.
Additional conviction data can be found in the DOJ's report.
Bolstered by young voters and liberals, 34% of likely New Hampshire Democratic voters say they prefer party leaders like Ocasio-Cortez over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to the poll. Just 30% of Democrats say they prefer Pelosi over AOC.
AOC leads by 4%, 34% to 30%. That's ... enormous. What's the margin of ewrror of the poll?
By the way, by my math, that leaves 36% that prefer 'none of the above' - the largest of the three choices. Maybe that's the real headline!
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Can you imagine how fun it would be? Teeth and Eyes for Speaker!
h/t Instapundit
A blogger couple who traveled from Australia to Asia and the Middle East in an attempt to "break the stigma" surrounding developing countries was reportedly arrested in Iran.
The duo were recently identified as Jolie King and Mark Firkin, the BBC reported on Thursday. Although the couple was arrested 10 weeks ago near Tehran, it wasn’t until Wednesday that the news became known. Stupidity is not a crime, but it is a capital offense - old Russian saying
We now have names for this story from a few days ago.
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Tehran - A spy ring composed of one man and an overexposed woman were detained by authorities. Australian agencies attempting to show Iran in a bad light seem to have inserted the team, posing as an indecent, selfie snapping couple. Items confiscated from them included plastic cases full of dung beetles, expensive bottled water, foreign beer cans with lewd kangaroo pictures, cameras and chewing gum.
Reportedly, their aim was to depict Iran as a 'tourist destination', lax on discipline and total sissies like their own governments.
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Now they're a bargaining chip for Iran to use. Let them rot in jail. Westerners keep doing this stupid shit, going to North Korea, Turkey, the Stans, you name it. Search for Pippa Becca who did the same thing, going to prove that the world is a nice place.
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Apparently they were caught flying a drone, making videos, encamped near an IRGC cantonment.
The stoopid meter is in the red. I don't think they'll go back home any time soon.
[AnNahar] The United States invoked a regional defense pact Wednesday with 10 other countries and Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... 's opposition after "bellicose" moves by Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground... 's regime.
A request to invoke the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) came from the Venezuelan opposition, said a statement from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, retweeted early Thursday by President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... "Recent bellicose moves by the Venezuelan military to deploy along the border with Colombia as well as the presence of illegal gangs and terrorist organizations in Venezuelan territory demonstrate that Nicolas Maduro not only poses a threat to the Venezuelan people, his actions threaten the peace and security of Venezuela’s neighbors," Pompeo said.
Venezuela was thrust into a political crisis in January when opposition leader Juan Guaidó ...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.... declared himself acting president, in a direct challenge to Maduro's authority over the country from which millions have fled economic deprivation.
The opposition has branded the socialist leader a "usurper" over his re-election last year in a poll widely viewed as rigged.
Pompeo said in the statement that invoking the TIAR is "recognition of the increasingly destabilizing influence" the Maduro regime has in the region.
"Catastrophic economic policies and political repression continue to drive this unprecedented refugee crisis, straining the ability of governments to respond," he said.
"We look forward to further high-level discussions with fellow TIAR parties, as we come together to collectively address the urgent crisis raging within Venezuela and spilling across its border through the consideration of multilateral economic and political options."
The US and more than 50 countries have recognized Guaido.
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Maduro is concerned about domestic troubles which are none of our business. Period. Their crude oil is of lower quality anyway. But g-damn, can't the USA stay out of things for a day or two?
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..if they hit Colombia, probably not. We'll be busy supplying the Colombians with what resources they need to clean up the problem on aisle 8. Been tight for decades with the government in Bogota dealing with drugs and their muscle FARC. Helped moved the country to a solid democracy.
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Jesus they're just not going to stop meddling in other countries, are they? Stop it. Just stop.
We know the "Venezuelan opposition" is a puppet of the State Department, right? Because it is.
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Hey Herb, there are many brands of decaf that are just as tasty as the real thing. We are not 'meddling' if we give assistance to a willing (say) Columbia. Besides, the 'stash was just let go. I don't think the 82nd will be spooling up anytime soon.
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Puppets! NeoCon Warmongers! Military-Industrial Complex! Invasion! World Police!
See? My Herb-Bot works just as good as the real one
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Sigh.
Time was, there was such a thing as Rantburg U. You could learn something. Now, all there are are childish insults I could get from Reddit or Youtube. No refutation of my points. No arguments. No learning anything.
Times change, I guess.
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We learn from you. And are better men and women for it.
Mr. McCoy, you started the insult exchange. And while I have one of your posts saved for future reference, I deeply resent how much you have deliberately coarsened our exchange here, and how often you repeat exactly the same points without absorbing anything whatsoever from your interlocutors.
You are starting your repeated process toward a time out. Each time it begins with this pantomime of the sadness of a longtime Rantburger, then proceeds to open insult of our vileness as a group, so unlike the pure souls of Rantburg’s salad days almost two decades ago. But I actually have been here almost that entire time, and I can tell you that back in the early days your nonsense would have regularly resulted in you being verbally flayed and rolled in salt. We are much politer now.
[AnNahar] The top appeals court in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ordered the release of five former journalists from the opposition Cumhuriyet daily on Thursday, including prominent cartoonist Musa Kart, their lawyer said.
The journalists had been serving sentences of close to five years for "aiding and abetting terror groups without being a member".
"After the court order, we expect the release of five former staff this evening," lawyer Tora Pekin told AFP.
The five were among 14 former Cumhuriyet staff, including journalists and executives, sentenced in 2018 and their appeals were rejected by a lower appeals court earlier this year.
They were accused of supporting, through their coverage, three organizations that Turkey views as terrorist groups -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the ultra-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, and the Gulen movement blamed for the 2016 failed coup.
The case has sparked criticism over the state of press freedom in Turkey. Cumhuriyet, the country's oldest daily founded in 1924, is a rare Ottoman Turkish paper that is not in the hands of a business tycoon, but by an independent foundation.
The daily has often had troubles with government authorities, with its former editor-in-chief Can Dundar fleeing to Germany after being convicted in 2016 over an article alleging that Turkey had supplied weapons to Islamist groups in Syria.
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[AnNahar] An Austrian student and journalist charged with membership of a leftist terrorist group in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has been acquitted, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Max Zirngast,
...a Communist journalist who just happens to be a friend of the Kurds — the PKK, to be exact...
who wrote for international publications including a far-left German magazine, was arrested exactly a year ago, accused of links to the outlawed Ottoman Turkish Communist Party (TKP)/Kivilcim group.
The 30-year-old was also a political science masters student at Middle East Technical University in Ankara at the time of his arrest.
Why would an Austrian study PoliSci in Turkey instead of back home?
He had defended himself in Ottoman Turkish at the last hearing in April.
"A verdict was received that Max did not take part in any illegal activity or any activity constituting a crime," his lawyer Murat Yilmaz told AFP.
He said two Ottoman Turkish citizens, Mithatcan Turetken and Hatice Goz, who were arrested along with Zirngast, were also acquitted.
Zirngast had been free pending the latest hearing on Wednesday but had been barred from leaving Turkey.
He rejected the charges and denied the TKP/Kivilcim group even exists.
In an opinion piece for the Washington Post last year, Zirngast wrote that his arrest was "a perverse confirmation of the authoritarianism I've spent the past several years chronicling and opposing".
He also criticised the attempt to "silence the entire democratic opposition in Ankara".
Zirngast had also published articles on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency against the Ottoman Turkish state since 1984 and is designated a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies.
[M-Selam G] I’d like to add a Content Note: this piece contains mentions of child abuse, rape, and other upsetting topics. An appendix of additional information has also been added at the bottom.
I’m writing this because I’m too angry to work.
I’m writing this because at 11AM on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, my friend sent me an email that was sent to an MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) mailing list.
This email came from Richard Stallman, a prominent computer scientist.
In it, he’s responding to a female student’s email about this Facebook event, which calls for a protest by MIT students and affiliates regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s donation.
The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin
Minsky:
“deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting
one of Epstein’s victims [2])”
The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault”
is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation:
taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as
Y, which is much worse than X.
The accusation quoted is a clear example of inflation. The reference
reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem.
(See https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed.)
Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).
The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in
some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing.
Only that they had sex.
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.
I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it
is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.
Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a
specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the
criticism.
There are so many things wrong with what Richard Stallman said I hardly know where to begin. First, he didn’t even give the typical, whiney, ‘he’s accused but not convicted’ defense. No, Stallman went much further than that. Instead, Stallman said “Let’s assume that Marvin Minsky had sex with an underage girl who was a victim of child sex trafficking”…
The reference reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem…Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).
…and then he says that an enslaved child could, somehow, be “entirely willing”. Let’s also note that he called a group of child sex trafficking victims a ‘harem’, a terrible word choice.
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing.
This is someone who is respected far and wide by the technology community.
This is someone who is a Visiting Scientist at MIT.
MIT claims it never wanted to elevate Epstein’s reputation by allowing him to donate. But, here they are, not only elevating but funding and endorsing a person like Richard Stallman as a visiting scientist.
What’s more, somehow Richard Stallman decided it was appropriate to email his opinion to an almost department-wide mailing list (“csail-related”) which had undergraduate students on it. In an email further down the thread, he also said,
“I think it is morally absurd to define “rape” in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”
in response to a student who said “Giuffre [the victim who testified] was 17 at the time, this makes it __rape__ [sic] in the virgin islands” .
Again, this mailing list has undergraduate students on it. It is likely some of them are “18 years old or 17”.
I was shocked. I continued talking to my friend, a female graduate student in CSAIL, about everything, trying to get the full email thread (I wasn’t on the mailing list). I even started emailing reporters — local and national, news sites, newspapers, radio stations. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. During my 45-minute drive home, when I normally listen to podcasts or music, I just sat in complete silence.
The only reporter who responded quickly was one from WBUR, and they didn’t seem to be in a rush to publish this information. So, I told my friends that I would just write a story myself. I’d planned to do it after work today; instead, because I can’t possibly focus, I’m working on it now.
MIT does not deserve its women.
The world does not deserve them either. I thought back to every person who has ever asked me how to “fix” the gender problems in STEM, how to “get more girls” to join STEM programs. I thought about every time that someone has suggested “men are better at spacial thinking” and that “testosterone is linked to better performance in math”.
In my mind I look at all these people, a crowd that is gathered. And in my mind, I stand up and I scream at them. I would put my hands around their shoulders and shake sense into all of them, individually, if I had enough time and enough hands
The problems are so obvious.
There is nothing wrong with women. There is nothing wrong with girls in STEM. There are many women and many girls who, in spite of everything, love STEM-related disciplines. Some of them even go through 4-year bachelors degrees at MIT, maybe even 7 years of a PhD, and then begin questioning whether they should continue in these fields, because they are filled to the brim with so, so many shitty men.
Jeffrey Epstein. Marvin Minsky.
Richard Stallman.
Travis Kalanick. James Damore. The laundry list of men in tech and academia who have continued this pattern of harassment, misogyny, and discrimination.
Richard Stallman was known to be problematic long before this. This is the door to his office:
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What happened to just disagreeing with people? When did we start ruining lives because of it?
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When did we start ruining lives because of it?
See: Richard Jewell
See: Ray Donovan
See: Lots of people who rubbed the Clintons the wrong way.
See: Lots of people who rubbed the Obamas the wrong way.
See: Anyone the media can use to get at someone they are after.
This is not a new phenomenon...
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Remove Stallman because he failed to parrot the approved opinion? That's f*&ked up.
By the way babe, IMHO, if this unknown girl actually shagged Marvin Minsky, she contributed to the field of cybernetics and robotics more than a hundred affirmative action "engineers" like you.
p.s. I know not all like that. Some are pretty good. But I do recognize a jackal by its footprints.
[KhaamaPress] The U.S. forces conducted a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Paktiya province which inflicted heavy casualties on Talibs.
The 203rd Thunder Corps said in a statement that the U.S. forces conducted the airstrikes in Sargul and Mastangi areas of Zazai Aryoub district.
The statement further added that the airstrikes killed at least 14 Talibs and maimed 8 others.
Furthermore, the 203rd Thunder Corps said the airstrikes also killed Gul Nazar, Qari Jamal alias Fedayee and Najeeb, the three local commanders of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in Paktiya.
The 203rd Thunder Corps also added that the U.S. forces conducted separate airstrikes in Aab Band district of Ghazni province killed 3 Talibs and maimed 5 others.
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They just replace their losses. It isn't hard. Plenty more where they came from.
14 Taliban died, and every one of them now has a dozen mourning family members. How hard is it, you think, to recruit more militants from their ranks? Easy-peasy. Just tell 'em we'll let you kill the ones who killed your relative.
17 years of this and we still haven't learned?
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As far as I can tell, Herb, most of the Talib cannon fodder come straight from the madrassahs in Pakistan, with no idea of who they are fighting against or why. And their parents, who sent their sons for a free education (with a meal plan!) to be followed by a secure career as an imam somewhere, only discover what happened to their lads when they get a letter reporting the death.
And really, most of the time they are shooting in the general direction of locals in need of conquering or at Afghan police or military, not against foreign soldiers.
But yes, plenty more where they came from, so long as the Pashtun lower-middle and upper-poor classes are ambitious for their excess sons to improve themselves and be fed on someone else’s dime. But the alternative is to allow the establishment of a local version of an ISIS caliphate over much of the country, and permanent war against it in the rest.
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Have you every met someone who lost someone on 9/11. I have. A group of 30 of us in a Dale Carnegie class were asked to talk about something that had an impact on our life. A guy stood up and cried through his entire presentation in anguish at the loss of a close friend a few months before in the towers. He was Muslim middle eastern young man.
You don't a skin or sh!t in nothing 'H_MCoy'_boy so when it comes to your rambling ... STFU, Loser.
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Sometimes the taliban commanders will ask for young men from the tribal areas. In a manpower crunch, when they need heavy lifting or labour. They are bullied and forced to work for them loading, unloading stuff, running errands etc.
At other times, they are known to abduct wives or children and force the men to be the front line for some raid or against the Alliance forces.
A lot of the fodder that burns is expendable to them, without losing their own core force. A lot of this war is a sickly grey. We may learn in time that the real core of the taliban was only a few hundred men and the thousands they sent were trapped in the necessities of their condition. But it's still all on the mullahs of course.
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If any muslims want to live in peace, they should denounce islam and adopt any damn religion I don't care. As long as there is islam in the world, no one can rest easy.
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Yes, that is the exact strong motivation that recruits thousands of Jihadis to fight us. Thanks for illustrating my point, Phaick Uneretle6310, I couldn't have done it better myself.
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your propaganda is bullshit Herb. You're an Eeyore that says we'll never win or succeed and so we should just cower and retreat. I detest your cut-n-paste macros in lieu of reasoned discourse. I am not the one who's spamcopped you, but I won't hesitate when you denigrate other's motives here. Get your own Eeyore website, perhaps with Allahpundit from HotAir?
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Herby has no solutions. None. Nothing. Nada.
Herby sits on his fat ass and just bitchess.
Herby is a loser with a big L written across the forehead.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed a Taliban commander during a clash in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan, the Afghan military said Wednesday.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military said in a statement that the security forces killed Qari Asif alias Abbas, one of the local commanders of Taliban in Faryab.
The statement further added that the security forces killed Qari Asif during a clash in Khwaja Sabz Posh district of Faryab.
Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the security forces also killed one of the comrades of Qari Asif and wounded 5 others during the clash.
(KhaamaPress] An improvised bomb went off among Talibs in eastern Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province of Afghanistan which critically maimed a number of Taliban ...Arabic for students... mine planters.
The 201st Silab Corps said in a statement that a group of Taliban mine planters were transporting an improvised bomb to plant it on Alingar highway.
The statement further added that the bomb went off prematurely before the Taliban mine planters manage to reach to the intended area.
Furthermore, the 201st Silab Corps said the earth-shattering kaboom critically maimed 3 Taliban mine planters.
The Taliban group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces carried out a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against Taliban ...Arabic for students... and ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... Khurasan turbans in five provinces killing at least 12 bully boys.
The military officials said Thursday that an airstrike killed 5 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Almar district of Faryab.
The officials further added that the security forces conducted similar airstrikes in Sholgarah and Chimtal districts of Balkh which killed a Taliban bully boy and destroyed a small cache of weapons.
Furthermore, the security forces killed a Taliban bully boy by conducting an airstrike in Giro district of Ghazni.
The security forces conducted a similar air raid in Shah Joy district of Zabul which killed 1 Taliban bully boy.
The officials also added that an airstrike in Khugyani district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. killed 4 turbans of ISIS Khurasan terror group.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed or detained 15 Talibs during their latest operations in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Thursday that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs, detained 2 others and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Chimtal district of Balkh.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs and arrested 4 others during a raid in Pul-e Khumri city of Baghlan province.
Furthermore, the Special Forces destroyed a cache of weapons belonging to Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Uruzgan province.
The Special Forces also detained 5 Talibs during a raid in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, the officials added.
Near certain? Pakistan is spinning backwards awfully hard in the hope that someone actually believes them.
[DAWN] JUST days before the 9/11 anniversary, when more than anyone else Afghans pinned their hopes on a near-certain peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to bring the longest war in the US history to an end, President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s irascible temperament came in the way.
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Killing US troops is not how you get America to the table. The Taliban do not want peace, they want the US to surrender, and Trump will not. I do believe its time to send a few days of B52's to darken the skies and scorch the earth. I think they will get the point then.
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Don't care how long the war has been. Don't really care how much it cost. I do care about US military forces getting injured or killed.
All of that equals peace on our terms or Rolling Thunder, I don't particularly care which and I'm happy to let the Taliban decide.
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Careful! Our Agitprop Macro Commie Symp Herb will call you a NeoCon Warmonger for not surrendering unilaterally with a tail-between-the-legs retreat
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I am willing to let the Taliban decide. So in my opinion they would be the warmongers...
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To really hurt the taliban, you'll have to engage in war with the 'Stain. Really engage. They just won't sit idle for a day those bastards, even if the FATF denies them any more aid. They'll cannibalize their infrastructure to support the turbans if need be.
Pakistan desires to posture as the peacemaker while actually plotting the wastage of another $trillion by the US on this. They are committed to the taliban surviving (not ruling, mind you). Their earlier regimes wanted the taliban to remain in the region, as disparate war-groups, a chaos in motion. They were muscle for the internecine rivalries in the tribal areas and a source of moolah from the drug trade. The latest regime was advised by the chinks to tread cautiously, forego the quickie and invest for the long game. I don't know what china hopes to gain and how, or where it stands on this. The talk in Delhi is that China, like Pakistain just wants the US to waste their money, but I find that too simplistic an assessment.
The current regime in Pakistain views the taliban as the legitimate pashtun representation, although they stop short at talk of an emirate. A section of Pak intelligence and militant mullahs also suggest a centralized taliban directorate in Afghanistan, with a weakened prop democracy like Pak's. An islamic alliance and an eastern mujaheddin force for the subcontinent.
Taliban recruits and trainers currently populate much of the tribal outlying areas on the durand line, robbing and raping the locals at whim. There's trade in local tribal children with regular bazaars and bids. Tribal resentment and rebellions like the PTM raised by local pashtuns against sasquatch militarization of their regions are actively targeted by the Pak army as anti-nationalism.
In any decisive war against taliban, if you don't hit Pakistain, they will keep regrouping and coming back. When the IS-Khorasan wanted to hit the taliban to make their statement, they know exactly where to hit. They hit Pakistain.
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Put some Pakistani politicians on the drone list and they'll come around. So far they've been immune to any punishment for their actions. I'm comfortable with changing that. I'll let Taliban decide but since Pakistan often gives marching orders to Taliban...)
[Rudaw] While most Americans are opposed to their government’s military interventions in the Middle East, more than half of Americans want to keep or increase the US military presence in Syria, according to a poll published by a prominent think tank Monday.
In a report entitled "Rejecting Retreat," the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Council on Global Affairs published the results of a poll showing 56 percent of Americans are in favor of maintaining or expanding the US military presence in the Moslem-majority country. The US military is in northern Syria as part of the international coalition to defeat the Islamic State
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The same group who said: "Poll: Majorities of Americans Support TPP, Say Trade is Good for US Economy." According to fake polls, Trump was said to be going to lose in 2016 but won. He was against TPP. He mentioned this often in his rallies. It appears that the Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an organ for getting out Dem policy talking points.
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A poll from the Chicago Council on Global, internals unknown, supports this. A bio on the President of the Council Ivo H. Daalder: In 1995–1997, Daalder served as a director for European Affairs on the National Security Council staff under President Bill Clinton, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward Bosnia.
Daalder was U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO in February 2011 when the Libyan Civil War began with uprisings against Muammar Gaddafi in several cities, followed by a military crackdown by the Gaddafi regime. (...) Daalder then led U.S. efforts to persuade NATO to take over command and control of the operation.
A globalist "interventionist" (dare we say neocon?) and Deep State Denizen?
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ISIS has been defeated. Time to get out. No to globalism. The USA is not the world's police. The entire Middle East isn't worth a single American's life. And if you think it is, grab a rifle and get out there.
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[DAWN] THERE have been many ineffective campaigns against deaths in police custody in the past, and we should like to hope that the present public outrage will lead to some concrete steps to rid the country’s criminal justice system of one of its major flaws.
The signs, though, are not very promising. A man’s death in jug was attributed to a heart attack and a woman’s to haemorrhage. Death caused by fear of torture cannot be accepted as natural. A police comment on Salahuddin’s death by torture was that he was making big money, ie torturing him was justified. Now the use of smartphones at cop shoppes has been banned across Punjab; this will not end torture in jug. In fact, people will be deprived of a source of information about police excesses. Obviously, coppers, at least many of them, are surprised at the outcry over a routine practice that has always been known to the top police echelons and the government ‐ in fact, has often been encouraged by both.
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed or maimed at least 10 Talibs during the operations in South-eastern Ghazni province.
The Ghazni Governor’s Office said in a statement that the security forces conducted the operations in Khwaja Omari district earlier today.
The statement further added that the Air Forces also carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s during the operations which killed 8 Talibs.
Furthermore, the Governor’s Office said the security forces also maimed 2 Talibs during the operations.
The statement also added that the security conducted the operations to ensure security amid National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib’s trip to the province.
[SUMMIT.NEWS] Nigerian-born rap artist Jesse Ekene Nweke Conable called for his fans to "shoot" white people while urging, "Take them as slaves and treat them even worse." This is not racism, of course.
What a fantastic role model for the kids.
The comments were made in a rant posted on a closed Instagram group called Barasvarta ("Blacks only"), according to news outlet Samhällsnytt.
"We, blacks" will "become number one and take over these whites," said Conable, adding, "Like these whites took us as slaves we should take them as slaves and treat them even worse."
"We’ll take their bitches and we’ll take their money," he continued. "To be perfectly honest, we will be the best race ever. We are African warriors, they are not on our level. This is just the beginning, black power."
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It'll take a minute for any rational person to decide he's talking shit. It'll take a week of research for any reasonable person to decide that "Palestinians" are talking shit. Didn't stop Swedish Governments from supporting "Palestinian Cause".
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In India there's a blanket National Security Act. You endanger any community by your sick song and dance or even read a commie poem or something, and you're fubar by the time you see bail.
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They are based in the commie states. Those states have leftist state administrations. Sort of the same as Chicago. Until a strong Centrist government replaces those administrations, the military can't intervene, and they have to be combated by the police forces. Those forces are not up to it, sadly.
The naxals are actually a result of the deep corruption and bureaucratic lunacy in India that has existed since the 60s. Most of their lower ranks wouldn't even know what a Marx is. All the naxal grunt knows is that the government Babu forgave the landlord that raped his wife and took his land. I don't blame him for feeling the way he does.
And then the China-backed commies arm them and train them to hunt and kill the government. The higher ranks are criminals, extortioners and traffickers who know better but use the ideology to profit off it. The provide security and muscle to corporate interests that pursue illegal mining and manufacture without labor rules and safeties. The industrialists in turn back the leftist governments.
It's a pitiful mess, yes. But the center has begun to appreciate the plight of the poorest only recently. Many naxals have surrendered in exchange for jobs and cultivable land.
Last mile coverage of law enforcement cannot be reached until these states vote the Right. Until then it's lowbrow media war, obfuscating a very bloody push against commies in the south, Bengal, in forested areas.
[KhaamaPress] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the NATO allies and partners will continue to train and advise the Afghan cops.
He made the remarks in the September 11 commemoration ceremony at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday.
Stoltenberg further added "Soon after 9/11, Allies deployed to Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of troops, from Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... , Canada and beyond, have served shoulder-to-shoulder with US troops."
Furthermore, Stoltenberg said "Many have paid the ultimate price. And many more have been seriously maimed. We remember them. And we must make sure that their sacrifice was not in vain."
He also added that the fight against terrorism is a global, generational fight, emphasizing that "We remain committed to Afghanistan."
Stoltenberg said "NATO Allies and partners will continue to train and advise Afghan cops. To make them stronger, so that they can fight international terrorism and create security and stability in their own country."
In other parts of his speech, Stoltenberg said "Our military presence is there to create the conditions for peace. But the road to peace is long and hard."
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If peace was the objective Afghanistan shouldn't have been invaded in the fist place because the Taliban had brought peace and stability to a good part of the country.
This peace and stability made it possible to use Taliban-Afghanistan as a staging area for attacks on the West.
"NATO Allies and partners will continue to train and advise Afghan cops."
Afghan cops are enforcing the laws of an entity that shows a generally hostile, passive aggressive attitude towards Western nations and whose guiding and organizing principles are incompatible with even rudimentary notions of decency as defined by Western civilization.
[KREBSONSECURITY] MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payroll company’s CEO, resulted in countless people having money drained from their bank accounts and has left nearly $35 million worth of payroll and tax payments in legal limbo.
Unlike many stories here about cloud service providers being extorted by hackers for ransomware payouts, this snafu appears to have been something of an inside job. Nevertheless, it is a story worth telling, in part because much of the media coverage of this incident so far has been somewhat disjointed, but also because it should serve as a warning to other payroll providers about how quickly and massively things can go wrong when a trusted partner unexpectedly turns rogue.
Clifton Park, NY-based MyPayrollHR ‐ a subsidiary of ValueWise Corp. ‐ disclosed last week in a rather unceremonious message to some 4,000 clients that it would be shutting its virtual doors and that companies which relied upon it to process payroll payments should kindly look elsewhere for such services going forward.
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Hmmm...New York. You know that you really really need to be careful doing that in New York. You might, just might have had your hand in a company that belongs to people who don't need the government to provide justice. No due process. No appeal.
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They probably didn't pay the payroll taxes they were with holding and like Bright Pebbles said were dong everything but the right thing with other peoples money.
[DAWN] The in-charge of Wana TB hospital was kidnapped by masked button men on Wednesday from Wana, the headquarters of South Wazoo tribal district.
The local administration confirmed the incident and said that Dr Noor Khanan Wazir was kidnapped by the button men travelling in a non-custom-paid vehicle.
A bigwig said that security forces cordoned off the area soon after the incident and started a search operation. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... nobody was arrested till the filing of this report.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister’s adviser on merged district Ajmal Khan Wazir said that the provincial government had directed the deputy commissioner and district police officer of South Waziristan to take immediate steps for safe and speedy recovery of the kidnapped doctor.
Dr Noor Khanan hails from the Ahmadzai Wazir clan. He is the brother of Dr Maulana Taj Mohammad Wazir and son of former MNA Maulana Noor Mohammad.
Maulana Noor was killed in a suicide kaboom on a mosque in Wana in 2010 when he was giving Koran lessons to his students. At least 35 other people were also killed in the bombing.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Air Force allegedly launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the al-Zawiyah Mountain region in the Idlib Governorate this evening, opposition activists reported over social media.
According to the reports, the Russian Air Force targeted the towns of Deir Sinbol, Baynin, and Shinan in the al-Zawiyah Mountain region.
Despite these claims, it is still not clear whether or not it was the Russian Air Force or their partners from the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF).
Due to the time these strikes were reported, al-Masdar is unable to confirm whether or not it was the Russians or Syrians.
The al-Zawiyah Mountain region, which is where the strikes were reported, is an imperative area that is home to several important towns like Ariha and Ma’arat al-Nu’man.
While the Russian Air Force did attack three different sites over the last two days in Idlib, these strikes have been primarily concentrated on the western part of the governorate.
In particular, the Russian Air Force has concentrated their strikes on the Jisr al-Shughour District, which is where a large number of foreign jihadists are currently based.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A convoy with military and construction equipment crossed the Syrian border on Thursday morning and headed to the observation posts in Idlib, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The fighting has escalated in Idlib over the past several weeks, as the Syrian army has launched an offensive to clear the area from remaining terrorist threat and closed in on the strategic city of Khan Sheikhoun. On 31 August, a new ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey entered into force in the area. The same day, US forces attacked what they said were positions of leaders of al-Qaeda* in northern Idlib. According to Moscow, the strikes resulted in an unspecified number of casualties and damage to surrounding structures.
Prior to that, a long-discussed truce entered into force in early August in Idlib as the result of a deal made with the help of Turkey and Russia in Sochi last September. The Syrian military said it would resume its military operation in northwestern Syria if Ankara failed to implement its obligations under the agreement.
In October 2017, Turkey started setting up observation posts for monitoring ceasefire violations in the Idlib de-escalation zone in line with the agreements between the Syrian ceasefire guarantor states.
Overall, there are 12 such posts in Idlib. In late June, one of these posts was attacked from the territory controlled by the Syrian government. As a result of the attack, a Turkish soldier was killed and three more injured.
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense confirmed that a suicide bomber detonated a Mercedes vehicle packed with explosives close to the compound of Special Operations Corps in Reshkhor area of Kabul.
According to a statement released by Ministry of Defense, the attack claimed the lives of 4 soldiers of the Special Operations Corps and wounded.
In its reaction to the attack, the Ministry of Defense said the terrorist groups have resorted to terrorist attacks in the cities and in civilian areas after suffering heavy losses in the battlefield and losing vast areas which were under their control.
The statement further added that such attacks demonstrate that the terrorists are under unprecedented pressure in the battlefields.
The bomber blew up an explosives-laden minibus at the entrance to the camp in Chahar Asyab district, killing the four special forces members and wounding another three, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, which he said killed more than 200 commandos. The insurgents routinely issue exaggerated casualty claims.
Mujahid said the bomber had been infiltrated into the base well before the attack.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces busted one of the most dangerous networks of ISIS terrorist group in Kabul city.
The National Directorate of Security said in a statement that the security forces arrested three most dangerous members of the terror group who were involved in 29 attacks in Kabul city.
The statement further added that the detained individuals, Ajmal, Nasir and Jafar planned and executed 29 attacks in Kabul city the cooperation of another individual Abdul Wahid.
Furthermore, the National Directorate of Security said the security forces also arrested another member of the group Sabir Khan who had established a shop in Bush market to facilitate supply of military kits for the suicide bombers who were conducting attacks in the city.
Sabir Khan was also involved in recruitment of militants for the terror group and transportation of the militants and suicide bombers between Kabul and Nangarhar provinces.
[WSJ] A French court convicted the sister of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of 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... as of 2016.... of ordering her bodyguard to assault a workman who said he was beaten in her luxury apartment and forced to kiss the princess’s feet.
Princess Hassa bint Salman Al Saud, who was tried in absentia, was given a 10-month suspended sentence and fined €10,000 ($11,000) for the beating in September 2016 at her apartment on the western edge of Gay Paree. Her bodyguard, Rani Saïdi, who was present in court, was handed an eight-month suspended sentence and fined €5,000. Neither is expected to serve any time in jail.
Emmanuel Moyne, a lawyer for Princess Hassa, said the princess would appeal the ruling. A person close to the Saudi royal family denied that the princess ordered a beating, saying she merely asked the bodyguard to stop the workman from taking photographs in her apartment.
The verdict comes as the Saudi royal family and Prince Mohammed struggle to overcome damage to their reputation after last year’s gruesome killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The CIA concluded the prince himself likely ordered the killing. The Saudi government says Saudi operatives killed him on their own initiative in a "rogue operation," and Saudi prosecutors have charged 11 people in his death.
After the killing, Prince Mohammed sought to rehabilitate his image, attending the Group of 20 summit late last year 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... , traveling on diplomatic missions to Asia and funding a youth conference with the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... . Yet he continues to face criticism from human-rights groups and Western governments over Mr. Khashoggi’s murder.
Princess Hassa was charged with ordering the beating during a visit by the worker, Ashraf Eid, for repairs to her apartment on Avenue Foch, an upscale address near the Arc de Triomphe where wealthy foreigners often buy real estate. The princess became enraged after she thought Mr. Eid was surreptitiously trying to photograph her, French prosecutors said.
After being summoned by the princess, her bodyguard tied up Mr. Eid, beat him, put a gun to his head and ordered him to kiss her feet, Mr. Eid said. At one point Princess Hassa said, "Kill him, the dog, he doesn’t deserve to live," Mr. Eid told the police.
Yassine Bouzrou, a lawyer for the bodyguard, Mr. Saïdi, said his client sought only to protect his employer. He said Mr. Saïdi ran over upon hearing the princess shout for help and firmly pushed back the assailant.
Mr. Bouzrou said his client denies threatening the man with a weapon, tying him up, or forcing him to kiss the princess’s feet.
[THEHILL] Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) on Thursday filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS Corp. and CBS Broadcasting in New York, accusing the organization of publishing false statements from two women who accused him of sexual assault.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Virginia's Eastern District, came in response to CBS interviews with the accusers the network conducted in February.
"Fairfax brings this action to restore his reputation and clear his name, ensure the truth prevails, stop the weaponization of false allegations of sexual assault against him, and vindicate his rights under civil law," the lawsuit says.
Fairfax has denied the accusations made by Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson. Tyson says Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Watson, who said Fairfax raped her while they attended Duke University, came forward in an interview with CBS's Gayle King.
The women went public with their accusations after many called on Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam ...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?... (D) to resign after a photo from his medical school yearbook page resurfaced showing people in blackface. If Northam had resigned, Fairfax would have become governor.
"We stand by our reporting and we will vigorously defend this lawsuit," CBS News said in a statement to The Hill.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) carried out several strikes over the Idlib Governorate Thursday, targeting a number of areas controlled by the jihadists of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... and the Turkestan Islamic Party.
According to reports from northern Syria, the Syrian Air Force mostly targeted areas in western and southern Idlib; this includes Kafr Nabl, Dar al-Kabeera, Sheikh Mustafa, Jabala, Hazarin, Kafr Roma, and Ma’arat al-Harmah.
The Syrian Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s came just a few hours after the Russian Air Force targeted the positions of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in the town of al-Shughour in the western countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
With the ceasefire’s alleged conclusion, both the Syrian and Russian air forces have resumed their strikes over the Idlib and Latakia governorates, hitting a number of sites belonging to the jihadist rebels.
[DAWN] The war of words between the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and United States 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...... escalated on Thursday as the Afghan forces of Evil warned that the US leader had failed to grasp "what type of nation he is dealing with".
The latest salvo in the bitter exchange comes a day after Trump boasted during a 9/11 anniversary ceremony that US forces have "hit our enemy harder than they have ever been hit before and that will continue" just days after peace talks between the two sides collapsed.
"Trump (@realDonaldTrump) must tread carefully," tweeted Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid. "He has yet to grasp the type of nation he is dealing with. His advisers must make him understand and introduce the Graveyard of Empires #Afghanistan to him."
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 krazed killer groups out. But then on Saturday, Trump revealed on Twitter that he had cancelled an unprecedented meeting between the Taliban and himself at Camp David and later said the talks with the forces of Evil were "dead".
The Taliban front man's tweet comes just hours after the group launched a suicide kaboom that killed at least four soldiers near Kabul, as the bully boyz ramp up attacks on security forces.
The incident occurred at a special forces base in Char Asiab district just south of the capital Kabul where an murderous Moslem driving an exploding car detonated near the facility's entrance.
"Four soldiers were killed, and three injured," said interior ministry front man Nasrat Rahimi.
Afghan special forces ‐ numbering around 17,000 ‐ represent a small fraction of the 300,000 strong Afghan armed forces but have been carrying out the bulk of offensive operations across Afghanistan in recent years.
[DAWN] The Prosecution on Wednesday filed three different applications in a blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... case against a lecturer and requested the trial court to summon 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.... Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) expert and sought permission to get forensic examination of a laptop and a cell phone belonging to the accused.
A Bahauddin Zakariya University visiting lecturer, Junaid Hafeez, was booked on blasphemy charges and was arrested by police on March 13, 2013. The trial of the case started in 2014.
The defence counsel had already completed the cross examination of the witnesses presented by the prosecution.
On Wednesday, the court was supposed to record statement of the accused under section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the prosecution filed three new applications, including the one for sending laptop and mobile phone recovered from the accused at the time of his arrest in 2013, another for de-exhibition of some documents and the application filed under section 540 of the CrPC, along with section 94 of the CrPC, for summoning an expert working for the PFSA who prepared a report on the evidence gathered by police.
The defence counsel also submitted an application requesting the court to hold the trial proceedings on a daily basis.
The court sought arguments both from prosecution and defence sides on Sept 25 and adjourned the hearing.
Real ones, or as imaginary as Iran’s American spy squirrels?
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) ‐ commonly known as Hashd Shabi ‐ said it has shot down an unidentified drone in eastern Iraq, nearly three weeks after the group came under aerial bombardment by Israeli fighter jets.
"The tactical group of Hashd Shaabi’s 26th brigade deployed in the operational center in Diyala in the district of Kanaan managed to shoot down a drone, which was attempting to attack the Iraqi army," the statement published by PMF read.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at his country’s involvement in the aerial attacks on ammunition depots in Iraq belonging to the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) composed of mostly Shia Moslem groups.
An unnamed senior US officials were quoted by the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... as saying that Israel conducted "several strikes in recent days" in Iraq, including the July 19 attack north of Baghdad which targeted a base allegedly used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "to transfer weapons to Syria"
In response, the Hashd announced it is now forming its own ’Air Force’ in order to respond to hostile air strikes.
Established in 2014 with the aim to fight 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.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ,ISIS, IS), the Hashd al-Shaabi was formally incorporated into the Iraqi army in 2017.
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to Maj. Gen. Alexey Bakin, citing the refugees, a significant amount of cargo earlier delivered by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and the Syrian Arab Red Islamic Thingy to Rukban has been seized by bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems and moved to a base of the Kuwat Shahid Ahmad al-Abdo turban group, located to the north of the camp.
"On 11 September, bandidosbandidos murderous Moslems opened fire with small arms at a market in Rukban to disperse civilians demanding food," Bakin said at a briefing.
The Rukban camp houses some 25,000 people in conditions described by the World Health Organization as "deplorable" ‐ lacking food, access to medical care and basic amenities.
The camp is located in the US-controlled zone around its unauthorized military base at At-Tanf, making it hard for humanitarian workers to access the area.
Back in August, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said that over 17,000 civilians had already left the camp with the assistance of Moscow and Damascus.
The Syrian government and the Russian reconciliation centre have been assisting those wishing to leave the camp. The Russian and Syrian governments have repeatedly tried to draw the world’s attention to the appalling conditions in which refugees live in the camp and to the United States’ reluctance to let them leave the facility.
The US State Department has said the United States does not prevent anyone from leaving the Rukban camp.
[DAWN] Palestinians tilling the fertile Jordan Valley said on Wednesday they have been rooted for generations to the West Bank land that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex, and they vowed never to give it up.
“We tell Netanyahu, and whoever follows him, you will not break the Palestinians' will, you will never break our will, never, never,” said Hassan Al-Abedi, a 55-year-old farmer who lives in the village of Jiftlik.
“It's our parents' and grandparents' land. We will hold onto it no matter what it costs.”
The right-wing Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he plans to "apply Israeli sovereignty" to the Jordan Valley and adjacent northern Dead Sea if he prevails in what is shaping up as a tough battle for re-election on September 17.
The plan drew condemnation from Arab leaders and from Palestinians, who seek to establish a state in all of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The office of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the plan "would constitute a serious violation of international law". Palestinian leaders said it would also effectively nullify interim peace deals from the 1990s that included security cooperation.
Against the backdrop of Jordan's desert mountain range to the east, Palestinian farmers tended their crops and worried about their future in an area where the town of Jericho and the River Jordan are reminders of a biblical past.
“This is not Netanyahu's land to give,” said Ismael Hassan, a 75-year-old Palestinian from Zbeidat village. “Whether or not Netanyahu succeeds (in the election) we won't accept it. This land is for Palestine, for the Palestinians.”
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Mossad should spread rumors that the waters in the Palestinian areas cause gayness and infertility. The Pals will readily bleieve the Jews pulled off some weird miracle/war crime and will move out of the area into Egypt and Jordan.
[FOXNEWS] U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against CNN contributor Andrew McCabe, Fox News has learned, as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official.
McCabe -- the former deputy and acting director of the FBI -- appealed the decision of the U.S. attorney for Washington all the way up to Jeffrey Rosen, the deputy attorney general, but he rejected that request, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The potential charges relate to DOJ inspector general findings against him regarding misleading statements concerning a Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... -related investigation.
A source close to McCabe’s legal team said they received an email from the Department of Justice which said, "The Department rejected your appeal of the United States Attorney’s Office’s decision in this matter. Any further inquiries should be directed to the United States Attorney’s Office."
McCabe spent 21 years with the FBI. He became the acting director in May 2017 after President Trump fired former director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... Last month, a source close to the process told Fox News that McCabe had a "target on his back" because of the Justice Department inspector general findings.
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DOJ will put one of their junior varsity team on it and deliver as well as Mueller delivered to the Donks. You get one shot to convict. You think with all the anti-Trump sympathizers in the joint you are going to get a motivated legal team? I have a bridge in San Francisco to sell you.
[The Feds had a slam dunk case on political corruption in NM with video and voice. Lost the case in court cause the prosecutor didn't want to do it. Failed at the start by not putting one bit of effort in jury selection. One juror afterwards openly said, no way was he going to convict.]
[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus slammed the Iranian government to news hounds on Thursday after she was asked about their recent delivery of oil to Syria.
"I think the importance here to our friends around the world in the international community is to note that once again you have been lied to and misled by the Iranian regime," Ortagus told news hounds.
In regards to the Adrian Darya 1’s (formerly Grace 1) departure from Gibraltar in mid-August, Ortagus said 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... blatantly lied about the ship’s destination in order to deliver the oil to the Syrian coast.
"The Iranian regime broke its word and appears intent on fueling the Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people, who continue to face widespread violence, death and destruction," Ortagus stated.
"This fits into the web of lies perpetrated by the Iranian regime for 40 years," she said.
"Their deception and broken promises are not just aimed at the international community but the Iranian people, too," she added.
[KhaamaPress] The First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... says he has proposed a 6-month plan to government, U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... for the defeat of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in North of Afghanistan.
Gen. Dostum informed in this regard in a video message which he published ahead of the release of a movie which will depict his role in support of the U.S.-led invasion in Afghanistan in 2001.
In his video message, Gen. Dostum said he has proposed to 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... , the National Security Council, the U.S., NATO and international allies to consider his plan and implement it.
Furthermore, Gen. Dostum said his plan will not need the deployment of infantry forces of the United States and other facilities to defeat the Taliban group.
Gen. Dosum further added that the United States is facing a stalemate in the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Gen. Dostum said he prefers a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in a decent manner and with achievements, insisting that ’We have the ability to defeat Taliban but the President, the U.S. and NATO should trust us.’
In other parts of his speech, Gen. Dostum said the purpose of his plan is not to decompose the North of Afghanistan from the other parts of the country but he wants to help the U.S. in a similar way he did in 2001 and that he wants the U.S. to withdraw from the country leaving behind a legacy of victory.
This comes as the U.S. President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ’s administration initiated peace talks with Taliban nearly nine months ago to end the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan through political negotiations.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... President Trump called off the peace talks on Sunday following a series of deadly attacks in Kabul city which left dozens of people dead including an American soldier. The Taliban group grabbed credit for the attacks amid ongoing negotiations.
[DAWN] At least 50 stowaways were killed when a freight train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... on Thursday, the latest rail tragedy to strike the vast central African nation.
"Another disaster! Derailing at 3am (0100 GMT) in Tanganyika (province) near Mayibaridi. Provisional toll: 50 dead and several injured," the minister for humanitarian action, Steve Mbikayi, said in a tweet.
Witnesses at the scene and local media feared more than a hundred people could have been killed.
Victor Umba, the union head of the national rail company SNCC, said the freight train was travelling from the town of Nyunzu to the town of Niemba when two carriages fell on their sides.
"Those who died in this derailment were stowaways. It is impossible for the SNCC to provide any kind of toll," Umba told AFP. He added that the SNCC's chief was in the quiet provincial capital of Kalemie trying to find a way to raise the carriages.
"It seems that many stowaways are trapped under the derailed carriages".
Railways in the DRC have a poor record for safety, hampered by derelict tracks and decrepit locomotives, many of them dating from the 1960s.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Over 2,000 murderous Moslems from various factions, including Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , have fled the Idlib and Hama governorates for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , the Syria-based publication al-Watan reported on Thursday.
"Since the start of the anti-terrorist offensive of the Syrian Arab Army in Idlib on May 6th, local smugglers and Ottoman Turkish border guards have facilitated the illegal entry into Turkey of more than two thousand terrorists," the publication claimed, citing activists at the border town of Khirbat al-Joz in western Idlib.
The Syrian publication said most of the murderous Moslems are members of holy warrior factions like Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which is believed to be in control of most of the Idlib Governorate.
"The final destination of these Lions of Islam are the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an countries that they will reach through Greece," they added.
Al-Watan added that "several groups of these Lions of Islam have already arrived in Greece, which highlights the seriousness of the threats recently launched by Ottoman Turkish President Recep Tayyeb Erdogan to open the doors to Europe to refugees, as happened in 2015."
[NYPOST] A Baltimore woman shot at a motel security guard who mistook her loud sex for a fight — but denies it was attempted murder because she is too good a shot to have missed, according to charging documents.
Allison Nicole Daughtrey, 34, got into a pissinghollering yelling match with the guard at a Days Inn on Monday after he booted her out for fighting even after she insisted she had just been having sex with her girlfriend, according to WJZ. Ewwww!
Surveillance footage from the lobby reportedly caught her pulling out and firing a handgun at his head — with the guard saying it only missed because he moved at the last second, according to the documents. "Yessir. Parted my hair, she did!"
However, Daughtrey insisted that her handgun accidentally fired after falling from her bag as she swung it at him during the struggle, according to the Baltimore Sun.
“If I intended to ever use the gun, I would never have missed the target,” she said, according to the Sun.
She then “bit him in his right arm and continued to pull the trigger” after he grabbed the gun, according to the charging documents. The guard was taken to MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. "That's right, yer honor! If'n I'da actually been bitin' I'da chewed his arm off!"
The bullet hit a metal frame near the lobby window and damaged the wall, curtains and window frame.
Daughtrey was arrested at the scene and is charged with attempted second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment, destruction of property and gun charges, according to the documents.
She is being held without bond at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson, the Sun reported.
Three children who had been with her at the hotel — in a separate room from her girlfriend — are in the care of their grandmother, according to the reports.
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Three children who had been with her at the hotel — in a separate room from her girlfriend — are in the care of their grandmother, according to the reports.
The horror! Separated from their parent! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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Loud animal sex with girlfriend, with three children in the next room and a fucking grandm... WHAT ?!
Should the charges include 'impropriety in presence of two generations of dependents' ? No. I don't think it will. This sort of thing must be everyday in Baltimore.
[DAWN] A Pakistain Army soldier was martyred after Indian troops resorted to "unprovoked" firing from across the Line of Control in Hajipir sector of 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.... , the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday.
The soldier was identified by the military's media wing as Sepoy Ghulam Rasool, who hailed from Bahawalnagar.
According to media reports, Indian troops had targeted the same sector with intermittent shelling on Monday. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... no losses had been reported at the time.
Earlier on Saturday, the Foreign Office (FO) had summoned Indian Charge d` Affairs Gaurav Ahluwalia to lodge a protest against "unprovoked ceasefire violations" by the Indian army.
According to a statement issued by the FO, Director General (SA & SAARC) Dr Mohammad Faisal had urged the Indian side to respect the 2003 ceasefire arrangement. He said that the Indian side should permit UNMOGIP to play its mandated role as per the UN Security Council resolutions.
The statement had said that in the last ceasefire violations on September 6 in Khuiratta sector of the LoC, the Indian forces had deliberately targeted innocent civilian participants of peaceful rallies organised to show solidarity with the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Four civilians had sustained serious injuries in that incident.
The incidents of firing along the LoC come as tensions remain high between India and Pakistain over the former's move to revoke occupied Kashmir's special autonomy.
[Rudaw] An Iraq-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... border crossing is set to reopen after nearly three decades of closure, Iraq’s border crossing department announced on Thursday.
A meeting held between Iraqi and Saudi border authorities at the Arar crossing set October 15 as a test period for its reopening, a department statement said.
Anbar provincial council member Amira Odaie spoke to Rudaw on Thursday about the meeting.
"Early on Thursday morning, Iraq’s border crossing department met with their Saudi Arabian counterparts to discuss the opening of Arar crossing border, in order to boost trades and tourism between the two countries," Odaie said.
Opening the Arar crossing will also provide job opportunities to Anbar province’s young people currently suffering from high rates of unemployment, she added.
Arar crossing closed back in 1991, when relations between the two countries deteriorated after then-president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Iraq-Saudi relations were further damaged under former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s tenure.
Rapprochement between the two began in 2015, when Saudi Arabia reopened their Baghdad embassy after 25 years of closure.
A Saudi-Iraqi Coordination Council was established in October 2017 with the aim of strengthening relations between the two countries.
Vying for influence in the country over regional rival Iran, Saudi Arabia opened a consulate in Baghdad in April 2019 after a visit from a 100-person Saudi delegation, including nine ministers. Riyadh pledged $1.5 billion in loans to Iraq during the trip.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi visited Saudi Arabia later that month, when the two countries signed 13 deals in the fields of political consultation, investment promotion and protection, agriculture, energy, electricity, and higher education.
The Arar border crossing currently opens once a year, to allow Iraqi pilgrims to enter Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic rite of Hajj.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... /ISIS/IS/ISIS) resumed their attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the al-Raqqa Governorate this week.
According to local reports, an Islamic State sleeper cell in the al-Tabaqa area attacked a group of SDF fights, killing and wounding at least ten fighters.
The reports said the attack occurred at an SDF checkpoint south of Tabaqa city; it did not specify if there were any Islamic State casualties.
Both the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Syrian Democratic Forces have faced the brunt of the Islamic State’s attacks since they lost almost all of their territory inside Syria.
While the SDF controls most of the al-Raqqa Governorate (Syrian Army controls some areas), the Islamic State sleeper cells have managed to remain active by carrying out sporadic attacks that often cause several casualties.
[BREITBART] The far-left members of the "Squad" ‐ Reps. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details... (D-NY), Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) ‐ participated in an NAACP forum Wednesday evening and declared that members of the Republican Party are "scared" of them "because they know how powerful" they are.
Ocasio-Cortez talked about her background as a waitress and told the moderator, Angela Rye, that she does not "shy away" from her background of working in restaurants because it prepared her for her current job as a congresswoman.
"Nothing will give you the ferocity of advocacy like having that kind of experience," Ocasio-Cortez said.
"No one can tell me about things like sexual harassment. No one can tell me things like working for tips on a wage that is less than the minimum wage. No one can tell me about taking the subway at 3 o’clock in the morning home from a night shift," she said, claiming that "no one else has those experiences on the other side of the aisle."
"Very few people have those experiences, and by the way, when they do, like John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy former establishmentarian leader of House Republicans... , they’re lauded for it. They’re like, ’That’s a guy I could have a beer with,’ but with me, it’s like, so‐" she continued with a gesture.
The freshman politician added that the Republican Party is "scared" of the "Squad."
"It’s because they’re scared because sometimes I think that the Republican Party recognizes our power more than we do sometimes," she said.
"Tweet that," Rye interrupted.
"Because there is a reason we are on Fox News 24/7 while every pundit ‐ while they’re sending mailers with our face on it ‐ because they know how powerful we are more than sometimes our own ‐ frankly I think ‐ our own party does," she added.
At that point, Rye mentioned that Republican Dan Bishop, who defeated Democrat Dan McCready in North Carolina’s Ninth congressional district Tuesday night, gave the "Squad" a "shoutout" in his victory speech by noting that his victory was a rejection of the "radical liberal policies" pushed by members of the "Squad."
"Is that why he won by a smaller percentage than Trump did in his district?" Ocasio-Cortez mused.
Bishop secured a win with 50.7 percent to McCready’s 48.7 percent.
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Oooooooo! Scary! Scary!
Plus that load about working in restaurants prepared her for being a Congresscritter. Does that mean she works for tips now?
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So you sound a lot like Pol Pot, you hate your elders, you think because you slung beer and warded off leering looks by pushing bouncers on guys, and gals, you are more worldly than the congressman and women? You know nothing of the law, you know nothing of second and third order effects. What you do know is arrogance, self-riotousness, and decision making by emotion. You operate from one ethnocentric-bigoted emotional outburst to another. But I do agree on one thing about you, people like you are a danger to a civil society, people like you are responsible for the killing fields, for the Bolshevik revolution and on and on. What saddens me is you have a following, that believe you and your fogged over single synaptic sense of truth. We are at a place in history where this republic is fragile, and now we have elected representatives, like you with very impressive single digit IQ's. I am afraid, very afraid for our future.
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Scared of you because your ideas lead to economic ruin, dictatorship, and genocide but you've got a significant number of zealots willing to give it another shot.
The globalists are massively similar to the "libertarian"s, just one is more stealthy about the transfers calling their hand on the scales "market forces".
g(r)omgoru, what on earth prompted you to post a video of a Canadian bluegrass band, evolved from grunge, that answers the question about the cello in the marching band?! They’re amazing! This explains the previously inexplicable delight my Canadian friend finds in the genre.
#9
Instapundit has long divided Big-L libertarians from Small-L libertarians. The first being somewhat nutty. Seems the Koch Group has picked which they prefer.
[BREITBART] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been asked by South Korea to bar Japan from using the “Rising Sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo games, Seoul’s sports ministry said on Wednesday.
South Korea’s sports ministry sent a letter to the IOC to express its “disappointment” over Tokyo’s organising committee’s decision to allow the “Rising Sun” ensign or kyokujitsuki to be displayed, claiming it represents a “militaristic and imperial past.”
The ministry said the standard defies the peaceful spirit of the Olympics as it was a symbol of Japan’s imperialist past that reminds Asian countries of “historical wounds and pains,” and it likened it to the swastika used in Nazi Germany.
The flag, which features a red sun with 16 rays radiating from the center, has been used by Japan for many centuries and is still flown by Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. It differs from the country’s official flag, a red disk on a white background, which will be used by its Olympic team.
[Rudaw] US and Ottoman Turkish helicopters performed their fourth joint air patrol over the East of Euphrates in northern Syria on Thursday as part of first phase plans to establish a safe zone in the region, days after Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... threatened to conduct independent operations in the area.
Both the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry and US Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Command released images of the overflight. According to Ankara, "two Ottoman Turkish and two US helicopters" took part in the patrol.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) detailed US participation in "several US-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... reconnaissance overflights" in a Wednesday blurb, as well as a joint ground patrol by the two country's forces on Sunday.
"[O]ur joint ground patrol demonstrates our continued commitment to address Turkey's legitimate security concerns, while also allowing the Coalition and our SDF partners to remain focused on achieving the enduring defeat of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... (ISIS)," a CENTCOM spokesperson for the International Coalition against 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.... (ISIS) said in the release.
The first joint overflight was conducted on August 25.
Both countries’ military officials agreed on August 7 to establish a safe zone in northern Syria to deescalate tensions between the US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Turkey.
The SDF removed some of its fortifications from the border area in late August as a sign of "commitment" to the agreement.
"You can see the progress: the SDF voluntarily razed fortifications," according to the CENTCOM release.
The safe zone’s joint operations centre is based in Sanliurfa province, on the Ottoman Turkish border with Syria. A US military delegation visited the centre on Wednesday.
Erdogan has, however, expressed doubts about US levels of commitment to the safe zone plan, vowing to undertake operations independently if the safe zone is not established quickly enough.
"If the de facto formation of a safe zone east of the Euphrates with Ottoman Turkish soldiers is not initiated by the end of September, Turkey has no choice but to set out on its own," Erdogan warned during a mass opening ceremony in Malatya, eastern Turkey.
"We expect from the US to stand with us in our efforts on fighting terrorism and on establishing safe zones for migrants colonists," President Erdogan said on Tuesday at a reception held as part of the US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ visit to Turkey.
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[KXAN] Twenty-two Greenpeace USA activists created a blockade on the Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas early Thursday ahead of the third Democratic primary debate in Houston.
Eleven of those climbers are dangling over the side of the bridge, an activist said in a Facebook Live video. The climbers held colorful ribbons and streamers to block traffic under the bridge. "Look! Pinatas!"
The group aims to "shut down the largest oil export channel in the U.S." for 24 hours.
Law enforcement officials told the local NBC affiliate that Houston Ship Channel was temporarily closed down because the protesters threatened to lower themselves to stop ship traffic.
"This climate emergency was fueled by Trump’s climate denial and the oil industry’s greed," the group wrote in the Facebook posts. "We’re here to resist."
Harris County constables are on the bridge monitoring the scene. Law enforcement officials told local media that the protesters were peaceful so far. At least two lanes of the bridge were also blocked to traffic and they are expected to remain blocked until the protest is over.
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They should have tried to block the road instead. Then their remains could have been tossed off the bridge. I'll bet they don't try this again, because Houston traffic jams aren't known for mercy and tolerance to the people deliberately causing them.
[Breitbart] Do you hear that sound ‐ so quiet it’s almost deafening? That’s the sound of 17.4 million fucks not being given about the Remoaners’ latest fake news scare story, codenamed Yellowhammer.
Actually, I think it’s highly likely that I have underestimated the sheer scale of fucks not being given.
We know that at the very least 17.4 million people don’t give a toss what these released documents say. But that figure fails to take into account all the millions more who either didn’t turn up to vote Brexit because they thought ‐ not unreasonably ‐ that the Establishment would contrive to ignore their decision. Nor the millions who voted Remain but have since changed their minds having realised just how disgusting the Remoaner Liberal Elite actually are and just how vile and vindictive the anti-democratic European Union is.
Yellowhammer ‐ for what it’s worth ‐ is the code name for some worst-case-scenario documents, prepared by the Remainer Civil Service, as an exercise to wargame a No Deal Brexit.
John Bercow’s Remainer parliament, in its death throes, has contrived to force them to be released publicly so that everyone can tremble at the dire consequences ‐ delays at ports, possible shortages of vital foodstuffs that Remainers like to eat such as quinoa and chia seeds, more angry videos from Femi Sorry ‐ of a No Deal Brexit.
But the only people who take this theoretical nonsense seriously are Remoaners. It’s their latest version of Project Fear, that’s all.
And since Remoaners don’t count that means that literally no one cares about Yellowhammer.
I’m amazed I even bothered to write about it.
Sorry about that. Here’s a picture of a real Yellowhammer to make up for it.
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Yellowhammer is a list of contingencies expected by the cabinet, that everyone from Law enforcement to health and communications were asked to be prepped for by the secretariat. Some remainers and critics say it was made public to normalize the fact of a UK divorced and isolated from the EU.
Something like the list EC shared with us. Although that listed purely corporate-bureaucratic inconveniences.
#8
Well it's lying in a desk somewhere here (I gave you a very shortened version).
I guess Trump would say: "We'll see what happens."
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Well they prepared for Dorian in Florida, didn't they? And rightfully so.
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Oh, I've never doubted what you said would come to pass. All the trouble that's in store for Britain after brexit. It's true. Maybe not sackcloth and ashes, but they'll just barely avoid it.
I have great faith in the incalculable, see. Providence, the power of human will, the momentum of life itself. Order and progress shall find a way, eventually. But if the will of the inhabitants of the land is overridden, no convenience is worth it.
[BREITBART] Democrat presidential hopeful Robert "Beto" O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... is suggesting credit cards are an enabling factor in mass shootings.O’Rourke conflated the two via Twitter and followed it by pushing financial institutions to take action.
He wrote, "Credit cards have enabled many of America’s mass shootings in the last decade‐and with Washington unwilling to act, they need to cut off the sales of weapons of war today."
O’Rourke is pushing for corporate gun control even as 145 of America’s well-known companies ask Congress to take up more gun control.
On September 12, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Bain Capital, Credit Karma, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Doordash, GAP, Levi Strauss & Co., Pinterest, Reddit, Royal Caribbean, Twitter, Uber, and Yelp, and 133 other companies sent a letter to Congress asking for universal background checks and legislation allowing court orders for the confiscation of firearms.
CitiBank adopted gun control requirements for customers in March 2018.
Breitbart News reported CitiBank’s gun control policy set forth three requirements for "new retail sector clients or partners." Those requirements: (1) they don’t sell firearms to someone who hasn’t passed a background check, (2) they restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age, and (3) they don’t sell bump stocks or high-capacity magazines.
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Virtue Signaling, par excellence.
"Pay no attention to our scams, and don't think of regulating us, Congress - we're WOKE!"
LOOK THE OTHER WAY, CONGRESSMAN - pay no attention to...
Bain Capital: exploitation of the carried interest scam
Twitter and Uber: blatant abuse of the employment laws to treat de facto employees as if they were part-time contractors
#4
The Federally-Insured Financials that are threatening and boycotting legal firearms Companies should lose their Fed backing and be barred from conducting government transactions
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He is not a businessman. He is a boytoy with a Sugar Midas wife who lets him pretend as it gets her off.
#8
Bingo. Look also at California politics: the Boy Governor Gavin Newsome's influence-soaked (also alcohol-soaked) rise to wealth and power due to daddy's ties to the Browns and the Getty family.
Willie Brown's stash, and his ho' Kamala H's rise to wealth thanks to her socialite connections.
Both Feinstein and Pelosi married commercial real estate brokers with close ties to SF politicians. Etc etc
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Some bits on Amy Sanders - Beto's wife
Her Father Sold a Real Estate Business to GE for at Least $2 Billion
Amy’s father, William “Bill” Sanders, is known as a real estate mogul, according to El Paso Inc. He owns Verde Realty and has been highly successful in all his businesses. The book “The Richest Man in Town” noted that Bill Sanders began Verde after building a fortune in the real estate investment trust business. He founded LaSalle Partners and then Security Capital, one of the most successful REITs in the country, and later sold it to GE. (Some sources say he sold it for $2 billion and others say $5.4 billion.) Security Capital was one of the most influential real estate companies in history. Forbes, however, has cautioned against assuming that Amy is a billionaire heiress.
[DAWN] PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the federal government for "trying to occupy 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... " following Law Minister Farogh Naseem's statement that the centre was considering taking over the administrative affairs of the metropolis through a little-known constitutional provision.
Yesterday, Naseem had told Dawn that a strategic committee on Karachi was going to recommend to Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... that he invoke Article 149 for the uplift of Karachi.
"After getting approval of the cabinet, the provision will be exercised. In case of any resistance shown by the provincial government, we will approach the Supreme Court under Article 184(1) of the Constitution to seek a directive in this regard. If the province still shows reluctance, we will file a contempt petition in the SC," he had said.
The minister had told news channels that it was his personal view that the Centre should take over Karachi’s affairs. Any decision was likely to be taken by the premier during his visit to the metropolis on September 14, he added.
"You try to build a narrative against [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, saying that he unconstitutionally captured 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.... , and at the same time you try to occupy Karachi. This is bizarre," Bilawal said in his presser. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan, "who has vowed to protect human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... in [occupied] Kashmir, has ripped apart democratic rights of the people of Pakistain.
"You want to run Karachi from Islamabad?" he asked
Addressing the media in Hyderabad, Bilawal said that the PPP, which is the ruling party in Sindh, "will never accept any conspiracy" against the province.
Of course they did. Also everything else Israel has ever done.
[DAWN] A front man for United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Secretary-General António Guterres said the Israeli leader's vow to annex the Jordan Valley would be a "serious violation of international law".
The particularly strong rebuke from the world body follows a chorus of criticism against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his promise to annex the area if he wins re-election next week.
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"International Law, you keep using that term. I don't think it means what you think it means."
...another time where life imitates The Princess Bride.
#8
And a hundred years ago "International Law" allowed you could total freedom to oppress, pillage and murder Third World Countries as long as you only did it in your "Sphere of Influence".
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces managed to score a big advance along the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i-Saudi border this week after launching a big offensive against the Yemeni pro-government forces in 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 Jizan region.
Backed by heavy artillery, the Ansarallah forces began the offensive in the Jahfan area of the Jizan region; this would later result in a big advance for the Yemeni group.
Following the capture of several sites in the Jahfan area, the Ansarallah forces seized several weapons and proceeded to withdraw from these sites before the Saudi Coalition began to bomb the area.
[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain appeared before a police station in London after he was summoned for questioning in a probe related to his alleged hate speeches relayed from the United Kingdom to his followers in Pakistan.
Hussain arrived at the Southwark police station at around 10am local time and left after nearly four-and-a-half hours, Mustafa Azizabadi of the MQM-London told Dawn.
He was allowed to leave after his bail was extended. The duration of the bail wasn't immediately known.
In June, the MQM founder was arrested from his London residence as part of the investigation into his alleged hate speeches. However, he was released on bail a day later by the British authorities without filing charges relating to the probe.
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England is largely seen as the parking space for moolah and for seeking refuge from governments. This sample is not as evil as the news from DAWN will paint him though.
An army reject himself, he's against Pakistain's link to talibaners, using terrorists for political gain and violation of boundaries. And he advocated democracy and equal rights for minorities in the 'Stain and non-funding of the jamaats with funds begged from the world bank.
In '92 the Nawaz Sharif govt cracked down on his MQM and hounded him out. Chiefly because he would not toe the military-mullah line and was chased away by mullahs. He was even accused of being a R&AW guy once. I don't know about his personal motives, but he usually talks sense, which is anathema to muslims (mainly Pakis) and registers in their ears as 'hate speech'. He occasionally rouses the rabble in Pakistain to rebel and protest.
The UK courts may be daft but they're thankfully not totally owned by mullahs yet, so he enjoys their protection. There have been three attempts on his life by the ISI from 2014 to 2017.
[BearingArms] The U.S. House of Representatives passed three gun control bills on Tuesday, ramping up the pressure on the U.S. Senate to "do something" now that Congress has returned from its legislative session. The three bills include a measure offering grants to states to set up "red flag" laws, a prohibition on gun ownership for those convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes, and a ban on magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Later this month the House Judiciary Committee is also expected to pass a sweeping ban on semi-automatic firearms and magazines over 10 rounds.
The additional gun control measures passed by the House are meant to apply pressure to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said gun control would be "front and center" when the Senate returned, but has since said he won't bring any gun bill to the floor that won't be signed by President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said McConnell's inaction has led to the deaths of Americans. Horrible, ineffective and tyrannical idea after idea. This is the full sprint to a total gun ban by the left. One can only hope that the Senate doesn't cave to this and Trump doesn't sign it if they do.
Otherwise the Republicans are dead as a party. And so is the US.
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Ban on semi-automatics? That ain't going to happen. If so, we are going to make felons out of a large segment of the population; people who vote. It would pave the way for a 1860 redux and a resistance like has never been seen. Most likely, an open season on politicians would be fostered who passed this.
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QC, we are already labeled "Terrorists" by the speaker of the house's district. Pretty close to a done deal on that. So not it can be illegal for the NRA member to peacefully assemble because they are a terrorist org, their free speech is curtailed, and any sense of due process is voided in San Fran. Its not a matter of when, its a matter of how wide and far this will go before people stat expending ammo on the issue to get their God given rights back.
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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
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...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
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...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
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...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed or detained 15 Talibs during their latest operations in the past 24 hours.
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[DAWN] THERE have been many ineffective campaigns against deaths in police custody in the past, and we should like to hope that the present public outrage will lead to some concrete steps to rid the country’s criminal justice system of one of its major flaws.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A convoy with military and construction equipment crossed the Syrian border on Thursday morning and headed to the observation posts in Idlib, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Crown Prince of 
...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) ‐ commonly known as Hashd Shabi ‐ said it has shot down an unidentified drone in eastern Iraq, nearly three weeks after the group came under aerial bombardment by Israeli fighter jets.
[ALMASDARNEWS] According to Maj. Gen. Alexey Bakin, citing the refugees, a significant amount of cargo earlier delivered by the 
[DAWN] Palestinians tilling the fertile Jordan Valley said on Wednesday they have been rooted for generations to the West Bank land that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex, and they vowed never to give it up.
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
...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 
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Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
[KXAN] Twenty-two Greenpeace USA activists created a blockade on the Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas early Thursday ahead of the third Democratic primary debate in Houston.
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
[DAWN] PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday lashed out at the federal government for "trying to occupy .jpg "Kashmir")
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain appeared before a police station in London after he was summoned for questioning in a probe related to his alleged hate speeches relayed from the United Kingdom to his followers in Pakistan.
[BearingArms] The U.S. House of Representatives passed three gun control bills on Tuesday, ramping up the pressure on the U.S. Senate to "do something" now that Congress has returned from its legislative session. The three bills include a measure offering grants to states to set up "red flag" laws, a prohibition on gun ownership for those convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes, and a ban on magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Later this month the House Judiciary Committee is also expected to pass a sweeping ban on semi-automatic firearms and magazines over 10 rounds.
