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"Omar denied the allegations, telling The Associated Press the claims about her family are “disgusting lies” and saying she’s being attacked because she’s Muslim. But she has declined to provide documents or answer specific questions."
[InMilitary] The Air Force’s BGM-109G Ground-Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) was a Navy BGM-109A Tomahawk modified to fire from a Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) truck.
WASHINGTON: If President Trump withdraws from Reagan’s INF accord, it could jump-start fielding of new technologies that would have skirted the letter of the treaty, like ground-launched hypersonics. But it could also lead to less exotic solutions that the INF pact now bans outright, like mid-ranged ballistic missiles.
As the product of a very particular moment in the Cold War, the misleadingly named Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces accord actually bans all cruise and ballistic missiles ‐ . It doesn’t matter whether they carry nuclear warheads or conventional ones ‐ that have a range between 500 to 5,500 kilometers, about 310 to 3,417 miles....but if and only they’re launched from the land. The exact same weapon, launched from a ship, submarine, or aircraft is completely legitimate.
So what could the US military do without the treaty that it can’t do already? A congressionally mandated Pentagon report from 2013, unpublished but obtained by Breaking Defense, says that withdrawing from the treaty would create four possibilities:
"1. Modifications to existing short range or tactical weapon systems to extend range."
While the US has plenty of sea- and air-launched weapons that were never covered by the treaty, the only existing ground-launched system that comes close to the banned ranges is the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). But the Army’s already decided it’s not worth upgrading the 1980s-vintage ATACMS for a significantly longer range.
Instead, the Army’s developing an all-new Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) to hit targets out to 499 km ‐ but officers acknowledge that’s an arbitrary limit imposed by the INF treaty, not the available technology. So, practically speaking, the end of INF would remove this restriction on the new PRSM, but not magically enable a radical enhancement of the aging ATACMS.
This is the easiest option. In fact, the Air Force’s BGM-109G Ground-Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) ‐ whose deployment helped force the Soviets to the negotiating table and whose destruction the INF treaty explicitly ordered ‐ was simply a truck-borne variant of the Navy’s standard BGM-109A Tomahawk, whose non-nuclear version is on almost every cruiser, destroyer and submarine today.
Repackaging the Tomahawk for ground launch would be even easier now than in the Cold War. That’s because the US is already installing compatible missile tubes in Poland and Romania as part of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system. While the US has repeatedly and emphatically denied Aegis Ashore has any offensive capability, Russia has repeatedly and anxiously noted that the original naval version of Aegis uses the same multi-purpose Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) to fire both defensive (surface to air) and offensive (surface to surface) missiles. Adding offensive capabilities to Aegis Ashore would probably be as simple as loading different missiles, different software, and different targeting data. It would be ironic if the Russians’ own violations of the INF drove the US to realize one of their worst fears.
The US would have to build a new IRBM, replacing the Cold War Pershing II that was destroyed under the INF accords, since nothing similar is currently in service. (The Air Force Minuteman III and Navy Polaris D5 are much longer-ranged "strategic" missiles never covered by INF). But the basic technology of ballistic missiles is old, shared not only with Minuteman and Polaris but with Werner von Braun’s 76-year-old V-2. Rocket boosters shoot a "reentry vehicle" (housing the warhead) into space at blistering speed, at which point it coasts back to earth on a parabolic trajectory so predictable Sir Isaac Newton could have calculated it with a quill pen. (The study of ballistics began with gunpowder cannons in the Renaissance).
In fact, one of the military’s main motivations for pursuing newer technologies such as hypersonics is that they allow less predictable, more maneuverable missiles ‐ ones that could bypass today’s anti-ballistic missile defenses. One of the military’s main misgivings about the new technologies, however, is that they’re significantly more complicated than proven ballistic and cruise missile tech.
So what’s the happy medium between new and proven? That brings us to the last category, the one about which the 2013 report seems most enthused:
"4. Forward-based, ground-launched intermediate-range missiles with trajectory shaping vehicles (TSVs)."
What on earth ‐ or rather, in space ‐ is a TSV? It’s an advanced type of a reentry vehicle, i.e. the part of a ballistic missile that reenters the atmosphere from space, as opposed to the rocket boosters, which burn out and fall away. Specifically, a TSV is launched on a ballistic missile but has "maneuvering and glide capacities," at least enough to hone in precisely on a target and to avoid a simple Newtonian calculation predicting its exact flight path.
It combines a ballistic rocket launch ‐ a venerable, proven technology ‐ with a maneuvering reentry vehicle ‐ like the one allegedly built into the Chinese DF-21 "carrier killer." It would be more capable than a pure ballistic missile, yet technologically simpler and less risky than hypersonics. This might be the golden mean for the mid-term, after deploying a land-based Tomahawk but before developing combat-ready hypersonics.
[DallasNews] The city of Fort Worth health plan, which serves nearly 14,000 employees, dependents and retirees, is projected to be $4.8 million under budget for fiscal 2018.
From January through June, spending in emergency rooms dropped 34 percent. Visits to the ER declined sharply, in network and out. Much of the credit goes to a new approach that bets heavily on the value of primary care. Not sure how that related to Affordable Obamacare.
Three health clinics were opened exclusively for city workers and their families, and five other satellite clinics were added to the mix. Members who see a doctor in those facilities ‐ and wait times are less than five minutes, officials said ‐ don’t have to pony up a co-payment or deductible.
That’s right: Office visits are free, as are about 40 of the most common prescriptions.
If the nearby clinics aren’t convenient, members can call a doctor line for a consultation. So-called virtual visits (via smartphone, computer or landline) are also free for those enrolled in the city’s health center plan. Sounds like O-Care to me. Not.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) encourage providers to form networks to better coordinate care. They share electronic records, try to eliminate duplicate tests and work with case managers and others to help patients stick with their regimen.
They resemble HMOs except that members are allowed to go outside the preferred network. They just have to pay more ‐ at least $60 for an office visit in Fort Worth’s plan. But they can keep their Doctor?
ACOs have grown rapidly, starting with Medicare patients and expanding into the commercial market. But many experts were disappointed with the savings in the early years.
The government said ACOs increased Medicare spending by $344 million from 2013 to 2015. That'd be the ObamaStudy.
But more recent studies, which use a different analysis, reported significant savings from the program ‐ more than half a billion dollars over the same period.
The city wanted employees to get in the habit of going to the clinics first ‐ and paying nothing for a visit.
By early October, the clinics had received almost 9,500 visits. Next year, Fort Worth expects the health plan's costs to come in almost $4 million below budget ‐ with no changes to employee co-pays, deductibles or premiums.
"It's working out wonderfully," Dickerson said.
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That’s right: Office visits are free
No. Someone pays. It's just another monetary slight of hand trick.
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P2K - I was thinking the same thing. Some of these services may be at "no charge" to the recipient but funding is coming from somewhere, likely tax dollars. The old saying always applies - "there's no such thing as a free lunch".
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It actually makes a lot of sense to get a lot of primary care centers that push the wait times down if it encourages people to get looked at early and catch problems early when they can be cheaply treated. ("A stich in time saves nine", and "Time is money".) if the prescriptions are free, then people won't delay taking them. Also note that they have professional pester-ers (I.e. case managers) that get after people to follow their care plan.
I would NOT be surprised, given the high costs of treating complications of diseases that were allowed to grow unnecessarily large, that avoiding two or three bad cases on the back end would more than pay for primary care level treatment of 10 or more at the front end.
However, to fisk the article: note that the health plan was like the health plan for a business whose members, being responsible enough to hold down a job, would be responsible enough to take care of themselves. Get back to me when Also, the out-of-network visit co-pay is steeper than what I would have to pay, which incentivizes using in-network physicians.
Also, there is no direct comparison between what the plan costs versus what the costs would be if they went network-Obamacare: That's not that high a hurdle to clear to be cheaper than O-care.
It was always known that Obamacare relied heavily on primary care physicians to be gate-keepers to the specialists, but the renumeration structure was such that the specialists were paid more, discouraging participation as primary care physicians. The REJECTEES for Medical doctoral programs are not stupid individuals, so that information got fed back into the system pretty quick (An example of the vital need of socialists and leftists to keep people static and not give them freedom to react in a self-preserving manner, since it wreaks havoc with the predictions of the effects of their programs).
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A lady cutting my hair enthused about her European holiday, among other things she gushed about "...and their health care is free!" When I pointed out that "I Isn't 'free' -- someone had to pay for it." the conversation quickly shifted to another topic after a moment of dead silence.
Economic Illiteracy... *SIGH*
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Of course it isn't "free". Somebody does have to pay for it. Personally this might be a good model for a lot of businesses that offer health careas a benefit or even more local, state or dare we say Medicare. In terms of the future economy of this country health Care is the 500 lb gorilla in the room. It's costs continue to outstrip inflation by a large margin. What's the answer? I don't know. Part of the problem is greed on the part of health care providers. Everybody from hospitals to insurance companies. The other part is the greed on the part of health care users. The "little Johnny has a cold, let's take him to the ER" types. On top of that we have the people without health using the ER as their health care provider causing the the providers to build the cost into everything else
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It sounds like the majority of the cost savings comes from incentivizing the employees and their families to go to walk-in clinics with salaried medical staff, which is much cheaper than private doctorw who are paid by the visit... or hospital emergency rooms. But this is not new information — the porblem is getting people to give up their own doctors and settle for the anonymous staff of a clinic instead.
On one hand, treatment is faster and less expensive for both patient and insurance company. On the other hand, there is no continuity of care, no single doctor is keeping an eye on each patient’s progress. It’s fine for the vast majority who are healthy people with simple, common medical needs... and dreadful for those with rare diseases or complicated diagnoses, who need their GP to actively manage their cases and stay in top of new scientific developments.
But given the dire current financial condition of most local and state governments, this is probably the best situation they can provide, and the Fort Worth example does allow individuals who need more than is provided to pay out of pocket for their special needs — the difference between a workable situation and Medicare/Medicaid, which as I understand it do not allow going outside what is covered.
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[AlMasdar] Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham continued their security operations across the Idlib Governorate on Monday, targeting several areas believed to have an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) presence.
HTS reportedly uncovered a new Islamic State sleeper cell, today, while combing through the large town of Saraqib in the northeastern countryside of Idlib.
According to opposition activists in the Idlib province, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham confiscated a large quantity of bombs and boom belts inside the Islamic State sleeper cell.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham has now dismantled at least two major Islamic State sleeper cells inside the Idlib Governorate over last seven days.
The Islamic State has been wrecking havoc on the Idlib Governorate since their major territorial losses across Syria.
In order to minimize the Islamic State threat in Idlib, HTS and their rebel allies have been conducting security operations to identify and destroy these sleeper cells.
[AlMasdar] The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) continued their campaign against the Ottoman Turkish military and their rebel allies in the Afrin region of northwest Aleppo this past weekend..
According to the official media wing of the YPG, their fighters carried out a new ambush against the Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels inside the Bilbile District of Afrin.
"Within the scope of the second phase of the resistance against the Ottoman Turkish invasion army and its terrorist allies in Afrin, our forces carried out an operation against the mercenary allies of the occupying Ottoman Turkish army in Afrin’s Bilbile district," the YPG’s statement began.
"On October 18th, our units carried out an operation against the Ottoman Turkish-backed terrorist group Ahrar al-Sharqiya in the village of Qastal Khadriya in Bilbile district. As a result, two of the terrorists, namely Sulayman al-Muhammad and Muhammad Mahran, were killed," they added.
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[AlMasdar] Tens of former rebels have settled their legal cases with the Syrian government in the al-Quneitra Governorate, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday.
Citing the head of the local reconciliation committee in Quneitra, SANA reported that the former rebels handed over their heavy weapons in order to settle their cases and reconcile with the government.
Furthermore, the SANA report said that the reconciliation committees in Quneitra and Damascus are still working in several villages to settle the legal cases of former rebels.
SANA’s news hound said that the authorities in Quneitra are settling the legal status of those who dodged compulsory or reserve military services.
The legislative decree No. 18 for 2018 granted a general amnesty to military deserters inside and outside the country and to those who crimes were included in the Military Penal Code.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian security forces recovered a number of Roman era artifacts that were stolen by the so-called "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... " (ISIS) from the historical city of Palmyra in eastern Homs.
According to a military report from the Homs province, the Syrian forces uncovered this large cache of artifacts while combing through a building that was site of the Islamic State’s old headquarters inside the city of Palmyra.
The Syrian forces said that the artifacts were wrapped up by the Islamic State to be smuggled out of Palmyra before they lost the historical city to the military.
The Islamic State first captured Palmyra in the Summer of 2015; they would concede the city to the Syrian Arab Army a year later after Russian intervention inside Syria.
ISIS would retake Palmyra for a short period of time in 2016 before the Syrian Arab Army launched a major offensive in east Homs to expel the terrorist group once and for all.
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[AlMasdar] (11:00 A.M.) – The so-called “Islamic State” came under heavy attack last night as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a powerful assault along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River near the key city of Albukamal.
Backed by heavy artillery from their French and U.S. partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces began their assault by pushing north of the Iraqi border with southeast Deir Ezzor.
Not long after they launched their assault, the Syrian Democratic Forces managed to score a new advance against the Islamic State, forcing them to retreat northwest of the Al-Shajilah area.
With the Islamic State on the run, the Syrian Democratic Forces took the opportunity to full secure the Baghouz Al-Fouqani area, while also pushing further north in a bid to reach the Safiqnah region of the Euphrates River Valley.
The Syrian Democratic Forces are currently involved in a fierce battle with the Islamic State terrorists just south of the Safiqnah region.
[AlMasdar] (2:40 P.M.) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sent a large number of reinforcements to the eastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate this morning, a source told Al-Masdar News.
According to the source, the Syrian Democratic Forces sent reinforcements to the strategic Konoko Oil Field, which is located along the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
The source did not specify why the SDF sent reinforcements to the Konoko Oil Field; however, it is likely due to the proximity of this site to the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) lines.
While the Syrian Army and SDF haven’t clashed at this site, the former has demanded the latter hand over the Konoko Oil Field, along with the nearby Al-‘Umar Oil Field.
These two fields were major producers of oil in eastern Syria before they were lost during the first years of the war.
Map that would have been improved by a different choice of colours can be seen at the link.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian War is now in its seventh year and while most of the country is back under the government’s control, several areas still remain under the authority of the opposition, Kurdish, and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) forces.
Over the last two months, the ground situation in Syria has remained relatively the same, with only some minor changes inside the Islamic State’s pockets in the al-Sweida and Deir Ezzor provinces.
The lack of ground movement in Syria is due in large part to the September 17th Sochi Agreement between the Russian and Ottoman Turkish governments.
This agreement ultimately froze the front-lines between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and opposition forces in the Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, and Latakia governorates.
Moreover, the government’s recapture of the al-Quneitra, Dara’a, Qalamoun and East Ghouta regions this past Summer has ended several battles and allowed peace to reign over these areas for the first time since the genesis of this conflict.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... this Pax Syriana is not likely to last for much longer, as the situation inside the designated buffer zone collapses due the refusal of jihadist groups to leave this area.
Making matters worse, 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... has repeatedly warned of a pending invasion by his forces in northern Syria.
The Ottoman Turkish Army and their rebel allies are expected to launch a new operation against the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the coming months, as Ankara looks to seal the Syrian border with groups allied to them.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump challenged the media on Monday to bring their cameras to the caravan of over 7,000 migrants, currently pressing through Mexico towards the United States.
"Go into the middle of the caravan, take your cameras and search," Trump told reporters at the White House.
He claimed that they would find MS-13 gang members as well as Middle Eastern citizens trying to enter the United States.
"Guess what? We are not allowing them in our country," he said. "We want safety."
Trump said he was frustrated by Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador for failing to stop the caravan from continuing their journey north.
"They have not done their job, unfortunately, they have not done their job," he said. "They’re paid a lot of money every year. We give them foreign aid. And they did nothing for us."
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If the Trojan horse migrant invasion into California is successful, the Washingtonian experiment has ended. As they have in Europe, millions will surely follow.
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Hurricane Willa, a Cat 4 hurricane, is set to make landfall today in Mexico about 1300 miles West North west of where the caravan was yesterday Morning. Willa is going northeast, cutting diagonally across Mexico and said to be threatening Texas.
Knowing the state of 2nd world countries (and that's being generous with regard to mexico), the caravan is going to be walking through still-devastated portions of Mexico, likely slowing them down considerably and making them late for November 6. If they decide to head northeast to get to American territory sooner, they'll be waking through more land struck by the hurricane, while if they head northwest toward California, the distance is longer and the territory they'll be walking through will be more devastated (but narrower).
Hurricane Willa is giving trump Way more leverage over the Mexican Government than he already has.
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Forgot to add that the drama the Demoncrats were hoping for prior to November 6 to sway weepy Independents isn't going to happen on time, allowing Trump to take the gloves off after the votes are counted.
California has enough of them already, thank you very much. If you wanna let some of them in you can damn well put 'em in your own home town.
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I came from a south central mexican american country over run by china and foreign interests with rice and beans on my knee oh taquito don't you flare my roids I will be an obdient and complient worker or terror I mean rebel droid! I come from south of the border with rice and beans on my knee!
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^ Traced to a Beowulf cluster at the London Institute of Pataphysics. Seriously, though, toilers in the bit mines, please tell me a bot can't do that... yet.
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I'm with one of the commenters, who pointed out that Trump promised to be "equally tough" on BOTH sides, so Netanyahu shouldn't sweat it, since the Palestinians will never miss and opportunity to miss an opportunity.
[Wash Times] A report from Iranian dissidents shows how the hard-line Islamic regime places terrorist operatives abroad under the cover of diplomacy.
From Austria to Albania to Iraq, an expansionist Iran has turned embassies into terrorism planning sites to meddle in host governments and hunt down the opposition, according to the report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The coalition includes the activist chapter known as MEK, which operates far-flung spy networks in Iran.
The report, "Iran Doubles Down on Terror and Turmoil," presents a big-picture assessment of Iran’s foreign interventions in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and its terrorism-sponsored plots in Europe.
"The mullahs’ regime has funneled billions of dollars to finance its belligerent war agenda in the Middle East while the majority of Iran’s people are living in poverty," the report states. "As the regime’s officials have conceded, if the regime fails to inflame wars outside Iran’s borders, it would have to fight for survival within Iran’s borders. This is because external conflicts draw attention away from domestic crises."
The National Council’s 57-page report contains the tale of ruling Muslim mullahs on the march, unleashing abroad a number of state organs and paid militiamen to wage war. They include: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s dominant security apparatus; the Quds Force, a committed band of paramilitary foreign provocateurs; the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and its operations arm, the Organization for Foreign Intelligence and Movements (OFIM).
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Islamic regime places terrorist operatives abroad under the cover of Restaurateurs,
taxi drivers, Uberians, Tailors, Grocerians, UsedCar salers, gold merchants, gas station operators, ...
[Wash Times] Actor and conservative commentator Ben Stein said Saturday that the protesters who berated Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a Louisville restaurant the night before are "becoming like the brownshirts in the early days of the Nazi Party."
Mr. McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, were confronted at the Havana Rumba restaurant by at least two hecklers who reportedly stole the couple’s leftover food off their table and threw it outside.
It was one of many similar incidents involving Republican politicians being heckled in public in recent months. Mr. McConnell was recently heckled by protesters at Reagan National Airport near Washington.
Mr. Stein, a lawyer and economist who is also Jewish, told TMZ at Politicon in Los Angeles that leftist protesters are wading into fascistic territory.
"Disgusting mob rule," he said. "Antifa is becoming like the brownshirts in the early days of the Nazi Party. Very, very disgusting, shocking behavior ‐ stunningly horrible.
[National Review] Roughly a third of privately employed American workers ‐ and half of those at businesses with fewer than 100 employees ‐ don’t have access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan. This means that they have to figure out other options for themselves, and that they can lose out on some of the tax breaks everyone else gets. Unsurprisingly, they also save far less for retirement.
This isn’t merely the free market at work ‐ and not just because special tax incentives are involved. (That’s a completely different article.) Current regulations make it difficult to provide "multiple-employer" plans, under which small employers work together to cut costs and offer retirement benefits as a group. Since small businesses that don’t offer plans often say cost is the reason, loosening these regulations could greatly improve the situation. And a proposed rule from the Trump administration’s Labor Department would do just that.
This is a commonsensical proposal, following suggestions endorsed by business and retirement groups alike, to put big and small businesses on similar footing when it comes to offering retirement benefits. Even in 2018 it is the kind of thing that should receive bipartisan support. The one risk is that it could be challenged in court for pushing the boundaries of the current statutes, which Congress can and should fix.
"Small and medium-sized businesses could come together under an association to offer a 401(k)," a senior Labor Department official told me in a call previewing the rule on Friday. "So instead of the corner grocery store, the dry cleaner, and a restaurant each having a separate plan, they could all come together under one New York Chamber of Commerce 401(k)."
In addition to making it possible for more businesses to offer plans to begin with, this would improve the plans on offer. In general, thanks to economies of scale and negotiating power, bigger 401(k)s tend to pay lower fees. They also diffuse the various hassles associated with maintaining a plan. "If you ask a small-business owner, ’Do you want to hire a lawyer and make all these regulatory filings?’ they’ll typically say no," the Labor Department official said. "But if they can just join an organization they know is reputable and remit whatever money their employees would like to save, they’re much more likely to offer a plan."
[IsraelTimes] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, appears to be scaling back mass protests along the Gazoo-Israel frontier as Egypt renews its efforts to broker a cease-fire.
Only a few hundred people joined a beach demonstration near the perimeter fence in northern Gazoo on Monday ‐ a much smaller turnout than previous weeks. The Hamas-run Health Ministry said 20 protesters were maimed by Israeli fire.
The march took place as Egyptian mediators were in Gazoo for cease-fire talks.
For the first time in months, there were no deaths during last Friday’s weekly protest. More than 100 Paleostinians were reported maimed in violent festivities on as thousands protested close to the fence, burning tires and throwing rocks at Israeli military positions along the Gazoo border. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Israeli defense officials said it was the quietest protest since the "March of Return" events began earlier this year.
The protests intensified in recent weeks, moving from weekly to daily affairs, as Hamas sought to pressure Israel into a deal. The past few days have seen a reduction in violence along the border as mediators have made efforts to return the calm.
Hadashot TV news reported Friday that Israeli officials believe Hamas has changed its policies regarding the festivities and is working toward curbing violence at the rallies.
Jerusalem believes the terror group is moderating the demonstrations in order to allow Egyptian mediators a chance to strike a deal between Hamas and Israel for a long-term truce, the report said.
Amid the relative calm, the cabinet has reportedly been briefed on an emerging UN- and Egyptian-mediated agreement for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, that would see 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... pay for the Gazoo Strip’s fuel, as well as fund the salaries of civil servants in the enclave.
The deal will see the cessation of violent protests on the Strip’s border with Israel. In turn, Israel will allow Qatari-funded fuel to return to Gazoo and boost power supply, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported Monday.
While Israel believes such an accord would likely lead the Paleostinian Authority to further cut funds to Gazoo, it may retaliate by deducting any cuts from tax revenues it transfers annually to the PA.
Kan noted that ministers are aware the deal would boost Qatar’s regional influence while providing Hamas with a significant diplomatic achievement as it circumvents the PA while coordinating with the UN.
PA leaders have been enraged by the move to bypass them in aiding Gazoo, and have reportedly been mulling slashing all aid to the Strip ‐ a cut of some $96 million that Israeli security officials believe could drive a desperate and cash-strapped Hamas toward conflict with Israel.
Abbas has contended that the PA should not be held financially responsible for the Gazoo Strip where Hamas is in charge. He has, in the past, shown interest in reconciling with the terror group and returning PA rule to the coastal enclave. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... Abbas has refused to do so unless Hamas disarms ‐ a condition that the Islamist group has shown no interest in accepting.
But a number of Arab governments have objected to Abbas’s desire to choke off Hamas in Gazoo, concluding that such a measure would lead to a spike in violence.
Some 156 Paleostinians have been killed and thousands more have been injured in the festivities with IDF troops, according to AP figures; Hamas has acknowledged that dozens of the dead were its members. One Israeli soldier was rubbed out by a sniper on the border.
[NYT] The Norwegian saboteurs skied across the Telemark pine forest in winter whites, phantom apparitions gliding over moonlit snow. They halted at a steep river gorge and gazed down at a humming hydroelectric power plant where Nazi scientists had developed a mysterious, top-secret project.
Lt. Joachim Ronneberg, the 23-year-old resistance fighter in command, and his eight comrades ‐ all carrying cyanide capsules to swallow if captured ‐ had been told by British intelligence only that the plant was distilling something called heavy water, and that it was vital to Hitler’s war effort.
Hours later, in one of the most celebrated commando raids of World War II, Lieutenant Ronneberg and his demolition team sneaked past guards and a barracks full of German troops, stole into the plant, set explosive charges and blew up Hitler’s hopes for a critical ingredient to create the first atomic bomb.
Mr. Ronneberg, the last surviving member of the 1943 raid and one of the most decorated war heroes of a nation renowned for valorous resistance to the 1940-45 German Occupation, died on Sunday in Alesund, Norway, his daughter, Birte Ronneberg, said. He was 99.
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The German bomb never would of worked or was even achievable simply because they had no real grasp of what was required. The US's biggest advantage was being able to divert the resources needed to develop the bomb. Even the Japanese explored developing atomic weapons.
[IsraelTimes] Since this morning, firefighters have worked to extinguish five blazes caused by incendiary balloons near Israeli towns along the Gazoo Strip, a front man for the Israeli Fire and Rescue Services says.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli authorities released Paleostinian Authority Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith from prison Monday, two days after he was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on suspicions he helped abduct a Paleostinian resident of the capital.
Ghaith was released from a holding facility in the city on the condition that he remain under house arrest for the coming week and that he pay NIS 20,000 bail, the Paleostinian official’s lawyer said.
Mickey Rosenfeld, an Israel Police front man said Ghaith was allowed to leave, but did not confirm the conditions of his release.
Ghaith and Jihad Faqih, the Jerusalem director of the PA General Intelligence Services, were collared on suspicion they helped abduct a Paleostinian-American resident of Jerusalem two weeks ago, who has since remained in the PA’s custody in the West Bank, their lawyers told Rooters on Monday.
Both Ghaith and Faqih deny the charges, their lawyers said.
Faqih was also arrested on Saturday and released on Monday. Rosenfeld did not respond when asked about the conditions under which Faqih was released.
The Paleostinian-American resident of Jerusalem was being sought by the PA over his involvement in the sale of a home in the Moslem Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City to Jews, Hadashot TV news reported on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] A NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... soldier has been killed and two others have been maimed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... -claimed attack in Afghanistan, days after a US general was maimed in a shooting on a high-level security meeting.
NATO’s Resolute Support mission is not immediately releasing the nationalities of the three soldiers involved in the assault in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , but it is understood that they are not American.
"Initial reports indicate the attack was committed by a member of the Afghan cops," Resolute Support says in a statement.
In the incident’s wake, Tadeen Khan ‐ a brother of Raziq and a member of the Afghan cops ‐ has been appointed acting provincial police chief, interior ministry deputy front man Nasrat Rahimi told AFP.
Rumors on Afghan social media networks that Resolute Support carried out the attack on Raziq were dismissed by 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... on Monday, who blamed "the enemies of the Afghan people and their regional supporters" for the gossip.
"Such rumors are justifying the enemies’ atrocities," Abdullah ‐ Afghanistan’s equivalent of prime minister ‐ said in comments at a regular ministerial meeting that were broadcast on Afghan television.
A Czech soldier with the U.S.-led international military forces in Afghanistan was killed in an apparent insider attack in the western province of Herat, the third such incident in the past two months.
The soldier was the fourth Czech service member killed as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission to Afghanistan since the Central European country’s parliament approved a plan in June to nearly double its forces in Afghanistan to 390.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Paleostinian stabbed an Israeli soldier and was rubbed out by the maimed man and other troops in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday, the military said.
In a statement, the military said the incident occurred near the biblical Cave of the Patriarchs, revered by Moslems as the Ibrahimi mosque, in the city of Hebron.
The soldier was slightly maimed in the attack and opened fire, along with other soldiers, at the assailant, killing him, according to the military.
Paleostinians began a wave of knife and car-ramming attacks in the West Bank and in Israel in 2015, after peace talks with Israel collapsed. Such incidents have become more sporadic.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, charged with raping two women in La Belle France, claimed Monday that he had consensual sex with both of them after previously denying any physical contact.
Ramadan, a well-known TV commentator, has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! accusations that he raped the women in hotel rooms as an attempted smear by his opponents.
His lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny said the Swiss academic had changed his account of what happened on the basis of text messages that have emerged between him and his two accusers.
The messages "show that the plaintiffs lied and that the sexual encounters were wanted, consensual and even sought again afterwards", Marsigny said.
The unearthing of these messages "has allowed him to acknowledge that he had sexual relations" with the women, Marsigny said.
Ramadan, accused of raping the women in 2009 and 2012, has been in jug since February 2.
He previously insisted he had no sexual contact with his two accusers, feminist activist Henda Ayari and a disabled woman known in media reports as "Christelle".
Ramadan was a professor at Oxford University until he was forced to take leave when the rape allegations surfaced at the height of the "Me Too" movement late last year.
The married father of four, whose grandfather founded Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund, has repeatedly sought bail arguing that being in prison is making it difficult to treat his multiple sclerosis.
The courts have so far rejected his requests, ruling that he can receive adequate treatment in the prison hospital at Fresnes in the southern Gay Paree suburbs.
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[RT] A columnist in a major Italian newspaper has been slammed on Twitter as "filthy" and an "imbecile" for apparently comparing Brexit to the Nazi regime, and those choosing to leave Britannia to Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
An opinion piece in the Corriere della Sera, headlined "The descendants of the Jews who escaped Nazism now escape Brexit," was blasted online for purportedly putting Britannia’s democratic choice to crash out of the EU two years ago on the same level as the Third Reich.
The piece argues that just as people were forced to flee Germany during the Second World War for fear of being persecuted by the Nazis, their descendants are now escaping the UK ahead of it leaving the 28 member state bloc.
It points out that the number of Jewish refugee descendants flocking to Germany shot up to 1,667 in 2017, compared to just 43 in 2015, before the EU referendum took place.
"It’s mainly about finding yourself some insurance: with the terms of Brexit being still uncertain, pocketing a European passport means ensuring the possibility in the future of being able to carry on travelling and working freely within the EU," Luigi Ippolito, the author of the opinion piece, wrote on Saturday.
The controversial comparison sparked outrage on Twitter, with people blasting the article as "filth."
One said there is no such link between Brexit and the totalitarian regime that prompted the Jewish exodus from Germany in World War II, and branded those behind the article as "pitiful."
Another blasted them as "imbeciles."
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Anyone who upsets the Socialist's rice bowl are Nazis.
[RT] Transgender activists are up in arms over reports that the Trump administration is considering a policy which would require government agencies to define a person’s sex based solely on biological considerations.
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...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report, the Department of Health and Human Services is planning to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, a federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination.
While many transgender activists argue that a person’s gender is largely their own choice, a department memo seen by the Times argues that a person’s sex should be defined "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable," with a person’s genitals at birth defining their gender.
"The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence," the memo reportedly reads.
The news was met with fury by transgender activists, and a protest was held in New York’s Washington Square on Sunday night. The Transgender Law Center said that the proposal is an effort "to erase our very existence as trans people," and accused the Trump administration of planning "the destruction of our communities."
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roughly one birth in 2000 has enough ambiguity in their sex organs to be labelled Hermaphrodites (having both male and female body parts.) However, only one of those is functional.
[NationalPost] Dr. Miroslav Djordjevic says more people, particularly transgender women over 30, are asking for reversal surgery, yet their regrets remain taboo.
To date, all of his reversals have been transgender women aged over 30 wanting to restore their male genitalia. Over the last two decades, the average age of his patients has more than halved, from 45 to 21. While the World Professional Association for Transgender Health guidelines currently state nobody under the age of 18 should undergo surgery, Prof Djordjevic fears this age limit could soon be reduced to include minors. Were that to happen, he says, he would refuse to abide by the rules. “I’m afraid what will happen five to 10 years later with this person,” he says. “It is more than about surgery; it’s an issue of human rights. I could not accept them as a patient as I’d be afraid what would happen to their mind.”
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How does having a gender defined as male and female adversely affect transgenders?
OED defines transgender as, "Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex."
Seems like if you don't have a defined birth sex you can't claim to be transgender.
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In my 20's I thought about getting a tattoo and stopped at the following thought: "Will I be happy in 20 years with this 'thing' on my arm?"
Plastic surgery, particularly gender changing surgery is just a wee bit more permanent than a tattoo.
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I don't think that transgenders should be discriminated against; it's too late to choose the amount of prenatal androgen exposure one had as a fetus. While they might feel uncomfortable using a male/female bathroom they have to understand that others may be similarly uncomfortable sharing the same. The trap is that they cause as much discomfort in others as they feel themselves.
What is the solution? Building three bathrooms: Male, female, and in-between?
If a state or local government feels strongly enough about it they can change the building codes.
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If they want to be treated equally before the,that's fine by me. But it is not equal treatment if I am required to call you by any of 59 gender pronouns you've dreamed up. You got wedding tackle. Use the men's room. No wedding tackle, use the ladies.
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Sorry, Jack. You don't know people born with a brain of a male and body of a female, or a body of a female and the brain of a male. I do. For a very few, not all switches in the brain click to the same sex as the equipment would indicate. These medical disorders are documented in the Disorders of sex development (DSD).
I am not advocating for a 3rd birth sex. You are either XX or XY. But I can imagine how confusing it must be for these people.
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But I can imagine how confusing it must be for these people.
The best thing that can be done for those whose self-image does not match their physical sex is cognitive-behavioural therapy to help them accept themselves. This doesn’t mean they must become frilly females or macho men — it is a mistake of categorization to demand that all those who have or lack a Y chromosome must behave and dress within narrow and rigid parameters.
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I saw the future at a Missouri State Park last summer - 20 individual rest rooms, all the same. Toilets, no urinals. I went in after a mother and small child. It was messier than most men's rooms!
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Israeli army Monday accused the Lebanese hard boy group Hezbollah of setting up a new observation point in south Leb near the border under the guise of an environmental NGO.
A senior military officer charged that the position, near the Shiite village of Aadaysit and the Israeli kibbutz of Misgav Am, was a violation of UN Resolution 1701 prohibiting Hezbollah military activity in the area.
The observation post joins five other exposed last year by Israel, the officer said, all allegedly under the cover of "Green Without Borders".
"This NGO isn’t concerned with planting trees, it’s a front" for Hezbollah to monitor the Israeli army and civilians nearby, the officer told news hounds in a briefing.
Israel has relayed its concerns to UNIFIL, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... peacekeeping mission in Leb, and asked them to visit the positions, but according to the officer, "they haven’t done so".
The position contains "military equipment and infrastructure, binoculars, high end cameras", the officer said. "This is a breach of 1701."
A month-long war in 2006 between Israel and the Hezbollah movement killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Resolution 1701 was adopted to end the war, calling for full respect of the "Blue Line", the UN-demarcated frontier between Leb and the Jewish state.
Israel has vowed to prevent what it says are efforts by its arch foe, Iran, to transfer advanced arms to Hezbollah in Leb.
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[Al Jazeera] Authorities in Nigeria have deployed special police forces to northern Kaduna and declared a 24-hour curfew in the state's capital following communal violence that killed dozens of people.
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the deployment on Sunday, as the regional government imposed the measure in Kaduna city after violence broke out on its streets.
The festivities followed violence that broke out on Thursday between Moslem and Christian communities in the Kasuwan Magani area of southern Kaduna which left at least 55 people dead.
"The violence in Kaduna ... is condemnable. The police have been authorised to do everything possible to restore calm. A Special Intervention Force has been deployed to the flashpoints," Buhari said on Twitter.
"The federal government and its law enforcement agencies will work with the state government and community leaders to ensure the full restoration of peace and security," Buhari said in another message.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Algerian authorities detained 17 people in Tissemsilt for their involvement in providing an al-Qaeda terror cell with information about the movement of police, gendarmerie and army.
"Within the context of fighting terrorism, (the authorities) locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! 17 people who support terror groups in Tissemsilt on October 20," the ministry of defense said in a statement.
The daily Elibilad quoted security sources as saying that the arrests were made following investigations for weeks and after the authorities learnt from residents in the area that suspicious people were visiting the houses of some repentant terrorists.
According to sources, the statements of the two detainees helped detain the rest of the cell members. The rest of the cell members are being interrogated to know more about other members and the terrorist scheme that was being planned.
MILITARY OPERATIONS Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... armed forces have launched large-scale military operations in northern and border areas to track terror groups and smuggling barons. Security forces also shelled and destroyed terrorists’ strongholds and thwarted smuggling operations in the second, fourth and sixth military regions.
The Algerian air force’s fighters and reconnaissance aircrafts have intensified their flights in several areas in eastern areas as well as above mountainous and other strategic passages and border crossings, the sources also said, adding that additional army and gendarmerie forces have been dispatched to the eastern borders.
This comes amid recent reports that top army officials are supervising the monitoring of eastern borders and the execution of a new security plan that aims to prevent the infiltration of Algerian borders by Tunisian or Libyan gangs, prevent the violation of Algerian airspace and confront smuggling of weapons via the country’s borders.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Renewed fighting broke out among 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 ... militias in Sanaa leading to many casualties amid security chaos in the Yemeni capital and growing cases of liquidations among them.
Sources also reported the spread of looting of shops and banks under the pretext of financing military operations. The chaotic security situation comes at the heels of the liquidation of the son of security director of a directorate in the capital.
Renewed festivities among Houthi snuffies resulted in deaths in their ranks while sources pointed out that the assistant Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Tribal Affairs of the Houthi, Safwan al-Habri, narrowlly escaped an armed ambush in a neighborhood south of Sanaa.
Other members of the coup militias have also been assassinated due to feuds related to money and the refusal of the Houthi militias to pay the salaries of its employees.
Local sources accuse the militia leaders of targeting money exchange companies and commercial shops in Sanaa under the pretext of financing military operations. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the looting has been done to generate their own wealth.
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[Al Ahram] The United States sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Monday in the second such operation this year, as the US military increases the frequency of transits through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China.
The voyage risks further heightening tensions with China but will likely be viewed in self-ruled Taiwan as a sign of support by 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 government, amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing.
Rooters was first to report US consideration of the sensitive operation on Saturday.
"The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Commander Nate Christensen, deputy front man for US Pacific Fleet, said in a statement.
"The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows," he added.
Taiwan's defense ministry said it closely monitored the operation and was able to "maintain the security of the seas and the airspace" as it occurred.
There was no immediate comment from China.
The US Navy conducted a similar mission in the strait's international waters in July, which had been the first such voyage in about a year. The latest operation shows the US Navy is increasing the pace of strait passages.
Washington has no formal ties with Taiwan, but is bound by law to help it defend itself and is the island's main source of arms. The Pentagon says Washington has sold Taiwan more than $15 billion in weaponry since 2010.
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[Al Ahram] White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, 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 son in law, said on Monday the United States is still in a "fact-finding" phase on the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Asked about the credibility of a Saudi investigation of the killing that took place in their Istanbul consulate, Kushner told CNN: "We're getting facts in from multiple places."
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[An Nahar] A year after a disastrous independence vote he had championed in Iraqi Kurdistan, veteran leader Massud Barzani has made a strong comeback both on the home front and in Baghdad.
While Iraq's presidency, a ceremonial post, has gone to Barham Saleh of the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was on Sunday declared the clear winner of the September 30 parliamentary elections in the autonomous region of northern Iraq.
In the political manoeuvring for ministerial posts in Baghdad, meanwhile, the KDP can also even boast it is the largest single party in Iraq. The party garnered 25 seats in Iraq's legislative elections in May, contested mainly against party lists.
With 45 seats won in the 111-member Iraqi Kurdish parliament, Barzani's party can form a majority without the PUK.
It can, in theory, rely solely on the 11-seat allocation reserved for the region's minority Turkmen, Christian and Armenian communities.
"Now that he is the great heavyweight of Kurdish politics, no-one can do without him in Baghdad," said Adel Bakawan, a research associate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Gay Paree (EHESS).
He predicted Barzani would seek the deputy premier, foreign and finance minister posts for the KDP in the federal government that is to be formed by November.
"He lost the gamble of the referendum, but the legislative (polls) in May were a tremendous moment of grace; he was courted by the Americans and the Iranians," the two key powerbrokers in Iraq, he said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain has reportedly released the former deputy chief of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar from the jail.
Informed sources have told a local media outlet ’The News’ that Mullah Baradar has been released from jail on the solicitation of the government of 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... Recently, high level delegation of Qatar visited Islamabad and met big shotship of Pakistain, the sources added.
Mullah Baradar was captured by security agencies 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... in 2010.
This is comes similar reports emerged few years earlier that Mulla Baradar has been released in Pakistain to negotiate with Afghan Taliban.
The Taliban group in Afghanistan has not commented regarding the release of the group’s former co-founder so far.
Mullah Baradar was among the four key people who had helped with the formation of the Taliban group in 1994.
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[An Nahar] A priest in central La Belle France accused of sexually assaulting a minor did away with himself in his church, Catholic authorities said Monday, the second French priest to take his life over abuse claims in a month.
Pierre-Yves Fumery, 38, hanged himself in his presbytery in the town of Gien in the Loire valley. His body was found on Saturday.
The public prosecutor for the area, Loic Abrial, told AFP he had been questioned last week by police about allegations of sexual assault involving a child under the age of 15.
Fumery had not been formally charged but was under investigation because of reports from the community about his behavior, prosecutors said.
Orleans bishop Jacques Blaquart, whose diocese includes Gien, called it a "moment of suffering and a tragic ordeal."
Blaquart said some members of Fumery's parish had brought attention to the priest's "inappropriate behavior" towards children aged 13, 14 and 15, including a girl "that he took in his arms and drove home several times."
The bishop said the nature of the claims did not require the diocese to report the priest to the authorities and that he had told Fumery to "take a step back", seek counseling and leave town for a little while.
The priest took his advice and returned to Gien after a short break but had not yet resumed his duties, Blaquart said.
He is the second priest in over a month to commit suicide in similar circumstances.
On September 19, Jean-Baptiste Sebe, also aged 38, hanged himself in his church in the northern city of Rouen after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her adult daughter.
No formal complaint had been made at the time of his death.
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Dhi Qar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi court has sentenced a Lion of Islam from Anbar province to death over involvement in terrorist charges, a judicial source said on Sunday.
Speaking to Mawazin News, the source said "the Criminal Court in Dhi Qar issued three death sentences against a Lion of Islam from Anbar province over killing civilians and security personnel as well as planting explosives."
[Al Ahram] 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... said Monday the US will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants colonists rolled on regardless toward the US border.
Trump kept up his almost-daily Twitter attacks on the approaching caravan, calling it a national emergency and said he had alerted the US border patrol and military.
"We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid" that the United States provides to the three Central American countries, he said.
Mexican authorities had managed to block the "caravan" of migrants colonists on a border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala, but many later crossed the river below in makeshift rafts before marching north.
The caravan of around 3,000 migrants colonists was heading Monday to the town of Huixtla, around 40 kilometers further on from Tapachula in Chiapas State where they slept Sunday night.
"Sadly, it looks like Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in," Trump said in one tweet.
"I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy (sic). Must change laws!"
Activists say the journey through of at least 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) through Mexico to the US border could take a month.
"We are well aware that this country (Mexico) didn't receive us as we expected, and they can return us to Honduras, and we also know there are narcos who kidnap and kill migrants colonists," Juan Flores, one of those migrants colonists, told AFP.
"But we live with more fear in our country, so we carry on forward," he added.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also warned that the migrants colonists "may be victimized by human smugglers or others who would exploit them."
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[DAWN] A rickshaw driver who had attempted to self-immolate in protest over the alleged extortion by traffic police departed this vale of tears on Monday, police said.
Rickshaw driver Khalid had sprinkled oil on his body and set himself alight near the city police office 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... 's Saddar area on Saturday, saying he was "fed up" with the daily challan ... list of charges ... and alleged "extortion" by the traffic police.
In his statement being shared on social media, Khalid had alleged that Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Mohammed Hanif had been extracting Rs100 from him daily. He gave the policeman Rs50 on Saturday, but the latter insisted on Rs100 and on refusal the ASI handed him a challan.
According to the rickshaw driver, his challan was without any merit and the traffic police had victimised him several times.
The rickshaw driver had been admitted to the Burns Centre of Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital for treatment. Sindh police chief Dr Syed Kaleem Imam had taken notice of the incident and ordered the DIG traffic to conduct an inquiry into the matter and submit a report to him.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi police personnel were killed in two attacks carried out by 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.... members in different regions in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a security source from Nineveh police said on Sunday.
In remarks to BasNews, Col. Ghazwan Sheet said "Islamic State carried out two attacks. The first was at the entrance of al-Shoura region, while the other was at the entrance of Makhmur, southwest of Mosul. The two attacks left four police personnel killed and a fifth seriously injured."
The krazed killers, according to Sheet, "bravely ran away toward unknown destination, while security troops carried out a campaign in the south and southwest of Mosul."
Investigations were conducted after the victims bodies were taken to forensic medicine department.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... said on Sunday that parliamentary elections in Afghanistan did not carry any legitimacy in the presence of foreign forces.
Talking to mediapersons here on Sunday, he said elections in the war-torn country were meaningless and would not put any positive impact on the country’s future.
He argued that Afghanistan was an occupied territory where America and other countries had stationed their troops.
"As the right of self-determination has no substitution in the Indian held Kashmire, same is the case of Afghanistan," he replied when asked about the parliamentary polls in the neighbouring country.
He was of the view that a puppet government had been installed in Kabul which did not enjoy support of the Afghan nation.
He said negotiations were the only way to end four-decade-long war in Afghanistan.
Mr Rehman said Pakistain had been handed over to "incapable" people by rigging the July 25 general elections.
He said he did not accept the results of the general elections as these were ’engineered and rigged’. He predicted that international lending institutions, including IMF, won’t extend bailout package to Pakistain.
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[DAWN] IMAGINE a scenario where a group of, say, Christian men abduct and rape a number of young Moslem girls over years.
Actually, the response of the majority is not hard to predict: there would be blood on the streets from Kasur to 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... ; churches would have been destroyed, and entire communities torched.
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[Telegraph] The European Union is drawing up plans to control Britain’s tax policies after Brexit, leaked documents seen by The Daily Telegraph disclose.
According to draft documents, the EU wants to ensure the UK pledges to keep its tax rules aligned with those of the bloc as part of any future Brexit agreement.
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Such a move would prevent the UK from becoming a low-tax economy by cutting its corporation tax rate to attract business. And – depending on the wording of any agreement – it could mean that any future changes to the EU’s tax rules would need to be followed by the UK, even years after Brexit.
The document was written by the European Parliament’s TAX3 secretariat following a meeting with the Brexit...
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The EUSSR worry the British economy would boom if the tax on workers called VAT is reduced.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Unidentified button men killed on Sunday an Iraqi family composed of three persons in Diyala province, a security source was quoted as saying.
"An owner of a dessert restaurant as well as his wife and daughter were killed in an armed attack launched by unidentified button men on their house in al-Tajneed district in eastern Jalawla, 70 km northeast of Baqubah," the source told the Baghdad Today website.
According to the source, the attackers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace into an unknown location and a probe was opened into the incident.
"The bodies of the victims were moved to the forensic medicine department," added the source.
[DAWN] Kinza, an 11-year-old domestic worker in Rawalpindi who has allegedly suffered torture at the hands of her employers, recorded her statement in the presence of a civil judge at the Civil Judicial Complex on Monday.
The girl's case had surfaced on Saturday through a series of videos shared on Twitter in which she could be seen talking about her employers' alleged mistreatment of her.
On Sunday, a medical examination confirmed that the bruises and wounds found on the 11-year-old's body were consistent with her account of the torture. The examination report confirmed that there is evidence of torture carried out 15-20 days ago using "[a] knife, belts and persons standing on her straight with full weight multiple times".
A case was registered at the Airport Police Station against Kinza's employers on the complaint of the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB). According to the police, the couple will be tried under the Child Protection Act.
Toady, members of the CPWB took Kinza to the judicial complex under security provided by police, who barred media representatives from entering the courtroom. Civil Judge Sumaira Alamgir recorded the minor's statement.
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[RT] Twitter hashtags failed to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court ‐ but maybe a hex will prevent him from serving? RT met up with a group of witches in Brooklyn who seemed to think so.
In what might be described as the ultimate last-ditch attempt to sabotage Kavanaugh’s appointment, a coven of witchcraft enthusiasts convened in Brooklyn to cast a hex upon the newly-minted Supreme Court Justice. Kavanaugh’s confirmation sparked a nationwide debate after he was accused of beer-fueled sexual misconduct in high school. But where the senate failed, Brooklyn’s witches hope to succeed.
Although well aware that he could be turned into a newt at any moment, RT’s Caleb Maupin attended the sorcery summit in hopes of learning more about the #Hexistance. He also crossed paths with Christian activists, who said that they were at the event to counter its Dark Magick message of "hate."
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Where is Newt Gingrich when we really need him?
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Yeah, I heard about this one.
At first I prayed that they would be of no effect.
Then I had them bounce back on them sevenfold.
Then I spiced things up by having them miss Kavenaugh and land on Ginsberg.
Hey, don't look at me THAT way...I pray as the Spirit Moves me....
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Why is it that it is so easy to identify democrat women even before they open their mouths? Could it be the unstyled grey hair, the birkenstocks, the general look of crazy?
[Daily Caller] A New York Police Department sergeant is under investigation for allegedly shoving her panties into a detective’s mouth earlier this month.
Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra of the 72nd Precinct Detectives Squad lost her cool after Detective Victor Falcon complained to her about her frequently leaving her panties all over the unisex locker room, according to the New York Post.
Guerra allegedly screamed, "They are f‐king clean!" and then shoved her panties into Falcon’s mouth. (RELATED: Former NYPD Employee Says Gun Licensing Division Denies Permits Based On Minor Traffic Violations)
Falcon filed a complaint with NYPD’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office on October 10. The complaint described the incident and also referenced numerous sexually explicit stories that Guerra allegedly shared with Falcon and others.
[AsiaTimes] Beijing may be ready to trade short-term concessions and bide its time until it is far and away the world’s largest economy.
Ahead of a possible meeting next month between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the White House tempered any optimism that a trade truce with Beijing is imminent when top economic advisor Larry Kudlow accused China on Sunday of doing “nothing” to defuse trade tensions.
But some Chinese officials and government advisers recently emphasized that China will show patience in addressing American trade demands, postponing if necessary some of its plans to become self-sufficient in high-tech industry.
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[LidBlog] One of the most prominent “research” groups behind the attacks on conservative free speech on the Internet this year is a company called “New Knowledge.” But now a new review of the company shows that one of its biggest backers is one of our biggest international opponents, the Chinese Government.
New Knowledge co-founder Jonathon Morgan describes his company as a “cybersecurity company specializing in disinformation defense for highly visible brands under attack by coordinated disinformation campaigns. Through machine learning and Ai, we detect threats and provide brand manipulation protection before damage is done.”
It is this “disinformation” that New Knowledge has been hired to root out and it is their work that has served as a basis for attacks on conservatives by The Washington Post and The Atlantic, not to mention the efforts by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others to eliminate conservatives from the Internet.
Morgan, who is also the founder of a left-wing group called Data for Democracy, wrote a piece in 2016 claiming that the “radical right” is a threat to the nation.
So, where does New Knowledge get its money? Well, one of its top donors is a company called GGV Capital. And where does GGV Capital operate from? Apparently China.
Remember, there is no such thing as private companies in China. All business operates under the thumb of the Chinese government. If GGV is based in China, it exists under the control of the Chinese, one of our biggest enemies.
This can only mean that it is the Chinese who aiding in determining who is allowed to have a voice on the Internet in the U.S.A.
[Al Jazeera] Yemen's 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 ... rebels say at least four civilians, including a child, have been killed in an air raid by a Saudi-led coalition that struck a vehicle as it travelled through the country's northwest.
The attack reportedly took place on Sunday in the Bani Hassan district of Abs province in Hajjah, some 200km west of the capital, Sanaa.
Al Masirah, a TV channel affiliated with the Houthis - a group of rebels who control most of north and central 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... - said all four of the passengers were killed.
It published photos on its website of a bombed-out vehicle and the dismembered body of two of the victims.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the claims.
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 bombing Yemen since March 2015 after the Houthis swept across the country and toppled the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has also carried out bombing campaigns in an attempt to reverse their gains and has deployed more than 1,000 Emirati troops throughout the country.
Saudi air raids have repeatedly struck civilian targets during the three-year war, with the Yemen Data Project, an independent monitor, reporting more than 50 air raids against civilian cars and buses this year.
Its findings have also revealed that nearly one-third of the 16,000 air raids carried out on Yemen since March 2015 have struck non-military sites, including weddings, funerals, hospitals as well as water and electricity plants.
The Saudi-UAE military alliance has acknowledged mistakes in air operations but has mostly defended its record.
It has denied deliberately targeting civilians but has faced mounting criticism following a recent air attack on a school bus that killed 40 children.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... has repeatedly criticised the alliance's bombing campaign and last year placed it on a blacklist of child rights violators.
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[TheGuardian] Turkish president on losing end of regional power struggle with Bin Salman now finds himself in the ascendant.
At about noon on Tuesday two regional leaders are due to make landmark addresses. In Riyadh, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, will open an investment showpiece declaring the kingdom open for business. In Ankara, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is expected to make a speech that may well shut down the beleaguered kingdom.
Such are the stakes when Erdoğan takes to a podium to discuss the death of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi that the region may not be the same when he’s finished.
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Could a Turkish/Qatari/Muslim Brotherhood/Iranian agent within the Saudi security infrastructure be responsible for the deadly escalation of Kashoggi's visit to the consulate?
If Erdogan is in possession of detailed information about the murder this would point to a successful Turkish infiltration of relevant Saudi government structures.
Conversely, if the Saudi government had intended to murder Kashoggi they could easily have done so preserving plausible deniability.
This doesn't add up.
Perhaps Erdogan is trying to replicate East Germany's success.
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An assassination could have been carried out by two men on a Chinese Honda with a silenced .22 pistol.
My guess is that it was a 'prisoner snatch' operation gone bad. If Khashoggi was an unwilling participant, resisted, and had to be sedated, anything could have happened. A team of seventeen men is not needed for a snatch or kidnapping. A clean-up or burial detail perhaps.
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NOBODY but journolisters and anti-American Pro-Iranian agitators (BIRM) care what happened to this MB POS
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I hope the naked truth comes out. The DS cabal/Western Intel, according to George Webb, paid for a Saudi coup, wiring the money to 17 Saudi Royal Guard operatives who Khashoggi was meeting in Turkey. That transaction can be traced, leading back to Soros, Clinton, Obama, Brennan, & Clapper. Apparently they got the admission on tape before the murder.
[DAWN] BAHAWALNAGAR: The Saddar police on Sunday started the paperwork but haven't done much else against a man for allegedly raping a five-year-old boy at Chak 133.
The child was admitted to the Civil Hospital after the incident.
The family told police that they had hired a 30-year-old man to look after animals in their barn. The suspect took the child to the barn where he raped him and his parents found him crying. They said the suspect fled.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Army on Monday formally handed over administrative control of Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... to the civil government after restoring peace and the government’s writ in the militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region.
In 2007, after the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain had taken over Swat, armed forced were called in to prise the valley out of their possession ‐ a process that more than a decade later is now officially deemed complete.
"After almost eleven years we have made history with the handing-over of administrative powers to the civil administration," KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan said at a gathering also attended by Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Corps Commander Lt Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) Malakand, ministers, MPs and other army officers.
The chief minister regretted that turbans had destroyed the beautiful district by bombing schools, educational institutions, imposing various bans on women and killing innocent people.
He further said that the army, with the support of police, local administration and the people, has succeeded in uprooting militancy from Swat and restored peace.
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[DAWN] Former PM Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... , in his response to a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking treason charges against him, has termed the allegations levelled against him as "unimaginable" and questioned how his "patriotism" could be doubted in the light of his services to the country.
Sharif has been accused of treason for allegedly trying to defame state institutions through an interview to Dawn journalist Cyril Almeida, while the same accusation has been leveled against former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for allegedly not honouring his oath of office by disclosing the minutes of a National Security Council (NSC) meeting to Nawaz.
As a three-judge bench headed by Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi resumed hearing the case today, Sharif, Abbasi and Almeida's lawyers furnished their clients' formal responses to the allegations made against them.
"A grave allegation such as treason is unimaginable [for me]," Nawaz stated in his response.
"This raises many questions in my mind. Are the millions of Pak people who made me the PM traitors too? Have the country's institutions and agencies failed that they did not know of my treason. Is someone who rids the country of terrorism a traitor?" he asked in the written statement.
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[Charlotte Bus Journal] Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) agreed to pay a $65 million settlement on Monday for fraudulent statements to investors.
The penalty stems from Wells Fargo's cross-selling business, in which employees sell new products or services to existing customers. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood says the bank failed to disclose to investors that its strong cross-selling efforts were driven by fraudulent sales practices, such as opening millions of fake deposit and credit card accounts without customers' knowledge.
Employees who met sales requirements were eligible for promotions and bonuses, while those who did not faced potential termination.
"The misconduct at Wells Fargo was widespread across the bank and at every level of management ‐ impacting both customers and investors who were misled," Underwood says. "State securities laws are vital to protecting the hard-earned savings of working families and Main Street investors from financial fraud, and my office will continue to do what’s necessary to protect the public and the integrity of our markets."
Underwood notes Wells Fargo became aware of the fraudulent practices as early as 2011, but did not disclose the information to investors. When news of those practices broke publicly, New York investors lost millions of dollars, she says.
The bank issued the following response: "Wells Fargo did not admit liability, and we believe that putting this matter behind us is in the best interest of all of our stakeholders, including customers. The settlement costs have been previously accrued. We are making strong progress in our work to rebuild trust, and this represents another step forward. Over the past two years, we have made fundamental changes to retail sales practices, and the claims in this settlement relate to past product sales goals that were eliminated in 2016."
The New York Attorney General’s office says this settlement is separate from an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent accounts and services added without customers' consent.
[Hot Air] Senator Bernie Sanders is campaigning for House Democrats, hoping that the party will pick up enough seats to take back the House next month. But in an interview with the Hill today, Sanders said he’s not a believer in the blue wave that the left has been predicting for months. He believes control of the House is very much up in the air at this point:
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I can understand his disillusionment with the concept of the blue wave. He was a victim of the Hillary blue team - in addition to his just plain insane ideas.
[GunsAmerica Digest] Lachhiman Gurung seemed an unremarkable sort. He stood all of four feet eleven inches tall when he left his village to buy cigarettes for his father and ended up enlisting as a Gurkha in the service of the British Empire on a whim. However, on May 12, 1945, deep in a Burmese jungle Lachhiman Gurung proved that sometimes some of the most remarkable stuff comes in compact packages.
Gurung’s fighting position was at the foremost vanguard of his unit’s defensive emplacements standing ready against a pending Japanese attack. When the Japanese came they led with 200 seasoned assault troops. In fairly short order Gurung was alone, the rest of his mates either dead or dying.
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For those interested in more Lee-Enfield and Lee-Meford* check out the youtube channels Bloke on the Range and BritishMuzzleloaders. As far as the "Mad Miute" goes BritishMuzzleloaders does what he calls historical shooting. Using weapons. Ammunition and uniforms appropriate to the timeframe he explored the tactics and training employed by the British Army from the Napoleonic Era up through the late 1930's. He even makes his own rolled case ammunition for Martini-Henry. In his exploration of his training method there is nothing concerning the Mad Minute of legend.
Bloke on the Range has done comparisons of various bolt actions in a mad minute situation along with the M1. The SMLE is not that much slower than the M1 due to it's ergonomics and it's cocking on closing action. Between these two channels and Forgotten Weapons you pretty much have it covered
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The brother of the former police chief of Kandahar Gen. Abdul Raziq has been appointed as the new police chief of southern Kandahar province.
Tadeen Khan, the brother of Gen. Abdul Raziq, was introduced as the new police chief of the province during an event organized in the Police Commandment of Kandahar today.
Gen. Raziq lost his life in an attack carried out by a gunman in Kandahar province last Thursday.
The provincial intelligence chief of the province Gen. Abdul Momin was also killed in the attack while the provincial governor Zalmay Weesa sustained injuries.
The attack was carried out by one of the security guards of Kandahar governor Zalmay Weesa.
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It's almost as if Trump metabolizes the negative energy exuded by leftist crackpots. The more they gnash their teeth and wail, the stronger and more confident he gets.
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Giant Papier-mâché heads are so Old School, the new fad is animated video. If we, the intelligent Left, put enough video on the internet showing the Downfall of Evil Trump™ the technological voodoo will sure succeed!
[Al Ahram] Pakistain Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... left for 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 attend an investment conference boycotted by other leaders over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... Khan told an interviewer before leaving he was concerned at Khashoggi's death but could not skip the conference because "we're desperate" for possible Saudi loans to shore up Pakistain's economy.
It is Khan's second visit to Saudi Arabia in just over a month, but he has not succeeded in securing significant financial assistance to stave off a looming balance of payment crisis.
Khan told the Middle East Eye in an interview published on Monday that he could not pass up the invitation to meet Saudi leaders again.
"The reason I feel I have to avail myself of this opportunity is because in a country of 210 million people right now we have the worst debt crisis in our history," he was quoted as saying.
"Unless we get loans from friendly countries or the IMF (International Monetary Fund), we actually won't have in another two or three months enough foreign exchange to service our debts or to pay for our imports. So we're desperate at the moment."
Finance Minister Asad Umar and Commerce Minister Abdul Razak Dawood are accompanying Khan, a statement from Khan's office said on Monday, adding it "will give a chance to connect with those people who are interested in investing in Pakistain".
Islamabad has already asked the IMF to open negotiations for the country's second potential bailout in five years.
Khan, who took office in July, still has been seeking alternatives to the tough conditions the IMF is likely to impose for loans, limiting his vision of an Islamic welfare state.
The central bank's foreign reserves dropped this month to $8.1 billion, a four-year low and barely enough to cover sovereign debt payments due through the end of the year. The current account deficit has swelled to about $18 billion.
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because "we're desperate" for possible Saudi loans to shore up Pakistain's economy.
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Khan, who took office in July, still has been seeking alternatives to the tough conditions the IMF is likely to impose for loans, limiting his vision of an Islamic welfare state
Oh darn!
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Maybe the Chinese will want you.
Oh, opium and muslim.
Maybe not.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Death Eater Lion of Islam group has grabbed credit for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistain, Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday.
"The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) has posted two photos... claiming that those in it are the forces kidnapped" on October 16, ISNA said.
Jaish al-Adl, formed in 2012, is a successor to the Sunni Death Eater group Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (Soldiers of God) which has carried out a spate of attacks on Iranian security forces in recent years in the southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The photos show seven members of the elite Revolutionary Guards force and five police commandos, all in combat gear, according to state news agency IRNA.
The Iranians, including intelligence offices, were kidnapped near Lulakdan, a village 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Balochistan.
They were "made unconscious" by a "single infiltrator" and then kidnapped and taken to bases inside Pakistain, said Guards commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, quoted by IRNA.
The photos also show a haul of automatic weapons and sniper rifles, rocket launchers, machine-guns, grenades and ammunition, apparently seized from the Iranian forces.
Sistan-Balochistan has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistain-based Baluchi separatists and snuffies carrying out regular cross-border raids against Iran.
The province has a large, mainly Sunni Moslem ethnic Baluchi community which straddles the border.
A delegation led by the Guards’ ground forces commander Mohammad Pakpour visited Pakistain on Monday to follow up on efforts to free the Iranians, the force said on its website.
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[RT] In an explosive interview, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert claimed that he was investigated and imprisoned for corruption after being targeted by a cabal largely financed by wealthy American Jews.
Olmert told TV channel i24NEWS that his six-year prison sentence for graft and bribery ‐ he was released on parole last year, after serving just 16 months ‐ was the result of trumped up charges.
"The nature of the allegations against me...were really at the end of the day very ridiculous, very insignificant...it was clear to me that those who were after me were ready to do everything, everything in order to get rid of me...," he said.
"It was big operation, largely financed by rich Jews from America."
It’s not the first time the left wing politician has made such claims, as it turns out. If only the left wing were not in decline in Israeli politics, he might have gotten some traction, poor dear.
A source close to Olmert told the Jerusalem Post in 2012 that right-wing American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson played a major role in privately financing an investigation into Olmert’s alleged shady dealings.
Speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in May 2012, Olmert insisted that he had been the victim of a right-wing conspiracy involving powerful American businessmen. However, he declined to name names.
“[Trying to make peace] was a killer for me,” he told Amanpour, adding that “millions and millions of dollars” had been provided by American right-wingers in hopes of toppling him.
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Horse hockey. American Jews typically support folks like Olmert even if it's suicidal. It would help a lot if Olmert had not been corrupt.
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American Jews typically support folks like Olmert even if it's suicidal.
Yes, but Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish, multi-billionaire entrepreneur, supports Republican politicians at home and Bibi Netanyahu, Likud, and conservative politics in Israel. It is Mr. Adelson to whom Mr. Olmert objects, not rich American Jews in general.
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TW, is Olmert's complaint that Sheldon Adelson provided the elbow grease to uncover his malfeasance? Or is he asserting that Sheldon Adelson used his money to manufacture crimes of which Olmert is innocent? The latter seems unsupported by the evidence while the former smells of sour grapes.
My usual disregard for anything published by RT applies.
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TW, is Olmert's complaint that Sheldon Adelson provided the elbow grease to uncover his malfeasance? Or is he asserting that Sheldon Adelson used his money to manufacture crimes of which Olmert is innocent?
Dear Shart the Low-priced4103, those are good questions. I have absolutely no idea, as I don’t pay attention to most Israeli politics, which is a full contact sport with frequently rearranging parties. lord garth and some others here no doubt know the answer, so hopefully they will see this tonight before the midnight rollover, or perhaps they'll post the answer in the O Club later.
[RT] The New York Police Department has suspended the use of almost 3,000 body cameras after one went kaboom!, leaving some of the city’s police force unrecorded for the foreseeable future. According to studies, not much will change.
An NYPD officer noticed smoke rising from his camera on Saturday, and took it off before it went kaboom!. Nobody was injured in the incident, but the department instructed all officers equipped with Vievu LE-5 body cameras to return them to their precincts.
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our officers, and equipping the NYPD with the best equipment is a paramount priority," read a statement from the NYPD. The department believes that a battery malfunction caused the device to explode.
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Nothing is more important than the safety of our officers,
Issue extra magazines.
No batteries.
No uplink encryption required.
[Al Ahram] Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... as of 2016.... met US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Riyadh on Monday, Saudi state TV said in a tweet.
Mnuchin said on Sunday Saudi Arabia's explanation of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a "good first step but not enough", adding that it was premature to discuss sanctions against Riyadh over the incident.
The Saudi crown prince and Mnuchin "stressed the importance of strategic partnership and the future role of this partnership through Vision 2030", the Saudi TV tweet said, referring to the kingdom's long term development plan.
The US official said on Sunday he would not attend a major investment conference to be hosted in Riyadh this week, and that his visit was to hold talks on joint efforts toward countering terrorist financing and curbing Iran’s military and political influence.
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[An Nahar] A man who was trafficking Syrians from and into Leb was killed Monday in the West Bekaa border town of Sawiri in a clash with security forces.
"A. Sh., aka Abu Rameh, was killed at dawn in the town of Sawiri in a clash with a patrol from the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch that was trying to arrest him," the National News Agency reported.
A member of the patrol was lightly injured in the incident, NNA added.
The slain man had been placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! several times in the past, the agency noted.
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[AsiaTImes] Compatibility problems could mean the two missile systems might not work seamlessly together
India is aiming to modernize its strategic arsenal with the introduction of advanced US and Russian defense systems. However, some military experts say that while the South Asian giant needs foreign technologies to become a self-sufficient arms manufacturer – and autonomous global geopolitical player – technical problems could limit their coexistence.
The Indian government finalized the acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air defense missile system earlier this month and is said to be considering the purchase of the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II) from the United States.
Aside from geopolitical considerations related to Washington’s secondary sanctions against Moscow, the inclusion of these two platforms in India’s developing multi-tiered air defense network could pose problems of compatibility.
Turkey, a US ally in the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), is coping with similar challenges while going ahead with the S-400’s procurement. America and other Nato countries argue that the Russian system cannot be integrated with the alliance’s defense framework as it presents problems of interoperability. By this reasoning, the S-400 should also not be compatible with the NASAMS – which is built by the US Raytheon National in cooperation with Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace of Norway.
The crucial question for Delhi, as well as Washington and the Kremlin, is determining whether the two systems can coexist as part India’s prospective air defense framework.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... on Friday vowed said it did not want relations with 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 be damaged in the case of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
"From the start, the line of our 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... ) has been clear. Nothing will remain secret in this case," presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin told news hounds in Ankara.
He added: "Saudi Arabia is for us an important country, a brotherly and friendly country. We have many partnerships and we would not want these to be damaged. Consequently, there is a great responsibility on the Saudi authorities to shed light on the case."
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Damn. Must be something in the water. Everyone is lying their a$$es off.
[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] At least seventeen suspected separatists have been killed in the loccality of Ndop, North West region of Cameroon, security forces say.
The army said it had killed the men during an operation over the weekend as they equally arrested two suspected armed separatists.
Nine bikes, 12 hunting guns, cell phones and amunition were seized in the course of the operation, the Cameroon army said.
In a related developmeent, the army confirmed it had equally killed five suspected separatists in Bafut, destroying three bikes and seizing several weapons belonging to the armed men.
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[Free Beacon] Former President Barack Obama said during a campaign rally Monday that the current economic boom, which President Donald Trump has highlighted as a major victory for his administration, began with him.
"When you hear all this talk about economic miracles, remember who started it," Obama told the Nevada crowd, which responded with applause and cheers.
Obama, who was in Nevada supporting Democratic Senate candidate Jacky Rosen, reflected on his own administration, saying, "When I walked into the Oval Office 10 years ago, we were in the middle of the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, the last time the other party was in charge."
"I hope people notice," he continued, "that every time there is a pattern where they [Republicans] run things into the ground, we have to come back and clean things up."
"Nevada was hit as hard as any place [during the last recession]; everybody here remembers," Obama said, before joking about the young age of the attendees. "Not everybody," he clarified. "Because some of you were really young. Those of you who are older than 15 remember, sort of."
It wasn't the first time Obama has challenged Trump's claims to a driving a booming economy. In September, Obama told a crowd in Illinois to "remember" the current economic recovery began under his administration, the New York Times reported at the time.
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Obama Again Makes Point Economic Boom Began With Him (exiting)
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The biggest BUMBLING BABBLING SOPHOMORIC BUFFOON ever elected, Says a lot about the moronic idiots that put him in office and STILL listen. OF course IMO.
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For eight years it was "Everything Bad was Bush Bush Republicans Bush Bush! Everything Good was the most glorious Obama, He Who Brings the Light™!" On second thought ... who cares what he says anyway?
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I wonder why he didn't begin it, oh, 4 years sooner? The new normal.
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It did start with him. Obama bounced our economy off the bottom. Obama fumbled the recovery, a recovery Charlie Brown could have made a success, and handed the Ball to Trump to save the day.
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yep, 49 Pan
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Or a thinly disguised message from MbS that the DS coup against him failed. Note the Turkish source to CNN. If an 8 Chan post is accurate, the tape of the gruesome murder also contains a confession that Khashoggi was the $$$ intermediary, with a trail back to Soros, Brennan, Clapper, Clinton, & Obama. They will be counting their digits instead of sheep as they try to sleep.
[Politico] A California judge on Monday ordered Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti to pay $4.85 million to an attorney at his former law firm, the first time the potential presidential candidate is being held personally liable in the case. A man who should spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis Landin issued the ruling after turning down a request from Avenatti to have the matter moved to federal court, which the opposing side called a delay tactic.
Avenatti did not appear at the court hearing and never filed opposing arguments in the case.
The judge said Avenatti must pay the money because he personally guaranteed a settlement with Jason Frank, who had worked at his former firm.
Frank had alleged the firm misstated its profits and that he was owed millions.
Avenatti, who is toying with a possible 2020 presidential run, told The Associated Press on Monday that Frank owes him and the firm $12 million "for his fraud." He did not provide details.
The ruling follows a court ruling from a U.S. bankruptcy court judge who ordered Avenatti's former firm to pay $10 million to Frank in May. The $4.85 million is in addition to that judgment.
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Evicted:
Less than an hour after his defeat in the Los Angeles lawsuit, the firm, Eagan Avenatti, suffered another setback at a trial in Santa Ana: The Irvine Co. won a court order evicting Avenatti and his staff from their suite at the Fashion Island mall for failing to pay the last four months of rent.
The twin blows came as Avenatti was heading to New Hampshire for his third visit to the state that kicks off the 2020 presidential primaries. He is exploring a run for the Democratic nomination, and his troubled financial history could emerge as a significant campaign issue if he joins the race. …
In July, Eagan Avenatti paid the monthly rent of $52,235 but the check bounced, according to the landlord.
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As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
This guy should be disbarred. I think we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg of crookedness.
[Al Jazeera] A "potentially catastrophic" Category-5 hurricane is moving quickly through the Pacific Ocean and is predicted to pound western Mexico's shores on Tuesday, according to the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Although Hurricane Willa is expected to lose force by the time it makes landfall, NHC said it will likely remain a major storm of Category-3 intensity and could produce "life-threatening flash flooding and landslides over much of southwestern and west-central Mexico".
The hurricane is expected to pass over or near the Islas Marias - a set of islands about 96km offshore that includes a nature preserve and a federal prison - early on Tuesday, then blow ashore in the afternoon or the evening between the resort town of Mazatlan and San Blas, a distance of about 220km.
The governments of Sinaloa and Nayarit states ordered coastal region schools to close and have begun preparing emergency shelters.
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[Breitbart] Democrat candidate Sean Casten spoke during an interview on Sunday about President Trump’s tax cuts, calling for them to be "completely eliminated."
Casten, who is running against incumbent Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) in a close race for Illinois’ Sixth Congressional District, told WLS in an interview on Sunday that he believes "the tax reform that was passed should be completely eliminated" because most of the money from the tax cuts went to people who did not need it.
"By giving a tax cut to corporates in the top 1 percent, 83 percent of the tax cut went to people who didn’t need it," Casten said. "And it hasn’t triggered investment. It hasn’t triggered wage growth. What it’s triggered is a massive increase in dividends. And when 35 percent of U.S. equities are owned by foreigners, that means that more money left the country from the tax bill than flowed to 99 percent of Americans."
Despite Casten’s views on tax cuts not helping Americans, most Americans say they supported the tax cuts passed under the Trump administration’s tax reform package. A poll conducted shortly after the tax reform bill passed found that 51 percent of Americans approved of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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What it’s triggered is a massive increase in dividends. And when 35 percent of U.S. equities are owned by foreigners, that means that more money left the country from the tax bill than flowed to 99 percent of Americans.
This is so densely stupid it's hard to unpack. Try this, Sean: Outlaw dividends payments by US companies and see how the retirement community and pension funds like that. Check your will first. Or, prohibit the investment of foreign capital in US companies; take two aspirins and call us in three months.
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This is so densely stupid it's hard to unpack.
Matt, that is a great statement. Mind if I use it (a LOT)?
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most of the money from the tax cuts went to people who did not need it.
And Sean Casten and the Democrats will determine just what you need. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" Where have I heard that before?
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And it hasn’t triggered investment. It hasn’t triggered wage growth.
I'll see your 1.2 GDP growth under Obumble and raise you to 4.2 GDP growth under Trump.
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Frank, you left out the other half.And Sean Casten and the Democrats will determine just what you need.AND THEY'LL ALSO DETERMINE YOUR ABILITY TO PRODUCE.
When does he want to start rolling up the slackers to work on the collective farms?
*sigh* What point is Morocco making this time? Or is it just time to open the spillways of the dammed human river?
[RT] Video footage shared on social media shows people pouring over the fence and onto a road on the Spanish side of the border at Melilla. The group was reportedly taken to a local reception center for identification.
One man was treated by Spanish emergency services but died of suspected cardio-respiratory arrest.
A human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist and researcher with migrant and asylum seeker support group Walking Borders shared a video on Twitter showing groups of migrants colonists gathering at the Center for the Temporary Stay of Immigrants colonists (CETI) in Melilla. Helena Maleno Garzon says the footage was passed on to the organization by a partner group.
Over 6,000 migrants colonists have crossed into Melilla and a second Spanish territory nearby, Ceuta, so far this year, according to UNHCR figures. More than 40,000 people have arrived on the Andalusian mainland by sea in 2018, with the majority traveling from Guinea, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Algeria, and Mali.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Efforts continue in Washington D.C. to designate the Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist organization due to its global activities.
Hillel Fradkin, Director of the Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Moslem World at the Hudson Institute emphasized to Al Arabiya English that the Moslem Brüderbund is a global threat, "It is true that it operates on a global basis or as global as it can be. It has branches in various Moslem countries, especially Arab countries, but also other regional countries, and it has organizations that were founded by and directed by its members in other places like La Belle France, England, US, and so forth," he said.
The US expert highlighted that the Brotherhood founder, Egyptian, Hassan al Banna, was aiming to establish his organization outside Egypt as well, not for his personal ambitions, but to implement the agenda of the Brotherhood’s project.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DallasNews] The city of Fort Worth health plan, which serves nearly 14,000 employees, dependents and retirees, is projected to be $4.8 million under budget for fiscal 2018.
... 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...
[Wash Times] A report from Iranian dissidents shows how the hard-line Islamic regime places terrorist operatives abroad under the cover of diplomacy.
...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...
[NYT] The Norwegian saboteurs skied across the Telemark pine forest in winter whites, phantom apparitions gliding over moonlit snow. They halted at a steep river gorge and gazed down at a humming hydroelectric power plant where Nazi scientists had developed a mysterious, top-secret project.
... 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...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Paleostinian stabbed an Israeli soldier and was 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, charged with raping two women in 
While many transgender activists argue that a person’s gender is largely their own choice, a department memo seen by the Times argues that a person’s sex should be defined "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable," with a person’s genitals at birth defining their gender.
[Al Jazeera] Authorities in Nigeria have deployed special police forces to northern Kaduna and declared a 24-hour curfew in the state's capital following communal violence that killed dozens of people. 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Renewed fighting broke out among 
[An Nahar] A priest in central 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[RT] Twitter hashtags failed to stop Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court ‐ but maybe a hex will prevent him from serving? RT met up with a group of witches in Brooklyn who seemed to think so.
One of the most prominent “research” groups behind the attacks on conservative free speech on the Internet this year is a company called “New Knowledge.” But now a new review of the company shows that one of its biggest backers is one of our biggest international opponents, the Chinese Government.
...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...
[DAWN] BAHAWALNAGAR: The Saddar police on Sunday 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[Charlotte Bus Journal] Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) agreed to pay a $65 million settlement on Monday for fraudulent statements to investors.
[Hot Air] Senator Bernie Sanders is campaigning for House Democrats, hoping that the party will pick up enough seats to take back the House next month. But in an interview with the Hill today, Sanders said he’s not a believer in the blue wave that the left has been predicting for months. He believes control of the House is very much up in the air at this point:
[GunsAmerica Digest] Lachhiman Gurung seemed an unremarkable sort. He stood all of four feet eleven inches tall when he left his village to buy cigarettes for his father and ended up enlisting as a Gurkha in the service of the British Empire on a whim. However, on May 12, 1945, deep in a Burmese jungle Lachhiman Gurung proved that sometimes some of the most remarkable stuff comes in compact packages.
[Al Jazeera] The 85-year-old received more than 71 percent of October 7 vote, according to the Constitutional Council
Crown Prince of 
[Free Beacon] Former President Barack Obama said during a campaign rally Monday that the current economic boom, which President Donald Trump has highlighted as a major victory for his administration, began with him.
[Al Jazeera] A "potentially catastrophic" Category-5 hurricane is moving quickly through the Pacific Ocean and is predicted to pound western Mexico's shores on Tuesday, according to the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).
[Breitbart] Democrat candidate Sean Casten spoke during an interview on Sunday about President Trump’s tax cuts, calling for them to be "completely eliminated."
