[Epoch Times] CNN President Jeff Zucker said he would be interested in hiring former Fox News host Shepard Smith after he left the network earlier this month.
Smith announced that under the terms of his agreement, he "won’t be reporting elsewhere, at least in the near future."
But Zucker said that should the opportunity arise, he would consider hiring Smith, who spent 23 years at Fox.
"I think Shep’s a great journalist," Zucker said at a conference, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I understand he’s not able to take any jobs for the foreseeable future. When he’s available, he is somebody who is very talented and I would be very open to talking to him."
Smith was one of the first Fox News hires in 1996 and was the manager of the breaking news division of the network.
"This is my last newscast here. Thank you for watching today and over the decades," the 55-year-old anchor said in mid-October. "It’s been an honor and my pleasure. Even in our currently polarized nation, it’s my hope that the facts will win the day, that the truth will always matter, and that journalism and journalists will thrive."
[seattleTimes] WEED, Calif. ‐ Authorities and family members say a man who had doused himself in a flammable liquid caught fire and was severely burned when a police officer fired a stun gun at him in California. Oh shit.
The Redding Record Searchlight reported Wednesday that Paul Jason Hall is fighting for his life with burns covering 70% of his body. His relatives say the 47-year-old has a history of mental illness.
The police officer also suffered burns during the confrontation Saturday in the northern town of Weed.
He was not identified and his condition was unknown.
Siskiyou County authorities are investigating the incident, which began when the officer responded to reports of a suicidal man attempting to light himself on fire. Mission accomplished.
Interesting systems-theory inspired, lowest risk tactic though. Thought up in Quantico probably. Shoot a man trying to kill himself with a stun-gun. Then whip out the cuffs while chanting a litany with a lot of 'Sirs' in it. Hold him in jug for being 'a defeatist with no sense'. This one will probably try again, and I wouldn't blame him.
Police in Weed declined comment because of the ongoing investigation.
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[AmGreatness] There was once a time when Washington needed spies with the power to operate clandestinely in a free society. Soviet Communism was an evil ideology that spread its error by revolutionary movements through what was then called "the domino theory."
Sometime in the early 1990s, though, Russia ceased to embody an ideology and became a nation again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn moved back, and Russians stopped caring so much whether their little girl gymnasts got perfect 10s on the balance beam.
h/t Instapundit
[NYPost] -Killer monkeys were found to be catching and gobbling up large rats in Malaysia.
Stunned scientists discovered the rat-catching macaques on palm oil plantations and say the hungry predators could be used as pest control.
The southern pig-tailed macaques were typically thought to chow down on fruit, only occasionally hunting meaty prey ‐ and generally only small lizards and birds.
However, scientists have now confirmed that these monkeys are also regularly snatching and devouring large rats.
...The report tracked macaques between January 2016 and September 2018 in plantations around the Segari Melintang forest reserve.
Macaque groups typically numbered around 44 monkeys and killed 3,000 rats per year on average.
That’s nearly 70 rats per monkey (or one every five days) over the course of a year. Show this article to all your vegetarian acquaintances (I hope you don't have any vegetarian friends).
[NYPost] Amit Patel, a disability activist, took to Twitter Sunday to detail the drama at the Portsmouth Marriott Hotel in the UK after he spoke at an awards ceremony that gives recognition to animals and humans.
Moved to P.2: War on Terror Background after Pancho Flerens6518 pointed out this article was published Mar 26, 2016.
—trailing wife for the moderators at 4:30 p.m. EDT
[ChicagoTribune] Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war.
The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.
In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.
"Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it," said Maj. Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq.
Rebel fighters described similar clashes in the town of Azaz, a key transit point for fighters and supplies between Aleppo and the Turkish border, and March 3 in the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsud.
President Barack Obama recently authorized a new Pentagon plan to train and arm Syrian rebel fighters, relaunching a program that was suspended in the fall after a string of embarrassing setbacks, which included recruits being ambushed and handing over much of their U.S.-issued ammunition and trucks to an al-Qaida affiliate.
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in addition to it being an event from the Obama Admin, it was not necessarily bad
suppose American Armed anti Assad group A killed 10 ISIS terrorists and saved 100 anti Assad civilians from death and killed 1 anti Assad group B fighter
While
American armed anti Assad group B did essentially the same but killed 1 anti Assad group B fighter
that would actually be a good outcome
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[WAPO] The incoming European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was elected on a promise to deliver a "European Green Deal." A key component of her agenda is a carbon border tax.
What exactly is a carbon border tax, and what are its consequences for the global fight against climate change? This is what you need to know.
So what is a carbon border tax?
Slowing global climate change will require reducing carbon emissions from a wide variety of sources. To do that, some countries have introduced carbon pricing plans to make carbon use more expensive and help the economy transition to zero carbon emissions. A carbon pricing plan could take the form of a standard tax on carbon emissions or a cap-and-trade system.
But not all countries want to tackle climate change at all ‐ let alone set prices on emitting carbon. A carbon border tax, also known as a border carbon adjustment, imposes a fee on any product imported from a country without a carbon pricing plan. Hypothetically, the tax would adjust the price of the imported goods to be equal to those produced at home.
PG&E is a company that was bankrupted by climate change. It won't be the last.
Carbon border taxes could reduce global carbon emissions in three ways
First, these tax adjustments could solve the problem of carbon leakage ‐ when carbon-intensive industries such as heavy manufacturing move to countries that don’t regulate carbon emissions.
Second, they might help countries that want to lead on climate policy use their market power against those that don’t. Some observers hope that such taxes would encourage more countries to participate in global climate agreements. It might also help enforce these agreements by raising the cost of shirking on a deal.
[PJ] Looking to protect young children from convicted sex offenders, a Georgia sheriff had his deputies place signs on the lawns of sexual predators, warning children and parents not to trick-or-treat at the house.
Upset that they were exposed by the sheriff, several of the felons have filed a suit, saying that the signs violated their rights to free speech and privacy.
The names and addresses of local sex offenders are already listed on several internet sites in addition to being posted at the sheriff's office. It makes no sense that the perverts believe they have a right to privacy when anyone can access their information that's freely and easily available.
The initiative began in 2018 when Butts County Sheriff Gary Long directed deputies to place "Warning! No Trick-or-Treat at this address!!" signs in the front yards of over 200 sex offenders registered in the county from Oct. 24-Nov. 2. The sheriff’s office plans to use the same tactic again this year, and three registered sex offenders have filed suit.
In a Facebook post, Sheriff Gary Long said he had instituted the signs as a result of the cancellation of a local Halloween festival, "Halloween on the Square," and the subsequent influx of door-to-door trick-or-treaters. He said they had been following Georgia law and protecting children when they implemented the public warnings.
The lawyer for the sex offenders, Mark Yurachek, told Fox News, "The law allows the sheriff to put a list of registered sex offenders at his office, at the courthouse, on the internet. It does not allow him to go door-to-door telling people you have a sex offender living next door to you."
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"The law allows the sheriff to put a list of registered sex offenders at his office, at the courthouse, on the internet. It does not allow him to go door-to-door telling people you have a sex offender living next door to you."
So, you admit it is a public record. Therefore, why are you trying to restrict the knowledge of the public record? When bad road conditions threaten the safety of your motorists, you should have a public record of situation, but also post warning signs at the locations.
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In a lot of places, a real estate agent is not allowed to tell a buyer there is a registered sex offender in the neighborhood. They are allowed to tell people where to find that info for themselves.
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Yeah, anyone can look it up online. Most people don't. But the Sheriff putting signs on people's property can set the police up for some serious litigation. Especially if the offender gets hurt or killed by a vigilante. One unnecessary step too far, IMHO.
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They botch drug raids by going to the wrong address. If they put one of those signs in my yard "by accident" i'd sue for 9 figures.
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I think it was brave of the sheriff and completely righteous. Maybe he knew of the continuing danger of said predators living there and took this desperate step to safeguard children during the season.
A sex predator of any sort deserves no rights. It is blight on our civilized world that legal systems draw the line at incarceration, and do not explore the death penalty for such.
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Totally agree, Dron. However, as soon as we make a category of supercriminal, we make a convenient label to smear innocent people with. See: Nazi.
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A wide variation of what constitutes 'Sex Offender', too.
15-year old kid copping a feel tried as an adult comes to mind.
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Every sex offender should be forced to attend a rehabilitation seminar at the local police station on Halloween to discuss their recovery and put them somewhere safe (from vigilantes and those that would falsely accuse them of crimes).
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How about they just nail them to the front of the house with SO branded on their forehead? Honestly, a nice rope or tank of nitrogen after their guilty verdict is best.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ Add a prestigious $1 million "thinkers" award to Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fame and fortune.
The 2019 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture is given annually to "thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world."
Ginsburg, 86, who has served 26 years on the Supreme Court and survived four bouts with cancer, was chosen from more than 500 nominees, later winnowed down to five. She is the fourth recipient of the prize and the third woman.
The organization said Ginsburg will direct the prize money to charitable or non-profit organizations of her choice.
"I am delighted the jury has chosen to honor such a prolific leader in the field of jurisprudence," said philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen, founder and chairman of the Berggruen Institute, which seeks to shape political, economic, and social institutions.
"Throughout her career, Ginsburg has used the law to advance ethical and philosophical principles of equality and human rights as basic tenets of the USA. Her contributions have shaped our way of life and way of thinking and have demonstrated to the world the importance of the rule of law in disabling discrimination."
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She's on a high pedestal today, but when she's too sick to do the job and Trump gets to replace her she'll be mud for not resigning while Obama was in office.
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Maybe she can use the award to prolong her life.
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But remember. School teachers across the US have to buy pencils and paper out of their own pockets (hoary leftist chestnut) but there is money for this. And half a billion for Le Boon to sell Chinese communism here.
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re #6: Not some 'hoary leftist chestnut," but true. Daughter and son-in-law both math teachers and they spend a not trivial amount for school supplies for their classrooms.
One size does not fit all in this case.
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I'd always understood:
* The decisions once made at the local level where schools face the parents have been shifted to the districts and further up to the Department of Education.
* That bad teachers can't be fired and are generally warehoused with pay.
* We've increased the number of well paid union reps and bureaucrats in most school districts.
Seems there is a solution taxpayers might accept
in there somewhere...
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More like the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture people will find themselves facing serious jail time for undue influence of a supreme judge.
Likewise if Ruth Ginsburg accept, she will have to resign immediately because her judgement would be suspected of being influenced by the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture people and as such would not be able to judge fairly.
[The New Yorker] In April, 1971, while practicing at the World Table Tennis Championship, in Nagoya, Japan, an American Ping-Pong player named Glenn Cowan needed a ride, and he boarded a bus carrying the Chinese team. Cowan, who was nineteen years old, had a mop of brown hair that fell to his shoulders and a toothy grin. Most of the Chinese players watched him warily; they had been warned not to talk to foreigners. But after a few minutes Zhuang Zedong, a former world champion, came to the front of the bus and presented him with a gift, a silk-screen portrait of Huangshan mountain, which Zhuang had been carrying in his bag. Cowan rummaged around in his, looking for a way to reciprocate, but he could only come up with a comb. The following day, Cowan presented Zhuang with a T-shirt emblazoned with a red, white, and blue peace sign and the words "Let It Be." Soon afterward, China invited the American team to visit the country, and they became the first delegation of Americans to do so since the communist takeover in 1949.
As a parable of the power of sports, the story is irresistible. And you don’t have to stop there: you can, if you like, draw a line from "Ping-Pong diplomacy" to Nixon’s visit to China; to Nike opening its first factory in mainland China, in 1981; to Yao Ming’s selection by the Houston Rockets as the No. 1 pick in the 2002 N.B.A. draft; to the enormous number of Chinese fans who reportedly streamed N.B.A. games and content in 2017‐18‐more than six hundred million, roughly twice as many people as live in the United States.
But the truth, of course, is more complicated. As Nicholas Griffin explains in "Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World," the encounter was not as spontaneous as it’s sometimes made out to be. China was consciously using Ping-Pong as a way to initiate contact with the U.S., and the U.S. had its own reasons for being receptive. (Though Cowan’s boarding of the bus may have been accidental, he later said, "I was invited actually to board the Chinese bus with the team, which shocked me, of course.") The two countries initiated several athlete exchanges over the next decade, with mixed success; though the Chinese adopted the slogan "Friendship first, competition second," tensions sometimes threatened to derail the visits. In a recent column in the Washington Post, Pete Millwood, a fellow in East Asian history at the London School of Economics, catalogued some of the more sensational anecdotes: rats thrown by protesters when the Chinese team visited the United States; a fistfight among the U.S. Track and Field team at a formal banquet in 1975, which appalled the hosts. "Americans will be Americans," a senior official travelling with the team said. He added, "The Chinese will have to learn that."
Both sides are still learning, clearly. In the two decades since Yao was drafted, the N.B.A. has become China’s most popular sports league, and the league has embraced the notion that it might facilitate a closer relationship between the two countries. "Sport has been used to bridge divides between cultures," Silver said after a meeting, last year, in Shanghai, with Yao, who is now head of the Chinese Basketball Association.
[Breibart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s "The Situation Room," Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) discussed House Republicans forcing their way into the secured room where the House Intelligence Committee was conducting a deposition for their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Castro said, "We were getting ready for the deposition to start and we had had a Democratic caucus meeting just before that of the Intelligence members. We came into the room. Everybody was seated, and just as the witness sat down you had ‐ of course, you had Democratic members already seated, Republicans that were seated. There are about 25 or 30 of the Republican members. It looked to me like it was all the guys. There may have been a few women but I didn’t see them. There are three entrances in that room and they all came kind of storming in. Most of them were not members of the committees, I think, of jurisdiction. They came storming in the room and started disrupting the proceeding. Shortly after that, I didn’t see when the witness left but she left at some point. I think her lawyers escorted her out of the room, but it was a very tense several minutes while everybody was in that room. Quite honestly, it looked like a mob scene. It looked like kind of a mob party coming into that room."
Blitzer asked, "Was it a risk to national security?"
National Security risk? No Wolf, but you certainly have been for several decades.
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Risk? Not really. I was the SSO for several SCIFs. Definitely against the rules and doesn't turn criminal until the person is deliberately recording/picturing of classified information on an unauthorized device.
The fact no classified info was presented before the Republicans entered the area means this is a slight slap on the wrist offense from a security view. Nothing more.
[Breitbart] General Mazloum Abdi, the pre-eminent military leader of the Syrian Kurds, thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his efforts in stopping a Turkish offensive and negotiating a cease-fire.
General Mazloum, who leads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), issued his statement shortly after the president announced the U.S. was lifting economic sanctions on Turkey in return for its commitment to a "permanent" cease-fire.
That commitment had been announced the day before, when Russia and Turkey agreed to joint patrols within 10 km of the Syria-Turkey border, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) agreed to withdraw 30 km south of the border.
[The Federalist] Earlier this year, an active-duty naval officer stated, anonymously, "I keep my mouth shut when it comes to politics for one reason: that barber has to trust me [emphasis added]."
"Neptunius" was referring to the awkwardness of an instance where his barber attempted to engage him in a political discussion. As part of the ethos of military professionalism, servicemembers are forced to preserve a facade of non-partisanship to maintain the public’s trust in an institution committed to preserving and defending the entire nation.
Not all servicemembers, active or retired, appear to see it that way. Retired Admiral William McRaven, former Special Operations Command commander and Navy SEAL, best known for his involvement in the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, recently authored another op-ed critical of President Donald Trump.
McRaven has been a consistent, vociferous critic of the administration from the beginning, as previously reported. But even by his standards, has McRaven gone too far this time?
Here’s the big point McRaven seemed intent on getting across: "if this president doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, both domestically and abroad, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office ‐ Republican, Democrat or independent ‐ the sooner, the better. The fate of our Republic depends upon it."
Let there be no mistake: McRaven is leveraging the uniform he once wore and the reputation he cultivated in the military to influence readers. Given the readership of The New York Times, this op-ed was clearly intended reach a wide audience, including potential voters. McRaven is intent on encouraging the public to turn against President Trump. It matters not that McRaven’s retired, because the public recognizes him not as a private citizen, but as an admiral and a decorated Navy SEAL, a perception McRaven is very likely aware of and embraces.
People Won’t Trust a Political Institution
Even during times of hyper-partisanship, the military remains the most-trusted institution in America by a wide margin. But trust can be undermined if the services are viewed as yet another partisan institution. As Duke University law professor and retired Air Force Deputy Judge Advocate General Charles Dunlap recently explained:
Any middle grade Commissioned and Non-commissioned officer that has had a troop assignment can tell you the upper brass pushes the political lie about the performance of females. The biggest coverup and assault upon integrity in the culture. Remember the political firestorm when the theater commander in Iraq threatened courts martial for the next females who got pregnant in country? He was dealing in truth and got a sh*tstorm for it.
To be a general officer means you are a politician more than an officer.
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The problem with McRaven and the lot is the same issue I see with movie stars. They think because they are at the top of their profession, they can leverage it into politics. I am not telling them to stay out of politics, by all means run for office, be held accountable by the people. But to say, "I'm a general and I know better than Trump", is about as credible as Cher.
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They think because they are at the top of their profession, they can leverage it into politics.
They are all performers given sufficient audience. Even an empty chamber pot, echos.
THIS is how you cut down on illegal immigration
[Breitbart] Four executives at an Illinois manufacturing plant have been charged with knowingly hiring illegal aliens, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency reveals.
According to ICE officials, four executives at the sheet metal KSO MetalFab Inc. manufacturing plant in Streamwood, Illinois ‐ a suburb of Chicago ‐ have been charged with one count each of knowingly harboring illegal aliens and one count each of knowingly hiring illegal aliens.
The four executives include 81-year-old Dora Kuzelka, 62-year-old Kenneth Kuzelka, 56-year-old Kari Kuzelka, and 58-year-old Keith Kuzelka. ICE officials allege that the Kuzelkas knowingly hired at least 18 illegal aliens.
In 2017, ICE audited the company and discovered that more than half of the 67 workers employed had potentially used fake work authorization documents to obtain jobs. After being warned of the illegal alien hires, the executives fired the workers.
Later, though, ICE officials said KSO MetalFab executives rehired at least 18 of the illegal alien hires that had previously been fired through a staffing agency.
ICE alleges that the four executives instructed the fired illegal aliens to apply for jobs through the staffing agency so they could be rehired at a later date. A number of the illegal aliens used the same names they had used to get jobs at the plant originally.
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KSO MetalFab Inc. is a certified WBDE (Women's Business Development Enterprise) Illinois-based Company. KSO MetalFab Inc. specializes in providing full service vertically integrated precision sheet metal fabrication and machining for both prototyping and production requirements.
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The raison for cheap imported labor is to increase margins, hence imcrease profits. Which political party did the members of this family run business contribute to? Of course, the answer is probably both.
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Lower wages, increased rents... Which groups would benefit from that migration subsidy?
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Murcek -- Illinois, outside Chicago? There's only one political party there, the Democrats.
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Plenty of open borders cheap labor GOPe pols too.
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is a certified WBDE (Women's Business Development Enterprise)
I was hired by a couple of c*&t CPA's whose business had a similar 'disadvantaged' classification. I got a massive bait & switch after I was hired; I e-mailed them my resignation letter the next day.
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Koch Bros GOPpers and establishment greeedheads including Pierre Delecto-Danger and his ilk love illegal immigration. Our native-born workers are in their view lazy deplorables who deserve to have their wages capped due to a tidal wave of low-end, shit-wage, outside the law imported peasants.
This is by no means a Dem thing. It's part of the uniparty's Shitshow.
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Lickspittle capitalists on any side will want continued illegal immigration. They won't care about the threat to integrity of polity or citizens, all they need is cheap labour and grateful imbeciles.
HANOI (Reuters) - A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than three months, marine data showed.
The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was speeding away from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone towards China on Thursday morning under the escort of at least two other Chinese ships, according to data from Marine Traffic, a website that tracks vessel movements.
China claims almost all the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea but neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
Tension between Hanoi and Beijing escalated when China sent the vessel to conduct seismic surveys in waters off Vietnam in early July.
The foreign ministry in Hanoi has repeatedly accused the vessel and its escorts of violating Vietnam’s sovereignty and has demanded that China remove its ships from the area.
The ministry did not respond immediately to a Reuters email seeking comment on Thursday.
Police broke up a brief protest in August outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi over the survey vessel.
[NY Post] Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday scrapped the controversial extradition bill that launched months of violent protest in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
Secretary for Security John Lee would only say the decision was made due to "conflicts in society."
The announcement comes on the heels of the release from prison of Chan Tong-kai, the Hong Kong man whose case prompted the proposed extradition agreement in June.
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[Washington Examiner] President Trump’s chief science adviser says one of his top priorities is to protect America’s research institutions from foreign exploitation.
The policy follows a string of high-profile cases of government-funded scientists being fired by universities for failing to disclose ties with China.
The issue has provoked fears among scientists that the Trump administration is treating foreign researchers unfairly, but Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the issue is one of integrity and scientific ethics.
Declaring sources of funding and professional relationships, he said, is a longstanding requirement.
"It doesn’t matter where you come from," he said. "The individual researcher has to behave with integrity. If they know the rules and they break the rules, I don’t want them in the research enterprise.
"They don’t belong there. It’s just as if they plagiarized a paper or they fabricated a result."
In May, Emory University in Georgia dismissed two Chinese American brain scientists who failed to disclose overseas funding and research ties in China.
At about the same time a former Energy Department scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was charged with making false statements about his alleged involvement in a Chinese recruitment program. He pleaded not guilty.
[Red State] We’ve been bringing you some of the outrageous actions of the climate change gang, particularly Extinction Rebellion, the group that has been incredibly annoying to the general populace in London and who has flexed their ability to annoy in the United States as well.
In San Francisco, they linked hands and blocked traffic on both sides of the intersection at Gates Avenue near the University of San Francisco. Ironically, their actions were causing more carbon emissions while antagonizing commuters.
A gentleman in scrubs did not take kindly to them preventing him from getting to work. He let them know by ripping their banner out of their hands and tossing it over a fence.
Activists allegedly from the group got tossed out of a Long Beach, California In-N-Out Burger, screamed with bullhorns in the face of the poor employees and then found themselves in trouble with the police.
But now, the Daily Mail has dropped a big report on the group.
h/t Red State
The stunningly tragic story of little James Younger has gripped the nation recently. You’ll recall that little seven year old James’ mother is trying to "transition" him into a girl. His father has been fighting for custody to prevent that. Unfortunately he lost the battle and a judge and jury inexplicably awarded full custody of James to the mother. This happened even after a witness was prepared to testify on James’ behalf that when he is away from his mother he is a happy, normal, healthy boy who does not wish to be made a girl. She was turned away from the courtroom and denied the opportunity a mere 30 minutes before she was set to defend James.
The jury still has to deliver a verdict on some other details of the case, so there is a small sliver of hope that they might put the brakes on some of the weirder stuff James’ mom is trying to do. However, after an uproar of confusion and anger over the verdict Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced he will be sending in the Attorney-General and Protective Services to review this case. Now, to me this is important - a lot more important than Kurds (who seem to have made new & successful arrangement with Assad [Russia]), or Ukraine (who, eventually, going to mend fences with Russia - because independent Ukraine is like independent Yorkshire). A society that cannot protect its own children should not impose its mores on the rest of the World. (Also, IMO, our [Israel] bandarlogs consistently imitate yours [USA]).
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The judge needs to be explaining why the witness was denied a chance to testify. This case and all the other outrages perpetrated by the crazies is why some people have decided no mercy, no prisoners once the frayed fabric of our society finally gives way.
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Rubicon crossed.
I used to think that violence and chaos was just a Panty-fa thing, confined to mental-health cases in a few college towns and deep blue cities. This latest outbreak of madness is happening in one of the most conservative of the Dallas suburbs. Not just Dallas, not just the 'burbs, but the evangelical-heavy exurb called Coppell.
This suggesting that the mania has spread way beyond its blue-town boundaries and is threatening the entire country. No one is safe.
We've crossed the Rubicon. Widespread violence and social chaos are much more likely than not.
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Isn't the word of a child enough for courts to decide what he/she wants, in a custody suit ? On one hand they elevate the Greta Thunbergs to leadership roles, the other they can't take a kid's word for who's the evil bitch at home ?
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The insanity seems to be spreading. If we survive the post-mortum on leftism will be interesting.
(1) West won the cold war but didn't dance on the grave of the Communists so communism lingered on.
(2) Communists began full indocrination in schools.
(3) Dems decided they finally had a forever majority and over-extended in every way imaginable (except it was done with executive orders that were easily reversed).
(4) Venezuela collapsed and in the USA Trump was elected and the combo crushed their fragile worlds.
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There was never the equivalent of the Nuremburg trial after the end of the Cold War. I suppose that was inevitiable given that we were not an occupying power at its end.
But there was never a reckoning with the evil left that backed the Communists in the West, either.
We've been living with the consequences of that fact at least since Clinton was elected.
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No, because she slapped a gag order on the husband, so it's suspected she's giving him public joint custody, then siding with the mom behind closed doors. Apparently this judge is as wacko as the mom.
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The left must be eradicated. If you believe in the individual above the state, that is "who you are."
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The headlines on the story at Rantingly.com:
Thursday: Texas AG’s Office And Department Of Family And Protective Services Looking Into 7-Year-Old Boy’s ‘Gender Transition’ Case
Video Surfaces Of Child From Custody Battle Saying His Mother Tells Him He’s A Girl
UPDATE: Judge Rules Dad Will Have Say In Gender ‘Transition’…
Grants Joint Medical Decision Making, Issues Gag Order On Father
Just run the judges name through a search engine. Have a look at her. That will tell you everything you need to know. Do the same for the mother, look at her patient ratings as a clinician. With the information available, it isn't necessary to speculate on these two loons.
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The left must be eradicated. If you believe in the individual above the state, that is "who you are."
I've been saying this for a quarter century, I even said here about 10 years ago under a different nym and was promptly banned. You don't negotiate or reason with rabid animals. The Left are rabid. Seems that attitudes and opinions are starting to catch up with, and accept reality.
The left's enthusiasm for Third World immigrants isn't only because they vote 8-2 for the Democrats. It's that Latin American peasants seem uniquely amenable to idiotic socialist schemes.
You probably think it's beyond silliness for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to keep promising FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL! NO PREMIUMS! NO CO-PAYS! ILLEGAL ALIENS, TOO! EVERYBODY GETS A PONY!
No one could be gullible enough to fall for that.
I refer you to the economic powerhouse that is Latin America.
Based on hundreds of years of indigenous people voting for politicians who made similar promises, Latin America has become the dream factory that it is today. That's why Tegucigalpa is practically a byword for "technological innovation," Santiago was the picture of calm sophistication this weekend, and Caracas is the ultimate in modern conveniences.
[Townhall] There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border.
The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Data on these weapons is classified, but at their maximum yield each is 10 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to Stars and Stripes.
It's a "Dr. Strangelove" scenario: No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the tarmac, load them on planes and fly them out safely over Turkish objections.
...Under Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has become NATO's only non-democratic nation. It's also NATO's only Muslim-majority member. Erdogan has been trying to re-create Turkey as a new Ottoman imperial power. He feels no allegiance to Western-style democracy.
...Turkey opposes, if not detests, almost every American ally in the region, and befriends almost every U.S. enemy.
...Turkey has frightened and alienated most NATO allies. The European Union has limited arms sales to Turkey. Germany has pulled its small forces out of the country. Recently, Turkish forces "accidentally" shelled a U.S. Special Forces peacekeeping outpost on the Turkish-Syrian border.
...Why, then, is the U.S. still an ally of this anti-American rogue nation? There are a number of scary reasons.
-- The U.S. military has not quite figured out how either to stay in or leave Incirlik in a now-hostile Turkey.
-- Washington knows that fighters at the valuable Incirlik base can reach any strategic conflict in the Middle East.
-- American diplomats naively hope that democracy will return to Turkey and that Erdogan is a temporary nuisance who does not reflect a rising Islamist constituency in the Turkish heartland.
-- America believes a bad ally is better than a bitter enemy. It fears that a hostile Turkey could start and win wars against our vulnerable regional friends and create a formidable nuclear alliance with Russia, China or Iran.
-- The West in general is blackmailed by Turkey, a gateway to the Middle East that has threatened to unleash a flood of millions of migrants onto European soil.
-- NATO in general is underfunded and undermanned. In contrast, NATO member Turkey has the second-largest military in the alliance at nearly 650,000 troops. Europe and the U.S. either believe such a force helps maintain credible NATO deterrence or are terrified it will be put into the service of others.
-- The U.S. fears that fighting against, or failing to aid, a NATO partner might unravel the entire alliance. Turkey has invoked Article IV of the treaty, requiring crisis consultation when a NATO ally claims it is threatened, three times in its regional disputes.
Not since the U.S. came to the aid of Joseph Stalin's USSR in World War II has America so disliked and so feared a valuable but utterly untenable ally.
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The West in general is blackmailed by Turkey...
Story of the west for a long time to come now, if something doesn't change Trump's mind. I think Bolton was right on this, apart from other things. Trump expects islamic states to behave as a corporation would, dance to the tune of economic realities imposed by trade and investment restrictions. These islamist entities are not however, affected by that. To them the hubris of Saracen glory and the Ottoman empire is more real than pecuniary concerns and state responsibilities to citizens. Their hatred of America and desire to see an America sized hole in world politics is a motivating factor in all of their policies. These are people who will evolve ramshackle economies independent of and unanswerable to the sanction-based punitive policies of the west. Look at Iran. It presses on.
Turkey should be sanctioned, kicked out of NATO, the nukes dismantled, their warheads flown out. If Erdogan 'doesn't allow' that, he's declaring war. War. Staying out of wars you didn't start must not be confused with being a ninny islamists can coerce into doing their bidding.
Being Turkey's ally now, especially under duress would be the ultimate ignominy and a victory for every islamist from Algiers to Zafarwal.
Who would've guessed the biggest threat to NATO would come not from Russia but from a NATO member itself? Not our brilliant strategists with their heads in the ground..
It's Kurt Schlichter
I think I know what the deal is with all the gushing adoration Tulsi Gabbard has somehow managed to wrangle from ordinarily sensible conservatives. Think of a regular guy walking down the hall in high school, and the head cheerleader passes by and says, "Hi." The dude’s going to think she’s awesome. Of course, just because she is polite doesn’t mean Regular Joe is ever going to take her to the prom.
Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should be ‐ an opponent, not an enemy. Let’s face it ‐ the mainstream Democrat Party hates our guts, and given its malignant druthers it would strip us of our First, Second, and probably Third Amendment rights in order to make sure that we never, ever have a say in our own governance again. Then, with us silenced and disarmed, it would take our money, corrupt our children and generally oppress us in ways that make today’s punitive straw bans look tame. If you don’t believe that a scary number of mainstream lefties want us Normals enslaved or dead, well, you’re either in denial or not on social media.
Make no mistake ‐ Tulsi is not one of us conservatives, though the kind of leftism she embraces (which owes a lot to the socialism of Bernie Sanders) shares some superficial similarities to the populism that has swept the GOP base. In many ways, we share her critique of an inept, corrupt ruling caste eager to send non-elite citizens off to fight their endless, mismanaged wars. We also share a critique of Big Business as a crony capitalist simulacrum of free enterprise, basically a bunch of rich jerks sidling up to the leaders of both parties to repeatedly shaft us regular folks to pump up a few digits on their balance sheets.
...The Gabbard Left and the Trump Right share the conclusion that our elite sucks and that it has forfeited any moral authority to lead our country, but the similarity ends there. She is not conservative and is not traditional. Just because she has doubts about offing babies in the third trimester, as opposed to supporting abortion until high school graduation, does not make her pro-life. She would take your guns, she would take your money, and she would generally make Barack Obama look like William F. Buckley.
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The Gabbard Left and the Trump Right share the conclusion that our elite sucks and that it has forfeited any moral authority to lead our country
= the conviction that our institutions in these fools' hands have become a complete Shitshow.
Insurrections are made of such convictions.
Don't need to agree on the post-revolutionary order to agree that the reigning uniparty is a shitshow and that we need to bring the curtain down, as fast as possible.
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We should not want the left to be honorable or trustworthy. What we should want is for the electorate to see them as the liars, poltroons and mountebanks they are.
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She's a soldier, she fought back against Hillary, she's attractive.
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she would generally make Barack Obama look like William F. Buckley
Not to mention the sudden wave of cults and hindu hippies that would sweep what is left of American identity and install $ billion micro fiefdoms around the country. Godmen and dhoti clad lunatics would rake in millions. And the 'erb brand of pacifism would reduce America to a bit player while chinks and globalists continued rolled on.
And no, America will be fine without intervening in every war around the planet. We can develop ourselves instead of spending ourselves broke in idiotic, neverending conflicts.
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Sorry. (Actually NOT sorry) Anti 2A is off my table. Full stop.
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I don't agree with her on most anything. But she stands up, is accountable for her beliefs, and believes in our constitution. She id probably one of what the democrat party should look like.
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and believes in our constitution
Only as it suits her, though.
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It'd be nice if people on the right were less susceptible to pretty (for a politician) faces and empty "badass" rhetoric, but I guess the Tulsi and Nimrata fans gotta squee.
Sad, really.
I thought the right were the serious, substantive ones.
Use Tulsi to screw with the left if you can, but don't let her fool you.
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A lovable leftist is right there along side a pettable poisonous snake and a cuddly scorpion.
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She's uneducated, and none too swift.
Have you ever met anyone who thinks cowardly is an adverb?
Why would she make a trip to meet Assad, for cryin out loud?
She keeps repeating "regime change war" because she hasn't given her worldview any thought.
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Antibiotic-resistant E. coli is more likely to be spread through poor toilet hygiene than undercooked chicken or other food, according to new research from a consortium including the University of East Anglia. In Middle Ages they would routinely accuse Jews of poisoning wells because Jews got sick a lot less than Christians. Turned out, Jews - under religious obligation - would wash hand before eating. Later these habits of personal hygiene spread out. No more I guess - new Middle ages are here.
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This is why robotics (in the food beverage industry) will be the third revolution in human health behind sanitary sewers and refrigeration. It's going to be hard on struggling actors and writers too, which is a feature, not a bug.
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"Communities face a challenge when implementing onsite reuse of collected waters for non-potable purposes given the lack of national microbial standards."
h/t Instapundit
The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday evening that they will investigate allegations that freshman Rep. Katie Hill, (D-CA) had a sexual relationship with a staffer, according to The Hill.
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I shot the sheriff
But I did not shoot the deputy.
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Only answer to this is any district that elects a crook goes without representation until the next regularly scheduled election. All fed funds to said district cut off until the results of that election. If they re-elect a crook like DC regularly did, total fed fund cutoff.
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This is about a nasty divorce and the district should be ashamed, but not as ashamed as the district that voted for Schiff or Maxine Waters.
[HindustanTimes] Pakistain had on Monday violated ceasefire in Qasba and Kirni sectors in Poonch. This followed cross border shelling on October 20 that left two Indian soldiers and a civilian dead
An Army jawan sustained minor injuries after faceless myrmidons lobbed a grenade at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Kulgam, reported news agency ANI.
On Tuesday, at least three hard boyz were killed in Pulwama district during a shootout with the security forces, police said. Incriminating material including arms and ammunition was also recovered.
Pakistain had on Monday violated ceasefire in Qasba and Kirni sectors in Poonch. This followed cross border shelling on October 20 that left two Indian soldiers and a civilian dead prompting the Indian Army to launch a retaliatory attack on at least four terror camps and Pak military positions across the LoC.
Six Pak soldiers were killed and heavy terrorist casualties were also inflicted in the artillery attack.
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[HindustanTimes] NIT Srinagar was closed by the government ahead of the revocation of Article 370, that pertains to J&K’s special status, on August 5
National Institute of Technology (NIT), which reopened this week after almost two-and-a-half months, saw about 80% attendance.
NIT was closed by the government ahead of the revocation of Article 370, that pertains to J&K’s special status, on August 5.
NIT dean, academic affairs, Dr Kowsar Majeed, said, "Classes started this Monday, October 21. Almost 80% students, local as well as those from outside, have returned."
Around 800 students are enrolled in the NIT and half of them are from different parts of the country.
Dr Majeed said senior students belonging to the seventh semester, those doing PhDs and online courses, have still not returned owing to the blockade of internet services.
She said the institute was closed a couple of days after its autumn session began on August 1. "We have time-bound courses and winter is also coming. The spring session will start in March," she said.
Dr Majeed said, "There is a fixed academic calendar and there will be placements after that. There are industrial training exposure tours also lined up."
The authorities were thinking on cutting down on winter vacations. "This time we may hold classes till December," she said.
[IsraelTimes] Norwegian authorities say that a man who allegedly stole an ambulance and ran down four pedestrians in Oslo appears to be a common criminal rather than a terrorist.
Yesterday, the 32-year-old man slightly injured the pedestrians, including seven-month-old twins, in what police called a "deliberate" act.
He was arrested a short time later and identified as someone who already had a criminal record, and who some Norwegian media said had links to far-right groups.
But "it looks now like a common criminal case that does not concern us," said Martin Bernsen, front man for the PST interior security service that handles anti-terrorist matters.
"At this point, we are not treating this as a terrorist matter," Bernsen told AFP, though he noted that the investigation was at an early stage.
Inside the ambulance, police found an Uzi submachine gun, a shotgun and narcotics.
Another daily, Aftenposten, said the suspect had previously been convicted of a raft of crimes including robbery, illegal possession of drugs and arms.
What triggered this particular choice of acting out, then?
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A day ago this bastard was a 'right-wing extremist'. Now, suddenly he's someone whose identity needs to be kept secret. Until then, I'll just assume he's a dirty muslim.
The suspect's lawyer, Øyvind Bergøy Pedersen, told the daily Verdens Gang that the man was just trying to escape from police and had not deliberately tried to injure onlookers.
The lawyer rejected reported links with far-right groups.
A 25-year-old woman who was with the man was arrested as well.
They had been involved in another accident, during which their vehicle overturned, police said. When emergency services arrived at the scene, the man stole the ambulance while the woman fled.
The incident took place in a residential neighbourhood in northern Oslo, and while trying to get away, the man hit a woman with a pram carrying the twins. They were taken to a hospital but did not suffer any severe injuries.
[HindustanTimes] Identified as Hamid Lelhari, the hard boy commander took over reins of the group after the killing of Zakir Musa on May 23, the police said.
Jammu & Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Police and army troops have killed the chief commander of Ansar Gazwatul Hind, an al-Qaeda affiliate, and two of his associates in a gunbattle in south Kashmir’s Awantipore area, scoring a major success in the fight against militancy, the police said.
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DGP said he was not in a position to reveal how many bully boyz had managed to enter
Meaning he didn't know. Even so, good for morale.
The Musa gang had shifted over to ISIS from AQIS and were avoiding death for some time. 17 members in all, including their facilitators. Now that the main 6 players and 2 supporters are dead, the remaining shall probably continue to facilitate others. Until they too are found.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 6 Talibs and destroyed large caches of weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices during the operations in 3 provinces.
The military officials said Wednesday the Special Forces conducted the operations in the past 24 hours in Pashtun-infested Logar, Farah and 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... provinces.
The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 4 Talibs and destroyed a weapons cache in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar.
The Special Forces killed 2 other bully boyz and destroyed a cache of weapons during a patrol in Farah district of Farah province.
The officials also added that the Special Forces also destroyed 17 IEDs during the operations in Herat and Farah provinces.
[FOXNEWS] The Chinese government is reportedly drawing up a plan to replace Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose leadership sparked the protests ravaging the global financial hub.
Sources "briefed on the deliberations" said Lam’s successor would be installed by March and serve the rest of her term until 2022, if Chinese President Xi Jinping decided to move forward with the plan. Lam was appointed for office in 2014 despite the fact her rival for the job, John Tsang, was far more popular with the general public, according to the Financial Times.
[IsraelTimes] Ottoman Turkish media reports say Ottoman Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels are securing a town in northeastern Syria after Syrian Kurdish fighters pulled out of the area.
The private DHA news agency says the Ottoman Turkish soldiers and Syrian rebels are using heavy machinery to fill in tunnels dug by the Kurdish fighters in Ras al Ayn. They were also disposing of traps or explosives left behind.
The private NTV television, meanwhile, showed a group of Syrian rebels standing on the roof of a building that was reportedly the Syrian Kurdish fighters’ headquarters, unfurling the Ottoman Turkish and Syrian opposition flags.
The move came after the US announced Syrian Kurdish fighters completed their pullout from Ras al Ayn and other areas The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... invaded this month.
Separately, Russia and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to deploy their forces across nearly the entire northeastern Syria border to fill the void left by President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s abrupt withdrawal of US forces.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say Tehran-backed cell from IRGC’s elite Quds Force planned to attack Sufi opponents of the regime last year
Albanian police said Wednesday they had thwarted a planned attack by a Tehran-backed "terrorist cell" against opponents of the Tehran regime in the Balkan country last year.
In a statement, police said the group belonged to the elite Quds Force which runs foreign operations for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
This cell "had planned, among other things, a terrorist act foiled in March 2018" targeting a religious celebration of the Bektashi, a Sufi group, in Tirana, the statement said.
The ceremony was attended by members of the exiled Iranian opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (MEK), according to police.
...that’s Mujahedin-e Khalq when they’re at home...
In 2013 Albania agreed to take in some 3,000 members of the MEK at the request of Washington and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... They currently live in a compound in the northwest of the country.
On Wednesday police published photos of three Iranians and one Ottoman Turkish national allegedly involved in the "terrorist cell."
The leader "resides in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... " and another "has an Austrian passport," according to the police statement.
Police declined to confirm whether international arrest warrants had been issued.
Authorities also did not say whether the incident had any connection to Tirana’s decision last year to expel two Iranian diplomats who the US accused of plotting "terrorist attacks" in the Balkan country.
In January the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union sanctioned Iran’s intelligence services after accusing Tehran of being involved in plots to assassinate regime opponents in the Netherlands, Denmark and La Belle France.
Gay Paree accused Iranian intelligence of being responsible for plotting a planned attack on a MEK rally north of Gay Paree in June 2018.
[DAWN] Former federal minister Akram Khan Durrani on Tuesday filed a petition before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking pre-arrest bail in multiple inquiries initiated against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Mr Durrani, a leader of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F), claims that he is being victimised for playing a key role in the Azadi March to be launched by his party on Oct 27 against the government of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI).
In his petition the JUI-F leader stated that he is "being victimised and harassed by the respondents [the chairman, deputy director and investigation officer Nadeem Fraz of NAB] although he is cooperating with them and will continue to do so. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the pace at which all three inquiries are being carried out, his arrest before he could further garner support from other opposition parties for Azadi March is very likely."
Mr Durrani is facing inquiries for alleged corruption in two housing projects of the Federal Government Housing Foundation, appointment of blue-eyed officers in the Pakistain Housing Authority Foundation, allotment of ’out of turn’ plots for mosques and induction in the Pakistain Public Works Department (PWD).
The petitioner states that he "belongs to Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-F which is to lead the Azadi March against the government from Oct 27" and a Rehbar Committee was formed for coordination and preparation of the protest.
"The petitioner has been playing an instrumental role in the Rehbar Committee and has in fact been representing his party at some of these meetings of the committee," the petition said, adding that the government "just to disturb political activities" is behind the inquiries.
The petitioner said that NAB "since its formation in 1999 has primarily been serving as a tool of political engineering and a way of silencing dissenting voices".
He expressed apprehensions that NAB may be used against the Azadi March’s organisers.
[AlAhram] Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's government and Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels have set up joint observation posts as part of de-escalation moves in the flashpoint city of Hodeida, a move the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... welcomed on Wednesday.
The world body's envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths wrote on Twitter that the establishment of the four positions along frontlines in the key port city, and the deployment of liason officers, were positive moves.
"This step forward will enhance de-escalation in flashpoint areas and save lives," he wrote on Twitter.
The Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have been embroiled in a devastating conflict since 2014.
Last year, loyalists backed by a Saudi-led military coalition launched an offensive to retake the Red Sea port city, which serves as a crucial entry point for imports and humanitarian aid.
UN-brokered December talks between the warring parties in Sweden yielded a series of breakthroughs including a ceasefire in Hodeida, where combon the lamly ceased.
In May 2019, the UN announced that the rebels had withdrawn from Hodeida and two other nearby ports, the first practical step on the ground since the truce deal.
UN observation mission chief Abhijit Guha also welcomed the establishment of joint observation posts, "designed to facilitate direct inter-party de-escalation in flashpoint areas seen as susceptible to conflict", according to a UN statement.
A government official, who requested anonymity, told AFP the observation points had been working "smoothly".
[NYPOST] US troops withdrawing from northeastern Syria to Iraq are "transiting" and will leave the country within four weeks, Iraq’s defense minister said Wednesday.
Najah al-Shammari made the remarks to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named following a meeting in Baghdad with visiting US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who arrived as Iraqi leaders chafed over reports the US may want to increase the number of troops based in Iraq, at least temporarily.
Iraq’s military said Tuesday that American troops leaving northeastern Syria don’t have permission to stay in Iraq in a statement that appeared to contradict Esper, who has said all US troops leaving Syria would continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group from Iraq to prevent its resurgence in the region.
He later added that the troops would be there temporarily until they are able to go home, but no time period has been set.
Esper said earlier Wednesday that the US has no plans to leave those troops in Iraq "interminably" and that he plans to talk with Iraqi leaders about the matter.
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If ISIS rebounded and ended up controlling half of Iraq that would be horrible for Iraqis but shouldn't the islamic world provide the troops to defeat ISIS.
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It's a real conundrum for a muslim to kill ISIS. At best one can expect them to look on sullenly as the true champions of islam are slaughtered by a non-muslim, or lapsed takfir party. I'll bet many are inwardly praising Allan and clapping for joy at what is happening while projecting a concerned face.
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Why we need to defend our own borders and get Prompt Global Strike up to speed. Get the IC out of the inside the Beltway inside baseball business totally. If FBI can't prove they are going straight on counterintelligence, get them out of it and let DIA do it.
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It's a real conundrum for a muslim to kill ISIS. At best one can expect them to look on sullenly as the true champions of islam are slaughtered by a non-muslim, or lapsed takfir party. I'll bet many are inwardly praising Allan and clapping for joy at what is happening while projecting a concerned face.
It's kind of funny you say this. I know someone who's a Muslim by tribal affiliation more than anything else. The guy does not do the halal thing, never goes to mosque, is thoroughly Westernized by all outward appearances. And he's a big fan of action movies. But when I recommended Blackhawk Down, he was negative about it, saying that he wasn't thrilled to see Muslims getting killed by non-Muslims. So this was a thoroughly secular (and American) guy in most ways, brought up in America from infancy, and yet he cringed at the thought of watching a movie in which bad guy Muslims were being swept out of the way by good guy Americans in order to better feed multitudes of Muslim civilians.
This is why I say people who think the Saudi royals are behind Muslim extremists are full of crap. They're basically clinging on to power by their fingertips by giving their population a thin slice of what they want - theocracy-lite. If they are toppled by popular revolution, their successors will be al Qaeda/ISIS/Muslim Brotherhood or whatever random Islamist movement emerges on top after the inevitable post-revolution power struggles are complete.
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Muslims seem to have no compunctions about THEMSELVES killing other Muslims. Most of the victims of terrorism these days seem to be Muslims. Or course, the Muslims being killed aren't the right kind of Muslims- Sunni vs Shi'ite, or one of the other groups that consider anyone less pious than they are as not really Muslim.
They only seem to object when a Westerner kills a Muslim.
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Muslims seem to have no compunctions about THEMSELVES killing other Muslims.
That's because it's how power struggles have traditionally been settled, and not just in Islam, but in non-Western countries. Such clashes are on hold around most of the world mainly because of Pax Americana.
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giving their population a thin slice of what they want - theocracy-lite.
Sums up the Saudi tiger ride.
Islam is something the whole world has let continue to its own detriment. It's like letting some people carry an infectious disease because they claim a human right to. Now, it's too late.
We should have massacred it out of our cities, compressed them down to a minority huddled in caves and ghettos scrounging for sustenance until they died out or converted. A seemingly 'moderate' muslim also carries the seeds within him/her of being a poisonous facilitator of sheer inhumanity.
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Of course. Been tried. Not by the brightest. I meant after 9/11, and the rise of AQs and IS - we just witnessed the buildup of a legal, entrenched jihad and stood aside in political correctness. Today, even the thought seems impossible. To some it sounds like villainy.
The Crusades were mounted at a time of technological parity. As such, the Crusaders were unable to make a dent in the ummah without incurring enormous losses. We are in a period of overwhelming Western technological superiority. What we lack is civilizational confidence.
I believe we wouldn't have lost that confidence were it not for the corrupt churches and modern humanist philosophies that diluted common sense thinking. We lost wisdom in favour of 'theories of efficacy' brought by the Industrial revolutions.
And while the islamics are fast making up for the technology differential, the brutality they never lost.
I expect in the future we shall have to descend to the pit of brutality again with them. How much shall have been lost until that desperate day is the question.
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We are in a period of overwhelming Western technological superiority. What we lack is civilizational confidence.
= the definition of decadence.
It's the mark of a self-hating civilization, one that denigrates its greatest men and their achievements, that substitutes a shabby and pallid new religion for the sturdy old truths.
Rome fell as a result of a combo of technological parity with the barbarians on its borders and weakness brought about by repeated bonfires of its resources through endemic civil wars touched off by internal struggles for power. Whereas Western Europe was overrun by the Nazis because they lacked the civilizational confidence to match Germany's build up gun for gun and man for man. Fortunately, the ummah is nothing like Germany in terms of its technological prowess. If they are to overcome the House of War (i.e. non-Muslim countries), it will have to be by mass immigration, aided and abetted by the recipient countries themselves.
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Peter Theil and other libertarian/conservative billionaires should create an alternate video channel. Get the South Park guys to post their stuff there to help encourage the migration.
[Libya Observer] Commander of the Joint Operations Room in the western region, Major General Osama Joueili has confirmed that Mitiga Airport was attacked on Tuesday, October 22nd at 2.15 am by high-explosive bombs.
"Investigations show that the bombs used in the air raid were US-made and the warplane that carried out the attack is likely to be F-16 fighter jet," Joueili said in a statement issued by the Joint Operations Room on Tuesday night.
"This attack is clear evidence of the direct intervention of the parties supporting Haftar in his aggression on Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... after their failure to achieve any progress on the ground despite using mercenaries from several countries," the statement added.
Joueili urged the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... mission in Libya to fulfil its primary mission of supporting the legitimate government and to prevent attacks from regional countries instead of holding "suspicious" meetings with parties responsible for Libya's tragedy.
Mitiga airport was hit by two Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s early Tuesday without causing any casualties.
Libyan Counterterrorism Force has busted a human smuggling ring and detained two dangerous gang leaders; one from #Libya and the other from #Sudanpic.twitter.com/NcCgwcsWSM
[ToloNews] Secretary General Stoltenberg says NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supports the resumption of peace talks, provided that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... makes "real compromises."
Speaking to journalists gathered for NATO’s defense ministerial this week, Stoltenberg affirmed NATO’s "commitment to its mission in Afghanistan to ensure that the country does not become a safe haven for international holy warriors once again."
ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... is present in Afghanistan, Stoltenberg said, and NATO’s train, advise and assist mission is part of NATO’s global interest to defeat it.
He said NATO supports the resumption of peace talks, provided that the Taliban makes "real compromises."
Over the last year, the US reduced the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan by 2,000, Gen. Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO forces revealed on Monday.
"We saw some ups and downs in troop levels, but the US and NATO are still committed to Afghanistan," Stoltenberg confirmed.
Commenting on the recent Afghan presidential race and ongoing results-tallying, Stoltenberg said that the "Afghan election needs transparency and credibility because we need fair elections," and there is a need for "the election bodies to do their work."
NATO Defense Ministers will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to address key issues for the alliance and to discuss Afghanistan’s mission.
Referring to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s incursion into northeast Syria, the Secretary General welcomed the significant reduction in violence following the joint statement by Turkey and the United States.
"It is important that all forces on the ground act with restraint and with full respect of international humanitarian law," he said.
Stoltenberg underlined that recent developments underscore the urgent need for a political solution.
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"NATO’s global interest"
NATO's interest is in the North Atlantic. Specifically against the Soviet Union. This is nothing but globalists abusing NATO for their own selfish purposes. European troops are useless in Afghanistan and Article V should never have been invoked.
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Don't let it get your blood pressure up. It's just so much hot air for consumption by the rubes. Everyone knows ISIS has plenty of friends inside the Beltway...
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[DAWN] US Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells informed a Congressional panel on Tuesday that India’s annexation of the occupied lands has not changed America’s position on held Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , as it continues to consider it a disputed territory.
"We consider the Line of Control (LoC) a de facto line separating two parts of Kashmir," said Ms Wells. "We recognise de facto administrations on both sides of LoC."
She was responding to a question from the panel’s chairman, Congressman Brad Sherman who asked her if India’s Aug 5 decision to annex the occupied territories had also affected the US position on held Kashmir and if Washington now saw LoC as an international border. He also asked her if Washington still saw held Kashmir as a disputed territory.
"We do not take position on the type of administration either by India or Pakistain," said Ms Wells when Mr Sherman asked her if the US agreed with India’s decision to merge held Kashmir.
In a written statement she shared with the panel, Ms Well said that the security situation in India-held Kashmir remained tense and festivities between youth and security forces were a regular occurrence.
The first official US assessment of the situation in the occupied valley also emphasised the need for resuming India-Pakistain dialogue but claimed that Islamabad’s alleged support to some terrorist groups had stalled the talks.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Tuesday, a source from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) told al-Masdar News that the Russian military had begun deploying its aircraft to the Tabaqa Airport in the al-Raqqa Governorate.
According to the military source, the Russian Air Force was deploying its helicopters to the Tabaqa Airport as part of their northern expansion in the al-Raqqa Governorate.
Furthermore, the source said that the Russian military would be taking over the Tabaqa Airport following the reconstruction of the airfields and barracks that were destroyed during the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... /ISIS/IS/ISIS) reign over this area in al-Raqqa.
As shown in the video below, military aircraft have already begun landing at the Tabaqa Airport, while reinforcements from both the Russian and Syrian armed forces pour into the area from the neighboring Homs and Aleppo governorates.
[NYPOST] A massive drug bust in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, led to the confiscation of 18 pounds of fentanyl ‐ enough to create 4 million lethal doses, authorities said.
The huge seizure amounted to half of the fentanyl snagged in Orange County this year, with Sherlocks nabbing about $1.25 million worth of the deadly opioid last Wednesday, the Orange County Register reported.
"The threat this extremely potent drug poses to our community is increasing exponentially, not subsiding," Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said in a statement.
The sheriff’s office said they also seized a semi-automatic handgun, heroin, methamphetamine and $71,000 in cash.
Sheriff’s officials declined to reveal where the drugs were found but said the operation took place during the execution of a search warrant.
They arrested Rudolph Garcia, 60, on charges of drug possession, as well as being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held on $2 million bond, according to the report.
A howitzer shell has landed at Rixos compound in Hai Damascus in #Tripoli where Libyan parliament HQ is located causing a loud explosion and sending plumes of thick black smoke into the air pic.twitter.com/tdCHQUH0vY
Do the millions Dick's stockholders lost count as a campaign contribution?
[Politico] Ed Stack, the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods and a longtime Republican donor, is testing the waters for a possible third-party presidential bid that could scramble the dynamics of the 2020 general election.
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The idea of a serious third party challenger in the US is deader that ever. The sort of people who wanted to vote for Ross Perot or John Anderson actually believed the system could be reformed. Present circumstances put paid to that swell fairytale notion.
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What happened to Howard Schultz?
Was he off'ed?
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Trump's was a third party run that took over the GOP instead of running against them.
I suspect Trump's base is made up of ex-Perot voters and tea-party voters, and Evangelicals that were jerked around and taken for granted by the Old Boys Club/Neo-con coalition that controlled the party after Reagan.
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Most all third party bids stay outside and have no chance.
So we mostly agree...
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Yes, technically he's not a third party candidate. He worked within the rules to create a a new coalition within the GOP. The new coalition was comprised of folks that had been screwed or ignored by the previous coalitions so they aren't likely to turn on him.
[DAWN] China is organising talks among Afghanistan's rival factions as part of efforts to end years of war after negotiations between the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the United States on the withdrawal of US forces broke down.
China, which shares a short border with Afghanistan, has been trying to encourage peace efforts and last month a Taliban delegation visited Beijing for talks with government officials.
"China has invited a delegation [...] to participate in the intra-Afghan dialogue," a Taliban front man, Suhail Shaheen, said in a post on Twitter late on Tuesday.
The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue is aimed at reconciliation between Afghanistan's warring parties and has been running parallel to the talks between the forces of Evil and the United States.
Last month, US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... halted the talks with the Taliban aimed at striking a deal for US and other foreign troops to withdraw in exchange for Taliban security guarantees, after the gunnies carried out a kaboom in Kabul that killed 12 people, including a US soldier.
The United States has been hoping that its deal with the Taliban would pave the way for a ceasefire and power-sharing talks between the Afghan government and the krazed killers.
The Taliban have refused to talk to the government, denouncing it a US puppet, but government officials have taken part in the intra-Afghan dialogue as private citizens.
Shaheen said the talks in China would be held on that basis.
"All participants will be attending the meeting in their personal capacity and they will share their personal opinions for solving the Afghan issue," he said.
He did not give a date for the talks and officials at China's embassy in Kabul were not available for comment.
The Afghan government was aware of China's plan to host talks but it could not comment at this stage, said deputy foreign minister, Idress Zaman.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive Syrian Arab Army (SAA) convoy was spotted heading towards the al-Raqqa Governorate this week as they fulfill their military cooperation agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to reports, the Syrian Army convoy was heading towards the strategic city of al-Tabaqa and nearby town of ’Ayn ’Issa.
’Ayn ’Issa is an important town because of the military bases in the area and its location near the Ottoman Turkish Army’s front-lines in the Tal Abyad District.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) released a video on Wednesday that showed the Syrian Army convoy heading towards al-Tabaqa and ’Ayn ’Issa.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian military police deployed in the Syrian province of Aleppo have started patrolling northeast of the town of Manbij, a representative of the military law enforcement branch told news hounds earlier in the day.
Joint Ottoman Turkish and Russian patrols are ready to be deployed to the Syrian border city of Ras al-Ayn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on 22 October adopted a memorandum to resolve the situation on the Syria-The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... border in light of Ankara’s offensive targeting Kurdish militias.
According to the document, Russian military police and Syrian border guards will facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish faceless myrmidons from an 18-mile (29 km) zone along the border within 150 hours starting from 23 October.
[IsraelTimes] 14 people to go on trial May 4 to July 10 for aiding forces of Evil in January 2015 attacks on satirical magazine, kosher supermarket in Gay Paree.
Fourteen people will go on trial in Gay Paree next May over the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... newspaper and a kosher supermarket that heralded a wave of jihadist strikes on La Belle France, judicial sources said Wednesday.
The trial will take place from May 4 to July 10, lawyers and a judicial source told AFP.
Seventeen people were killed over three days in and around Gay Paree in January 2015 in the attacks.
Cherif Kouachi and his brother Said killed 12 people on January 7 at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Gay Paree, including some of La Belle France’s best known cartoonists.
Over the following two days, a third gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, rubbed out a young policewoman and killed four people at a kosher supermarket.
All three button men, who had claimed allegiance to jihadist groups, were killed by police.
The 14 accused are suspected of having provided logistical aid to the attackers.
The case will be heard by a special court seated, for logistical reasons, in a new, bigger building in the extreme northwest of Gay Paree and not the Palace of Justice in the center that would ordinarily have hosted it, the sources said.
Eleven of the suspects are in detention, but three are set to be tried in their absence.
They include Hayat Boumedienne, the partner of Coulibaly, who Ottoman Turkish authorities said at the time had crossed into Syria as her partner shot the policewoman.
Also on the run are brothers Mohammed and Mehdi Belhoucine, who also left for the Iraq-Syria region just before the attacks.
Unconfirmed reports have said all three could now be dead after fierce bombing campaigns in the area to defeat the jihadists there.
Responsibility for the attack against Charlie Hebdo was claimed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , an offshoot of the main al-Qaeda organization.
When it begins in April 2020, the trial of the 14 will be the first such major process against jihadists in La Belle France since the 2017 trial over the 2012 attacks by Mohammed Merah.
Merah killed three soldiers in March 2012 before gunning down a rabbi, two of the rabbi’s children, aged three and five, and an eight-year-old girl at a Jewish school in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... . A police sniper killed him during a siege at his home.
His brother Abdelkader was in April handed a 30-year jail term as an accomplice in the murders.
A wave of jihadist attacks on La Belle France that started with the Charlie Hebdo killings has claimed 255 lives so far, including 90 at the Bataclan concert hall as part of coordinated strikes on multiple Gay Paree targets on November 13, 2015.
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A state that takes this long to deliver the piss-ant justice that is sure to be delivered, does not deserve the taxpayer's money or the voter's confidence.
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate on Tuesday denied physical remand of retired Capt Muhammad Safdar, husband of PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz Sharif ...served two three 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... , to the police and sent him to jail on judicial remand in a case of alleged hate speech.
Islampura police presented Mr Safdar before the magistrate in the evening (after office hours) around 6pm while security was beefed up on the court premises since morning.
Mr Safdar was arrested late on Monday night when he was returning to Lahore through motorway from Bhera.
A deputy district prosecutor told the magistrate that the suspect was charged with inciting people against the government and state institutions. He said the suspect was arrested on a directive issued by Lahore deputy commissioner.
He said police needed 14-day physical remand of the suspect for investigation.
Advocate Farhad Ali Shah defended Mr Safdar and argued that the police acted with mala fide intention. He pointed out that the police initially lodged FIR under section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and later inserted sections 124 & 506 of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) in it as well.
[DAWN] A security firm says fake smartphone apps laden with malware are targeting Pakistain's military and government.
Golly. How dreadfully mortifying for them.
A report released on Wednesday by Canadian company Blackberry identifies new espionage campaigns attempting to steal sensitive data from mobile devices.
Blackberry says it doesn't know who is responsible for the campaigns but says it likely involves state-sponsored hacking groups.
The report says one of the fake apps promised news about Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . India imposed a security lockdown in August on occupied Kashmir, detaining thousands and cutting off telecommunications for days.
[BREITBART] Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno called Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south... n dictator Nicolás Maduro an "ass" in remarks Monday during a meeting with Ecuador’s Confederation of Workers. At least he didn't call him "Bitch". Massachusetts might've sanctioned him
The insult followed a rant by the Venezuelan supremo, who ceased being the country’s legal head of state in January, in which he called Moreno "stupid" and claimed the credit for enabling violent leftist agitators in Ecuador and Chile.
Riots erupted in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, this month in response to Moreno announcing an end to a socialist gas subsidy that had been in place for decades, a provision agreed to as part of a deal to secure a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While the rioters identified themselves as members of unspecified indigenous groups, the Ecuadorian government revealed evidence that Maduro and former socialist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa were paying foreigners to enter the country and commit acts of violence in its major cities.
At least seven Latin American countries issued statements in support of Moreno and condemning Maduro for encouraging violence in the wake of the riots. The riots died down when Moreno agreed to keep the gas subsidy in place for now. He has since been focusing on building closer ties to leftist groups and workers’ unions that he hopes will prevent future uproars.
Moreno was responding directly to remarks by Maduro henchman and U.S.-sanctioned drug lord Diosdado Cabello celebrating the riots when he referred to Maduro as an "ass."
"We are not shocked by Cabello’s joy, the joy of that ass governing Venezuela, Correa’s joy, it is definitely because they have their hands stuck in here," Moreno reportedly said in remarks published by the broadcaster Ecuavisa. "I have no doubt, under any circumstance, that for aggression, for hiring organized crime gangs asked to beat [people], to assault, to burn Quito, there was foreign money involved."
[Rudaw] The Iraqi government has decided to transfer nearly 2,000 convicted Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) prisoners from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to Baghdad in a bid to cope with the overloaded internment facilities in Nineveh Province.
The transfer process is set to include the convicted ISIS felons held at the Tel Kaif detention facility including 1624 men, nine women and 118 teenagers under 18, Sherwan Dubardani, a Mosul representative MP in the Iraqi Parliament, told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
Asil al-Agha, a member of the Nineveh Provincial Council told KirkukNow that "the prisoners are due to be transferred to Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons in the capital, Baghdad."
The province of Nineveh is home to three detention facilities ‐ Tel Kaif, Faisaliya and Tasfirat ‐ that have the capacity to accommodate 2,500 inmates, but are currently housing nearly 4,500 detainees, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on August 5.
Dubardani said after a field visit to the center-turned-prison in Tel Kaif, he realized "how terrible the place was" and that it was "not suitable at all" for the convicted held there.
"There was also little security measures taken against the convicted," he added. "It was really dangerous."
The damage ISIS inflicted on Mosul is now preventing Iraqi forces from finding suitable facilities in which to house the prisoners.
"Mosul does not have a proper prison now after ISIS blew up Badush jail, which was the biggest and the most important reformatory facility ," Dubardani said, adding that Mosul authorities were "forced to hold them elsewhere."
He added among others held at the Tel Kaif facility are another 316 men, 142 women and 730 teens who have not yet been tried.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he explained that it has not yet been decided as to when the whole transfer process will finish.
"It is not an easy job. It is very complicated," he said. The decision has been made and it will take place," he explained.
Iraq's government has declined to provide figures on detention centers or prisoners, including how many are facing terrorism-related charges, although some sources estimate that 20,000 are being held for purported ISIS links.
In a report published March, HRW urged the Iraqi government to "ensure that detention before trial is the exception, not the rule, and only applied on an individual basis where it is necessary."
"The authorities should ensure that there is a clear legal basis for detentions, that all detainees have access to legal counsel, including during interrogation, and that detainees are moved to facilities accessible to government inspectors, independent monitors, relatives, and lawyers, with regular and unimpeded access", it added.
Photos of juvenile and women cells published by HRW show severe overcrowding. Conditions in Nineveh were said to be so bad that lawyers cannot meet with their clients inside, "because there is no space for meetings".
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Coast Guard has intercepted 150 illegal immigrants colonists of Arab and African nationality off the Libyan coast.
"Three rubber boats, carrying about 148 migrants colonists, including 15 women and 11 children, were intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard off Zuwara and Sabratha coast west of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ," Spokesman for the Libyan Coast Guard, Ayoub Qassem has said, confirming that the migrants colonists were returned to the gathering and departure centre in Tripoli.
Human rights groups oppose the return of illegal immigrants colonists to Tripoli because conditions in immigration centres do not meet international standards, according to them, while the EU countries are refusing to receive the migrants colonists.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli military is preparing itself for a potential attack by the Iranian forces inside Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday, as reported by I24 News.
Citing unnamed sources, Israeli Army Radio said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were preparing their air defenses for a potential cruise missile attack from the Iranian forces that are currently present inside Syria.
In particular, the report claimed Israel was focusing its defense capabilities on harder to detect, low-flying cruise missiles and dronezaps ‐ unlike high-arcing ballistic missiles that are easier to intercept.
Furthermore, they said this alleged Iranian missile threat is due to Israel’s attacks on their forces inside both Iraq and Syria.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has yet to retaliate for the string of attacks launched by the Israeli forces in Iraq’s Salaheddine Governorate and Syria’s Damascus and Deir Ezzor governorates.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Hezbollah did retaliate against the IDF following an attack on their media center in the southern suburbs of Beirut in September.
Since then, the Israeli military has not been as active inside Syria and Iraq, prompting many to believe the Russian Armed Forces were playing a role in preventing these attacks.
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By all means, rely on the Rus to control their playmates..../sarc
[FREEBEACON] A Massachusetts Democrat is pushing a bill that would make it a crime to maliciously call someone a "bitch" within the commonwealth. "Poopyhead" is still okay.
Foul-mouthed individuals who are found guilty under a bill introduced by Democratic representative Daniel J. Hunt would face a $150 maximum fine for the first offense, while repeat offenders would face up to six months' imprisonment, a $200 fine, or both. If enacted, "bitch" would be the only word in the English language to receive such special consideration in Massachusetts. So "Dog Squat" is still good to go. "Cow," "sow," "jenny," "pussy," "hen," "vixen," "nanny," "pullet," and "doe" are still in committee. "Ewe" has problems, but they're working on them.
Hunt introduced "An Act regarding the use of offensive words" in May. The proposed law would specify that the use of the word "bitch" satisfied the "offensive and disorderly acts or language" requirement in existing disorderly conduct law. Doesn't matter whether you holler it, squeal it, or whisper, it's still disorderly. If you think it, it depends on your expression.
"A person who uses the word ’bitch' directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person," the bill says. "A violation of this subsection may be reported by the person to whom the offensive language was directed at or by any witness to such incident." What if the person's a guy? Zat still count? How about if she identifies as a guy? Hunt told the Boston Herald that he filed the bill after being asked to do so by a constituent. Falls under the heading of "never tell a constituent he's stoopid." It ain't a legislator's place to explain that something's abhorrent to the nation at large.
"Any time a constituent approaches me with something that is of concern to them, I follow through with it," he said. "In this instance, someone asked me to file a bill that they deemed was important and I thought it was a good exercise to let that bill go through the process." Instead of telling the bitch to shut up?
While critics charge that the bill likely violates the First Amendment, Hunt told the Herald that even if it does, his bill could "illuminate the exhaustive legislative process for people that might not normally be engaged." So it's just a demonstration instead of an assault on our increasingly beleaguered liberties? Oh, well. That's different.
The Massachusetts Republican Party mocked their counterparts for the bill. "Beacon Hill Democrats like [Dan Hunt] are fearlessly taking on the biggest problems facing the commonwealth," the state GOP said on Twitter, asking followers to attend the Judiciary Committee hearing if they "believe free speech matters." Good for you, Taxachussets Publicans. Slap the silly bitches.
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"Any time a constituent approaches me with something that is of concern to them, I follow through with it," he said. "In this instance, someone asked me to file a bill that they deemed was important and I thought it was a good exercise to let that bill go through the process."
The politician in question never intended the bill to be passed, he just wanted to shut up an insistent constituent.
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Daniel J. Hunt is acting bitchy, even a son of a bitch.
I can hear my poetry fried going on for 30 minutes about the different forms and uses of the word bitch.
"Mr. Jhunt, you are acting like a bitch. Oh, you were asked to, bitch of a spot to be in, but life is a bitch." and so forth, probably something about a bitchin' camero at some point.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that Washington should end the occupation of the al-Tanf border crossing in Syria’s Homs governorate.
"US service members are stationed illegally in this area...blocking the road that connects Iraq and Syria. We demand an end to their occupation", Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin told journalists.
In December 2018, US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... announced the end of the main part of the anti-terrorist operation in Syria and the destruction of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... *’s so-called "caliphate"; he also announced the withdrawal of US troops from the country, which numbered some 2,000.
On Monday, Trump confirmed that only a small number of troops in the south will remain in the country after the troop pull-out in the northeast. Earlier, it was reported that his statement concerned the al-Tanf garrison at the junction of the borders of Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. According to media reports, the garrison consisted of 150 military personnel.
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[COLlive] For the first time ever, a Sukkah was placed within the White House complex in Washington, DC, to celebrate the holiday of Sukkos.
While only open to White House and Treasury Dept. staff and their guests receiving US Secret Service clearance, dozens of officials took advantage of the Sukkah’s presence during Chol Hamoed, with a small event just prior to the Sukkah being disassembled before Shabbos.
During several hours every day, those within the White House complex were able to make their way to East Executive Drive and spend time in the Sukkah to have lunch, bless the Lulav and Esrog and celebrate the Jewish Festival of Sukkos.
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62 years old, I am still such a babe in the woods. When I clicked on this story earlier, I honestly thought from the word Sukkah it must be some hip hop thang.
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To the media it's just nowhere near as hip as the Bath House fambly's Chairman Mao Christmas tree ornaments.
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I didn't know. And the spelling is a bit different.
What is Sukkot?
Sukkot (Feast of Booths or Tabernacles) is one of the three biblically based pilgrimage holidays known as the shalosh regalim It is an agricultural festival that originally was considered a thanksgiving for the fruit harvest. Sukkot are hut-like structures that the Jews lived in during the 40 years of travel through the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt. As a temporary dwelling, the sukkah also represents the fact that all existence is fragile, and therefore Sukkot is a time to appreciate the shelter of our homes and our bodies.
How is Sukkot celebrated?
Sukkot is celebrated by, first of all, building a sukkah. Jews are required to eat in the sukkah for eight days (seven days in Israel), and some even sleep in the sukkah for the duration of the holiday. The sukkah is decorated and the first day is considered a holy day in which most forms of work are forbidden. The rabbis dictated that arbat ha’minim (four species) should be held together and waved during the holiday. These are based on four plants mentioned in the Bible, and the rabbinic version includes the following: etrog (fruit of the citron tree), lulav (palm frond), hadas (leaves from the myrtle tree), and aravah (leaves from the willow tree). This waving ceremony was performed at the Temple in the ancient world.
The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshanah Rabah. On that day in the synagogue Jews circle the room seven times while the arbat ha’minim are held and special prayers are recited.. Link
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So long as you understand the details of your faith, JHH, you needn’t feel bad about knowing the less important details of someone else’s. I’ve been Jewish all my life, and never once put up a sukkah, though we’ve thoroughly enjoyed the ones we helped decorate at our synagogue and the local Jewish community center over the years.
The different spellings in the article and Bobby’s link result from the fact that the Chabad chassids who put up the one at the White House use old-fashioned Ashkenazi pronunciation and transliteration. Bobby’s link uses modern, Israeli Hebrew, which developed from the Sepharadi (Middle Eastern) pronunciation and transliteration.
[Libya Observer] New Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... 's forces have targeted a civilian residential neighborhood in al-Asfah street in al-Ramla near Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... Airport Road in the Libyan capital, killing three civilians and injuring eight others, sources from the Health Ministry of the Presidential Council's government confirmed Wednesday.
The sources indicated that the injured civilians had been sent to a field hospital in al-Sawani area to get first aid medications before being sent to in-capital hospitals.
According to the sources, four of the injured persons were at death's door while the other four were somehow stable.
According to the media office of the Volcano of Rage Operation of the Presidential Council's government, the attack on the civilians was carried out by a UAE drone that was provided for Haftar's forces to bombard Tripoli.
This comes one day after Haftar's forces have targeted a residential building in Salah al-Deen in southern Tripoli, killing two sisters and injuring the rest of the family.
Haftar's forces have become more encouraged in their use of airpower on civilian targets over the last period with three deadly attacks taking the lives of several civilians, including seven children, in less than 30 days.
[Spectator] Conveniently forgotten is that Mr. Trump made his position on withdrawal clear almost two years ago.
Trump has betrayed the Syrian Kurds" ‐ so goes a popular refrain regarding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the areas of northeast Syria held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The events that have followed ‐ namely, a Ottoman Turkish invasion of parts of SDF territory along the border and the deployment of Syrian government forces in some SDF areas ‐ have been characterized as a strategic disaster for American interests, with some commentators even proclaiming the withdrawal as indicative of a U.S. imperial decline and U.S. disengagement from the Middle East.
In fact, much of this is overblown. For one thing, the U.S. still maintains extensive troop deployments elsewhere in the Middle East, and those are not being drawn down anytime soon. Insofar as many of the pundits, analysts, and policymakers condemning Trump consider the recent developments in Syria to be a disaster, they primarily have themselves to blame, however popular bashing Trump might be.
Indeed, these critics of Trump did not learn the relevant lessons from December 2018 when the president ordered preparations for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. They should have appreciated that Trump is ultimately the commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces and that he had made his own preferences on Syria clear: namely, that after the military defeat of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , U.S. forces should leave. As the president’s record on issues like climate change and the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... nuclear deal illustrates, he has generally been forthright and sincere in trying to fulfill his policy promises. When he told his advisers that he wanted to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, he meant it. The message should have been clear: devise an orderly withdrawal plan.
But that is not what happened. Instead, efforts and attention were geared towards U.S. forces remaining indefinitely in Syria. The advocates for this "stay indefinitely" approach argued that the deployment as it existed was supposedly an example of a successful projection of U.S. leverage and influence with a relatively small number of troops. They claimed that U.S. presence was vital for political negotiations on Syria’s future and important for limiting Iranian influence and blocking its "land route" to the Mediterranean.
In reality, none of these assertions holds up but rather reflect dubious expansions of the original purpose of the U.S. mission in Syria: countering the Islamic State. At the same time, the "stay indefinitely" crowd tended to downplay the major problem regarding the U.S. partnership with the SDF: the issue of relations with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... , which considers (with some justification) the SDF to be an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought the Ottoman Turkish state for decades.
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Actually pretty brilliant as most american's have a fondness for Iraqi Kurds being such good allies and don't really know the Syrian Kurds are a different beast altogether.
Breaking News: Warlord Khalifa Haftar’s UAE-backed air force militia strikes a civilian’s house in Ramlah area of Swani region in south #Tripoli, killing one person and wounding eight others pic.twitter.com/YMx00rh3ib
[BREITBART] A Canadian official ruled against Jessica Yaniv, the transgender Canadian plaintiff who had accused three women of unfair "discrimination" when they declined to give his testicles a "Brazilian wax" treatment.
But the official minimized the damage to Canada’s pro-transgender laws by suggesting that women may need to provide the sexually intimate service to male bodies if they have been trained for the task.
"Human rights legislation does not require a service provider to wax a type of genitals they are not trained for and have not consented to wax. ... There are differences between waxing the genitals of a person with a vulva and a person with a penis and scrotum," said the deciding official in the quasi-judicial British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
The 61-page decision implies that women will have to provide the intimate service to men if the Canadian licensing boards require cosmeticians to learn how to do the service.
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Why is this thing not throwing its hat in the ring for Democratic presidential nominee? Ticks all the right boxes. Canuck / non-American too. RUN JESSIE RUN!
[NationalReview] Days after squaring off online against “elitist” critics of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s relocation of agency jobs, Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) will introduce legislation on Wednesday that would move the majority of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington D.C. to economically depressed areas, according to a summary of the bill provided to National Review.
The “Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) Act,” which is cosponsored by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), would move 90 percent of the positions within ten executive agencies to economically distressed regions that have a stake in the work of those respective agencies.
Not that a matching bill will be passed in the Democrat-controlled House, but it’s definitely useful as a talking point.
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Franklin opined that the seat of government should be somewhere nobody wanted to stay in any longer than possible. He also thought all government service should be gratis, so everyone would self limit by the need to "return to their private and profitable pursuits."
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Possible should have been necessary. Self limit should have been self term limit.
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[Rudaw] A string of explosions rocked northern Syria on Wednesday as rival powers compete for control over the Kurdish territory and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) holy warriors take advantage of instability.
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[DAWN] "Don’t think of yourself as separate from the community. Community policing is community-oriented police," said former Sindh police chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiki on Tuesday.
He was speaking at a workshop on ’Community policing for responsive governance’ organised by Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE) at a local hotel here.
Speaking about community policing, responsive governance and ethical police conduct, he said to the traffic police personnel that they could not just stand by doing nothing while watching an offence because that would make them an accomplice.
"You are not just regulating traffic; you are doing a national service. You are supporting people, saving important lives. Yes, it can be a thankless job. But if you are unhappy, leave. Not everyone can do what you do. Not everyone has your quality, your kind of training, your expertise. So don’t take this as any regular job and don’t take yourself for granted," he said to them.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspect detained after standoff at archaeology museum in Saint-Raphael; one of his messages said ’the museum is going to become a hell’
A man briefly holed up at a museum in southern La Belle France on Wednesday, where threatening messages in Arabic were written on the building’s walls, police said, before the suspect was detained and the four-hour standoff came to an end.
Police and a bomb disposal squad surrounded the archaeology museum in the Mediterranean town of Saint-Raphael, where the man had broke in overnight and refused to communicate with police, and officers were searching the site in case he had an accomplice, the top regional police official said.
One of the messages read "the museum is going to become a hell," a source said earlier.
In a Twitter message police had warned people to avoid the area in the historic center of the resort town tucked between Cannes and Saint-Tropez.
"The entire neighborhood is locked down... We’ve been ordered to stay in the restaurant," Sebastian, an employee at the Duplex restaurant opposite the museum, told the local Nice-Matin newspaper.
The museum, a historic monument, includes a medieval stone church and a vast collection of amphoras and other items from the region’s Roman history.
[DAWN] President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... announced on Wednesday the United States is lifting sanctions on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria.
The president, who has been under fire for abruptly withdrawing US troops from northern Syria, paving the way for Turkey to launch a deadly offensive against the Kurds, added that a "small number" of US troops would remain in the conflict-hit country.
"Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent," he said in a televised address from the White House.
[DAWN] The government on Wednesday decided to let the opposition's 'Azadi March' protest in Islamabad proceed as long as parameters laid out by courts for lawful protest are not breached.
The decision was made after a team delegated to negotiate with the opposition presented its recommendations to the prime minister.
It was decided during the meeting that "the Government, with its firm belief in upholding democratic ideals, would allow the proposed Azadi March, if it takes place within the ambit of law and the Constitution as interpreted in the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pakistain and Islamabad High Court," a brief statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office said.
"The prime minister believes in the democratic right to protest," a spokesperson for Prime Minister House had earlier told DawnNewsTV.
The protesters will be allowed to carry out the march as long as the everyday life of citizens is not adversely affected, in accordance with the past judgements of the Supreme Court and the high court.
The news broke amidst reports that the Islamabad police was issuing riot gear and mobilising containers to cordon off sensitive areas of the capital city to prevent protesters from marching on to the Red Zone.
[BREITBART] Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), a freshman Democrat critical to the House Democrats’ “impeachment inquiry” against President Donald Trump given her perch as vice chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, is denying that she had an affair with two different staff members despite photographic and text message evidence of the affairs published by conservative website Red State.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Mount Lebanon State Prosecutor, Judge Ghada Aoun, has pressed charges against former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, along with his son Maher Mikati, brother Taha Mikati, and Bank Audi.
According to the Mount Lebanon State Prosecutor, Mikati is being charged for unjust enrichment, which is based on the wealth he has accumulated at the expense of others.
Unjust enrichment occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust.
[AceOfSpades] Dozens of Republicans, including some members of leadership, barged into the secure hearing room in the Capitol basement where Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was set to provide private testimony. GOP lawmakers have argued that other lawmakers, not just members of the three committees leading the probe, should be able to attend the closed-door hearings with witnesses.
Several lawmakers said that, in response to the Republican protest, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) had left the room with Cooper, postponing the interview indefinitely.
Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said Schiff said "nothing" when the members sat down before he left with Cooper.
"He doesn't have the guts to come talk to us," Marshall said. "He left, he just got up and left. He doesn't have the guts to tell us why we can't come in the room, why he doesn't want this to be transparent. It's the biggest facade, biggest farce of my life." You want a full civil war? This is how you get a full and hot civil war.
[ALMASDARNEWS] This week, the Ansarallah forces’ official media wing released a new video showing their missile teams destroying several vehicles belonging to the Saudi-backed troops across Yemen and southern Saudi Arabia.
In the video, the Ansarallah missile teams can be seen firing anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) at the Saudi-backed troops; these strikes resulted in direct hits on the enemy vehicles.
[AlAhram] 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... 's King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians... appointed Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud as new foreign minister, replacing Ibrahim Assaf, state-owned al-Arabiya reported.
[DAWN] All the prisoners at the three sub-jails of Jamrud, Bara and Landi Kotal in the Khyber tribal district would undergo weekly medical check-up while they won’t be subjected to any torture at the lockups, officials said here on Tuesday.
They said the prisoners would undergo medical check-up under the supervision of medical superintendent of the district headquarters hospital in Landi Kotal.
Officials said under the strict orders and instructions from both the district courts Khyber and officials of the ministry of Safron in Islamabad, no Khasadar or Levies personnel would be allowed to torture any prisoner inside their lock-ups.
The decision to bar Khasadar and Levies personnel from torturing prisoners was taken after a Khasadar arrested a shopkeeper in Landi Kotal a week ago and then kept him in illegal confinement in a local cell. He subjected the man to torture to force him to give statement in his favour that he (Khasadar) was not involved in extorting money from shopkeepers.
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s killed 12 Talibs and destroyed multiple caches of weapons in five provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said the security forces conducted the airstrikes in Sar-e Pul, Zabul, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Paktiya and Baghlan provinces.
The officials further added that the airstrikes in Sar-e Pul district of Sar-e Pul province killed 5 Talibs and destroyed a cache of weapons.
Another airstrike in Tarnek Wa Jaldak district of Zabul killed 4 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons, the officials said.
An airstrike in Marjah district of Helmand killed a Taliban ...Arabic for students... holy warrior and destroyed a cache of weapons, the officials said, adding that a similar airstrike in Zurmat district killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons.
The officials also added that the airstrike in Dahana-ye Ghori district of Baghlan province killed one Taliban holy warrior.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Margaret DeSanti, a self-proclaimed retired lieutenant colonel (sometimes captain) Army nurse, is a known phony Vietnam vet who was first exposed as such five years ago by TAH (This Ain't Hell), one of the military blogs that long ago took on the mission of guarding the veterans' community from those who falsely claim honorable service.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[WAPO] The incoming European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was elected on a promise to deliver a "European Green Deal." A key component of her agenda is a carbon border tax.
[PJ] Looking to protect young children from convicted sex offenders, a Georgia sheriff had his deputies place signs on the lawns of sexual predators, warning children and parents not to trick-or-treat at the house.
[USA Today] WASHINGTON ‐ Add a prestigious $1 million "thinkers" award to Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's fame and fortune.
[Breibart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s "The Situation Room," Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) discussed House Republicans forcing their way into the secured room where the House Intelligence Committee was conducting a deposition for their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
[Breitbart] General Mazloum Abdi, the pre-eminent military leader of the Syrian Kurds, thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his efforts in stopping a Turkish offensive and negotiating a cease-fire.
[NY Post] Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday scrapped the controversial extradition bill that launched months of violent protest in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
[Red State] We’ve been bringing you some of the outrageous actions of the climate change gang, particularly Extinction Rebellion, the group that has been incredibly annoying to the general populace in London and who has flexed their ability to annoy in the United States as well.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[FOXNEWS] The Chinese government is reportedly drawing up a plan to replace Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose leadership sparked the protests ravaging the global financial hub.
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[FREEBEACON] A Massachusetts Democrat is pushing a bill that would make it a crime to maliciously call someone a "bitch" within the commonwealth.
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[BREITBART] A Canadian official ruled against Jessica Yaniv, the transgender Canadian plaintiff who had accused three women of unfair "discrimination" when they declined to give his testicles a "Brazilian wax" treatment.
[NationalReview] Days after squaring off online against “elitist” critics of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s relocation of agency jobs, Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) will introduce legislation on Wednesday that would move the majority of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington D.C. to economically depressed areas, according to a summary of the bill provided to National Review.
[DAWN] "Don’t think of yourself as separate from the community. Community policing is community-oriented police," said former Sindh police chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiki on Tuesday.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[BREITBART] Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), a freshman Democrat critical to the House Democrats’ “impeachment inquiry” against President Donald Trump given her perch as vice chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, is denying that she had an affair with two different staff members despite photographic and text message evidence of the affairs published by conservative website Red State.
[AceOfSpades] Dozens of Republicans, including some members of leadership, barged into the secure hearing room in the Capitol basement where Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was set to provide private testimony. GOP lawmakers have argued that other lawmakers, not just members of the three committees leading the probe, should be able to attend the closed-door hearings with witnesses.
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians...
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Margaret DeSanti, a self-proclaimed retired lieutenant colonel (sometimes captain) Army nurse, is a known phony Vietnam vet who was first exposed as such five years ago by TAH (This Ain't Hell), one of the military blogs that long ago took on the mission of guarding the veterans' community from those who falsely claim honorable service.
