Militants placed severed pigs heads and placards protesting the elections at polling places and campaign offices in and around Austin,TX. "Cruz and O’Rourke are imperialist pigs. Elections, no! Revolution, yes!" "O’Rourke is an imperialist pig. Elections, no! Revolution, yes!" pic.twitter.com/EmCXcEN2p3
n what some have dubbed "Kanye Derangement Syndrome," we see the death throes of the divide-and-conquer identity politics that has long been the source of Democrat power and residual political success. Democrats' mantra was that black conservatives could not possibly exist in the natural world. They had to be some kind of genetically modified organism to which, when someone wandered off the plantation, they would apply that scientific term "Uncle Tom."
The problem for Democrats is that blacks are leaving their political plantation in increasing droves. In a bit of irony, they are pouring across ideologically open borders. Heeding candidate Trump's call of "what the hell do you have to lose," they have found they had nothing to lose by embracing the rising job opportunities, declining unemployment, and reduced crime those racist Republicans were offering compared to life in the gerrymandered inner-city Bantustans where liberal Democrats have held sway for decades.
Kanye West represents that increasing stampede, but he is a symptom, not the cause.
[AmericanThinker] It seems to me the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, last seen in Istanbul, is Erdogan-brand Turkish taffy, a confection of sugary lies made to inflame Americans against the Saudis and aid the far more dangerous to our well-being mullahs of Iran. (a) Khashoggi was a Muslim Bro
...In the 1970s he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, which exists to rid the Islamic world of western influence. He was a political Islamist until the end, recently praising the Muslim Brotherhood in the Washington Post. He championed the ’moderate’ Islamist opposition in Syria, whose crimes against humanity are a matter of record. Khashoggi frequently sugarcoated his Islamist beliefs with constant references to freedom and democracy. But he never hid that he was in favour of a Muslim Brotherhood arc throughout the Middle East. (b) The whole case stinks
...like Turkey’s case against the just released American hostage Pastor Andrew Brunson -- is an Erdogan confection of adulterated ingredients. The purported eyewitnesses seem to be liars who, like Khashoggi himself, have ties to the anti-U.S. Moslem Brotherhood and Iran.
...The Turkish police reports keep shifting as the story falls apart. On Twitter, Turkish academic and columnist Emre Uslu contends that in the 650 meters distance between the hotel (where the claimed assassins stayed) and the consulate there are seven security cameras, but for some reason, the police haven't shown any of that camera footage to prove that they actually went to the consulate.
...Not only are the sources of the Khashoggi tale suspect, but also the information they peddle is bizarre. First accounts were that the Turkish government had video and audio proof that Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in the consulate but wouldn’t release them because that would reveal where the cameras and recorders were hidden. Think: Surely if that were the case the Saudis would know from the claim itself where the cameras and recorders had been placed. Later accounts say Khashoggi recorded the proof on his Apple wristwatch synced to a phone outside the building. Whatever "proofs" of this bizarre tale the Turks and Iranian stooges are promoting, we haven’t seen it.
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The Turks and Saidi's have appointed a joint commission to investigate and bury.
If the US left wing wants to protest, let them go to the U.N. But little will stop them from the "Trump supports authoritarian regimes!" meme, coming soon to a media outlet near you.
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The whole story is just dumb. He could've just been offed during a "robbery" and it still would've suited the Saudis' purposes if killing the mook and sending a message was the point
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Commenting on the irrational female rage unleashed by the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, Stephen Green remarks: "The Democrats have worked hard to lock down the Trigglypuff vote, but at what cost of even slightly more moderate voters?" But do such voters really exist?
We are more than 25 years into a cycle of increasing polarization that arguably began with Bill Clinton’s election as president. Clinton’s radicalism ‐ remember the so-called "assault weapons" ban? ‐ sparked a backlash that cost Democrats the control of the House that they’d held for 40 years. Everything thereafter increased the partisan divide: The budget standoff that led to the government shutdown, the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment crisis, the Florida recount in 2000, the Iraq War, the recapture of Congress by Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats, Obama’s election in 2008, the Tea Party movement, on and on.
It is not the case that America’s politics have become more divisive because the Republican Party has moved further right. Liberal pundits, commenting from within their ideological cocoons, habitually apply labels ‐ "far right," "extremist," "white nationalist," etc. ‐ to depict the GOP as beholden to a dangerous fringe, but this is just paranoid propaganda. The typical Republican voter in 2018 is actually no more "extreme" than his father was in 1988. Nor is the policy agenda of the GOP now any more "far right" than it was in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The cause of the increased partisan divide is not that the Republicans have moved right, but that Democrats have moved left.
What happened, when did it happen and why did it happen?
[Townhall] There are few things that get liberals riled up like exposing them for exactly who and what they are. They hate it, almost as much as they hate people who don’t fall in lockstep with their every demand. So when President Trump started talking about the "mob" liberals have become, "journalists" leapt to their defense, naturally. But there is no defense from the truth; no matter how earnestly a CNN or MSNBC personality insists the Sun rises in the west, that doesn’t make it so. The Democratic Party is the party of the mob.
...The spirit of the mob in inherent in the left, what they want requires something from others ‐ either their money or obedience, and often times both. But the realities of life tended to keep this instinct in check outside the ballot box. Then millennials entered the scene.
A generation raised on unearned self-esteem has spent their college years destroying the governor that most people solidify in childhood controlling their worst impulses. Temper tantrums in the quad and shouting down speakers who might say something they don’t like were rewarded with success for four years, it’s only natural they’d maintain that mentality in adulthood. Add in funding ‐ both in salaries and bail money ‐ and you have an army of social justice warriors with an inflated sense of entitlement and a willingness to shoulder aside accepted norms.
...Expect the mob to continue to rage, well-funded and emboldened by the passive encouragement from their leaders. But a word of warning, if you are vocal with your politics you should keep your head on a swivel. Any child lacking discipline will inevitably test boundaries and cross lines, but a child is one person and will eventually tire. A mob feeds off itself, off its members, and people in a group will go much further than any of them would alone. In other words, no matter how insistent the likes of Don Lemon Brooke Baldwin are that they don’t exist, the mob is here for the foreseeable future. And it’s only going to get worse.
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The Founders worked hard to make mob rule difficult to impossible. It still is difficult to impossible. That just means the mobsters push harder. So we have to push back harder, but in a non mob way...
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The screams from the U.S. Senate gallery during the ayes and noes on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation were the Democratic party’s cries for help. Voters should arrange the major intervention that Democrats sorely need, so they might regain their mental health.
What should have been a solemn occasion last Saturday afternoon ‐ the then-nominee’s supporters and opponents quietly and gracefully waiting to see if he had enough votes to reach the nation’s highest court ‐ instead sounded like chilling shrieks from a psychiatric hospital. If it were only the protesters and not prominent Democrats
..."You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for," Hillary Clinton told CNN Tuesday. "That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."
...President Trump surveyed these dangers and told voters in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday: "You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. And that’s what the Democrats are becoming."
...Only a massive, crushing defeat on November 6 finally might make the Left heel.
If Democrats win either house, they will go berserk. Impeachment of President Trump, Kavanaugh, and even Vice President Pence (as some leftists demand) will top their To Do list. Medicare for All, scrapping ICE, and Democratic Socialism soon will follow.
To these leftist words, Antifa will add the music of mob rule: riots, property destruction, physical intimidation, street violence, death threats, and possibly even more severe mayhem ‐ all in the name of Resistance.
If Democrats barely lose (say, the GOP keeps a three-seat House majority), they will blame Russia, voter suppression, patriarchy, white-nationalist lead poisoning, global warming, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia, high gas prices, income inequality, and racism, racism, racism.
However, if Republicans romp, boost their Senate majority by three to eight seats (ideally securing a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority) and score an additional dozen-plus House districts, vanquished Democrats might cry together on November 7 and conclude:
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The "Left of Center" candidate McGovern was crushed at the polls by Nixon. The response was for the Far Left Wing to work harder to purge any moderate members of the Democratic Party. Carter and Clinton may have won but they still persisted and today we see the results.
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[TheNewNeo] The Democrats thought Brett Kavanaugh was a safe target. Accusing a white prepster named "Brett" would be a great way to achieve several goals: stopping him from changing the balance of SCOTUS in favor of conservatives, and showing solidarity with women and with #MeToo. Who on earth would identify with Kavanaugh except other white preppy guys on the right, and they weren’t going to vote for Democrats anyway, so no great loss.
Well, it turns out that some women are concerned about the men in their lives, too. False accusations can ruin nearly anyone (women included, although I’m not sure how many women consider that aspect).
However, another obvious group that might look at the Kavanaugh hearings and become concerned about what was happening to him is black men. If that sounds counter-intuitive to some people, it certainly doesn’t sound counter-intuitive to me. It occurred to me, while watching the proceedings, that black men might not take too kindly to this little exercise in Believing Women No Matter What.
...Why didn’t it occur to Democrats that their approach to Kavanaugh might bother black men as well as white ones? My theory is that Democrats now think so completely along racial lines that it probably wouldn’t occur to them that a black man could identify with something happening to a white man, and a preppy white man at that.
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The "selective logic" is baffling, no? Double Plus Bad: Racial Profiling, Stop and Frisk and the like... Double Plus Good: 'Believe the Women', 'No Need For Due Process' and the like...
The Man in Black in The Princess Bride(1987) said it best: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!"
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) – Two civilians were killed Saturday when a bomb planted by Islamic State militants went off in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the Baghdad News website, the source said that a group of IS militants sneaked into al-Shabali village in Qayyarah district and placed an explosive charge inside a power transformer there.
“The bomb explosion left two civilians dead,” the source said, adding that tribal mobilization forces opened fire at the IS militants and forces them to escape the scene.
Tikrit (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while four others were injured in a bomb blast in Tikrity city in Salahuddin, the Interior Ministry’s Security Media Center said on Wednesday.
In a statement, the center said “a bomb went off behind a fuel station in Tikrit city, leaving a civilian killed and four others injured.”
Moreover, the center added, “another bomb exploded under a vehicle on Street 40 in Tikrit. No casualties were reported.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) 17 Children of Ottoman Turkish parents, who joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , have been repatriated into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... , after they were left in Iraq, Ottoman Turkish diplomatic sources were quoted saying on Wednesday.
A report published by Anadolu Agency said "the 17 children, who included a child below three, were repatriated from an orphanage in al-Salhiya region in Baghdad."
The children, according to the report, "are now under protection of Ottoman Turkish officials. All of them are in good health condition."
Statistics have referred that around 2200 Ottoman Turkish people joined Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Only 600 of them returned back to their country.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... agreed to increase releases of water to Iraq to help it overcome a water crisis, Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi said.
Halbousi made the remarks following a meeting with Erdogan in the Ottoman Turkish capital Ankara.
The Ottoman Turkish president agreed to increase water releases to Iraq "to guarantee the delivery of water to all Iraqi provinces, particularly in Basra," the Iraqi Basnews website quoted Halbousi as saying in a statement.
"The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... further stressed its commitment to supporting Iraq in the (water) file," the statement read.
Halbousi arrived in Turkey Monday to take part in the third meeting of Eurasian parliament speakers.
Turkey is holding back water on the Tigris river to fill a reservoir behind its Ilisu dam, a step that has alarmed Iraq and caused shortages particularly in the southern province of Basra.
Iraq’s water shortages have led it to take measures such as bans on rice planting, and driven farmers to leave their land. Basra province has seen months of street protests over the lack of clean drinking water.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi serviceman was killed and two others went missing following an attack by Islamic State militants in Anbar province, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Iraqi website Alghad Press, the source said that a group of Islamic State militants attacked a military vehicle in Al-Qa’im district in Anbar, leaving a serviceman.
“Two other servicemen went missing following the attack,” added the source.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Eight Islamic State members were arrested in a security operation, west of Anbar, a security source from the province said on Wednesday.
“Security troops carried out a wide-scale campaign after information showed the presence of militants, who had sneaked into Qaim town, west of Anbar, to carry out terrorist operations,” the source told Almaalomah website.
“The campaign resulted in arresting eight Islamic State members,” the source added indicating that “the arrested ones accessed the town using fake identity cards while the displaced families were returning back to their liberated regions.”
The troops, according to the source, “transferred the arrested ones under tight measures to a nearby detention cell for investigations.”
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while two people were maimed in an armed attack and a bomb kaboom in Baghdad, security sources said on Friday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, a police source said "a bomb went off, this evening, near stores in al-Taji region, north of Baghdad, leaving two people maimed."
Troops, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "transferred the maimed to hospital for treatment."
Moreover, a security source a civilian was killed in an armed attack, west of Baghdad.
"Unidentified button men killed a civilian near his house in al-Radwaniya region, southwest of Baghdad," the source told Baghdad Today website.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi security forces on Saturday found a new mass grave including remains of 78 civilians who were killed by Islamic State militants in Mosul city, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday.
Iraqi website BasNews quoted Cap. Ali Hassan Marwan, from Nineveh province police, as saying that the new mass grave was found near al-Rashidiyah district in Mosul.
He added that the remains of 54 people were found to be belonging to women, who were kidnapped by IS militants during the group’s capture of the city.
They were handed to forensic experts to identify them and their relatives.
As Iraqi troops recaptured areas held by Islamic State militants since 2014, they have regularly run into mass graves of civilians and security agents executed by the militants for fleeing the group’s havens or collaborating with security forces.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Nineteen Islamic State members have been arrested in a wide-scale operation, south of Mosul, Nineveh Police Command said on Thursday.
“Security troops of Nineveh Operations Command carried out a wide-scale operation after closing all exits of Qayyarah region in order to storm the region,” Col. Saleh al-Sherifi told BasNews. “The operation resulted in arresting 19 infiltrators of Islamic State members, possessing weapons and hand grenades.”
The operation, according to Sherifi, is ongoing. “The arrested ones were taken to the command headquarters for investigations ahead of standing judiciary.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two Islamic State members have been arrested in west of Mosul, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the ministry, said “police in Nineveh, in collaboration with citizens, managed to arrest two Islamic State members who were involved in terrorism charges. They were used to fight with the group’s so-called Soldiers Department.”
The militants, according to the ministry, “were arrested in al-Zahraa district, west of Mosul.”
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State leader was killed in an explosion on borders with Salahuddin province, a security source said on Friday.
Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said “ Emir-ul Jund [leader of soldiers] in the so-called Diyala State, known as Abu Baraa, was killed in an explosion of a rest house in the outskirts of Mutaibija, on borders between Diyala, Salauddin.”
Abu Baraa, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, “is considered an important Islamic State leader.”
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi forces have announced arresting the perpetrators of an explosion caused by booby-trapped vehicle in Kirkuk.
In a statement on Saturday, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, commander of the special forces, said “a booby-trapped vehicle was blown up on Saturday evening in al-Mamdouda district, east of the province, leaving eight people injured, including children.”
The militants, according to Maan, “exploded the vehicle after they failed to move it to another place, especially after being watched for the forces.”
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Federal police arrested on Saturday three Islamic State militants in the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk, a police chief said.
The trio were arrested in different security operations in Hawija district in Kirkuk with two of them possessing explosive materials, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a motorbike, Iraqi website Ayn Al Iraq quoted Commander of the Iraqi Federal Police Raed Shaker Jawdat as saying.
One of them admitted supplying the terrorist group with foodstuffs, Jawdat added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three civilians were wounded as a mortar missile was fired in southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Thursday.
Speaking to Almaalomah website, the source said “a mortar missile was fired, today, by militants on a farm in central Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk.”
The missile, according to the source, “left three people seriously injured near the blast scene.”
The injured were taken to hospital for treatment, the source added.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State leading member was killed in Kirkuk, the Iraqi Security Media Center said on Thursday.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson for the center, said “police managed to kill an Islamic State member in Kirkuk province.”
As his picture was checked by other arrested militants, Rasool added “they recognized him and that he was revealed to have been the commander of the fourth brigade in the so-called Qadisiya division.”
[IsraelTimes] Army says several Paleostinians breached security fence on Saturday, returned to Gazoo; firefighters tackle 4 blazes caused by arson balloons near Israeli communities
Israel will not allow any more fuel into the Gazoo Strip until violence against Israel from the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-run enclave halts "entirely," Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday.
"Until violence in the Gazoo Strip stops entirely, including the launching of incendiary balloons and the burning of tires near Israeli communities, the supply of fuel and gas to the Gazoo Strip will not be renewed," he said.
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"Until violence in the Gazoo Strip stops entirely, including the launching of incendiary balloons and the burning of tires near Israeli communities, the supply of fuel and gas to the Gazoo Strip will not be renewed"
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Its about time.
I have never before heard of a government providing or allowing fuel shipment to those attacking its civilians.
The message such shipments gave to Israel's adversaries was that the Israeli government is afraid of them.
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The message such shipments gave to Israel's adversaries was that the Israeli government is afraid of them.
Well, we were afraid of Obambia and we're afraid of EUSSR
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An aside; I hope Germany is paying attention. While I agree with Israel and support them, it reminds me of the power Russia will have over Germany.
Via Business Insider; Trump's attacks on Germany focused on two major issues: defense spending and spending on energy imports from Russia.Germany being totally controlled by Russia because they're getting between 60 to 70% of their energy from Russia and building the Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline from the Baltic Sea to Europe that is likely to boost Russia's natural-gas exports. Given Germany's commitment to reducing the use of coal and nuclear energy, the pipeline is seen as a key source of new energy in the coming years. The growing consumption of Russian oil and gas comes at the same time Germany and its allies are confronting Russia over numerous issues, including Russia's invasion of Crimea and election interference around the world.
the article continues; According AG Energiebilanzen, Germany's energy mix coming from Russian oil and gas, a high percentage but certainly short of the 60% to 70% that Trump suggested.
Germany has also helped lead the sanctions on Russia in the wake of the invasion of Crimea. wait until the Nord Stream 2 is fully functional.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs released the details of the recent meeting between the U.S. delegation led by U.S. Special Adviser for Afghanistan reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... politicians in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement said the Taliban political delegation consisting of the head of Qatar office Alhaj Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai ...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets.... , deputy chief of the political office of Taliban Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi, members of the political office Sherikh Shahabudin Delawar, Qari Din Mohammad Hanif, Alhaj Mohammad Zahid Ahmadzai, and Mohamamd Sohail Shaheen met with the U.S. delegation led by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday.
The statement further added that the two sides discussed the prospects regarding an end to the presence of the foreign forces in Afghanistan and peaceful approach to end the issues of Afghanistan.
According to the statement released by Taliban, the politicians of the group have told the U.S. delegation that the presence of the foreign forces is a major barrier on the way to resolve the issues and for the return of lasting peace in Afghanistan.
The two sides also agreed to continue to their negotiations in a bid to find an Afghan inclusive solution to the ongoing issues in Afghanistan, the statement added.
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[Al Ahram] Israeli police said on Saturday they were investigating the death of a Paleostinian woman in the occupied West Bank, after her husband said he suspected Israeli settlers had pelted their car with rocks.
Rooters was unable to independently verify the circumstances of the incident but footage of the car, which a Rooters cameraman said bore Paleostinian licence plates, showed what appeared to be a blood-stained broken brick at the foot of the passenger seat, which was covered in shattered glass and blood stains.
A source at the Nablus hospital where Aisha al-Rawbi was brought said the 47-year-old was dead on arrival and that she had suffered a head injury. Her relatives said an autopsy was to be carried out at another hospital.
The woman's husband, Aykube al-Rawbi, 52, said he was driving by a settlement late on Friday after dark along a main road near the Paleostinian city of Nablus and that he could not clearly see who pelted the car.
"The stones came from the side where the settlement is. I could hear the people speak Hebrew, but I didn't see them," said al-Rawbi.
Israeli Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "Police arrived in the area and have opened an investigation into the circumstances behind the incident reported."
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... security forces have embarked on joint security operations in Hiraan region to clear main supply routes to facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid to the population, the mission said on Friday.
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said the joint operation in south-central Somalia region has so far clear 16 improvised bombs (IEDs) and is also aimed at improving freedom of movement.
"The forces are opening the main supply routes connecting Beletweyne and Jalalaqsi to facilitate safe and timely humanitarian assistance delivery," it said.
The allied forces have been pursuing a renewed offensive against al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... bad boys, who in 2011 were forced to retreat from the capital, Mogadishu.
The UN has warned that a blockage of supply routes will spark a rise in prices and reduction of basic commodities in recovered towns that could further worsen food security in the affected districts.
The joint forces are reportedly taking main towns and moving along the main roads, but al-Shabaab has in some cases maintained control of supply routes, hindering the delivery of humanitarian and commercial supplies to affected people.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 19 people have been killed and 50 people are maimed after two jacket wallahs wearing explosives vests attacked a restaurant and a hotel that are popular with civilians and local government officials in the town of Baidoa in Somalia.
Police officer Mahad Mohammed said a man wearing an bomb walked into Beder restaurant and went kaboom! on Saturday, killing multiple people and wounding others.
Shortly after the first blast, Mohammed said another suicide bomber went kaboom! at the Bilan hotel, killing more than six people.
Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... grabbed credit for the attacks on the pro-insurgent radio station Andalus. The al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group is fighting to topple the country’s government and establish an Islamist state based on its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Baidoa, considered a centre of economic activity in Somalia, lies some 250km west of Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu. The town is due to hold elections for the regional presidency next month, and one of the candidates is al-Shabaab defector Mukhtar Robow, who once served as the group’s deputy commander.
The US military says it conducted an Arclight airstrike targeting the turbans near the town of Haradere the day before.
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[PULSE.NG] Over 800 children have been freed from the hold of the 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... Death Eaters who have besieged the north-east of Nigeria.
This is confirmed in a statement by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... children's agency.
According to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the release was facilitated by the Civilian Joint Task Force assigned with the task of suppressing the terrorists.
It is considered the first formal release by the latter.
In more reports by NY Times, "1,469 boys and girls associated with the militia group have been identified in Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, alone."
This is reportedly captured in statement issued by the agency on Friday, October 12, 2018.
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[DAWN] In order to curb unabated street crimes, a newly established ’street watch force’ comprising 1,870 police personnel was deployed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Saturday.
Addressing the force personnel at Garden police headquarters, where SSPs of all districts of the city were present, Additional Inspector General (AIG) Dr Amir Ahmed Sheikh announced that the force will be deployed at "hot spots" where street crimes are rampant.
He pointed out that new cycle of violences have been provided to the security force: 80 to South and City areas, 80 to district East and 20 each to Malir, West and Korangi.
Four coppers riding two motorbikes will perform their duty for eight hours in designated areas. Mostly newly recruited coppers have been deployed for this purpose.
District SSPs will head the street watch force in their respective areas, the AIG said.
The force's personnel have been directed to respond to any information regarding street crimes immediately.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday rejected a plea to withdraw Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case registered against lawyers for allegedly torturing a police officer.
The top judge had taken notice of an incident on Oct 7, in which a group of 15 lawyers led by advocates Saif Khokhar, Nabeel Haider and Mustafa Khokhar had attacked ASI Samar Riaz Khan in a district and sessions court where Khan had gone to submit records.
During a hearing of the case in the Supreme Court's Lahore registry on Saturday, the court also rejected a request to prevent the arrest of the accused lawyers until a decision was made in the case.
"I will give my resignation but I will not be unjust," he said.
He also ordered a copy of the video of the lawyers assaulting the sub-inspector, which, he said, would be displayed in the next hearing of the case to determine who was responsible.
A large number of lawyers, including President of the Lahore Bar Association Malik Arshad and Secretary Sohail Murshad, were present in court on Saturday.
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[DAWN] The Saudi air strikes in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have killed some 1,248 children during conflict that has been highlighted by a UN human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... committee which urged 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... to "put an end to the air strikes" against its southern neighbour.
The recommendation was addressed to Saudi Arabia by the UN Committee on the rights of the Child, which also issued concluding observations on Benin, El Salvador, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mauritania and Niger.
Each country is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which has two optional protocols: involvement of children in armed conflict and the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Every four years, member states are expected to provide an update to the UN on their activities and progress relating to these international accords.
In a statement, the 18-member UN panel noted that Saudi Arabia was involved in the Yemen conflict as the leader of an internationally-backed coalition "to restore legitimacy" there.
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Houthis gonna quit using children as human shields? No.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A counter-terrorism operation in Endirey village in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... ended with two holy warriors being killed, footage released on Saturday shows.
According to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee’s press-release, the holy warriors were killed when they refused to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities.
Security forces had earlier surrounded the myrmidons’ hideout and evacuated nearby houses to ensure residents’ safety.
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[Al Ahram] More than 1,000 people, including families and women carrying babies, set off from Honduras towards the United States on Saturday, days after the United States urged Honduras' president to halt mass migration.
Recent attempts at group crossings from Central America to the United States have tested U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's "zero tolerance" stance on illegal immigration, as people fleeing violence and poverty defy threats of deportation.
"I believe we'll get to the United States. There's no work in Honduras, and you live in fear that they're going to kill you or your children," said Fanny Barahona, 35, an unemployed teacher who walked with her nine-year-old son and carried a two-year-old daughter.
Some 1,300 people joined the so-called "March of the Migrant," planning to walk from San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras through Guatemala and into Mexico, organizer Bartolo Fuentes said. Once in Mexico, they plan to request refugee status to remain in the country or a visa to pass through to the U.S. border, he said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four forces of Evil affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed or maimed in an kaboom triggered by an improvised bomb in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silbab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the incident has taken place on Friday in the vicinity of Suki district.
The statement further added four ISIS forces of Evil were busy planting an improvised bomb on a roadside in Spidar Dara area of the district when the kaboom took place, leaving two forces of Evil dead and two others critically maimed.
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[IsraelTimes] Contribution mostly earmarked for UNRWA’s health and education programs, but Ottowa says some funds allocated to ‘improve neutrality within the agency’.
[PULSE.NG] Eleven people died on Saturday in northern Greece when a car thought to be carrying migrants crashed head-on with a truck and burst into flames, police said. Firefighters recovered 11 bodies from the vehicle, which had been travelling towards Thessaloniki. The driver of the truck, which had been heading towards the town of Kavala, escaped the unscathed.
Greek police said the car involved in the crash had been used for migrant smuggling in the past. It had failed to stop earlier Saturday when police officers tried to pull it over for a check.
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[PULSE.NG] The United States warned Saturday that action could be taken against outgoing Maldives president Abdulla Yameen if he seeks to overturn his election defeat
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[PULSE.NG] Anwar Ibrahim won an overwhelming mandate in a parliamentary by-election Saturday, officials said, setting the stage for his return to frontline Malaysian politics and sealing the once-tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! opposition figure's remarkable resurrection.
Figures released by the Election Commission showed he got more than 71 percent of the total votes cast in a seven-way contest which included a former aide who lodged the sodomy charges that landed Anwar in prison for a second time in 2014.
"I am happy with the results. Allah bless us all," Anwar said after the victory, which marks the charismatic politician's stunning political comeback from prison to parliament.
Winning the seat was a key requirement for Anwar to succeed 93-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! his former protege and heir apparent on sodomy and corruption charges in 1998 when their relationship soured.
Mahathir returned to the premiership this year after a shock election win, saying he would stay in power for only two years before handing the reins to Anwar.
Anwar was in prison when he forged an unlikely alliance with Mahathir in a bid to unseat then-prime minister Najib Razak, who had called elections for May amid massive corruption allegations.
Underscoring the drama of Saturday's vote, one of Anwar's six challengers is the ex-aide who had accused him of sodomy, still illegal in the largely Moslem country.
Polls opened under cloudy skies at 8:00 am (0000 GMT) and closed nine and a half hours later in the sleepy southern coastal town of Port Dickson, home to a sizeable ethnic Chinese community that has traditionally been one of Anwar's pillars of support.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Military in the Southeast claims that more than 50 Talibs have been killed or maimed after launching a coordinated attack on Khoshamand district.
The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the armed forces of 203rd Thunder Corps responded jointly with the other security personnel to a coordinated Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... attack, leaving more than 50 hard boyz dead or maimed.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces also confiscated 15 landmines and vehicle were also seized following the attack.
According to 203rd Thunder Corps, the dead bodies of at least 18 hard boyz are still left in the area where the clash took place.
No further details have been regarding the possible casualties of the Afghan armed forces during the festivities.
In the meantime, the 203rd Thunder Corps said at least 11 hard boyz were killed and 6 others were maimed in separate festivities that took place in Sultan Bagh of Andar, Sahibzada of Qarabagh, and Tasang of Deh yak district in Ghazni province.
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[Al Ahram] Not long ago, outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was at the top of Iraqi politics and was favoured by the United States and its Western and Arab allies to lead the country through its difficulties, setting it on a new path and offering it a glimmer of hope.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... in the four years since he assumed office al-Abadi’s reputation has dwindled as a result of growing domestic discontent because of his failure to start rebuilding the country. Street protests turned into a bloody uprising against his government’s inefficiency and rampant corruption.
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[PULSE.NG] An acclaimed US charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped.
"We are profoundly, deeply sorry," the charity More Than Me said on its website on Saturday after US investigative media said girls at a pioneering school in a slum had been repeatedly abused by the charity's co-founder, Macintosh Johnson.
Some victims were as young as 10 and there are fears he infected some with the AIDS virus, of which he eventually died, the investigative site ProPublica said in a piece co-published with Time.
"To all the girls who were raped by Macintosh Johnson in 2014 and before: we failed you," More Than Me said.
"We gave Johnson power that he exploited to abuse children. Those power dynamics broke staff ability to report the abuse to our leadership immediately.
"Our leadership should have recognised the signs earlier and we have and will continue to employ training and awareness programmes so we do not miss this again."
The assaults took place at a school at West Point, a notorious slum in the capital Monrovia.
It opened in 2013 to a blaze of publicity, becoming the first of 18 schools that More Than Me opened in the impoverished West African state to empower girls.
The charity eventually raised more than $8 million in funding, nearly $600,000 of which came from the US government, and gained the support of Liberia's then president and Nobel Peace Laureate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
ProPublica described Johnson as a "charming hustler" who insinuated himself with Katie Meyler, who created the charity.
Meyler, an evangelical Christian, had come to Liberia to try to help the country after its emergence from 14 years of civil war.
She threw herself into the task of helping girls in the slums.
Back in the US, she rubbed shoulders with philanthropist Warren Buffett, TV star and activist Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities in her campaign to drum up donations.
After some of the girls came forward to reveal what was happening, Johnson was suspended by the school and locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! He was put on trial in 2015, but this ended in a hung jury amid suggestions of bribes, ProPublica said. He was facing a retrial when he died in 2016 from an illness that the site said was AIDS.
In its statement, More Than Me said it had been "naive to believe that providing education alone is enough to protect these girls from the abuses they may face -? strong institutions, safeguarding policies and vigilance are needed to do that."
Among the changes it had introduced, the charity maintained, was the providing of "private, school-wide HIV testing" to all students.
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Back in the US, she rubbed shoulders with philanthropist Warren Buffett, TV star and activist Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities in her campaign to drum up donations.
But, but, mah virtue!
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Where are the clintons? Well, at least where is william clinton?
[PULSE.NG] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country's top Moslemholy man.
The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended by parliament this month after sparking controversy among Syrians at home and abroad.
The new legislation grants additional powers to the ministry of religious endowments, or "waqf", which already oversees Islamic affairs in Syria.
Specifically, the waqf minister will have a role in naming the next mufti.
The mufti had previously been appointed by the president, as was the case with current mufti Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun, appointed by Assad in 2004.
The new law also sets the mufti's term, previously unlimited, at a renewable period of three years.
The waqf minister will now oversee religious schools, head the Council on Islamic Jurisprudence, and regulate religious programming on media outlets.
The new law also stipulates that Moslem imams are not allowed to travel outside of Syria or attend any conference even inside the country without the waqf minister's permission.
It forbids preachers and religious instructors from "stoking sectarian strife" or "taking advantage of religious platforms for political purposes."
Syria's pre-war population was overwhelmingly Sunni Moslem, with smaller numbers of Shiite Moslems and Alawites, the sect from which Assad's family hails.
Christian and Druze minority communities are also scattered across the country. It appears that non-Moslem communities are not affected by the new law.
The legislation had sparked controversy this month, with many saying it was state overreach into religious affairs.
Others said it was a way to regulate religious discourse in order to "fight extremism."
In a recent television interview, current waqf minister Mohammad Abdulsattar al-Sayyed described it as a "huge achievement".
"This is the first time there's a law that issues controls and standards for religious work and conditions for appointing imams and preachers," he said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboomdestroyed an election campaign gathering in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, leaving several people dead or maimed.
The local officials confirmed that the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Rustaq district at around 2:45 pm local time.
A security official said at least 12 people have been killed and more than 30 others have sustained injuries in the kaboom.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Libya has effectively been a failed state mired in an intractable civil war since the Libyan people have risen up against Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011. Whatever else we may wish to say about Qadaffy, he was a unifying force in a country deeply fractured along ethnic, tribal and ideological lines. A brutal and malign unifying force, but a unifying force nonetheless.
The more one delves into the detail of the ongoing conflict in the country, the easier it is to lose hope that a stable and prosperous Libya might be possible at all. There are multiple power centers distributed all over the country, each with their own private militias, there are imported muscle associated with ISIS and al-Qaeda still roaming the land, despite years of Western-backed efforts to stamp them out, there are at least two separate, semi-viable state apparatuses running in parallel and claiming authority over the entire territory, complete with their own central banks and currency ‐ and, of course, there is international proxy power play, with Russia and the West backing different sides, while Arab states back different proxies on the ground. None of this suggests that anything other than endless conflict is possible.
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Turkey refused to honor the above Israeli related release and ďenied the release was related to Brunson. Trump hardlined the Turks with severe sanctions that crushed their currency and put severe pressure on the EU who holds Turkish debt and no deals.
[DAWN] The Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) has warned of paralysing the country within hours if the Supreme Court sets Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, free. The TLP directed its local leaders across the country on Friday to start holding sit-ins within hours without waiting for a decision by the central leadership, if she is freed.
"Judges’ remarks have sown doubt among the party leaders and fears that she would be released soon," Pir Afzal Qadri, patron-in-chief of the TLP, said while addressing a rally taken out to protest the possible acquittal of Aasia Bibi.
Reading out a four-point resolution approved by the party leadership, he said the possible acquittal would be deemed an attack on Islam, the Constitution and blasphemy law. Responsibility for the subsequent law and order situation would rest with the judges, the government and all institutions supposed to protect the Constitution, he warned.
"The central leadership has already decided about a countrywide protest and local leaders should not wait for any message from the central leadership and start their sit-ins immediately," Mr Qadri said, adding that these "nationwide sit-ins should continue till all those responsible for [Aasia Bibi’s] release are punished, even if the central leadership is incarcerated or killed".
A number of TLP workers gathered on The Mall in Lahore and other major cities in the country, including Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... and Gujranwala, to "pre-empt the acquittal". Police, unlike previous rallies, did not block Charing Cross till the last moment and even when the rally arrived at the venue, the road was blocked by the party workers who dragged barriers put up to block access to the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly building and encircled the crossing.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni national army announced the killing of eight senior Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia field commanders on the Western coastal front, with the armed forces engaging the militia.
Military sources said the eight leaders were prominent military commanders of the pro-Iranian militias who were killed in the West Coast 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... during intense fighting, adding that the Houthi militias acknowledged their recent killing though at the beginning it kept silent about their fate.
The militia leaders killed were military, security, and field commanders, as well as tribal sheikhs loyal to the coup group and a large number of their escorts.
The Yemeni official statement pointed out that in a raid by coalition fighters south of Hodeidah, one of the most important leaders of the Houthi militia, Hisham Abdel-Samad al-Khalid, the first official for the strength of the cordon of the city of Hodeidah, was killed. He was the leader of the largest gangs of the coup, and one of the most prominent Houthi leaders in the military police.
Among others killed were one of the most prominent leaders of the Houthi leadership, Muhammad Ali Mahdi al-Hassani, the official of the mobilization in the town of Khamis Bani Saad in the province of al-Mahweet, and the prominent field supervisor, Salah Ali Salah Faie, who is descended from Dahyan in Saada, the origin of the Houthi militia.
Also killed was the security leader, called "AbuFadl", or Issam Mohammed Saad Mahdi, who was one of the companions of the so-called former political council head Saleh al-Samad, who himself was killed earlier this year in an Arclight airstrike.
The military sources said that the field commander Mohammed al-Abbasi, leader Mohammed al-Suhaili, Abdul Majid al-Hamzi, Ali al-Hazaari, and the "Abu Zaid al-Hammadi" and the "Aburqia" Ali Abdulrahman Saad al-Din were killed in specific operations by the Yemeni forces engaging in direct confrontations, along with targeted artillery fire and aerial bombardment by coalition forces.
On Friday, the Yemeni army backed by the Arab coalition, said it continued advancing in several districts of the governorate of Saada, taking control of new posts which were under the control of the Houthi militias, particularly in the districts of Zaher, Baqim and Kataf.
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Got the ol' Robert Fisk pic going this time, Besoeker!
This is similar to the NYT 'story' on Trump's 'tax returns' that I fisked into a bloody pulp last Wednesday. In order to avoid redundancies, I will largely ignore the NYT's examples of slanted / misleading language ('loopholes', significant depreciation, etc., that y'all can spot by now) and focus on a few things where it differs from last week's story the Times tried to pass off as some grand revelation.
[Zero Hedge] - Less than two weeks after the NYT released what a massive 12,000 words "bombshell" report on the "fraudulent" tax dealings of Trump's father, and which promptly got swept away by the non-stop news cycle, on Saturday the NYT has come back with part two, this time dissecting the the tax records of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, highlighting that he paid almost no federal income taxes in several recent years despite a net worth that soared to $324 million in 2016 from $106 million in 2011, and billions of dollars spent building his real estate empire.
Citing the leaked tax documents it obtained, or as it called them, "confidential financial records", the Times reported that Kushner, a real estate investor and senior White House adviser, for years minimized his tax bills by booking heavy losses on reported depreciation of his real estate holdings that overwhelmed his reported income. And since this is an all too often used loophole of the US tax code, the Times noted that nothing in the documents indicate that Kushner or his company broke the law. But we're gonna run with the story anyway...
The records, which were given to the NYT by "a person who has had financial dealings with Kushner and his family", describe Kushner’s business dealings and finances from 2009 to 2016. They were drafted with Kushner’s help as part of a review of his finances by potential lenders and contain information from his federal tax filings in addition to other data provided by advisers, according to the report. Reviewed by "more than a dozen tax accountants and lawyers" the records indicate that Kushner paid little or no federal income taxes in five of the last eight years. Behold: presentation-wise, the saddest looking balance sheet I've ever seen. This tell me that it's for internal use; otherwise you'd see something much more professional looking and with GAAP-adherent terminology and classifications (current assets, long-term / fixed assets, current liabilities, current portion of long-term debt / liabilities, long-term liabilities, etc.). That tells me the financial information wasn't leaked by someone at the lenders who financed his main building, 666 Fifth Avenue when he bought it in 2007 (UBS and / or Barclays), which is linked to below. The lenders would be getting audited financial statements, not that piece of shit balance sheet in the ZH article. You could also eliminate the brokers in this deal - generally speaking they wouldn't be reviewing Jared's finances, only the lenders would.
The Times reported that in a 2015 example, Kushner booked $8.3 million in losses driven by "significant depreciation" of real estate owned by Kushner and his company. The loss offset Kushner’s income of $1.7 million in salary and investment gains.
A spokesman for Kushner’s attorney told the Times that Kushner followed the advice of attorneys and accountants, and filed and paid all taxes due required by law. The spokesman also said he wouldn’t respond to assumptions taken from documents that offer an incomplete view of Kushner’s finances.
Kushner’s losses, stemming in large part from the depreciation deduction, appeared to wipe out his taxable income in most years covered by the documents. Note the intentional uncertain language that's been employed - 'significant', 'in large part' and 'appeared to' are in no way quantitative measurements and are indica of an incomplete financial picture. I could argue a certain single deduction is 'significant' even if, for example, it comprised 10% or 15% of total expenses.
Then again, after reading this article on the Kushner flagship property, one might reconsider the parameters for 'significant', etc. Too bad the NYT doesn't grant Jared Kushner the same courtesy.
I'm going to skip over most of the rest of the ZH article (primarily the class warfare bullshit where they focus on 'cash generation' and conveniently ignore cash outflows like interest on the loans and the principal payments thereon) because there's only one real thing to discuss, and that of course is what the NYT omits from all this in order to paint the most negative portrayal of real estate companies. The depreciation deduction is not a 'loophole'; it is a long-standing accounting concept. The specific thing not mentioned is this - a taxpayer (any taxpayer) who uses physical / capital assets in the course of business is allowed a depreciation deduction, which is a gradual, annual reduction of the cost basis of that asset, so when you eventually sell / dispose of that asset, your taxable gain on that asset is increased by two things - the increase / appreciation in market value of the asset and the accumulated depreciation on that asset between the time you buy it and the time you sell it. That number can be 'significant', if I may ape the NYT's terminology! Eventually you pay the piper but depreciation allows you to delay the inevitable. Essentially, the real estate business is a calculated gamble on a) the increase in rents you can derive from a rental property and b) the appreciation of that property.
A brief note on all this, which includes many of the previous stories on Trump's properties over the past forty or so years. The tone is this - when Trump loses money on a real estate or other business deal, it's reported that he's a bad / stupid businessman; when Trump makes money on a real estate or other business deal, it's reported as nefarious activity that takes advantage of tax 'loopholes' and all the rest. Ever notice that? I bet you did!
Now for the fun / speculative part:
The outcome is apparent in Jared Kushner’s tax returns, which were summarized in the documents reviewed by The New York Times. Here’s an example from 2015.
Tax losses from real estate and other partnerships: $3.5 million.
Tax losses carried forward from previous years: $4.8 million.
Total adjusted gross income
Negative $6.6 million.
Tax refund
$4,000. Do you notice a few things missing from here and / or something else which would make you scratch your head? Let's start with the W-2 - $198K. Unless Jared made the very unusual W-4 (employer withholding tax form employees file when hired) choice / election of 'Exempt' (no Federal withholdings, which is foolish but you can choose to do, but Social Security & Medicare taxes are still withheld by statute), his Federal tax withheld on that W-2 is in the $35K to $38K range, which tells me that Jared did in fact pay Federal taxes that year. If he owed $31K for a Federal liability and $35K in Federal tax was withheld, there's your '$4,000 refund'. And by the way - how likely is it that a refund is exactly $4,000? I would make an attempt to reproduce this situation with my tax software but there are too many unknowns, the large ones being the composition of that NOL - it's most likely the (active) real estate loss but he could have other carryforwards like a capital loss (which is used against the aforementioned $974K capital gain; he could even have a charitable contribution carryforward, which would be the amount disallowed on the prior year's return because it's limited ion certain cases. For that matter, note how all the other numbers are rounded, most likely an effort by the NYT to a) avoid being sued for disclosing confidential information if they gave exact figures or b) they're pulling number out of their asses again.
To summarize, it's another piece of shit hit job by the NYT, but you knew that already - I'm just making it official.
Just for giggles I took a quick look at the most recent (year-end 2017) 10-K for the NYT's parent company, via Edgar. I may be misreading this because I don't have anything resembling your financial background, but the NYT's consolidated statement of operations (at p. 54 of the 10-K) shows that the NYT reduced its reported revenues by about $62mm (for each of 2015, 2016 and 2017) for depreciation and amortization. And the NYT isn't in the real estate business, at least not intentionally. Bad, bad NYT. They're also underfunded by about $69mm on their pension obligations (MD&A at page 8) but that looks like part of a much longer story.
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But come to think of it, the much more relevant point would be to compare the Trump family tax situation to the Sulzberger family tax situation. I'm sure there's a standing order to the Sulzberger family accounts and advisors that "Our objective is to maximize our federal tax payments, because, you know, it's good to spread the wealth around."
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To flip it around: If Kushner's company had bought a BMW in 2008 for $100K and was still showing the BMW as having a value of $100K in 2018, the NYT headline would be "Kushner's Company Lies About the Value of Its Assets." Depreciation is a real thing, even if its exact treatment in a financial statement is the result of an accounting convention (GAAP).
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Taxes fund government, but investments fund private lives. As long as he is investing in projects (create jobs), or startups (creates opportunity), then he is doing his part unlike that asshole Soros who is investing in chaos, sedition, and the coup.
[Al Ahram] Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in an exclusive interview published late Friday that there is "no role for the Moslem Brüderbund as long as [he] stays in power," asserting that the Egyptian people would not accept the return of the Brotherhood to power, because their "unviable" ideology.
During the interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Shahed, El-Sisi spoke on issues of Arab national security, the influx of holy warriors in Syria, Egypt’s relationship with Kuwait, and several domestic issues.
He talked on the importance of cooperation by the Arab States to protect Arab national security from dangers faced by the Arab nations, adding that such a relationship would create a state of deterrence to those who aim to assault the Arab world.
El-Sisi also affirmed the depth of Egypt and Kuwait’s special relationship, praising the role of Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah in supporting Egypt in critical times.
Speaking on the Arab Spring, El-Sisi diagnosed the phenomena as a "wrong treatment to a wrong reality", adding that the "constructive chaos left destruction and havoc in several Arab states."
El-Sisi blamed that chaos on the Brotherhood, due to their roles in countries like Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and Libya, while discussing his fear of where the 36,000 holy warriors involved in the crisis in Syria, which has only just started to recover from the war, would go.
"Where will they go after the war in Syria is over, especially if they will be used by intelligence bodies who seek to cause destruction in the region?" he wondered.
El-Sisi also reiterated the need of renewing religious discourse, stressing that religion doesn’t contradict with life.
He said that the problem falls on a false understanding of religious texts, as well as them being used incorrectly to push agendas.
The president also added that Egypt never conspired against anyone, despite offenses which emerged from "an Arab state" and other harassment from regional states.
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Just don't get Sadat'd
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] There is a sentence that has been repeated while welcoming Barham Salih as the President of Iraq and Adel Abdul-Mahdi as prime minister-designate and which is "he has studied in Western universities".
The same refrain was made when Omar Razzaz was tasked with forming the current government in Jordan. This sentence works like a double edged sword, as it comes in the backdrop of various revolutionary upheavals and coups over the decades, and implicitly refers to a time of "renaissance" when "education" was described as the pre-requisite for development.
As for the reference in the sentence to the "West", it is part and parcel of the idea of "renaissance". Didn’t the whole renaissance saga began when Rifa’a al-Tahtawi and Ahmad Faris Shidyaq, among others travelled to the West? Their approach implied a tendency that was fought for many decades ‐ the tendency of dealing with the West as a source of knowledge and enlightenment, and not as a source of aggression and colonialism.
In this regard, studying in some of the best Western universities carries with it the tag of having good morals that are regarded as guarantees against corruption and towards protecting public money. The refrain also comes with an air of nostalgia for the times few of us lived in and most of us have only heard or read about. The other face of nostalgia is a protest over a time when the officer, security figure, preacher and suspicious millionaire replaced the graduates of Western universities.
The resumes of Salih, Abdul-Mahdi and Razzaz raise optimism, without serving the theory of optimism in the principle of studying in the West. First, there are still doubts about the real capabilities of these sincere graduates who have become politicians as long as issues of political authority and sharing it is not yet settled in any Arab country. We are aware that many Arab regimes have exaggerated the term "technocrat", where it means holding the capabilities of power but without having any real power. Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... ’s experience in Ramallah is probably the best example in this regard.
This optimism which has its reasons points to the naivety of many. Just as a reminder, we belong to societies where rulers believe that they own and inherit the nation. Our half-baked identities stilt our progress and foment civil wars. Battles tear us apart ‐ with their savagery, dissipation of wealth and medieval ideas. Such challenges cannot be confronted just by a bunch of educated and honest people whom optimism pictures as alternatives to much needed popular movements and broad intellectual changes. What is more dangerous is that being sanguine about "education" as the agent for "improving conditions" might end up with having people who are merely optimistic about "working" to reconstruct what "wars have destroyed," similar to what is being said about the "reconstruction" of Syria. We should not forget that Bashir al-Assad almost became the graduate of a Western university.
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>‘They studied in Western universities’
Won't hold THAT against you. I'm sure there's other stuff we will do.
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They're doing offboard processing so there is really no need to have both T&R on the same drone.
One to transmit, a swarm to receive and you have something of an ISAR solution.
[Al Ahram] Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... group in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... killed 10 civilians in Hodeidah province on Saturday, medics and Houthi media said.
Medical sources told Rooters the civilians died when the air strikes hit a Houthi checkpoint in the town of Jabal Rass while a bus was passing through.
Eight members of the same family were among the victims, they said.
The Houthi movement’s Al Massira TV said 17 died and many others were in a critical condition.
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[PULSE.NG] The family of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who faces becoming the first person to be executed for blasphemy in Pakistain, said they hoped the Supreme Court would free her.
But in any case they feared for their future living in Pakistain under the blasphemy laws, they told AFP.
Bibi, who has been on death row since 2010, is at the centre of the high-profile case that has divided Pakistain and drawn prayers from the Vatican.
On Monday the Supreme Court heard her last appeal and said it had reached a judgement, which it has yet to reveal.
"We are hopeful that whatever the court proceedings are it will come out as positive for us," her husband Ashiq Mesih told AFP.
Her daughter Eisham Ashiq added: "I will be very happy the day my mother will be released. I will hug her and will cry meeting her and will thank God that he has got her released."
Bibi's family are in London on a visit organised by Aid to the Church in Need, a charity which helps repressed and persecuted Christians.
Bibi, a labourer, was accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed in 2009 by Moslem women she was working with in a field.
The charge is punishable by death under legislation that rights groups say is routinely abused to settle personal vendettas.
Her family said that if Bibi is released, it would be difficult to stay in her homeland.
"Pakistain is ours: we were born there, raised there," Mesih said.
"The only tension we have is the blasphemy law. It is imposed on Christians. When it is imposed on us our (Moslem) brothers should think that the Christians never say anything bad about the Koran.
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[DAWN] The Senate Secretariat on Saturday returned the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2018 on a request of the ruling Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI).
Leader of the House in the Senate Syed Shibli Faraz had on Friday submitted a request to the secretariat for the withdrawal of the bill.
The bill had been moved on the directions of the Islamabad High Court after (then) Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui had ordered last year that those who make false accusations of blasphemy should be given the same punishment as those convicted of blasphemy under the law.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... in a statement yesterday, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Pir Noorul Haq Qadri said that the government was determined to restore the bill to its "original soul" under Section 295-C of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC).
Section 295-C was introduced in 1986 mandating the death penalty for "use of derogatory remarks in respect of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!)".
Qadri also said that PTI members in the National Assembly and the Senate would strongly oppose any amendments to Section 295-C.
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"Believe all wymyns Mooslims!"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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... 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...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
the personification of Somali state failure...
... 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...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[PULSE.NG] An acclaimed US charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Yemeni national army announced the killing of eight senior 
[Al Ahram] Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in an exclusive interview published late Friday that there is "no role for the 
