#UPDATE: Clashes between #Turkish and Syrian regime forces in #Manbij seems likely to happen in a few hours. Both sides are mobilizing and preparing to fight for control over the city, reports also that #Turkey has declared the city a military zone. -Gage #Syria
#Breaking: Just in - An official statement from the Syrian Arab Army "#SAA" to enter the Syrian cities of #Manbij and #Kobani, and says we will fight every Turkish terrorist backed groups and their Turkish soldiers and thrive them back from where they came from in #Turkey. pic.twitter.com/0nH4FYYGpG
#Breaking: Just in - Reports that also Russian troops are among the Syrian Arab Army #SAA troops, who are currently advancing vehicles and tanks in #Manbij in #Syria, ready to combat the Turkish aggression in the country. #Turkeypic.twitter.com/nu30fsgsB4
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Here's how it works: The SSA accepted that the SDF was part of it. Therefore Turkey did not cross the Kurdish border rather it crossed the normal border of the Syrian State. Russia supports the territorial integrity of their ally the Nation of Syria. Russia doesn't need to support or not support elements of the Syrian regime so it's no change in Russia's position. Syria's army the SAA now considers itself at war with the Turkish invader who has crossed it's world recognized international border with Turkey. Russia will continue to support it's ally Syria.
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Turkish president Erdogan says they are not afraid and said that the troops of Turkey will keep advancing more into northern Syria, even if the Syrian Arab Army will be joining the SDF and YPG forces at Manbij and Kobani.
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Is it too much to hope that Turkey will be stupid and accidentally hit the Russians and piss off Vlad? At this point, I'd enjoy seeing someone stomp the life out of Turkey.
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Unconfirmed reports says that The Syrian Arab Army #SAA with the help of SDF forces, will be advancing and trying towards Turkish controlled areas tonight and try to capture it back... #Syria
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Is it too much to hope that Turkey will be stupid and accidentally hit the Russians and piss off Vlad?
I seem to recall that Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet some months ago, and the only response was something like a cold Russian shoulder for six months. But at that point Syria wasn‘t ready to pivot to a new battlefront.
#UPDATE: Clashes between #Turkish and Syrian regime forces in #Manbij seems likely to happen in a few hours. Both sides are mobilizing and preparing to fight for control over the city, reports also that #Turkey has declared the city a military zone. -Gage #Syria
#Breaking: Just in - An official statement from the Syrian Arab Army "#SAA" to enter the Syrian cities of #Manbij and #Kobani, and says we will fight every Turkish terrorist backed groups and their Turkish soldiers and thrive them back from where they came from in #Turkey. pic.twitter.com/0nH4FYYGpG
Celebrations in Qamishli and Hasaka. People celebrating the "start of the deployment of the Syrian army to confront Turkish aggression". @akhbarpic.twitter.com/hQVecRci8b
Via TTAG:
[TheTruthAboutGuns] Roh’s case was heard in a bench trial (at his option) in which only the judge hears the evidence and renders a verdict. US District Court Judge James V. Selna deliberated for a year and then wrote a tentative order in April.
In his order, Selna agreed with Roh’s argument that the ATF’s definition of an AR-15 lower as a firearm is faulty.
That, no doubt, set off alarm bells from LA to DC. If the ruling were allowed to stand, that would set a very inconvenient precedent, one that would make AR-15 lowers like any other part of an AR platform rifle...just another gun part that could be made and sold through the mail to just about anyone. No serial number or background check needed.
[AmGreatness] The former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch made a number of "strange" and "irregular" requests to monitor the communications of American journalists, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) claimed on Fox News Wednesday night.
During an appearance on "Hannity," Nunes said that he intended to ask Yovanovitch about these alleged efforts to monitor reporters during her scheduled testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.
Yovanovitch, who was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by former President Obama in 2016, was recalled by the State Department in May, but remains a State Department employee.
Although it’s unclear whether the Trump administration will allow her to testify, Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, welcomes the opportunity to question her.
He told host Sean Hannity that a number of Ukrainians and officials in the State Department had raised concerns about Yovanovitch, which is why Trump ordered her removal.
A former top Ukrainian official told investigative reporter John Solomon last spring that the U.S. embassy in Kiev had been refusing to provide Ukrainian law enforcement officials with visas so they can deliver their evidence of election meddling and corruption to Washington.
"We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States," Kostiantyn Kulyk‐then the deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s International Legal Cooperation Department‐told Solomon back in April. "However, the [U.S.] ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa. She didn’t explicitly deny our visa, but also didn’t give it to us."
Nunes told Hannity that "concerns" had been raised that journalists were being improperly monitored. "That we don’t know, but we have people who have given us this information," Nunes said, adding that he would be pressing the State department for more information ahead of Yovanovitch’s testimony on Friday.
Hannity said three sources had told him they "believe there is evidence that government resources were used to monitor communications" of journalists‐including Solomon, a Fox News contributor‐and that Yovanovitch may have been involved.
Solomon has broken stories related to the Russia hoax and the ongoing Ukraine controversy that have contributed to Trump’s desire for a DOJ review of the origins of the FBI and special counsel investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"What I’ve heard ‐ and I want to be clear ‐ there’s a difference. What I’ve heard is that there were strange requests, irregular requests to monitor not just one journalist, but multiple journalists," Nunes added. "Now perhaps that was OK. Perhaps there was some reason for that ‐ that it can be explained away. But that’s what we know and that’s what we’re going to be looking into."
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Been busy with postcards all day!
Now evening. Have nothing to say.
Am starting to nod,
And this card's looking odd...
Best regards, Gabrielle "Ubu" Ray
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5 years of "management fees" on $1.5-2 billion is quite a tidy nest egg. More than enough to pay for vacation in a non-extraditable country for the next few years
The ISIS sasquatches were put in prisons because 'the Ewropeans were watching'.
The mass graves, public executions, videos, rapes and traffick of people didn't invite extreme prejudice. No, we have the UN,the fucking Hague, juris-motherfucking-prudence to help carry out our humane deterrence for us.
The people who were in the grinder 24/7, who the allied teams worked with, the militias and whatever their reasons, fuck their reasons ! They fought. In a dearer time, that used to be enough !the YPGs and the yahoos who flew in to join them, everybody who fought the ISIS is now easy game to be slain without trial. America didn't have to fly sorties over Syria everyday, deploy thousands of troops to protect the Kurds. The least Trump could've done was not invite that motherfucker Yippy to just roll on in ! So what if the YPG aren't exactly UN material ? Hasn't America sided with even worse fuckers to suit their own ends ?
And the turks ? They supported the daesh all along, even al qaeda. America was supposed to pull out of Afghanistan and stay on point in Syria. But they sit twiddling their thumbs in front of Mullah fucking Baradar and pull out of daesh territory leaving ISIS to be freed by Erdogan !
And with Trumpo, it's not just a pull out, no sir. It wouldn't be complete without some Jong-il brand of theatre, making light of the brutality to be witnessed upon people, with tweets. Fucking tweets ?! Aaaarghh !!
Fuck this !!
Everyone who fought ISIS loses, alright ? They lose !
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Ehh ? Whassat ? Sshyria army ? Booosh ! Thoshe mufferbluffers dunno which way the...hic.. barrel pointsh. They need thet Rasputin guy holdin' their weewees when they pee... And what about the 900 ishish eh ?
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"Who could have foreseen such an event!", he said smugly -- SteveS
Do you remember the movie Other People's Money(1991)? Assad "The Liquidator" may be odious, but I have always thought that the only "natural ally" in the region is Assad and his Alawite bloc.
Turkey committed massacre against Civilian convey from Qamishli heading to Serekaniya for to support the fighters and give morals, been hit by Turkish bombardment right now. pic.twitter.com/fu2pO30Z4B
We are shocked to learn that Turkish jets have struck a convoy of journalists in Northern Syria. As per initial reports, there are at least 11 dead and dozens wounded. This is a war crime. We urge int'l community to hold Turkey accountable. pic.twitter.com/nOuwyDSiOq
[Victory Girls] An armed robber brandished and pointed a gun at several people, demanding cash. An armed clerk shot and killed him. Normally, this kind of story would get a paragraph or two on a back page of the local news section of a newspaper. These aren’t normal times.
Skipping down to...
Tribal Values v Bourgeois values well, somebody needs a pistol-whipping to reality
The response on social media, whether in the Twitter thread above or on Facebook appears overwhelming shocked at sister’s response. Some support the clerk’s actions of defense of himself and others. Some question the lack of "proper upbringing" of the siblings. They are all close, but aren’t going deep enough on what is happening here. And that is the contemporary American cultural shift away from what may be called bourgeois values to factional, tribal ones.
Sister was clear. Her brother, regardless of his behavior, was not to be held to any standard outside of what her tribe holds. The rules that exist for all others within the larger society don’t exist for them. He was committing armed robbery? OH WELL.
The Left has spent the better part of the last 50-100 years chipping away at the melting pot logos of American culture. We don’t just witness it in fits such as these wherein people are not to be treated or judged individually by objective standards of behavior. We actually witness the attempts to destroy any person who dares to promote what used to be normative values. Professor Amy Wax wrote:
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Had the same thing happen over a decade ago at a doughnut shop in the big city here. Family showed up days later screaming and hollering. It's tough when you are the 4th minority in the area to get as much attention as elsewhere where you are the first.
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Zman talks about the "normies" and how they just keep telling themselves events like this and the mindset it exposes are outliers. But they are not and the so-called normies better wake up. Start (Yes, lots of stuff at Unz Review is reprehensible, but that's where this guy is) here.
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[Bloomberg] Californians have embraced rooftop solar panels more than anyone in the U.S., but many are learning the hard way the systems won’t keep the lights on during blackouts.
That’s because most panels are designed to supply power to the grid -- not directly to houses. During the heat of the day, solar systems can crank out more juice than a home can handle. Conversely, they don’t produce power at all at night.
So systems are tied into the grid, and the vast majority aren’t working this week as PG&E Corp. cuts power to much of Northern California to prevent wildfires.
The only way for most solar panels to work during a blackout is pairing them with batteries. That market is just starting to take off. Sunrun Inc., the largest U.S. rooftop solar company, said hundreds of its customers are making it through the blackouts with batteries.
"It’s the perfect combination for getting through these shutdowns," Sunrun Chairman Ed Fenster said in an interview. He expects battery sales to boom in the wake of the outages.
And no, trying to run appliances off the power in a Tesla Inc. electric car won’t work, at least without special equipment.
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So, let me get this straight: In CA you are now required to have solar panels on your house; however, the electricity from those panels goes to the power grid, not your house so you don't have direct access to the power YOUR solar panels are producing; the panels YOU paid for. Government is so great!!
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I call bull on this. Had solar power in the Soviet of Hawai'i. If the grid went down, your solar was dead BUT you flipped a switch disconnecting yourself from the grid and your solar power went to an outlet on the inverted you could access. Worked fine if you had enough panels to generate the juice for a fridge and an internet connection. Unless the great state of Calizuela mandated that you couldn't have a disconnect, this is just lack of foresight or cheapness on the part of the homeowner.
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If you can shell out for a $30k solar battery shack it should be possible, but I suspect you'll be visited by all sorts of toads inspecting this and that and finally suing you for endangering yourself. And that would be only for property owners. Apartment dwellers may not be allowed a battery or an off-grid solution at all. That's how the bureaucrat mind works.
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#4 is correct - you disconnect from the grid just as if you had a gas-powered generator (which you should have for night)
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A transfer switch is a standard part of a home generator installation. Whether it's required I don't know. Common sense says if there isn't one, the only way the utility can be sure no part of the grid is energized is to work at night or require transfer switches where crews can get at them.
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Dron__ see #4 - no batteries required. Batteries only required for storage - to get you thru the night and that's why the gods invented gas generators.
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Yes, Mercution, I think the real moral of the story is gasoline, diesel or propane generators. Those lithium ion batteries make me nervous...too many stories about them erupting in flames. Supposedly, if you manage them properly, that won't happen. But if you don't...
Nothing wrong with having solar panels to lower your electricity bills, though. If our politicians were serious about this global warming nonsense, which I don't believe they are, they'd mandate solar panels on all new construction all across the nation. It'd be written into the building codes, just like plumbing, phone service, cable and electricity from the grid. But then, their developer buddies would bitch and moan about increased construction costs so it'll never happen.
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If a 12 minute power interruption was enough to be fatal then the original installers were negligent because "[excrement] Happens!"
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they'd mandate solar panels on all new construction all across the nation.
Solar is fine in the sunny southern parts of the country, but wasted where it’s often cloudy or snow covered — the sun isn’t powering anything through a foot of snow — or has lots of tall trees casting shadows on the array a significant part of the day. There is no one answer to such problems.
[Hot Air] This is another item that dropped during CNN’s disastrous LGBTQ town hall on Thursday night, but I didn’t notice it until yesterday evening. There were plenty of painful moments, including when Joe Biden started rambling on about "round-the-clock sex at gay bathhouses in San Francisco." But in the midst of all that, CNN’s Anderson Cooper got some of the candidates to weigh in on an actual policy issue that is somehow being considered by Democrats.
Should the intentional withholding of a persons HIV positive status from a prospective sexual partner be decriminalized? Shockingly, several of the candidates agreed with that idea. This, as Brad Palumbo at the Washington Examiner explains, isn’t just bad policy. It’s insanity.
Should it be a crime to knowingly expose someone to HIV without disclosing it?
Most sane people would say yes. But a widely panned Vox article published this week said that state laws making it a crime to not disclose your HIV status "have only increased stigma and abuse." And apparently, many 2020 Democrats agree with this ludicrous, insane point of view.
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Well, some people are talking about it. I don't include myself in the headlines Herb-all "We."
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Remember, Red Cross was not keen on screening blood donors either. A typical example of Star Chamber of Communism / Bidness Rountable "bad for business" mindset...
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Oh, yes. About the only way to get it besides gay sex is sharing needles (drug addicts) getting it from a promiscuous sex partner, tainted blood transfusion or medical misadventure (see HIV positive dentist who infected many patients. See incorrectly sterilized surgical instruments.) Getting HIV through no fault of your own is considered to be in bad taste by the politically correct as it puts the problem in focus.
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Interesting article. OTOH, heard anything about "prions" lately? I didn't think so...
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CA has already done this..so, you know who to thank
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The difference with prions is that is true. And the reason I know that MM, because I did my doctorate/post in theoretical immunology in 1990es at the peak of HIV.
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doctorate/post in theoretical immunology in 1990es at the peak of HIV.
I thought I recalled you were a physicist, g(r)omgoru, who worked at one point at Los Alamos. Israeli scientists do get around — my father started in herbicides and pesticides with a double BS in biology and physics and a PhD in organic chemistry, then ended up in oncology research.
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Well, avoiding the needles and gay sex is easy (for me anyway) I've had 4 dentists and one endodontist in 60 years, so that's straight up luck. No transfusions (luck also) Did you know dentists are second behind chemist's in professional suicide statistics?
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I've B.A. in life sciences, M.Sc. in Biochemistry, and Ph.D. in Applied Math.
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Your bona fides are indeed impressive. Thanks for applying to the Burg. Unfortunately the position we are seeking to fill is for a junior analyst.
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Never mind credentialism is 99% of the nation's problems.
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I've known people with JDs who didn't practice law and people with MDs who didn't practice medicine. Interesting people doing interesting things. Mostly under the radar.
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Your Honor, the witness has just said he believes everything he has ever read or thought. (Prosecutor looks toward jury and shrugs, looks back at the judge.) No more questions. Defense attorney facepalms and mutters "Oh, shit..."
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No I said that I believe that I read and thought about. There's a minor difference - obvious to people who think.
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Well, I've a BS in Civil Engineering/Minor in Radiation Physics, and a professional license to kill in Civil. My political opinion is based on my ability to think and my credibility is based on none of my structures having killed anybody...yet
Comfy?
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Talking to me? All I did is explain to TW why she shouldn't call me a physicist.
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I only have a BA in English. I've bottled Coca Cola, written for newspapers, written software, systems engineered (uncredentialed but paid) white water canoed and gunsmithed. Maybe be a Federal District Court juror soon (I meet their qualifications)
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And did I ever said anything that leads you to believe that I despise/dismiss this?
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The belive what you read and think thing is abrasive. I believe less and less as I get older. As for belief, I always believe I might not have to get out of bed to pee in the middle of the night but I already know I'm wrong. Consider a bit of honesty and humility if you will.
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Buncha shnobs. Ejication... bah ! Who needshh it ? Everyone learnin' to be a good handbasket weaver ! For the world to... go in it... eh ? Heh hehe hehh heeh cough ... hic ehhuhh !
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Reading is breathing for the brain. Make your stupid cracks about visions. I read most of the day every day. Even out in the Gulf Stream in a fighting chair trying to catch swordfish for dinner. Visions. You are an arrogant piece of work you are.
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If you read Mein Kampf would you believe it? If you read Das Kapital would you believe it? I won't as about the holy krayon because I have no trouble believing you would believe it.
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Visions and dreams are different though. The dream is subjectively encoded. But it's a nifty thing to have. Also, visions require a dedicated, godly life.
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Well, since you insist on twisting everything I say. And since I'm not responsible for your inferiority complex - massively revealed by your attacks, all I can say bless your heart.
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You can't attack me and I definitely don't feel inferior. So there's that.
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Thing is, G, I agree with you so much of the time. Trying to gouge my eyes out with your sheepskins or cherry picking a scientific article you happen to agree with and selling it as gospel is beneath you. I know you are better than that and I really only know your comments here which are not even a shadow of you.
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I was giving him the mix, but he said 'Hold the cranberry ♪', and there you go.
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I told g I don't want to fight anymore and happy hour broke out.
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This is 500% better than what typically happens in an AOSHQ thread
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#48 And I agree with you, MM. I didn't cherrypick an article. Just google "Asymptomatic, virus, wiki". Everybody (with my background) knows that viruses have asymptomatic carriers.
More importantly, the reason I had it on tip of my tongue because I remembered a girl (well a woman) I used to date in Santa Fe. She once asked me to explain what I'm doing. When we were talking I mentioned asymptomatic HIV carriers. She was shocked, and asked if I believe myself to be one. So when the subject arose here, I was hit with that memory. I was back there and I was that postdoc. Now I'll probably won't sleep half the night because I can't remember her name.
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Been tested 3 times to satisfy partners. Never mind promiscuous people or needle sharers make the tests meaningless
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G, I have always told myself, if I meet someone three times and can't remember their name, that's my brain telling me I don't want to know them.
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BTW, Santa Fe kicks ass because it's on the way to Taos.
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Sorry. MM.
p.s. Actually, my credentials are pretty useful. In the last 5 years since I lost my job with TAU (soft money) I worked as biology teacher, chemistry teacher, and math teacher - so, where!
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Oh Kay guys, I'm applauding the stand up routine but I suggest that you may have started drinking a tad early tonight.
8^) BA in Poli Sci, MBA and extra-curricular in Computers (I read Knuth for fun and profit).
Credentials mean jack except to those who care. I'm not and never have been. Most intellectual person I ever met was fellow carpenter nailing off the roof deck.
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Calling them credentials in your case g is a slight. They are achievements of which you should be proud and people like me should respect. Now, Honored Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government, we can all spit all that one.
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Spitball
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#69 I don't know how it is in IT, but - in my experience - if you don't have a piece of paper, you don't exist.
Most intellectual person I ever met was fellow carpenter nailing off the roof deck.
Never said there's any connection between degrees & intellectualism.
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Got to say the actual words, or it's bullshit. I apologize, G, I made a stupid big deal out of a minor disagreement that you were right about. I feel stupid but if you are still my friend I'll get over it.
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#71. Actually no. One reason it didn't occur to me I'm bragging is because most Ph.Ds I know are, how shall I put it, not very good at that they're supposed to be doing. I judge colleagues by their papers.
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#71 Now, it is I who must apologize. Should've quoted the relevant wiki address not bore people with irrelevancies. I'm glad you consider me a friend.
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if you don't have a piece of paper, you don't exist.
So very true today. Back in the wild west it was very seat of the pants. Before security became a thing all you had to do in IT was deliver uptime and somewhat accurate data. Now the credentialed whip the H2Bs to deliver whatever. When I did it soldering irons were still involved and knowing how to use one without baking imported chips was the coin of the realm at 4 am.
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[PJ] Federal employee Henry Kyle Frese was arrested today for allegedly leaking national security secrets to reporters at CNBC and NBC. One of the reporters was his girlfriend. Read the indictment here.
Frese was a federal employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency. It comes as no surprise that Frese ‐ like so many other federal employees in Washington, D.C. ‐ is full of hatred toward Donald Trump and willing to use his personal power and government job to attack the president and conservatives. Let's peruse his Twitter feed before it disappears.
Frese went to college and graduate school in Canada. His posts routinely cover national security and foreign affairs issues. They are also vehemently hostile to Donald Trump and his foreign policy. A post just this week regarding Turkey and Syria says, "Once again we remind our current, and any potential future allies, that at some point we will [expletive] them over." I could find no postings on his Twitter feed regarding the Obama administration meddling in Israel's elections or striking up a nuclear deal with Iran.
Frese didn't just hate Trump, he hated those around Trump, including Sebastian Gorka. Upon reading that Gorka would be traveling with Trump, Frese attacked Gorka by posting an imaginary quote from a White House official: "You know what would be good optics right now? SecState travelling with someone who was disgraced from the White House and has clear ties to European white nationalist groups." Gorka does not have ties to European white nationalist groups.
Frese traveled quite a bit. Every month or two, he could be found hiking Kilimanjaro or sipping beer in an Eastern European capital, visiting London or the low countries, Morocco, Berlin, Australia, all in the space of a year or two. It was quite a travel experience for a lowly federal employee. Perhaps it was work-related, all those different destinations. Excessive foreign travel can be a marker for a national security risk.
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Frese traveled quite a bit. Every month or two.... Perhaps it was work-related, all those different destinations. Excessive foreign travel can be a marker for a national security risk.
You don't say? "Work-related"... mountain climbing? And the DIA Special Security Officer (SSO), might he have anything to say? Or is he simply wishing he'd said something ?
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My only surprise is that this guy didn't show up as a phony Whistleblower on Adam Schiff's House committee to impeach Trump. I guess he stepped on his own pecker first before he could do this. Timing is everything.
[PJ] I’m not going to lie. When I first picked up The Boy Crisis, by Dr. Warren Farrell and Dr. John Gray, I read the foreword to get a sense of the authors and their ideas -- and then after looking at the table of contents, I dove straight for the section on Boys Who Hurt, Hurt Us.
Farrell has been researching multiple dimensions of men, women, boys and girls since the 1970s. His 2001 book, Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love is now a classic in fatherhood research. His collaborator on this book, Dr. John Gray, wrote Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, one of if not the most famous books on male-female relationships and understanding.
The Boys Who Hurt, Hurt Us section of The Boy Crisis deals with why some boys do extreme, taboo, and incredibly violent things. Why a very small number of boys grow up in seemingly normal circumstances, in a suburban neighborhood with a perfect green lawn, but become mass shooters. Our country has been plagued by these boys who hurt others lately, and while their horrific acts remain statistical anomalies and overall violent crime is decreasing, and while the United States does not lead the world in mass shootings, these terrible acts rightly disturb us and they also distort our public discourse. Even more importantly, they leave far too many dead in their wake and shatter the lives of survivors.
Classic Soviet style disinformation
[Breitbart] Andrew Bakaj, the attorney representing the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, previously was a whistleblower witness whose public allegations scuttled the confirmation of the Trump administration’s nominee for CIA inspector general.
Bakaj’s original complaint against Trump’s nominee was filed with the office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Intelligence Community. The IG at the time was Chuck McCullough, who is currently working at Bakaj’s three attorney law firm representing the so-called whistleblower.
Like Bakaj, the so-called whistleblower against Trump also filed his "Disclosure of Urgent Concern form" with the IG for the intelligence community, albeit with the new IG, Michael Atkinson.
Bakaj founded the Compass Rose Legal Group, which is representing the central so-called whistleblower on the matter of Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president. Bakaj confirmed that his law firm is also representing "multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Community Inspector General."
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Bakaj’s original complaint against Trump’s nominee was filed with the office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Intelligence Community. The IG at the time was Chuck McCullough, who is currently working at Bakaj’s three attorney law firm representing the so-called whistleblower.
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I thought the "deep State" was just B.S. conspiracy mongering. But after seeing all this in the intelligence community, Congress, State Department, and FBI, as well as the press...
Even the most partisan person, if rational, can see there is no denying the corruption and conspiracy to create a coup to oust a duly elected President, and protect the corrupt people and subverted powers wormed into our national government.
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[IsraelNationalNews] US President Donald Trump responded to criticism of the withdrawal of US forces from northern Syria, calling the Middle East "quicksand" and those who got the US into wars in the Middle East "inept."
Writing on his Twitter account: Trump said: "The same people that got us into the Middle East Quicksand, 8 Trillion Dollars and many thousands of lives (and millions of lives when you count the other side), are now fighting to keep us there. Don’t listen to people that haven’t got a clue. They have proven to be inept!"
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Once again, he's not wrong. If they were the least bit competent we'd have won a long time ago. It took us only 4 years to defeat both Axis powers, and they were far more formidable than any country in the Middle East.
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What if these fellows were not actually "inept." What if participation in 'endless wars' was the intended goal ?
Closing Friday: LMT $381.47, BA $374.92, GD $179.63, NOC $362.22
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Trump takes every solders death personally. Every law enforcement officer death as well. He will do everything in his power to prevent death. These endless wars with no exit strategy will stop. He is running the show. He makes a promise and he delivers.
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The rest of the world would hate the USA just as much if we stayed home and tended our own knitting. It would not necessarily be cheaper but at least we'd be wasting our money on ourselves. I still believe a rock solid defense of CONUS could be very profitable for the big contractors. Only downside for them is they'd have to deliver stuff that works. And we still need Prompt Global Strike backed up by diplomats who can explain "Yes, it works and yes we will use it on you if you don't listen carefully."
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Syria is a tar baby. No one can even begin to parse that conflict and tell us, in simple English, who's fighting whom, and why, and where, and who's up and who's down - let alone clearly articulate what if any national interest us at stake there for the United States.
For anyone wishing to understand the hysterical, confused and dysfunctional state of US foreign policy and grand strategy in the 21st century, our Syria policy (ex-Trump) is Exhibit A.
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[Powerline] What the Democrats fear most is happening: President Trump and his negotiating team are reaching wide-ranging agreements with China that will be a huge boon to the United States. The heathen Chinese Communists have figured out that he's gonna get reelected
In an Oval Office press conference yesterday, President Trump and China’s Vice Premier announced a Phase 1 set of agreements that will be documented over the next several weeks. The video of the press conference is embedded below; Trump’s performance was masterful. His many years of experience as a negotiator shine through.
The Phase 1 agreement covers several important topics, including agricultural sales. China has agreed to ramp up its purchases of agricultural products to $40-$50 billion‐three times the previous peak‐over the next two years. Trump joked that farmers will need to buy more land and work overtime. That means, I think, that Democrats can say goodbye to hopes that tariffs would be the issue that could win votes in rural America.
The agreement also opens up China’s financial services markets to American companies, covers currency manipulation, and addresses some aspects of intellectual property and technology transfer agreements. Phase 2 negotiations will begin immediately.
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This will be difficult to supply. Millions of acres ruined due to wet weather and early winter. Prices here will go up. Global warming is not going to happen. I wish it would so at least we could grow crops. No crops in cold, period.Map https://weather.com/maps/current-wind-chill
Precisely. Though that means the sales price will be bid up even higher for those farmers who do have anything to sell, and the rest will feel the potential for greater prosperity.
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[FoxNews] A Northern California man dependent on an oxygen supply died Wednesday, shortly after power cuts by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. affected his home, fire officials said Friday.
Robert Mardis, 67, died roughly 12 minutes after PG&E cut power to his home and the surrounding area. An autopsy report concluded the man died of severe coronary artery atherosclerosis, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Fire personnel responded to a call around 3:40 a.m. and found Mardis unresponsive on the floor of his home, according to El Dorado County Interim Fire Chief Lloyd Ogan. He was found wearing a nasal cannula, used to deliver oxygen to the nose, and was hooked up to a PPAP machine for that purpose. Mardis' family told Fox 40 he couldn’t reach his battery-powered tank in time. The new Gods must have their sacrifices
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Backup O2 supply for mobility or for emergency's always present. So he was alone. No caregiver. He obviously had a heart attack. The cheap route are these oxygen concentrators. Because of insurances or self pay you are tied to a 50 foot line. This was sloppy. PG&E should have been contacted. Arrangements could have been made. Power generator, H tank and so on. Who is at fault if the molecular sieve material has degraded (O2 concentration drops below prescribed prescription).
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I've a CPAP that I love. Got a backup battery for when the power's out. Not that hard
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PG&E are not responsible for this man's death. He or caregivers are instructed that backup power is required, or yes an H tank of O2, in case of power failure. It is HIS fault.
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[NYPost] The poll released last week by Fox News that claimed most Americans favor the impeachment of President Trump underrepresented Republican and independent voters, The Post has found.
The poll said 51% of voters were in favor of Trump’s impeachment and removal from office, while 40% did not want him impeached.
Princeton, New Jersey, pollster Braun Research, which conducted the survey, noted 48% of its respondents were Democrats. But the actual breakdown of party-affiliation is 31% Democrat, 29% Republican and 38% independent, according to Gallup.
A poll weighted for party affiliation would have concluded that 44.9% favored impeachment and 44.4% opposed it, a Post analysis has concluded.
The poll prompted Trump to tweet: "Whoever [Fox News’] Pollster is, they suck."
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Like "anonymous" sources in "news" reports. You can always find someone who will say anything. Or just make it up as you go along..
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We are now officially in the Post-Truth Phase of our history.
The polls we're shown are BS.
The stories we read are BS.
Real stories don't make it to print or pixel.
Disinformation is everywhere.
Words have lost their usual meanings.
We are closer to a war with Russia than at any time since 1962, and we're told that the current president is an agent of the Russian state.
Surreal.
Beyond the Shitshow, and through the looking-glass we go.
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Note that even if it were true that roughly 50% of the nation wants impeachment, that's nowhere near the threshold needed to move to a trial and actually impeach.
That threshold is closer to 75% of the country, which is where it was when the White House tapes were revealed in 1974.
These clowns can't even do Conspiracy 101 correctly.
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Make telephone polls in districts that vote Dim and do street polls in the same areas. Or just make it up. Who would know? Has anyone here ever been contacted to do a political poll? I haven't and I believe that to be a statistical impossibility.
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I was exposed to Polls and Surveys in a university Political Science course many moons ago: Its ALL in the internals of the Poll. Until you dissect the questions and make-up of the sample the Poll is 'swamp gas' and usually after that inspection it is still 'swamp gas' only smellier.
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These polls are for Dem base consumption. These polls have got to create disbelief and cognitive dissonance in non-Kool Aid drinkers such as independents. If anyone watches any of the Trump rallies, you would think the entire country is on a bandwagon to elect Trump. This must panic the Dems. Hence all the phonied-up impeachment activity of the Dems.
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Has anyone here ever been contacted to do a political poll?
I used to get called all the time, AlmostAnonymous5839, sometimes more than once a day during election season, before Mr. Wife convinced me to give up the land line in 2017. But I live in southwest Ohio, which for some reason has been considered a bellwether voting area.
I may get calls still, but I don’t answer unidentified phone calls on the cell phone.
48% of its respondents were Democrats. But the actual breakdown of party-affiliation is 31% Democrat, 29% Republican and 38% independent, according to Gallup.
That may be as much a function of older Democrats answering their land line phones as a deliberate imbalance in responses.
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I get an absurd number of calls from my old area code on my cell. I never answer them. The ones that leave a message are computer Droid voices talking about Medicare (I'm not on it) and unpaid student loans (I don't have any, paid back or otherwise) I'd imagine some of the unanswered ones are robodialers for polls
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Say it with me: "cheese food product" It is neither cheese nor food hence the qualifier product. In the case of polls, the fine print could include "100% fact free."
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I was approached as I entered the front door about ten years ago. Two twenty-somethings were doing a healthcare insurance survey. After trying to fit two of my answers into their little preconceived cubbyholes, and failing, they just gave up and moved on. I'm sure their 'survey' showed everyone wanted free healthcare, and that there was no one home at my address.
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Has anyone here ever been contacted to do a political poll?
Yes but I hardly ever talk to them. When I do, my response is as follows: It is my opinion that my opinion is worth something so how much are you willing to pay me for it?
They always hang up at that point.
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There's a school of thought that says lie, tie them up on the phone etc. I agree with Abu. My time is valuable enough that I'm picky about what I read in the can...
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I don't respond to the phone unless I can ID the caller or screen the message. Saves a lot of wasted time.
[DAWN] Two daughters of a labourer were kidnapped and allegedly gang-raped by a group of men in Punjab's Kabirwala tehsil, police said on Friday.
According to a First Information Report (FIR) of the incident, the two sisters were asleep in their room when five men entered their house located in Koraibaloch area and kidnapped them on gunpoint at 2am on October 10.
The suspects took the two women, who are in their 20s, to a mango orchard and subjected them to gang rape, according to their brother, on whose complaint the FIR was registered.
The family then sought the help of a panchayat (village council) to seek the release of their daughters by the men whom they suspected to have kidnapped the women.
Later on Thursday, the five suspects dropped the two women near their house. The sisters were naked when they were released, their brother told DawnNewsTV.
After the incident was reported by the victims' father at Kabirwala Saddar cop shoppe, Khanewal District Police Officer Umar Saeed Malik formed teams to apprehend the suspects.
A medical examination conducted at Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Kabirwala confirmed that the two women had been raped, DPO Malik said.
He said one primary suspect in the case was arrested and raids are being conducted at various locations to nab the other four men. The arrested suspect confessed to his crimes, the DPO said.
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[AFRICANEWS] Four Malawian protesters have been charged with the murder of a policeman who was stoned to death during festivities between pro- and anti-government demonstrators outside the capital Lilongwe, police said Saturday.
A wave of protests has gripped Malawi since disputed elections in May, and Superintendent Usumani Imedi was killed on Tuesday trying to restore order as violence erupted like lava from a volcano at Msundwe, a trading outpost west of the capital.
The festivities broke out as a group of protesters attempted to stop supporters of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party from travelling to President Peter Mutharika’s first rally in the city since his election win.
IT SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING IN A DEMOCRACY WHERE TOLERANCE AND DISSENTING VIEWS ARE THE BENCHMARK.
Police front man James Kadadzera told AFP that four anti-government protesters were charged with murder on Friday: Frank Mastone, 28, Kondwani Chisindo, 23, Godfrey Banda, 30, and Licktone Mtiche, 30.
The police also arrested 40 others following Imedi’s death and charged them with endangering the lives of road users.
All the suspects, except one juvenile, appeared before a magistrate in Lilongwe on Friday.
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[Jpost] France said on Saturday it has suspended all weapon sales to Turkey and warned Ankara that its offensive in northern Syria threatened European security.
"In expectation of the end of this offensive, France has decided to suspend all plans to export to Turkey weapons that could be used in this offensive. This decision is with immediate effect," a joint statement from the foreign and defence ministries said.
It said that European Union foreign ministers would coordinate their position on Monday at a meeting in Luxembourg.
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BFD_ Yipyip seems to prefer Russian gear lately. When Poot-poot blackballs him, wake me up.
[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... says Ankara will not stop its military operation against Kurdish turbans in northeastern Syria "no matter what anyone says", a day after he vowed to flood Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... with millions of refugees if the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... brands the offensive an invasion.
Ottoman Turkish military forces and Ottoman Turkish-backed turbans of the so-called Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) on Wednesday launched a long-threatened cross-border invasion of northeast Syria in a declared attempt to eliminate Kurdish turbans from the so-called People's Protection Units (YPG) to push them away from border areas.
Ankara views the US-backed YPG as a terrorist organization tied to the homegrown Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bad boy group, which has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... since 1984.
The YPG, which itself is the military wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), constitutes the backbone of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an anti-Damascus alliance of predominantly Kurdish bad boys.
"We will never stop this step we have taken against the PYD/YPG... We will not stop it no matter what anyone says," Erdogan said on Friday, adding, "We’re receiving threats from right and left, saying stop this progress."
The Ottoman Turkish leader once again vowed that the cross-border military operation ‐ called Operation Peace Spring - will continue until all YPG turbans withdraw from northern Syria.
"Our fight will continue until all turbans move further to the south of the 32-kilometer long border that Mr. [Donald] Trump has mentioned. They will abandon this area," Erdogan said, referring to the US president and the area where the Kurdish turbans are operating now.
13-year-old boy Ali Alfurjani was killed after a mortar shell fired by Haftar militias fell on their house in Khalla district of #Tripoli today pic.twitter.com/wfH6EiFQr6
[PRESSTV] Ecuador President Lenin Moreno orders the capital Quito and surrounding areas to be placed under curfew and military control, on the 11th day of deadly protests against government austerity measures.
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[MOI.GOV.AF] 10 Taliban terrorists killed and nine others wounded in several joint clearance operations carried out by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Nehr Saraj district of Helmand and Helmand highway. Two Taliban bomb making factories destroyed and 58 different types of roadside bombs and landmines discovered and defused. It’s worth mentioning, ANDSF seized 17 motorcycles used by the militants.
16 Suspects Arrested In Balkh Province General Command of Police Special Units (GCPSU) launched overnight security operations in PD#5 of Kabul City, Chamtal and Char Bolak districts of Balkh and Jalalabad City of Nangarhar. As a result, General Command of Police Special Units (GCPSU) arrested 16 suspects.
ANP Arrested A Suicide Bomber Before Reaching To His Target In Kandahar Afghan National Police (ANP) identified and arrested a suicide bomber in Kandahar province. Afghan National Police (ANP) arrested a suicide bomber before he could reach to a target in PD#8, Kandahar City of Kandahar province, last night. Ministry of Interior Affairs appreciates the professionalism of police.
[BREITBART] Using puberty-blocking drugs on pre-pubescent children in order to stultify their sexual development “is a crime against humanity,” said Camille Paglia, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She offered her remarks on Tuesday’s edition of Dennis Prager’s eponymous radio show while discussing her latest book, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education.
Paglia highlighted left-wing denial of the biological origins of sex, including left-wing framing of sex as an arbitrary and subjective social construct. “These ideas aren’t based on any actual study of biology,” she said.
Paglia noted much of the news media’s ambivalence towards the aforementioned experimentation on children:
I think that experiments of unproven drugs — drug protocols — on children is a crime against humanity, and it should not be tolerated. It amazes me there is hardly any media attention to this matter. I think the future will look back with surprise and shock at the ethical indifference of the major media right now in the United States to this going on. It is simply not right. These drugs have not been fully tested, and we’re using children as experiments? Boys forever are going to have, in adulthood, a child’s size penis? I cannot believe that this is happening without protest.
“Don’t imagine that the child knows his or her future identity at age three, or ten, for that matter,” added Paglia. “Flash-freezing a child’s development through the introduction of drugs — pre-puberty, on and so on — seems to me, should be recognizably, not just wrong, but horrific.”
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Harming boys is precisely the point. They are oppressors, and fuck oppressors. Maybe as women they'll get a taste of what it's like, and that is social justice.
[PRESSTV] Seven people have been killed in attacks by Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno.
Late on Friday, bully boyz raided a military post in the town of Gajiganna, triggering a fierce shootout, local residents and pro-government militias said on Saturday.
"The button men killed two soldiers and a civilian during the fight and took away one military vehicle," said Babakura Kolo, a member of a militia fighting bully boyz in Borno.
The button men are suspected of belonging to the West Africa Province (ISWAP) terror group.
ISWAP, which calls itself a branch of the ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... Takfiri terrorist group, made an alliance with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bully boyz in 2015 before separating in 2016.
Earlier on Friday, bully boyz attacked troops in the nearby town of Tungushe, killing a soldier and three civilians, Kolo added.
Gajiganna and Tungushe have been repeatedly attacked by ISWAP terrorists.
On Thursday, two Chadian troops were killed in festivities between bully boyz and members of a regional force in northeastern Nigeria.
[BREITBART] Two former National Security Council staffers that worked with the so-called whistleblower in the Obama and Trump administrations now work for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation... (D-CA), according to a report.
The Washington Examiner states:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff recruited two former National Security Council aides who worked alongside the CIA whistleblower at the NSC during the Obama and Trump administrations, the Washington Examiner has learned.
Abigail Grace, who worked at the NSC until 2018, was hired in February, while Sean Misko, an NSC aide until 2017, joined Schiff’s committee staff in August, the same month the whistleblower submitted his complaint.
The whistleblower was an NSC official who worked with former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... and who has expertise in Ukraine, the Washington Examiner has reported.
A career CIA analyst with Ukraine expertise, the whistleblower aired his concerns about a phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to a House Intelligence Committee aide on Schiff’s staff. He had previously informed the CIA’s legal counsel’s office.
[DAWN] EU governments threatened sanctions against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on Friday over its offensive in Syria, angrily rejecting President Tayyip Erdogan’s warning that he would "open the gates" and send 3.6 million refugees to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... if they did not back him.
Turkey has stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of a humanitarian disaster and also raised the prospect of new US sanctions on Ankara.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , which Turkey still formally aspires to join despite its growing criticism of Ankara’s human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... record, had already condemned the Ottoman Turkish offensive but has been infuriated by Erdogan’s threats to send refugees to Europe.
"We will never accept that refugees are weaponised and used to blackmail us," European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, said on Twitter. "President Erdogan’s threats ... are totally out of place."
Italia’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also accused Erdogan of blackmail and said the military operation should immediately end. La Belle France proposed economic sanctions on Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ally, while Sweden’s parliament demanded an EU arms embargo.
Further piling pressure on Ankara ahead of an EU foreign ministers’ meeting on Monday and a summit of EU leaders on Thursday, Cyprus and Greece urged economic sanctions against Turkey over Ottoman Turkish gas drilling in waters off southern Cyprus.
A senior EU official said the European Union was spending 6 billion euros ($6.63 billion) on supporting the Syrian refugees currently living in camps inside Turkey, adding that "to use this as leverage is totally unacceptable".
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[BREITBART] The Biden campaign is warning any presidential candidate who "calls themselves a Democrat" to refrain from repeating "discredited lies" about Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... (D) and his son Hunter during the next presidential debate. Hunter Biden resigns from Chinese firm following Trump attacks
The Biden campaign is taking an aggressive stance in an effort to dismiss the mounting questions and concerns surrounding the Bidens’ business dealings in both China and Ukraine. The latter has become a particular point of interest in recent weeks, following President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats say Trump "pressured" Ukraine to investigate his potential rival, Biden, who played a key role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings. Hunter Biden served on the board, making $83,000 per month, despite a stunning lack of qualifications for such a position. The former vice president wanted the prosecutor fired and threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid, bragging about his ultimatum last year.
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This is reaching Soviet territory. Now we have a political power that is actually proscribing speech, declaring forbidden entire subjects of public interest.
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Does anyone doubt any longer the true nature of the threat to this country?
Hunter Biden is a corrupt buffoon. The elites of two foreign nations that have intervened in our elections, one of which is the greatest threat to us in the world, showered this feeble-minded cokehead MILLIONS in ill-gotten gains - while his dad was VP and flying into those nations alongside Junior Marching Powder. And his uncle, Biden's brother, and his business partner are equally slimy.
How can this story possibly be omitted from journalists' campaign coverage?
Biden's own supporters are dropping him because of this obvious corruption in his family -- and our D.C. elites declare it a non-story or even a "debunked" "conspiracy theory."
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I'd like to know what is the "or else" part of Biden's warning and I'd really love to see some of the other Democrat candidates defy him by broaching this subject in the next debate. Have to have a lot of popcorn for that.
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I think you are overreacting. There have been no discredited lies about Joe Biden, so the request to avoid repeating them is empty of content. You have the spirit of the request right though.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] "Congresswoman Omar is an American-hating socialist," he told the raucous crowd. "She minimized the September 11th attack on our homeland... where far more than 3,000 people died."
This being a reference to her infamous line about the 9/11 attack, "Some people did something."
"She pleaded for compassion for ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... recruits right here in Minnesota," the president said, before detailing her history "of launching virulent antisemitic screeds, whether you like it or not."
"How do you have such a person representing you in Minnesota?" Trump said, before joking, "I’m very angry at you people right now."
"She is a disgrace to our country. She is one of the big reasons that I am going to win and the Republican party is going to win Minnesota in 13 months," he declared.
Omar was quick to respond to the president’s remarks, using his words to chase the Benjamins.
Taking to Twitter, she said: "At his rally just now, Trump called me an ’America-hating socialist’ and a ’disgrace.’ He shouted xenophobic conspiracy theories about me. He scolded my district for voting for me. His hate is no match for our movement. Stand with me by donating now."
At his rally just now, Trump called me an "America-hating socialist" and a "disgrace." He shouted xenophobic conspiracy theories about me. He scolded my district for voting for me.
His hate is no match for our movement. Stand with me by donating now: https://t.co/QdUrT9zJsr pic.twitter.com/Ik8I9zlRTf
‐ Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (@IlhanMN) October 11, 2019
While Minnesota is a decidedly blue state, Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... won by a small margin in the 2016 election, beating Trump by just 45,000 votes, or 1.5%, Trump was adamant about carrying the state, saying "We are going to win this state."
Many in the media jumped on Trump’s attack of Omar as being over the top, but the president avoided some of the more controversial aspects of her life.
Things such as the persistent allegations that she married her biological brother to commit immigration fraud, and that she is reportedly having an extramarital affair with a campaign consultant, who is also married. There is also the controversy over thousands of dollars being steered to the alleged lover. In the face of these reported misdeeds, Omar’s husband has filed for divorce.
So, it’s possible to say that President Trump was showing "restraint."
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Maybe the other spouse is in on the (financial) action?
The father of her children was working for a local politician (the mayor?) and rearing their kids while Ms Omar swanned around Washington, DC. I understand he recently let go, possibly as a hint not to make waves, which apparently did not work.
[Jpost] Chairman of the Islamic Movement in Ramle,
...that would be the outlawed Northern Branch of the so-called Islamic Movement, the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It has close ties to Hamas and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and a home office in troubled Umm al-Fahm. The Southern Branch faction is no doubt equally connected to brotherly Muslim Brotherhood organizations, but chose to get involved in Israeli politics instead of violence...
Ali al-Danaf was shot on Saturday and is at death's door, according to Channel 12.
In his role as chairman, al-Danaf was reportedly involved in the religious, social and educational activities of the Moslem community in Ramle, in central Israel.
Al-Danaf was taken to Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center, Israeli media reported earlier Saturday morning.
The police are investigating the incident and it is not yet clear if the shooting was related to his involvement in the Moslem community, Channel 12 reported.
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Finally got a chance to look up Islamic Movement, which was tickling something in my memory. They’re the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel — information and links added to the article to aid future searches.
Incidentally, though we haven’t posted much about it here because it isn’t really of interest in terms of the War on Terror, Israeli Arabs have been marching and protesting because of the high level of violence and lawlessness in their communities, about which the police have mostly not gotten involved because when they’ve done so there were riots and protests. So the police have started doing things like raiding Arab-Israeli villages to collect criminals and weaponry.... oddly enough some appear to be the same villages they were previously raiding to pick up jihadis and weaponry.
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My first trawl through the archives yielded the Islamic Movement — Muslim Brotherhood connection. Reading the Wikipedia article on the subject reveals that the Southern Movement is part of the Arab List coalition of Arab-Israeli parties, so beloved of and supported by Barack Obama during his presidency (and the Democratic Party subsequently). And the Northern Movement owns the Mourabitat (female)/Mourabitoun (male) group, which regularly riots and attacks Jews on and about the Temple Mount.
[NYPOST] Four men were killed inside an after-hours club in Brooklyn early Saturday when a gambler opened fire, sparking a wild shootout, police and sources said. "Go fer yer guns, Buck!"
The chaos unfolded just before 7 a.m. at an after-hours club called Triple A Aces on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, cops said. "Call."
"Whaddya got?"
"Five aces!"
Around 30 people ‐ including several strippers ‐ "Bring dem boobies over here and bring me luck, baby!"
were inside the small club, gambling with cards and playing the dice game cee-lo, when one of the players pulled out a gun in an attempt to rob his fellow gamblers, sources said. "I think that there pot is mine!"
It was unclear whether the shooter ‐ who had been gambling for about an hour before the fatal shootout ‐ was upset over losing money or had come to the club to steal cash, sources said. "One or the other."
"That's right, Bart!"
As shootout began, another reveler pulled out their own weapon, shooting and killing the would-be robber, according to sources. [BANG!]
"Aaaiiieee! Y'got me, Bart!"
The scene was "mayhem" as the bullets flew and panicked party-goers fled through different entrances of the club, a high-ranking law enforcement source told the Post. "Yep. That's right. It wuz bullets and boobies, all over the place!"
"People were trying to get out," the source added. "Nobody wanted to stay!"
In all, four men were pronounced dead at the scene and five others were hurt, including several who were hit by gunfire, officials said. "I wuz hit by a booby. Hurt like the dickens, it did."
Medics rushed three of the injured to Brookdale University Medical Center and two to Kings County Hospital, officials said. "Doctor Quincy to the white courtesy phone!"
One victim sustained a leg injury while fleeing the chaos, police said. "Hey! Look out!"
[TRIP!]
"Ow! My leg!"
The maimed ‐ two of whom lived out of state ‐ Dat'd be Noo Joisey...
range in age from 32 to 49 years old, police said. "They ain't kids. They just thought they wuz."
At least 15 rounds were fired, Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said at a news briefing outside the club, where he praised responding officers. Fifteen rounds, four dead, five wounded, at close quarters.
Two guns, a 9mm and a revolver, were found at the scene‐though Shea said there may be more. If it's a revolver they call it a .357 or a .38...
But landlord Samuel Revells, who owns the building, claims he knew nothing of the club’s after-hours operations. "I know nothing! No-thing! Tell them, Hogan!"
"I thought they were having birthday parties, things for funerals in there," he claimed. "In the two years since I leased it to them, we haven’t had any problems, no police."
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[AlAhram] The Giza Criminal Court sentenced six defendants to death on terror-related charges on Saturday in the case of the 2016 terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel.
Eight other defendants received life sentences, and 12 juveniles received 10-year imprisonment.
The sentences can be appealed.
Another stage of the multi-year hell of appeals that is the Egyptian justice process.
The prosecution accused the defendants of playing leading roles in an outlawed terrorist group between mid-2015 and February 2016, providing it with weapons and money.
They were also accused of attacking the Three Pyramids Hotel, illegal disposition of firearms and ammunition, using force with police, and vandalising public property.
The prosecution charged the defendants with "the formation of a terrorist organization, membership in a group established in violation of the provisions of the law and the constitution and that aims to disrupt state institutions and operations of public authorities."
The prosecution also charged them with "establishing special operations committees for the Moslem Brüderbund in Giza that use terrorism as a means to forcibly change the governing regime, and to launch attacks on individuals as well as public and tourist facilities."
The charges stem from an attack in Jan. 2016 on an Egyptian security post outside the Three Pyramids Hotel.
No one was hurt in the incident, but the attack damaged the hotel’s facade and also a bus parked in front of the building, which was in use by a group of visiting Arab Israelis.
Do NOT mess with the tourists, guys. The Powers That Be get very annoyed when you screw up the income stream.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli military position in the West Bank came under fire from a passing vehicle early Saturday morning. There were no reported injuries, the Israel Defense Forces said in a short statement.
The incident occurred near the Paleostinian city of Tulkarem. IDF soldiers launched a search for the suspected perpetrator, the military said.
[PRESSTV] A senior aide to Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
alleges that the country’s recent presidential election is fraudulent.
Abdullah’s running mate for second vice president, Asadullah Saadati, made the accusation at a presser on Saturday, claiming that "circles within the Independent Election Commission (IEC) are colluding with the State Building team and are trying to organize a systematic fraud."
The State Building team is the campaign of Afghanistan’s incumbent President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... , Abdullah’s main rival in the September vote.
"We assure the people of Afghanistan that we will not let anyone violate the election law, including the commission, and if the commission follows the law, we will stand beside them and if they violate the law, we will stand against them," said Saadati.
The guarantee for accuracy is the biometric device, and the only valid votes are those processed through biometric devices, but for the past two days the IEC has been entering non-biometric votes into the system, which is contrary to the law as well as pre-election agreements, Afghanistan’s Tolo News further quoted Saadati as saying.
"Some people in the IEC are trying to enter fraudulent votes into the system and yesterday we noticed that the process of entering the fraudulent votes in the system was underway and if this process continues, our team will stand against any suspicious action," he added.
Election officials have already urged all candidates to show restraint until preliminary results are out next week. But two days after the September 28 presidential election, Abdullah claimed victory against his rival Ghani. His declaration sparked criticism both at home and abroad.
Abdullah is seeking the presidency for the third time, after losing in 2009 and 2014.
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[PRESSTV] An official says Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... will not let attacks on its vessels go unanswered after an Iranian oil tanker was hit by two suspicious explosions in the Red Sea early Friday.
"Piracy and banditry in international waterways which is done with the aim of making shipping lanes for commercial vessels insecure will not go unanswered," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said on Saturday. Someone left the irony on...
On Friday, the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) reported that the SABITI tanker had been hit by two separate explosions near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The blasts caused an oil spill that was stopped shortly after.
Shamkhani said a special committee has been set up to investigate the attack on the SABITI tanker that was targeted by two missiles off the coast of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in the Red Sea. The panel's report, he said, will be submitted to responsible authorities in order to make a decision.
"By examining the available video images and information gathered [from the incident], the main clues to this dangerous adventurism have been obtained," Shamkhani added.
The top security official recalled "destructive moves" against other Iranian oil tankers in the Red Sea in recent months, citing the Happiness-1 and the Helm.
Happiness-1 faced "engine failure" off Jeddah on April 30 and was later transferred to the Saudi port city for maintenance. The Saudis initially refused to let the vessel go, demanding some $10 million in maintenance fees before releasing it on July 20.
[Madness Hub] A University of Washington professor is apparently gravely concerned about the cultural impact Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants" could be having on indigenous people.
What are the details?
Professor Holly Barker penned an article that was featured in "The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs" regarding the cartoon, insisting upon its dangerousness for perpetuating a legacy of racism and violence against Pacific indigenous people.
In an article titled, "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom," Barker said the show is promoting violence and racism against such people through its "occupation" of native Pacific lands. Barker also points out that the show also promotes "cultural appropriation" in using an island-themed motif throughout its production design.
In the article, Barker insisted that the show's fictional setting of Bikini Bottom — SpongeBob's home — is based on Bikini Atoll, where the U.S. military conducted nuclear testing during the Cold War. During testing, Bikini Atoll natives were relocated and were not permitted to return after scientific testing determined that the area was later uninhabitable due to the nuclear testing.
Though the show is simply a children's cartoon about an animated sink sponge living in an underwater city, Barker called the show "violent," "racist," and "insidious."
"SpongeBob's presence on Bikini Bottom continues the violent and racist expulsion of Indigenous peoples from their lands," Barker wrote. She pointed out that SpongeBob — an "American character" — benefits from the privilege of not having to care about nuclear testing and forced relocation.
"The detonations do not cause concern for the characters, as they did for the Bikinians, nor do they compromise SpongeBob's frequent activities, like visiting hamburger joints or the beach with friends," Barker added.
Barker also insisted that nobody — fictional character or not — should be able to "occupy Bikini."
"SpongeBob's presence on Bikini Bottom continues the violent and racist expulsion of Indigenous peoples from their lands (and in this case their cosmos) that enables U.S. hegemonic powers to extend their military and colonial interests in the postwar era," the professor continued.
The article even pointed claimed the theme song is problematic. The lyrics of the song say:
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he.
SpongeBob SquarePants!
If nautical nonsense be something you wish,
SpongeBob SquarePants!
then drop on the deck and flop like a fish.
SpongeBob SquarePants!
"The first act of the song is to have children identify who resides in the pineapple house," she complained. "The children's response, repeated extensively throughout the song, affirms that the house and Bikini Bottom are the domain of SpongeBob."
"The song's directives, ensconced in humor, provide the viewer with an active role in defining Bikini Bottom as a place of nonsense, as the audience is instructed 'If nautical nonsense be something you wish...drop on the deck and flop like a fish,'" Barker continued.
Watching the show is just as bad, according to Barker, because "the viewer becomes an unwitting participant in the co-opting of Bikini's story and the exclusion of the Bikinian people."
Anything else?
If all that weren't incentive enough to cancel your Nickelodeon package, Barker insisted that the show is also biased against females.
Elsewhere in the article, she complained that save for one lone female main character, "all of the main characters on the show are male."
"The name 'Bob' represents the everyday man, a common American male, much like a 'Joe,'" Barker wrote, pointing out that perspective into the underwater world is "filtered" only through the "activities of men."
Barker added that while show runners did not, perhaps, intentionally create such a cultural travesty of a children's show rife with "racist, violent colonial practices," it still perpetuates the "insidious practice of disappearing indigenous communities."
“We should be uncomfortable with a hamburger-loving American community's occupation of Bikini's lagoon and the ways that it erodes every aspect of sovereignty," she concluded.
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Poor guy can't get a break.
Evangelical pastors say he's swishy.
Woke-y Joker academics say he's rayciss.
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This is clever and all, but the fish and sponges underwater around Bikini Atoll were indigousness all along. Before or after 1947, they weren't read into their citizen rights. I mean, just because talking animals speak English on a cartoon show doesn't mean ...
[PRESSTV] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has been holding talks with Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s popular Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement for the first time in more than two years in a sign that the kingdom is willing to end hostilities, The Financial Times reports.
The "back-channel" negotiations began after the Houthis announced they would stop launching retaliatory drone and missile attacks against positions inside Saudi Arabia if Riyadh stopped its aggression, the paper said Saturday.
"There has been a lot of progress in the talks," a Dubai-based political commentator was quoted as saying.
"We are now in the last five minutes of the Yemen war," Abdulkhaleq Abdulla told the British newspaper.
The paper, citing a Western diplomat, said the drone attacks on the Saudi oil facilities were key to the shift in Riyadh’s position.
"Another factor behind Riyadh’s shift has been the weakening of its coalition after the United Arab Emirates," it added.
The UAE is Saudi Arabia’s main ally in the military campaign against Yemen. But Abu Dhabi announced in July that it was drawing down its troop presence in Yemen.
The Saudi-led war has been deadlocked for years and experts have persistently said there is no military solution.
Top US officials visited Saudi Arabia after the recent drone attacks on Saudi Arabia's heart of oil industry and reportedly urged them to open negotiation channels with Yemen's Houthis.
Former Iraqi VP Tariq al-Hashemi endorses the Turkish operation in northern #Syria and says the goals of Turkey are “noble” and must be understood by the international community in a tweet.
[CNSNEWS] "My name is Jacob, and I'm a 9-year-old transgender American," the child told Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... (D-Mass.) Thursday night.
People attending the CNN town hall on LGBTQ equality erupted in cheers and applause, interrupting Jacob's attempt to ask Warren a scripted question.
"My question is," Jacob started to say. [Cheers and applause]
"What will you do in your first week as president to make sure that kids like me feel safer in schools, and what do you think schools need to do better to make sure that I don't have to worry about anything but my homework?
Warren told Jacob she liked his question. She told Jacob she would find "the right secretary of education," then ask Jacob for his approval before nominating that person.
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#7 - the political ads are already being edited and narrated: "In their own words, look how batshit crazy these assholes are"
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Beto saying churches against same sex marriage should lose tax exempt status
Interesting historical footnote: most historians the rise of the religious right as a political force in this country to the decision by the Carter administration to revoke tax-exempt status from Christian broadcasters in the late 1970s. Before that, southern evangelical pastors were with few exceptions apolitical. Most evangelical Christians voted Democratic, especially in the south.
But after the state threatened to intervene in their religious life, they became intensely political overnight. They've been a solid GOP voting bloc ever since.
Tex Kennedy may well be solidifying conservative support for Trump. Hard to believe this moron is so stupid; he must be on the GOP's payroll.
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"Where's the ladies room?"
"For you, sonny, it's across the street..."
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Gromgru, kids should be disciplined when they are refusing to change their behavior any other way. Beating this this would serve no purpose and be completely cruel, considering that their own parents have undoubtedly encouraged every step in this direction they have taken (and probably wrote the question, if CNN didn't).
In short, kids who are being brainwashed by their parents deserve help, not a beating. As far as adults who live as people of the opposite gender, the act in and of itself doesn't harm anybody. What does harm people is the liberal fascism that they so frequently subscribe to (the same as your average environmentalist, who might have a point about the greater problem of air pollution,but is totally full of it when they try to censor and harass people and shut down civilization).
[RUDAW.NET] Bearded fighters walk through an area they claim to be the entrance to Sari Kani, the Syria-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... border town where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have resisted an onslaught from the mighty Ottoman Turkish army for four days.
"Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" one of the Arabic-speaking fighters shouts to the camera with other fighters in tow. "The Azaz Forces ... are entering the doors of Ras al-Ain, Allahu Akbar," referring to the Kurdish town by its official, Arabic name.
Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian forces have been accused of extensive human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... abuses in the city of Afrin, under their control since March 2018. These same forces are now on the border with Rojava, the self-administered region in northeast Syria controlled by the SDF.
Turkey has dubbed the current offensive Operation Peace Spring.
Close to 200,000 civilians have fled the pounding of the area by the invading Ottoman Turkish army and their Syrian proxies. More than 40 civilians have died, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. SDF spokesperson Redur Khalil on Saturday put the number of SDF fighters to have died at 45.
In a separate video posted on a proxy-affiliated Telegram channel named Operation Peace Spring, two civilians and a young man purportedly wearing military fatigues, are surrounded roadside by a group of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya proxy force. Other fighters swirl around them.
The video caption claims the video of the three men was recorded on the Manbij-Hasaka road on Saturday, the same day the Ottoman Turkish army claimed to have taken Sari Kani ‐ a claim disputed by the SDF, who say the battle for control of the city still rages.
"We have captured three fleeing militia of the PKK... Allahu Akbar..." says a man whose face is not shown, at which time other fighters shout "Allahu Akbar."
The three terrified men, one of whom is bleeding from his nose, crouch by the side of the road.
Towards the end of the video, one Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighter can be heard faintly: "We know what are going to do to you." The video cuts.
Late on Saturday, another video showing Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian fighters surrounding a number of men by the side of a road appeared on social media.
The fighters are in clothing identical to those posted on the Operation Peace Spring channel.
"Allahu Akbar, film me, film me," one of the fighters shouts as he empties his AK-47 into the supine body of a man as dust rises from the ground. Another appears with a sniper rifle and shoots the man. "The pigs of the party," another one shouts, referring to the main political party in northern Syria, the Democratic Union Party.
Gunfire could be heard in the background. With a final shout of Allahu Akbar, the video is cut.
On Saturday, the general staff of the Syrian proxy forces, known as the "National Army," issued instruction - a copy of which was posted on Twitter - banning fighters from recording any event in the battlefield. Under international humanitarian law, any torture or inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and civilians is considered a war crime.
An SDF source told Rudaw Saturday that three individuals were killed by the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces, two of whom were civilians and the third one a member of the Asayesh, the internal SDF security force. One of the civilians was a health worker.
We are receiving strong reports from Syria that Turkish Army and jihadist fighters backed by it have started executing people. The following footage is from M4 highway. pic.twitter.com/DobPe88KNX
[DAILYSABAH] PKK's Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG) is no different than ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... terrorists, the head of a Syria-based Kurdish association said. "Please don't kill me"
"We as Syrian Kurds do not make a distinction between the PYD, YPG, there is simply the PKK, they are the same as ISIS terrorists," President of the Independent Syrian Kurds Association Abdulaziz Tammo said.
He noted that the YPG fighters are not Syrian Kurds, No, no! Certainly not!
as they come from the PKK's camps in Mount Qandil, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... .
Tammo noted that their association wants the Ottoman Turkish military to successfully complete its operation and clear YPG bandidosbandidos krazed killers from the area and establish a "peace zone," to allow around a million Syrian Kurds who fled YPG persecution to safely return.
He noted that the people of the region want to return to their homeland and will celebrate it if PKK-affiliated bandidosbandidos krazed killers are removed from the area.
"The PKK bandidosbandidos krazed killers pit Kurds against Kurds, Arabs against Arabs," he said.
Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring, the third in a series of cross-border anti-terror operations in northern Syria targeting bandidosbandidos krazed killers affiliated with ISIS and the PKK's Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG), on Oct. 9 at 4 p.m.
[PRESSTV] South Korea has announced a plan to purchase 20 additional F-35 fighter jets from the United States, in a move that is likely to infuriate North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... which has already warned Seoul against the deployment of the jets in the region.
The South’s arms procurement agency announced on Friday that it will begin the second phase of its plan to acquire stealthy fighter jets "in 2021 for the five years to come."
Some $3.3 billion will go toward buying the additional Lockheed Martin-made aircraft, said the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA).
Seoul has already ordered 40 F-35 under a 2014 deal worth about $6.4 billion.
The first delivery of the fighters started earlier this year. It has so far received 8 jets, while a total of 26 more planes will be delivered by the end of next year, according to the South Korean air force.
Earlier this month, the military displayed some of its newly acquired jets for the first time.
The move came despite North Korea’s call in July on South Korean authorities "to come to their senses before it is too late" and stop purchasing the aircraft.
Pyongyang warned then that it would begin developing "special armaments" capable of destroying the fifth generation aircraft if South Korea did not cease its deployment of the jets in the region.
It described the purchase and testing of the aircraft as an "extremely dangerous action which will trigger our reaction."
[PRESSTV] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has demanded Tokyo pay compensation for a fishing boat that sank earlier this week in an incident which Pyongyang described as a deliberate and "gangster act" in the Sea of Japan.
The North’s foreign ministry "strongly demanded" that Tokyo pay compensation for the vessel that went down in the sea on Monday, after colliding with a Japanese patrol boat that was chasing it out of the waters.
"We strongly demand that the Japanese government compensate for the infliction of the material damage by sinking our vessel," the unnamed front man was quoted by the official Central Korean News Agency (CKNA) as saying on Saturday.
It also called the collision as deliberate and "a gangster act" by Japan.
"If such an incident occurs again, Japan will face an undesirable consequence," it added.
Satoshi Kuwahara, a Japanese fisheries agency official, said on Monday that the Japanese patrol boat was warning the North Korea vessel to leave the area, which falls under Japan's exclusive economic zone.
When foreign vessels illegally operate in Japan's waters, Japanese patrol boats often send an audio message, display a warning sign on an electric bulletin board, or spray water at them, Kuwahara said.
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Ooooohhhh — I do believe they mean that to be a threat. Perhaps they should consult Saddam Hussein, which can easily be arranged.
[PRESSTV] Head of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's Supreme Revolutionary Committee has called on the US to "learn from Vietnam" after Washington announced plans to deploy about 2,000 additional troops to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... .
An "increase in numbers does not mean victory," Mohammed Ali al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... warned in a series of tweets, adding the US should also learn from its "useless wars" in countries such as Yemen and Iraq.
The official vowed that the Yemeni nation would continue its resistance against Saudi Arabia and other countries which are supported by the US in their war on the impoverished nation.
"Your previous forces, weapons and military commanders, which proved that the US is killing the Yemeni people, did not frighten us," he said.
"An increase in your numbers will surely not be a concern for us," al-Houthi added.
The remarks came a few hours after Washington announced the deployment of 1,800 additional troops, two fighter squadrons, two Patriot batteries, and a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) in the oil-rich kingdom.
[AlAhram] Pro-Ankara fighters taking part in a Ottoman Turkish offensive on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria "executed" at least nine civilians on Saturday, a monitor said.
"The nine civilians were executed at different moments south of the town of Tal Abyad," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Kurds said a female Kurdish party official and her driver were among those killed.
Hevrin Khalaf was "taken out of her car during a Ottoman Turkish-backed attack and executed by Ottoman Turkish-backed mercenary factions", the political arm of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement.
"This is a clear evidence that the Ottoman Turkish state is continuing its criminal policy towards unarmed civilians," it added.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and its allied fighters began the offensive on Wednesday to push back the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, from its border.
The allied fighters are Syrian former rebels who once fought against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's regime.
As the conflict morphed since erupting in 2011, these factions now receive training and funding from Ankara.
Kurdish activists circulated two videos on social media of the killings.
The first, posted on the Twitter account of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya rebel group, shows two people in civilian clothes kneeling on the ground as a fighter next to them announces they have been captured by the faction.
In the second, an unidentified fighter opens fire at a man on the ground wearing civilian attire.
The Observatory confirmed the authenticity of the videos but AFP could not independently verify them.
The deaths brought to at least 38 the number of civilians killed on the Syrian side since start of the assault, according to the Observatory.
It says 81 Kurdish fighters have been killed in the festivities.
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Update of an old Russian saying about Hungarians:
"If you have a Turk for an ally, you don't need enemies."
[PRESSTV] Thousands of people erupted into the streets in the Pak capital Islamabad to protest against the unending curfew and communication blackout in the disputed Indian-controlled Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . The measures, imposed by India, came after New Delhi ended the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in early August.
Since then, there has been no letup in protests in Pakistain and in many major Western capitals.
Pak protesters say the international community has failed to address the issue of Kashmir properly.
The Pak government has also reiterated its anger over New Delhi’s measures about Kashmir.
Pakistain has also warned the international community to get ready to face the consequences for failing to pressure India to resolve Kashmir dispute peacefully. Consequences? How cute
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the international community has failed to address the issue of Kashmir properly.
warned the international community to get ready
What a bunch of deluded jerks. Either that, or they laugh at the statements they are forced to make when alone.
[Libya Observer] A source from the Ministry of Health has confirmed that six doctors were kidnapped from a medical convoy, while on its way to Ghadames city, north-west of Libya.
The source added that the kidnappers are an gang from the city of Zintan.
For his part, the Director of Ghadames hospital, Mohammed al-Thani, disclosed that the kidnappers are demanding the release of a resident from Zintan city held by the Special Deterrent Force (SDF), pointing out that he is in contact with the Municipal Council and elders of Zintan to secure the release of the doctors.
He also confirmed that communications were made with the doctors to make sure they were safe and well.
#Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says mediation and negotiation will not take place with ‘terrorists’ and that ‘we have tried peaceful solutions’ previously on the northern Syria incursion. pic.twitter.com/JKbRgR0wYr
Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime. https://t.co/O5hEVQ28jtpic.twitter.com/dn6cl7VUZr
US military officials confirm that the graphic video circulating that shows Turkey-backed fighters executing people is true. #Syriahttps://t.co/OqsrrZqOpI
According to local reports, co-head of Syrian Future Party Hervin Khalef was killed on the same road along with her driver. The following footage shows her vehicle surrounded by Turkey-backed fighters. #Syriapic.twitter.com/Z4nrL1CTtw
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EU, UN, Israel? Not a peep. This is never THEIR problem. We are the most distant country geographically from the ME but the first gentiles to be blaimed.
#9
The term applies to an entire world who doesn't give a dam about ME stability or holy land security other than only half of the US pop. The other half want the region to be Paĺestïne. And that latter half will soon over take the former.
The US will not be the "US" in another generation.
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Then I hope this whole thing teaches Israel to put minimal faith in allies. The US may just choose arabs over them when the time comes.
While many may feel America has done the right thing here, washing their hands off clean, this will set a snowball rolling that will hit in the next generation probably.
There is no book in which letting Turks have carte blanche over anything is wise.
[GatewayPundit] We have facial recognition confirmation that Rep. Ilhan Omar and her boyfriend Tim Mynett were in attendance at the riots following the Trump rally in Minneapolis.
#FLASH: US air assets were mobilized & employed their laser designators against the Turkish post, indicating they were ready to fire, if ordered - only if Turkish bombardment did not cease. Multiple requests were sent up to C&C to counter fire and immediately extract -@Newsweek
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We can all rest easy, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced an outline to impose sanctions on Turkey for invading northeastern Syria. I know this is true because I saw Hand-wringing Hollen talking about the needless slaughter of Kurds being Trump's fault.
[NYPOST] President Trump acted unlawfully when he declared a national emergency in order to fund his long-promised border wall, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Texas federal Judge David Briones’ order left open the option that the justice could also temporarily bar use of the funds to construct the wall at the southern border. Appointed by....*drumroll, please* Bill Clinton
The County of El Paso and an organization called Border Network for Human Rights sued Trump and the administration earlier this year, claiming the president violated the law when he declared a national emergency in order to divert funds from the Department of Defense to bankroll the project.
The judge agreed, writing Friday that the law "expressly forbids" the use of money appropriated by Congress for a purpose outside its original purpose.
Briones instructed lawyers for the plaintiffs to file proposed parameters within the next 10 days specifying the scope of the injunction they’re seeking to levy against the wall.
Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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David Briones is a federal judge on senior status with the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.He joined the court in 1994 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
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Civil 'servants' and black robed aristocracy. De facto life appointments. Maybe, just maybe, organizations stop working when those organized decide they run things not the people. Everyone should be able to be held accountable by term/employment limits that include the opportunity for the 'employer' to opt out of their services. An 'opt out' that works routinely, not rarely.
Maduro officials are reportedly preventing the President of Guatemala from entering Venezuela at Caracas airport. He is due to conduct meeting with Juan Guaido#Venezuelahttps://t.co/rodAyl3bWd
[Jpost] According to the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union Commission’s website, during the last decade the EUC has given over two billion euros to Paleostinians in the "West Bank" and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip. This does not include extra payments for health, welfare and education, and legal services to assist claims against Israel. Additionally, the EUC is funding illegal Arab building in Area C, which is under Israeli control via the authority of the IDF and its civilian branch, COGAT. This includes assistance to Paleostinian Authority residents who infiltrate into Area C and build illegal homes in Arab villages.
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Facilitating Muslim/African "emigration" to Europe. Working to disfranchise the deplorables in USA. Trying to destroy the Jewish state. Promoting enviro-hysterics. It's all part and parcel of the same worldview.
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Allowing the Palestinians to return would change the ethnic makeup of Israelis. Israel is an ethno-state and politicians are very clear about this. They tried ethno-states in Europe, it didn't work out well for them. That's why they imported millions of Islamic immigrants. If it's good for Europe it's good for Israel.
[Jpost] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied that Turkish-backed forces had taken control of the center of Ras al Ain on Saturday after a senior Turkish security official said the town center had been seized.
Marvan Qamishlo, an SDF military media official, said Turkish-backed forces had entered one neighborhood of Ras al Ain, the industrial district, following hours of heavy Turkish shelling that had forced a "tactical retreat" from that area.
"Now the SDF's attack has started and there are very fierce clashes now," he told Reuters. "The clashes are continuing in the industrial district," he said, saying this was the part of Ras al Ain closest to the Turkish border.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) release footage showing Ras al-Ayn (Sari Kani), saying it has not fallen under the control of Turkish forces that are currently waging an offensive in northern #Syria. pic.twitter.com/Rf6pKGBzg9
[AMGREATNESS] A Democrat member of the Minnesota House of Representatives was among the far-left riffraff that harassed and intimidated Trump supporters as they left the Trump rally in Minneapolis Thursday night. Rep. Aisha Gomez (DFL) was seen consorting with a member of the Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... mob as he hurled profanities at Republicans as they drove by.
Hundreds of leftists gathered outside of the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis to scream at Trump’s supporters and tell them to go home.
Before the rally, a middle aged woman, her husband, and her 75-year-old mother were harassed by the vicious mob as they made their way into the venue, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
"Shame on you!" agitators screamed, blowing whistles in their faces. "How does it feel to be a racist and a bigot?" one asked. The woman later told the Strib, "I think that was the worst of society imaginable."
After the rally, the "protest" descended into chaos as left-wing protesters and antifa bully boyz assaulted Trump supporters, clashed with police, and burned "Make America Great Again" hats.
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I remember as a kid, when a controversial group got a parade or demonstration permit, the police kept agitated crowds separated with police lines to keep the peace. This is not happening any more. In fact, city administrators are encouraging mob violence---you saw it in Portland, Charlottesville, and now Minneapolis.
We're headed toward Kristallnacht here in FUSA.
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city administrators are encouraging mob violence---you saw it in Portland, Charlottesville, and now Minneapolis.
Also San Jose (in 2016).
Not just "administrators," btw-- it's usually the MAYOR of the city, explicitly telling the world that he will not enforce the law and will not ensure order and public safety in his city.
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Add to the above examples the de facto stand-down orders post-BLM given to police generally by left-wing idiot mayors such as De Blasio in NY and current/recent mayors of Chicago and Baltimore.
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Antifa, a political group consisting of anarchists, socialists and communists along with some liberals and social democrats. They tend to damage property, harass and are violent of anyone who disagrees with them.
Much like Bill Ayers and the SDS of the 1960s. Seems like Antifa qualifies as a terrorist group who's best interests are not the USA.
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Not anarchy nor anarchists. Black-booted, brown shirted fascistic enforcement. Going back to the early days, when the “anti-fascists had running battles in the streets with the Nazi lads, Antifa was made up of Soviet-oriented hard communist cadres.
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In fact, city administrators are encouraging mob violence---you saw it in Portland, Charlottesville, and now Minneapolis.
Don't forget Berkeley...and San Jose as noted by Lex.
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TW I've seen these maroons up close. Despite their stupid little slogans and random signs, the vast majority really aren't ideological; they're simply lost souls with serious emotional problems and a penchant for violence. Totally disorganized. Chaotic.
So to the extent they have any coherent program at all, it would be much closer to loosely organized anarchists than to disciplined and centrally-directed communist cadres.
Again, most of these people have serious emotional issues.
Not yet. Panty-fa doesn't represent anything coherent, and neither do their street brawler opponents.
They're both fringe groups of weirdos who want to posture, shout, and crack skulls.
Not really at all like Secessionists and Free Soil types. No coherent ideas or values at all. Just mental patients armed with mace and bike locks and long sticks.
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TW I've seen these maroons up close. Despite their stupid little slogans and random signs, the vast majority really aren't ideological; they're simply lost souls with serious emotional problems and a penchant for violence.
I yield to your personal experience, Lex. But what about those who call them out and point them in the direction of the day?
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Here's a comic-- appalling or even pathetic, actually-- example of the borderline mental illness that afflicts Panty-fa "activists".
First the utterly clueless, whitewashed CBS News account of the experience of "Louise Rosealma," a SoCal-based "activist.
Now, explore what everyone except the idiot CBS reporter knows about this nutty individual, aka Moldylocks, real name Emily Marshall. Moldylocks is a "hairy fetish" pr0n "actress" -- and she got punched because she came to the rally with a bottle and M80s, with which she attempted to make IEDs...
She's par for the Panty-fa course. There are even nuttier people there, believe it or not.
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.
[Bloomberg] Californians have embraced rooftop solar panels more than anyone in the U.S., but many are learning the hard way the systems won’t keep the lights on during blackouts.
[Hot Air] This is another item that dropped during CNN’s disastrous LGBTQ town hall on Thursday night, but I didn’t notice it until yesterday evening. There were plenty of painful moments, including when Joe Biden started rambling on about "round-the-clock sex at gay bathhouses in San Francisco." But in the midst of all that, CNN’s Anderson Cooper got some of the candidates to weigh in on an actual policy issue that is somehow being considered by Democrats.
[PJ] Federal employee Henry Kyle Frese was arrested today for allegedly leaking national security secrets to reporters at CNBC and NBC. One of the reporters was his girlfriend. Read the indictment here.
[PJ] I’m not going to lie. When I first picked up The Boy Crisis, by Dr. Warren Farrell and Dr. John Gray, I read the foreword to get a sense of the authors and their ideas -- and then after looking at the table of contents, I dove straight for the section on Boys Who Hurt, Hurt Us.
US President Donald Trump responded to criticism of the withdrawal of US forces from northern Syria, calling the Middle East "quicksand" and those who got the US into wars in the Middle East "inept."
[DAWN] Two daughters of a labourer were kidnapped and allegedly gang-raped by a group of men in Punjab's Kabirwala tehsil, police said on Friday.
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[Madness Hub] A University of Washington professor is apparently gravely concerned about the cultural impact Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants" could be having on indigenous people.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
