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At a press briefing today a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed speculative reports that Secretary of Defense James Mattis utilized a new power move to thwart an attempt on his life earlier this week when Taliban forces in Kabul launched a rocket attack against him as he boarded his C-130 transport plane.
Army Colonel William Rotman said that "Initially, Secretary Mattis came under fire on the tarmac of Hamid Karzai International Airport and Rug Emporium. Although his escort of Shaolin warrior-monks were able to snatch the speeding missiles from the air before they landed, the Secretary chose that event to test out a new ability he'd spent his most recent skill points on. After seconds of reflection on all possible outcomes and their probabilities he immediately warped space and time backwards two hours in order to exit safely and transit home with no loss of life or unanticipated flayings of low-level enemy fighters."
This new ability comes as a shock to defense experts as Mattis has previously focused on melee attacks and leadership buffs, typically abstaining from health regeneration or armor bonuses. "I'm not a tanker," Mattis declared, as he waited for the mandatory twenty-four hour ability cooldown period to conclude, "I rely on speed and let my corpsmen patch me up when things get hairy. I know very well there isn't a piece of armor in the world that can stop a maxed-out Tripoli Knife-Hand stacked with Chesty's Glare of Doom locked in macro repeat. I assure our country that I still believe the best defense is a good offense."
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Hat tip: gCaptain for this article. I have been following this since the sinking. Here is an excerpt from the article:
The 199-page report identifies causal factors of the loss of the S.S. El Faro and 33 crew members on October 1, 2015, which ranks as one of the worst maritime disasters in American history. The 790-foot vessel set sail from Jacksonville, Florida, on a voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 29, 2015, and sank about a day and a half later off the Bahamas near the eye of Hurricane Joaquin.
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[Free Beacon] The all-woman league formerly known as the Lingerie Football League announced this week its belief that America's flag and national anthem are "far too sacred" to protest.
The league, recently rebranded as the Legends Football League, said in a Tuesday statement that its players would not be taking a knee during the national anthem as many of their male counterparts in the NFL have done.
"The LFL recognizes everyone's First Amendment right to protest, but our nation's flag and anthem are far too sacred," the league said. "Too many fellow Americans have made the ultimate sacrifice, so that our flag and anthem continue in all its majesty."
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Correction: French press report now that the soldiers checked for an explosive belt after killing the assassin but before attempting to identify him.
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[ABC] The head of the Air Force Academy gathered 5,500 cadets, faculty, staff and cadet candidates Thursday to deliver a powerful message after racial slurs were found written on message boards at the academy’s preparatory school.
"If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out," Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria told the group at the culmination of a forceful five-minute lecture on the "power of diversity."
Five black cadet candidates at the Academy’s Preparatory School woke up Monday morning to messages saying "go home" followed by an anti-black slur, according to a statement released by the academy.
In fairness, he did what any commanding officer MUST do in a situation like this. On one or two occasions during my military service, I had to listen to - and in one case, deliver - similar lectures.
Having said that, I wish he had not been quite so public about it. Sadly, given recent history with this sort of thing, the USAFOSI investigators are certainly looking at the possibility that this was not what it appears to be, and had LTGEN Silveria given that brief to just the assembled prep school students (those involved are students at the USAF Academy Preparatory School, not the Academy proper) it would have had the same moral effect as well as filling in the square.
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Did anyone "gather the troops" to talk about uniform violations and the evil of communism?
[CBC News] A man who stabbed a police officer with a knife and deliberately plowed into pedestrians on Edmonton's busiest downtown strip is being investigated for "acts of terrorism," police said at a news conference early Sunday.
A 30-year-old man is in custody following a high-speed chase just before midnight through streets filled with bar patrons and football fans. The chase ended only after a white U-Haul van the man was driving struck four pedestrians and flipped on its side. Suspect "known to police." No name or photo provided.
Update from the article at 10:15 a.m. ET:
Knecht confirmed that a black ISIS flag was seized from a car where the police officer was attacked. The officer was not critically injured. The condition of the four pedestrians is not known.
The first attack happened at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday near Commonwealth Stadium, where an officer was working traffic control for a CFL game.
Knecht said the officer was standing behind a barricade when a Chevrolet Malibu crashed into it, hit the officer and sent him flying 4.5 metres into the air.
"A male believed to be 30 years old then jumped out of his vehicle and viciously attacked the Edmonton Police Service member with a knife," Knecht said. "A struggle then ensued, during which the male suspect stabbed the officer several times before fleeing the scene on foot, northbound down 92nd Street.
At around 10 p.m., police told a news conference that a manhunt was underway, but there was no threat to the public.
Just before midnight, a white U-Haul van was pulled over at a Checkstop on the north side of town. When a police officer checked the driver's name, he recognized it as being similar to the name of the registered owner of the car that had struck the officer at Commonwealth Stadium.
The U-Haul immediately sped off toward downtown Edmonton, where streets were filled with Saturday night bar crowds and football fans.
As bystanders watched, the van barrelled down Jasper Avenue with up to 20 police vehicles following.
One witness said police cars began to block streets that connect to Jasper Avenue. The U-Haul eventually doubled back and drove the opposite way down Jasper Avenue. Near 107th Street the van struck at least two pedestrians.
"Throughout the chase, the U-Haul truck deliberately attempted to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys in two areas along Jasper Avenue," Knecht said.
Eventually, the van flipped and landed on its side.
Pat Hannigan was about a quarter-block away when he heard a loud bang.
"I saw the van on its side, it flipped over, U-Haul van," he said. "And they had a guy handcuffed on the ground and obviously they smashed out the window. They had a pipe or something in their hand."
Knecht said officers did not stop the chase along the busy downtown street "due to the seriousness of the offence — or the believed offence."
Trudeau, who as Prime Minister receives daily briefings on matters of national security, said that “it is no surprise that there are angry extremists and terrorists out there who wish Canadians and Canada harm and countries like it around the world. The key on understanding that, is how we let that affect us.”
[...]Trudeau argued that the greatest threat to ISIS is a tremendously open and diverse society in which Muslims and other minorities are fully integrated into mainstream secular society, and that compatibility between extraordinary diversity and a successfully safe society is Canada’s greatest strength and that that is what needs to be highlighted.
[LI] Have you suspected there are still people embedded in the government who worked for Obama and might not share President Trump’s vision for America? You were right. In fact, there are quite a few of them. Gov't Burrowing: The transfer of a political appointee from a political appointment position to permanent federal employee position just prior to the change of an political administration. Oftentimes the position is created specifically for the former appointee or, 'pre-selection' is used to effect the transfer to an existing position. 'Pre-selection' is supposed to be against Federal Civil Service hiring and recruitment rules.
[Barely a Blog] The American media and manipulative Puerto-Rican politicians are using President Trump as a piñata. Poke and pound him and the American taxpayer enough until, stateside, everyone is soon apologizing for merely existing, and coughing up into the coffers of corrupt representatives.
By all means, help the largely tax-exempt Puerto Rico territory. But realize, admit and quit the cover-up of the fact that Puerto Rico is a socialized, fiscally bankrupt, systemically corrupt "welfare state with a labor force participation rate one-third less than in the United States." Wondering why there’s no power and water? "The major Puerto Rican state-owned or controlled enterprises are all losing money, including the power authority which is insolvent":
... Puerto Rico has a bloated government with far too many employees, unstainable pension obligations, and an intolerable level of corruption. The proper solution to the Puerto Rican debt problem is for the U.S. government to establish a "control board," which Congress has the authority to do. This past Friday, Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to his fellow lawmakers advocating a control board for Puerto Rico, much like the one they created for the District of Columbia a couple of decades back, when D.C. was in danger of default because of mismanagement.
Puerto Rico needs fundamental restructuring of its pension and civil service systems. It needs to sell all of its interests in the fully or partially state-owned enterprises. That is, privatize them. (How many more hundreds of years will we need before the political class learns that socialism ‐ i.e. state-owned enterprises ‐ always fails)? In Hong Kong, even most of the transportation infrastructure is in private hands ‐ and it is clean, efficient, attractive, and works without government subsidies.
Puerto Rico needs to radically reduce government spending, taxes and regulation so it begins to attract foreign capital again rather than driving it away. Puerto Rico is now a welfare state with a labor force participation rate one-third less than in the United States. Many of the most productive Puerto Ricans have moved to the mainland ‐ but could be attracted back with their high-level job skills if the economic environment was made attractive again. Puerto Rico needs to embrace the Hong Kong economic freedom model, rather than the Greek model of too much government. ...
[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.
Video footage posted on the Twitter feed of former rugby player Andy Goode shows Baldwin reaching through metal bars to touch the big cat.
As he strokes the animal on the head as it lays on the ground, it suddenly snaps. Baldwin, 29, is heard to cry out and pulls his arm away before a warden tells a colleague to get him first aid.
The injury, which needed stitches, occurred on Wednesday during a pre-match visit to a safari park. Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".
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Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".
He'll never buy another pint. Now if he could just memorize some "Lion and Albert:
There were one great big Lion called Wallace;
His nose were all covered with scars-
He lay in a somnolent posture,
With the side of his face on the bars.
Now Albert had heard about Lions,
How they was ferocious and wild-
To see Wallace lying so peaceful,
Well, it didn’t seem right to the child.
So straightway the brave little feller,
Not showing a morsel of fear,
Took his stick with it’s’orse’s ‘ead ‘andle
...And pushed it in Wallace’s ear.
You could see that the Liion didn’t like it,
For giving a kind of a roll,
He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im,
And swallowed the little lad ‘ole.
[Hot Air] It was big news three years ago when Castro more than doubled the monthly wage for doctors with two specialties, from ... $26 to $67. Alas, nurses didn’t do quite as well percentage-wise. They went from $13 per month to $25. Imagine knowing you have an expertise in a profession that would let you live comfortably, if not lavishly, even in the richest country in the world and receiving a monthly wage whose equivalent value could be paid in literal peanuts without too much logistical trouble.
But that’s the thing. How many Cuban doctors know how badly they’re being shafted for their services? This fascinating NYT story zeroes in on doctors who have been dispatched to other countries, like Brazil, to work and been amazed at the freedom and comparative luxury other doctors enjoy there. That’s a risky proposition for Castro, as showing his medical industry how much higher their standard of living would be in a free country naturally means many won’t want to come back. The reason the regime agrees to it is because it needs the money and receives big bucks for its "export." That’s where the Times piece comes in: Although Cuban doctors are making way, waaaaay more in Brazil than they’d make at home, they’re still getting royally screwed by the Cuban government, which receives three times as much per month from the Brazilian government as the doctors themselves do. "When you leave Cuba for the first time, you discover many things that you had been blind to," said one doctor to the paper. It turns out communism is de facto slavery. Who knew?
[Right Scoop] One of the more stunning stats she presents is that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a cop.
Macdonald makes some great points about how police actually help the black community ‐ I saw it growing up in a poor Hispanic community myself. There is a lot to be gained from the safety and security that police provide in enforcing the law.
But on the other hand, it’s not a reasonable expectation to say that a group of people should accept injustice because they have prospered by participating in a society. As Americans, we should want to stamp out any injustice in our society instead of making excuses for it. Of course, that doesn’t included exaggerated or fabricated injustice that the left peddles so often.
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But on the other hand, it’s not a reasonable expectation to say that a group of people should accept injustice because they have prospered by participating in a society.
Number of the children of the upper 1, 5, or 10 percenters who have given the last full measure of devotion since 9/11? That people should prosper and exercise political power in society without paying their share of the butchers bill is the injustice. No personal consequence tied to their governing failures. Only prominent one I can quickly grasp is Joe Biden's son.
The perfect's distaste for the bearable,
Aversion insane but inerrable,
Conceals within quibbling
An elegant nibbling
On infinite helpings of terrible.
[Right Scoop] Newsweek - On a speech on Friday in Fresno, California, Joseph M. Arpaio, billed on the evening’s program as "America’s toughest sheriff," delighted local Republicans with his pronouncements. He promised to restart his investigation into the veracity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, suggested he might run for a congressional seat, perhaps the one held by Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake, and lambasted professional football players for their National Anthem protests, which he called "little Mickey Mouse political games."
[Reuters] BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue.
The disclosure by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a trip to China represented the first time he has spoken to such an extent about U.S. outreach to North Korea over its pursuit of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile.
"We are probing so stay tuned," Tillerson told a group of reporters in Beijing.
"We ask: ’Would you like to talk?’ We have lines of communications to Pyongyang. We’re not in a dark situation, a blackout."
He said that communication was happening directly and cited two or three U.S. channels open to Pyongyang.
"We can talk to them. We do talk to them," he said, without elaborating about which Americans were involved in those contacts or how frequent or substantive they were.
The goal of any initial dialogue would be simple: finding out directly from North Korea what it wants to discuss.
"We haven’t even gotten that far yet," he said.
Trying to tamp down expectations, the State Department said later there were no signs Pyongyang was interested in talks.
"North Korean officials have shown no indication that they are interested in or are ready for talks regarding denuclearization," department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
[Chicago Tribune] Even after watching Hurricane Irma wreak havoc on Florida, Rik Mallin is sticking to his plan.
Mallin is fixing up his Villa Park home so that he can sell it, move to the Florida Panhandle and escape Illinois’ rising taxes.
"I’m getting out," said Mallin, 67. "It’s not just the property taxes on my home; it’s all of them." He figures his taxes in Florida, where there is no personal income tax, will be about a quarter of what he’s paying now.
Mallin’s not the only one leaving the state. In 2016, Illinois lost 37,508 people, putting the state’s population at its lowest level in nearly a decade, according to U.S. census data. It was the third consecutive year the state lost more residents than any other state. The state’s population count for 2017 won’t be released until December.
Some of those who are leaving Illinois say they’re frustrated with their tax burden and the state’s financial situation. After going more than two years without a budget, Illinois lawmakers passed a spending plan over the summer, one that involved a 32 percent income tax hike for residents. The state is still digging itself out of the financial disarray that accumulated during the budget impasse. A Forbes listing of the best and worst states for taxes in 2016, before the tax hike, ranked Illinois 46th, signifying a heavier tax burden.
But demographers aren’t ready to chalk the outmigration up to tax pressures entirely.
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Left unsaid is the outward migration of a good number of African American families also fed up living with the endlessly repeating cycle of violence in their neighborhoods.
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Silly Wabbit.
Blue State Conundrum: How can you have (rich people) Rabbit Season when they have enough money to another locale? Only the Poor remain and they are.. Poor!
[Townhall] Douglas Murray has written what is probably the most important book of the last 50 years.
His extremely readable The Strange Death of Europe clarifies so many issues that are swirling around our lives. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the state of the Western world today.
I had the distinct pleasure of spending a couple of hours with Murray while he was on a recent trip to Los Angeles. It was hard to focus the conversation because there are so many immense concepts conveyed by Murray in the book even though it is just 320 pages.
Murray debunks many of the lies foisted upon the public about the effects of mass immigration on the countries of Europe. It is challenging to give you a few tidbits, but here goes.
It is amazing how Europe and the United States share so many parallel challenges. The Europeans are flooded by people from Northern and Central Africa boating in from two jumping-off points. One is Lampedusa, Italy, and the other is the Greek Islands. Charged huge fees by transporters (think of the Coyotes who bring in people from our Southern border), many die. However, the ones who do survive are almost guaranteed a life somewhere in Europe because of the rules of the European Union (EU). "They are all coming just to make a better life for their family." Sound familiar?
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Europe attempted suicide in 1914. You know that place most of our ancestors left or were thrown out of. We threw a lifetime in 1917 before another attempt in 1939. Since then they've cost us irreplaceable lives and fortunes. I suspect non-Marxists historians a hundred years from now will have fun comparing the waste of the futile American efforts with those the Justinian trying to resurrect the fallen Western Roman Empire.
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In 1939 an expansionist marxist inspired leader decided to force the people's of europe together with tragic consequences.
Then in the 1960s and 1970s they are trying it again. It will not end well.
[Breitbart] Friday on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity," in a rare television interview conservative talker Rush Limbaugh explained to host Sean Hannity why President Donald Trump is having difficulties moving agenda.
According to Limbaugh, the so-called establishment "can’t afford" for Trump to succeed.
"Look, there isn’t much conservativism in the establishment," Limbaugh explained. "There are Republicans and Democrats, but it’s basically people who are pro-government, pro-Washington, think government and Washington is the center of the world. They’ll give occasional mentions of these things that you mention, these policies to placate voters. But going back to an original question you had here, they don’t want Trump to succeed with his agenda. They can’t afford that. I’m not exaggerating here and trying to say things for a sound bite that Fox replays the rest of the day. They don’t want five days rush."
"They don’t want ‐ they can’t afford for him to succeed with his agenda," he continued. "They can’t afford it. The lid’s blown. The gig is over. The joke is revealed. If an outsider with no prior political experience can come in and fix messes that people have been promised would be fixed for 30 years, how does that make them look? They can’t allow that to happen."
[Iran Press TV] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... says Israel’s Mossad spy agency has played a role in the recent Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.
During a televised speech in the eastern Ottoman Turkish city of Erzurum on Saturday, Erdogan expressed sorrow that Iraqi Kurds had acclaimed the recent independence referendum with Israeli flags.
"This shows one thing, that this administration (in northern Iraq) has a history with Mossad, they are hand-in-hand together," Erdogan said.
"Are you aware of what you are doing? Only Israel supports you," he added.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on secession from Iraq in defiance of Baghdad’s stiff opposition on September 25. Kurdish officials said over 90 percent of voters said ’Yes’ to separation from Iraq.
While much of the international community, including the UN, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Iraq’s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing "the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state" of their own.
Erdogan vowed that Iraq’s Kurdistan "will pay a price" for the "unacceptable" independence referendum.
"An independent state is not being founded in northern Iraq, but on the contrary a continuously bleeding wound is being opened," he said.
"To ignore this reality benefits neither us, nor our Kurdish brothers in Iraq," Erdogan said, urging Iraqi Kurds to "wake up from this dream" of independence.
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"and Gulen!!"
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Whatever Israel's role in the referendum, I hope it takes a serious part in showing the Kurds how to beat back the upcoming Iraqi invasion, if Uncle Sam hangs back.
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Israel can't afford to openly defy uncle - so, lets hope Trump listens to his generals (we must defeat ISIS first), and his State (we must kiss Turkey & Iran's asses) with a grain of salt.
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Or, alternatively, lets hope that the bad guys will help the Kurds (for bad reasons), the same way their (very bad) predecessors helped Israel in 1947.
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Or, alternatively, lets hope that the bad guys will help the Kurds (for bad reasons), the same way their (very bad) predecessors helped Israel in 1947.
I'm just a simple man, say wut? Jewish logicians make my head hurt.
[Iran Press TV] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has opened its largest military base in Africa, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as the African country struggles in a protracted war against Death Eaters.
The training base was inaugurated on Saturday in the presence of the Ottoman Turkish chief of staff General Hulusi Akar and Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre.
The newly-constructed facility includes army dormitories, training grounds and prisons and will serve as a training ground for 10,000 Somali soldiers. Some 200 Ottoman Turkish military officers will be deployed to the base to oversee the training.
During the opening ceremony, Khayre hailed Ottoman Turkish "unwavering" support to Somalia as Mogadishu tries to rebuild the fractured army and stabilize the war-torn country.
The Somali military, backed by a 22,000-strong 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... army, have managed to purge al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , a Death Eater group that has been wreaking havoc in Somalia for more than two decades, from the capital and major urban centers. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... the al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz still pose a serious threat to Somalia and neighboring countries, notably Kenya.
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[DAWN] Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... (FC) on Saturday successfully averted an attempt at targeting Muharram commiserations in Quetta, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a blurb.
According to the ISPR, a vehicle carrying explosives was discovered during an intelligence based operation (IBO) in Tore Shah, north of Pishin.
The vehicle was to be used to disrupt Ashura proceedings in Quetta, the ISPR claimed.
The ’criminal mastermind’ behind the plan and his two accomplices have been taken into custody, the ISPR said.
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[Townhall] Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion "if I work hard, I can be successful" is merely a product of white ideology, reports Campus Reform. Don't have to work very hard to get a decent grade in her classes, do you?
Angela Putman conducted a study to critique and examine "ideologies within college students’ discourse that are foundational to whiteness." First examine the ideologies, then determine if the thing actually exists...
Her resulting conclusion published on Thursday was that "meritocracy", or the belief that people should rise based on the fruits of their own labor, is a "white ideology." In her mind, this "white ideology" is unfortunately widely accepted in academia. If the cause and effect test works, maybe that's why it's unfortunately widely accepted.
But, Professor Putman argues that professors can change this "ideology" by teaching students "how racism and whiteness function in various contexts, the powerful influence of systems and institutions, and the pervasiveness of whiteness ideologies within the United States." And really, they'll be doing them a service. I'm sure they'll all go far taking that advice to heart.
Putman believes that it is somehow a bad thing to teach students personal responsibility. Emphasizing a collectivist mindset, Putman puts forth the idea that Americans are falsely "socialized to believe that we got to where we are... because of our own individual efforts." Funny, but I'm a-think'n that my hard work is how I got my White Privilege!
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You fucking piece of shit. It is just common sense. Do you want your students to actually believe your bullshit and make nothing happen
You are the END of the Educational system. You, Professor are a piece of human shit that will never do anything worth anything for anyone on this planet feeding your idiot students this fake marxist bullshit.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The historic decision allowing women to drive is far bigger than just about women as it encompasses the entire country and its vision for the future.
It confirms that the kingdom is strongly and steadily walking down the right path to achieve an ambitious vision engineered and supervised by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
This vision has become part of the national dream, which many pessimists and figures preaching misery doubted the capability to achieve. The prince however won the duel and we have seen illusions fall one after the other.
We are now entering into a new era for the homeland where there is no place for extremism. It is a country that is washing off the damage caused by hate and death preachers.
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And the Rubicon is a puddle in your driveway...
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All very well, but the Crown Prince better watch his back.
Are there enough driver schools?
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Will their driving schools teach the difference between "Stop" vs "Yield" signs? Will they point out that the lines for parking places are not mere suggestions but rather a reasonable place to put one's parked car?
[CNN] A mountain of food, water and other vital supplies has arrived in Puerto Rico's main Port of San Juan.
But a shortage of truckers and the island's devastated infrastructure are making it tough to move aid to where it's needed most, officials say.
At least 10,000 containers of supplies -- including food, water and medicine -- were sitting Thursday at the San Juan port, said Jose Ayala, the Crowley shipping company's vice president in Puerto Rico.
Part of the reason for the distribution backlog is that only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work since Hurricane Maria swept through, according to a representative for Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
On top of that, a diesel fuel shortage and a tangle of blocked roads mean the distribution of supplies is extremely challenging. Even contacting drivers is a problem because cell towers are still down.
"When we say we that we don't have truck drivers, we mean that we have not been able to contact them," Rosselló said.
On Thursday the White House authorized a 10-day waiver of the Jones Act, a federal law that limits shipping to US ports by foreign vessels. Puerto Rico's governor and other US officials had argued that a waiver would expedite supplies to the island.
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You worthless scumbag commie UNION pieces of shit better be standing tall in less than two hours because right now, you are the eternal scum of the Earth, and Mother Mary will never be able to save you.
As this stands right now, I want to go down there with my Browning .50 cal and shoot up every tree, boat, house, car or union asshole standing in the way of this aid.
Or fuck it. May just finish the job with another cat5 because you are just fucking worthless to your fellow man.
Fuck Puerto Rico. There is no Puerto Rico. Just a bunch of democrat, marxist man pussies standing around watching two guys with a chainsaw fix their communities.
I will throw every one of you goonion pieces of fake human trash into federal pen for denying aid to starving and thirsting people. You are the scum of the earth.
If you are a Man, Go to town and fix YOUR GODDAMNED ISLAND before I wipe it all out permanently. And you may have passed that point right now.
You fucking assholes.
All this real estate belongs to me and you useless pieces of shit do not even pay rent. In fact, you charge US to live there.
Prepare to move because you have a nothing of a place and never made it better and your attitude sucks.
In fact, you will not be running this anymore if I have MY way.
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Part of the reason for the distribution backlog is that only 20% of truck drivers have reported back to work
I have not seen anything I'd consider definitive, but I keep seeing tidbits suggesting the Teamster's Union has gone on strike in San Juan and wants some contract concessions and changes to current laws before they will start moving supplies.
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That's the final straw. I AM getting ALL the GODAMN Unions out of MY Public services.
Because you are such a bunch of fucking gangsters that you want to negotiate contracts in a disaster while people are dying.
Want to see me hit the roof? Have not your stupid GOONION responsibilities fulfilled today.
What you fucking pieces of shit need is a baseball bat to the head.
I will fuck you up and you don't have to get paid to do your jobs you stupid democrat pieces of shit.
I fucking hate you. Fix it and I will maybe piss on you. But for now you are in hell.
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Heavy lift copters. Just drop them in remote communities.
Then there is the French option*. Exercise your authority under Title X USC. Draft the drivers, tell them to report for duty, those who fail will be subject to Courts Martial.
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M'Lady was watching Meet the Press this morning, when Chuck Todd was trying to stick it to President Trump over the lack of aid to Puerto Rico. So Chuck was working his agenda, and then he brought up reporters on the ground to supposedly verify what he was saying. They disagreed with him on the air and said that there is plenty of supplies but the truckers are not moving those supplies. They said that 10,000 troops are there doing their job, but only 20% of the drivers are at work. Chuck was very agitated because his narrative fell apart.
He tried to attack the President's tax plan, but the spokesperson invited to the show kept telling Chuck that he was wrong.
It was a veddy veddy bad day for Chuckie.
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At this point they have been given all they need to help themselves.
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It's not that current events wouldn't whipsaw the most reasonable of men into a frothing frenzy, but we're concerned you are going to blow a gasket, newc.
And yes, that jpg is funny as heck. Let them eat boxes!
When it rains here, two road graders in tandem come out to reshape the roads. One on the left, one right re-crafting the center crown with angled blades.
Hard to imagine the SeaBees couldn't do the same with a pair of CAT D12s.
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Then there's option #2. Hire a boat load of Mexican truck drivers, fly them in, and put them to work using the excuse 'doing the jobs Americans won't do'. At least they speak the core of the local language.
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian police have disrupted Muharram ceremonies in the northern city of Sokoto, arresting at least six of the participants.
All of those tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on Saturday were members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), whose leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky is in jail.
The ceremonies were being held despite a ban by Sokoto state on the group’s activities.
"The Islamic Movement is highly dismayed when news emanated that Sokoto state Commissioner of justice has announced the ban on Shia processions in the state," said an IMN front man.
"For the avoidance of any doubt we will like to remind the state government and the general public that all our processions have been peaceful throughout the history of the Islamic Movement. In fact, the last three processions held by the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Sokoto metropolis were devoid of anything unpleasant and even enjoyed police protection as ordered by the constitution. Hence we are surprised by the anticipated public disorder as proclaimed by the commissioner," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... IMN members have held a fresh protest in the capital Abuja, demanding the release of their jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! leader Sheikh Zakzaky.
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[Iran Press TV] South Korean media say the North has been detected transferring several missiles out of a research facility in its capital amid speculations of a new test launch by Pyongyang.
Citing an unidentified intelligence source, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported late Friday that South Korean and US intelligence authorities spotted missiles being moved away from the Missile Research and Development Facility in Pyongyang.
The facility, located in the northern Pyongyang neighborhood of Sanum-dong, has been dedicated to the production of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
The report did not, however, mention time and target location of the alleged transfer, speculating that the missiles could be either intermediate range Hwasong-12 or intercontinental ballistic Hwasong-14.
Moreover, Rooters also cited a source from the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying that he could not confirm the details of the report, and whether there have even been any unusual activities in the specified area.
Authorities in Seoul have raised concerns that Pyongyang could carry out more provocative acts marking the anniversary of the founding of the country’s communist party on October 10, or possibly when China holds its Communist Party Congress on October 18.
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4th of July
No, Labor Day
Wait, Columba's Day, United Nations Day or Halloween?
That would be scary.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Give the Kurds a real stake in Baghdad’s government, only then they dispense the separation plea. Right now, they are imitating honorary positions without authority. The same applies to many components of the Iraqi state, which was built post the invasion. It was built on a shared parliamentary system.
Almost each and every country in the region opposes any territory’s separation, as such, Kurdistan’s separation will not be easy. There is increased fear that the central Iraqi authority, along with Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , will wage a war against the Kurdish ’state.’ This is especially after 92 per cent of the Kurds in Kurdistan supported the separation. Separation is a long and dangerous political road, it includes military confrontations and a painful economic blockade. Nevertheless, the Kurds are determined, even if they hold back a little now, they will pursue it. The reason why the Kurds’ project is worrisome is because the rest of Iraq’s provinces and governorates are divided by separatist ideas that will eventually lead to the end of Iraq as we know it. A Iraq we have known since 1920 ‐ one whose borders were set by the British and French.
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[Bangkok Post]The September 22 bomb attack that killed four rangers in Pattani province was the work of a six-member team. Speaking at a press briefing at a military camp in Nong Chik district about the probe into the bombing, Pattani Task Force commander Jatuporn Klampasut said a suspect detained for questioning had admitted there were six people involved.
Identified as Mayusoh Mayadeng, the suspect claimed the group met to plan and rehearse the attack a week before the bombing. The group was allegedly led by Yakareeya Bango, known to be active in the district. Three were responsible for handling the bomb while Mr Mayusoh and two others were spotters.
Mr Mayusoh was arrested by security authorities at a house in tambon Tabing on Sept 26 in connection with the bombing. He also allegedly admitted during questioning he had been involved in militant activities since 2011.
[FREEBEACON] The Democratic National Committee's already dire financial standing worsened during the month of August, according to its Wednesday night filing to the FEC. Maybe they should consider blegging?
The DNC raised just $4.4 million last month, the second lowest August fundraising figure for the party in the past decade. The party had less cash on hand at the end of the month than it did at the beginning, as its spending outpaced its fundraising by $44,575. Or maybe they should consider not spewing nonsense punctuated with bad words?
And it gets worse. The DNC's debt substantially increased from $3.4 million to $4.1 million, a figure equal to about 60 percent of the committee's total cash on hand.
Party officials predicted in August that DNC fundraising figures would start to turn around, explaining that its fundraising staff was ten times bigger than it had been at the beginning of the year.
DNC deputy chairman Keith Ellison defended the previous month's bad fundraising figures by predicting that there would be "some really good reports to share in the weeks to come."
It is unclear what reports Ellison was referring to.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... the Republican National Committee raised $7.3 million in August. It has $45.9 million in cash on hand and no debts owed.
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if the donks dont have other peoples money to spend they just dont know what to do
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>Party officials predicted in August that DNC fundraising figures would start to turn around, explaining that its fundraising staff was ten times bigger than it had been at the beginning of the year.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Two men were killed and at least 10 other people were maimed in separate attacks across reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... since Friday evening, marking a violent start to the weekend.
The most recent killing happened in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago Police said. Someone walked up to Michael Hillard, 49, and shot him in his face just before 9 p.m. Friday in the 4700 block West Jackson. Hillard, who lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Less than two hours earlier in the Little Village neighborhood, 27-year-old Juan Vargas was shot in the head by a person who approached him on foot and began shooting, police said. Vargas was found about 7:10 p.m. Friday in the 4000 block of West 25th Place and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died. He lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Raqqa continues to suffer as US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces push further into the city against the self-proclaimed 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.... (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIS), Thursday.
IS are thought to currently hold some 25 percent of the city, while between 5,000 and 7,000 civilians are thought to still be in the city, according to SDF officials.
The fighting is posing a constant risk to the civilians that are trapped inside Raqqa.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented, on Monday, the human toll of the US-led aerial campaign against IS in the city, accusing the coalition of being responsible for at least 84 civilians in just two attacks near Raqqa this July.
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Wars, like parties, are best held at someone else's place.
Babylon Bee
BOTHELL, WA—According to reports, local 22-year-old Chloe Kowalski’s world was torn apart Thursday morning, as the millennial barista was diagnosed with a rare disease that prevents her from having the ability to even.
“I just—I can’t even,” Kowalski reportedly sobbed on her boyfriend’s shoulder after the appointment with her regular doctor, which she had scheduled after slowly losing her even functionality over the course of several months.
“I can’t even right now. I can’t even, ever,” she was overheard saying through tears before breaking down.
“We’ve never seen a case quite like this before,” Dr. Elizabeth Eden told reporters gathered outside the clinic where Kowalski’s devastating diagnosis was handed down. “Many millennials will experience short bouts of not being able to even for several seconds, often triggered by a cute video of a cat or other small animal, or perhaps something online that’s ‘so relatable.'”
“But Kowalski—she just can’t even. She may never even again, at least not without assistance,” she said, shaking her head grimly, according to reporters.
Reached for comment, Kowalski noted that she “still can’t even.”
“I seriously just can’t even, you guys,” she confirmed.
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Very few people do satire as well as the Babylon Bee. I have them bookmarked and recommend reading them (like now on Sunday afternoon, rather than watching people give you the finger on the NFL.)
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Can't wait to see the reaction when I use it on my kids.
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[cfif.org] By now, many Americans are familiar with the public debt fiasco that plagues Puerto Rico. The issue has steadily risen in prominence as the gravity of Puerto Rico’s debt load sets in on the American public. Certainly, the island’s economic mismanagement has taken center stage in Washington, as Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has been called to testify numerous times before Congress.
What probably remains unfamiliar to many Americans, however, is the other specter that haunts Puerto Rico’s government: its seemingly unshakable culture of corruption.
Though well-covered on the island, the Garcia Padilla administration’s questionable ties to political fundraiser Anaudi Hernandez hasn’t truly broken into the mainstream media landscape.
Hernandez, along with nine other Puerto Rican businessmen and officials, was arrested in December 2015 as part of an ongoing FBI corruption investigation into Padilla’s government. At the time of their arrests, FBI special agent for San Juan, Carlos Cases, issued a scathing indictment of Puerto Rico’s government and the role corruption played in driving it to the brink of default, stating, "Unfortunately, this is one more case of graft, greed, and corruption that over the last 20 years have contributed to the government of Puerto Rico's fragile economic condition and [placed it] on the brink of bankruptcy... Let there be no doubt this is only the beginning and the investigation will continue."
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You know what? Fuck that fucking Godamn useless Mayor.
Giving hugs and moral support is what Nurses do. I need a hard as nails:
Andi riot, anti looting, pro-security, pro fix my town Mayor.
Emotion does not run the world. Duct tape does.
If you could not find any, you are worthless.
Have to ponder the ritual of confession, the belief that you can get away with any sin if only you do penance, and its relationship to a culture's acceptance of corruption.
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Ah, yes, the Culture of Corruption. The gift that Spain gave to the New World keeps on giving (and not just the Spanish).
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The culture of corruption is what separates the First World from the third.
The USA has pockets of third world in some of our larger cities. I believe they can be cleaned up when the people are tired of it (NY seems to elect a Guiliani once in awhile to clean things up for awhile).
The problem is despite all evidence some folks never seem to tire of it (looking at you Chicago).
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] After engaging in character liquidation against Green Bay Packers fans who chose not to protest during Thursday’s National Anthem, FS1's Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe did the same with the American flag, declaring it to be merely a racist "piece of cloth" that "nobody fights for."
"The flag, you see, to a lot of people, symbols, patriotism but what does that symbol actually mean? What does ‐ what does ‐ okay ‐ you keep telling me that the flag means so much and it's opportunity and freedom and liberty. Okay. Can you honestly say that everybody in America has freedom and liberties and opportunity," Sharpe wondered to co-host Skip Bayless.
Bayless replied "no," so Sharpe then noted that inequalities should be address. Fair enough.
But Sharpe went further by showing his disdain for this country, the flag, and Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner (depicting the scene in Baltimore during the War of 1812):
And stop trying to sweep it under the rug. But, see, as long as you paint that narrative, oh, it's the Anthem, I can’t ‐ no ‐ anybody that does something to the Anthem ‐ well, we know what the anthem was originally written for and who it was written by, okay? The flag, okay? We understand what the flag? What does it represent? When did this narrative come to be that the military and the police own the flag and only them? I can go buy a flag and I can hang it up in my backyard. We need to stop this, Skip. We need to ‐ the flag is a piece of cloth and nobody fights for a piece of cloth.
Bayless, who was almost universally in step with Sharpe on the protest issue, broke away by telling him that he shouldn’t "say that" because "[t]hat’s the symbol of this country" and "what it represents."
Sharpe then dropped a befuddling red herring, repeatedly wondering if we all should then "fight for a pair of jeans." Bayless replied that the flag itself dates back to our country’s founding in 1776 and everything that’s come since.
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The difference between an ISIS member and an NFL player is - an NFL player isn't tough enough to f*ck a goat...
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[Al Jazeera] At least 28 civilians have been killed in air attacks in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, according to a war-monitoriing group.
Four children were among the dead in the overnight air raids on the town of Amanaz, a few miles from the Ottoman Turkish border, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday.
An AFP news agency correspondent who toured Armanaz on Saturday said entire apartment blocks had been flattened by the bombardment.
It was not immediately clear whether the attack was carried out by Syrian government warplanes or those of its ally Russia.
According to the SOHR - which gathers its information from a network of sources inside Syria - dozens of people are still missing after the bombardment.
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I think right after 9/11 someone said "there are no civilians." I just can't remember if it was Bin Laden, Chomskey, Zawahiri or Springsteen who said it first...
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[Al Jazeera] Spanish police have sealed off most public buildings earmarked as polling stations for a banned referendum on Catalonia's breakaway from Spain, according to officials.
Separatists in the northeastern region on Friday evening and Saturday morning started occupying voting stations in a bid to ensure Sunday's poll, which has been declared illegal by Spanish authorities, goes ahead.
The Spanish interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the "majority" of public buildings that had been identified as referendum sites had "stayed shut" and "only a few" are occupied by people "with the only aim" of obstructing police work.
The central government in Madrid had previously said that 1,300 of 2,315 designated voting stations have been sealed off by police, who have been mobilised in the thousands in the region.
Also earlier on Saturday, Enric Millo, the highest-ranking Spanish official in Catalonia, had said that parents and students were found to be occupying 163 schools and holding activities when police were sealing off facilities.
'Key battlegrounds'
Catalonia is a wealthy region within Spain that accounts for about 20 percent of the country's economy. It has its own language, which is taught in schools and universally spoken.
Tens of thousands of Catalans are expected to attempt to vote in a ballot that will have no legal status as it has been blocked by Spain's Constitutional Court and Madrid for being at odds with the 1978 constitution.
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Not that any consistency can be expected, but lots of people who always screech about democracy and lots of people who were quite happy with obutthole's "extra-constitutional" activities will be silent about all this.
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They only reluctant to use force against rapefugees, eh?
[RADIOSHABELLE] A senior Kenyan official on Wednesday succumbed to injuries sustained during an al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... terror attack in the coastal Lamu County in July in which five other government officials were killed.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that Public Works Principal Secretary Mariam El-Maawy died while undergoing treatment in South Africa.
"Early in her childhood, she showed a real aptitude for study, and the diligence, which drove her to qualify as an architect at the University of Nairobi, and later to earn a Masters degree in South Africa," Kenyatta said in his condolence message.
Security team rescued El-Maawy some 40 minutes after she and five other top government officials had been kidnapped by gunnies at Milihoi on Lamu-Mpeketoni highway, Lamu County on July 14.
El-Maawy was rescued with bullet injuries in the back, left shoulder, hand and legs together with some of the victims who had been taken hostage by gunnies believed to be al-Shabaab member.
El Maawy, a native Bajuni from Lamu, was heading to Witu areas to visit the families that had been evicted due to increased terror attacks then in the area by al-Shabaab bad boys.
The dear departed’s driver was among four people including coppers who were killed in the operation. He was rubbed out and the car he had burnt.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The police helped free 15 of a family who were being held as bonded labourers by a brick kiln owner.
The police produced the family in the Islamabad High Court which set them free.
Talking to Dawn, Noon police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Abid Ikram said the owner of the brick kiln was enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and he was charged with PPC’s section 344 for wrongful confinement for 10 or more days, section 374 for unlawful compulsory labour and 506 for criminal intimidation.
The IHC had ordered the police a few days ago to help free the family from confinement after a man named Shoni approached the court for help.
The SHO said the brick kiln where the family was held was located in the village of Noon where the police conducted a raid. He said the family comes from Mandi Bahauddin.
According to the SHO, Shoni had said he had come to the brick kiln with his family three years ago.
The family had a peaceful first year working at the kiln and that they were given proper meals and wages and were allowed to roam around freely after working hours.
A year later, Shoni told the police, working conditions got bad, the family was not paid their wages and were not given meals.
The owner of the kiln also put restrictions on their movement and deployed a man to keep an eye on them and detain them within the premises of the kiln.
Shoni said he managed to escape a few days before he approached the IHC and that he sought help from the court in helping the other 15 members of his family free.
The court then issued directives to the police to free the family from confinement.
"They were produced in court which set them free," the SHO said, adding that the owner of the brick kiln was in police custody and that legal action will be taken against him.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] French magazine Le Point as revealed that authorities in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... have tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! at least 20 members of ruling al-Thani family for their opposition to the policies of Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad regarding the ongoing diplomatic and economic crisis the country is facing.
Details of the arrest were reported in an article on Le Point International titled: "The Emir of Qatar imprisons members of his ruling family". The magazine said it obtained its information from a French citizen currently being detained in Qatar.
According to Le Point, 20 members were arrested and are being punished for showing support toward the Anti-Terror Quartet
boycotting countries, expressing their dissatisfaction and rejection of the current policies followed by Qatar’s emir and his government.
The magazine obtained their information via direct contact with Jean-Pierre Marongiu, chairman of a French company currently being detained in Doha for the past four years for writing bad cheques, a charge he has denied.
"They arrested about twenty people. In my block, there are six members of the al-Thani family," he said.
At least four members were identified in the piece: Sheikh Talal bin Abdulaziz bin Ahmed bin Ali al-Thani, Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa bin Jassem bin Ali al-Thani, Sheikh Ali bin Fahd bin Jassem bin Ali al-Thani and Sheikh Nasser bin Abdullah bin Khalifa bin Ali al-Thani.
All four members belong to the Bin Ali branch of the al-Thanis.
According to the detainees, they were arrested for their direct relation to Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Thani, who has advocated for a national meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis involving Qatar’s support and financing of terrorism.
These arrests reveal an increasing state of tension and anxiety in Doha as well as a growing in numbers of those within the opposition movement expressed by Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Thani and Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim al-Thani.
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[GotNews] Carmen Yulin Cruz, the anti-Trump Mayor of San Juan who has used the national spotlight of Hurricane Maria to attack Trump, has a long history of supporting convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican radical who ran a paramilitary group that waged war against the United States.
Since May 29th, 2012, Cruz has used her official Twitter account 49 times to lend support to Lopez, a man arrested by the United States government in May of 1981 for seditious conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to transport explosives to destroy government property, among other charges. Later that year, Lopez was sentenced to 55 years in jail for his various crimes.
Moreover, it appears Cruz is more than just a supporter of Rivera’s; she appears to be a personal friend of his. On May 29th, 2016, Cruz posted a tribute to Rivera, and wrote "for a great friend, a great patriot: for you Oscar Lopez Rivera.":
Indeed, Cruz and Lopez appear to be not just friends, but close friends. Several months after President Obama commuted Rivera’s sentence just before he left office, a decision so bizarre even CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t understand it, Cruz tweeted a selfie of herself with a man who closely resembles Rivera, with the caption reading "Welcome #OscarLopez":
The fellow-traveller at the rear of this group looks kinda' familiar...
#1
San Juan, where a Blanco gets redder
At Don and the Feds that've fed her.
As bad as it gets,
Don't be hedging those bets
On Mayor Carmen -- your worse is her better!
Philippine police commandos, backed by army soldiers, have recaptured a notorious Abu Sayyaf rebel who escaped from jail in 2009 after he was tracked down in his hideout in Lamitan City.
Boy Indama, a follower of Abu Sayyaf leader Furuji Indama, is being interrogated following his capture on Thursday. His arrest was not immediately made public because of an operation aimed at capturing other militants and people that protected Indama.
It was not immediately known whether Indama was plotting a terror attack in Basilan.
Two Abu Sayyaf bomb experts – Omar Askali and Mukaram Sapie – were also captured in Zamboanga City on September 23. The pair was said to be plotting to bomb civilian targets in the city, but this was foiled by security forces following their separate arrests.
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[Al Jazeera] San Juan's mayor has accused US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and his administration of failing in its relief efforts in the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Jose, saying the White House is "killing us with inefficiency".
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz implored Trump on Friday to "make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives", while the president asserted US officials and emergency personnel are working all-out against daunting odds, with "incredible" results.
"We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency," Cruz said during a news conference. "I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. This is a people-are-dying story."
Trump has pledged to spare no effort to help Puerto Ricans to recover from the two hurricanes, but has come under great criticism as thousands remain without electricity, water and gas.
The US president lashed out at Cruz in a series of tweets on Saturday, saying the mayor showed "poor leadership".
"They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort," Trump said.
Acting homeland security secretary, Elaine Duke, visited the US territory on Friday, surveying the ravaged landscape by helicopter in an hour-long tour, driving past still-flooded streets, twisted billboards, and roofs with gaping holes, offering encouragement to some of the 10,000 emergency personnel she said the US government has on the ground.
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*ucking mayor thinking she's talking to The President of the United States?
How do you count votes when you're dead?
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Complaining about the Free stuff? Her chair is too soft or too hard. Where are the cherries on top? She was expecting flowers and a new car? Complaining that her new skateboard is the wrong color?
Is the water lemon flavored? She only likes Lemon flavored water.
How much of what we send is she gonna sell? WHY were we expected to send her anything? Tell her to ask the EU where is their "fair share"? Or perhaps China owes her more or somebody else. Where are the swizel sticks?
Tell her to take the bus next time.
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Does she always try to scratch somebody's eyes out as a way of asking them for help?
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As we have come to expect, welfare state dog bites feeding hand. She's standing in front of palletized 'free stuff' quite probably shipped in from the mainland. Oh the irony.
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Well, look. She's got her Michael Kinsley clear frame fag glasses. What more does she have to do?
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Puerto Rico should announce a few special elections for early next year.
(1) Want to be independent still? Want to be a state? Fish or cut bait.
(2) Every Mayor should be up for election again.
We'd all like to see what the people of Puerto Rico think about the Mayors efforts. And let them all think about how much aid they would have gotten and how fast if they weren't so closely connected to the USA.
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There are those people that bitch-bitch-bitch------
and there are those that are not attention 'hos and quietly get things done.
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If you are feeling generous and give her the benefit of the doubt, you still can't help but notice that Puerto Rico is a big place and all she knows about is a small part of it.
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FEMA says she refused to attend their meetings. So when the 10,000 containers were delivered to the port there was no plan in place for distribution for her city. This was deliberate a leftist political ploy while people suffer. If the people deal with her appropriately that is a good sign. If not the military can ship the supplies else where in Puerto Rico.
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...It is my understanding from a former resident of San Juan that the city's politics can be described as just like Detroit's, only without the morals.
Mike
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[Al Jazeera] More than 60 people have been tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during a neo-Nazi rally and counterdemonstration in Sweden's second-largest city, according to police.
The rally by the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg on Saturday featured an estimated 600 people, short of the 1,000 supporters the group said would attend, according to the Swedish anti-racist magazine, Expo.
Those who attended marched in formation in all-black outfits, some wearing helmets and holding shields.
The march, dubbed Revolt Against the Traitors, was met by a large crowd of counterdemonstrators.
Police had posted flyers before the event warning people not to act in a way reminiscent of German Nazis demonstrations in the 1930s and 1940s.
NMR, which promotes an openly anti-Semitic doctrine, originally sought to pass near a downtown synagogue during the march, which coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day of the year.
But Swedish courts intervened and shortened the route to less than one kilometre. The rally's ending time was also shortened to avoid clashing with a nearby football game.
Counterdemonstrators threw fireworks and attempted several times to break police lines, allegedly to confront NMR members, who also tried to get past riot police.
At least 60 people were detained, police said in a statement after the rally. Two people were also reportedly injured.
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Were those detained demonstrators or the counter-demonstrators?
and who was more anti-semitic?
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The local government actually approved the original route that walked past the synagogue, uninterested in Jewish complaints about the threat of violence on the holiest day of the Jewish year. It was only after the courts intervened...
The Jewish community must have been very concerned. Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.
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Part 1 of the NRM's nine political ambitions is to stop mass immigration and send away past immigrants.
Part 2 is to "With all available means, in the long run, regain power from the global Zionist elite who have occupied economically and simply militarily most of the world." (translated from their Swedish website)
So yes, generally they are xenophobes, and specifically anti-semites.
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TW. . Mostly they keep their mouths shut and their heads down.
As long as they keep their eyes open and their powder dry.
[Al Jazeera] A year ago, Firommisa Darasa barely made it out of Æthiopia's Irreecha festival alive, managing to escape from a deep ditch where dozens perished.
The tragedy happened after police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters, sparking a stampede.
Last year's bloodshed at the annual religious festival held by Æthiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo people, became a turning point in months of anti-government protests that prompted the government to declare a nationwide state of emergency.
While dissatisfaction with Æthiopia's government still runs deep among the Oromo, last year's protests have since died down.
Those planning to attend this year's Irreecha festival say they are hoping for the best when Sunday's gathering begins in the resort town of Bishoftu, southeast of the capital Addis Ababa.
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: Five days after the flag of holy warriorIslamic 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.... (IS) group was seen in Islamabad and a day after chalking of a local banned sectarian outfit cropped up on electric poles in the strictly guarded Pakistain Ordinance Factory area of Wah, graffiti of ’ISIS’ ‐ Arabic acronym for the IS ‐ was noticed on a traffic signboard in the Wah area on Friday, police sources said.
After the IS flag appeared in the capital, panic gripped law enforcement agencies and political circles were equally concerned. On Monday the flag was removed and an FIR was registered by police under the terrorism law.
On Thursday chalking of the proscribed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... (SSP) was seen on electric poles in the Wah Cantt area, to be followed by the appearance of graffiti of ’ISIS’ on a traffic signboard on Budho Road near Muhallah Sadiqueabad in the same area.
A senior police official of Rawalpindi said that an investigation had been launched after the registration of the FIR about the SSP chalking. Police would initiate legal action over Friday’s ISIS graffiti also, he added.
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[DAWN] THE vigour and alacrity with which Pak authorities deny that the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has an ’organised’ presence in the country is matched perhaps only by evidence of an IS footprint in the country. On Thursday, the Foreign Office spokesperson once again denied that evidence of an IS presence in the country, or at least sympathy for IS, is of any significance.
The incident in which a version of the IS flag was confiscated by the police from the outskirts of Islamabad following a civilian report is troubling because authorities were not only unaware the flag was on display but once their attention was brought to the matter, they have been unable to explain who is responsible for the act. Across the board, the security apparatus seems unwilling or unable to recognise the threat that IS may pose.
In Pakistain, the absence of an organised IS network like in the Middle East or that of the TTP can be misleading. A wave of attacks in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... have demonstrated that a combination of sophisticated propaganda via the internet and the presence of disaffected individuals in society can have terrifying consequences. Pakistain’s vulnerability is also deeper: IS ideology can penetrate existing terror networks or their remnants and morph into a menacing new threat.
Instead of recognising that reality and developing a strategy to combat it, the state seems to be repeating many of the mistakes it made early on in the fight against the TTP and other anti-Pakistain krazed killer groups.
Then too there was a belief a soft approach to militancy or so-called peace deals would prevent the problem from growing out of control. But it did grow out of control, to the point that the state has had to launch the largest internal security operations in its history to fight militancy and terrorism.
Troubling too is the glib manner in which counterterrorism operations are reported by the police.
In yet another incident where individuals who are mysteriously eliminated in police ’encounters’ are later labelled as members of all manner of terrorist groups, the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Thursday killed five individuals, one of whom was identified as a member of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. The individuals were, according to the police, planning to carry out attacks on Muharram processions. While Al Qaeda does have a sectarian strain in its krazed killer ideology, more details are needed about the victims and their alleged krazed killer affiliations before firm conclusions can be drawn.
What is striking about the police claims is that a hotchpotch of turbans was found together ‐ and a typically large number of attacks have been attributed to them. While the incident will soon be forgotten, the broader pattern is clear: the state seems to be lurching from incident to incident without a clear idea of the nature or scale of the threat it faces.
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[RightWingNews] Kellogg’s has been having a rough year and they have brought it on themselves. First they attacked Breitbart, then they started backing Soros-funded leftist causes such as Black Lives Matter. Turns out the boycott that brought on has been hurting them big time. The kindest thing you can say about their sales numbers is that they are stagnant. In reality, they are losing money. Now, Kellogg’s CEO John Bryant has stepped down over all this. Kellogg’s is now searching outside the company for a replacement. That’s a bad sign... normally you would think they would promote from within.
Bryant is 53 and has been with Kellogg’s in that position for quite a while ‐ he’s been with the company itself for 20 years. But the company has suffered through seven years of falling revenue, a contracting work force, major reorganization and a shift in customer tastes, the Detroit Free Press reported. Beginning in January, they launched a campaign called "Special K." It was intended to reorganize their distribution system and would eliminate over one thousand jobs across the US. It also impacted thousands of contractors. I guess it wasn’t enough to stop the fiscal bleeding.
States that got hit hardest with the reorganization were Michigan, North Carolina (where 500 were let go), New York (Which lost 300), Minnesota (who lost 219) and Pennsylvania (who cut 500 jobs). Even with all of this on display, the company claims that Bryant resigned for personal reasons. Right. "It has been my pleasure to serve as the CEO of Kellogg Company over the past seven years," Bryant said in a statement. "I am even more confident in the future of our company today than at any other time in my 20 years with Kellogg." And that’s why you are leaving... it’s not true.
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we like Kellogg's Raisin Bran but most of their products have a generic that is just as good
if they had kept their foundation's original purpose of helping child welfare things might have been better but, as in other cases, lefties took over the foundation and it now provides grants for sketchy immigration advocacy and 'community' development stuff
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Media reports about the brave and timely action of a young Emirati woman who saved an Indian truck driver who was on fire, by covering the victim with an abaya, have gone viral.
The blaze broke out after a collision between two trucks on Martyr’s Road in Ras Al Khaimah emirate.
The 22-year-old woman, identified as Jawaher Saif Al Kumaiti, was visiting one of her friends at the Sheikh Khalifa hospital in RAK, when she spotted the man on fire while driving back home.
Jawaher, an Ajman resident and an employee with oil major Adnoc, in her interview with Khaleej Times, confesses that she was at first taken aback when she saw the two trucks on fire following the accident. She also saw a man on fire screaming in pain and fear shouting for help.
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Acid attack to salvage tattered honour in 5 .. 4 ..
The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
William Morrow, 2012
The sister book to The Dangerous Book for Boys, I really enjoyed doing the screening of this book. In the same style, the tone is humorous and relaxed. Here is the page my daughter is on:
Page 82
Facing your fears can be a rewarding experience, and pushing yourself to new heights will inspire you to face challenges throughout life. Here in no particular order is a checklist of danger and daring. Some you should be able to do right away, but a few you might need to work up to:
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7. Try sushi or another exotic food. California rolls do not count. For the true daring girl try some natto (fermented soy beans) or escargot (snails).
A timely suggestion, considering the opposite page is French Terms of Endearment, Expressions, and Other Items of Note, including how to order food at a café/restaurant.
The history lessons are centered around famous women, and pulls no punches such as the life and fate of Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Boudica, Zenobia, and many others. From the section covering Women Spies:
Pages 149-150
Hedy Lamarr
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler is best known as Hedy Lamarr, movie star of the 1930s and 1940s. But she was also an inventor who patented an idea that was to become the key to modern wireless communication. During World War II, Hedy, along with George Antheil, invented a way to make military communications secure through frequency-hopping, and early form of a technology called spread spectrum. Hedy's status as a beautiful and successful actress provided her with the perfect cover: she was able to visit a variety of venues on tour and interact with many people, none of whom suspected that the stunning starlet might be listening closely and thinking of ways to help the U.S. cause.
There is some cross-over information shared with The Dangerous Book for Boys, such as leaf identification, first aid, government, knots, so forth.
I have a series of skill tests I will require of my children before they earn their own phone. One of which is changing a tire. Why, that information is also in this book.
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3. If you have tire blocks, put them under the other tires to keep the car in place. Medium-sized rocks work too.
4. Start to loosen the lug nuts; these are the nuts that keep the hubcap on. Not all cars have hubcaps, but look and you'll see what needs to be loosened. Put the lug wrench on each lug nut (illustration of lug wrench, nuts). Put the lug wrench on each lug nut. Remember "rightly-tighty, lefty-loosey" to guide which way to turn the lug wrench.
Before we get into having some good shims and an after-market jack, we are already ahead of too many high-school graduates. Reading tidal charts, interest, stocks, and bonds. There are fun topics as well, such as friendship bracelets, card games, handclap games, so forth.
To be honest, both The Daring Books for Girls and the Dangerous Book for Boys are not too gender-specific. I would say about 90% of the information is just good information for girls and boys alike. Of course, this being a book for girls, there is the topic of boys. I will have to take the opinion of others whether this is good advice, but it seems like good advice. Concerning romance (fatherly cringe here)
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If you are in the former group, there are two main things to keep in mind. One, if a boy doesn't like you the way you are, the problem is him, not you. And two, don't try to make a boy change for you - it is important to appreciate people for who they are.
Wherever you fall on the spectrum of how you feel about boys, do treat all your friends, boys and girls, with kindness. This has gone out of fashion, and that's a sad mistake.
I cannot recommend this book enough, and is definitely on my gift list. It was a cold purchase, and like I said I screened the spectrum from inappropriate content to way too girly. Caught myself more than a few time nodding, "Yup, good My First Toolbox", "ABC, CPR, RICE, nice My Beginner First Aid kit." and "What the heck is a peach pit ring?"
Link is to Amazon hardback.
This Week in Emergency Preparedness
First, hat-tip to trailing wife who located my peaty muse from last week - the drywall poo bucket. Note the optional disposal bags. There were comments about other fillers such as kitty litter for people and a liquid addition which would essentially gel the contents, I guess like poo-pourrie on steroids.
Just gonna throw out that there might be times a little weight and stability would be nice. Looking at you, mashed potatoes from the Brisket MRE. Looking. At. You.
I'm thinking a few bricks and the liners. Remove bricks to transport. No sharp edges or catches on the bricks. Some sort of domed weight sounds better.
I guess one advantage here is that since we are not flushing, any old thing would work for cleaning, though toilet paper would still be my first choice.
OK. Right then. Moving on.
Staying clean. Smelling good is, well, good. Filth can be a real issue. Other than thinking every point of the compass seems to be downwind of a water buffalo, there is chafing and potentially corrosive and otherwise dangerous material to leave on the person for extended periods of time. I have not come across a good answer to that issue if the tap is out of the question. It is tough enough to set aside enough water for an extended stay at the Holy Crap Motel California without breaking into the only potable water you may have for a while.
My solution: dry shampoo and baby wipes. Granted, this is an emergency, so I am not planning on opening a box of wipes and auditioning for a Boris Karloff movie; just cleaning the bits which need cleaned, or wiping the gasoline off my hands, and so forth. Annnnd you should know that there are brands of dry shampoo which are vegan friendly. I don't know. I guess if your rice and beans need a touch of lavender, you can keep to your vegan values. You're welcome.
Friendly reminder. If the tap is contaminated, don't wash your toothbrush, and be mindful of water getting into your body like during shower. It is just that people forget, get tired, or just have not thought it out. OK, the story: someone I knew was coming back from Old Mexico and got the trots while boarding the plane. Person gets back, tells the story of woe. I said, "Whaddya do, Person, drink the water?" Person goes, "Shit no, I stuck to iced tea the whole time." Apparently, revenge is a dish which can be served cold. I think I did my best impression of the bust of Julius Caesar ever.
To be fair, I do have my own "amoxicillin probably saved me" story. I could twist it about and shape a "Why you prepare and how it will make the difference" story, but no. I was dumb. So, so dumb. The stares of Medusa's victims dumb.
Any rate, less than $10, good value for the space taken, weighs nothing, throw it in the shelter-in-place bag and forggettaboutit. Opinions welcome, especially about good foot care sans l'eau. Work hard enough and those socks coming off sounds like someone ripping off a roll of duct tape. Losing feet is not a good thing.
[DAWN] A legal team ‐ on behalf of the chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD), Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... ‐ on Friday sent a Rs100 million defamation notice to Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif for his remarks at the Asia Society forum in New York earlier this week.
Asif, who told the forum that Pakistain was not to blame for myrmidon outfits in the country, had said: "Don't blame us for the Haqqanis [the Haqqani Network] and don't blame us for the Hafiz Saeeds [referring to the head of banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa]. These people were your darlings just 20 to 30 years back. They were being dined and wined in the White House and now you say 'go to hell Paks because you are nurturing these people'."
Explore: Don't blame Pakistain, Haqqanis were your 'darlings' at one time: Asif tells US
The notice, served by Advocate AK Dogar under Section 8 of the Defamation Ordinance of 2002, claims that Saeed is "respected as a deeply religious and devout Moslem".
"I will be failing in my duty as a lawyer if I do not remind you of the Fundamental Right enshrined in Article 14 that [the] dignity of man is guaranteed by our Constitution," it continues.
The notice accuses Asif of "an absolute lie and falsehood that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... is one of those persons who had been the darlings of Americans and had been dining and wining in the White House."
"I have been advised by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed to tell you that he has never been near the White House, not to speak of wined and dined. It is shocking to know that the foreign minister of my country is accusing Hafiz Muhammad Saeed of taking wine. This is abusive language and can never be used about my client. He is [a] patriotic Islam loving Moslem following the dictates of [the] Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). This is a defamatory statement punishable under Section 500 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) to five years imprisonment and with [a] fine."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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 latest offensive against the Syrian Arab Army in eastern Syria was only made possible due to the fact that the terrorist group transferred huge numbers of troops and heavy equipment from western Iraq.
According to military sources, ISIS relocated a considerable amount of military resources from its strongholds in western Iraq to southeastern Syria in order to launch its Dire Revenge offensive, code-named Ghazwat Abu Muhammad al-Adnani (after a top Islamic State commander who was killed in a Russian Arclight airstrike last year), against the Syrian Army.
The reinforcements sent by ISIS included elite shock troops (inghamasis), battle tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and gun-trucks outfitted with machine guns and heavy cannons.
That the terrorist group was forced to rely on resource transferals from western Iraq stands as a testament to how exhausted its strategic reserve in Syria is after a whole year of constant defeats across various battlefields in east Aleppo, Raqqa, east Homs and Deir Ezzor.
In any case, the Syrian Arab Army is already in the process of reserving all ISIS gains along the M20 highway and south of the small city of al-Sukhnah and when the jihadist offensive is inevitably defeated (with many ISIS fighters already dead as a result of it), the Islamic State will once again find itself on the strategic defense, this time with even less equipment and high-quality troops to hold what is left of its crumbling empire.
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Isis elite troops? Iranians or Turks or Russians?
[Iran Press TV] Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has reaffirmed the country’s determination to protect its Kurdish population against any threats, amid soaring tensions over the recent Kurdish independence referendum in the northern region of the country.
"To our people in the Kurdistan region: we defend our Kurdish citizens as we defend all Iraqis and will not allow any attack on them," Abadi tweeted in English on Saturday.
An Iraqi prime minister adviser, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Abadi was referring to either an internal or external attack.
"We will not allow any harm to you and we will share our loaf of bread together," Abadi wrote in another tweet.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on secession from Iraq in defiance of Baghdad’s stiff opposition on September 25. Kurdish officials said over 90 percent of voters said ’Yes’ to separation from Iraq.
The voting stations were dotted across the three provinces of Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk that form the Iraqi Kurdistan Region as well as in the disputed bordering zones such as the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
While much of the international community, including the UN, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Iraq’s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing "the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state" of their own.
Political observers have warned that KRG President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... ’s referendum scenario is in line with Israel’s policy of dividing the regional Moslem states.
In another tweet on Saturday, Abadi said Baghdad wants to have control over the country’s oil revenues "in order to pay Kurdistan Region employee salaries in full and so that money will not go to the corrupt."
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We will share, but will not be torn asunder by your strife anymore.
There will be a Kurdistan and business will be usual, and you shall be paid, but your rule over them has ended.
They will still fight for iraq and support you and get in the middle of your sectarian bullshit.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The largest stronghold of besieged ISIS forces in central Syria has just been secured by the Syrian Arab Army following heavy festivities in and around the strategic site today.
Minutes ago, the Syrian Army liberated the town of Soha from ISIS. The settlement is located in eastern Hama Governorate near the administrative with Homs Governorate. After Uqayribat (which was liberated weeks ago), Soha had hitherto served as 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 main stronghold in the rural Hama.
According to military sources, Syrian forces destroyed two multiple-launch rocket systems and two heavy mortars belonging to ISIS inside the the town. These weapons had been used in previous days to shell the government-held town of Salamiyah further west.
ISIS personnel losses are unknown at this time, but what can be confirmed is that the terrorist group fought hard to hold Soha.
The Syrian Army is now in the process of fortifying its positions around Soha in expectation of an ISIS counterattack to retake the strategic town.
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[Iran Press TV] "What we have seen under Mr. Trump is not an 'America first' foreign policy, but an 'Israel first' foreign policy," said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas.
Dankof told Press TV on Friday that American foreign policy has been driven by Israeli interests and Ambassador Friedman’s remarks were disturbing in terms of the ongoing nomination of people to serve in sensitive posts by Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... who have pro-Israel, pro-Zionist credentials.
'54% of American foreign aid goes to Israel'
"The fact of the matter is that there are 600,000 Israelis living in 230 illegal settlements in the West Bank. There has been a 40% increase in illegal settlements in 2016 at the same time the United States government is handing Israel $10.1 million military aid each single calendar day. Obviously its clear what is going on here, 54% of American foreign aid goes to Israel, 26% of that allows Israelis to buy weapons from Israeli suppliers and the list just goes on and on," Dankof said.
Dankof said a recent article by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA case officer and Army intelligence officer, titled America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars reveals how and why American Jews are dragging Washington into war in the Middle East. American Jews are faking the threat and dragging US politicians and the media towards war, according to Giraldi, who argues in his article that American Jews with an attachment to Israel should not be allowed anywhere near positions where they might deal with Middle East policy because it would be a "conflict of interest" between the US and Israel.
"As long as the US government is controlled by Israeli interests ... [Israel first] is not only going to continue, but it will also have more tragic consequences... the US will get involved in a wider war in the Middle East," he stated.
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Are the author suggesting that he shouldn't? Why?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s parliament has held a session on Saturday rejected the decisions taken by the central government of Iraq and its parliament against the recent referendum on Kurdish independence.
The Kurdistan parliament stressed that these decisions do not apply to the Kurdistan region without their approval.
This came during the meeting held by the Kurdish parliament in the presence of 62 members out of 111, in response to the decisions of the Iraqi government and parliament after the Kurdish referendum on secession.
Majority of parliament voted on a set of resolutions, including supporting the provincial government in rejecting Baghdad’s decisions.
Iraq’s parliament and government took a number of decision against the KRG, including retaking its borders of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah from the provisional government.
The Kurdish parliament said that closure of land and air borders were not within the powers of the federal government.
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You hang tough Kurdistan. These piece of shits have been promising you a state since before WWI. Do not forget without Kurdistan, this place would be a greater funeral pyre to fake gods and phony protectors.
You deserve your state.
The Lord Your GOD Above believes in you and this concept.
Be the last man standing because the others are all chasing their tails..
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There is no future in an Iraqi govt. It is tribal and corrupt. I agree with newc: The Kurds deserve their own country more than anyone else in the region. They have earned it. Mosul Dam is a metaphor of all that is wrong with Iraq---built on a bad foundation.
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[DAWN] AFTER the excitement over the by-election in Lahore’s NA-120 had died down, pundits began wondering about the significance of the recent emergence of a new political outfit, the Milli Moslem League.
This rebranded version of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... ’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa
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the Milli Moslem League.
Vanilli died
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The Milli Moslem League
The One-thousandth Moslem League. Fixed it, Commodore Frank.
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God protects fools, holy men... and Dawn contributors. Brave bastards.
[Iran Press TV] Syrian army soldiers, supported by allied fighters, have managed to repel attacks by Daesh Takfiri terrorists on a number of military positions in the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency, SANA, on Saturday that government troops and their allies managed to thwart the militant assaults in al-Thardat area on the road linking Mayadin city to the provincial capital city of Dayr al-Zawr.
The source added that dozens of Daesh terrorists were killed during fierce clashes with Syrian forces. Three car bombs and a considerable amount of munitions were destroyed and an armored vehicle was seized as well.
Meanwhile, an unnamed source in Dayr al-Zawr operations command said Syrian army soldiers and allied forces were clearing areas near the roadway connecting the cities of Palmyra and Dayr al-Zawr.
“Some Daesh terrorists fled … after the attack was repelled. Now the army and allied forces are chasing the enemy and clearing the areas near the highway,” the source said.
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[POWERLINEBLOG] Harping on white privilege ain't the way to endear yerself to hard-working, mostly white voters. Accusing them of being racists two or three times a week doesn't help. Applauding gestures of contempt toward the nation and cheer-leading for Antifa and Only Black Lives Matter doesn't establish a real close bond with residents of Flyover Country.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.
[Right Scoop] One of the more stunning stats she presents is that a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is likely to be killed by a cop.
[Right Scoop] Newsweek - On a speech on Friday in Fresno, California, Joseph M. Arpaio, billed on the evening’s program as "America’s toughest sheriff," delighted local Republicans with his pronouncements. He promised to restart his investigation into the veracity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, suggested he might run for a congressional seat, perhaps the one held by Arizona’s Senator Jeff Flake, and lambasted professional football players for their National Anthem protests, which he called "little Mickey Mouse political games."
[Townhall] Douglas Murray has written what is probably the most important book of the last 50 years.
[Iran Press TV] 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Townhall] Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion "if I work hard, I can be successful" is merely a product of white ideology, reports Campus Reform.
[CNN] A mountain of food, water and other vital supplies has arrived in Puerto Rico's main Port of San Juan.
[Iran Press TV] South Korean media say the North has been detected transferring several missiles out of a research facility in its capital amid speculations of a new test launch by Pyongyang.
[FREEBEACON] The Democratic National Committee's already dire financial standing worsened during the month of August, according to its Wednesday night filing to the FEC.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Two men were killed and at least 10 other people were 
What probably remains unfamiliar to many Americans, however, is the other specter that haunts Puerto Rico’s government: its seemingly unshakable culture of corruption.
[Al Jazeera] At least 28 civilians have been killed in air attacks in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, according to a war-monitoriing group.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Al Jazeera] More than 60 people have been 
Bryant is 53 and has been with Kellogg’s in that position for quite a while ‐ he’s been with the company itself for 20 years. But the company has suffered through seven years of falling revenue, a contracting work force, major reorganization and a shift in customer tastes, the Detroit Free Press reported. Beginning in January, they launched a campaign called "Special K." It was intended to reorganize their distribution system and would eliminate over one thousand jobs across the US. It also impacted thousands of contractors. I guess it wasn’t enough to stop the fiscal bleeding.
Massoud Barzani
[Iran Press TV] "What we have seen under Mr. Trump is not an 'America first' foreign policy, but an 'Israel first' foreign policy," said 
