[Ynet] Following US president Donald Trump's decision to close the PLO mission in Washington, the Palestinian envoy to the US Husam Zomlot said he had been requested to leave the country.
US authorities revoked Zomlot and his family's visa to remain in the country, closed their bank accounts and requested them to live immediately, according to Zomlot.
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Go talk to souiee Suha and see if she still has the booty that the Arafish stole during his tenure in Gaza. President Trump means what he says. AMF.
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[Salisbury Journal] A cordon is in place on the high street, also affecting New Street, Crane Street and the entrance to the Cathedral Close.
It is believed at least one person has "fallen ill" at the scene, with witnesses describing police "covering someone up" with a blanket.
People inside the Old Ale House pub have been told they cannot leave, and crews are putting on hazmat suits outside.
Emergency crews in white suits and face masks are inside Prezzo, and other officers in full hazmat suits are standing by.
A fire engine, ambulance, four police cars and an incident response unit are at the scene.
Police were called by the ambulance service to Prezzo at 6.45pm following a medical incident involving a man and a woman.
The restaurant and surrounding roads have been cordoned off "as a precautionary measure" while officers attend the scene and establish the circumstances surrounding what has led them to fall ill.
Another witness, Sam Proudfoot said there was "a man in a full white body suit with a mouth mask" at the scene.
It comes after Wiltshire Police issued a warning to drug users in the county as they believed the toxic opioid fentanyl is currently in circulation.
There is currently no confirmation on whether the incident is linked to ongoing nerve agent investigations.
[Ynet] Go ahead and give em the Full Corrie™ An American law professor was detained Friday by Israeli police for allegedly trying to block Israeli troops from dismantling shacks built by Palestinian protesters near Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin encampment in the West Bank.
Frank Romano, 66, is being held at a lockup in Jerusalem and is to appear before a military court Monday, said attorney Gaby Lasky who is pushing for a hearing sooner.
Romano, who reportedly also has a French citizenship, was detained in the embattled village of Khan al-Ahmar, along with two Palestinian activists. Romano was found standing in front of heavy equipment being used to clear barriers that had been set up to slow demolition, witnesses said.
Khan al-Ahmar is located beside an Israeli highway that runs through the West Bank from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea. Israeli police said three people were detained for causing disturbances.
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[Ynet] Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad issued official statements on Sunday welcoming a terrorist attack in Gush Etzion, in which an American-Israeli father of four, Ari Fuld, was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old Palestinian from Hebron.
The terrorist was identified as Khalil Jabarin from the Palestinian village of Yatta near Hebron. Fuld gave chase after being stabbed and attempted to shoot at his attacker. However, Jabarin was eventually shot and neutralized by a passerby.
[Miami Herald] Nearly 40 percent of all Venezuelan stores have closed ‐some of them perhaps permanently ‐after the government of President Nicolas Maduro increased the minimum salary by nearly 3,500 percent in one fell swoop, according the National Council of Commerce and Services of Venezuela.
Many of the companies, which had been barely surviving the gradual collapse of the economy, saw the salary increase and other changes announced last month as the fatal blow in a series of policies that have been gradually strangling their businesses.
"These decisions are leading many business people to say, 'No, I can't do it any more,'" said Maria Carolina Uzcategui, president of the council.
The problem is that Venezuelan companies are being forced to sell at prices far below cost just as employee salaries are increasing 60 times, Uzcategui said.
What's more, the regime has banned stores from increasing their prices to cover the salary increases, arguing that it is not necessary.
If they do increase prices, store owners or managers can end up in prison, Uzcategui said.
"We have inspections, and they force us to sell at last month's prices," she said. "That takes money away from the business because of the hyperinflation, when you can't even sell at yesterday's prices because you lose money."
"And anyone who protests against these measures runs the risk of going to jail, without the right to appeal, without the right to anything, simply because the official whose turn it was to inspect the store just felt like arresting you. He did it, and that's all," she said.
Estimates by the legislative National Assembly show that the country's inflation hit 200 percent in August alone ‐which means the currency, the bolivar, lost two-thirds of its value in 31 days.
About four in 10 stores have not opened since Maduro announced the salary increase two weeks ago. And some of the stores that did open are liquidating their merchandise and plan to close definitively when that's done.
Economist Orlando Ochoa said the stores cannot survive the salary increase, especially because the owners already had problems obtaining foreign currency to buy imports.
"The government sector has the monopoly on imports, the currency market is dysfunctional and there's hyperinflation," Ochoa said. "So, if salaries are increased by decree, and the commercial and industrial sectors cannot sell their products because of these problems, and on top of that because of electricity blackouts, infrastructure problems and the loss of qualified personnel, which is leaving the country, then it's easy to understand that many may prefer to close."
The decision to close is much easier for small and medium-size companies. Bigger companies risk losing equipment and other investments that could be seized by the government, Ochoa said.
The problem becomes even worse because the economic collapse that the country is suffering is pummeling consumers and therefore sales, said Francisco Ibarra, director of the Econometrica company.
"If you already have a demand that has been falling across all Venezuelan sectors, and you have this kind of increase in salary, and then you don't have any way of adding these costs to the prices, and you also don't have access to bank financing, and the company already was not generating significant profits, it's obvious then that what's happening is that the company is dying," Ibarra said.
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Socialism - central planning by people who don't understand fundamentals of economics
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Well obviously Maduro needs to pass a law forcing these businesses to re-open at previous employment levels or visit a re-education camp until they realize their capitalist running dog sins and socialism works.
Yes, this piece of shit will be in the news again, smiling at terror. Britain deserves what they encourage
[Telegraph] Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher, will be released from jail next month despite a chilling warning from the justice minister that he remained "genuinely dangerous".
Choudary, 51, is due to be freed within weeks after serving half of a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence for encouraging Muslims to join Islamic State.
The Government admitted on Tuesday it was powerless to prevent Choudary from being released on licence. Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said that the preacher was "a deeply pernicious, destabilising influence".
Mr Stewart, in an interview, added: "He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully."
Choudary was leader of the proscribed terrorist group al-Muhajiroun, whose followers included Khuram Butt, part of the London Bridge terror cell who murdered eight innocent bystanders in June last year.
Other disciples include Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered outside his barracks in south London in 2013.
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"He is... somebody who is a genuinely dangerous person. We will be watching him very carefully."
I have no doubt they will watch him encourage, tolerate, and harbor terrorism quite carefully.
Mike
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That way, when something jumps off that he was responsible for, we can say we were aware of it so we don't look like the useless wankers that we are. See "Known Wolf"
]Yahoo] Israel attacked Damascus International Airport with missiles Saturday night, Syrian state media said, adding that air defenses shot down some of them. A war monitoring group said the attack targeted an arms depot for Iranian forces or Lebanon's Hezbollah group.
Explosions during the attack were heard across Damascus. The state news agency SANA posted pictures showing what appeared to be air defenses firing into the air.
State media quoted an unidentified military official as reporting the attack but gave no further details.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the attack targeted an arms depot near the airport where new weapons recently arrived for the Iranians or Lebanon's Hezbollah group. The monitoring group had no immediate word on casualties, saying the strike did cause material damage.
[Fox13] TOOELE, Utah ‐ It was just an ordinary day for Tooele Veterinary Clinic - that is, until it turned into Tooele’s version of the running of the bulls.
"That’s only in Tooele," you can hear Fox 13 viewer Louise Sanchez exclaim, as she films a bull casually standing in front of the Walmart off of Main Street.
But how did the bull get there in the first place?
"Bulls don’t like to be messed with," said Tooele Veterinary Clinic DVM Joe Roundy, who just happened to be caring for the run-away bull.
Roundy was supposed to perform a quick 45-minute procedure.
"We’d been fighting him, got him all ticked off because he didn’t want to go into where our squeeze chute is," Roundy said, referring to the area they lead bulls into in order to perform minimal standing procedures.
[Daily Caller] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said this week that Democrats and the media are likely to be "frightened" by the information contained in Trump-Russia documents that Republicans are asking President Trump to declassify.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Center for Security Policy on Thursday, Nunes said that Trump is close to declassifying portions of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant granted against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
On July 21, the Justice Department released heavily redacted versions of four FISA warrants granted against Page from Oct. 2016 through June 2017. (RELATED: DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications)
The unredacted portions showed that the FBI relied heavily on the infamous Steele dossier to obtain the warrants. Republicans have accused the FBI of abusing the FISA process by citing the dossier even though it was unverified and financed by Democrats as part of an opposition research project.
Before that release, Nunes and other Republicans on the House Intelligence panel sent a letter to Trump calling on him to declassify and release 21 pages of the fourth and final FISA warrant.
[Mises Institute] Arguably one of the rights that has seen less government encroachment in the US ‐ in contrast to other activities such as commerce ‐ gun rights are now witnessing unprecedented attacks at the state level and even from politically-connected corporate entities.
Although gun control laws are not created equally in terms of overall impact, gun confiscation holds a special place in the halls of political repression. A trip down memory lane will give us a refresher of how gun confiscation has helped consolidate government power.
[Breitbart] Pope Francis’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low, according to a new CNN poll showing that fewer than 50 percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of the pontiff.
Fewer than half of Americans (48 percent) now say they have a favorable view of the pope, CNN reported, which represents a significant drop since January 2017, when the pontiff enjoyed a two-thirds approval rating. In December 2013, the year he was elected, Francis’spopularity was higher still, with 72 percent of Americans giving the pope a favorable rating.
Early in his pontificate, Francis stressed the themes of mercy, poverty, and evangelization, which gradually gave way to emphasis on more politically charged issues such as global warming and immigration.
More recently, however, the pope has come under fire for refusing to answer allegations that he was aware of the serial homosexual predation of U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and yet elevated him to a position of prominence, allowing McCarrick to influence the naming of American bishops.
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A big thumbs down here for the leftist and the lavender mafia that put him there. A thorough public house-cleaning and prosecutions is the only way they can bring their morality back
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He is more concerned with banning plastic straws and protecting the Lavender Mafia, and progressivism goals, than he is with saving souls and getting rid of the homosexual abusers and paedophiles in the Catholic Church.
Bergoglio has got to go. Do the Catholics have any way to "impeach" a sitting pope?
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Previous marriage of Joseph. the siblings weren’t cousins, but Joseph’s children from a previous marriage, making them the step-siblings of Jesus. Joseph isn’t mentioned outside of the birth of Jesus, causing some to believe that he was much older than Mary and died before Jesus’ public ministry. It is conjecture, but some apocryphal works, such as the Protoevangelium of James, the Gospel of Peter, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, all seem to indicate a tradition of belief that Jesus’ brothers and sisters were the children of Joseph. Even this Baptist knows that.
That's a cure for your ignorance.
But this isn't the place to argue Protestant Vs Catholic thats been a divide since the 1500's. Its to argue against a corrupt Pope.
[Wash Examiner] As Florence sweeps over the Carolinas, one measure of a storm's severity is catching people's attention: the Waffle House Index.
Of the company's 230 restaurants in the path of the tropical storm, 17 were closed Saturday, said a spokesman for the company, with nine others operating without power and seven more open and powered by generators.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's website says the index tests how a community is faring. Red is closed; yellow is open, but serving a limited menu; green is open and serving a full menu.
Spokesman Pat Warner, in an interview with Fox News, said the restaurant's status has become an indicator of how a community is faring after a storm.
"We're kind of an indicator how quickly the community is coming back after the storm. If we're open quickly, we know they're coming back or get back to a sense of normalcy. We take pride in being the canary in the coal mine, as we've been called," he said. "We've been called the Waffle House index, and we're pretty proud that people look to us to see if we're coming back."
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...We have three within five miles and they've never missed a beat - and they've been doing great business too, as we have hundreds of repair crews standing by here in Columbia to help out once things settle down.
Mike
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[Wash Examiner] A prototype of a censored search engine that links users' queries to their personal phone numbers is the result of a collaboration between Google and China.
This technology would make it easier for the Communist Party of China to monitor people and what they are searching, the Intercept reported Friday.
Dragonfly, the code name for the new search engine, was designed for Android devices.
The search engine would remove information that the Chinese government deems sensitive, like content regarding political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and protests, in something called a censorship blacklist.
The blacklist includes the terms "human rights," "student protest," and "Nobel Prize," among other terms in Mandarin, the language the majority of Chinese people speak.
Sources familiar with the Google project told Intercept that by linking searches to phone numbers, people seeking information banned by the Chinese government could be at risk for interrogation or detention.
"This is very problematic from a privacy point of view, because it would allow far more detailed tracking and profiling of people’s behavior," Cynthia Wong, a senior internet researcher with Human Rights Watch, said. "Linking searches to a phone number would make it much harder for people to avoid the kind of overreaching government surveillance that is pervasive in China."
Several human rights groups criticized the move in an open letter, saying it would result in Google "directly contributing to ... human rights violations."
The technology could also be used to increase China’s ability to manipulate information provided to the public, such as altering weather and air pollution data.
As of Saturday morning, Google has not yet commented on the project or concerns it has brought up with human rights groups and activists.
Recently, many conservative voices and social media users in the U.S. have complained that search engines are exhibiting bias toward liberal voices and media outlets in search results.
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First time I remember falling in love was when the circus came to my small town. I was 4yo and the most beautiful Russian girl came into the laundromat. She gave us kids candy and free tickets to the weekend show so we could watch her on the horses. Two days later the circus was gone.
[Breitbart] This week during a student town hall at Emory University, former President Jimmy Carter said he would change "all" of the policies of President Donald Trump.
When asked what he would do if he became president of the United States again, Carter said, "If I were foolish enough to feel I could be president again and I got to be president, I think the first thing I would do would be to change all of the policies that President Trump has initiated since he has been in office."
He continued, "I pray for him fairly regularly."
Carter explained, "If he answered my prayers, he’d have to change a lot of things."
He added, "I hope he will do well if he finishes out his first term."
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Oh - so we should look forward to the reimplementation of long gas lines, massive inflation, unemployment and 20% interest rates? Can you give away the Panama Canal a second time? Wanna fuck up another hostage rescue? Just shut the fuck up already.
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That's pretty much what Trump is doing to Obama and what the next president will do as well. That's the problem. All of the power has been delegated by Congress to the administrative state. What this Congress should be doing is rolling back that authority.
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Fuck You Jimmy Carter. We already suffered once under your wrongheaded and stupid policies. Remember what you did? Double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, gas lines and rationing, and the decimation of American military power, including the failure in Iran.
You were an absolute failure, so Shut The Fuck Up.
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Jimmy Carter said he would change "all" of the policies of President Donald Trump.
So he would deviate from the Carter/Clinton administration's 1994 North Korea policy and order a military strike on North Korea's nuclear infrastructure?
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One of my pet theories is that if jimmuh had won reelection in 1980 the Soviet Union would still be in business and all of those Eastern European countries would still be behind the Iron Curtain.
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[The Federalist] Questions keep coming about how the U.S. justice system responded to a New Mexico compound that housed five alleged would-be jihadists and 11 reportedly malnourished children along with the remains of a twelfth child who died on the compound.
A federal grand jury recently indicted the five alleged jihadists on weapons and conspiracy charges, alleging the group created their compound in the desert outside Taos, New Mexico as a training camp and firing range to facilitate a "Common plan to prepare for violent attacks government, military, educational and financial institutions" and sought to "engage in jihad and form an army of jihad" according to the federal indictment published by the Department of Justice on September 11.
The five suspects‐Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, Lucas Morten, Subhanah Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, and Jany Leveille‐had previously faced state charges of child abuse, but the charges floundered in court after a New Mexico judge dismissed charges against all five suspects when state prosecutors missed a 10-day deadline for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors argued extenuating circumstances but were rebuffed. Sadly, more follows.
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Any recent developments or news releases concerning terrorist compound funding, communications, the missing mobile home, or suspect travel? I thought not.
[Bellingcat] An ongoing Bellingcat investigation conducted jointly with The Insider Russia has confirmed through uncovered passport data that the two Russian nationals identified by UK authorities as prime suspects in the Novichok poisonings on British soil are linked to Russian security services. This finding directly contradicts claims by the Russian president on 12 September 2018, and by the two men in an interview broadcast on RT one day later, that they are civilians who traveled to Salisbury for a tourist getaway.
Original Russian documents reviewed by Bellingcat and The Insider confirm definitively that the two men were registered in the central Russian resident database under the names Alexander Yevgenievich Petrov and Ruslan Timurovich Boshirov, respectively, and were issued internal passports under these names in 2009. However, no records exist for these two personas prior to 2009. This suggests the two names were likely cover identities for operatives of one of the Russian security services. Crucially, at least one man’s passport files contain various "top-secret" markings, which, according to at least two sources consulted by Bellingcat, are typically reserved for members of secret services or top state operatives.
These findings, along with peculiarities in the two men’s bookings of their flight to London, make Russia’s official statements that Petrov and Boshirov are civilian tourists implausible, and corroborate UK authorities’ claims that they are in fact officers of a Russian security service.
Last-minute travel plans
Aeroflot’s passenger manifest, reviewed by Bellingcat and The Insider, discredits Petrov and Boshirov’s claims, made in the RT interview, that they had been planning their visit to Salisbury for a long time. The manifest records the times of booking, check-in, and boarding of each passenger. In the case of the two suspects, they made their initial booking ‐ and checked in online ‐ at 20:00 GMT (22:00 Moscow time) on 1 March 2018, the night before their short trip to London and Salisbury.
[Telegraph] India's most celebrated hunter has been called in for a controversial mission to shoot a man-eating tigress blamed for killing 13 people.
Nawab Shafath Ali Khan has begun his hunt after India's highest court dismissed objections from conservation groups and authorised the killing of the four-year-old cat and her two cubs.
The hunter, scion of an aristocratic family, has started combing the jungles of Maharashtra after the tigress known as T1 terrorised villages in recent months.
Wildlife activists had unsuccessfully sought to block any court order allowing the killing of the cat, arguing there was no definitive proof the tigress was responsible for the deaths.
They have also tried to block the involvement of Mr Khan, who is the go-to marksman for Indian officials troubled by man-eating tigers, rogue elephants or destructive wild boar.
Mr Khan is stalking the tiger with elephants because vehicles are too loud and has said he will only shoot to kill as a last resort, instead using a tranquiliser gun if possible. The hunt authorisation calls for Mr Khan to attempt to capture the tigress alive, but to kill it if necessary. Activists fear Mr Khan, who is renowned for killing hundreds of animals, will only make a token effort to take the cat alive.
[PJ] In the wake of newly released text messages between fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova said he believes "the walls are closing in" on Obama-era FBI and Department of Justice Department officials.
Damning new texts obtained by Fox News this week show former FBI lovebirds Strzok and Page talking about government employees "leaking like mad" and media outlets competing for scoops in the run-up to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"The walls are closing in, but they're not closing in on the president. They're closing in on the FBI and the Department of Justice under President Obama," diGenova said on Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday night.
He explained that the new Strzok-Page texts exposed a strategy to "illegally and criminally" release Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant information, including releasing the name of a U.S. citizen caught up in the surveillance abuse.
"By mentioning Carter Page, they have now created massive civil liability for everybody involved in revealing Carter Page's name," diGenova declared. He cited the names of former FBI counterintelligence director Bill Priestap, former FBI director James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI general counsel James Baker as people who are particularly vulnerable to civil liability.
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I hope your optimism is restored Besoeker. We have an unelected body of DOJ and FBI officials, an opposing Dem candidate, and the DNC trying to change the outcome of the 2016 presidential elected by lying and creating phony documents.
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#3 I'm waiting for the discovery of the dead people John.
Hope your unfinished thought is only that.
The Clintons are adept at putting people between themselves and those who end up dead. It has always been a bit of a surprise to me how they have been able to amass power around themselves so that others end up doing their dirty work. I suppose it is a matter of using compromising info, money, threats, extortion and the promises of power--all the things the DS thrives upon.
I'd be happy with a good draining of the swamp to discourage others from repeating the evil and criminality. Maybe I'm in a Pollyanna mood today but I've got a feeling this coming week and the run-up to the midterms will be "revealing" and result in good changes.
[RADIOSHABELLE] More details are emerging from a heavy shootout between al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Lions of Islam and Somali national army which flared up on Saturday morning in Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region, south of Somalia.
The fighting came after Al-Shabaab fighters ambushed on a military base in the town, especially in Bulo Fooli area, according to local residents, speaking to Radio Shabelle by phone.
Both sides are reported to have exchanged various types of weapons during the confrontation, although the casualty figures on both warring sides have not been established so far.
Independent reports say al-Shabaab Lions of Islam entered the Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region and seized parts of it before retreating later in the night. Local officials, however, denied these claims.
There is no word from the Al-Shabaab regarding the attack and the subsequent fighting.
The situation has calmed down, as some of the locals reported.
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[AlMasdar] A Russian national accused of financing forces of Evil of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) in Syria has been extradited from Belgium, a source in the Center for Public Relations (CPR) of the Russian Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... told TASS.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in association with the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office, the Interpol National Central Bureau (NCB) at the Russian Interior Ministry and the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service have extradited a Russian citizen Ali Abdul-Mutalipovich Gekhayev, born in 1988, who is on the international wanted list, from Belgium. Being a supporter of radical Islam, Gekhayev has lived full-time on the territory of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries since 2015, from which he provided financial support to the forces of Evil of the international terrorist organization ’Islamic State’ banned in the Russian Federation in Syria," the CPR said.
In May 2017, based on the finding of the Russian side the accused was detained in Brussels and placed under pre-extradition arrest, the Center for Public Relations said.
"As a result of coordinated efforts of Russian law enforcement bodies the supplied evidence of criminal activity of the wanted person allowed the Belgian authorities to comply with the extradition request," the CPR added.
On September 14, Gekhayev was extradited to Russia. Further investigative activities and search measures are being carried out.
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"Hi. I'll be you interrogator , Officer Mikolivich , but you can call me Toby . Just be patient they called me out of retirement and I don't have my old instruments. Just bear with me while I sharpen up this spoon. "
[AlMasdar] The spokesperson for the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG), Nuri Mahmud, released an official statement on Friday that discussed the recent festivities between the pro-government National Defense Forces (NDF) and Asayish (Kurdish police).
"On September 8th, an unfortunate clash broke out between the Asayish and the regime forces in the city of Qamishlo, leading to a number of dead and injured on both sides. Also, it created an atmosphere of tension and stress in the city of Qamishlo," Mahmud began.
"As a General Command of the People’s Protection Units, we extend condolences to the families of the victims and express our deep sorrow over what happened. In that same time, we confirm that as YPG, we also have opened an investigation concerning incident," he continued.
"The results of the investigation will be revealed as soon as it will be completed. We call both sides to calm down and take the general interest as a starting point in the search for solutions," the YPG spokesperson added.
The festivities that took place on September 8th resulted in the death of at least 11 Syrian military personnel and 7 Kurdish fighters.
[AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their field operations in the southeastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate this week.
Backed by the French and US air forces, the SDF managed to score a major advance inside the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS) large Euphrates pocket.
According to the official media wing of the SDF, their troops have seized several points inside the towns of Baghouz Fouqani and al-Sosah in a bid to cutoff the terrorist group’s main supply lines.
In addition to the ground advance, the Syrian Democratic Forces also captured one Islamic State terrorist alive.
The SDF said the Islamic State bully boy is an Algerian national that had been fighting with the terrorist group for several years.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom targeted the Afghan intelligence forces in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan, leaving at least eight of them dead or maimed.
Provincial spokesperson Wahida Shahkar confirmed the incident and said at least four personnel of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) bit the dust in the kaboom.
She said the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Khalazai area of the province and as a result four NDS personnel also sustained injuries.
According to Shahkar the kaboom was triggered by an improvised bomb planted on a roadside.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisia’s ruling party has suspended Prime Minister Youssef Chahed in the latest escalation of a row with the president’s son that has paralyzed key decisions on the troubled economy.
The North African country is often portrayed as the lone success story of the Arab Spring of 2011 but more than seven years after the ouster of longtime strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali it is still battling high inflation and unemployment and sometimes violent social unrest.
Nidaa Tounes announced Chahed’s referral to its disciplinary committee late on Friday after he delivered a stinging attack on infighting within the party that he said was restricting his government’s ability to revive the economy.
"Secondary political conflicts.. have disrupted the work of the government, holding it back and blocking the reform process and the decisions necessary to achieve economic growth," he said in a televised address to a policy conference.
The ruling party is led by President Beji Caid Essebsi’s son Hafedh, who has been battling to oust the premier for months.
The power struggle previously came to a head in July, when the president himself called on Chahed to resign.
The move received the backing of the powerful UGTT trade union confederation, which opposes the program of austerity budgets and privatizations of state enterprises championed by the prime minister.
But Chahed was saved by the Islamist Ennahdha party, the second largest in parliament, which said it was important for Tunisia’s stability that the prime minister remain in post.
Chahed, who took office in August 2016, is the seventh prime minister since the revolution and already the longest serving. He also has the ear of Western donors.
The premier has since been preparing for any new moves against him, by forming his own separate grouping within Nida Tounes.
He can count on the backing of around 40 politicians -- nearly half of the party’s parliamentary bloc.
The deepening rift within the ruling party comes as the government faces a mid-October deadline to unveil a 2019 budget.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Æthiopian Air Force has carried out an Arclight airstrike against al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... in Somalia.
The airstrike was carried out to foil plans of the myrmidon group to attack Æthiopian contingent of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
About 70 al-Shabaab holy warriors were killed and two vehicles packed with weapons were destroyed in the air strike.
Brigadier General Yilma Merdassa, Chief of Æthiopian Air Force, said the airstrike was conducted after an extensive study and plans.
He said "we achieved 100 percent of our plans."
Æthiopia is one of the troop contributing countries to AMISOM.
Other countries contributing troops to the AU Mission are Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda.
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[AnNahar] Disagreement between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Russia over how to tackle the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib seems to have deferred a looming regime offensive on the province, analysts say.
Russia and Turkey are on opposite sides of the conflict, but key global allies.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan police forces have suffered heavy casualties during the forces of Evil attack in Zabul, Jawzjan, and Badghis provinces, the local officials said Saturday.
Provincial governor’s front man for Zabul Gul Islam Sayal said at least eight coppersbit the dust in attack on security posts in Naw Bahar district.
Sayal further added that the attack was carried out late on Friday night and at least three coppers also sustained injuries during the festivities.
In the menatime, the local security officials in northern Jawzjan province said at least four coppersbit the dust an attack by the forces of Evil in Qarqin district.
Provincial security chief Taqir Mohammad Jawzjani said more than 20 forces of Evil were also killed during the festivities and at least 15 others sustained injuries.
A front man for the provincial security commandment in Badghis Naqibullah Amini said a policeman lost his life and three others were maimed in a similar attack in Qads district.
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[AlMasdar] The Iraqi Army kicked off a large-scale security operation around the strategic city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... this weekend.
The Iraqi Army reportedly began their operation on Friday, targeting the Qayyarah, Kan’ous, and Imam Ghareeb areas of southern Mosul.
According to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, their army managed to kill and wound 26 Lion of Islams, while also destroying at least a dozen hideouts and IED workshops belonging to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
The operation was launched by the Iraqi Army in an effort to clear the remaining terrorist hot spots in the Mosul region.
These areas have been recognized as launching points for Islamic State activity in northwest Iraq.
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[AlMasdar] Three bully boyz have been eliminated during a counter-terrorism operation in the area of the Talgi village in Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... in Russia’s North Caucasus, the Information Center of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) told TASS on Saturday.
"During the search measures carried out in a mountain-woody area of the Talgi village the law enforcement forces found out a group of bandidos consisting of three people, who opened fire with automatic weapons in response to the proposal to surrender to the authorities. The special ops units of the Russian Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... neutralized the Lion of Islams," the NAC said.
There were no civilian casualties or law enforcement personnel losses.
As reported earlier a counter-terrorism operation was imposed in two districts of Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan ‐ Buynaksky and Karabudakhkentsky districts ‐ starting 5:00 a.m. Moscow Time on Saturday due to obtained information about planned terrorism-related crimes.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops arrested on Saturday a military area commander with the Islamic State extremist group in Kirkuk province, Federal Police said in a statement.
A Federal Police force arrested the militant, nicknamed Abu Ragahd, Islamic State’s military commander for the group’s so-called “Dijlah Province”, in Kirkuk, having received an intelligence tip about his presence there, according to the statement.
Interrogations with the militant led police to seizing an arms depot containing hand grenades and detonation equipment, the statement added
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two people were killed, while a civilian was injured in an attack carried out by Islamic State, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province was quoted saying on Saturday.
“Islamic State militants attacked, today, a village in Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk, leaving a policeman and a civilian killed, while another civilian was injured,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, “security troops cordoned off the blast scene and transferred the victims to forensic medicine department. The injured were taken to hospital for treatment.”
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[Ynet] Some 500 Paleostinians are throwing stones and burning tires along the Gazoo border. The IDF said that three grenades were tossed at the Karni Crossing and a pipe bomb thrown at forces near Rafah. Soldiers are responding with riot control.
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The free ride is over. Get a Job. Try paying your own bills. You have to EARN respect.
The pose as pushy beggars with entitlements is a shtick.Even the EUroweenies don't buy it anymore. Nobody in the world respects you anymore. That's why the money has run out. Bad Faith, passive aggressive whining, and gimme gimme don't work anymore. You trashed your airport and the industries like the Greenhouse farms the Jews left you when they pulled out and GAVE you all of Gaza.
You crapped in your own hat. Now wear it.
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the entitlement attitude of the Paleos is a feature, not a bug, of islam. if mohammed won't go to the mountain, the mountain will go to mohammed
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Nah -- their end started with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. The Kuwaitis had been good Arabs and "taken in" some Palestinians -- when Saddam invaded, the "refugees" acted like the Heirs of Soros, guiding the Iraqis to the best loot and taking their share as well.
Kuwait kicked them out after the liberation. I think since then the Palestinians have been getting less and less popular in the Arab world.
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[IsraelTimes] Bassem Eid claims boycott campaigns ’would cease to exist within 6 months’ if funding drastically cut; EU maintains it does not support BDS efforts.
A Paleostinian human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist lashed out at the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... for allegedly supporting programs that boycott Israel, saying it comes at the expense of Paleostinian dignity and prosperity.
Addressing a panel at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Jerusalem-based Bassem Eid told politicians that Israeli-Paleostinian economic cooperation was the only way to reach peace.
"The majority of the Paleostinians these days are people who are seeking dignity rather than identity. This is one of the most important issues, and dignity can be achieved only via economic prosperity," he said in a video posted with English subtitles this week by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Eid, who posted the original footage of his remarks on his own website earlier this month, went on to say the global BDS movement was "us[ing] Paleostinians in order to gain power and money.
"BDS will never ever want to achieve any kind of peace between the Israelis and the Paleostinians," he said. "The BDS wants to destroy Israel, and, as a Paleostinian, I don’t have time for that."
He urged the EU to cut funding to BDS-supporting programs, saying that "if Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... tomorrow will cut the funding on the BDS, like Trump cut the funding on UNRWA, no BDS will exist in the coming six months."
Eid also leveled criticism against the Paleostinian Authority, telling EU politicians that tens of Paleostinian businessmen wanted to attend the panel on economic initiatives at the EU parliament, but that PA had prevented them from participating.
BDS, the global movement calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel, seeks to isolate the Jewish state over its policies vis-a-vis the Paleostinians.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Strategic Affairs published a report claiming the EU gave millions of dollars in donations to nonprofit groups that campaign for boycotts of Israel or have ties to terror groups.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini blasted Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan and his ministry for the report, which she said was spreading spread disinformation.
"We are confident that EU funding has not been used to support boycott of Israel or BDS activities and certainly not to finance terrorism," she said in a letter to Erdan at the time.
Mogherini stressed that the EU "rejects any attempts to isolate Israel and does not support calls for boycott. The EU does not fund actions that are related to boycott activities."
Though the EU officially opposes any boycott of Israel, it has recommended that its member states put special labels on exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It has stopped short of banning settlement products, but they do not receive the same tax exemptions that products made in Israel receive.
In the years since its formation, the BDS movement has seen limited success among progressive audiences, persuading several church organizations to divest themselves of Israel-related investments and garnering support on US college campuses. Recently, pop singer Lana Del Ray joined a number of other artists who canceled performances in Israel amid pressure from BDS activists.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In August, United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... envoy to 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Martin Griffiths announced to the world and the Security Council that consultations between the legitimate Yemeni government and the putschists would be held in the first week of September in Geneva to pave the way for a political solution and end the armed conflict that has been ongoing since 2014.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boyz on Friday killed two civilians in Garissa county in northeast Kenya, a government official said.
Northeastern regional commissioner Mohammed Birik confirmed the incident at Handaro saying a security operation was underway to try and arrest the bully boyz who were believed to be still hiding in the forest.
Eyewitnesses said about seven armed al-Shabaab bully boyz had stopped a Garissa-bound commuter bus and ordered all non-locals (Christians) to alight from the bus which had left Holugho town at 9 am and was heading to Garissa when the incident happened at 11 am.
According to the witnesses, the bully boyz who were all speaking in Swahili emerged from a nearby thicket where they intercepted the bus and ordered the driver to stop before entering in. They then ordered commuters to produce his identification card.
"The three non-locals were then separated from the rest of us (Moslems) before they were told to recite the Moslem Shahada and suratul Fatiha (Koran verses), the complete seven verses," said the teacher who refused to be identified.
Only one of them managed to do all the verses. He was left while his two colleagues, a bus conductor identified only as Joshua and the other a casual laborer had their hands tied before being executed.
After committing the heinous act, the bully boyz then escaped to unknown location.
"These bully boyz were seven in number. They were all conversing in Swahili with one guy who resembled like a person from the Arab origin. They never seem to be in a hurry even as they went about carrying out the exercise," said the teacher.
The incident comes after the regional government announced the recruitment of the Kenya police reservists in all the 60 locations across the region to enhance border patrols.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Six paramilitary personnel were killed and injured in a bomb kaboom, northeast of Diyala, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said "a bomb, placed by unknown people, went off in the afternoon as a patrol for al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) was passing in al-Zor region, northeast of Diyala. One personnel was killed, while five others were maimed."
The maimed were taken to hospital for treatment, while the victim was transferred to forensic medicine department, the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UAE told the UN Security Council on Friday that the liberation of Yemen’s key port city of Hodeidah from the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia was critical to reengaging them in UN-backed peace talks.
Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the UN sent a letter to the Security Council President addressing the Houthi delegation’s no-show at the peace talks in Geneva last week.
"The Houthis’ ’no-show’ rebuke to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... and to a meaningful political process is a serious setback and a significant disappointment for the Yemeni people and the Coalition, who are eager to find an end to the conflict," Nusseibeh said in the letter seen by Al Arabiya English.
"Unfortunately, this is only the latest Houthi broken promise to re-engage in a political process since they derailed the political transition process in 2014, turned to force, and triggered the humanitarian and political crisis 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... faces today.
She added: "While military action should be the last resort in the Coalition’s view, the liberation of Hodeida is critical to reengaging the Houthis in peace talks. To that end, carefully calibrated and with a clear purpose toward restarting the political process, Yemeni Government forces backed by the Coalition have now intensified military operations against the Houthis in the Hodeida area and on other fronts."
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[AnNahar] Kurdish authorities in Syria's diverse northeast are facing swelling anger from the area's Syriac Christians after shutting down more than a dozen schools run by the ancient minority.
At the heart of the dispute is a debate over whether to use the new school curriculum championed by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration or stick to the accredited system used by Damascus.
The schism reflects the broader fissures in the northeast between those supporting formal state institutions and those defending parallel bodies developed by the Kurds.
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[AlMasdar] (7:30 A.M.) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his German counterpart Heiko Maas in Berlin on Friday.
The two diplomats discuss a number of topics, including the ongoing situation in Syria’s Idlib province.
According to Lavrov, there will be no reconciliation offered to the terrorist forces in the Idlib province; this includes groups like Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkestan Islamic Party.
“We along with our Turkish partners are vigorously working on solving the situation in Idlib in a full accordance with the arrangements which were made during the process of creating the de-escalation zone over there. The arrangements entail the announcement of the ceasefire with one crucial exception – terrorists are not included. No reconciliation, no ceasefire regime includes terrorists.”
Lavrov said that Russia will continue to abide by international humanitarian law when conducting military operations in Syria.
“We always stick to International humanitarian law when we conduct operations involving military action. I will remind you that the Russian Federation has a military presence in Syria at the request of its official government, the government of the UN member state, the government which sovereignty as well as the Syrian territorial integrity were confirmed by the UN SC resolutions for many times.”
The Russian Foreign Minister would conclude that his country is still working with Turkey to find a possible settlement in the Idlib Governorate that would avoid any violence.
SOT, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister (Russian): “Together with our Turkish partners who cooperate in a very constructive manner on this issue we facilitate local arrangements between the units of the moderate opposition and the government forces, the same way as we did in the other de-escalation zones when they existed. We also encourage the creation of humanitarian corridors, safe zones for the civilians.”
[AlMasdar] (12:45 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) recently killed a high ranking commander belonging to the Harakat Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... militant group in northern Hama.
The Ahrar Al-Sham commander, Abu Walid Kernaz, was reportedly positioned near the Syrian Army’s front-lines in northern Hama, when an artillery shell struck his positions this week.
As shown in the up close footage below, Abu Walid Kernaz was positioned near his vehicle, when shrapnel from the artillery shell hit him:
Ahrar Al-Sham is one of the largest rebel groups currently fighting in northern Hama; they have vowed to defend all of the Idlib Governorate and their remaining positions in Latakia, Aleppo, and Hama.
[AlMasdar] (4:15 P.M.) – The Syrian Minister of Defense, General ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Ayoub, reportedly traveled to northwest Syria, today, on behalf of President Bashar Al-Assad.
According to a military communique, General Ayoub toured the front-lines in the Hama and Idlib governorates, while also meeting with the commanders in the provinces.
No further details were released.
General Ayoub often makes these visits prior to the Syrian Arab Army’s scheduled offensives.
[AlMasdar] (6:00 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies from the National Defense Forces (NDF) resumed their strikes on northern Hama and southern Idlib this afternoon after a quiet morning in northwest Syria.
According to a military source in the provincial capital of Hama, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies heavily bombarded the towns of Al-Lataminah and Kafr Zita this afternoon, hitting a number of targets belonging to Jaysh Al-Izza in the area.
The military source added that the Syrian Arab Army’s assault then spread to the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate, where they struck the jihadist rebel defenses at the imperative towns of Taman’ah and Sukeek.
The Syrian Army’s assault in Idlib and Hama has been limited thus far, as they have only fired missiles and artillery shells towards the enemy’s positions.
They are expected to begin their push into the rebel-held areas in northern Hama and southern Idlib after the meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
It should be noted that Russia has seized two commercial boats, a fishing boat and a minibulker since September 2nd.
All of this stems from Ukraine seized the fishing vessel Nord earlier last summer.
Video of the incident at the link.
[DefenceBlog] The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported on 14 September that Russian Mangust-class patrol boat, also known as Project 12150, arranged provocations by undertaking dangerous maneuvers in the Sea of Azov.
According to the statement, the Russian PSKA-611 Coast Guard vessel dangerously was close to colliding with the Ukrainian combat ship in the area of Dolgaya Spit.
The Mangust-class patrol craft is designed to operate in coastal areas, ports, and other littoral areas, to perform missions like protection of territorial maritime borders, law enforcement, other defense missions, search and rescue, protection of fisheries, and enforcing rules of navigation.
‘During the survey, the Russian crew claimed that follows in accordance with the task, however, after that changed its course and headed in the direction of the Ukrainian boat. Yet, it was undertaking dangerous maneuvers and approached by several meters to the boat of the State Border Guard Service. The Russians were recommended to change their course, in reply, once more they undertook a dangerous maneuver, causing dangerous conditions of navigations. The Russian border patrol boat changed its direction after all,’ the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine claimed.
The 112 Channel also reported that Ukraine’s Border Guard Service also claimed that the crew of the Russian boat violated the requirements of the international rules for preventing collision of ships at sea.
It should be noted that the Russian activity in the Sea of Azov increased over the last three months. Russians do not allow the trade vessels heading to and emerging from the Ukrainian ports to freely pass through the Kerch Strait.
In this regard, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko commissioned the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff and the Commandment of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take measures to stop Russian provocations in relation to blocking the entry of vessels into Ukrainian ports on the Azov Sea. The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine developed a set of measures in response to Russia’s actions. The set of measures includes the limit of passenger traffic with Russia.
Also,Ukraine deployed modern armoured artillery boats to Azov Sea to counter Russian aggression.
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Large country on the Asian landmass likely cource of the hacked equipment and tech being used against, and sudden descent suggests knowing participants on-site, hence the air cover to spot leakers. I'm guessing some of the staff have non-Irish names and are worthy of a glance...
[Chicago Tribune] Cicero's top cop is praising the actions of a concealed gun holder who opened fire on a suspect who had shot one of the town's officers after a traffic stop on the Stevenson Expressway during evening rush hour Thursday.
"We were lucky enough to have a citizen on the street there who is a conceal carry holder, and he engaged in gunfire with the suspect," Cicero Police Supt. Jerry Chlada Jr. said outside Mount Sinai Hospital, where Officer Luis Duarte was listed in good condition after undergoing surgery for four bullet wounds to the arm, leg and side.
The shootout began around 5:05 p.m. when Cicero police tried to stop a car in the 3900 block of South Cicero Avenue, Chlada said. The driver sped off but the officers boxed in his car on the southbound Cicero exit of the Stevenson. The driver got out and fired several rounds at two officers, then ran north on Cicero and fired at another officer chasing him, Chlada said.
A man with a concealed carry license driving south on Cicero left his car and fired at the suspect, Chlada said. The suspect was hit and was listed at death's door, police said. It was not clear if the suspect was shot by the conceal carry holder or police.
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[MAINICHI.JP] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it... said Friday that the state plans to launch its "own damn satellite" into orbit to battle climate change.
The man the late reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed "Gov. Moonbeam" made the announcement at the conclusion of a two-day climate summit he organized in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Brown said state officials will work with the San Francisco-based company Planet Labs to develop a satellite to track climate-change causing pollutants. Brown said the earth-imaging company has launched 150 satellites.
"With science still under attack and the climate threat growing, we're launching our own damn satellite," he said.
The Democrat, who is leaving office at the end of the year, didn't announce a launch date or divulge a cost estimate.
Brown's office said government scientists and staff will work on the project, but that no state money will be spent directly developing the satellite. Private donations are being made by San Francisco investment banker Richard Lawrence and his wife Dee Lawrence along with the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust.
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Based on the novel and revolutionary concept that Earth is flat?
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You have money for satellites, but have a big sucking pension bomb sitting in the room. When it all collapses, I want tribunals to prosecute all the pols who kicked the can down the road while partying like its 1999. It's called fiduciary responsibility.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have foiled an Islamic State attack, south of Samarra in Salahuddin province, the media service reported.
“Troops of the 43rd brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) received information that Islamic State members were intending to carry out attack against civil and security targets in the city,” the official website of the troops said.
“The forces managed to repulse the attack at the outskirts of Balad city, south of Samarra,” it added.
The report indicated losses in lives among the militant, while the rest ran away.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian military air defenses downed several missiles fired by Israel near Damascus airport on Saturday night, Syrian state media said.
"Our air defense systems thwarted an Israeli missile aggression," state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying.
Asked about the SANA report, an Israeli military spokeswoman said: "We don’t comment on foreign reports."
Attack reportedly targeted arms depot where weapons recently arrived for the Iranians or Hezbollah terror group; Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes.
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For generations, parents taught children "You can't believe everything you read."
Now they ought to teach their offspring they can't trust everything they search on the internet because Google -- run by anti-conservative, anti-Trump elites -- is manipulating search results to advance a political agenda. The problem with this is that Google has been doing the same thing with a large number of leftist beliefs for at least ten years, Only since the 2016 elections has it been considered a problem.
In a damning new video obtained and released by Breitbart this week, Google's top executives, including its founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are heard lamenting the victory of Donald Trump following the 2016 presidential election. Brin kicks off their weekly company meeting by saying the meeting is "probably not the most joyous TGIF we've had" and that "most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad."
Clearly he doesn't speak for the roughly 63 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Notwithstanding, in the video, co-founder Brin describes Trump's supporters as fascists and extremists and vows to thwart the rise of populism. He adds that he is "deeply offended" by the Trump's victory and that the election conflicts with many of Google's values. Google's CFO, also saddened by Trump's win, promises that America's most highly trafficked search engine will "use the great strength and resources and reach we have to continue to advance really important values." It is their product, which they have and should have the unfettered right to do as they wish
Perhaps this could explain why a Google News search on Trump churns out mostly negative stories about the president and his administration. In fact, a media research study conducted PJ Media found that 96 percent of the top 100 search returns on President Trump are from left-wing media outlets. Conservative outlets that would provide voters with a more balanced and positive analysis of the Trump administration are -- surprise! -- virtually invisible. They're not invisible. They are far down the search list. Not censored. Not blocked. Leftist groups know how to manipulate Google to their advantage. Conservative groups do not.
How is that possible when every major media outlet on all sides of the political spectrum is covering the Trump administration round the clock?
You don't need an Ivy League degree to see foul play. There's no foul play here. Nothing illegal, nor demanding government attention.
But that's not all. A newly released email by another Google executive following the 2016 election reveals a get-out-the-vote effort directed toward Latino voters to benefit Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Add to it that during the election, Google was accused of burying information from search queries damaging to its candidate of choice, Hillary Clinton. Google doesn't bury search results. Leftists know how to game Google.
And then there's the boycott of the recent congressional hearing on foreign election interference and digital media bias against conservatives last week. Facebook and Twitter participated. Google did not.
Perhaps America's top search engine is scrambling to contain the public relations mess it has created -- or it's busy mounting a legal defense.
With the Department of Justice investigating all of the above, that's probably not a bad idea.
Adriana Cohen is a syndicated columnist with the Boston Herald. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCohen16.
Google reportedly builds a prototype for censored Chinese engine that links users' searches to their phone numbers and blacklists terms including 'human rights' and 'Nobel Prize'
Coming soon to your neighborhood. If you don't want Iran to have bomb, why do you want other powers to have true 1984 control over peoples' lives? As they say, it will come home to roost.
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Being a women is hard - especially in our times when they're been convinced that being a counterfeit man (never actually as good as the original article) should be a woman's highest ambition.
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"The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire."
-- H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women
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They need to get a little bigger. Many college kids are skipping out on laptops altogether (at least here in China). They do everything on their phone including writing English papers, and printing them out on a wireless printer.
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"Snap-On Tools doesn't have a feminist/LGBTQQ section!"
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My iPhone 5c has been on its last legs, so a few days ago I invested in an SE, which apparently is a 6 in a 5 body. There has long been a sizable and vocal minority, both male and female, who do not think bigger is better in a telephone, and so that body was resurrected to fill a real market niche. I was advised by the Apple store clerk to check back to see if the SE on offer after Wednesday’s upgrade announcement would still have 6 innards or be upgraded to 7 innards, but instead Apple took it off the market altogether.
But this isn’t a feminist issue, merely one of a minority with a strongly felt taste. If the feminists want a mass-market manufacturer to meet their specific desire for a smallish device, they could easily win the point by showing survey results indicating a market size in multiple millions of units.
[BIZPACREVIEW] [BIZPACREVIEW] Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was captured on camera saying "you can smell the rats" among other derogatory remarks as she toured a low-income neighborhood in the crime-ridden city.
The Democrat mayor was slammed for being offensive and out-of-touch after touring an East Baltimore neighborhood with other city officials, which included vacant homes, the Baltimore Sun reported.
"What the hell? We should just take all this sh*t down," Pugh is heard saying in the clip, clearly overwhelmed by the scene. "Whoa, you can smell the rats."
"Whew, Jesus. Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals," she added, according to the Sun,
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And that was only a tour down the hall from her Office at City Hall.
Or perhaps an impromptu attempt to purchase a can of Coke from the drink machine in the Lounge at the local Police Station.
[AlMasdar] (1:20 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their large-scale offensive in southern Syria, today, after repelling several Islamic State (ISIS) attacks on Friday.
Led by their 3rd Division, the Syrian Arab Army managed to crack the Islamic State’s lines this morning at the ‘Ard Qa’banat axis in the northwestern part of the Al-Safa region.
According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army broke through the Islamic State’s lines in ‘Ard Qa’banat and liberated several points that were occupied by the terrorist group.
In addition to the advance, the Syrian Arab Army also killed a number of Islamic State fighters, including ten snipers that were positioned along the northwestern part of the Al-Safa region.
This advance on Saturday will prove imperative in the coming days, as they now have fire control over the Islamic State’s last water source in the Qabr Sheikh Hussein area.
[AlMasdar] (2:20 P.M.) – For the third day in a row, the Russian Air Force has launched a plethora of airstrikes over the Islamic State’s (ISIS) positions in eastern Syria.
Led by their Sukhoi jets, the Russian Air Force launched several airstrikes, today, over the Al-Safa and Badiya Al-Sham regions of eastern Syria.
These Russian airstrikes paved the way for the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies to make a significant advance through two different Islamic State pockets.
Among the biggest advances made by the Syrian Army on Saturday took place in the Al-Safa region, where the latter managed to seize several points from the Islamic State terrorists.
Since entering into peace talks with Turkey on the Idlib situation, the Russian Air Force has concentrated their efforts on the Islamic State’s last pockets in eastern Syria.
In a matter of 72 hours, the Russian Air Force has launched over 40 airstrikes above the Islamic State’s positions, causing considerable damage to the terrorist group’s fortifications in the process.
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[FOX] A Border Patrol agent was arrested early Saturday after allegedly killing four women -- believed to have been prostitutes -- and kidnapping a fifth, officials say.
Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, was found about 2 a.m. when state troopers tracked him to a hotel parking lot in the border city of Laredo, Texas. He was found hiding in a truck.
Officials say they were alerted about the 35-year-old Ortiz after a fifth woman allegedly escaped from him and notified authorities.
Despite withholding information surrounding the killings, including the victims’ identities, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar said investigators have "very strong evidence" that Ortiz is responsible for the deaths of the four women. Cuellar said investigators believe heacted alone.
Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said that the evidence suggests that "the manner in which they were killed is similar." He said authorities are still trying to pinpoint a motive for the killings, but that all of the women worked as prostitutes.
"We do consider this to be a serial killer," he said.
In a statement, Andrew Meehan, assistant commissioner for public affairs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said his agency is fully cooperating with all investigators.
"Our sincerest condolences go out to the victims' family and friends. While it is CBP policy to not comment on the details of an ongoing investigation, criminal action by our employees is not, and will not be tolerated," Meehan said.
The district attorney’s office intends to charge Ortiz with four counts of murder and one count of aggravated kidnapping.
Gaining yet another hostage against a Western nation, and demonstrating where Sultan Erdogan Tayyip Recep the First’s preferences lie with regard to Sunni jihadis beyond his borders.
[AlMasdar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has sentenced an ex-British soldier to eight years in prison for joining the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria.
According to a report from the AFP News Agency, Joe Robinson, 25, was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the Ottoman Turkish security forces while he was on holiday inside of the country.
Robinson was accused of fighting with the YPG in Syria before he took a brief holiday in Turkey.
The British national reportedly aided the YPG in their fight against the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) in Syria.
The YPG is considered an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and an enemy of the Ottoman Turkish state.
Robinson did not attend the trial for health reasons, DHA said. He is currently on bail and planning an appeal.
His Bulgarian fiancée, arrested along with him, was also sentenced to nearly two years in jail for “terrorist propaganda,” but she is currently in Britain, DHA said.
According to British press reports, the 25-year-old Robinson is a former soldier who served in Afghanistan in 2012 and went to Syria in 2015 to work in the YPG's health unit.
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Erdogan has got to go, be it a truck bomb or the bullet of an assassin, or preferably a bloodless coup.
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Severe storm weather can be different even one arms length plus a hand. And if you stood out there all day getting blown over, you would walk funny too.
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CNN's Anderson Cooper has been seen doing similar faking. He once stood in a ditch ïn waist deep water while the camera men were set up in ankle deep water a few feet away.
American commander overheard on the phone to President Assad, “I’m begging you, with tears in my eyes, please do not make us defend ourselves against attack again. Putin was not happy how that turned out.”
[AlMasdar] The Syrian army has launched a surprise offensive against ISIS* murderous Moslems north of al-Tanf in Homs province. The government forces have struck Lion of Islam positions in the settlements of Kobajjep and al Rashwaniyah, control of which opens the way to the strategically important area of Humeimah, which lies along the border with Deir ez-Zor province.
A military source told Sputnik that "the Syrian army is dealing the final blow to the last enclaves of ISIS fighters in a desert in central Syria. This is an area between Homs, Deir ez-Zor and Damascus. The army managed to liberate vast territories, destroy dozens of snuffies and shelters that were located in the rocks."
The source further noted that "the Syrian aviation helped infantry units to conduct a successful attack on the position of terrorists." As a result, a large-scale operation to completely clean up this area of the country has nearly come to an end, the insider added.
The offensive came shortly after Rooters had cited a commander of the Pentagon-backed Maghawir al-Thawra Lion of Islam group as saying that joint drills with the US-led coalition, which wrapped up near the US military base in al-Tanf, were the first such exercised with live-fire air and ground assault, involving hundreds of American marines and rebels.
"These exercises have great importance and have enhanced the defenses of the area and improved the combat capabilities and morale and that of civilians in the area," Colonel Muhanad al- Talaa was quoted as saying.
US military front man Sean Ryan, in turn, told the media outlet that the exercises were a show of force, which he claimed were conducted "to reinforce our capabilities and ensure we are ready to respond to any threat to our forces within our area of operations."
The report came on the heels of a statement by a spokesperson for the coalition’s anti-ISIS operation who dismissed the allegations that there was a terrorist camp near the US base in al-Tanf as "malign propaganda."
"There is no terrorist camp within the al-Tanf de-confliction zone, which runs in a 55k diameter around the Coalition’s al-Tanf Garrison."
Nearly two weeks ago, Syrian government forces captured two snuffies near Palmyra, who claimed that they were members of the Lions of the East group, the Russian Defense Ministry stated. The two detainees also admitted that they had been trained and armed by American instructors in a camp near the al-Tanf military base.
The US-led coalition has been conducting Arclight airstrikes against what it referred to as ISIS targets in Syria without either a UN mandate or Damascus’ authorization. The Syrian government has repeatedly denounced their military presence as illegal, demanding that the American forces leave the country and withdraw from the al-Tanf base.
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[IsraelTimes] Alleged spies caught as institute was analyzing data on Novichok poison used in UK attack, as well as on chemical attacks in Syria
Dutch intelligence services snatched two alleged Russian spies earlier this year on suspicion of planning to hack a sensitive Swiss laboratory used by the world’s chemical warfare watchdog, reports and officials said Friday.
The two agents, believed to be working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, targeted the Spiez laboratory near Bern, Dutch-based NRC newspaper and Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger said.
At the time, Spiez was analyzing data related to poison gas attacks in Syria, as well as the March 4 attack using the nerve agent Novichok on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK, they reported.
The laboratory does analytical work for the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The two were detained "early this year" by Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) working together with several other countries, the newspapers reported.
"The duo, according to sources within the investigation, carried equipment which they wanted to use to break into the computer network" of the Spiez laboratory.
Exact details of the alleged agents’ arrest are unknown.
But on March 26, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that his cabinet had decided to expel "two Russian intelligence workers from the Russian embassy" as a result of the Skripal attack, without giving further details.
Swiss intelligence officials Friday confirmed they were aware of the incident.
"The case of the Russian spies discovered in The Hague and then expelled from The Hague is known to Swiss authorities," Isabelle Graber, spokeswoman for the Swiss intelligence services (SRC), told AFP.
The Swiss spy agency "actively participated in this operation in collaboration with its Dutch and British partners in prevention of illegal actions against critical Swiss infrastructure," she said.
Dutch intelligence services declined to comment when contacted by AFP, saying "we don’t give information about operations."
Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service information head Sergei Ivanov also told the RIA Novosti state news agency that "the SVR does not comment on this information."
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... in April Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the OPCW of "manipulating" the results of the Skripal probe by omitting findings from the Spiez laboratory.
According to the results from Spiez, the samples sent by the OPCW contained a nerve agent called "BZ" which was manufactured by the West, Lavrov said, citing "confidential information."
Two men who were accused by Britannia of being GRU agents involved in the murder attempt on Skripal insisted in an interview that they were merely tourists who had come to visit Salisbury cathedral.
But the two men in the interview, named by British security services as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, "were not the two agents intercepted" by the Netherlands, the papers said.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq's parliament elected Sunni politician Mohammed al-Halbousi as speaker on Saturday, marking the first step towards establishing the new government four months after an inconclusive national election.
Parliament was due to elect a speaker and two deputies during its first meeting on Sept 3, but failed to do so as politicians were still trying to determine which competing bloc had the most seats.
Some delegates from Iraq's Sairoon Alliance, led by Shiite leader Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the once and future Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... , and the Kurdistan Democratic Party had withdrawn from the session, according to an Al Arabiya News Channel correspondent.
Halbousi, 37, was elected Governor of Anbar in August 2017 by the provincial council, a position he relinquished when he was sworn in as an Iraqi MP on September 3.
The key parliamentary meeting could allow Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s political rivals to form a government without him.
On Thursday, Abadi announced a new series of public works initiatives for the southern city of Basra, hit by a wave of deadly protests last week.
Abadi made the statement following a cabinet meeting, delayed by two days as he visited Basra where violent demonstrations last week saw 12 protesters killed and government buildings torched.
Basra has been at the epicenter of protests that broke out in July in the southern province before spreading to other parts of the country, as demonstrators railed against poor services and condemned corruption among Iraqi officials.
Anger in Basra flared early last week over a growing health crisis, after more than 30,000 people were hospitalized by pollution in the city’s water supply.
On Thursday, Abadi said a team of advisers would "assure the immediate implementation" of new water pumping, routing and filtration projects -- but did not provide a budget or a timetable.
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David Hogg, the teenage Parkland-shooting-sufferer-turned-political activist, took to Twitter to call out U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... as an audacious failure who ought to resign her post pronto. "Immediately," is how Hogg put it. As in do not pass go, do not collect $200.
If only Hogg’s reasoning were sound, maybe he wouldn’t be such a headache.
No ‐ take that back. Hogg’s a headache, no matter how you slice it. But if only his call for Haley to resign were based on something other than his emotionally driven hatred for all things conservative, maybe he wouldn’t be a migraine of a headache.
His tweet: "Dear Nikki Haley, There are starving children in American everyday and you have the audacity to misappropriate thousands of tax dollars for your own lavish lifestyle. Resign immediately. sincerely, America."
America?
Is Hogg really going to try to speak for the entire nation?
Anyhow, his own bit of audacity (because that’s what his tweet on behalf of America to the U.S. ambassador of the United States was ‐ audacious) falls a bit short of fact. It was based on reports of Haley’s residence at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... hanging curtains valued at $52,701 ‐ reports that led Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu to tweet, "this is not okay" and to call for "an oversight hearing on @StateDept spending on @nikkihaley and her deputy."
Turns out: Haley didn’t buy those costly curtains.
Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ’s State Department did. A spokesperson for Haley pointed to the purchase being made back in 2016 ‐ but apparently, Hogg didn’t get the memo.
Ooops.
And as Kyle Kashuv, another student from Parkland, put it beneath Hogg’s own tweet of the matter: "Holy cow. You’re dumber than I thought. You didn’t even bother to read the article."
But don’t expect an apology from Hogg any time soon. His sort ‐ his hyper-partisan, hyper-leftist, hyper-hate-filled ‐ never do.
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Surely some Hollywood producer is working on a biopic script as we speak. Sad thing is Leo DiCaprio is way to old to play him in the movie.
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Samantha Shanty Irish Power ordered them. Gotta love this part:
Kyle Kashuv, another student from Parkland, put it beneath Hogg’s own tweet of the matter: "Holy cow. You’re dumber than I thought. You didn’t even bother to read the article."
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It seems that young Hogg is opinionated but not well-informed.
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Can we arrange for Hogg and Schumer to both jockey to be in front of one camera and microphone? Sounds like an annihilation event (in the physics sense) to me...
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Sad thing is Leo DiCaprio is way to old to play him in the movie.
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Someone should ask Hogg how much tax money was spent to educate him, and how it was all wasted given he couldn't read an article for comprehension.
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The Bradley was originally supposed to be a light weight air transportable troop carrier that was supposed to replace the M-113. As time went on mission creep loaded so much stuff on it was wearing out tracks. The latest effort is to get the weight down and reduce maintenance as well as make it air transportable in one piece.
IN WHICH Russia tries to stir up trouble between equally culpable allies via the Sputnik news service, happily broadcast by Iran proxy, Al Masdar.
[AlMasdar] In Rome, the responsibility for the influx of migrants colonists is laid on La Belle France, which persuaded NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... countries to get rid of Qadaffy. As a result, Libya is now torn apart by rival factions and an ongoing conflict between its two governments.
"It is clearly now undeniable that this country (Libya) finds itself in this situation because someone, in 2011, put their own interests ahead of those of the Libyan people and of Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... itself," Italian Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta wrote on Facebook. "La Belle France, from this point of view, is partly to blame," she added.
Italian parliamentary speaker Roberto Fico was even more explicit, pointing to "a serious problem that has come from La Belle France."
Italia’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini also chimed in, blaming former French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... for unleashing the war in Libya and the present government for adding fuel to the flames of the Libyan conflict.
Italians are filled with nostalgia each time they recall the time when Rome and Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... signed an agreement to allow Italian companies to extract oil in Libya.
The Qadaffy government was holding back the flow of migrants colonists to Europe and the country’s GDP was the second biggest in Africa and the first among the Arabic-speaking states of the Maghreb.
In Rome, the emphasis is that the decision to overthrow Qadaffy was made without taking into account the views of Italia.
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Is it true that Khadaffy Duck was finally pulled squealing out of a cement sewer pipe by a mob of Libyan soldiers and tossed over the hood of a 1947 Chevy and bayonetted in the behind and then had a 9mm mag emptied into his head?
Or is that simply a nice story to encourage Moslem values and further political Moslem change of regime traditions?
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#2 Is it true that Khadaffy Duck was finally pulled squealing out of a cement sewer pipe by a mob of Libyan soldiers and tossed over the hood of a 1947 Chevy and bayonetted in the behind and then had a 9mm mag emptied into his head?
Or is that simply a nice story to encourage Moslem values and further political Moslem change of regime traditions?
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That is actually quite accurate. I've heard it was a sewer pipe, not a Chevy, but it doesn't matter. His last reported words:
"Do you not know right from wrong?"
Clearly, somebody did.
Mike
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Body cavity search with a bayonet
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[AlAhram] Mubarak's sons were arrested at the court and ordered transfer to the Tora prison.
The defendants were initially put on trial for the case in May 2012, but the case was suspended in 2013 so that the prosecution could include other defendants.
Seven others have also been charged along with Mubarak’s sons in the case.
Last March, the court again delayed the trial for three months, pending the results of a detailed report by a specialized committee on the case, according to an earlier court rule.
Mubarak, who was ousted following Egypt's 2011 revolution, was convicted by a lower court on corruption charges with his two sons.
In May 2015, a court sentenced Gamal and Alaa to three years in jail over embezzling at least EGP 125 million ($16 million in 2015) from funds earmarked for maintenance of presidential palaces.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Betcha that's not the neighborhood he lives in. [JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] The Governor of the South West Region Bernard Okalia Bilai has reassured the fleeing population of their safety amidst growing security concerns in the region.
There has been a mass exodus of the population from the South West Region to safer cities like Douala and Yaounde in the past week as a result of threats from separatist fighters to disrupt the Presidential election scheduled for October 7.
The situation has prompted the Governor of the region to step in and allay fears of insecurity while calling on the local population to go about their businesses without fear.
Bernard Okalia Bilai was at the Mile 17 motor park on Saturday where he met with leaders of transporters’ syndicates where he called on them to sensitise the local population not to give in to rumours of an imminent military crackdown on the local population in search of suspected separatists.
He also stressed that there is no restriction of movement out of the region as earlier reported by various sources but called on the population to stay back promising adequate measures to guarantee their safety.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least seven key Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group members including their shadow spy chief for the southeastern parts of the country have been killed in Paktia province.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Taliban spy chief for southeastern provinces Zainatullah, also famous as Farhad, was killed with six others in an Arclight airstrike.
The statement further added that the turbans were killed as they were travelling in a vehicle to plan future terrorist activities.
Other key Taliban group members killed during the airstrike have been identified as Gul Rahman famous as Anas, Habibullah famous as Edris, and Bohran.
This comes as at least 35 turbans were killed during the ground operations and airstrikes in Zurmat district Tuesday, the statement said, adding that some key Taliban group leaders and Paks were also among those killed.
According to the provincial government, more than sixty turbans were also maimed during the same operations.
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Good deal 7 more key militants down in Afghaniland. How may does that leave to go now?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Dozens of Talibs including their local leaders were killed or maimed during the operations in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the murderous Moslems were killed during the ground operations and Arclight airstrikes in Shash Kapi, Larkhabi, and Dand Shahabuddin areas of the province.
The statement further added that a total 36 murderous Moslems were killed during the operations and at least 12 others sustained injuries.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, some big shots of the group, including the shadow district chief of the group for Pul Khumri Mawlavi Qadir, Qari Khalid, Mullah Ibrahim, Qari Zahir, Ghazi Malang, and Mullah Hadifa Jalalabadi are among those killed.
The Afghan forces also confiscated a vehilce, two cycle of violences, and some flags of Pakistain during the same operations, the 209th Shaheen Corps added.
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[IsraelTimes] Belgium has broken its relations with the Paleostinian Authority’s education ministry over its honoring of Lions of Islam and will no longer fund the construction of its schools, a government spokesperson said.
The Belgian Education Ministry announced the move ‐ the first of its kind by any European country ‐ this week, the Joods Actueel Jewish newspaper reported Friday.
"As long as school names are used to glorify terrorism, Belgium can no longer cooperate with the Paleostinian Education Ministry and will not give out budgets for the construction of schools," a statement from the ministry said.
Last year, Belgium froze $3.8 million in funding for the construction of two Paleostinian schools after a West Bank school that it helped fund was renamed for a terrorist who killed Jewish civilians. Numerous appeals by the Belgian government to have the school renamed have gone unheeded, leading to the end of cooperation, the statement said.
Sometime after 2013, a school built in Hebron with Belgian money was renamed for Dalal Mughrabi, a Paleostinian terrorist who was part of a 1978 attack that killed 38 civilians, including 13 children. The school was inaugurated as the Beit Awwa Elementary School for Girls in 2013.
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TW, it's interesting that the Belgian Education Ministry takes a strong point in opposing the naming of schools that glorify terrorism. Somewhat rare for Europe.
Somebody needs to do basic research regarding how each of the European countries fall in line with the leftist/BDS narratives regarding socialism, immigration and anti-Israeli polemics help the societies in these countries.
Say a big spreadsheet.
I hope someone has got data on this, otherwise I'll try to get on it in several weeks.
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Somebody needs to do basic research regarding how each of the European countries fall in line with the leftist/BDS narratives regarding socialism, immigration and anti-Israeli polemics help the societies in these countries.
Initial assessment - any Euro country that wasn't under the Soviet thumb is drifting leftward. I guarantee that the EU will squawk about this defunding move by Monday.
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it's interesting that the Belgian Education Ministry takes a strong point in opposing the naming of schools that glorify terrorism.
I was shocked to see it, Fairbanks, though a number of EU countries paused funding on Palestinian projects in the last year when Israel presented irrefutable evidence of terrorism support — the articles were posted here, but I’m afraid I can’t recall the search terms, sorry.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", says 12-year-old was rubbed out by IDF troops; friend says he was hit by tear gas canister; AP reports army has evidence showing he was struck by rock thrown by protester
Hundreds of Paleostinians attended the funeral Saturday of a 12-year-old boy killed on the Gazoo border, as conflicting reports emerged about the circumstances of his death.
Israel’s military said its evidence shows the 12-year-old was hit by a rock thrown by protesters, and Gazoo rights groups reported he died after being struck "with a solid object," the AP reported.
The Hamas-run Gazoo Health Ministry, by contrast, claimed Shady Abdel-al was killed by Israeli fire east of Jabalia in the northern part of the Strip. A front man said Saturday he died from head wounds, without elaborating.
Mohammed, a 12 year-old friend also from Jabalia refugee camp, said he was with Abdel Aal when he was hit.
"We were throwing stones at the fence," he told AFP.
The friend said Shady had been hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers and collapsed instantly.
Hundreds of family members and friends attended the boy’s funeral Saturday, with some calling for Dire Revenge.
"God burn those that burned my heart and killed my son," said his mother Umm Shadi, who has eight other children.
"What is my son guilty of? He is 12 years old," she added through tears.
She said her son had been going to the protests in recent months but she had been opposed. "I banned him but he was going behind our backs," said the grieving mother.
The ministry initially said he was 14 and a medical source had named him as Mustafa Abed Rabbo.
"He used to go every Friday to the marches like thousands of other people. This Friday was his destiny to die as a martyr," the boy’s father, Abdel-Aziz Abdel-al, told Rooters.
Protester Hashem Hassan told Rooters he witnessed the boy being shot: "He threw a few stones, which flew just a few yards. He posed no threat."
“Nice country ya sorta got there — be a shame if something happened to it.”
[AlMasdar] (2:45 P.M.) – Turkey is attempting to persuade Russia and Iran to force the Syrian Army to halt their offensive plans in northwest Syria, a military source in Damascus told Al-Masdar this afternoon.
According to the source, Turkey is seeking an open-ended ceasefire that would be observed by their troops, Russia, and Iran.
In order to disuade the Idlib operation, Turkey has allegedly threatened to launch an offensive at the key town of Tal Rifa’at, the source added.
Over the last few weeks, the Turkish military has gradually built-up their forces near Tal Rifa’at, prompting the Syrian Army to respond by sending reinforcements to the nearby town of Deir Jamal.
This show of force by Turkey has raised alarms in Damascus, as Tal Rifa’at is located just north of Aleppo city and the government strongholds of Al-Zahra’a and Nubl.
While negotiations are still ongoing between Ankara and Moscow regarding Idlib, the Syrian Army has continued to beef up their forces in both Hama and Latakia, signifying that an offensive is imminent in these provinces.
[AlMasdar] (5:00 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) released a new video of one of their spies filming from a strategic Turkish border-crossing.
In the video below, the Syrian Arab Army spy is filming while driving towards the strategic Bab Al-Hawa Crossing.
The Bab Al-Hawa Crossing is one of the most important border points for the rebel forces, as it has been used in the past to move their troops from the Aleppo province to Idlib.
The Syrian Arab Army has been releasing several of these videos as of recent in order to continue their psychological war as their Idlib offensive approaches.
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I think Turkey would agree to partition areas of influence in Idlib and also Efrin but somehow Assad isn't going to go for that.
It would be nice to see Syrian and Turkish troops actually killing each other but unfortunately, there are lots of civilians in the area.
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Who to root for, to lose.
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"Let's you and him fight"
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Root for them both to slaughter each other to the point where they both lose power. Right now, if Russia rolled across the border, I'd cheer for them to destroy the turks.
[AlMasdar] (6:40 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) raised the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic over another town in the Al-Quneitra Governorate this week.
According to a military communique from Al-Quneitra, the Syrian Army raised their national flag over the town of Bir Ajam, which is located just east of the occupied Golan Heights.
The Syrian Army reportedly cleared Bir Ajam of all explosives that were left behind by the jihadist rebels that once controlled this town.
In the coming days, the Syrian Army is expected to raise their national flag over more towns that have been cleared of explosives in Al-Quneitra and Dara’a.
[AkMasdar] (8:30 P.M.) – The Syrian security forces seized a large cache of weapons that were left behind by the rebels in the Quneitra and Daraa governorates this week.
According to a military report, the Syrian security forces seized the large cache of weapons in the towns of Bariqah (Quneitra) and Jassim (Daraa).
Both of the caches reportedly contained a variety of weapons, including anti-tank guide missiles, RPGs, thermal cameras, assault rifles, and ammunition boxes.
As shown in the video below, these weapons were hidden in storage facilities before the rebel forces were evacuated from southern Syria to the Idlib and Aleppo governorates.
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